From the last couple of years, the practice of mob lynching in India has
come into the limelight. Every month, we read the newspaper or watch in the TV news channels that a mob of people
attacked some individual for his/her act of crime, beating him mercilessly so much that it killed him.
I am sure we all remember how a man in
Guwahati was tied to a pole, ripping off his clothes and beaten up in full
public view so much that he died. Then, there was news about a woman, who was
beaten up naked by a group of men. In 2015, a mob of (Hindu) villagers attacked
an old Muslim man for suspicion of slaughtering a cow! Holy cow! He died. Just yesterday, there was news about a
young man from Jharkhand, who was forced by a mob of people to chant religious
slogans. He was beaten up so much that he died due to cardiac arrest. This is not normal; can I call it murder? Mob lynching is a crime. It is illegal and wrong to take the law in your hand. What have we come to become now? What is with all this frustration and anger? Who gives these men the authority to beat the shit out of a person ultimately killing them? Isn’t that too much?
I have a few questions in my mind that just bothers me. These
will help me put things in a perspective.
- Who are these men?
- Why does not anyone stop them before it gets worse?
- What the police in the region is doing when these acts take place?
- Don’t these men have any fear of the outcome? Do they have any pillars of support?
- Why is the government not taking any action to prevent such acts?
The
lynching is always followed by some political reactions where one party blames
the other and this vicious circle keeps on growing. The sad part is when the
political parties start gaining political mileage from the incident. If I were
the person in power, I would call up a meeting and try to find some foolproof
solution to this problem so that next time if anyone tries something like this,
think 100 times before. Well, I really do not believe that the government in
power is supporting all this. However, if they do not take any action or prefer
to stay away, they are in some way definitely encouraging it. I mean, if such
news can agitate a normal person like me, why not the government (who has
power) does nothing. Is there something that I am missing and do not
understand? Is it all a part of some big political agenda?
