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Adityanath said, These incidents (mob lynching) are given unnecessary importance. If you talk about mob lynching, what was 1984? Law and order is a matter of state. Congress intention is to make mountain out of a molehill and it wont be successful. (Photo: ANI | Twitter)

Unnecessary importance being given to mob lynching: Yogi Adityanath

'Humans are important and cows are also important. Both have their own roles in nature. Everyone should be protected,'...

25 July 2018 1:16 PM

Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra said (Television) Journalists behave as if they have turned Popes or guardians overnight. There are limits. (Photo: PTI)

On social media rumors, CJI Dipak Misra says citizens must check...

The Chief Justice said there was a surge in mob lynching incidents recently based on 'viral texts on social media'...

25 July 2018 11:02 AM

Growing intolerance and polarisation of society that threatens to tear apart the social and moral fabric of the nation is finding an outlet through the monster of mob violence, which is being supported by the ideology, attitude and the actions of the ruling partys supporters.

Heed Supreme Court, rein in the mobs and fear before it's too late

Propaganda that transforms normal people into killing machines operates on most primal fears and insecurities of human...

24 July 2018 7:08 PM

The attack by a mob in Jharkhand on Swami Agnivesh, Arya Samaj scholar, battler against bonded labour and activist for tribal welfare, ironically came on the same day that the top court was calling for the most stringent action against mob justice and lynching.

Mobocracy unleashed on hapless elder

The crux of the issue is such mob behaviour seems to have the patronage of those with political power.

22 July 2018 6:47 PM

Supreme Court of India (Photo: Asian Age)

To deter lynch mobs, enforce existing laws

What is needed is the will to execute them so that the message goes out that mob justice won't be tolerated.

18 July 2018 6:30 PM

Supreme Court of India (Photo: Asian Age)

Mobocracy can't be allowed, act to curb cow violence: SC to Centre,...

The court said instances of lynching and mob violence are creeping threats which may gradually take the shape of a ...

17 July 2018 7:31 PM

Bajrang Dal members stage a protest against the recent killings of Hindus and vandalism of a Durga idol by miscreants in Bangladesh. (PTI)

Pavan K. Varma | In mobocracy called India, art & rule of law...

The first myth that needs to be buried then is that there is a difference between the BJP and the so-called fringe

13 Nov 2021 8:49 PM

People raise slogans and hold placards as they protest against mob lynching and sexual violence against women in Ahmedabad on July 23. (Photo: PTI)

On a 'mobocracy' and a patron-client relationship

Mob justice is a threat to the existence of democracy as it questions the very existence of the State as a whole.

1 Aug 2018 9:03 PM