NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday sought responses from the Centre and six states - Maharashtra, Odisha, Bihar, Haryana, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh - on a PIL filed by the women's wing of CPI, which claimed an "alarming rise in cases of lynchings and mob violence against Muslims" despite the SC's 2018 authoritative ruling directing the states to act decisively against hate crimes, including lynchings by cow-vigilantes.A similar petition was dismissed by the SC earlier while asking another petitioner to move the concerned HC for appropriate relief against cow vigilantism and mob-lynching.
Senior advocate Kapil Sibal, appearing for National Federation of Indian Women, disarmed a bench of Justices BR Gavai and JB Pardiwala by prefacing his arguments with - "If the Supreme Court tells me to go to the concerned HC, nothing will happen." The bench smiled and issued notice to the Centre and the DGPs of the states.