● New in BNS
The IPC had no separate provision for lynching; mob killings were prosecuted as murder under IPC 302 read with common-intention/unlawful-assembly provisions.
BNS Section 103(2) specifically punishes murder committed by a group of five or more persons acting in concert on grounds of race, caste or community, sex, place of birth, language, personal belief or any other similar ground: each member is punished with death or imprisonment for life, and fine.
Entirely new provision responding to the Supreme Court's call in Tehseen Poonawalla (2018) for specific anti-lynching law.
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