"What About Kanhaiya Lal?" Supreme Court Asks Amid Plea Over Lynchings
NDTV
The petitioners argued the "rampant rise in mob violence and lynching" was due to a "general narrative of ostracisation" faced by minorities.
The killing of Kanhaiya Lal- the tailor hacked to death outside his shop in broad daylight in Rajasthan's Udaipur in June 2022 - featured in the Supreme Court Tuesday, as it heard a PIL, public interest litigation, red-flagging increasing mob violence against minorities, including those lynched by cow vigilantes, and seeking immediate interim financial relief for the families of victims.
A bench of Justice BR Gavai, Justice Aravind Kumar, and Justice Sandeep Mehta referred to the Kanhaiya Lal murder and asked petitioning lawyers to not be selective when presenting such cases.
"What about that tailor in Rajasthan... Kanhaiya Lal... who was lynched," the court asked, to which Advocate Nizam Pasha, representing the petitioners, acknowledged it had not been mentioned.
