Centre should enact law against mob-lynching: Maharashtra Congress

Centre should enact law against mob-lynching: Maharashtra Congress

Mumbai: The Maharashtra Congress on Thursday demanded that the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) at the Centre should immediately enact a law against mob-lynching as directed by the Supreme Court in July 2018. State Congress spokesperson and General Secretary Sachin Sawant said that way back in July 2018, the then Supreme Court Chief Justice Deepak Misra had given directions to the Centre in this regard to check such heinous crimes.

Besides, 11 guidelines were issued that were disregarded by the Centre and later in July 2019, the then Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi again sent a notice to the Centre on the status of framing such a law.

“However, the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi did nothing in the matter so far. After the (April 16) Palghar lynching case, Union Home Minster Amit Shah and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath spoke with Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray, but there was nothing about the law against mob lynching,” Sawant told a video press conference.

“Such mob lynchings have occurred in other states also, but no senior BJP leader displayed such concerns. On the contrary, the accused in some of those cases were felicitated by ministers and party leaders,” he pointed out.

Dismissing the Vishva Hindu Parishad’s (VHP) contentions, Sawant said that since the past 10 years, the Gadchinchale area of Palghar, where the unfortunate mob lynching of two ‘sadhus’ and their driver took place, has been a BJP bastion. (IANS)

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