The Supreme Court on July 28 asked the Centre and at least six States to respond to a plea about lynchings and mob violence refusing to stop. The senior lawyer, appearing for the National Federation of Indian Women, highlighted how the 2018 judgment of the apex court in Tehseen Poonawala case had foretold that lynchings and mob violence were “creeping …
The Supreme Court on July 10 decided to take stock of what the Centre and State Governments have done so far to punish lynchings, mostly spurred by communal hate, since its July 2018 judgment condemned these “horrendous acts of mobocracy” as an anathema which requires a special law and punishment. The court said the Home Ministry could meet with the …
News is defined as “information about a recent event or recently changed situation”. Stories move from the front page to the inside pages and then, if similar incidents keep coming, they are no longer considered “news”. The same day another story was reported with the headline “94% acquittal rate under Haryana’s cow slaughter law in Muslim-dominated Nuh”. One was: “Religion …
Sangat Karugi Insaaf — this seems to be the refrain in Punjab after two people were lynched to death in as many days following sacrilege attempts at the Golden Temple in Amritsar and a gurdwara in Kapurthala, underlining how the issue of sacrilege remains the biggest emotive issue in the poll-bound state. But the violent reaction of people in these …
