The SC was hearing petitions on cow vigilantism, but the verdict comes as India grapples with another form of mob violence, triggered by a WhatsApp rumour.
Dice have been found dating to the Bronze Age in various Harappan sites in present-day northwest India and throughout Pakistan. And it’s very possible that some had female owners.
This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.
1. The Supreme Court has appropriately observed that horrendous acts of mobocracy cannot be allowed. 2. I think a separate law for dealing with social crime like lynching may be a good idea, but more than that we require is political and administrative will to deal firmly with those who indulge in such crimes. 3. Incidentally, we in Maharashtra are silent observers of another kind of mobocracy. Thousands of litres of milk is being thrown on roads as a part of agitation by ‘farmers’ since yesterday. We citizens who live in urban areas have become targets of politically sponsored hooliganism. We are being used as pawns by the politicians. What can law do about such social crimes?
This is the creation of Modi government. They initially kept quiet in lieu of state elections. Now it’s out of control. Fanatic people were encouraged by BJP Government to their advantage. Modi ji, even if you try now, your government can’t control. Any law may not contain this menace. BJP is solely responsible for this menace.
One is not sure if a new law is in fact necessary. Causing grievous injury and murder are already serious crimes under the Indian Penal Code. Prosecuting offenders with thoroughness and a complete absence of the desire to shield the guilty – as has happened in Rajasthan – and then trial courts rendering timely judgments would send out a good message, as would not garlanding convicts who have secured bail. Since law and order is a state subject, a special duty lies on chief ministers to take these cases – including some truly horrific cases where women are being violated and subjected to brutality – very personally, leaving the DGPs in no doubt that they must uphold the law with the force of a tropical cyclone.
1. The Supreme Court has appropriately observed that horrendous acts of mobocracy cannot be allowed. 2. I think a separate law for dealing with social crime like lynching may be a good idea, but more than that we require is political and administrative will to deal firmly with those who indulge in such crimes. 3. Incidentally, we in Maharashtra are silent observers of another kind of mobocracy. Thousands of litres of milk is being thrown on roads as a part of agitation by ‘farmers’ since yesterday. We citizens who live in urban areas have become targets of politically sponsored hooliganism. We are being used as pawns by the politicians. What can law do about such social crimes?
This is the creation of Modi government. They initially kept quiet in lieu of state elections. Now it’s out of control. Fanatic people were encouraged by BJP Government to their advantage. Modi ji, even if you try now, your government can’t control. Any law may not contain this menace. BJP is solely responsible for this menace.
One is not sure if a new law is in fact necessary. Causing grievous injury and murder are already serious crimes under the Indian Penal Code. Prosecuting offenders with thoroughness and a complete absence of the desire to shield the guilty – as has happened in Rajasthan – and then trial courts rendering timely judgments would send out a good message, as would not garlanding convicts who have secured bail. Since law and order is a state subject, a special duty lies on chief ministers to take these cases – including some truly horrific cases where women are being violated and subjected to brutality – very personally, leaving the DGPs in no doubt that they must uphold the law with the force of a tropical cyclone.