On Wednesday, Chief Justice of India Deepak Mishra said Cow vigilantism was not acceptable and it was the responsibility of the states to prevent this. The Supreme Court also warned against linking religion to mob violence saying, ‘a victim is a victim’.
“Nobody can take law into their own hands. It is the obligation of the state’s to see these incidents are prevented,” the SC stated.
The three-judge bench also dubbed cow vigilantism as mob violence, but reserved its verdict on compensation to victims and fixing responsibility.
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Earlier, in September 2017, the SC had ordered all the states and union territories to stop violence in the name of protecting cows and appointments of officers on the lookout for such vigilante groups.
CJI had also ordered for compliance reports, reported to have said that ‘nobody could wash off their hands from duty’.
A petition had been filed by Tushar Gandhi on the same, having been pursuing the case since last year. Indira Jaising, a senior advocate who had appeared for Tushar said GoI should frame a national policy for ‘checking violence in the name of the cow’.
