The Supreme Court on Friday, September 7 granted one week's time to all states to implement its earlier judgment which had laid down guidelines to prevent mob lynching incidents. The earlier judgment had ordered the states to to set up a procedure to prevent mob lynching incidents. Sixteen states have submitted their compliance report on lynching incidents to the court, news agency ANI reported.
A bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices AM Khanwilkar and DY Chandrachud had in July said that central and state governments needed to take preventive, punitive and remedial measures to stop lynching incidents in the future. The bench had also asked states to submit a compliance report on a slew of directions given by the apex court to prevent lynching incidents.
The court had also recommended the Parliament to enact a separate law to punish offenders who participate in lynching incidents. Showing concern over the rising cases of mob lynchings across the country, the court had also said that the horrendous act of mobocracy cannot be tolerated and it should not become a new norm.
Aghast at the increasing number of such cases, the court had said that lynching has to be curbed with an iron hand and that no citizen can take law into his hands or become a law on to himself.
