Mob Lynching: In the last few years, there have been many incidents of mob lynching in the country, in which a person was beaten to death by a mob. In view of these incidents, a provision for death penalty for this crime was made in the new criminal law. Apart from this, now a new policy regarding mob lynching has been approved in the capital Delhi, in which it has been said that compensation will be given to the victims of mob lynching. Today we will tell you about mob lynching, where did this word come from and what does it mean?
What is mob lynching?
Now if we understand mob lynching in simple language, it happens when some people take decisions by taking the law into their own hands. That is, if a person is accused of theft or rape, then a mob of some people kills him in the middle of the road. We have seen incidents of mob lynching in cow smuggling, child theft and many such cases in the last few years. In this, the crowd of people keeps beating the accused person until he dies. In many cases the accused is killed merely because of suspicion.
Where did the word mob lynching come from?
Mob and lynching both are English words. Mob means crowd, people gathered at one place can be called mob. Now if we talk about lynching, if a person is given death sentence without any legal trial then it is called lynching. The word lynching is derived from Lynch of South Carolina, where people used to gather for some issue, but after this the mob started violence. Many such incidents took place in which people lost their lives. Some people also say that the word lynching came from America.