Assam Mob Attack

A man accused of inciting a mob to set a police station on fire in the Nagaon district of Assam last week, was killed this morning while trying to escape from the police custody.

Batadrava Violence: A terror group may have engineered the mob attack on a police station in Assam, allegedly over a custodial case, the state police said today.

The mob attack on a police station in Assam yesterday, allegedly over a custodial death, was not an "action-reaction incident" but was carried out by criminals to destroy case records, state police chief Bhaskar Jyoti Mahanta said today.

A man accused of killing a 5-year-old child was lynched and later set on fire by a mob in Dibrugarh's Rohmoria on Saturday.

Thirteen villagers and a soldier were killed at an Indo-Myanmar border district in Nagaland as a counter-insurgency operation went awry on Saturday, sources said. Another villager died as a mob attacked the Assam Rifles camp.

Meghalaya's Deputy Superintendent of Police Firoz Rahman, who was severely injured in a mob attack at the state's border with Assam, alleged today that Assam Police did not help him when he was assaulted

A migrant worker from Assam was killed and eight were injured on Wednesday, when a masked mob attacked them at a village in Meghalaya's South West Khasi Hills district.

Two incidents of mob attacks within the period of 48 hours have rocked northeast India's Assam. While Sabin Gour was killed after a family feud turned violent in central Assam's Biswanath, Majen Nath is recovering from a brutal beating by locals in Western Assam's Bongaigaon who thought they caught him trying to steal from a home.

In a tragic incident on Saturday, a mob of around 50 people attacked two young men, killing one, in Assam's Jorhat district after the duo hit two women near a tea garden

The police opened fire in the air in Assam's Bongaigaon district on Saturday morning to disperse a mob at a market that attacked the security personnel when asked to abide by the lockdown order, an officer said.

A Muslim man was abused and heckled for allegedly selling beef in Assam's Biswanath district on Sunday. Police detained one person after a video of the the man on his knees in deep slush, begging to let him go, was widely shared on social media.

Eleven people have been arrested after a man was beaten to death and three others critically injured by a mob in Assam's Biswanath district that suspected them to be cattle thieves on Thursday. All those arrested are from the Adivasi community who work in the Diplunga Tea Estate, about 250 km from Guwahati.

Amid concern over mob killings driven by WhatsApp messages, the army today arrived just in time to save the lives of three priests who were under attack from a large crowd that believed they were kidnappers out to get children

In a case of moral policing, a mob waylaid an unmarried couple going on a motorcycle and assaulted them for travelling together, police said today. The incident went viral on social media following which two people have been arrested.

In a big breakthrough the Assam police have arrested the alleged kingpin in the Karbi Anglong lynching case, in which two men were brutally killed after rumours that they were child-lifters. The man identified as Alphajoz Timung, had called up locals to stop the car claiming there were two men inside, who were child-lifters said the police. He was ...

A man accused of inciting a mob to set a police station on fire in the Nagaon district of Assam last week, was killed this morning while trying to escape from the police custody.

Batadrava Violence: A terror group may have engineered the mob attack on a police station in Assam, allegedly over a custodial case, the state police said today.

The mob attack on a police station in Assam yesterday, allegedly over a custodial death, was not an "action-reaction incident" but was carried out by criminals to destroy case records, state police chief Bhaskar Jyoti Mahanta said today.

A man accused of killing a 5-year-old child was lynched and later set on fire by a mob in Dibrugarh's Rohmoria on Saturday.

Thirteen villagers and a soldier were killed at an Indo-Myanmar border district in Nagaland as a counter-insurgency operation went awry on Saturday, sources said. Another villager died as a mob attacked the Assam Rifles camp.

Meghalaya's Deputy Superintendent of Police Firoz Rahman, who was severely injured in a mob attack at the state's border with Assam, alleged today that Assam Police did not help him when he was assaulted

A migrant worker from Assam was killed and eight were injured on Wednesday, when a masked mob attacked them at a village in Meghalaya's South West Khasi Hills district.

Two incidents of mob attacks within the period of 48 hours have rocked northeast India's Assam. While Sabin Gour was killed after a family feud turned violent in central Assam's Biswanath, Majen Nath is recovering from a brutal beating by locals in Western Assam's Bongaigaon who thought they caught him trying to steal from a home.

In a tragic incident on Saturday, a mob of around 50 people attacked two young men, killing one, in Assam's Jorhat district after the duo hit two women near a tea garden

The police opened fire in the air in Assam's Bongaigaon district on Saturday morning to disperse a mob at a market that attacked the security personnel when asked to abide by the lockdown order, an officer said.

A Muslim man was abused and heckled for allegedly selling beef in Assam's Biswanath district on Sunday. Police detained one person after a video of the the man on his knees in deep slush, begging to let him go, was widely shared on social media.

Eleven people have been arrested after a man was beaten to death and three others critically injured by a mob in Assam's Biswanath district that suspected them to be cattle thieves on Thursday. All those arrested are from the Adivasi community who work in the Diplunga Tea Estate, about 250 km from Guwahati.

Amid concern over mob killings driven by WhatsApp messages, the army today arrived just in time to save the lives of three priests who were under attack from a large crowd that believed they were kidnappers out to get children

In a case of moral policing, a mob waylaid an unmarried couple going on a motorcycle and assaulted them for travelling together, police said today. The incident went viral on social media following which two people have been arrested.

In a big breakthrough the Assam police have arrested the alleged kingpin in the Karbi Anglong lynching case, in which two men were brutally killed after rumours that they were child-lifters. The man identified as Alphajoz Timung, had called up locals to stop the car claiming there were two men inside, who were child-lifters said the police. He was ...