Tribune News Service
New Delhi, July 4
The Supreme Court today refused to give urgent hearing to a petition seeking contempt action against various state governments for their alleged failure to stop mob lynching despite a set of guidelines issued by it last year.
A Bench headed by Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi said the matter would come up in due course after the counsel for contempt petitioners mentioned the matter seeking urgent hearing.
The petitioners alleged the top court’s July 2018 order, which issued a set of detailed guidelines to stop mob lynching and to bring to book those involved in it, had not been complied with.
The Supreme Court had on July 17 asked Parliament to consider enacting a law to effectively deal with incidents of mob lynching, saying “horrendous acts of mobocracy” cannot be allowed to become a new norm.
On July 21 last year, a man was allegedly lynched by a group of people on suspicion that he was smuggling cows in Alwar district of Rajasthan.
The incident took place a little more than a year after Pehlu Khan, a dairy farmer, was lynched by cow vigilantes in Alwar while he was transporting cattle to his village in Haryana on April 1, 2017. The mob suspected that Khan was smuggling cows. He died on April 3, two days after the incident.
In November last year, Umar Khan, 35, was found dead near railway tracks and his family members had alleged that he was killed by cow vigilantes.
PIL on illegal immigrants to be taken up on July 9
The top court, however, agreed to take up a PIL seeking identification and deportation of all illegal immigrants, including Rohingyas and Bangladeshis. A Bench led by CJI Ranjan Gogoi agreed to take up the matter on July 9 after the petitioner — Delhi BJP leader Ashwini Upadhyay —demanded urgent listing of his petition filed in 2017.
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