Mob Killing

Life Term As Maximum Punishment For Mob Killings, Proposes UP Law Panel

India News | Press Trust of India | Thursday July 11, 2019

Taking cognisance of incidents of mob lynching, including those by cow vigilantes, the Uttar Pradesh Law Commission has submitted a draft Bill recommending up to life imprisonment for the crime.

Cops Move Court In Case Against Sons Of Rajasthan Man Killed By Cow Vigilantes

India News | Press Trust of India | Tuesday July 9, 2019

The Rajasthan police has sought permission from an Alwar court to investigate further the case against the two sons of Pehlu Khan, who was beaten to death by cow vigilantes two years ago for allegedly transporting the animals illegally.

TikTok Deletes "Hate-Mongering" Video Linked To Jharkhand Mob Killing

India News | Edited by Chandrashekar Srinivasan | Tuesday July 9, 2019

Video-messaging app TikTok today deleted a clip related to the shocking assault on Tabrez Ansari, 24, last month in Jharkhand

Won't Tolerate Mob Killing Or Any Crime: Jharkhand Chief Minister

India News | Press Trust of India | Sunday July 7, 2019

Jharkhand Chief Minister Raghubar Das has asserted that there will be no discrimination on the basis of caste or religion while dealing with those involved in mob killing or other crimes and anarchy won't be tolerated.

Mob Allegedly Kills Man For Stealing A Bike, 2 Arrested: Bengal Cops

India News | Press Trust of India | Monday July 1, 2019

A man who was allegedly beaten by locals for stealing a bike has died, triggering a protest when his body reached from a Kolkata hospital on Sunday.

Mob Killing Victim Pehlu Khan Not Charged, Says Rajasthan Chief Minister

India News | Reported by Harsha Kumari Singh, Edited by Divyanshu Dutta Roy | Saturday June 29, 2019

A political fight broke out on Saturday after a dairy farmer, who was beaten to death in April 2017 by cow vigilantes in Rajasthan, was named in a chargesheet along with his sons, drawing attention to the legal treatment of victims of mob killings and cow vigilantism in the country. Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot defended his government, say...

Threatened With Rape, Allege Jharkhand Women After Mob Killing

India News | Indo-Asian News Service | Friday June 28, 2019

A group of Hindu women in Jharkhand's Seraikela district have lodged an FIR claiming that some people sympathising with Tabrez Ansari, the victim of a recent mob lynching incident in the state, have threatened to rape them, police said on Thursday.

Man Killed By Mob In Jharkhand Was Poisoned, Says His Uncle

India News | Thursday June 27, 2019

A relative of Tabrez Ansari, who was killed by a mob suspecting he stole a bike, has alleged that Tabrez was given poisonous water.

PM "Pained" By Jharkhand Mob Killing, Says Unfair To Insult Entire State

India News | Edited by Stela Dey | Wednesday June 26, 2019

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said the death of a 24-year-old man who was mercilessly thrashed by a mob in Jharkhand last week has "pained" him, but it is unfair to insult the state by calling it a "hub of lynching".

On Jharkhand Mob Killing, Rahul Gandhi Questions "Silence Of Powerful"

India News | Edited by Stela Dey | Tuesday June 25, 2019

Congress chief Rahul Gandhi on Tuesdaycalled the death of a 24-year-old by the hands of a mob in Jharkhand last week "a blot on humanity" and said he was shocked by the "silence of the powerful voices in the BJP-ruled central and state governments".

In Jharkhand Mob Killing, 11 Arrests, Doctor Under Probe: 10 Points

India News | Edited by Anindita Sanyal | Tuesday June 25, 2019

The Jharkhand police are focusing on the role of their colleagues and a doctor involved in the case of a 24-year-old man, who died after being beaten by a mob last week. A Special Investigation Team has been formed and two police officers have been suspended for lapses in the case. There is also indication of an attempted cover-up, as the dying dec...

Jharkhand Mob Killing: 11 Arrested, Alleged Lapses By Doctor Under Probe

India News | Reported by Manish Kumar, Edited by Chandrashekar Srinivasan | Tuesday June 25, 2019

Seraikela-Kharsawan, Jharkhand: Tabrez Ansari, 24, was caught by a mob on Tuesday evening, tied to a pole and beaten for more than seven hours and then handed over to the police on Wednesday morning after he fell unconscious

Jharkhand Killing 11th Mob Attack In 2019, Minorities Targeted More: Data

India News | Written by Sukirti Dwivedi | Tuesday June 25, 2019

The death of a man in Jharkhand following mob violence is not the first of its kind to occur this year. According to data from the website Factchecker.in this is the 11th instance of hate crime this year. So far, 4 people have been killed and 22 people injured in mob violence.

"Don't Want New India, Give Us Old India": Ghulam Nabi Azad's Dig at BJP

India News | Reported by Sunil Prabhu, Edited by Anindita Sanyal | Monday June 24, 2019

The mob killing of a man in Jharkhand found echo in parliament today as senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad took on the BJP over its "New India" claim.

Jharkhand Mob Killing: 11 Men Arrested, 2 Police Officers Suspended

India News | Reported by Manish Kumar, Edited by Divyanshu Dutta Roy | Tuesday June 25, 2019

Eleven men have been arrested and two police officers suspended amid outrage across the country over the fatal mob attack on a man in Jharkhand last week. The police are on the lookout for at least one more person accused of beating 24-year-old Tabrez Ansari last Tuesday for allegedly stealing a motorcycle.