Letter to BS: Jayant Sinha garlanding lynching convicts is indefensible

This refers to your editorial ‘Garlanding bigotry’ (July 10). Every time a politician is released on bail in a corruption or criminal case, his/her supporters celebrate the event by garlanding their leader, bursting crackers and even firing from guns. Though wrong, such actions may be explained away as those of emotional and over-enthusiastic supporters of the leader concerned. 

But the action of union minister Jayant Sinha garlanding the convicts released on bail in a lynching case is totally indefensible. The minister’s gesture sends out wrong signals to the public and may embolden the fringe elements into taking the law into their