New Delhi: Supreme Court Justice Brai Gavai, while hearing a case on West Bengal violence on Monday, said in a clear context of recent attacks on the judiciary, “As we accuse them of encroaching on parliamentary and executive work.”
Justice Gawai, who was going on a bench, also included a similar observation in another case, which included Justice Augustine George Maasih.
While a case was during the recent violence in West Bengal during the Vaqf law protests, the second petition sought a direction to the Center, which was sought a direction to take proper steps to ban the streaming of sexually clear and pornographic materials on OTT and social media platforms.
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Hearing the petition on online material, Justice Gavai said, “Who can control it? It is to frame a regulation in that regard for the Sangh.” Justice Gawai told Advocate Vishnu Shankar Jain, “As, we are now criticized that we are interfering with the work of the executive, legislative tasks,” Justice Gawai told Advocate Vishnu Shankar Jain that who were seen in the case.
Jain said that this was a “very serious case”, the bench posted the hearing next week.
Earlier in the day, Jain mentioned an application filed in a separate pending pilot of 2021, seeking the President’s rule in West Bengal in view of the violence after the assembly elections, and urged to take the bench for hearing on Tuesday with the main petition.
Jain said that the 2021 petition was listed for hearing on Tuesday and a new application that has exposed more incidents of violence in West Bengal has also been heard.
“In tomorrow’s list, item 42 is related to implementing President’s rule in the state of West Bengal. This petition is filed by me. In that petition, I have filed an IA (application) for directions and implications, which bring out some more incidents of violence that have taken place in the state of West Bengal,” he said.
Jain said that the deployment of paramilitary forces and immediate action was required.
He referred to Article 355 of the Constitution, which relates to the duty of the Union to protect the states against external aggression and internal disturbances, and the apex court could call for a report as to what was happening in the state.
Jain said that the apex court had earlier issued a notice on the 2021 petition.
“When the matter comes to light, I will showcase how violence took place,” he said.
Justice Gawai then said, “As we are accused of encroaching on parliamentary and executive work”.
The latest petition urged the court to appoint a three -member committee headed by a retired apex court judge to appoint violence, human rights violations and crime against women from 2022 to April 2025, especially recent violence in Murshidabad in West Bengal.
The application also sought a direction to the Center for issuing necessary instructions to West Bengal under Article 355.
Vice President Jagdeep Dhikar and BJP MP Nishikant Dubey recently made derogatory remarks against the judiciary.
Dhankhar, while establishing a timeline for the decision taking decisions for the President from the judiciary and working as a “Super Parliament”, said that the Supreme Court could not fire “nuclear missiles” among democratic forces.
Shortly thereafter, BJP MP Nishikant Dubey said that if the apex court should be closed to Parliament and Legislative Assembly to enact a law. He also convicted India’s Chief Justice Sanjeev Khanna for “religious wars” in India.
In July 2021, the apex court agreed to listen to the piler, which also sought a direction to the Center to deploy armed/paramilitary forces in West Bengal. It then issued a notice on the petition to the Center, West Bengal and the Election Commission.
On April 14, the latest incidents of violence related to the newly-known Waqf (Amendment) Act in South 24 Parganas district of West Bengal shook the Bhangar region, even the police claimed law and order situation in the previous riots sub-centers of Murshidabad that a large extent is under control.
At least three people were killed and hundreds of people rendered homeless during the protest against Waqf (Amendment) Act in communal violence in some parts of Murshidabad district on 11 April and 12.
Meanwhile, on Monday, a separate bench of the apex court allowed a petitioner to withdraw a petition investigating the court monitoring in the violence in Waqf (Amendment) Act.
A bench of Justice Surya Kant and N. Koishwar Singh allowed the petitioner to withdraw the petition by giving the person advocate Shashank Shekhar Jha to file a new petition. Pti aba aba amk amk
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