Justice Markandey Katju writes: In 2015, a Muslim man named Mohammed Akhlaq was lynched in Bisahda village near Dadri, Gautam Buddhanagar district in Uttar Pradesh. Why? Because a mob suspected him of eating beef and beat him to death. I was invited to a panel discussion by TV journalist Barkha Dutt (then with NDTV), along with four politicians — Sanjeev Balyan and Sudhanshu Mittal of the BJP, Naved Siddiqui of the Samajwadi Party, and Ajoy Kumar from the Congress. There was also writer Tavleen Singh, a supporter of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and Santosh Desai, a marketing expert and newspaper columnist.
