HUMAN RIGHTS: A ROLE OF JUDICIAL ACTIVISM CRITICAL ANALYSIS

Abstract

In simple words, mob lynching is a murder totally illegal by an unlawful and angry mob or group of persons. “Rise of mob lynching in India is observing a high rise in cases relating to violence amounts to murder. When the people take law into their own hands it becomes dangerous for the victim who is in threat of their lives. It has been analyzed that the lynching or public disorder rise up from 8% to over 20%. The agony against this recent mob violence has been overt among a large section of the citizens. The increase in Lynching incidents in India shows a strange barbarous behavior of humans during the 21st century. Lynching involved injury or murder of a person who is a criminal or accused of a crime against society. One of the strangest reasons for lynching today is inter cast marriage, cow slaughter, cattle smuggling or beef consuming. Mostly the victims of Lynching in India are persons belonging to minorities of that particular area such as Dalits and Muslims”.

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