{"id":50915,"date":"2019-08-05T19:11:01","date_gmt":"2019-08-05T13:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogadmin.forumias.com\/?p=50915"},"modified":"2019-08-05T19:11:01","modified_gmt":"2019-08-05T13:41:01","slug":"7-pm-rajasthans-effort-to-criminalise-mob-lynching-is-a-good-start-5th-august-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/7-pm-rajasthans-effort-to-criminalise-mob-lynching-is-a-good-start-5th-august-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"7 PM | Rajasthan\u2019s effort to criminalise mob lynching is a good start | 5th August, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Context:<\/strong> Rajasthan\nProtection from Lynching Bill, 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>More in News: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The Manipur Assembly has passed a bill which\nrecommends life imprisonment for those involved in mob violence, if it results\nin the death of a person.<\/li><li>If\nRajasthan Protection from Lynching Bill, 2019 gets passed, Rajasthan will be\nthe second State after Manipur to have a dedicated law criminalizing mob\nlynching as a special offence.<\/li><li>In\nJuly, 2018, Supreme Court issued guidelines to<em> underlining preventive, remedial\nand punitive measures for the purposes of preventing heinous activities such as\ncow vigilantism, lynching and mob violence. (<\/em><strong>Tehseen S. Poonawalla v. Union of India Case<\/strong><em>)<\/em><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Mob Lynching:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As per the bill, \u2018lynching\u2019 means any\nact or series of acts of violence or aiding, abetting or attempting an act of\nviolence, whether spontaneous or planned, by a mob on the grounds of religion,\nrace, caste, sex, place of birth, language, dietary practices, sexual\norientation, political affiliation, ethnicity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Supreme\nCourt Guidelines (2018): <\/strong>Expressing its abhorrence over the rising incidents\nof lynching across the country, the 2018 Supreme Court bench comprising the\nthen Chief Justice of India, Dipak Misra, Justice AM Khanwilkar and Justice DY\nChandrachud issued several guidelines as preventive measures. Some key\nguidelines are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Designation\nby the state governments of a senior police officer, not below the rank of\nsuperintendent of police, as nodal officer (NO) in each district to function as\nthe head of a special task force to procure intelligence reports about potential\nperpetuator.<\/li><li>Identification\nof districts\/sub-divisions and\/or villages, where instances of lynching and mob\nviolence have been reported in the recent past.<\/li><li>Central\nand state governments should broadcast on radio and television and other media\nplatforms, including official websites of the home department and police of\nstates that lynching and mob violence of any kind shall invite serious\nconsequence under the law.<\/li><li>It\nis the duty of the central and state governments to take steps to curb and stop\ndissemination of irresponsible and explosive messages, videos and other\nmaterial on various social media platforms which have a tendency to incite mob\nviolence and lynching of any kind.<\/li><li>As remedial measures, the Court directed\nthe jurisdictional police station to immediately lodge an FIR, without any\nundue delay.<\/li><li>The Supreme Court made it clear that\ncases of lynching and mob violence should be tried by designated courts\/fast track\ncourts.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Objective\nof the bill: <\/strong>It\naims to provide for effective protection of the Constitutional rights of\nvulnerable persons, to punish the acts of lynching, to provide for designated\ncourts for the expeditious trial of such offences, for rehabilitation of\nvictims of mob lynching and their families and for matters connected therewith\nor incidental thereto.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Provisions\nof the bill:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Appointment\nof a dedicated <strong>nodal officer:<\/strong>\nDirector General of Police shall appoint a State Coordinator to prevent lynching;\nEvery District Superintendent of Police shall be the District Coordinator.<\/li><li><strong>Prescribing\nduties to the Police Officer and District Magistarte<\/strong>:&nbsp; to prevent the creation of a hostile\nenvironment against a person or group of persons who are targeted in such\nincidents.<\/li><li>Offences\nto be <strong>cognizable, non &#8211; bailable<\/strong> and\nnoncompoundable.<\/li><li>Setting\nup of <strong>special courts.<\/strong><\/li><li>Stipulating\nenhanced <strong>punishments.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/li><li>It\n<strong>criminalizes acts of lynching<\/strong>,\ndissemination of offensive material and fostering of a hostile environment.<\/li><li>It\nalso <strong>provides for relief<\/strong>, legal aid,\ncompensation and rehabilitation.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Issues\nwith Bill:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Legal Scrutiny: <\/strong>Section 8(c) of\nthe Bill says that whoever commits an act of lynching, where the act leads to\nthe death of the victim, shall be punished with rigorous imprisonment for life\nand with fine which shall not be less than one lakh rupees and may extend to\nfive lakh rupees.<\/li><li>The\nbill deprives the courts of their legitimate jurisdiction to exercise their\ndiscretion. In the context of criminal law and sentencing, the principle of\nproportionality mandates an adequate balance of the gravity of the crime, the\ninterests of the victim and of society, and the purposes of criminal law. The\nconstitutional courts have time and again applied the principle of\nproportionality and have struck down laws that are excessively harsh or\ndisproportionate.<\/li><li>Section\n9 of the Rajasthan Bill stipulates the same punishment for lynching and\n\u201cattempting\u201d an act of lynching.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Conclusion:\n<\/strong>The\nConstitution of India guarantees to all persons the right to life and personal\nliberty and the Equal protection of laws. In recent times there have been many\nof incidents resulting in loss of livelihood, injuries and death of persons at\nthe hands of mob lynching. Lynching is an egregious manifestation of prejudice,\nintolerance, and contempt towards the rule of law.&nbsp;Despite the flaws in\nthe Rajasthan Protection from Lynching Bill, 2019, the&nbsp;Rajasthan&nbsp;Bill\nis evidence of political will by the State government.&nbsp;It is expected that\ndeliberations help in the enactment of a more constitutionally robust Bill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Source:\n<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/opinion\/op-ed\/rajasthans-effort-to-criminalise-mob-lynching-is-a-good-start\/article28816623.ece\">https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/opinion\/op-ed\/rajasthans-effort-to-criminalise-mob-lynching-is-a-good-start\/article28816623.ece<\/a><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Context: Rajasthan Protection from Lynching Bill, 2019 More in News: The Manipur Assembly has passed a bill which recommends life imprisonment for those involved in mob violence, if it results in the death of a person. If Rajasthan Protection from Lynching Bill, 2019 gets passed, Rajasthan will be the second State after Manipur to have&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/7-pm-rajasthans-effort-to-criminalise-mob-lynching-is-a-good-start-5th-august-2019\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">7 PM | Rajasthan\u2019s effort to criminalise mob lynching is a good start | 5th August, 2019<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":49370,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-7-pm","category-public","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/7-PM.png?fit=1000%2C500&ssl=1","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704763790},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50915","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=50915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}