When a Mob Lynches a Person for the Food He Eats, Constitution is Lynched: Justice Chandrachud

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Mumbai, Feb 11— In the most powerful attack on the trend of mob lynching over someone’s choice of food, Justice D. Y. Chandrachud of Supreme Court has said that lynching of a man or woman over what he or she eats is actually the lynching of the Constitution of India.

“When a mob lynches a person for the food that she or he eats it is the constitution which is lynched. When we deny to human beings the power of lover for reasons of religion or caste it is the constitution which is made to weep,” said Justice Chandrachud while speaking at Justice Desai Memorial Lecture at the Bombay High Court.

Speaking on the topic “Why Constitution Matters”, Justice Chandrachud highlighted the diversities of the country in the background of which the Constitution was framed.

“The constitution was required to take into account multiple conflicts. Let’s understand that this is a constitution which was founded in a history of multiple conflicts. Freedom of expression and national integrity, personal liberty and political stability, special treatment for some segments of society and equality for all…”

“The people who work the constitution may go terribly wrong and sometimes they do as when we jail a cartoonist for sedition or when jail instead of bail is given to a blogger who is critical of our religious architecture. When a mob lynches a person for the food that she or he eats it is the constitution which is lynched. When we deny to human beings the power of lover for reasons of religion or caste it is the constitution which is made to weep. That is exactly what happened yesterday when a groom belonging to the Dalit community was asked to climb down from a horse in a wedding procession. Let’s make no two bones about it. It is the constitution which weeps when we read of such incidents,” said Justice Chandrachud.

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