The apex court has rapped state governments for not filing compliance reports.
On Friday, the Supreme Court directed the state governments to file compliance reports within a week on the measures taken to tackle mob lynching in furtherance of its July 17 judgement. In the judgement, the Supreme Court had directed the state governments to file their compliance reports with the Court Registry within four weeks. The matter was listed for a compliance review on August 20. However, since the judgement’s pronouncement, at least nine lynchings have occurred across eight states.
In the course of the August 20 hearing, the counsel for the Gujarat government prayed for two weeks to file the compliance report. The Court allowed a two-week extension for all the states that had not yet filed their compliance reports. Senior Counsel Indira Jaising moved a contempt petition against the government of Rajasthan following the Alwar lynching which occurred three days after the judgement’s pronouncement. In this lynching case, the police who appeared at the scene, had taken the cows to a gaushala rather than take the victim to the hospital. The counsel appearing for the government of Rajasthan told the Court that action had been taken against the erring officers.
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