NEW DELHI: The Uttar Pradesh government is moving ahead, citing a Supreme Court order, to deliver on the chief minister’s promise of avenging the loss to public property by seizing assets of the CAA-NRC protestors.
UP’s principal secretary (Home) Awanish Awasthi told ET that collectors of all violence-affected districts will start assessing the damage to property on Tuesday and issue notices to the perpetrators asking them to make good the loss. The collectors will form committees to prepare inventory of all property damaged during the protests. “The SC had last October issued guidelines to this effect. We are following them,” Awasthi told ET.
SC on October 2 last year asked states to impose “exemplary fines” on those who damage public property and said conditional bail be granted to them only after they deposit an amount equal to the quantified loss. This could mean that the 925 persons arrested so far for the violent protests nay not get bail easily in UP till they pay up for the loss. Another 5,558 persons have also been bound down under CRPC for the protests.
Source: Economic Times
