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Proposals to address spate of lynchings in new law, Maanav Suraksha Kanoon. Current laws can prosecute mob lynchings, issues with implementation. Pros: Draft MASUKA has good ideas like making police responsible, compensation for victims’ families and witness protection. Cons: But ambiguities could lead to ineffectiveness and misuse, timeline is too short. Verdict: Good points should at least be incorporated into existing law.
Hours after investigators claimed the arrest a fugitive knifeman who stabbed Junaid to death, the slain teenager’ brother says he wants nothing but a death sentence for the prime accused.
Proposals to address spate of lynchings in new law, Maanav Suraksha Kanoon. Current laws can prosecute mob lynchings, issues with implementation. Pros: Draft MASUKA has good ideas like making police responsible, compensation for victims’ families and witness protection. Cons: But ambiguities could lead to ineffectiveness and misuse, timeline is too short. Verdict: Good points should at least be incorporated into existing law.
Junaid was stabbed to death and two of his brothers severely injured in an altercation on a Delhi-Mathura train on 22 June. The victim was returning home to Khandawali village in Faridabad, Haryana after shopping for Eid with his brothers.
Twelve cities hold a mass protest against the lynching of a Muslim teenager, Hafiz Junaid, who was stabbed to death on 22 June on a Mathura-bound train which he had taken with his two brothers after shopping for Eid at Delhi's Sadr Bazar. The altercation, which had allegedly begun over seats, reported turned to racist slurs with the rest of the passengers calling Junaid and his relatives "Pakistanis", "anti-nationals" and "beef eaters". Congress Spokesperson Randeep Surjewala also attended the protesters. Speaking to The Quint he laid blame on the BJP for ruling the country by dividing it.
