The Supreme Court directed the Centre and states on Wednesday to take stern action to curb cow vigilantes by ensuring they don’t terrorise highways and sought the appointment of nodal officers in each district to coordinate measures against self-styled “gau rakshaks”. Stating that cow vigilantes should not be permitted to take the law in their hands or become a law unto themselves, a bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justice Amitava Roy and A M Khanwilkar reminded the Centre of its stand that it did not support cow vigilante…
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