Centre to soon bring ‘death penalty’ bill to control mob lynching

New Delhi, July 31: With an aim to stop mobocracy, the PM Modi-led central government will soon bring a bill proposing the death penalty for the crime of lynching. This was said by Minister of State for Home Affairs Hansraj Ahir on Monday to a delegation of the Nathjogi community who called on him in Yavatmal, Maharashtra.

 

Minister Hansraj Ahir said that the lynching is a barbaric crime and no civilized society can accept it and therefore centre will soon bring a proposing death penalty for the crime of lynching. “The proposed bill will be on the lines of a legislation seeking capital punishment to those convicted of raping girls below the age of 12 years,” he added.

During the meeting, a delegation of Nathjogi community informed the Minister about the lynching incident happened with them. Five members of Nathjogi community from Solapur district were lynched by a mob in Dhule district in north Maharashtra on suspicion of being child lifters earlier this month.

Hansraj Ahir while expressing the grief over incident said that Centre and the Maharashtra government have taken the incident very seriously. He also took a detailed stock of crop loan, crop insurance, Pradhanmantri Mudra Yojana, Pradhanmantri Gram Sadak Yojana, Pradhanmantri Aawas Yojana, Pradhanmantri Mineral development fund and others social welfare schemes.

Earlier this month, a Supreme Court bench had told the Parliament to consider creating a new penal provision to deal with incidents of vigilantism, saying that mobocracy cannot be allowed in society.