CASE BRIEF

CASE NAME AND CASE LAW:

Tehseen Poonawalla v. Union of India; [Writ Petition (Civil) No.
754 of 2016]; [Article 32 of the Constitution of India, 1949]

FACTS:
After a spate of incidents of lynching in Dadri, Jharkhand and
more by cow protection groups, distressed activists filed writ
petitions in the Apex Court.
The petitioner Tehseen Poonawalla, a social activist has filed a
petition in the court for direction and intervention against the
cow protection groups indulging in violence and further to issue
a direction for removes the violent contents from various
platforms of social media uploaded by these groups.

ISSUE:
Whether the States and Centre should come up with effective
and immediate action plans to be undertaken against these
violent cow protection mobs?

JUDGEMENT:
The Supreme Court on 17 July, 2020 led by a three judge
bench of Dipak Misra, D.Y. Chandrachud, and Ajay Manikrao
Khanwilkar held that the act of lynching as unlawful and
condemned the inhumane act of cow vigilantes. Some
preventive measures were provided by the Supreme Court.