The Legal Web

“A hanging typically occurs after someone is found guilty in the eyes of the law and irredeemable in the eyes of society. A lynching is the killing of an individual for how they look and what they represent to a vigilante mob.” According to Hobbes, man in state of nature is selfish, brutal and short. By social contract theory, state was made for giving protection to man's security of life and property. The very first duty of the state is to save the lives of people and provide security to them. Theories of political science states that Laws are binding only when they are supported by the general will of the people. If state fails to perform its duty then we can say that the social contract was breached and in consequence to this, humans will reversed to their true nature which is violence, anger, selfishness etc and give birth to uncivilised society which leads to “vigilantism”, means the practice of ordinary people in a place taking unofficial action to prevent crime or to...

India, which has the second largest population in the world (over 1.25 billion), is also considered as the birth place of the four major world religion: Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism, Sikhism. Yet, India is one of the most diverse nations in terms of the religion, further Jain, Sikh and Buddhist currently comes under the umbrella of Hindu, although there was time when many people were not happy with this situation and there have also been campaigns to have these religions administer separately. So now the question arises that what is the definition of Religion? Well, the oxford dictionary defines religion as the "Belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, especially a personal god or gods" and Emile Durkheim defined religion as "A unified system of beliefs and practices relative to sacred things set apart and forbidden- beliefs and practices which unite into one single moral called Church". However Swami Vivekananda said "Religion is based on f...