--- title: "The sides of Mob lynching" description: "Mob lynching is a very serious issue which has to be eradicated in order to achieve a sane society." author: "Alisha Khan" published: 2018-10-03 canonical: https://yourviews.mindstick.com/view/198/the-sides-of-mob-lynching reading_time: 2 minutes --- # The sides of Mob lynching Mob lynching is an unlawful act done by the uncontrolled crowd which is projected towards punishing a person accused of “said” crime. It is the anger outburst of the crowd who is frustrated enough to get violent in no time and is intolerant enough to jump to a conclusion without having a proper [knowledge](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/story/4939/7-ancient-indian-universities-that-were-centers-of-knowledge) of facts or of reality. A victim of mob lynching said to a [news](https://www.mindstick.com/developersection/news) agency,” They beat us so much that my father died. My injuries have not healed yet. Since his death, we don’t dare take our cattle anywhere. We are afraid to step out of the house.” We are the world’s largest [democracy](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/view/81333/is-democracy-dying-under-trump-presidency), [independent](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/98599/what-is-the-longest-river-in-the-commonwealth-of-independent-states) since 1947 that is seven long decades of [independence](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/story/4562/happy-independence-day-2024-things-to-notice) and if still, the people are afraid to move out of their houses, we need to think, “Are we free?” Anyone who is walking down the streets is a potential victim of mob lynching. The increased cases of mob lynching are enough to show the frustration of masses, the emotional weakness and instability among people which has resulted in sudden anger outburst of mob and which can be as much insensitive and destructive in its [approach](https://www.mindstick.com/interview/985/what-are-the-approaches-that-you-will-follow-for-making-a-program-very-efficient) that it does not hesitate even in taking the lives of people. In today’s era, where peace and [universal](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/101376/who-s-the-current-wwe-universal-champion) brotherhood are the ultimate goals, we need to empathize with the victims and try to find out the reason for the frustration of mob. We must try to know the source of so much hatred among people. The sanity and [sensitivity](https://www.mindstick.com/interview/2273/what-are-different-types-of-collation-sensitivity) of the people need to be restored. We must teach ourselves the [lessons](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/48439/when-was-the-khushwantnama-the-lessons-of-my-life-written) of civilization and love. We need to know that crowd has neither a face nor an ideology. Mob lynching is only an act of violence and absolutely as no motive. Mob lynching is never about the assassination of a human but is always about the assassination of the spirit of a nation. The nation is always about its countrymen and hence the mob lynching is undoubtedly a blot on India which we have to remove by preaching the true ideals of this [country](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/view/85543/do-you-think-that-french-will-be-islamic-country) as unity, brotherhood and love. \ --- Original Source: https://yourviews.mindstick.com/view/198/the-sides-of-mob-lynching Copyright © MindStick Software Pvt. Ltd. This Markdown version is provided for developers, AI systems, and offline reading.