Anti-mob lynching law pending since two years: Congress' Sachin Sawant attacks BJP

He said, "Despite direction of the Supreme Court bench headed by the then Chief Justice Deepak Mishra, the central government has not enacted a law against mob lynching in the last two years."

"In July 2018, the Supreme Court condemned lynchings and directed the central government to enact legislation against this heinous act. In addition, 11 guidelines were issued but the Centre did not take any action," he asserted.

He further said, "In July 2019, again a bench headed by the then Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi took note of the lynching cases and sent a notice to the Centre asking what were the measures taken on the previous directives but the Modi government did nothing."

"After the Palghar mob lynching incident, Union Home Minister Amit Shah called Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray but did not do anything to pass the law," Sawant told.

Attacking the BJP, he argued, "Such incidents have occurred in other states too but no senior BJP leader at that time showed any such concern, on the contrary, the accused in some of the cases were later felicitated by the BJP ministers themselves."

Seeking a stern legal action against the perpetrators of the Palghar lynching, he tersely remarked that the BJP has a stronghold in gram panchayat of Gadchinchale village where three persons were brutally killed. 

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