By means of PTI
AHMEDABAD: The Gujarat Prime Court docket on Wednesday issued a realize to the state govt in a Public Hobby Litigation (PIL) in search of motion towards the police workforce who allegedly flogged a gaggle of Muslim males in Junagadh the town following an incident of stone-pelting.
A department bench of appearing Leader Justice A J Desai and Justice Biren Vaishnav sought replies from the state and most sensible police officers via July 17.
The courtroom had, on Monday, admitted the PIL for listening to.
After some police workforce had been injured in stone-pelting, police publicly flogged 8 to ten males from the minority neighborhood and ransacked their properties ‘to take revenge’, the PIL claimed.
A video of the purported flogging had circulated on social media.
The petition has been filed via NGOs Lok Adhikar Sangh and Minority Coordination Committee.
But even so the state govt, the house division, director normal of police, inspector normal of police and superintendent of police were made respondents to the PIL.
A conflict erupted in Junagadh the town of Gujarat at the evening of June 16 after the civic frame served demolition realize to a dargah (Muslim shrine).
One particular person was once killed within the stone-pelting via participants of the minority neighborhood who had been towards the demolition, police alleged.
Police then detained 8 to ten individuals from the Muslim neighborhood, made them stand in entrance of the Geban Shah Masjid in Majevadi Gate house and flogged them, the PIL alleged.
In keeping with the First Knowledge File registered via the police, those males had been a part of the mob concerned within the stone-pelting wherein some policemen together with a deputy superintendent were injured, the PIL stated.
Those males are nonetheless at the back of bars, the petitioners knowledgeable the courtroom.
The petitioners additionally mentioned that the PIL didn’t search to justify rioting, stone-pelting or any type of violence via the rioters.
After the arrest of the ones accused of rioting, the Junagadh police visited their properties and ransacked their property “to take revenge” for alleged stone-pelting and accidents sustained via one of the crucial police workforce, the plea claimed.
Public flogging is against the law and violates Articles 14, 19 and 21 of the Charter of India bearing on the precise to equality, freedom, lifestyles and liberty, respectively, and draws contempt of courtroom court cases, the petition argued.
The prime courtroom will have to direct the Gujarat govt to take suitable motion, together with registration of an FIR, towards the police workforce and officials concerned within the flogging and custodial violence, it stated.
The plea additionally sought an inquiry via the essential district and classes pass judgement on of Junagadh or another senior judicial officer.
Instead, a staff of IPS officials, now not hooked up with Junagadh vary or district, be constituted to inquire into the incidents of alleged public flogging, custodial violence and ransacking of the accused’s houses, the PIL stated.
It additionally prompt the prime courtroom to direct the federal government to pay “exemplary repayment” to the sufferers of the general public flogging.
AHMEDABAD: The Gujarat Prime Court docket on Wednesday issued a realize to the state govt in a Public Hobby Litigation (PIL) in search of motion towards the police workforce who allegedly flogged a gaggle of Muslim males in Junagadh the town following an incident of stone-pelting.
A department bench of appearing Leader Justice A J Desai and Justice Biren Vaishnav sought replies from the state and most sensible police officers via July 17.
The courtroom had, on Monday, admitted the PIL for listening to.googletag.cmd.push(serve as() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );
After some police workforce had been injured in stone-pelting, police publicly flogged 8 to ten males from the minority neighborhood and ransacked their properties ‘to take revenge’, the PIL claimed.
A video of the purported flogging had circulated on social media.
The petition has been filed via NGOs Lok Adhikar Sangh and Minority Coordination Committee.
But even so the state govt, the house division, director normal of police, inspector normal of police and superintendent of police were made respondents to the PIL.
A conflict erupted in Junagadh the town of Gujarat at the evening of June 16 after the civic frame served demolition realize to a dargah (Muslim shrine).
One particular person was once killed within the stone-pelting via participants of the minority neighborhood who had been towards the demolition, police alleged.
Police then detained 8 to ten individuals from the Muslim neighborhood, made them stand in entrance of the Geban Shah Masjid in Majevadi Gate house and flogged them, the PIL alleged.
In keeping with the First Knowledge File registered via the police, those males had been a part of the mob concerned within the stone-pelting wherein some policemen together with a deputy superintendent were injured, the PIL stated.
Those males are nonetheless at the back of bars, the petitioners knowledgeable the courtroom.
The petitioners additionally mentioned that the PIL didn’t search to justify rioting, stone-pelting or any type of violence via the rioters.
After the arrest of the ones accused of rioting, the Junagadh police visited their properties and ransacked their property “to take revenge” for alleged stone-pelting and accidents sustained via one of the crucial police workforce, the plea claimed.
Public flogging is against the law and violates Articles 14, 19 and 21 of the Charter of India bearing on the precise to equality, freedom, lifestyles and liberty, respectively, and draws contempt of courtroom court cases, the petition argued.
The prime courtroom will have to direct the Gujarat govt to take suitable motion, together with registration of an FIR, towards the police workforce and officials concerned within the flogging and custodial violence, it stated.
The plea additionally sought an inquiry via the essential district and classes pass judgement on of Junagadh or another senior judicial officer.
Instead, a staff of IPS officials, now not hooked up with Junagadh vary or district, be constituted to inquire into the incidents of alleged public flogging, custodial violence and ransacking of the accused’s houses, the PIL stated.
It additionally prompt the prime courtroom to direct the federal government to pay “exemplary repayment” to the sufferers of the general public flogging.