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India's top court demands new law to stop lynching
[Al Jazeera] India's highest court has asked the government to enact a new law to deal with an increase in mob violence and lynchings that have reportedly killed more than two dozen of people in the country this year. The Supreme Court in the capital, New Delhi, on Tuesday, recommended that Parliament create a new penal provision to punish the offenders and stem the mob-related violence. "Horrendous acts of mobocracy cannot be allowed to become a new norm," a three-judge bench, headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra, said. "It has to be curbed with an iron hand." "No citizen can take law into his hands or become a law onto himself," the court ruled. The top court was hearing a number of petitions seeking direction on checking mob violence by Hindu cow-protection vigilantes targeting Moslems over suspicions of beef consumption and cattle slaughter. So far this year, there have been 13 incidents of mob lynchings, resulting in the deaths of 27 people, according to the Times of India, often in isolated areas where outsiders have been accused of child kidnapping and other crimes following fake rumours spread via WhatsApp, a messaging application. Posted by: Fred 2018-07-18 |
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