Days after 23-year-old Sahil, a first-year college student, lost his life after being beaten in north Delhi’s Jafrabad, reportedly because of a…
JULY 24, 2019 15:17 IST The letter also states that the phrase “Jai Shri Ram” has been reduced to a “provocative war…
A mob in eastern India has beaten to death three men suspected of trying to steal cattle, police say. They say the…
A newly married welder, who died after a lynch mob pounced on him last week near Jamshedpur on suspicion that he was…
Local police may have been complicit in the lynching of Prakash Lakda, a 50-year-old Adivasi of Jurmu village in Gumla’s Dumri block,…
Poonam Kaushal Uttar Pradesh “He always dreamt of seeing himself in Indian Army uniform, he wanted to be a Lieutenant. ‘How would…
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Religious freedom activists from across the U.S. have criticized Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his failure to stop the…
https://amnesty.org.in/news-update/200-alleged-hate-crimes-2017-india-reveals-halt-hate-website/ In 2017, an alarming number of alleged hate crimes – including assault, rape and murder – were reported against people…
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New Delhi: Muslims were “selectively targeted” in the wake of the 26 January communal clashes in Uttar Pradesh’s Kasganj and the police probe…
Hapur (UP): Nineteen-year-old Anas, whose father survived a mob attack two months ago in which another man died, is still trying to find…
Watching the abject horror of 28-year-old Rakbar Khan’s murder unfold in Rajasthan’s Alwar district, a year after a murderous mob of cow…
By Nazneen Mohsina The recent episode of mob lynching in Rajasthan has reopened the festering wounds of rising religious violence in India.…
BY: Ashutosh Mishra Image for representation When the Supreme Court of India had to ask the Centre to frame a law to…
by Taboola As outrage rises over cow-related lynchings, the government has responded by appointing a high-level committee to study the growing…
By Barkha DuttJuly 24Email the author There is a repugnant euphemism that has entered the lexicon of Indian prime-time television lately. “Cow vigilantes”…
By ANGSHUMAN CHOUDHURY July 20 was a rather strange day for India’s democracy. On the one hand, the Lok Sabha, lower house of…
NEW DELHI — India’s Supreme Court urged the government to pass a new anti-lynching law and to stop the spread of Internet rumors…
Indians participate in a candlelight vigil in memory of 52-year-old Muslim farmer Mohammad Akhlaq who was lynched by a mob, in New…
By Vijaita Singh and Yuthika Bharagava Left to grieve: Relatives of people lynched by villagers in Raainpada, near Dhule. | Photo Credit: Pravin…
Union Minister Jayant Singh has triggered outrage after he posed in photographs with eight men convicted of lynching a Muslim trader in…
Following UP Police filing a case of road rage and Hapur Bar Association rallying round the accused, a sessions court has granted…
Violence blamed on posts carried by the messaging service has claimed up to 24 lives since May Family members in Korremula, India,…
Eight out of 11 persons, sentenced life imprisonment by a Ramgarh Court for lynching Alimuddin Ansari a year back, were granted bail.…
By: Abdul Alim Jafri Three men were brutally assaulted in the name of the cow on Thursday by two Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) people in…
By: ANANYA BHARDWAJ Autopsy report shows Qasim sustained 18 grievous injuries— his ribs were fractured, there were deep cuts on his shoulders, knees and…
By: Bobins Abraham Just days after the video of a 45-year-old man was lynched by a mob in Uttar Pradesh’s Hapur, which…
By: NDTV (All India | Press Trust of India) Salim Qureshi alias Munna was picked up by two police constables on June 14 from…
By: Chandrima Banerjee TNN | Jun 21, 2018, 06.00 AM IST Ramgarh: The death of a Muslim man under mysterious circumstances…
WRITTEN BY dna Correspondent A Muslim cattle trader was allegedly lynched while another was thrashed by an irate mob on the…
By: The Wire Staff While five were suspected to be involved in the stealing, three managed to escape. Four have been arrested in…
BY: HT Correspondent An angry mob allegedly lynched two Muslim men on suspicion of stealing cattle in Jharkhand’s Godda district on Wednesday…
ImageRelatives buried Abu Hanif, 16, and Reaz Uddin, 18, two young Muslim men beaten to death by a mob last month over…
By: Gopi Maniar Vigilantism is flourishing in India, unabated. Mobile footage of civilians beating, kicking, flogging crime suspects, the weak and the vulnerable…
Satna: A 45-year-old man was beaten to death and his friend severally thrashed by four people for allegedly slaughtering a cow in…
In the last four years dozens of incidents of cow vigilantism have taken place, mostly in the BJP-ruled states. By: Abdul Alim Jafri…
By Sugam Pokharel and Joshua Berlinger, CNN The government of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, center, faced criticism over the measure. Story highlights The measure…
Ninety-seven percent of all incidents have occurred over the last three years since the BJP and Prime Minister Narendra Modi assumed power…
Murder of Muslim laborer in Rajasthan sparks outrage among Indian Americans Diaspora sees direct connection between cultural of impunity and the reckless,…
By: Abhimanyu Kumar Relatives of Mohammad Akhlaq mourn the day after he was killed by a mob on September 28, 2015 [Reuters]…
By: POONAM AGARWAL Fifty five-year-old Akhlaq and his son, Danish, were dragged out of their house on the night of 28 September…
BY SUPRIYA NAIR One day in June, towards the end of Ramadan, two young Muslim brothers on a visit to Delhi to…
NEW DELHI — For decades, one of the most commonplace news items from South Asia has been the “bus plunge.” This sort…
By Aatish Taseer NEW DELHI — A lynching is much more than just a murder. A murder may occur in private. A lynching…
By Suhasini Raj NEW DELHI — A 55-year-old man transporting cattle has died after being beaten by a mob of about 200 cow…
By Michael E. Miller An Indian woman sprinkles yoghurt paste onto a cow’s forehead during a Hindu Bach Baras ritual to bless the…