Lynching
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Thief lynched by villagers; associate injured
Crime | February 10, 2020 12:01 ISTA 40-year-old thief was lynched by angry residents of a village in Maharashtra's Thane district, police said on Monday.
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MP: Six cops suspended over lynching, SIT probe ordered
India | February 07, 2020 8:32 ISTThe mob instigated by labourers who owed the deceased, Ganesh Patel, some money, had also grievously injured his six friends on Wednesday.
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11 arrested for lynching two youths in WB's Cooch Behar
Crime | November 22, 2019 14:40 IST"Eleven people have been arrested so far," an officer of the Kotwali police station told IANS. The incident occurred early on Thursday in Ketarhat of Putimary-Phuleshwari Gram Panchayat area under Cooch Behar 1 administrative block.
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Youth lynched over alleged cattle theft in Bihar
India | October 29, 2019 16:17 ISTAccording to the police, the incident took place on Monday night when some youths belonging to Barahpur village entered More village with the intention to steal cattle.
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Lynching 'western construct', don't use it to defame India: Bhagwat
India | October 08, 2019 12:03 ISTRSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat on Tuesday said lynching is a "western construct" and should not be used in the Indian context to defame the country. He was addressing the Vijayadashmi function of the RSS at Reshimbagh ground in Maharashtra's Nagpur city,
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Madhya Pradesh: 2 Dalit kids lynched for defecating in public
Crime | September 25, 2019 12:37 ISTThe incident took place in Bhavkedhi village in the morning, Sirsod police station's inspector R S Dhakad said.
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Residents beat up 2 men on suspicion of being child lifters
Crime | August 15, 2019 12:51 ISTResidents beat up a mentally ill person and a drunk man on suspicion of being child lifters and then handed them over to police in Banda district, officials said on Thursday. Kalvanganj police outpost in-charge Shalini Singh Bhadauria said a mentally ill person was beaten up by locals in Khutla area on Wednesday after they suspected him to be a child lifter.
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Pehlu Khan case verdict: Shoddy prosecution, says Asaduddin Owaisi
Politics | August 14, 2019 22:51 ISTIn most lynchings, the accused were happy being filmed while they lynched a human being. They wanted to be famous for these awful acts, But are we to now believe that no one killed Pehlu Khan? What will this deliberately shoddy prosecution tell his family, he tweeted.
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Lynching: SC notice to centre, states for non-implementation of its directions
India | July 26, 2019 19:15 ISTThe Supreme Court Friday sought the Centre's response on the allegation that it has not implemented a slew of directions issued last year to curb lynching and mob violence.
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'Mazhab nahin sikhaata': TMC MP Nusrat Jahan's two cents on celebs' letter to PM Modi
India | July 25, 2019 10:11 ISTThe TMC MP said the lynch mobs had turned "Lord Ram's name into murder cry" and termed mob lynchers "nothing but enemies if our country" and "terrorists".
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Jai Shri Ram now a war cry: Anurag Kashyap, Ramachandra Guha, others write letter to PM Modi
India | July 24, 2019 13:35 ISTThe letter intends to draw PM Modi's attention to "a number of tragic events" recently, including the alleged weaponisation of the slogan "Jai Shri Ram" into a "war cry".
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Jharkhand lynching: Tabrez's father was also killed by mob 15 years ago
India | June 26, 2019 12:05 ISTTabrez Ansari who was thrashed by a mob on June 17 in Jharkhand's Seraikela Kharsawan, apparently died in a similar way as his father died years ago.
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Assam: Mob thrashes Muslim man for 'selling' beef, forces him to eat pork
India | April 09, 2019 12:19 ISTReports suggest that the police has detained at least five people after a viral video showed the man on his knees in deep slush, begging to let him go.
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Congress promises to bring in law to prevent, punish mob-engineered hate crimes like lynching
April 02, 2019 20:07 ISTThe Congress on Tuesday said it will pass a new law in the first session of the next Lok Sabha to prevent and punish hate crimes such as "mob-engineered" lynching, stripping and burning if voted to power.
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Jharkhand: 16-year-old schoolboy abducted, lynched over affair with classmate
India | November 04, 2018 8:26 ISTPolice have arrested the girl's brother and two of her women relatives in this connection.
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Lynching victim Pehlu Khan's son shot at in Rajasthan
India | September 29, 2018 19:24 ISTIrshad has lodged a complaint in Alwar alleging "some unidentified miscreants opened fire on their car while they were on their way to Behrod to appear for a hearing".
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Bihar: Man trying to loot money from railway employees beaten to death in Rohtas
India | September 11, 2018 20:22 ISTThe incident happened when Booking Assistant Ashok Kumar and Booking Supervisor Shailesh Kumar were going to deposit Rs 24.78 lakh at a nationalised bank branch in Anandi market.
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Jharkhand: Man lynched, 2 injured on suspicion of being thieves
India | September 06, 2018 19:27 ISTTwo cases -- for obstructing the police and murder -- have been registered. Security has been provided to the victims' family and police have launched vigil on the village to maintain peace.
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In UP’s Bareilly, 20-year-old Shahrukh Khan allegedly lynched over suspicion of cattle theft
India | August 30, 2018 23:40 ISTShahrukh, 20, was beaten to death last night in Bholapur Hadoliya village under the Cantt police station area here. Four people have been arrested, said Superintendent of Police (City) Abhinandan Singh.
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Muslim man lynched on suspicion of stealing buffalo in UP's Bareilly
News | August 30, 2018 11:43 ISTMuslim man lynched on suspicion of stealing buffalo in UP's Bareilly
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