Up Lynching Case

A local court in Uttar Pradesh's Hapur on Tuesday convicted all 10 people accused in the 2018 mob lynching case and sentenced them to life imprisonment.

The Supreme Court today stayed the Allahabad High Court order that granted bail to those accused in a 2018 case of lynching a police officer in Uttar Pradesh's Bulandshahr.

The UP police SIT investigating the Lakhimpur Kheri violence leading to the death of eight people, including four farmers, on Wednesday arrested two more men for their alleged roles in killing four others.

Two young men were tied with ropes and beaten up so brutally at a Jharkhand village that one of them died and the other is critical. The two had been accused of stealing a goat by villagers in Dumka.

In the past one month, in quick succession, India witnessed two heinous incidents of crime and at the receiving end in both cases were Hindu priests. Yesterday, Bulandshahr, Uttar Pradesh, reported the murder of two sadhus at a temple. This incident drew parallels to the horrific lynching of three people, two of them priests, at Palghar in Maharash...

The Rajasthan government on Tuesday introduced a Bill in the assembly, proposing up to life imprisonment in cases of lynching and naming senior police officers as "coordinators" to prevent such mob attacks.

The Uttar Pradesh government told the Supreme Court on Thursday that it has filed a fresh status report on investigation in the Hapur lynching case last yearin which one person had died.

The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has issued notice to the Uttar Pradesh government over the reported mob lynching of a man after pulling him out of a police van in Shamli district.

Three years after this horrific killing and violence, charges have not yet been framed by the court, all the 18 main accused in his killing are out on bail, his home is locked up, his family have had to leave the village. Instead of getting justice, his family, including his teen daughter Shaista have to contend with a false case of cow slaughter f...

"Cow blood has been shed on this land, on my land. Russian and American scientists, after studying Hindu shastras, have confirmed that whenever and wherever cow blood is spilt, there will be earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanoes will erupt" - Gyan Dev Ahuja, a BJP lawmaker in Rajasthan's Alwar, delivers the little speech without flinching as he campa...

Three men arrested after the death of a man beaten up in Rajasthan's Alwar on suspicion of cattle smuggling in July were charged with murder by the police on Friday. The police, however, said 28-year-old Rakbar Khan's death was not a case of mob lynching.

Stepping up crackdown efforts on the spread of fake news, WhatsApp said today that it is expanding its radio campaign to 10 more states, including Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh and West Bengal.

After taking note of an NDTV investigation in which men accused of lynching bragged on hidden camera about the killings, the Supreme Court will hear the petition of the man who survived the attack in Uttar Pradesh's Hapur in June. The top court will today take a decision on the victim's demand for a court-monitored Special Investigation Team probe ...

After an NDTV investigation in which men accused of lynching are caught on hidden camera bragging about the killings, the Supreme Court has agreed to take up the Hapur lynching case. Lawyers for the Hapur lynching victims went to the Supreme Court for an "urgent hearing" after NDTV aired the sting operation on Monday. Chief Justice of India Dipak M...

Days after a 45-year-old man was beaten to death and a 65-year-old seriously injured by a mob in western Uttar Pradesh's Hapur district, a second video of the incident once again points to the fact that the mob that assaulted the two Muslim men were acting on cow slaughter allegations.

A local court in Uttar Pradesh's Hapur on Tuesday convicted all 10 people accused in the 2018 mob lynching case and sentenced them to life imprisonment.

The Supreme Court today stayed the Allahabad High Court order that granted bail to those accused in a 2018 case of lynching a police officer in Uttar Pradesh's Bulandshahr.

The UP police SIT investigating the Lakhimpur Kheri violence leading to the death of eight people, including four farmers, on Wednesday arrested two more men for their alleged roles in killing four others.

Two young men were tied with ropes and beaten up so brutally at a Jharkhand village that one of them died and the other is critical. The two had been accused of stealing a goat by villagers in Dumka.

In the past one month, in quick succession, India witnessed two heinous incidents of crime and at the receiving end in both cases were Hindu priests. Yesterday, Bulandshahr, Uttar Pradesh, reported the murder of two sadhus at a temple. This incident drew parallels to the horrific lynching of three people, two of them priests, at Palghar in Maharash...

The Rajasthan government on Tuesday introduced a Bill in the assembly, proposing up to life imprisonment in cases of lynching and naming senior police officers as "coordinators" to prevent such mob attacks.

The Uttar Pradesh government told the Supreme Court on Thursday that it has filed a fresh status report on investigation in the Hapur lynching case last yearin which one person had died.

The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has issued notice to the Uttar Pradesh government over the reported mob lynching of a man after pulling him out of a police van in Shamli district.

Three years after this horrific killing and violence, charges have not yet been framed by the court, all the 18 main accused in his killing are out on bail, his home is locked up, his family have had to leave the village. Instead of getting justice, his family, including his teen daughter Shaista have to contend with a false case of cow slaughter f...

"Cow blood has been shed on this land, on my land. Russian and American scientists, after studying Hindu shastras, have confirmed that whenever and wherever cow blood is spilt, there will be earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanoes will erupt" - Gyan Dev Ahuja, a BJP lawmaker in Rajasthan's Alwar, delivers the little speech without flinching as he campa...

Three men arrested after the death of a man beaten up in Rajasthan's Alwar on suspicion of cattle smuggling in July were charged with murder by the police on Friday. The police, however, said 28-year-old Rakbar Khan's death was not a case of mob lynching.

Stepping up crackdown efforts on the spread of fake news, WhatsApp said today that it is expanding its radio campaign to 10 more states, including Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh and West Bengal.

After taking note of an NDTV investigation in which men accused of lynching bragged on hidden camera about the killings, the Supreme Court will hear the petition of the man who survived the attack in Uttar Pradesh's Hapur in June. The top court will today take a decision on the victim's demand for a court-monitored Special Investigation Team probe ...

After an NDTV investigation in which men accused of lynching are caught on hidden camera bragging about the killings, the Supreme Court has agreed to take up the Hapur lynching case. Lawyers for the Hapur lynching victims went to the Supreme Court for an "urgent hearing" after NDTV aired the sting operation on Monday. Chief Justice of India Dipak M...

Days after a 45-year-old man was beaten to death and a 65-year-old seriously injured by a mob in western Uttar Pradesh's Hapur district, a second video of the incident once again points to the fact that the mob that assaulted the two Muslim men were acting on cow slaughter allegations.