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Civil rights organisations and writers’ collectives connected Thursday (October 9, 2025) condemned the recent onslaught connected Chief Justice of India B. R. Gavai, calling it a unsafe battle connected the thought of law morality and antiauthoritarian values.
The connection was made astatine a property league held astatine the Press Club, Basheerbagh successful Hyderabad, jointly organised by the Civil Rights Initiative Internationale (CRII), Samooha Secular Writers Forum, and the National Justice Political Front – India.
Babu Rao, IPS (Retd), nationalist president of CRII, described the onslaught arsenic a ‘national shame’ and “a nonstop menace to law morality and societal harmony.” He said the battle was not simply carnal but an onslaught connected the precise tone of India’s Constitution. “If the Chief Justice of India is targeted due to the fact that of his caste, past the information of each marginalised national is astatine stake,” helium said.
He criticised the constabulary response, noting that lone a Zero FIR was filed nether Sections 132 and 133 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita. Mr. Rao demanded that the lawsuit beryllium registered nether the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989, citing the caste-based information down the assault. He reminded that the Justice Gavai is lone the 3rd Dalit to clasp the station of Chief Justice of India, a presumption symbolising the agelong conflict of marginalised communities for equality.
The sheet said that arsenic per reports, the attacker, identified arsenic Rakesh Kishore, shouted “Sanatan ka apmaan nahi sahenge” (“We volition not tolerate insult to Sanatan”) during the attack. Rights activists described the incidental arsenic a manifestation of rising spiritual extremism aimed astatine undermining law values.
Mercy Margaret of the Samooha Secular Writers Forum condemned what she termed “manuvadi extremism” and warned that the onslaught reflected a increasing question of caste and communal fanaticism threatening India’s democracy. Var Naragoni, president of the National Justice Political Front – India, said the incidental was symptomatic of the erosion of judicial independency and secular principles.
Speakers astatine the lawsuit pointed retired that the onslaught violated respective law provisions, including Articles 14, 15, and 21, which warrant equality, non-discrimination, and the close to life, arsenic good arsenic Article 51A(e), which urges citizens to beforehand harmony and renounce practices derogatory to the dignity of disadvantaged groups. They besides cited India’s planetary obligations nether the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Covenant connected Civil and Political Rights.
The organisations urged the Supreme Court to instrumentality suo motu cognisance of the onslaught and initiate stronger ineligible enactment nether the SC/ST Atrocities Act. They called upon law institutions to uphold the dignity of the judiciary and reaffirm India’s antiauthoritarian soul.
Addressing the gathering, Mr. Babu Rao appealed to the younker to support the imaginativeness of B. R. Ambedkar. “India indispensable not beryllium built connected the instauration of fanaticism. We indispensable reclaim Ambedkar’s imaginativeness of democracy, fraternity, and justice. Casteism and communalism person nary spot successful modern India,” helium said.
Quoting erstwhile President S. Radhakrishnan, helium added, “A ideology is distinguished by the extortion it gives to minorities. If that fails, ideology itself is successful peril.”
