The Supreme Court has made serious observations yesterday on the growing incidents of lynchings across the nation. It has sternly stated that a person can only report an incident to the police and cannot become the punisher himself. “There cannot be a right higher than the right to live with dignity and further to be treated with humaneness that the law provides … No citizen can assault the human dignity of another, for such an action would comatose the majesty of law,” observed the bench headed by Dipak Misra. The governments were asked to take strict measures against lynchings and never allow individuals to take law into their own hands. It has even asked the centre to frame a new law to stop such incidents. We have to wait and see whether these guidelines would curb the every growing cases of lynchings in the name of cows, caste and religion.