{"id":13252,"date":"2011-09-17T08:42:55","date_gmt":"2011-09-17T03:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/?p=13252"},"modified":"2011-09-17T08:42:55","modified_gmt":"2011-09-17T03:12:55","slug":"court-issues-notice-to-amod-kanth-in-1984-medal-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/court-issues-notice-to-amod-kanth-in-1984-medal-case","title":{"rendered":"Court issues notice to Amod Kanth in 1984 medal case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Amod-Kanth.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"13253\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/court-issues-notice-to-amod-kanth-in-1984-medal-case\/amod-kanth-2\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/09\/Amod-Kanth.png?fit=266%2C190&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"266,190\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Amod-Kanth\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/09\/Amod-Kanth.png?fit=266%2C190&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-13253\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Amod-Kanth.png?resize=266%2C190&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"266\" height=\"190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/09\/Amod-Kanth.png?w=266&amp;ssl=1 266w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/09\/Amod-Kanth.png?resize=150%2C107&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 266px) 100vw, 266px\" \/><\/a>The Delhi High Court Friday issued notice to former police officer Amod Kanth and one of his colleagues on an appeal against the dismissal of a plea for stripping him of the police medal awarded for maintaining law and order during the 1984 anti-Sikh riots here.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A division bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justice Sanjiv Khanna issued notice to Kanth and the then station house officer S.S. Manan of Paharganj police station seeking their reply by Dec 13.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Petitioners Amrik Singh Lovely and Trilok Singh moved the appeal after a single judge bench had rejected their plea April 7. They alleged that former Indian Police Service (IPS) officer Kanth and Manan were wrongly awarded the president\u2019s police medals for gallantry.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The duo had implicated the Sikh community\u2019s members during the riots which followed the assassination of the then prime minister Indira Gandhi by her Sikh bodyguards Oct 31, 1984, the petitioners alleged.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The petition, seeking a direction to the union home ministry to withdraw the police medal for gallantry conferred on Kanth and Manan by a presidential notification on June 7, 1985, was dismissed by Justice S. Muralidhar.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Though the judge noted that the 1984 riots in Delhi have \u2018left deep scars on the collective memory of the nation, and especially of the Sikh community\u2019 and that the \u2018role of the State machinery has come under critical scrutiny\u2019, he said there was little scope for judicial review in the case.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018It is arguable that in the context of a tragedy of such proportions, the state ought to display sensitivity to the feelings of the victim community and be circumspect in hastening to award gallantry medals to the officials of the law enforcement machinery soon after the events. Yet, the scope of judicial review in such matters is limited,\u2019 he said while rejecting the petition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Delhi High Court Friday issued notice to former police officer Amod Kanth and one of his colleagues on an appeal against the dismissal of a plea for stripping him of the police medal awarded for maintaining law and order during the 1984 anti-Sikh riots here. &nbsp; A division bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[1746,2247,255,2546,2314,5199],"class_list":["post-13252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-top-law-news","tag-amod-kanth","tag-chief-justice-dipak-misra","tag-delhi-high-court","tag-justice-s-muralidhar","tag-justice-sanjiv-khanna","tag-s-s-manan"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Court issues notice to Amod Kanth in 1984 medal case<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Delhi High Court Friday issued notice to former police officer Amod Kanth and one of his\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/court-issues-notice-to-amod-kanth-in-1984-medal-case\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Court issues notice to Amod Kanth in 1984 medal case\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Delhi High Court Friday issued notice to former police officer Amod Kanth and one of his\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/court-issues-notice-to-amod-kanth-in-1984-medal-case\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Legal News India - Supreme Court &amp; High Court Updates\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/LegalindiaCom\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2011-09-17T03:12:55+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Amod-Kanth.png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Legal India Admin\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Legal India Admin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legalindia.com\\\/news\\\/court-issues-notice-to-amod-kanth-in-1984-medal-case#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legalindia.com\\\/news\\\/court-issues-notice-to-amod-kanth-in-1984-medal-case\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Legal India Admin\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legalindia.com\\\/news\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/0bfdffe9059fb8bb24a86d094609c5ea\"},\"headline\":\"Court issues notice to Amod Kanth in 1984 medal case\",\"datePublished\":\"2011-09-17T03:12:55+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legalindia.com\\\/news\\\/court-issues-notice-to-amod-kanth-in-1984-medal-case\"},\"wordCount\":315,\"commentCount\":1,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legalindia.com\\\/news\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legalindia.com\\\/news\\\/court-issues-notice-to-amod-kanth-in-1984-medal-case#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legalindia.in\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2011\\\/09\\\/Amod-Kanth.png\",\"keywords\":[\"Amod Kanth\",\"Chief Justice Dipak Misra\",\"Delhi High Court\",\"Justice S. 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