A day after the brutal murder of an 18-year-old boy at Madangir in New Delhi, the Supreme Court on Wednesday expressed alarm at armed people roaming around in motorcycles committing murder in broad daylight in the National Capital.
“In Delhi, youngsters with knives attack people while the CCTVs catch everything,” Justice S.J. Mukhopadhaya observed.
The murder at Madnagir in South Delhi on Tuesday was >captured on CCTV camera . Five persons have been >apprehended in connection with it. Some of them happen to be minors.
The Bench led by Justice Mukhopadhaya was hearing a bail application filed by a murder accused, Abdul Matin Abdul Khayum, who along with three others committed the murder of his brother-in-law.
The four men, riding motorcycles, had allegedly cornered the victim at a bus stand in Parbhani district in Maharashtra on the morning of June 13, 2013 and hit him with iron rods, causing his death.
“In Mumbai, it is iron roads, in Delhi it is knives,” Justice Mukhopadhaya said from the Bench, also comprising Justice V. Gopala Gowda.
He said the judiciary should spare no effort at mercy through bail as this would defeat the police's work to curb the increasing incidents of violence in public view.
“There should be no bail. Let the police carry out some law and order,” Justice Mukhopadhaya said.
The Bench said the police often complain that their work is undone by the judges the next day by granting bail to accused.
“The police are crying that in the night we catch the criminals and the judges release them in the morning,” Justice Mukhopadhaya said.
