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Truck driver transporting bones lynched on suspicion of carrying beef in Bihar’s Saran district; 7 held
June 30, 2023 2:54 pm
Truck driver transporting bones lynched on suspicion of carrying beef in Bihar’s Saran district; 7 held. The bones were being taken to a registered factory that used them for medicinal purposes, the police said.
Allegations of lynching of Bihar man: Kin want justice, compensation; autopsy report awaited
March 12, 2023 6:41 am
Mother of six daughters and a son, Anwari demanded the death sentence for the accused, compensation for the family and a job for her youngest daughter.
False equivalence between lynch mobs, those resisting them isn't helping anyone: Owaisi to Mamata
November 22, 2019 9:09 pm
Addressing a Trinamool Congress workers at an event in Cooch Behar Monday, Mamata Banerjee, without naming the AIMIM, had said: “There are some extremists among the minorities. They have their base in Hyderabad. Don’t listen to them. Don’t trust these forces”.
'Go to Moon if you can't tolerate Jai Shri Ram chanting': Kerala BJP leader to Adoor Gopalkrishnan
July 25, 2019 9:41 pm
The BJP leader's outburst came a day after a letter was sent to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on incidents of lynchings across the country. Gopalakrishnan was among the 49 signatories who had voiced their concerns against cases of mob violence.
Jharkhand lynching video on Tik Tok: Mumbai police oppose anticipatory bail to 3 accused
July 16, 2019 2:46 am
In its reply, filed on Monday, the Cyber police station submitted that their probe, so far, had shown that one of the accused had uploaded the video on his Tik Tok account, while the two others had shared it on their individual accounts.
Anti-lynching legislation: Ministers' group discusses panel recommendations to check lynching incidents
September 06, 2018 2:30 am
The panel is also believed to have recommended tightening of law by inserting clauses in the Indian Penal Code and the Code of Criminal Procedure through parliamentary approval.
An antidote to hate
August 01, 2017 12:30 am
India has witnessed hate attacks in the past. What is new is the frequency and the normalisation of this lynching, in a growing aggressively majoritarian political and social environment.
Islamic body denounces lynchings, says government assurance having no impact
July 12, 2017 10:09 pm
"Those in power assure us that breaking law will not be tolerated and guilty will be awarded exemplary punishment but reality is that this assurance is not having any impact on the ground," Jamaat-e-Islami Hind chief Maulana Umari said in a statement.
LYNCHINGS VIDEOS
‘The notion that your neighbour is your kin, regardless of faith, is a real thing in South India’
June 22, 2020 6:08 pm
Historian Rajmohan Gandhi talks about the need to chronicle Southern history and why he feels that the region is ‘losing voice’ in Delhi. In a discussion with journalists from Indian Express, he calls the recent lynchings ‘tragic, shameful’.
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