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1. SC Asks Parliament to Consider New Law to Deal With Mob Lynching
The Supreme Court on Tuesday, 17 July, asked Parliament to consider enacting a new law to effectively deal with incidents of mob lynching, saying "horrendous acts of mobocracy" cannot be allowed to become a new norm.
A bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra also passed a slew of directions to provide "preventive, remedial and punitive measures" to deal with offences like mob violence and cow vigilantism.
The bench, which also comprised justices AM Khanwilkar and DY Chandrachud, said it was the duty of state governments to ensue law and order in society, besides ensuring that the rule of law prevailed.
"Citizens cannot take law into their hands and cannot become law unto themselves," the bench said.
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2. Supreme Court Reserves Order on Scrapping Section 377 of IPC
The Supreme Court on Tuesday, 17 July, reserved its order on pleas challenging the constitutional validity of Section 377 of the IPC, which criminalises consensual gay sex.
The apex court has asked parties to file written submissions in support of their claim in the matter by 20 July.
"We would not wait for the majoritarian government to enact, amend or not to enact any law to deal with violations of fundamental rights," a five-judge bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra observed while hearing a batch of petitions seeking decriminalisation of consensual gay sex.
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3. Mayawati Sacks BSP Leader for Speaking Against Rahul, Sonia
Mutual understanding, which is still a work in progress among Opposition leaders, got a serious boost on Tuesday, 17 July, when BSP supremo Mayawati removed her own party's national coordinator, Jai Prakash Singh, from his post, for targeting Congress President Rahul Gandhi and his mother Sonia.
Singh, during an address to party's first workers, said that Rahul Gandhi cannot become the Prime Minister of India because he looks too similar to his "foreigner mother" Sonia Gandhi, and not his father Rajiv.
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4. Rs 163 Crore, 100 kg Gold Seized in TN, Political Link Suspected
In what is believed to be one of the biggest recoveries in the country till date, the Income Tax department has seized Rs 163 crore in cash and about 100-kg bullion, following raids at multiple premises of a road construction firm in Tamil Nadu, officials told PTI on Tuesday, 17 July.
The searches were launched on 16 July at the premises of Nagarajan Seyyadurai, the Managing Director of SPK and Co Expressway Pvt Ltd, a partnership firm engaged in roads and highways construction on contract from the government.
"About Rs 163 crore cash, which is suspected to be unaccounted, and bullion and gold jewellery weighing about 100 kg have been seized so far," a senior official of the IT department told PTI.
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5. Who Spread Crazy Rumours About Burari Deaths? Locals Say TV News
Gurcharan Singh had known the Chundawat family for over a decade. The windows and balconies of his two-storeyed house in Burari’s Sant Nagar faced the Chundawat residence, that was painted a light brown and separated from his by a narrow lane.
Singh was the first person to see the grisly sight that would soon become national news – 10 bodies, strung up from the ceiling, and an elderly woman dead in another room.
As though the shock of that wasn’t enough, Singh was stunned again when a newspaper report claimed he was so scared of ghosts lurking after the deaths that he had left for Haridwar. But Singh says he had been at home the whole time.
Ask Singh’s son Amrik who is responsible for the rumours of ghosts lurking in Sant Nagar’s lane number 2, and he gets agitated. “The media,” he says in a huff.
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