Kanpur: Four youths Ashish Pandey, Vicky Sharma, Ravi Dubey, Diwakar Tiwari beaten up by the mob at a police post in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh on suspicion of involvement in cow slaughter. Watch:
Tag: Mob lynching
Uttar Pradesh: Mob lynches Muslim man over buffalo theft suspicion
A 20-year-old man identified as Shahrukh Khan was beaten to death by a mob in Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh, early on Thursday on suspicion of stealing a buffalo. Three persons have been detained in connection with the incident. The incident happened in Bholapur Hindoliya village where more than 50 persons attacked[Read More…]
Jharkhand: Adivasi woman fights against ‘Gau Rakshaks’ who killed her husband
Often, families of victims of state violence are dejected, believing the state and police to be too powerful, and are resigned to taking the compensation offered and keeping their rage to themselves. Then there are families who keep ‘the file’ – a sign that for them, the matter is far[Read More…]
Mobocracy: Another mob lynching in Bihar; Jharkhand youth killed in Vaishali
A fresh case of mob lynching has come to light in Bihar’s Vaishali district. Where the mob killed a young man by beating him with sticks on Wednesday. Deceased is being said to be a resident of Gumla, Jharkhand. At present, the police has recovered the body and sent it for the post-mortem,[Read More…]
Bihar: 15 held after mob strips, parades woman naked
A day after a woman was thrashed and paraded naked by a mob in Bihar’s Bihiya town in Bhojpur district, the police arrested 15 suspects, but denied that it was a case of mob lynching. S.K. Singhal, Additional Director General (police headquarters), said 15 persons have been arrested on the basis of video footage of[Read More…]
Bihar professor attacked by mob after Facebook post against Vajpayee
Sanjay Kumar, a Sociology Professor at the Mahatma Gandhi Central University, was attacked by the mob on Friday for writing a controversial Facebook post commenting on former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s death. Sanjay has suffered critical injuries in the assault and has been referred to Patna Medical College and[Read More…]
Gagandeep Singh who saved Muslim man from mob conferred with ‘Frontier Service Respect Mark’
Gagandeep Singh, the Uttarakhand cop who saved a Muslim man from getting lynched has been conferred with ‘Frontier Service Respect Mark’ award. Sub-inspector Gagandeep had saved a young Muslim man from a mob in Ramnagar, when the young man was allegedly discovered with a Hindu woman in a temple complex. The[Read More…]
Karnataka: Mob thrashes India Today journalist for reporting about illegal slaughter houses
In a shocking incident, a journalist associated with India Today, was thrashed by the mob in Ramanagara, Karnataka, during a raid on illegal slaughter houses. The journalist had gone to film the raid carried out by the animal activists and police officials. The raid was carried out based on credible[Read More…]
BJP MP Hari Om claims “rising Muslim population responsible for mob lynching”
Hari Om Pandey, Bharatiya Janata Party MP from Uttar Pradesh has made a discriminatory statement, blaming the Muslim community responsible for increasing cases on mob lynching in India. BJP leader Pandey said that it’s of grave concern that the Muslim population is increasing because “that’s the reason for growing incidents[Read More…]
BJP MLA demands release of Alwar lynching accused
Rajasthan BJP MLA Gyan Dev Ahuja has demanded to release the three accused who were arrested in the suspicion of having involvement in lynching Rakbar Khan. The state Home Minister Gulabchand Kataria on Wednesday admitted that the 28-year-old victim died under police custody. Following this, Ahuja requested the Home Ministry[Read More…]
Mob attacks Muslim man for choosing to marry Hindu woman outside Ghaziabad court
A 25-year-old Muslim man was allegedly beaten up by a group of people at a Ghaziabad court where he had gone to marry a Hindu woman, police said on Tuesday. Sahil, who works at a Noida firm, went to the court to register his marriage with Preeti Singh on Monday[Read More…]
Alwar Lynching: Postmortem report says victim died of shock and injury
Autopsy report in the Alwar lynching case has been released and it came out that the victim sustained 12 injury marks all over the body and fractured arms, a hand, a leg and ribs bones. The post-mortem report states ’cause of death in this case is shock as a result[Read More…]
Rahul Gandhi comes down hard on Rajasthan govt over Alwar mob lynching
Parliament Monsoon Session 2018 begins with opposition roaring over several issues including mob lynchings in the name of cow vigilantism. The Rajasthan police is being accused of delaying in taking the 28 years old Rakbar Khan to the hospital that was just six kilometres from the crime spot. One would[Read More…]
Rajasthan: Man beaten to death on suspicion of cow smuggling
A 28 year old Haryana resident was allegedly beaten to death by the mob in Ramgarh, Rajasthan, on suspicion of cow smuggling. According to reports, the man, identified as Akbar Khan, accompanied by another man, was taking two cows to their village in Haryana through a forest area near Lalawandi[Read More…]
Mob Lynching: Rajnath for social media checks, opposition walks out
New Delhi: Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh for the first time admitted in the Lok Sabha on Thursday that fake news on social media has resulted in many mob lynching incidents in the country, saying the government has asked service providers to put a check on rumour mongering on social[Read More…]
SC asks Centre to consider a new law on mob lynching
A bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra, Justice A.M. Khanwilkar and Justice D.Y. Chandrachud, while stating their verdict over mob lynching on Tuesday July 17, reminded the Central and state governments of their responsibility to curb violence by vigilante groups. The Supreme Court has asked the Parliament to see whether[Read More…]
BJP not to miss any opportunity eulogising mob lynching
One needs to accept the fact, mob lynching was never a new phenomenon in India but it has attained a normalized form specifically under the Modi government. A dangerous trend of mob violence is grasping India and is becoming the normal way of dealing with displeasure. The right-wing Hindutva brigade[Read More…]
Monsoon session: Against Dalit atrocity, Mayawati threatens to quit
The second day of monsoon parliament session was stormy as BSP chief, Mayawati threatened to resign from Rajya Sabha. Soon after, the Opposition troops in the well of the House started shouting slogan ‘Dalit virodhi yeh sarkar, nai chalegi.” The opposition raised slogan in Rajya Sabha against the Narendra Modi government[Read More…]
Monsoon session: Congress to raise issue of mob-lynching and agricultural crisis
Just before the Parliament’s monsoon session that begins on Monday, the Congress on Sunday said that they would seek answers from the Centre over an ongoing border stand-off with China, the worsening situation in Kashmir and mob lynching incidents in the name of cow. The leader of Opposition in the[Read More…]
Man attacked by cow-vigilantes was carrying beef, says Police
The Muslim man who was beaten up by cow vigilantes was carrying beef, said the cops on Saturday. Police held four involved in this case Salim Shaha (34), a member of Katol unit of the BJP, on July 12 and sent the meat he was carrying to a forensic laboratory.[Read More…]
Man accused of Junaid Khan’s murder confesses crime, says Police
After 16-year-old Junaid was murdered on a local train near Ballabgarh on June 22, it triggered a nationwide outrage against lynching. According to the police, Naresh, who is in his thirties, has confessed that the knife with which Junaid was stabbed was in his hand. However, the murder weapon has still[Read More…]
Jharkhand: Another man lynched and killed in suspicion of murder
Soon after a beef trader, Asgar Ali was lynched near Bazartand area in Ramgarh district on Thursday, an angry mob in Dumka’s Jalve village mercilessly thrashed to death an alleged rape and murder accused identified as Mithun Hansda, 25. This is the third incident of mob violence in Jharkhand in[Read More…]
Mob lynching shouldn’t be given a religious angle: Venkaiah Naidu
On Friday, Union Minister Venkaiah Naidu called the incidents of lynching in the country “barbaric”. He further added that these incidents of violence shouldn’t be viewed from a religious angle. Law enforcement agencies at the district and the state level must take effective steps to prevent such incidents in future,[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…]
#NotInMyName, strangers coming together to uphold our Constitutional values
I made my way to Jantar Mantar on Wednesday evening filled with anger and frustration, equipped with two marker pens and a mobile phone. I reached the venue twenty minutes early and gravitated towards a familiar face, a friend in the crowd. In front of me was the stage with a big[Read More…]