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That is, the apex court said whether a lynching happens as a result of cow vigilantism or because people believe someone is a child abductor, it doesn’t matter – lynching is a crime, period.\nPutting the onus on the states to check cow vigilantism, the top court today reserved its verdict on pleas seeking directions to formulate guidelines to curb such violence, saying no one can take the law into their hands.
\nInstances of vigilantism were actually acts of mob violence, which are a crime, said the SC. The top court said it plans to issue guidelines to the Centre as well as all states on how to deal with this grisly phenomenon.
\nThe Centre, in its submission, told the three-judge bench of Supreme Court that mob lynching is a law and order problem and the Court may deal with the state governments if they are not following its order.
\nOn September 6 last year, the apex court had asked all the states to take stern measures to stop violence in the name of cow protection, including appointing of senior police officers as nodal officer in every district within a week and acting promptly to check cow vigilantes from behaving like they are “law unto themselves”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"