A Supreme Court Bench led by Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra on
Thursday agreed to hear pleas on January 29 for initiating contempt of
court action against Gujarat, Haryana, Rajasthan governments and Karni
Sena members for aggravated incidents of violence, even against
schoolchildren, in the background of the release of film Padmaavat.
“We will see,” Chief Justice Misra said at the mentioning.
The
petitions, filed by activist Tehseen Poonawala and Supreme Court
advocate Vineet Dhanda, described the destruction caused to public
property, theatre premises and how suspected members of the Karni Sena
pelted stones at a bus carrying schoolchildren in Gurgaon.
They
questioned the lack of proper preventive measures taken by law enforcers
in the States which, they said, gave agitators a sense of free hand to
indulge in violence in the name of protest.
