Petition On Charges Of Targeting Muslims In MP Dismissed
Petition on charges of targeting Muslims in Madhya Pradesh dismissed, know what SC said.
The Supreme Court refused to hear a petition on charges of targeting Muslims in Madhya Pradesh.
The court said that you should come up with concrete facts. The petition alleged that the highest number of Muslims were targeted during the epidemic.
It was also said that the apex court’s decision in the case of Arnesh Kumar v. the State of Bihar was not followed.
On Thursday, the petition was set up for hearing before a bench headed by Chief Justice SA Bobde. The bench also consisted of Justice AS Bopanna and Justice V Ramasubramanian.
Lawyer Colin Gonsalves, appearing for Amaya Bockley and others, said most of the FIRs were filed against people walking on foot and in two-wheelers.
Cases were registered against 50.28 percent of such people in the first phase of the lockdown and 89 percent in the second phase of the lockdown.
The Chief Justice told the lawyer that his claims were based on a survey rather than concrete facts. Facts and survey figures vary.
The bench said that come before us with concrete facts. The bench then dismissed the writ petition, allowing the lawyer to withdraw his plea and file a fresh petition.
Police are to give protection, not to create fear.
A bench of Justices Ashok Bhushan and Justice Ajay Rastogi in the Supreme Court rejected the demand to convert the case to Section 324 (Heart disease) of the IPC.
The bench said that any person being brutally beaten up in a police station is intimidating to the entire society and undermines people’s trust in the police.
People believe that the police are there to protect their lives and property. But such incidents undermine this sentiment.
Therefore the culprits of such incidents should definitely be punished. This order of the Supreme Court has come on the petition of two retired officers who have been punished by the High Court.
The two officers were found guilty of the brutal beating of a person at a police station in Odisha, who later died. These former officers had stated in their petition that the cause of death was the heart disease of the deceased.
