22 Apr Lynchistan – a myth or a reality
Lynchistan – a myth or a reality – Today Current Affairs
What is meant by Lynching?
Lynching is an extrajudicial killing by a group usually on the basis of identity markers like religion, caste, sex and so on.
Recent incidents of mob lynching in India : The Hindu Analysis
In 2021 in Assam, a 23-year-old student leader was allegedly killed by a mob and in the same year a man was allegedly lynched, his limbs cut off and left to die at the Singhu Border, site of the farmers’ protest against the three farm laws.
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Laws in India:
As such there is no particular law in India about lynching. However, there are various legal provisions that can be used for dealing with the issue of lynching.
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- India continues to use repressive laws from the colonial era to disperse crowds like section 141 (IPC) and section 144 (Cr.P.C) without power of shoot to kill.
- Section 146 of IPC – Riot
- Section 153 of IPC – incitement to cause riot
- Section 153A of IPC – promoting enmity between different group-based race, religion, cast, language etc.
- Section 153B of IPC – Communal propaganda to cause disturbance.
- Section 159 of IPC – fighting between two or more persons to incite riots.
- Section 129 of Cr.P.C allows magistrate or Police officer to order the crowd to be dispersed.
Supreme Court’s View : The Hindu Analysis
Supreme Court in T S Poonawalla v UoI 2018 case has termed incidents of mob-lynching in India as ‘horrendous acts of mobocracy’.
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- It has directed the Parliament to consider drafting a new legislation on mob lynching. The Hindu Analysis
- Lynching should be dealt as a “special and separate offense.”
- There should be a nodal officer in every State to control such crimes.
- Cases of lynching should be heard in a fast track court with trials to be concluded within 6 months and the highest possible sentences to be awarded.
What the governments think about supreme court’s view?
The Union and most State governments have done little to comply with the directions of India’s highest court. However, certain states like Manipur, Rajasthan and West Bengal have enacted legislation on lynching.
The political debate : The Hindu Analysis
It is well known that politics in modern time runs on mobilization of people towards certain causes. Often politicians create environment to polarize the society to either garner more votes or to deny votes to other party. However, often in this process, common people get radicalized and starts treating certain people on the basis of identity markers like religion, caste, sex and so on as enemy. This process is very dangerous for a multicultural society like India. Moreover when such people are not prosecuted and given public validity, they become a bigger threat for the future of such nations as well.
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Conclusion:
Keeping words of social activist Harsh Mander (This is the India we must claim — of safety, fairness and fraternity) in mind, the politics of the day must give head to the father of nations emphasis on “Sarva Dharma Sambhav”.
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