The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear on Wednesday a batch of pleas in connection with the tractor rally violence in the national capital on Republic Day. This includes a petition that has sought setting up of a commission headed by a retired apex court judge to inquire into the incident.
The pleas will be taken up for hearing by a bench comprising Chief Justice S.A. Bobde and Justices A.S. Bopanna and V. Ramasubramanian.
One of the pleas, filed by advocate Vishal Tiwari, has sought setting up of a three-member inquiry commission under the chairmanship of a former apex court judge and comprising of two retired high court judges for collecting and recording evidence and submit a report on the January 26 violence to the top court in a time bound manner.
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The plea has sought direction to the concerned authority to lodge FIR under relevant penal provisions against the individuals or organisations responsible for the violence.
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Two pleas were filed in the Supreme Court on Wednesday over the tractor rally violence on the Republic Day with one seeking setting up of a commission, headed by a retired apex court judge, to inquire into the incident while the other urged it to direct the media not to declare farmers as terrorist without any evidence. The tractor parade on Tuesday that was to highlight the demands of farmer unions to repeal three new agri laws dissolved into anarchy on the streets of the national capital as thousands of protesters broke through barriers, fought with the police, overturned vehicles and hoisted a religious flag from the ramparts of the iconic Red Fort.