A petition has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking action against those calling for a ‘social and economic boycott’ of Muslims following the recent violence against Hindus by Muslims in Haryana’s Nuh.
The plea was mentioned by senior advocate Kapil Sibal on Tuesday before a bench headed by Chief Justice DY Chandrachud when the Constitution Bench hearing the Article 370 case was about to break for lunch.
“There is a very serious thing that has happened in Gurugram, where there is a call along with policemen, to say that if you employ these people in shops, you will all be gaddars (traitors)...We have filed an urgency petition. Lordship may look at lunch time,” Sibal said.
The plea, filed by one Shaheen Abdulla, relies on a video of August 2 that had surfaced on social media. The petitioner has argued that in the video, supporters of the Hindu group Samhast Hindu Samaj can be seen walking through a neighbourhood in Haryana’s Hisar in the presence of police officials, telling residents and shopkeepers that if they continue to employ/keep any Muslim, then people will boycott their shops.
The petitioner claimed that such calls not only “demonise communities and openly call for violence” but will also “inevitably lead to communal disharmony and violence” across the country.
Three Hindu civilians and two policemen were murdered and over fifty others were injured in the systematic violence by Muslims in Nuh on July 31. As part of the pre-planned organised violence, Muslim mobs attacked Hindu devotees, pelted stones, threw petrol bombs, fired bullets, and set vehicles, police stations, and government buildings on fire.
