The lynching of 28-year-old Rakbar Khan on the suspicion of cow smuggling in Rajasthan's Alwar district was on Tuesday raised in Parliament. Responding to the Opposition, Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday said lynching incidents did not start recently. Such incidents have been going on since years, said Singh, adding that the "biggest mob lynching is what happened in 1984."

Speaking in Lok Sabha, Singh said that the government will enact a law, if necessary, to curb the incidents of lynching. The Union Home Minister further said that the Centre is taking the incidents of lynching "very seriously". 

"I want to make it clear that we are not just concerned but have taken lynching incidents very seriously," Rajnath Singh told the Lok Sabha. Singh's response came after opposition members raised the issue days after a 28-year-old man was killed allegedly by cow vigilantes in Rajasthan's Alwar district.

The Home Minister said the government had on Monday constituted a Home Secretary-led panel that would recommend measures to stop mob violence in the country. 

He said the panel would give its suggestions to a Group of Ministers within a month. Rajnath Singh reiterated that the biggest incident of lynching had taken place in 1984 when Sikhs were massacred as a result of the assassination of the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.

He said lynching incidents have been taking place in the past. Opposition parties raised the lynching issue in the Lok Sabha during Zero Hour, demanding that the central government takes action to curb such incidents.