The Supreme Court on Friday sought responses from Centre, states and union territories to a petition demanding uniform compensation for victims of mob lynching and hate crimes.

While dealing with PIL, a division bench of justices KM Joseph and BV Nagarathna issued a notice to the Centre, states and UTs to know whether in terms of a 2018 judgment of the top court in Tehseen Poonawala vs Union of India

Advocate Javed Sheikh, the petitioner submitted that these schemes had to be framed under Section 357A of the CrPC.

To this, the Court said, “The endeavour of the petitioner is to seek implementation of the directions issued by this Court and to have as far as possible, uniform criteria for ex-gratia payment to victims of mob lynching and mob violence.”

The Supreme Court posted the matter for consideration after eight weeks. Till the next date, the Court directed responses to be filed by all governments explaining how the directions in the judgment have been complied with and the manner in which it has been done.