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Supreme Court tells Centre to create law to halt lynching, says 'horrendous acts of mobocracy' can't be tolerated
Fp Staff • 7 years agoA bench comprising Chief Justice Dipak Misra, Justice AM Khanwilkar and Justice DY Chandrachud said that no citizen can take law into their own hands and in case of fear and anarchy, the state has to act positively.
Supreme Court to pronounce verdict on mob violence today; may frame guidelines to curb vigilante groups
Ians • 7 years agoThe Supreme Court had earlier said it was the obligation of the state that crimes involving vigilante groups are prevented, and self-appointed vigilantes aren't allowed to take the law in their hands.
SC puts onus of checking cow vigilantism, mob violence on states; reserves order on issue
Fp Staff • 7 years agoPutting the onus on the states to check cow vigilantism, the Supreme Court Tuesday reserved its verdict on pleas seeking directions to formulate guidelines to curb such violence, saying no one can take law into their hands.
Cow vigilantism: Mahatma Gandhi's grandson files contempt plea against Rajasthan, Haryana, UP; SC gives 3 states till 3 April to respond
• 8 years agoA plea seeking contempt action against the governments of Rajasthan, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh for not following its order to take stern steps to stop violence in the name of cow vigilantism, on Monday led the Supreme Court to seek responses from the three states.
Mahatma Gandhi's great-grandson Tushar objects to SC plea seeking re-investigation of Bapu's assassination
Fp Staff • 8 years agoTushar Gandhi, great-grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, objected to a plea in the Supreme Court seeking reopening of the investigation into the latter's assassination
Supreme Court asks state governments to ensure compensation for victims of cow vigilantism
Ians • 8 years agoSupreme Court on Friday said that states were obliged to compensate the victims of cow vigilante groups and asked all of them to file a report on the compliance of its order.
Khadi calendar row: Gandhi's grandson attacks Modi, says polyester 'model' has stolen charkha
Ians • 9 years agoThe great-grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, Tushar A Gandhi, on Saturday attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the wake of the Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC) diary-calendar controversy
Case filed against Gandhi's great-grandson for making 'offensive' remark against Bhagat Singh
Fp Archives • 10 years agoPolice registered a case against Mahatma Gandhi's great-grandson, Tushar Gandhi, for allegedly making offensive remark about freedom fighter Bhagat Singh.
Gandhis vs a Swedish nurse: The murky secrets of international adoptions
Fp Staff • 13 years agoInternational adoptions have come under the scanner these days amidst accusations of trafficking. But the family secrets are murkier as one Swedish nurse, an Indian adoptee found out when she came to the Gandhis for help.
Difference in fast by Gandhi, Hazare: Tushar Gandhi
Fp Archives • 14 years agoMahatma Gandhi's great grandson, Tushar feels there is a difference in the way the Father of the Nation and social activist Anna Hazare have used fasting as a form of protest.