Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita Bill: Mob lynching proposed to be punishable with death penalty

Five years after the Supreme Court recommended to Parliament to make a special law categorising lynching as a separate offence with severe punishment, mob lynching has been proposed to be made punishable with the death penalty under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023...

Introduced in the Lok Sabha by Union Home Minister Amit Shah on August 11, the Bill seeks to repealand replace the Indian Penal Code..

Clause 101(2) of the Bill says, When a group of five or more persons acting in concert commits murder on the ground of race, caste or community, sex, place of birth, language, personal belief or any other ground each member of such group shall be punished with death or with imprisonment for life or imprisonment for a term which shall not be less than seven years, and shall also be liable to fine...

It had also ordered a set of preventive, remedial and punitive measures to curb mob lynchings in various parts of the country and had suggested trial of mob violence cases byfast track courts in six months.It was the duty of state governments to ensure law and order in the society, besides ensuring that the rule of law prevailed, it had noted...

On September 6, 2017, the top court had asked all states to take stern measures to stop violence in the name of cow protection, including appointment of senior police officers as nodal officers in every district within a week and acting promptly to check the cow vigilantes from behaving like they were law unto themselves...

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