Mob Lynching

Mob Lynching is an informal punishment applied by a gather that does not have the authority to do so. Most times, lynching occurs when a group believes that a person has committed a crime, even if it has not been trialed or convicted.

Examples of lynchings include public hangings, tar, and feathering, or other forms of extreme punishment or execution performed in public. Lynching differs from uncommon types of punishment because the public performs it outside the legal system.

This is often handled by a group of people. Lynching is a mob justice in which ordinary people come together to terrorize or punish someone they think violates a legal, moral, and social standard.

Although the origins of the word “lynching” are not very clear, it was primarily attributed to a late-eighteenth-century Virginia court judge named Charles Lynch, who had regularly arrested British partisans without trial. As they were never tried, and he had no authority to stop them, the practice became known as ‘lynching.’

The murder of 15-year-old Junaid in a running train in Haryana shocked the country. In the unfamiliar parts of the nation, there are continuous mobs, lynching incidents. What is the reason?

Fake News and Mob Lynching

In the name of homecoming, love jihad, cow protection, and self-defense camps, the longstanding issues of communalism against the community are being expressed now as violence.

The crowd is making a target of people such as Junaid, Parveen Khan, Munna Ansari, and Mohammad Akhlaq. President of Sociology Department of Jamia Milia Islamia, Prof. Says, that

“There is an attempt to provoke communities suffering from such attacks. Reverse Victimhood, which means violence doing persons, they call themselves victim,

Politics of hatred

Prof. Nishat Kaiser considers this kind of attack because of hate politics, “One thing is understandable that, under the name of Goraksha, mobs lynching or whatever such circumstances are happening, this results from all thought-provoking planning. There is a specialized division of works in the fierce Hindutva Forces.

The instant “justice” of the crowd also reveals the breaking of people’s confidence in law and order.

We often hear about cases of crimes against people for various reasons. However, mass lynching cases in recent years have been mainly caused by the spread of rumors, suspicions, or religious beliefs.

If we understand the events in what order they happened then, we may consider it that some were the consequences of caste-based horrors, some were because of religious beliefs, and the rest was because of false news or rumors.

If we look at the other reasons for lynching, they are inspired by religious belief. Cow “, the sacred animal,” has been the talk of the city for many years in India. Cows of Hindu worship, using cow dung for fuel and cleaning in the villages, feed them with milk.

That is why India has the most significant number of cows in the world. India is also the first in global milk production.

However, nowadays, cows have become a motive for the killing of non-Hindus because they eat beef or engage in the profession of the working butcher. No doubt we should respect religious beliefs, but what if few people kill a person based on suspicion or suspicion?

It does not restrict mob lynching to the area, state, or nations. It occurs anywhere in the world depending on human destructing thinking.

In the American Mob lynchings increased after the American Civil War in the late 19th century, after the emancipation of slaves; they declined in the 1920s. Most of the mob lynchings were of African American men in the southern United States, and women were also lynched.

According to the Tuskegee Institute, 4,743 people were lynched between 1880 and 1967 in the United States, including 3,345 African Americans and 1285 whites. Over 70 percent of lynchings in the post-civil war period occurred in the southern states of America. According to the Equal Justice Initiative, 4,063 African Americans were lynched between 1876 and 1951 in the south.

Effects of Mob lynching

Mostly the innocent persons are becoming the victim of mob lynching. People break law and order, social harmony disturbs, and riot also emerges. The feeling of fear generates among people that obstruct the social developments and unity in the country.

Mob lynching is not an ordinary crime. Evidence collected by IndiaSpend suggests that since 2010, there have been 87 incidents of hate crimes in 289 victims of cow-related violence. Significantly, 98% of these incidents of lynching have occurred since May 2014.

The Supreme Court used powerful language in calling on the Union government to curb lynching of the Mafia. He has notified, “Citizens cannot take the law into their hands and added that “horrendous acts of mobocracy” can not become the new norm.

To Control these Mobs Lynching:

There is required to bring a special law to deal with the threat of mob lynching and control it. The particular law dealing with atrocities against scheduled caste and scheduled tribes – the 1989 SC / ST (Atrocities Prevention) Act – may not have ended caste discrimination, but it has acted as a significant deterrent.