Tehseen Poonawala judgment on Mob Lynching

• The Supreme Court (SC) of India directed the seven remedial measures in its judgment ‘Tehseen Poonawala 2018’ to States because of their lax response to lynching.

Mob Lynching

• It is illegal activity done by the crowd of people who turn aggressive and kill an individual on the assumption that he is a criminal and hold him guilty without any legal trial.

 Tehseen Poonawala judgment

• It is the “sacrosanct duty” of the State to protect the lives of its citizens, and declared that the authorities of the States have the “principal obligation” to see that vigilantism.
• It said spiralling incidents of lynchings, and the gruesome visuals aired through social media have compelled the court to reflect on “whether the populace of a great Republic like ours has lost the values of tolerance to sustain a diverse culture”.
• Bystander apathy
• The judgement warned that vigilantes usher in anarchy, chaos, disorder and, eventually, there is an emergence of a violent society. “Vigilantism cannot, by any stretch of imagination, be given room to take shape”.

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