Bhima Koregaon: SC Extends House Arrest Of Activists Till Sept 12, Justice Chandrachud Pulls Up Maha Police For Holding Press Meet Over Sub-Judice Matter
Live Law"The police has no business ruining the reputation of people or casting aspersions on the court", Justice Chandrachud remarked criticising police for going to press on sub judice matter.The Supreme Court bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra, Justice D. Y. Chandrachud and Justice A. M. Khanwilkar on Thursday extended the house arrest of the five activists accused in connection with. "The police has no business ruining the reputation of people or casting aspersions on the court", Justice Chandrachud remarked criticising police for going to press on sub judice matter. The Supreme Court bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra, Justice D. Y. Chandrachud and Justice A. M. Khanwilkar on Thursday extended the house arrest of the five activists accused in connection with the Bhima-Koregaon violence until September 12. Addressing ASG Tushar Mehta, Justice Chandrachud sternly stated, “please ask your police to be responsible.we do not want the police telling us that we are wrong.the Bombay High Court has also made observations in this behalf.I myself have seen the ACP, Pune saying that the Supreme Court must not have intervened.The police has no business ruining the reputation of people or casting aspersions on the court.” ASG Tushar Mehta on Thursday questioned the locus of historian Romila Thapar and the four other eminent individuals in filing a PIL over the arrests of the activists- “the criminal proceedings are exclusively between the accused and the prosecution.a third party would have no say.it is a settled proposition of law and there are several judgments on this point.persons who are accused of serious offences are being investigated by the competent authorities.these people themselves have taken recourse under the code and Constitution.and now the petitioners who are complete strangers have moved the apex court saying that the accused are not such people could commit the alleged acts?” Justice Chandrachud noted that the activists, who were placed under house arrest by the Supreme Court last week, have filed a supplementary affidavit seeking impleadment in the proceedings before the court.