By Scroll Staff
The Supreme Court on Tuesday disposed of a public interest litigation raising concerns about incidents of mob violence and lynching in the country, saying it cannot “micromanage” such cases from Delhi, Bar and Bench reported.
A bench of Justices BR Gavai and K Vinod Chandran was hearing a petition filed by the National Federation of Indian Women on such incidents, specifically by cow vigilantes in the name of protecting cows from smuggling and slaughter.
“Even in the demolition matter, we gave liberty for parties to move competent authorities,” Bar and Bench quoted Gavai as saying. “Every state will have a different situation… In some states, beef [consumption] is a regular sort of.…”
The judge was referring to a batch of petitions seeking the intervention of the court against punitive demolitions by state governments. In November, the court had issued guidelines to curb instances of “bulldozer justice”, or punitive demolitions of property.
On Tuesday, the bench noted that it had already issued detailed guidelines against incidents of mob lynching in its 2016 verdict on two petitions against such offences.
These directions are binding on all authorities, the court said, adding that those aggrieved have legal remedies if the guidelines are flouted.
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