New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday decided to hear on Thursday a public interest writ petition filed by a social activist for the court's intervention to control large scale violence in Karnataka and a few incidents in Tamil Nadu
following an order passed by the apex court on September 5 which was modified on September 12.
Senior advocate Adish C. Agarwala made a mention before a Bench of Chief Justice T.S. Thakur and Justice A.M. Kanwilkar for urgent listing and the CJI directed it to be heard Thursday by a bench headed by Justice Dipak Misra.
The petitioner, P. Sivakumar, said the failure of the states of Karnataka and Tamil Nadu to control fringe elements from destroying public property has resulted in deprivation of right to life and movement as guaranteed under Articles 19 and 21 of the Constitution. He said the Karnataka government was duty bound to implement the orders of the apex court but certain fringe elements had prevented implementation and indulged in arson and violence resulting in loss of properties worth rupees hundreds of cores.
There were also attacks on Tamils and their properties. Failure to obey the apex court orders will amount to contempt of court and the court should give a stern warning to Karnataka not to disobey the orders. He sought a direction to the respondents to Centre, Karnataka and TN to take preventive and prohibitive measures to prevent escalation of violence after modification of the order of the Supreme Court on September 12 on the basis of the law settled by the SC in 2009.
