Without referring to any specific incident, the President asked, "Are we vigilant enough to save the basic tenets of our time?" "When we read in the newspaper or see on the television screen that an individual is being lynched because of some alleged violation of law or not. The President was speaking at the release of the commemorative publication of National Herald newspaper here in the presence of former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress president Sonia Gandhi. On June 29, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had warned, "Killing people in the name of Gau Bhakti is not acceptable... No person has the right to take the law in his or her own hands in this country". Sending a strong message to India Inc, too, the Prime Minister said the government is taking a tough stand against those who have looted the nation.

Source: dna July 02, 2017 00:56 UTC