MOB LYNCHING IN INDIA: Mobs Are New Justice Makers Pranav Kaushal LAW CRITIQUE Mon, Jul 29, 2019, at ,01:47 PM Mob lynching in India is the current topic in India. The term Lynching has not been defined under the Indian Legal system and there are no punishments prescribed for the said offense. In India, the term lynch was for the very first time used in the Kherlanji Massacre in the year 2006. But the cases related to Mob Lynching arose more in the last few years. Lynching has become ordinary news in India in the last few months. Such an outrageous act of lynching has now become part of the society as people have developed the mindset to take the justice system in their hands. Several innocent people are tortured to death by way of mob lynching. Such kind of brutalities by way of mob lynching is not new to India. Such brutalities were in the cases of Sikh Riots (1984), Muzaffarnagar (2013), Muslims in Gujarat in the year 2002. Kherlanji Massacre 2006 On September 29, 2006, the first case of mob lynching was registered in India. The dispute was for the land where a mob of more than 50 villagers entered into the house of the victim and started beating him and other members of the house and naked the wife and daughters before they murdered them. Thus such incident was barbaric and a showcase of human brutality on mankind. Dadri Lynching 2015 On September 28, 2015, an incident of lynching broke out in one of the District of Uttar Pradesh, where the group of Hindus had lynched a Muslim person and his son for stealing and slaughtering a cow-calf and storing the meat for consuming. Jharkhand Lynching 2017 On May, 18 2017in the district of Jharkhand seven-person being accused of child lifting was lynched by the people by the circulation of warning messages in WhatsApp against them. In India, all people by virtue of the Constitutional objectives have been provided with the right to equality. A person has the right to prove him innocent of the crime for which he has been charged. Sometimes the process of delivering justice takes years but it does not mean that the layman who is outside the purview has the right to take justice in their own hands. The nation of the people is bound to be bestowed by our judicial system. Even the concept of rule of law states that no one is above law. Many people in India are not aware of their rights and duties as prescribed under the Indian Constitution. People in India should also be aware of the judicial process. Punishing the criminal is one of the main functions of the judiciary. A criminal shall be punished by virtue of the laws, not by the way of mob lynching. Lynching is a serious crime as it deals with the murder of the person by a group of an angry mob. Thus the Indian Judicial system has not prescribed the punishment for mob lynching and thus it is the need of an hour that a law based on lynching also falls under the definition of crime. The apex court in the case of Tehseen Poonnawalla v. Union of India has issued guidelines to the Parliament for the enactment of the legislation for preventive, remedial and punitive measures keeping in view the disturbing increase in the mob lynching so as to secure the constitutional rights of the vulnerable people to punish demonstrators of mob violence and to give rehabilitation to the victims.