Supreme Court · 2018 INSC 617 · Decided 17 July 2018
Tehseen S. Poonawalla v. Union of India and Others
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2018 INSC 617 · [2018] 9 S.C.R. 291
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) No. 754/2016
- Decided
- 17 July 2018
- Bench
- DIPAK MISRA, D.Y. CHANDRACHUD, A.M. KHANWILKAR (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Directions issued
- Case type
- Writ / Constitutional
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 32
Headnote
Constitution of India - Art. 32 - Cow protection groups indulging in violence - Cow vigilantism and other incidents of lynching - Writ petition u/Art. 32 seeking direction to State to take immediate and necessary action against the cow protection groups indulging in of direction to remove the violent contents from the social media - Held: Act of lynching is unlawful - It is constitutional duty to take a call to protect lives and human rights - No citizen can assault the human dignity of another, for such an action would comatose the
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