Mob Lynching : ‘A Self-Constituted Court’ with special reference to Bhilwara, Rajasthan.
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.37591/njcl.v3i1.602Keywords:
Lynching, mob, Whatsapp, Fake news.Abstract
Lynching simply means without any legal trial a group of people took law in their own hand for provide justice to the said victim or punishment for an alleged offence with an extent to death of that alleged person. India is observing a high rise in cases of lynching. When the people take law into their own hands it can be dangerous for the victim who is in threat of their lives. India has come across various incidents related to Mob lynching and study hypotheses that one of the main reasons of mob lynching is cyber social media messenger system like whatsapp, facebook messenger etc. It’s the hard time where State need to impose strict rules and regulation against the serious problem of mob lynching rising within India. Number of innocents was lynched by the mob without any Court Procedure even not having justification or proved regarding the accusation.


