The Supreme Court Bench, hearing the plea of the four Gujarat police officers involved in the 2022 Kheda flogging, asked whether ignorance of law had become a defence in law now. File
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The Supreme Court on Tuesday orally observed the 2022 incident of four Gujarat Police officers publicly flogging Muslim men after tying them to a pole in Kheda district for allegedly disrupting a garba event amounted to an “atrocity”.
“Did they have an authority in law to tie people to a pole and beat them,” Justice B.R. Gavai asked.
“And take videos,” Justice Sandeep Mehta joined in.
The police officers had appealed to the Supreme Court against a Gujarat High Court order in October sentencing them to 14 days’ imprisonment for contempt of court.
D.K. Basu judgment
The conduct of the four officers were found to be in contempt of the directions of the Supreme Court in the D.K. Basu judgment of 1996 against police abuse and custodial violence. The D.K….