Hapur Lynching: SC Directs IG-Meerut To Conduct Enquiry And Submit Report, Issues Notice To UP Govt [Read Petition & Order]

The Supreme Court on Monday issued notice to the state of UP in connection with the June 18 Hapur Lynching incident which resulted in the death a Muslim meat trader.The bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra, Justice D. Y. Chandrachud and Justice A. M. Khanwilkar was hearing a writ petition by one Samaydeen, who had witnessed and also faced attack in the course of the same. The Supreme Court on Monday issued notice to the state of UP in connection with the June 18 Hapur Lynching incident which resulted in the death a Muslim meat trader. The bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra, Justice D. Y. Chandrachud and Justice A. M. Khanwilkar was hearing a writ petition by one Samaydeen, who had witnessed and also faced attack in the course of the same unfortunate episode. Highlighting the anguish expressed by the same bench over the instances of cow vigilantism and mob violence in its verdict delivered last month, where the court has stipulated directions in the face of the alarming rise in the trend, Mr. Vishwanathan submitted, what is poignant here is that mob lynching *is attempted to be turned into road rage” Relying on the judgment in Jogendra Nahak v. State of Orissa, where the apex court had declined to interpret Section 164 of the Cr.