Tag: Lynching

14 of the 16 accused convicted of lynching in Kerala

The quantum of punishment for the accused guilty of lynching a tribal youth, Madhu. will be pronounced on Wednesday.

April 4, 2023

Youth beaten to death on suspicion of theft in Bihar

The victim's father has filed an FIR against 18 persons for this act.

June 28, 2021

Palghar lynching case: CID files chargesheet against 126 accused

Two monks and their driver were lynched by a mob at Gadchinchale village in the district on April 16 when they were travelling in a car to Surat to attend a funeral amid the coronavirus-induced lockdown, police have said.

July 16, 2020

BSF accused of lynching attempt on school teacher

While taking a walk alone this morning on the highway along the Indo-Bangla international border at the Jalangi area in Murshidabad district, the teacher was almost lynched allegedly by some BSF jawans.

November 24, 2019

Anti-lynching Bill passed in West Bengal Assembly

Besides, any person involved in a conspiracy to lynch another person or who abets an act of lynching shall be “punished in the same manner as if he had himself committed lynching”.

August 31, 2019

Stop lynchings, ‘Jai Shri Ram’ now ‘war cry’: 49 celebs write to PM Modi

The 49 celebrities, who have signed the letter include Adoor Gopalkrishnan, Mani Ratnam, Anurag Kashyap, Aparna Sen, Konkona Sen Sharma, Soumita Chatterjee, among others.

July 24, 2019

3 beaten to death on suspicion of cattle theft in Bihar; probe on

The locals alleged that the men were moving around with a pick-up van, which already had a cow in it.

July 19, 2019

Mamata Banerjee questions BJP on lynching, farmers’ suicide

"Wherever they have a government, people have been murdered in thousands, a number of unemployed has shot up," she said.

September 26, 2018

Why no noise over cattle smugglers attacking gaurakshaks, asks Mohan Bhagwat

He also emphasised that those genuinely involved in the service of the cow, including Muslims who maintain cow shelters, should not be linked to lynching incidents.

September 19, 2018

Five arrested for lynching man in Manipur

A mob in Manipur’s Imphal West district lynched a man to death suspecting him of vehicle theft.

September 16, 2018

SC seeks Rajasthan’s reply on contempt plea in lynching case

Asks Principal Secretary of the Home department of the state government to file an affidavit giving details of the action taken in the lynching case

August 20, 2018

Lynching not reality of Rajasthan: CM Vasundhara Raje

"If you are suspending people (for negligence), if you are opening them for inquiries, these things will make a difference in people's lives," she said.

July 30, 2018

‘BJP bringing bad name to Hinduism’

Criticising the recent incident of lynching by self-proclaimed ‘Gau Rakshaks’ (cow vigilantes) in Alwar district of Rajasthan, Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday slammed BJP for bringing a bad name to Hinduism and urged senior leaders to control their partymen instead of giving statements in the Parliament against lynching and vigilantism. Quoting Union home...

July 24, 2018

Congress stages walkout after Rajnath Singh says lynching is a state subject

Shashi Tharoor, the Congress MP from Thiruvananthapuram, said that the Home Minister’s statement was “not satisfactory”.

July 19, 2018

Yashwant Sinha explains ‘nalayak’ jibe he took at his son, Jayant

Former Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Yashwant Sinha gave the word ‘condemnation’ an altogether new level with the words he chose for his son Jayant Sinha late on Saturday night.

July 8, 2018

Jharkhand lynching | Was honouring due process of law: Jayant Sinha on garlanding convicts

A day after he publicly garlanded eight people convicted of lynching a man to death over allegations of cow slaughter, Union Minister Jayant Sinha took to Twitter to ‘clarify’ his act of felicitating the men at his residence on the outskirts of Hazaribagh.

July 7, 2018

Jharkahnd Lynching: BJP MLA Nishikant Dubey to cover legal fee of accused

While demanding a CBI probe into the incident, Dubey, who represents the Godda constituency, had called the decision “personal”.

June 16, 2018