MP: Six cops suspended over lynching, SIT probe ordered
India | February 07, 2020 8:32 ISTThe mob instigated by labourers who owed the deceased, Ganesh Patel, some money, had also grievously injured his six friends on Wednesday.
The mob instigated by labourers who owed the deceased, Ganesh Patel, some money, had also grievously injured his six friends on Wednesday.
"Eleven people have been arrested so far," an officer of the Kotwali police station told IANS. The incident occurred early on Thursday in Ketarhat of Putimary-Phuleshwari Gram Panchayat area under Cooch Behar 1 administrative block.
According to the police, the incident took place on Monday night when some youths belonging to Barahpur village entered More village with the intention to steal cattle.
RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat on Tuesday said lynching is a "western construct" and should not be used in the Indian context to defame the country. He was addressing the Vijayadashmi function of the RSS at Reshimbagh ground in Maharashtra's Nagpur city,
The incident took place in Bhavkedhi village in the morning, Sirsod police station's inspector R S Dhakad said.
Residents beat up a mentally ill person and a drunk man on suspicion of being child lifters and then handed them over to police in Banda district, officials said on Thursday. Kalvanganj police outpost in-charge Shalini Singh Bhadauria said a mentally ill person was beaten up by locals in Khutla area on Wednesday after they suspected him to be a child lifter.
In most lynchings, the accused were happy being filmed while they lynched a human being. They wanted to be famous for these awful acts, But are we to now believe that no one killed Pehlu Khan? What will this deliberately shoddy prosecution tell his family, he tweeted.
The Supreme Court Friday sought the Centre's response on the allegation that it has not implemented a slew of directions issued last year to curb lynching and mob violence.
The TMC MP said the lynch mobs had turned "Lord Ram's name into murder cry" and termed mob lynchers "nothing but enemies if our country" and "terrorists".
The letter intends to draw PM Modi's attention to "a number of tragic events" recently, including the alleged weaponisation of the slogan "Jai Shri Ram" into a "war cry".
Tabrez Ansari who was thrashed by a mob on June 17 in Jharkhand's Seraikela Kharsawan, apparently died in a similar way as his father died years ago.
Reports suggest that the police has detained at least five people after a viral video showed the man on his knees in deep slush, begging to let him go.
The Congress on Tuesday said it will pass a new law in the first session of the next Lok Sabha to prevent and punish hate crimes such as "mob-engineered" lynching, stripping and burning if voted to power.
Police have arrested the girl's brother and two of her women relatives in this connection.
Irshad has lodged a complaint in Alwar alleging "some unidentified miscreants opened fire on their car while they were on their way to Behrod to appear for a hearing".
The incident happened when Booking Assistant Ashok Kumar and Booking Supervisor Shailesh Kumar were going to deposit Rs 24.78 lakh at a nationalised bank branch in Anandi market.
Two cases -- for obstructing the police and murder -- have been registered. Security has been provided to the victims' family and police have launched vigil on the village to maintain peace.
Shahrukh, 20, was beaten to death last night in Bholapur Hadoliya village under the Cantt police station area here. Four people have been arrested, said Superintendent of Police (City) Abhinandan Singh.
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