Owaisi slams Modi for not taking action against rising lynching cases

President of the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) party Asaduddin Owaisi in a tweet on Saturday slammed Prime Minister Narendra Modi for not taking action against rising lynching cases in the country.

In his tweet, he claimed that the Muslims of the country did not have the fundamental right to live and that the four years of the ruling party was  'lynch raj'.

On Saturday, a man was beaten to death after he was suspected to be a cow smuggler.

Akbar Khan, a resident of Haryana was lynched in Alwar after a mob of cow vigilantes spotted him transporting two cows.

The incident has come to light amidst the increasing number of lynching cases in India that are mostly triggered due to fake news being circulated on social media. It’s not been a month since a techie, working for Google, was lynched in India in suspicion to be a child lifter. The 32-year-old from Hyderabad was lynched to death while his other three friends, including a Qatar national, were thrashed by a mob which suspected them to be child-lifters, at Kamalnagar in Bidar district



of Karnataka.

However, this is not the first incident that has taken place in Alwar. Earlier, in April 2017, 55-year-old Pehlu Khan from Nuh in Haryana was grievously assaulted by self-styled cow vigilantes near Behror in Rajasthan on the Delhi-Alwar highway on April 1, for being a cattle smuggler. He succumbed to his injuries at a private hospital on April 3.

The Supreme Court on July 3, took a stand on mob lynching in cases of cow vigilantism. Chief Justice of India (CJI) Dipak Misra put the onus on states to check cow vigilantism, saying that it was a law and order issue.

A bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices A M Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachud said that this was a law and order issue and each state has to be responsible.

The CJI has also said that nobody can take law into their own hands.

“Nobody can take Law in their own hands. Obligation on states to prevent incidents of this nature,” said CJI Dipak Misra.

“This is a Law and order issue. States need to be made responsible,” added the CJI.