New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday asked all the states and Union Territories to give wide publicity to the instructions given to stop cow vigilance, because people should realize that the mob violence and taking law in to their hands will invite wrath of law. The Three Judge Bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices A.M. Khanwilkar and D.Y. Chandrachud while giving the directions on the petition, which was filed by one Tehseen Poonawala and others dealing with ‘cow vigilantism’ granted a week’s time to eight states and Union Territories to comply with its directions thereby preventing cow vigilantism and mob lynching.
The Bench observed this fact that eight states, including Mizoram, Telangana, Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh and Delhi, have filed a report so far in compliance with the decision of the 17th of July verdict to direct compliance and list of petitions after two weeks. It asked them to provide information on the measures to prevent mob violence on their websites so that people know the support available to them.
When senior lawyer Indira Jaising presented one of the directions of the Center and the states that direction has not been followed in respect to giving broad publicity in television and radio, then Attorney General K.K. Venugopal informed the court that steps will be taken to give publicity within one week.
In the last hearing, the Attorney General had informed the Bench that in pursuance of the Supreme Court’s decision, a violent group of ministers has been set up to consider framing a law on mob violence. Acting on the petition filed by Tehseen S. Poonawalla and others, the court suggested Parliament to make laws lynching to a separate crime, including compensation for the victims.
