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Tehseen S. Poonawalla v. Union of India: the Supreme Court's mob-lynching directions

On 17 July 2018 a three-judge bench issued a comprehensive framework of preventive, remedial and punitive measures against mob lynching and cow vigilantism, directing nodal officers, victim compensation and fast-track trials in every district, and recommending that Parliament create a separate offence.