Supreme court intervenes. Directs union government to make a new law on lynchings to stringently punish the guilty

The media of the country and the progressive intellectuals, writers, journalists and even socio political activists have been expressing their grave concern over the incessant, unstoppabe and uncontrolled obnoxious incidents of human lynchings in various parts of the country in the nameof so called cow vigilantism or child abductors n against the eating habits of a particular community and very little, rather negligible had been done by the various state governments, particularly the political dispensations in states like UP, Rajasthan, Jharkhand, Haryana and Maharashtra where coincidently the saffron party governments are on the power saddle.

This trend of continuing hatred in the society with diverse culture, religions and caste considerations has literally shaken the confidence of the people at large. After the abysmal failure of the central and the state governments to effectively counter this dreaded menace of human lynching which has so far killed about 27 people in all, all over the country, the apex court was finally compelled to intervene strongly on the writ petition filed by the grandson of late father of the nation, namely Tushar Gandhi requesting and pleading the court to stringently punish the guilty and bring complete halt to this deadly menace.

The three judge bench of the supreme court of India led by the chief justice Deepak Mishra while strongly casting aspersions on the centre and various state governments as above has taken an extremely serious view of these critical situations and obnoxious incidents and have asked the centre to devise or frame a new specific law to punish the guilty of these lynchings to the core, in order to stop these sequential lynchings in various parts ofthe country.

The chief justice Dipak Mishra and other two judges while taken an extremely serious view said that such mob violence in the name of cow vigilantism and child lifting or in any form can’t be allowed to happen in the future.

Our constitution does not permit any one to take the law into his or her hands and lynch anybody in the name of social policing. Such criminals and murderors should be brought to justice at the earliest and this deadliest menace stopped as early as possible.

The court has also taken an extremely serious views about the rumours being spread in the social media like whatsapp, facebook and twitter and asked the centre and states to do something concrete and credible to put an end to this practice of rumour mongering through the social networking sites which ultimately result in provoking peoples’ minds and sentiments leading to such horrendous lynchings.

The apex court has asked the states of Haryana, Rajasthan and UP in particular to file a detailed report on these incidents to the court and also enumerate as to what credible and construtive n coercive actions it has has implemented or executed to stringently punish the guilty and bring end to such horrendous mishappenings.

Today’s verdict seems to be a historic one, which I think would go along way to counter and control this menace once for all particularly the fishy tactics of some parties to use these incidents to derive capital mileage during the elections in the near future. What’s your take friends?