Demand for immediate judicial intervention for constitutional failure to deal with violence
Digital Desk, New Delhi. This month, a student from Tripura was attacked in Dehradun, Uttarakhand, due to which he died. This murder case has now reached the Supreme Court. The petition filed in the Supreme Court seeks immediate judicial intervention for the constitutional failure to deal with racial violence against the people of the northeastern states.
The PIL mentions the death of Angel Chakma on December 26. He was a final year MBA student in a university in Uttarakhand. He was allegedly racially attacked on December 9. He was seriously injured in this.
Chakma's brother lodged a complaint
According to the complaint filed by Chakma's brother Michael, the two brothers were stopped by a group of youths, leading to an altercation which escalated into violence. They were drunk and attacked with sharp weapons.
Dehradun Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Dehradun Ajay Singh has clarified that there has been no mention of any kind of racial violence in this. He said that Tripura resident Angel Chakma, who was injured in the incident of fighting between youths of two parties in Selaqui area, died during treatment on December 26.
He told that this episode is being broadcasted by some people in the internet media by linking it to racial discrimination. During the investigation of the case so far, no kind of racial discrimination or violence has come to light in the incident, nor has any such incident been mentioned in the complaint given by the victim's side.
(With inputs from news agency IANS)