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Mirchpur violence: Supreme Court pulls up Haryana
New Delhi, March 28 (IANS) The Supreme Court Monday pulled up the
Haryana government for its failure to maintain law and order and asked
why it should not reimburse the railways for the losses caused by the
Jats' blockade in January against the arrest of members of the
community who attacked Dalits in Mirchpur village last April.
The court slammed the government for not executing its orders passed
in the wake of the protests.
An apex court bench of Justice G.S. Singhvi and Justice A.K. Ganguly
said: 'What is the respect of an order passed (by court) in public
interest if it is not honoured.'
When Additional Solicitor General Harin Raval said that the failure of
the state government in maintaining law and order would amount to the
breakdown of the law and order machinery, the court said it was
'avoiding' using that expression.
Raval said that there should be a will to govern and rule, prompting
the court to add that things were slowly moving towards a state of
anarchy.
The court said that it was for the civil society to take cognizance of
the situation.
The court's observation came during the hearing on a petition on the
attack on the Dalit locality of Mirchpur village by the members of the
dominant Jat community. A 70-year-old man and his 18-year-old
physically challenged daughter were killed in the incident.
The members of the Jat community embarked on 11-day road and rail
blockade after 98 people belonging to the community were booked for
arson and killing in Mirchpur village in Hisar district, some 300 km
from Chandigarh.
The call for the blockade was given by the mahapanchayat of 12 khaps
(caste councils) in January.
Expressing displeasure over the manner in which the Haryana government
had handled the situation, the court asked the state why it should not
reimburse the losses suffered by the railways during the agitation.
'Why should not the state reimburse the railways for the loss suffered
by it in the course of the agitation? They (Jats) can't destroy public
property or stop railways from operating,' the court said.
Hauling up the state government on its handling of the Jat agitation,
the court said: 'So far air traffic has not been affected but a day
may come when such a disruption of air traffic may take place.'
The judges also wanted the state government to address the question as
to what is the extent of a 'peaceful agitation'.
The court said that there was no limit to the power of the state when
a group of agitators in the name of peaceful agitation illegally block
rail and road traffic.
The judges said this after Haryana's Advocate General H.S. Hooda
submitting that there was a limit to the exercise of power by the
state in dealing with a peaceful agitation.
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