South Asia Citizens Web

THE law in Pakistan is sometimes far from safe in the hands of lawyers.

On 2 October 2015 there was a demonstration at Jantar Mantar, Delhi, to protest the killing of Mohd. Akhlaq in the Dadri area.

There are some laws that are observed more in the breach. The law on Delhi’s permissible drinking age must be one of them. India recognises its citizens as responsible adults when they attain 18 years of age. You can vote, get a driving licence or join the military at 18; the legal age for marriage is 18 for girls and 21for boys. Yet it’s illegal for you to have a drink in a public place before you turn 25.

Editorial from DNA, The Times of India and The Indian Express over The murder of a 50-year-old man at Dadri, just 45 kms from Delhi, over rumours that his family consumed beef.

When I read of the killing, in Bisara village of Dadri, of a Muslim man by Hindus who suspected him of keeping beef in his house, I was taken back to the Gujarat massacre of 2002. That wound is fresh: the passing of a dozen years has done nothing to lessen the pain and the anger. Indeed, many more wounds have been added after Modi’s election victory, which has enabled the underlying evil to spread its tentacles and grow more vicious. It is not surprising that people are reacting to Dadri with fear and loathing.