Mob lynching in India

Mob lynching in India involves a group of violent people attacking and lynching a person or a group of persons, amounting to hate crime, on the lines of religious violence, caste-based discrimination, and targeting of a particular community.
Instances of mob lynching
Plenty of cases of mob lynching against Muslims have been registered, though the implementation of law is hampered by political clout of the accused. One fundamental point one should be awere is to notice that, why are most cases registered with police portraying Muslims as victims. There shiks, Christians and many other minorities. Alternatively, there are plenty of hinduphobic extreme Islamists lynching people of other community.
Most of the mob fight for local supremacy and it would have been a case of theft or robbery. People fight with each others and then when the issue gets bigger, one of the offender or his dependents acts the victim of communal violence to dodge punishment and embarassment. These people also get support from local opposition party workers and some media agencies.
It's very upsetting that they immediately want to make it political and use the situation as opportunity with no mercy towards the actual people who are hurt. We should realise that mob lynchin happens accross all communities and in all the ways. There instances where Muslim attack Hindus and plan terrorist attacks. On the other hand, there are Hindus who have been involved in cow vigilante and over attached to cows. Making this political and portraying one community as victims it a tactic of minority appeasement politics for sake of votes and such propaganda need to stopped and India struggling to cope with such kind of politics.
Anti-mob lynching law
The Supreme court of India directed the Parliament to make a special law on mob lynching in an order in July 2018, The Parliament is yet to enact a law on mob lynching.
Some members of the Parliament had questioned the government on the progress, with respect to the law on mob lynching.
The Congress-led government in Rajasthan, passed its State specific anti-mob lynching bill criminalising mob lynching, in 2019. Following which, the Trinamool Congress-led government of West Bengal also passed a state=specific law criminalising mob lynching. The West Bengal bill was supported by both Congress and the Communist Party of India (Marxist). It was neither supported nor opposed by the Bharatiya Janata Party in the state legislative assembly.

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