Supreme Court pulls up Yogi Adityanath government in Muslim student slap case
R. Balaji | 13 January 2024 | The Telegraph
The Supreme Court on Friday said the slapping of a Muslim child by his fellow students at the alleged instigation of the school principal in Uttar Pradesh’s Muzaffarnagar district last year would not have occurred had the state government taken steps to prevent such incidents.
The court was dealing with a PIL filed by Tushar Gandhi, the great-grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, seeking action against those responsible for the incident including registration of criminal cases.
“All this happened because the state did not do what was expected to do. The state should be very concerned about the manner in which the whole thing happened,” Justice Abhay S. Oka, who was heading the bench, told Uttar Pradesh’s additional advocate-general Garima Prashad.