States were obliged to compensate the victims of cow vigilante groups, Supreme Court said on Friday.
“Victims are to be compensated. It is obligatory on the part of the state to compensate the victim of crime,” the bench headed by the Chief Justice Dipak Misra said, while asking all the states to file a report on the compliance of its order by appointing a nodal officer to prevent violence by the cow vigilante.
Senior counsel Kapil Sibal also appearing for one of the petitioner told the court that while the perpetrator of violence in the name of protecting vows were on bail, the victims faced FIRs and persecution.
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