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<strong>The</strong> International News Weekly india<br />
July 12, 2019 | Toronto<br />
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Lynchings: UP law panel pushes for special<br />
legislation, punishment up to life term<br />
Lucknow: Taking cognisance<br />
of incidents of mob lynching, including<br />
those by cow vigilantes,<br />
the Uttar Pradesh Law Commission<br />
has submitted a draft Bill<br />
recommending up to life imprisonment<br />
for the crime.<br />
Commission chairman Justice<br />
(retd) AN Mittal submitted<br />
a report on mob lynching, along<br />
with the draft Bill, to Chief Minister<br />
Adityanath on Wednesday.<br />
<strong>The</strong> 128-page report cited<br />
various cases of lynching in the<br />
state and recommended the immediate<br />
enactment of a law as<br />
per recommendations made by<br />
the Supreme Court in 2018.<br />
<strong>The</strong> commission said the existing<br />
laws to combat lynchings<br />
were not sufficient and asserted<br />
that there should be a separate<br />
law to tackle them.<br />
It suggested a punishment<br />
ranging from seven years in<br />
jail to life imprisonment for the<br />
offence.<br />
Suggesting that such a law<br />
may be called the Uttar Pradesh<br />
Combating of Mob Lynching<br />
Act, the commission specified<br />
the responsibilities of police officers<br />
and district magistrates,<br />
spelling out the punishment for<br />
failing in their duty.<br />
<strong>The</strong> panel said the law<br />
should also provide for compensation<br />
to the family of the<br />
victim for grievous injury or<br />
loss of loss of life and property.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re should also be provisions<br />
for the rehabilitation of<br />
the victims and their families,<br />
it said.<br />
According to data available<br />
from 2012 to 2019, 50 incidents of<br />
mob violence have taken place<br />
in the state.<br />
Of around 50 victims, 11<br />
died. Twenty-five of these were<br />
cases of major assault, including<br />
those by cow vigilantes.<br />
"In the backdrop of this situation,<br />
the commission took up<br />
the study suo motu and accordingly<br />
recommended the state<br />
government the need for having<br />
a comprehensive law to combat<br />
lynching," law commission secretary<br />
Sapna Tripathi told media<br />
on Thursday.<br />
<strong>The</strong> report said only Manipur<br />
has made a special law<br />
against lynchings and, as per<br />
media reports, the Madhya<br />
Pradesh government is soon going<br />
to enact it.<br />
It referred to various cases<br />
of lynching and mob violence<br />
in the state, including the 2015<br />
killing of Mohammed Akhlaq in<br />
Dadri on the suspicion of beef<br />
consumption.<br />
It mentioned the killing<br />
of Inspector Subodh Singh on<br />
December 3, 2018, in a clash<br />
between police and Hindutva<br />
groups in Bulandshahr after<br />
cattle carcasses were found in<br />
a field.<br />
<strong>The</strong> chairman noted that<br />
mobs were now turning on police<br />
as well.<br />
"Incidents of mob violence<br />
have taken place in districts of<br />
Farukkhabad, Unnao, Kanpur,<br />
Hapur and Muzaffarnagar. Police<br />
are also becoming victims<br />
as people have started thinking<br />
of them as their enemy," Mittal<br />
said in the report.<br />
"<strong>The</strong> killing of a head constable<br />
in Ghazipur and a jail<br />
warden are examples of this,"<br />
he said.<br />
<strong>The</strong> panel studied laws of<br />
different countries and states,<br />
and decisions of the Supreme<br />
Court while preparing the draft<br />
legislation.<br />
It suggested punishment for<br />
conspiracy, aid or abetment in<br />
such cases, as well as for obstructing<br />
the legal process.<br />
Teen raped at rly station<br />
by 2 home guard jawans<br />
in Hoshiarpur<br />
Hoshiarpur : A 16-year-old girl was allegedly raped<br />
by two Punjab home guard jawans at Cholang railway<br />
station here, police said.<br />
Accused identified as Dilbagh Singh and Dharampal,<br />
posted at the railway station, have been arrested and a<br />
rape case was registered against them, they said.<br />
<strong>The</strong> minor girl was waiting for a train on Thursday<br />
morning to go to her village near Mukerian, police said.<br />
Accused after questioning about her whereabouts allegedly<br />
took the minor to a room at the railway station<br />
and then raped her, Deputy Superintendent of Police<br />
(GRP), Surinder Kumar said.<br />
An Assistant Sub Inspector, who was the in charge of<br />
the Government Railway Police post at the railway station,<br />
has been suspended, Kumar said.<br />
<strong>The</strong> medical examination of the victim was conducted<br />
at a hospital in Tanda, police said.<br />
Set up censor board for songs:<br />
Punjab women’s panel chief<br />
Chandigarh: Expressing displeasure over use of vulgar<br />
language by rapper Honey Singh in his latest Punjabi<br />
song, Punjab State Women Commission chairperson Manisha<br />
Gulati demand setting up of a censor board for songs<br />
in Punjab. Gulati said vulgar language used in the song<br />
‘Makhna’ by Honey Singh crossed all boundaries. “I demand<br />
that a censor board be constituted for the songs on<br />
the line of the censor board for films. <strong>The</strong> song ‘Makhna’<br />
sung by Honey Singh misguide the youngster with its lewd<br />
lyrics,” said Gulati.<br />
Terming it as need of the hour, Gulati said that a censor<br />
board for songs will act as deterrent against such singers<br />
who were singing vulgar songs. She said that she would personally<br />
meet the chief minister to request him to form the<br />
censor board in Punjab. Gulati also urged Punjabi singer<br />
Gurdas Mann to come forward and support the Punjab State<br />
Women Commission in its campaign against vulgar songs.<br />
She said that Gurdas Mann should persuade the singers<br />
and producers not to produce vulgar songs in future. She<br />
said after the commission acted against Honey Singh, some<br />
of his supporters are threatening her of dire consequences.<br />
She said she had informed the police about this.