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  Youth beaten to death by mob on charges of stealing cattle in Mokama, Bihar

  News | October 30, 2019 11:07 IST

  Youth beaten to death by mob on charges of stealing cattle in Mokama, Bihar. Three companions of the deceased managed to flee from the spot.

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  Asaduddin Owaisi slams Mohan Bhagwat over lynching remark

  India | October 09, 2019 7:29 IST

  AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi on Tuesday hit out at Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat for his statement that mob lynching was a western concept and it should not be used to defame India.

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  Congress attacks Bhagwat over statements on lynchings, economy

  India | October 08, 2019 16:11 IST

  The Maharashtra unit of Congress on Tuesday slammed RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat over his claims that the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh had nothing do with lynchings and there was no economic slowdown in the country.

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  Suspected cow smuggler beaten up by mob in Rajasthan

  Crime | September 23, 2019 16:16 IST

  On a tip off that cows were being smuggled in two jeeps, police had put up barricades on Sunday night.

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  Man lynched over suspicion of cow slaughter in Jharkhand

  India | September 23, 2019 9:16 IST

  Jharkhand had reported at least three similar incidents in September alone.

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  IIM-B faculty, students seek fresh probe into Jharkhand lynching

  India | September 18, 2019 8:23 IST

  According to IIM-B Associate Professor Deepak Malghan, 16 faculty, 85 students and non-teaching staff of the business school signed the letter, seeking Modi's intervention, as "it was the constitutional duty of the state to protect the life and liberty of all its citizens".

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  UP cabinet approves interim relief for rape, mob lynching victims

  India | September 10, 2019 15:42 IST

  "It has been decided to provide interim compensation to victims of rape, mob lynching and other such crimes pending probe. A maximum of 25 per cent interim compensation will be provided on DM's report," UP government spokesperson Sidharth Nath Singh 

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  21 arrested for mob killing of 73-year-old doctor at Tea Estate in Assam; IMA calls for 24-hour strike

  India | September 02, 2019 11:58 IST

  Two days after the 73-year-old doctor of a tea estate in Assam's Jorhat was beaten to death by a mob of around 250 people, the police have arrested 21 people in connection to the case. The doctor was beaten up by tea garden workers after one of their co-workers died at the hospital on Saturday evening.

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  Lynching is inhuman, absolutely wrong: Maharashtra CM Fadnavis

  India | September 01, 2019 16:18 IST

  Talking to reporters in Latur district during his ongoing 'Mahajanadesh Yatra', Fadnavis also said he is a "Hindutvawadi" person but with a scientific mindset.

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  Anti-lynching bill: West Bengal Assembly passes bill making mob attack a criminal offence

  India | August 30, 2019 17:18 IST

  West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday said the state government has brought The West Bengal (Prevention of Lynching) Bill, 2019 as the Centre did not introduce any law against it.

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  Mob lynching: Slap NSA against rumour mongers, UP DGP tells SPs

  India | August 29, 2019 14:55 IST

  More than 20 incidents of mob attacks relating to alleged child lifting, reported in UP in the past two weeks, have become a major law and order problem in India's most populous state.

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  Lower court order in Pehlu Khan case surprising: Priyanka

  India | August 16, 2019 10:37 IST

  "The lower court decision in the Pehlu Khan case is surprising. There is no place for inhuman act and killing of a man by the mob in our country," she said in a series of tweets on Friday.  

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  A year after Karbi Anglong mob lynching, court case heading nowhere

  India | August 15, 2019 13:38 IST

  When the lynching case of Abhijeet Nath and Nilotpal Das had gone to trial, it seemed like an open-and-shut case. There were many witnesses, the case was expected to be in favour of the victims and pose difficulties for the bail of the attackers. A year on, the trial is still trundling as many witnesses have turned hostile.

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  Mob lynching: MP police to monitor social media to stop child abduction rumours

  India | August 13, 2019 7:01 IST

  With a motive to prevent mob lynching incidents over child abduction rumours, Madhya Pradesh police is monitoring the social media, especially WhatsApp and Facebook.

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  Mob tried to lynch constable for taking action against illegal liquor factory operating in Delhi

  News | August 04, 2019 16:02 IST

  Mob tried to lynch constable for taking action against illegal liquor factory operating in Delhi

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  Death for honour killing, lifer for mob lynching: Rajasthan proposes significant bills

  India | July 30, 2019 21:34 IST

  Rajasthan Parliamentary Affairs Minister Shanti Dhariwal introduced the two bills.  

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  Mob lynchings back as child lifting rumours spread on WhatsApp

  India | July 30, 2019 21:07 IST

  In Madhya Pradesh, child kidnapping rumours in the past three days have led to several innocent people being mob-lynched, leaving the police department and administration worried over the rise of misinformation on various social media platforms.

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  Bills against honour killing and mob lynching introduced in Rajasthan assembly

  India | July 30, 2019 16:05 IST

  Rajasthan Parliamentary Affairs Minister Shanti Dhariwal introduced two bills in the assembly on Tuesday to check incidents of honour killing and mob lynching in the state. 'The Rajasthan Prohibition of Interference with the Freedom of Matrimonial Alliances in the Name of Honour and Tradition bill-2019' and 'The Rajasthan Protection from Lynching Bill-2019' were introduced.

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  Bengal mob attacks man on suspicion of kidnapping children

  India | July 28, 2019 22:35 IST

  Amid a series of assaults and lynching attempts in north Bengal in recent weeks, a youth was severely beaten up by a mob in Alipurduar district on suspicion of being a child-kidnapper, police said on Sunday. "A youth was severely beaten up by a mob in Alipurduar district's Majher-dabri tea estate on Saturday night on suspicion of being a child-kidnapper. Some locals later rescued him and kept him locked inside a primary school building," police said.

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  Mob lynching in Bengal, Kerala can't be linked to BJP: MP Sunita Duggal

  India | July 28, 2019 13:36 IST

  Even as opposition parties accuse the ruling BJP of disturbing communal harmony and abetting intolerance in the society, Duggal said that she joined the saffron party in 2014 because its ideology and top leader Narendra Modi, then Chief Minister of Gujarat, impressed her.