Why is Mob violence an anti-social activity ?
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Increasing reports of people being lynched on suspicion of being child-lifters speaks poorly of the law and order situation in the country. The right course for the people would be to alert the police and let them do their job. Perhaps governments need to launch campaigns to stop this trend of taking the law into one’s hands. According to one estimate, there have been as many as 30 instances of lynching or attempted lynching in the last two months. Something needs to be done (“Five men mistaken for child-lifters, lynched”, July 2).
R.J. Khurana,
Bhopal
Growing instances of lynching of innocent men and women on mere suspicion is a pointer that most of us are losing faith in the rule of law and slipping back to primitive ways of life where ‘might is right’ was prevalent. The police need to act fast and think of innovative outreach programmes for rural populations on the criminality of taking the law into their hands. If Indians in the rural hinterland are falling prey to incorrect social media forwards, there can be a way of addressing the issue using the same medium.
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In the winter of 2015, peninsular India was battered by the retreating monsoons that killed more than 500 people in cities dotting the south-eastern water margin and displaced more than 1.8 million citizens. Chennai was drowned in the unprecedented deluge, but what kept hope floating in the affected communities were the interactive social media. As conventional phone lines went dead.