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MaSuKa Bill or मानव सुरक्षा कानून बिल is a proposed law to make lynching which is the explicit form of mobocracy a non-bailable offence and the punishment for the ones convicted under it would be life imprisonment. Highlights of proposed Masuka Law For Lynching include • Speedy justice • Financial compensation • Life-imprisonment • Judicial probe • Non-bailable The proposed MaSuKa Law against Lynching is expected to be unveiled in 1st week of July 2017 by senior Supreme Court lawyers. The Law For Lynching will have provisions for financial compensation for victims but more importantly ensures speedy trials. The group that proposed the law includes former JNU student leader Kanhaiya Kumar, Tehseen Poonawalla, who has filed a petition in the Supreme Court seeking a ban on cow vigilantes, actor Swara Bhaskar, lawyers Sanjay Hegde and Rebecca John, and social activists and Dalit campaigners Jignesh Mevani, Prakash Ambedkar and Anil Chamadia. They are seeking the support of the youth, and from all parties. They intend to draft a law, consult the public widely, and then call upon politicians to enact the law. Masuka is based on the notion of restorative justice, or reform through punishment, and not retributive justice, or revenge. It won’t call for the death penalty.

Background
As per TimesNow, Incidents of public lynching seemed to have gained immense traction since the year 2015, days after a blanket ban on beef in Maharashtra. In most cases, 'cow vigilantism' has become a regular excuse, using which 'secular' mobs have attacked individuals, dominantly from the minority Muslim and Dalit community. While Akhlaq's lynching, which occurred in Dadri on September 28, 2015, triggered a sense of uneasiness among the minority communities back then, it was rubbished as a one-time incident by prominent leaders. However, two years later, the word 'lynching' seems to have become the new normal in the country.

Cow vigilante groups have played a massive role in these lynchings that have occurred over the course of two years and have justified their acts, citing various reasons. However, the latest case, where a 15-year-old Muslim youth Juniad Khan was lynched to death on a train shows that these acts of violence are not related to cow vigilantism, but have spiralled into a notion of hatred from minorities in the country.

While killing over food habits is a crime that should attract a strict punishment, cow vigilante groups and members have received accolades for their horrific acts in some 'cow-friendly' states. Further, police inaction in these cases has emboldened such fringe groups, resulting in a blatant disregard for one's constitutional rights.

Some notable cases and instances
Courtesy Indian Express, Here are a list of Lynchings in the past 4 months.
 * October 9, 2015 (Udhampur truck attack): Amid rumours that slaughtered cows were being transported, alleged Hindu extremists attacked a truck by throwing petrol bombs at it, leading to the death of its truck driver Zahid Ahmad.
 * March 2016 (Latehar district, Jharkhand): Two Muslim cattle traders were allegedly lynched and hanged by a mob when they were heading to an animal fair.
 * April 5, 2016: Mustain Abbas was shot dead by alleged Gau Rakshaks as he was heading back home after buying bulls from Haryana.
 * September 8, 2016: A man in his early thirties was lynched on suspicion of stealing cattle in Jalpaiguri district. The attack took place in Basuniar Bari area of Padamati gram panchayat in Bengal.
 * March 9, 2017: A Bangladeshi security guard was lynched to death in Tripura who was allegedly part of a group of 12 who had come with intentions of robbery in a village. The incident occurred at Siddhinagar village under Puran Rajbari Police Station in southern Tripura along the Bangladesh border.
 * April 1, 2017: A Muslim man named Pehlu Khan, 55, was lynched by a mob of hundreds of cow vigilantes in Alwar in Rajasthan. He was beaten badly and died two days later in a hospital. He was lynched for allegedly transporting cows. It was later found that he was taking the cows for his dairy farm. His death caused a huge outrage across the country. Not long ago, the Rajasthan government had set the punishment for cow killing to life imprisonment.
 * April 21, 2017: Cow vigilantes attacked a family of five including a nine-year-old in Reasi district in Jammu and Kashmir. The attack happened in the evening when the nomad family was herding their livestock in Talwara area. They were attacked by cow vigilantes who beat them up badly with iron rods.
 * April 22, 2017: Four men purportedly from animal rights group People for Animals stopped a truck in Delhi’s Kalkaji area and beat up the occupants badly for suspecting them of being cattle smugglers. One of the men who was beaten up, Mohammad Rizwan, played dead to escape the ruthless assault.
 * April 30, 2017: A mob lynched two men in Nagaon district of Central Assam on suspicion of them being cow thieves. Abu Hanifa, 23, and Riazuddin Ali, 24, were chased down by a village mob and assaulted brutally. The two were rescued by the police but couldn’t be taken to a hospital.
 * May 1, 2017 (Guwahati): A mob allegedly lynched two men in Nagaon district of Assam, after they were suspected to be cattle thieves. This was the first case of cow vigilantes going to such extremes in the state.
 * May 2, 2017: A mob of right wing activists lynched a man after he eloped with a woman from a different community. The man was beaten to death. A press statement by the UP police said that members of Hindu Yuva Vahini were involved in the lynching. The incident took place in Sohi Village of Uttar Pradesh’s Bulandshahr district.
 * May 18, 2017: Seven people were lynched in Jharkhand in tribal-dominated areas near Jamshedpur. The lynchings were done in two separate incidents following WhatsApp rumours of gangs active in kidnapping children in the region. According to a report in The Indian Express, police stood by watching the mob lynch four people. The police personnel who saw the lynching included a Deputy Superintendent of Police, a Circle Inspector, two Assistant Sub-Inspectors and at least 30 policemen including those from the local police station in Rajnagar.
 * May 21, 2017 (Barmer, Rajasthan): One person was beaten to death in Loharwa village of Barmer district when two groups clashed over a land dispute.
 * May 31, 2017 (Jamshedpur): Four people were beaten to death in Jamshedpur’s Seraikela-Kharswan district on suspicion of kidnapping children in the region on Thursday. Three others were also lynched on the suspicion of being child lifters on the same day at Nagadih in East Singhbhum district. It was later alleged that they were beaten on suspicion of selling beef.
 * June 18, 2017 (Rajasthan): A CPI(ML) member-turned-activist was allegedly lynched to death in Rajasthan by government officials after he came to the rescue of women who were being photographed while defecating in the open.
 * June 23, 2017 (Nowhatta, J&K): Police officer Mohammed Ayub Pandith was lynched by an angry mob after he allegedly opened fire at a group of people who caught him clicking pictures near the mosque.
 * June 26, 2017 (West Bengal, Durgapur): On Saturday, barely two days before Eid, three Muslim youth were lynched in Durgapur village, West Bengal, by a mob of cow vigilantes over suspicion of cow theft.