The mahapanchayat called for a boycott of Muslim shops and denying them houses and shops on rent.
Team Clarion
NEW DELHI — A petition has been filed in the Supreme Court on Tuesday seeking the court’s intervention in Gurugram mahapanchayat’s call for an economic boycott of Muslims.
Senior counsel Kapil Sibal mentioned the matter before a Constitution Bench led by Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud which is hearing petitions challenging the nullification of Article 370 of the Constitution.
“There is a very serious thing that has happened in Gurugram… There is a call to say that if you employ these people in shops, you will all be ‘gaddars’. This is creating problems… We have filed an urgent petition,” Sibal told the bench just before the lunch break, Livelaw network and other media outlets reported
“Your Lordship may look at lunchtime,” Sibal said.
Hundreds of residents of Gurugram villages gathered at Tighara for a Hindu mahapanchayat on Sunday and called for an economic boycott of Muslims.
The mahapanchayat – which was called to oppose the police crackdown on village youths for communal violence in Gurugram, including the torching of a mosque and the murder of an Imam – ended up giving a call for a boycott of Muslim shops and denying them houses and shops on rent, media reports said.
It had even demanded the dissolution of Nuh as a district and the division of its villages into districts of Gurugram, Faridabad, Palwal and Rewari.
They said the district should be handed over to Uttar Pradesh as they claimed Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath would “set them right”.
The mahapanchayat also gave a week’s ultimatum to the police to release all those arrested, failing which they threatened to bring Gurugram to a halt.
