NEW DELHI: Lynching of any human being is “condemnable and barbaric” and a civilised society cannot accept it, Union minister M Venkaiah Naidu said today as he made an appeal against giving political or communal angle to such incidents.
The information and broadcasting minister’s comments came in the wake of a string of lynching incidents in the country, the latest being a Muslim man killed by a mob for allegedly carrying beef in a van in Jharkhand yesterday.
“Lynching or killing any human being is condemnable, barbaric and civilised society cannot accept it. It is for the law enforcement agencies of the respective states to take the strongest possible action,” Naidu told reporters.
“Let us not give it a religious colour. Let us not divide the society,” he said, when asked about the Jharkhand lynching case.
The Union minister asserted that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had made the stand of the Government very clear through his remarks that no one should take the law into their hands in the name of cow protection. (AGENCIES)
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