Pig kills child in UP, mob goes on rampage
A mob in Bhujpura in Aligarh city not only indulged in heavy stone pelting and arson but also targeted the police after a pig killed a child on Saturday.
Police had to resort to lathicharge to quell the mob. An FIR has been registered against 250 unidentified people in this regard.
The incident occurred when Zubair, 4, was eating at home. A pig barged in and attacked the child, leaving behind the body after eating his head.
After that, a large crowd jammed the Bhujpura cross- ing, placing the body there. On receiving information, cops tried to take the body for autopsy but the mob began pelting stones at them. Police then resorted to lathicharge, enraging the mob further which increased stone pelting, injuring several police personnel.
Such cases have taken place in the past too and Bhujpura residents have been demanding that the Nagar Nigam control the animals.
Aligarh city MLA Zafar Alam said, “I reached the spot and tried to convince the mob that an animal is an animal and no FIR can be registered against it.”
The Siddaramaiah government in Karnataka is running out of excuses for delaying the appeal against the high court’s acquittal of Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa.
Ever since the AIADMK leader’s acquittal on May 11, Ravivarma Kumar, the state advocate general, has written to the government urging it to move the Supreme Court.
In his latest letter, written on May 28, Kumar has warned the government saying a decision to avoid an appeal would ‘not only be a great travesty of justice but a betrayal of the trust reposed by the Supreme Court in Karnataka as the sole prosecuting agency’.
The letter was written in response to two clarifications sought by the state on May 23. The government wanted to know if it was necessary to seek permission from a constitutional authority before appealing. It also wanted to know whether it was the job of the Tamil Nadu or the Karnataka government to launch the appeal.
Kumar said that the Supreme Court had very clearly appointed Karnataka as the ‘sole prosecuting agency’ in the Amma case in an order passed on April 27. He answers the second question saying: “No provision of law, or for that matter any article in the Constitution, requires prior sanction for an appeal.”
The Karnataka government’s lethargy in pursuing the case has given rise to many conspiracy theories. The most talked about one is of Siddaramaiah wanting to delay the appeal till the Bengaluru civic elections.
Describing the government’s doubts as “banal time wasting tactics,” a senior official at the AG’s office said, “The so-called doubts for which the government is seeking clarifications from the AG’s office have been discussed at the highest levels of government several times in the last few months.”