Law Kumar Mishra
Ranchi, January 4
Barely a fortnight after Jharkhand passed the Prevention of Mob Violence and Mob Lynching Bill, 2021, a man was brutally bashed up to death by a mob in Jharkhand’s Simdega district.
The mob later set the body on fire. The victim has been identified as 30-year-old Sanju Pradhan, whom villagers suspected for felling trees and stealing wood. The police had to exercise hard to recover the charred body as the mob was in no mood to hand it over.
Later the charred body of the victim was recovered from the spot.
The Jharkhand assembly fortnight ago passed a bill to prevent mob violence and lynching in the state notorious for vigilante justice, with the proposed law providing for punishment ranging from three years in jail to life imprisonment.
The Prevention of Mob Violence and Mob Lynching Bill, 2021, was passed by a voice vote despite opposition by the BJP.
Jharkhand became the third state in the country after West Bengal and Rajasthan to pass such a legislation.
