New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday refused to hear contempt petitions alleging that the demolition action was carried out in violation of the guidelines laid down by the Supreme Court against bulldozer action. The court said that such complaints should be raised before the concerned High Court.
The bench headed by CJI Justice Surya Kant, after hearing the arguments on all the contempt petitions, said that there are different factual disputes in these petitions. The Supreme Court cannot give a decision on every claim in these cases filed on different facts. After this, the court ordered to send all the petitions to the concerned High Court for consideration.
State governments accused of violating Supreme Court decision
During the hearing on the petition alleging contempt of the Supreme Court order in the case of bulldozing action, lawyer Anas Tanvir said, “Even after the Supreme Court issued guidelines related to bulldozing, some states did not follow them. In some cases, the High Court found that they were not even informed about this decision. One such special case also came to light. Bulldozing against monuments, places of worship and private properties. Action was taken, which as per our allegation was a complete violation of the Supreme Court guidelines.
In fact, several contempt petitions were filed in the Supreme Court alleging that bulldozers were being run in different states in violation of the decision given by the Supreme Court in 2024 regarding bulldozer justice.
This argument given by the petitioners
Earlier, the court had earlier issued notices to the officials in some contempt petitions. Senior advocate Huzefa Ahmadi, appearing in a contempt petition alleging illegal demolition of some mosques in Somnath, said the court should intervene in cases of “serious violations”. Ahmadi said that if given a chance, he could prove serious violation of the Supreme Court’s instructions within fifteen minutes.
At the same time, senior advocate Chandra Uday Singh, appearing in a contempt case related to Maharashtra, said that sometimes demolition action is taken after public announcements by local leaders of taking bulldozer action. He said that the affidavit filed by the state itself would reveal that the procedure laid down by the Supreme Court was not followed in that case. He said there are many instances when such vandalism is clearly seen as a punitive action.
Let us tell you that allegations have been being made that various state governments did not follow the guidelines given by the Supreme Court. Recently in Jharkhand Bulldozer action at the house of notorious gangster Prince Khan in Dhanbad. Action was taken.
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(With PTI inputs)
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