Supreme court
The Supreme Court will hear on August 28 pleas seeking contempt action against Rajasthan govt in the recent mob lynching case at Alwar.
Recently, 28-year-old Akbar Khan was lynched by a mob in Rajasthan's Alwar district on suspicion of cow smuggling. Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje had condemned the incident and had assured an investigation in the case. The probe in the case was on Sunday handed over to an additional SP rank officer by the IG of Jaipur range. Three arrests have been made so far.
In the contempt pleas filed by Tushar Gandhi and Congress leader Tehseen Poonawala, they alleged that incidents of mob lynching and vigilantism were taking place despite a verdict by the apex court in this regard.
A bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra said it would hear the petitions on August 28.
Presenting their case in front of the bench, also comprising Justices A M Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachud, Gandhi and Poonawala sought contempt actions against the Rajasthan government. The petitioners urged that directions should be issued to follow the apex court verdict in letter and spirit.
The bench said it would take up the matter along with the main case on August 28.
The apex court had on July 17 asked the Parliament to consider enacting a new 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, a man was allegedly lynched by a group of people on suspicion that he was smuggling cows in Alwar district of Rajasthan.
(With agency inputs)
