Bench: Division Bench of Chief Justice Aravind Kumar and Justice Ashutosh J Shastri Case: Jahirmiya Rehamumiya Malek v. State of Gujarat An application for contempt of court was filed before the Gujarat High Court seeking to initiate contempt of court

Bench: Division Bench of Chief Justice Aravind Kumar and Justice Ashutosh J Shastri 

Case: Jahirmiya Rehamumiya Malek v. State of Gujarat

An application for contempt of court was filed before the Gujarat High Court seeking to initiate contempt of court proceedings against fourteen police officers for flogging five Muslim men after allegedly disrupting a Garba event during Navratri.

A Bench of the High Court was hearing a plea by five members of the Malek family accused of throwing stones at a crowd during Navratri. Police officers beat them up based on such allegations.

The police officers dressed in civil dress recorded and uploaded the flogging of these petitioners to social media. According to the video, cops tied petitioners to poles and beat them with lathis. Despite all this, a crowd cheered the cops on and chanted various slogans, including "Vande Mataram."

Senior Advocate IH Syed appearing for the petitioners submitted that initially, forty persons were detained by the cops. The police barged into the house of one of the petitioners, a lady. The woman was beaten up, and then with the family's male members, she was picked up and illegally detained.

Additionally, five men were brought back to Undhela village and thrashed with lathis after being tied to a pole in the chowk. After police officers recorded the incident, a video clip of the flogging went viral on social media. Adv Syed also informed that one of the five men tied to the police was a senior citizen. 

After hearing the arguments, the bench will the matter next on November 12.