Don't support vigilantism, law-order state issue: Govt to SC
As the Supreme Court (SC) was hearing a petition against mob lynching in the name of cow protection on Friday, the Centre told the SC that it does not support any kind of vigilantism. It added that the law and order is a state issue and the Central government does not have any role in it.
The Narendra Modi government today told the Supreme Court that it does not back any kind of vigilantism during hearing on a petition against mob lynching in the name of cow protection.The Centre told the court that law and order is a state subject and it was their responsibility to take action in such cases."Law and order is a state subject and Central government does not have any role into it. However, Union of India is of the view that no vigilante group has any space in the country as per procedures of law. It does not support any kind of vigilantism by private persons," Solicitor General Ranjit Kumar told the court FROM INDIA TODAY MAGAZINE: Beef, ban and bloodshedThe apex court had earlier issued notice to six states, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat, Jharkhand, Maharashtra and Karnataka on such attacks.Replying to the notice, Jharkhand and Gujarat told the Supreme Court that administration has taken action against all those involved in such vigilante attacks in the recent past.Activist Tehseen S Poonawalla, in his plea, said violence committed by these Gau Raksha groups have reached such proportions that even Prime Minister Narendra Modi had declared them as people who were "destroying the society".The plea also alleged that these groups were committing atrocities against Dalits and minorities in the name of protecting cows and other bovines and they needed to be "regulated and banned in the interest of social harmony, public morality and law and order in the country". ALSO READ:Mob lynching India's shocking war within, a challenge Narendra Modi must confrontCow vigilantism: Supreme Court issues notice to Centre, 6 states