New Delhi | The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked the Parliament to make a separate a separate law to deal with the offence of lynching.
The Apex court Bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra, Justices AM Khanwilkar and DY Chandrachud also issued a slew of directions to be implemented by the States and Central government to ensure that law and order is maintained and people are prevented from taking the law into their hands.
The Court further added that Citizens cannot take the law into their hands or become law unto themselves.
While stressing on the need to contain mobocracy the Court stated that it is the duty of the States to ensure that law and order is maintained so as to protect the secular ethos and Constitutional values.
According to media reports, a total of 61 mob attacks have been sparked on the rumours of child lifting in 2018 killing about 24 people all around the country. The Union Home ministry on 5 July, 2018 directed all states and union territories to contain mob-lynchings fuelled by rumours of child-lifting on social media.
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