A vacation bench of Supreme Court is hearing the Special Leave Petition filed by the State of Uttar Pradesh against the March 6 judgment of Allahabad High Court which directed the forthwith removal of the banners erected by the UP administration in Lucknow revealing the pictures, identities and addresses of persons alleged of committing violence during anti-CAA...
A vacation bench of Supreme Court is hearing the Special Leave Petition filed by the State of Uttar Pradesh against the March 6 judgment of Allahabad High Court which directed the forthwith removal of the banners erected by the UP administration in Lucknow revealing the pictures, identities and addresses of persons alleged of committing violence during anti-CAA protests.
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12 March 2020 6:21 AM GMT
Colin Gonsalves now starts.
“How do you prove if a person had damaged property?”
Lalit J. - “We are not going into that currently Mr. Gonsalves”
12 March 2020 6:20 AM GMT
Singhvi says that the act of erecting “name and shame” banners is a manner of inciting people to lynch and hit the people on the hoardings.
12 March 2020 6:16 AM GMT
“We don’t have an anarchy in the state that the Government will start doing this!” argues Singhvi
12 March 2020 6:14 AM GMT
Singhvi continues. “Where is the final order of the authority? This is a mega-blanket approach to name and shame me!”
12 March 2020 6:14 AM GMT
Singhvi says that his client on 30.12.10, got a show cause notice and he replied to it within 10 days.
Singhvi further asserts that the order which was passed by the Adjudicating authority was not a final order. This issue is “sub judice.”
12 March 2020 6:11 AM GMT
Singhvi : “Someones intention might be to shame, anothers may be to lynch. How do we differentiate and how do we control?”
12 March 2020 6:09 AM GMT
Singhvi: “Since when do we have in this country - that we can name and shame alleged rapists ? Alleged accused? He is liable to be lynched in such a scenario.”
12 March 2020 6:08 AM GMT
Singhvi says that as a State, they have to show where this affirmative remit for the action of putting up banners come from.
12 March 2020 6:07 AM GMT
Abhishek Manu Singhvi now begins.
He is appearing for one of the aggrieved, a Private party, who is also a retired IS officer.
12 March 2020 6:07 AM GMT
Bench says that Since there is a Judgement which lays out the issue and the SG has read it out, we consider it appropriate to refer this to a 3-Judge Bench.
