Bihar Lynching

Kerala police on Sunday arrested eight persons in connection with the alleged murder of a 36-year-old man from Bihar on suspicion of theft. Police said Rajesh Manji was lynched by locals who caught him after he fell from the sunshade of a house.

The wife of IAS officer G Krishnaiah, who was lynched by a mob led by former Bihar MP Anand Mohan in 1994, has moved the Supreme Court challenging his premature release from prison.

The local sarpanch Sushil Singh, and two others - Ravi Sah and Ujwal Sharma - were arrested for mob lynching.

A 35-year-old man was beaten to death by an irate mob in a Bihar village, where he shot dead a moneylender insisting on payment of dues, police said on Thursday.

In an incident of vigilante justice a man accused of sexually assaulting a nine-year-old girl was lynched allegedly by residents of a village in Bihar's Katihar district on Thursday, police said.

In a gut-wrenching incident, a youth was allegedly beaten to death when he was caught stealing a bike in Bihar's capital, Patna on Monday.

The Bihar assembly was on Monday adjourned for an urgently convened meeting of the business advisory committee as opposition members seemed determined to corner the Nitish Kumar government on a range of issues.

According to local police, the victim's family members filed a report on February 16. For the next few days, they kept receiving calls from the victim's mobile number asking for money.

Elderly mother of the Bihar police officer who was allegedly beaten to death by a mob during a raid in West Bengal's Uttar Dinajpur district the previous day, died due to shock Sunday, family and police sources said.

A 32-year-old man in Bihar was beaten to death by a mob over suspicion of cattle theft near state capital Patna on Wednesday. All the accused were arrested immediately, the police said.

After the Bihar police ordered closure of the sedition case filed against 49 personalities, who had written an open letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi over rising incidents of mob lynching, the complainant on Thursday filed a "protest petition" against the police.

The police in Bihar have seen a rising number of lynching incidents in the recent months. According to data provided by the police headquarters, 14 people have been beaten to death, while 45 people have been injured in mob lynching incidents during the last two and a half months. During this time, 39 incidents of mob-lynching were registered in the...

A man was allegedly lynched by a mob on Friday after he was mistaken for a child lifter in Mohammadpur village in Bihar's Patna, said police.

As many as 12 incidents of mob lynching have been reported over the last 15 days in Bihar, police said on Wednesday.

A criminal complaint has been filed in a court in Bihar's Muzaffarpur against actor Konkona Sena Sharma and some others who wrote an open letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, drawing his attention to incidents of mob violence.

Kerala police on Sunday arrested eight persons in connection with the alleged murder of a 36-year-old man from Bihar on suspicion of theft. Police said Rajesh Manji was lynched by locals who caught him after he fell from the sunshade of a house.

The wife of IAS officer G Krishnaiah, who was lynched by a mob led by former Bihar MP Anand Mohan in 1994, has moved the Supreme Court challenging his premature release from prison.

The local sarpanch Sushil Singh, and two others - Ravi Sah and Ujwal Sharma - were arrested for mob lynching.

A 35-year-old man was beaten to death by an irate mob in a Bihar village, where he shot dead a moneylender insisting on payment of dues, police said on Thursday.

In an incident of vigilante justice a man accused of sexually assaulting a nine-year-old girl was lynched allegedly by residents of a village in Bihar's Katihar district on Thursday, police said.

In a gut-wrenching incident, a youth was allegedly beaten to death when he was caught stealing a bike in Bihar's capital, Patna on Monday.

The Bihar assembly was on Monday adjourned for an urgently convened meeting of the business advisory committee as opposition members seemed determined to corner the Nitish Kumar government on a range of issues.

According to local police, the victim's family members filed a report on February 16. For the next few days, they kept receiving calls from the victim's mobile number asking for money.

Elderly mother of the Bihar police officer who was allegedly beaten to death by a mob during a raid in West Bengal's Uttar Dinajpur district the previous day, died due to shock Sunday, family and police sources said.

A 32-year-old man in Bihar was beaten to death by a mob over suspicion of cattle theft near state capital Patna on Wednesday. All the accused were arrested immediately, the police said.

After the Bihar police ordered closure of the sedition case filed against 49 personalities, who had written an open letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi over rising incidents of mob lynching, the complainant on Thursday filed a "protest petition" against the police.

The police in Bihar have seen a rising number of lynching incidents in the recent months. According to data provided by the police headquarters, 14 people have been beaten to death, while 45 people have been injured in mob lynching incidents during the last two and a half months. During this time, 39 incidents of mob-lynching were registered in the...

A man was allegedly lynched by a mob on Friday after he was mistaken for a child lifter in Mohammadpur village in Bihar's Patna, said police.

As many as 12 incidents of mob lynching have been reported over the last 15 days in Bihar, police said on Wednesday.

A criminal complaint has been filed in a court in Bihar's Muzaffarpur against actor Konkona Sena Sharma and some others who wrote an open letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, drawing his attention to incidents of mob violence.