New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday issued a notice to the Centre and several states on a plea seeking proper implementation of the court's 2018 judgement laying down guidelines to prevent mob lynching.
A two-member bench of Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi and Justice Aniruddha Bose issued the notices after going through a petition filed by the Anti-Corruption Council of India Trust (ACCIT).
The SC issued notices to the Centre, NHRC and various states including Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Bihar, Assam and Delhi for not implementing its directions on mob lynching.
ACCIT sought a direction to the states to comply with the apex court's direction in true letter and spirit as incidents of mob lynching were taking place.
On July 17, 2018, the Supreme Court had decried cases of lynching and cow vigilantism and said mobocracy cannot be allowed in society. “No citizen can take the law into his hands nor become a law unto himself,” the judges added. It had also proposed a set of preventive, remedial and punitive measures to curb instances of lynching.
The court had ordered the appointment of nodal officers in all districts, efficient patrolling in areas where there was a possibility of such incidents and the completion of trial in these cases within six months.
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