Click to play videoNew Delhi: Reacting to the stabbing of former Haryana director general of police SPS Rathore, the main accused in the Ruchika Girhotra molestation case on Monday, the Union Law Minister M Veerappa Moily said it was not acceptable under any circumstances to let the public take the law into their hands.
Moily said, “That is not the way to settle scores, one has to be tolerant. No person, no matter what the anguish might be, cannot take the law into his own hands.”
Incidents of mob justice are becoming a huge cause for worry to the Government.
It also points towards the problem of lack of security for the accused within the court premises.
Over the last few years incidents have prompted the courts to say that court premises are turning into grounds for vengeance.
The instances have certainly become a cause for worry and security for accused in court premises need to be strengthened
However, at the same time the judiciary too needs to realise that if justice is not dispensed quickly ,the people of this country will not shy away from taking the law in their hands and dispensing justice themselves.
Utsav Sharma, 29, posed as a freelance journalist and mingled with mediapersons who were waiting outside the court for Rathore to cover the first day of the three-day hearing against his conviction, caught Rathore by the neck and in a split second stabbed him thrice on Sunday.
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