Mantasha Tamheed & Sumaiya Firoz Nomani, B.A. LL.B. (Hons.), Faculty of Law, Aligarh Muslim University
ABSTRACT
Mob lynching is a practice and concept of archaic nature which has made its way into the modern civil and lawful society of the present. Here, a mob or a group of people basically punish someone without trial, which implies the victim of such public crime could have been an innocent soul. Mob Lynching violates more than a few laws, namely the Human Rights Laws, the International Laws, the Constitutional Laws and obviously Criminal laws. Mob lynching in no way is a form of punishing the criminal or wrongdoer but this act of lynching is certainly a gross crime against humanity. It is an instrument of anarchism and its origin roots back in marginalising a group of people often a minority, and giving power to a mob agitated towards that minority.
There is no justification for such a crime against humanity, unlike what some people try to imply, they have turned blind eye to the fact that Mob violence- Mob Lynching is an instrument of anarchism and anarchism is a precursor to tyranny. Mob Lynching is in no way, shape or form related to justness, rather it is an expression and an instrument of oppression. Which will lead to the decaying of the democratic structure of the state; it is no less than poison to the law, legal system and structure of the State.
