New Delhi: The Supreme Court yesterday said it would take a very serious view of another incident of police violence against a woman, and the person involved would have to bear the wrath of the court.
Referring to the rising frequency of incidents of brutality against women, and even children, the court said the framers of the constitution did not visualise such incidents or provide for provisions to deal with them.
“We make it very very serious, if any such incident happens then the person (involved) will have it. The court will go beyond its norms to deal with them,” a bench of Justice G S Singhvi, Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai and Justice Sharad Arvind Bobde warned.
Referring to the merciless beating of a 65-year-old woman in Aligarh, Justice Singhvi said the “expression on the face” of a deputy superintendent of police was such as if “he will kill her”.
“It is amazing. There is no word in dictionary to describe it”, the court said directing the Uttar Pradesh chief secretary to file an affidavit on the incident.
Justice Singhvi told the counsel for Uttar Pradesh government: “Is your government left with any shame? Even a mad animal would not do what your officers are doing. What is happening in this country? Are we mute spectators to everything?”
The remarks came during a hearing on the matter arising from its taking suo motu cognizance of media reports of two incidents of police excesses involving the beating of a woman in Punjab’s Taran Taran district and a baton charge on agitating teachers outside the Bihar assembly in Patna.
IANS
