{"id":35271,"date":"2018-10-31T16:08:11","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T10:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=35271"},"modified":"2018-10-31T16:08:11","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T10:38:11","slug":"attacks-by-cow-vigilantes-must-stop-sc-tells-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/attacks-by-cow-vigilantes-must-stop-sc-tells-centre\/","title":{"rendered":"Attacks by Cow Vigilantes Must Stop, SC Tells Centre :\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/attacks-by-cow-vigilantes-must-stop-sc-tells-states\/article19633253.ece\">Attacks by Cow Vigilantes Must Stop, SC Tells Centre <\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Context<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It ordered the States and the Union Territories to appoint nodal police officers in every district to crack down on such groups.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>How well is the instruction implemented so far?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>BJP-ruled Haryana, Rajasthan, Maharashtra and Gujarat accepted the apex court\u2019s suggestion to appoint officers to prevent \u2018gau rakshaks,\u2019.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Centre\u2019s responsibility<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dalits and Muslims have reportedly been at the receiving end of violence unleashed by lynch mobs, especially in the four northern States.<\/li>\n<li>The court exhorted the Centre to uphold its constitutional mandate under Article 256 and direct the States to act against the groups.<\/li>\n<li>The court directed the Centre to respond to a submission by senior advocate Indira Jaising, for Mr. Gandhi, that the government cannot wash its hands of its constitutional responsibility under Article 256.<\/li>\n<li>The Centre has maintained that violence by \u2018gau rakshaks\u2019 was a \u2018State subject\u2019 and it had no role to play, though it condemned all forms of violence.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>\u2018Do not politicise issue\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>On raising the issue of communal violence supported by certain \u201cgroups\u201d court rejected any exertion of the issue<\/li>\n<li>The court directed the Chief Secretaries and Directors General of Police to take steps to protect the highways from vigilante<\/li>\n<li>Justice Khanwilkar wondered why no one had filed PIL pleas against the carcasses of slaughtered animals found strewn on roads and public places.<\/li>\n<li>The court posted the case for further hearing on September 22.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attacks by Cow Vigilantes Must Stop, SC Tells Centre : Context It ordered the States and the Union Territories to appoint nodal police officers in every district to crack down on such groups. How well is the instruction implemented so far? BJP-ruled Haryana, Rajasthan, Maharashtra and Gujarat accepted the apex court\u2019s suggestion to appoint officers&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/attacks-by-cow-vigilantes-must-stop-sc-tells-centre\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Attacks by Cow Vigilantes Must Stop, SC Tells Centre :\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704895311},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}