"Don't convert this court into police station," SC to Yuva Shakti

SC no to PIL for invoking MCOCA against Raj Thackeray 

New Delhi, Nov 21: The Supreme Court on Friday declined to entertain a petition seeking registration of a criminal case under MCOCA against MNS chief Raj Thackeray for the his party's hate campaign and violence against north Indians and non-Marathis in Maharashtra. 

"It is not our duty to pass orders for registering cases," said a Bench headed by Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan, warning an NGO against filing petitions for registration of cases under MCOCA (Maharashtra Control of Organised Crimes Act). 

"Don't convert this court into police station," the Bench, also comprising Justice P Sathasivan, said, expressing its displeasure against the NGO, , for filing the petition. 

"How can we pass such type of directions," the Bench said referring to the petition in which the NGO had also sought that liability should be put on MNS and its chief for the damage caused to public property during the violence. 

The PIL had also sought a direction to the Election Commission for de-recognising MNS as a political party. 

Advocate Rakesh Kumar Singh said that the NGO was approaching the apex court as the fall out of the violence was not restricted to Maharashtra but had also spread to other parts of the country. 

He submitted that how can the apex court be silent when a political party was encouraging and spearheading violence against citizens, many of whom were students going to Maharashtra to appear in competitive examinations. 

Bureau Report