Message that mob action will invite ‘wrath of law’ to start on TV, radio in a week: Govt. tells SC
The Centre on Monday assured the Supreme Court that the Union and State governments would, within a week, start broadcasting on radio and TV a stern message that mob lynchings and violence would invite the “wrath of law”. The Centre’s promise came in response to a query by a Bench led by Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra as to whether the court’s directions on the matter had been complied with.
On July 17, the Supreme Court had directed the governments, both at the Centre and in the States, to disseminate using radio, television and other media platforms including the official websites of the Home Department and police of the States the message that “lynching and mob violence of any kind shall invite serious consequences under the law”.
On Monday, senior advocate Indira Jaising, appearing for activist Tehseen Poonawala, drew the court’s attention to its more than two-month-old direction to use the mass media to warn against public lynchings.
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