From Pratap K Patnaik
DH News Service
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday refused to interfere in the functioning of state governments including Rajasthan which is probing excesses by the people during the Gurjar-Meena conflict in which many people died and properties worth crores of rupees destroyed.
A division bench headed by Justice Arijit Pasayat said it would not give directives to the state governments to release the people nabbed by the police for investigation.
When Counsel Surat Singh appearing for Akhil Bharatiya Gurjar Vikas Sangathan, the petitioner, prayed for the release of “innocent people arrested by Rajasthan police”, the court observed, “Prove your innocence before the law.” The petition had prayed for a direction to the police of various states including Rajasthan clarifying the directive of the Supreme court of June 4, 2007 that innocent people should not be harassed. “No case should be lodged without ensuring safeguards of Fundamental Rights and following the due process of law,” the petition said.
Due to extensive damage of public property by the agitators in Rajasthan during the agitation, the Supreme Court had directed the state governments to initiate action against the culprits according to law.
Dera row
On June 4, the apex court had also refused to entertain petitions relating to the controversy of Dera Sacha Sauda saying the Punjab and Haryana High Court was already monitoring the matter. 
Justice Arijit Pasayat had said that since the high court is already monitoring the matter, we are not inclined to interfere into it.
The petition which was filed by Dera Sacha Sauda had sought protection of their properties against an ultimatum given by the Akal Takht to vacate them and stop their activities across the country.
MAYA'S APPOINTMENT
New Delhi, pti: The Apex court on Monday reserved its order on a petition challenging the appointment of UP Chief Minister Mayawati and her cabinet minister Satish Chandra Mishra on the ground that the two were sitting MPs and hence could not become ministers without vacating their Parliamentary seats.
A two member bench comprising Justices Arijit Pasayat and P P Naolekar, while reserving its verdict, said it would pass a “reasoned order”, after the petitioner, Ashok Pandey, an advocate, pleaded that the matter be referred to a larger bench.
Questioning the practice of MPs assuming office as ministers in states, the petitioner said it could have serious repercussions on the country’s polity and recalled the defeat of the Vajpayee Government by a single vote, after the then Orissa Chief Minister, Girdhar Gomango, participated in the no-confidence motion.