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‘Anti-lynching law need of the hour’
Why it is in news?
- CPI (M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury hoped that the government would bring in a law to tackle crimes such as mob lynching in this session.
What yechury said?
- Mr. Yechury said that a law alone would not help if there was no political will to implement it.
- The law in itself is never enough.
- Existing CrPc has enough provisions to tackle this menace.
- Mob lynching is patronised by the state itself.
- It doesn’t help that the government and law enforcement agencies turn a blind eye to it
About law
- The Home Ministry has started deliberations on bringing in a law.
- Last week it held its first meeting with stakeholders to discuss the broad contours of such a law.
- The Supreme Court on July 17 passed a slew of directions to provide “preventive, remedial and punitive measures” to deal with offences like mob violence and cow vigilantism.
Source
The Hindu