New Delhi, Nov 15 (TIWN) The law on lynching, use of drones to combat terrorist activities and crime against women and minor girls are among the "tentative" list of six starred questions to which the Union Home Ministry will respond in the winter session of Parliament begining Monday next week.

 In July last year, the Supreme Court recommended that the parliament should enact a special law to deal with cases of mob lynching. The court passed a detailed judgment in Tehseen Poonawalla vs Union of India, issuing directions on the preventive, remedial and punitive measures to be adopted by the central and the state governments. The judgment also recommended that the special law by parliament should “create a separate offence for lynching” and impose “adequate punishment for the same.” Yet, the home ministry has consistently stated in parliament that only state governments have jurisdiction over matters involving the police and public order—effectively washing its hands of the responsibility.