New Delhi: On Friday, the Court decided to consider a petition asking for a standardised approach to compensating victims of hate crimes and mob lynching, and it requested a response from the federal government, as well as the individual states and union territories.
As instructed in its 2018 verdict in the Tehseen Poonawala case, a bench of Justices KM Joseph and BV Nagarathna has also requested affidavits from the Centre, states, and UTs detailing the steps taken to date towards formulating a scheme for providing relief to the families of victims of mob lynching. The court set a new hearing date for the case eight weeks from now.