Click to play videonew Delhi: The Supreme Court has issued a notice to the Maharashtra government on Monday on a public interest litigation seeking protection for non-Marathis in the state.
The PIL alleges that non-Maharashtrians are not safe in Maharashtra and the state government is not doing anything to protect them.
A Bench headed by Chief Justice KG Balakrishnan sought a reply from the state government on allegations that it had failed to take effective steps to check violence.
Though the notice was issued only to the Maharashtra government, the petitioner has sought a direction for the Centre to exercise its power under Article 355 of the Constitution to give necessary instructions to the state authorities.
The Court was hearing a petition filed by Delhi-based trader Salek Chand Jain, who complained that the attacks on North Indians allegedly by the MNS has led to a chain reaction elsewhere in the country and that it threatened to destroy the nation's unity and integrity.
The recent attack on railway examinees from Bihar and Uttar Pradesh and migrant population from North India by Raj Thackeray-led Maharashtra Navnirman Sena activists in Mumbai has invited wide spread criticism. Leaders from Bihar and UP have been demanding tough action against Raj Thackeray.
He was arrested for allegedly instigating his party workers against North Indians but granted b
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