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The Supreme Court on Friday issued notice on a petition seeking direction to stop increasing mob lynching incidents targeting the minority community in the country. A set of directions was laid down by the top court in its 2018 judgement to prevent mob lynching.

The petition was listed before a bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi. The petitioner contended incidents of mob lynching are on rise especially in the garb of cow protection, and that such acts of violence blatantly infringe on fundamental rights. "The angry mob is trying to become the final adjudicator by punishing the accused without even informing the police and taking law into their hands", said the petitioner.