Gujarat HC admits PIL in quest of motion towards police officers considering public flogging in Junagadh

By means of PTI

AHMEDABAD: The Gujarat Prime Courtroom on Monday admitted a public pastime litigation in quest of motion towards policemen allegedly concerned within the public flogging of Muslim males in Junagadh the town following a stone-pelting incident.

Excluding beating 8 to ten males from the minority neighborhood in public, the PIL alleged that the native police had ransacked their properties “to take revenge”, as some policemen had been injured within the stone pelting.

After admitting the PIL, a department bench of Appearing Leader Justice AJ Desai and Justice Biren Vaishnav requested the petitioners to supply a duplicate of the petition to the general public prosecutor and stored additional listening to on June 28.

The PIL has been collectively filed through NGOs Lok Adhikar Sangh and Minority Coordination Committee.

At the evening of June 16, a conflict erupted when a workforce of civic frame officers served a demolition realize to a dargah in Junagadh the town.

Consistent with the police, one particular person was once killed within the stone pelting through participants of the minority neighborhood, who had been towards the demolition.

The petition said that 8 to ten individuals belonging to the Muslim neighborhood had been detained through Junagadh police, made to face in entrance of ‘Geban Shah Masjid’, a dargah or shrine, in Majevadi Gate space, and had been mercilessly flogged in public.

Consistent with the police and the FIR, those individuals had been a part of the mob considering stone pelting and injuring police together with a deputy superintendent of police, the petition stated.

Muslims had been publicly flogged after a conflict with the police in Junagadh. Lok Adhikar Sangh & Minority Coordination Committee of #Gujarat have filed a PIL within the Gujarat Prime Courtroom, bringing up various alleged cases of custodial attack through the Junagadh police.@NewIndianXpress %.twitter.com/9CBa3r3akm

— Dilip Singh Kshatriya (@Kshatriyadilip) June 26, 2023

A video of the incident additionally went viral on social media platforms.

The lads observed within the video in conjunction with others had been arrested afterward and they’re nonetheless at the back of bars, petitioners knowledgeable the courtroom.

“Such police brutality of punishing voters of India with none due means of regulation and and not using a competent courtroom keeping them in charge is the worst type of human rights violation through the regulation and enforcement company itself,” the PIL said.

The petitioners additional said that the plea isn’t filed to justify rioting, stone pelting, or any type of violence through the rioters.

“After the arrest of the sufferers, the Junagadh police have visited their houses and brought about havoc but even so ransacking the homes. Transportable belongings has been destroyed through the Junagadh police to take revenge for alleged stone-pelting and damage sustained through probably the most police team of workers” the plea claimed.

Consistent with the petitioners, public flogging is illegitimate and violates Articles 14, 19 and 21 of the Charter of India touching on the correct to equality, freedom, existence and liberty, and it draws contempt of courtroom court cases.

Throughout the PIL, the petitioners advised the top courtroom to direct the Gujarat executive to take suitable motion, together with the registration of an FIR, towards police team of workers and officials concerned within the flogging and custodial violence.

The plea additionally sought an inquiry into the incident through the foremost district and periods pass judgement on of Junagadh or another senior judicial officer.

Instead, the petitioners proposed {that a} workforce of IPS officials, now not hooked up with Junagadh vary or district, be constituted to inquire into the incident of public flogging and different incidents of custodial violence through the Junagadh police and ransacking and destruction of portable houses of the accused.

It advised the top courtroom to direct the federal government to pay “exemplary reimbursement underneath the general public regulation treatment to the sufferers of public flogging and different varieties of custodial violence” in Junagadh.

AHMEDABAD: The Gujarat Prime Courtroom on Monday admitted a public pastime litigation in quest of motion towards policemen allegedly concerned within the public flogging of Muslim males in Junagadh the town following a stone-pelting incident.

Excluding beating 8 to ten males from the minority neighborhood in public, the PIL alleged that the native police had ransacked their properties “to take revenge”, as some policemen had been injured within the stone pelting.

After admitting the PIL, a department bench of Appearing Leader Justice AJ Desai and Justice Biren Vaishnav requested the petitioners to supply a duplicate of the petition to the general public prosecutor and stored additional listening to on June 28.googletag.cmd.push(serve as() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

The PIL has been collectively filed through NGOs Lok Adhikar Sangh and Minority Coordination Committee.

At the evening of June 16, a conflict erupted when a workforce of civic frame officers served a demolition realize to a dargah in Junagadh the town.

Consistent with the police, one particular person was once killed within the stone pelting through participants of the minority neighborhood, who had been towards the demolition.

The petition said that 8 to ten individuals belonging to the Muslim neighborhood had been detained through Junagadh police, made to face in entrance of ‘Geban Shah Masjid’, a dargah or shrine, in Majevadi Gate space, and had been mercilessly flogged in public.

Consistent with the police and the FIR, those individuals had been a part of the mob considering stone pelting and injuring police together with a deputy superintendent of police, the petition stated.

Muslims had been publicly flogged after a conflict with the police in Junagadh. Lok Adhikar Sangh & Minority Coordination Committee of #Gujarat have filed a PIL within the Gujarat Prime Courtroom, bringing up various alleged cases of custodial attack through the Junagadh police.@NewIndianXpress %.twitter.com/9CBa3r3akm
— Dilip Singh Kshatriya (@Kshatriyadilip) June 26, 2023
A video of the incident additionally went viral on social media platforms.

The lads observed within the video in conjunction with others had been arrested afterward and they’re nonetheless at the back of bars, petitioners knowledgeable the courtroom.

“Such police brutality of punishing voters of India with none due means of regulation and and not using a competent courtroom keeping them in charge is the worst type of human rights violation through the regulation and enforcement company itself,” the PIL said.

The petitioners additional said that the plea isn’t filed to justify rioting, stone pelting, or any type of violence through the rioters.

“After the arrest of the sufferers, the Junagadh police have visited their houses and brought about havoc but even so ransacking the homes. Transportable belongings has been destroyed through the Junagadh police to take revenge for alleged stone-pelting and damage sustained through probably the most police team of workers” the plea claimed.

Consistent with the petitioners, public flogging is illegitimate and violates Articles 14, 19 and 21 of the Charter of India touching on the correct to equality, freedom, existence and liberty, and it draws contempt of courtroom court cases.

Throughout the PIL, the petitioners advised the top courtroom to direct the Gujarat executive to take suitable motion, together with the registration of an FIR, towards police team of workers and officials concerned within the flogging and custodial violence.

The plea additionally sought an inquiry into the incident through the foremost district and periods pass judgement on of Junagadh or another senior judicial officer.

Instead, the petitioners proposed {that a} workforce of IPS officials, now not hooked up with Junagadh vary or district, be constituted to inquire into the incident of public flogging and different incidents of custodial violence through the Junagadh police and ransacking and destruction of portable houses of the accused.

It advised the top courtroom to direct the federal government to pay “exemplary reimbursement underneath the general public regulation treatment to the sufferers of public flogging and different varieties of custodial violence” in Junagadh.