Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh Police on Tuesday arrested two men and detained four in connection with a mob violence in Bulandshahr district that led to two deaths, including that of an inspector, police said. According to the First Information Report (FIR), 28 persons have been named while 60 persons have[Read More…]
Tag: Lynching
Elopement leads to lynching in Bihar
Patna: A 25-year-old man was beaten and burnt to death in Bihar’s Sitamarhi district for eloping with the daughter-in-law of an influential man of the area, marrying her and then returning to the same village to live together, police said on Monday. Sharavan Mahto was dragged out from his house[Read More…]
38 arrested for lynching in Bihar’s Sitamarhi district
Bihar: On October 20, In Sitamarhi, two groups clashed after a Durga Puja procession was prevented from passing through a particular area. One person died in the clash. The deceased’s body was publicly burnt. The procession was prevented entry through a Muslim-dominated area in the northern town of Bihar. Soon[Read More…]
Uttar Pradesh: Another lynching attack on Dalit youth in Budhana
A 20-year-old Dalit youth was beaten to death by unidentified persons at Budhana town here, police said on Sunday. The youth went missing on Friday and his body was found in a field a day after, Station House Officer (SHO) Perbhaker Kentura said. He said a case was registered against unidentified persons based on a complaint by the youth’s father Ram Kishan. The deceased, identified as Kapil,[Read More…]
Lynching not law and order problem but command-hate crime: Harsh Mander
Writer-activist Harsh Mander, who works with survivors of mass violence and hunger, has said that lynching is not a law and order problem but is a result of “bigotry” which is legitimised by top affiliates of a section of people. Mander was speaking at the launch of “Reconciliation: Karwan-e-Mohabbat’s Journey of Solidarity through a[Read More…]
Lynching bad for India’s reputation: Tourism Minister Alphons in China
Incidents of lynching have hurt India’s image, Tourism Minister KJ Alphons, who is in China to draw in more tourists, has admitted. The minister, however, said that the ban on beef has not affected tourism in the country and sought to debunk a survey showing India as the most unsafe[Read More…]
WhatsApp video wrongly showing Google techie as child lifter led to lynching: Police
Bengaluru: A WhatsApp video wrongly identifying Hyderabad techie Mohammad Azam Usmansab as a child lifter led to his lynching near Bidar on July 13, police said on Monday. The video, which originated from Bengaluru, had a message, saying that three children were kidnapped by strangers who lured them into accepting chocolates,[Read More…]
I want New India where you don’t get lynched for the food you eat: Shashi Tharoor
New Delhi: Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Saturday said that he wants a “New India where you don’t get lynched for the food you eat and faith you hold dear and not the one of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s kind of ‘New India’”. Speaking at the Times Lit Fest here[Read More…]
Three men thrashed in Bihar on suspicion of transporting beef
Bihar was till now a state away from mob violence, killing and lynching in the name of cow. However, soon after BJP govt entered the state, such incidents have been reported. Three persons were thrashed and handed over to police on suspicion of transporting beef. Reacting over the incident CPIM said,[Read More…]
Uttar Pradesh: Goons savagely beat up Muslim family in a moving train
All the members of a Muslim family were almost hacked to death when a group of gang mercilessly beat them up inside a train in Uttar Pradesh. The family of 10 was returning from a wedding party in Shikohabad-Kasganj passenger train, where they were brutally assaulted by a gang of[Read More…]
Why the #NotinMyName protest didn’t appeal to me
A 16-year-old Muslim is killed and people are out on the streets, a young girl is raped and we have a candle light protest. All I want to know is how much has it helped? After the Nirbhaya rape and murder case, we had people thronging the streets, but what[Read More…]
Faridabad lynching: Govt staffer among four detained for murder
Days after the first arrest was made in the murder of 15-year-old Junaid Khan, Haryana Railway Police arrested four others. Khan was stabbed to death on a Mathura-bound train. According to police, one of the four arrested is a 50-year-old, a “mid-level Delhi government employee.” The remaining three are in[Read More…]
Lynching on the rise but solutions in sight, say experts
It has not been even a week since a man in Rajasthan’s Pratapgarh was allegedly lynched by the government officials for preventing them from clicking pictures of his wife and daughter who were defecating in open. Now headlines are screaming about another lynching, this time it is Jammu and Kashmir’s[Read More…]
Rajasthan Lynching: Little did he know that safeguarding his wife’s dignity would cost him his life?
It is every man’s moral responsibility to save his family from all ills. And when it comes to a woman’s dignity, especially his wife and daughter, a man anywhere on the planet, would go to any extent to protect it. Well, that’s what Zafar Khan was doing. Khan was allegedly[Read More…]
No arrest made in Rajasthan lynching case
While another man, Zafar Khan, was lynched in Rajasthan for shielding a woman, no arrests have yet been made although there are witnesses who saw CPI-ML leader Zafar Hussain, 55, being beaten viciously by municipal workers. Notably, Pratapgarh commissioner Ashok Jain was also allegedly part of the group that was[Read More…]
India needs intolerance more than ever
‘Intolerance’ – there’s no denying that it exists in India at present, but then it is no surprise that the very same intolerance is missing on the fronts where it is needed the most. India needs to be intolerant towards minority suppression There was a time when the previous[Read More…]
How the BJP’s Tacit Support is Fanning a Lynching Movement in India
The Sangh Parivar excels in camouflaging. The ruling dispensation basically thrives upon promoting intolerance emanating out of exploiting identity based societal fault lines. The mandate it won in 2014 was a vote for the chimera of ‘development’ and aspirational pandering rather than identity based mobilization. After winning the elections that[Read More…]