Several opposition parties are advocating a bill to deal with incidents of mob lynching which, they claimed, are on the rise.
The draft of Manav Suraksha Kanoon (MASUKA) has been prepared by a group which includes members of the Congress, the Samajwadi Party and the Bahujan Samaj Party.
It has provisions of holding accountable the police station house in-charge under whose jurisdiction the crime has taken place.
There has been a rise in number of mob lynching cases by cow vigilantes across the country, specially in the BJP-ruled states, the leaders alleged.
They cited cases of Pehlu Khan, a diary owner in Rajasthan who was allegedly killed by cow vigilantes this year, and Mohammad Akhlaq of Uttar Pradesh, who also met the same fate in 2015, on the suspicion that he was consuming beef.