New Delhi | Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday while condemning the increasing mob lynching incidents in the country during the Monsoon session said that the Centre was concerned about the issue and looking into the issue.
“We are concerned about the issue and looking into the matter. It is condemnable,” said Rajnath Singh. He further added that, “The lynching incidents did not start recently they have been happening for many years. I have said this earlier too. The biggest mob lynching was what happened in 1984.”
Rajnath Singh’s statement has come a few days after the central government appointed a high-level committee headed by Union Home Secretary Rajiv Gauba to stop the menace. The committee is set to submit its recommendations to the Prime Minister Narendra Modi within four weeks.
Earlier on Friday last week in Rajasthan, a Muslim man named Rakbar Khan was lynched by an agitated mob on suspicions of cow smuggling in Alwar district. The post-mortem report states that victim died due to ‘shock’ after hit by a “blunt weapon or object.
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