Home Minister Rajnath Singh-led Panel to Approve New Law For Lynchings, Mob Violence; Submit Report to PM Modi
After the Rajnath Singh-led panel approves the draft law, a report would be presented before Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking his assent to the proposed legislation.
New Delhi, July 23: A week after the Supreme Court directed the Centre to frame a fresh legislation which could crackdown on the cases of lynchings and mob violence, the government has tasked the Ministry of Home Affairs to come up with the new law.
Union Home Secretary Rajiv Gauba has been assigned four weeks to head a panel which would draft the legislation. The proposed law would be then be submitted before the Group of Ministers headed by Home Minister Rajnath Singh.
After the Rajnath Singh-led panel approves the draft law, a report would be presented before Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking his assent to the proposed legislation.
Earlier in the day, a ruckus erupted in Lok Sabha after Congress MP Karan Singh Yadav accused the ruling BJP of ideologically supporting the cow vigilantes allegedly involved in an array of lynching incidents.
Members of the treasury benches sharply opposed his remarks, appealing the Speaker to expunge them from the records.
Yadav, the Congress lawmaker, accused the government of failing to crackdown on the cow vigilantes despite the apex court's directive. He referred to the lynching of Rakbar Khan in Alwar on the intervening night of Friday and Saturday.
Rakbar, 32, was murdered on suspicion of smuggling cows for slaughter.
Hours before his lynching, the government, while replying to the Opposition during the course of no-confidence motion debate, had reiterated that it is the prerogative of the state governments to enact appropriate legislations to maintain law and order.
On the issue of mob violence, Rajnath Singh had refrained from assuring the House that the Centre would enact a new law as directed by the top court. Instead, he said, "The biggest lynching the nation ever saw was in 1984." His remark referred to the anti-Sikh pogrom following the assassination of then prime minister Indira Gandhi.
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