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Bihar lynching a ‘cold-blooded murder’: PUCL

Patna: Terming the lynching of 10 persons in Bihar’s Vaishali district as ‘cold-blooded murder’, a rights group has called for a stringent punishment for those involved in the incident in order to restrain people from taking law into their hands.

A six-member fact-finding team of People’s Union for Civil Liberty (PUCL), which recently visited Dhelpurwa village in Vaishali district, felt that there was no immediate provocation for the mob taking the law into its hands ‘and it is nothing but cold-blooded murder’.

PUCL vice-president Prabhakar Sinha said recurrence of such incident would be prevented only through stringent punishment.

Referring to the state government’s proposed move to slap collective penalty on the villages where lynching incident recur in future, PUCL advised that “logically and justifiably a carefully demarcated section of the villagers should bear the responsibility”.

“Imposition of fine might also lead to some persons coming forward to provide information and evidence,” PUCL vice-president said.

He felt that the State needs immediate police reforms as per Supreme Court directives as “Bihar police neither distinguishes itself for professionalism, nor has sympathy for the poor”. -- PTI

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