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2 more arrests in connection with Dalit man's lynching case in UP's Raebareli

October 14, 2025 3:28 pm

Valmiki, a Dalit resident of Fatehpur district, was lynched on the night of October 2 near Jamunapur in Rae Bareli's Unchahar area after being mistaken for a thief. Following the incident, the police registered a case and arrested several accused.

21-year-old paraded, beaten to death in Maharashtra village

August 14, 2025 7:04 am

Police aspirant was attacked while with a girl from different faith: Cops

E-rickshaw driver lynched over theft suspicion, 2 held: Noida police

June 01, 2025 12:58 am

Station House Officer, Bisrakh, Manoj Kumar Singh, said, “ A security guard first spotted Rinku. There was some construction work going on there"

Moradabad lynching over ‘cattle slaughter’: Victim’s associate held

January 02, 2025 5:09 am

Police have made no arrest in the second FIR in the case — against unidentified persons on the charge of murder — that was registered on a complaint by the brother of Mohammad Shahidin Qureshi, the deceased.

“Another man, Jafar Iqbal, who was working in the adjacent agriculture field was also attacked with the stick. Both were declared ‘brought dead’ at the hospital,” said Suman.

Mentally unstable man kills 2 in Aligarh, lynched by villagers

May 09, 2024 10:29 am

According to the Aligarh police, the man was in an asylum for three years and was undergoing treatment at a hospital in New Delhi.

Do not selectively highlight mob lynching cases: SC to petitioner

April 17, 2024 9:16 am

The court was told that though all states were made parties in the case, only Madhya Pradesh and Haryana had filed their responses.

Lynching of 2 tribals in MP: 13 held, Congress MLA alleges Bajrang Dal link

May 05, 2022 7:03 am

Based on the complaint of the injured Brijesh Vatti, police registered a case under sections of the IPC, including the charge of murder, and provisions of the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act against 18 people -- it names 6 and 12 unidentified.

Man beaten to death over social media post: Delhi Police

January 02, 2021 11:18 am

Two of the accused have been arrested and police are looking for the others.

Mr Bhagwat, your belief that talk of lynchings is just an attempt to defame India is wrong

October 13, 2019 9:56 am

Lynching has a specific context. It does not mean a riot, it does not mean any old act of public violence, it means a public hanging or stoning to death by a mob. It means punishing someone in such a manner that others will see it as a warning and a lesson.

Have the courage to remove or at least reform the IPC

October 13, 2019 9:43 am

English laws were to be used to keep Indians in order. The British rulers never understood their subjects — the mob as they called it. They needed someone to fashion tools for keeping Indians in order.