{"id":36050,"date":"2018-11-01T13:17:56","date_gmt":"2018-11-01T07:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=36050"},"modified":"2018-11-01T13:17:56","modified_gmt":"2018-11-01T07:47:56","slug":"re-arming-the-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/re-arming-the-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Re-arming the law:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/opinion\/columns\/re-arming-the-law-targeted-killings-bill-bjp-lynching-4760192\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Re-arming the law<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: (Indian Express, Editorial)<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Reframing country\u2019s law<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Context: <\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There is the emerging need of the Center and the Parliament to pass a Bill to deal with acts of violence so that each and every State Government will have better concrete legal action.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Introduction:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Not all lynching is cow-protection related. Some acts are frankly little ethnic wars, some purely on the basis of cast attacks against the Dalits, some acts of dire violence on Muslims, and all are politically tolerated.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Where the fault lies? <\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Law and order is, and must remain a state subject. But a constitutional power can never be a license for lawlessness. <\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">First, the law may never take its course when the police refuse to file the FIR, despite the Supreme Court\u2019s insistence that they ought to.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Second, delayed and faulty investigation, either due to workload or to covert or overt party pressures, may tend to defeat the proceedings. <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Third, the lack of effective legal representation and the postures of out-of-court settlement.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fourth, the endless judicial delays, and the total lack of political will to improve access to justice, betray a structural indifference to the sufferings thus caused. <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fifth, parliament response to specific proposals may be problematic: For example, the targeted violence bill, 2011, and the \u201chonor\u201d crimes bill as proposed by the National Women\u2019s Commission.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Suggestion:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lynching should now be recognized as integral to collective political violence.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The targeted violence bill was prepared after years of effort by human rights and social activists, and vetted by legislative officials.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> In the wake of new violence, it now needs to be owned by all, including political parties who ought to pass it in the current session of Parliament.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The law should never be deployed as a programme of political revenge but always regarded as an instrument for social justice and orderly change.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Re-arming the law: (Indian Express, Editorial) Reframing country\u2019s law Context: There is the emerging need of the Center and the Parliament to pass a Bill to deal with acts of violence so that each and every State Government will have better concrete legal action. Introduction: Not all lynching is cow-protection related. Some acts are frankly&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/re-arming-the-law\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Re-arming the law:<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704605441},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}