Odisha has become a 'disturbed' state under BJP rule: BJDThe BJD has accused the BJP government of turning Odisha into a disturbed state. Senior leaders highlighted recent murders and violence, cl...
Abhi-Neel lynching: 20 get life term in AssamTwenty individuals have received life sentences for the mob lynching of Nilotpal Das and Abhijit Nath in Assam. The Nagaon District and Ses...
Assam court convicts 20, acquits 25 in mob lynching case of Nilotpal Das and Abhijit NathA Nagaon court has convicted 20 individuals in the lynching of Abhijit Nath and Nilotpal Das. This verdict comes eight years after the inci...
J&K man missing after 'attacked by cow vigilantes'; SIT probe underway, highway blocked in protestA protest blocked the National Highway in Banihal after Tanvir Ahmad Chopan went missing. Family alleges he was thrashed by cow vigilantes ...
SC junks Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind' s plea to pay compensation to victims of mob lynchingThe Supreme Court has rejected a plea from Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind seeking compensation for mob lynching victims. The court directed the petiti...
View: Don't let murderers hide behind mobsBNS, which will replace the colonial-era Indian Penal Code (IPC), proposes three options for punishing those in a lynch mob that has commit...
Religion-fueled mobs on the rise again in Pakistanlynchings over offenses to Islam, real or imagined, are far from new in Pakistan, where blasphemy is punishable by death. Rights activists ...
Uttar Pradesh government to examine anti-lynching proposal soonA senior home ministry official in the state said on condition of anonymity that the department will soon take up the mob lynching bill, ev...
Bill against lynching introduced in Rajasthan AssemblyThe Rajasthan Protection from Lynching Bill, 2019 puts those who conspire or help in the act in the same category as those who commit mob l...
Lynching: SC notice to centre, states for non-implementation of its directionsThe directions were passed on the PIL by Congress activist Tehsin Poonavall who had brought the issue of rising incidents of mob lynching a...
Uttar Pradesh law panel readies draft bill to curb mob lynchingThe draft bill, made after studying laws on lynching across the globe, provides details to prevent lynching and how to exercise authority a...
View: Put an end to lynch mobsThe government must make it crystal clear that anyone who takes the law into their hands would face the full wrath of the state.
Mob lynching: Centre may amend existing lawsProvisions could be included in various sections of the IPC, CrPC and Evidence Act to cover lynching as an “aggravated form” of offence to ...
ET View: Bring about an anti-mob law, and enforce it with seriousnessVigilantism is the result of perceived and real neglect of the State not conducting its duty of keeping the law, and thereby allowing this ...
- JIH to provide legal assistance to lynching victims' kin
JIH secretary general Muhammad Salim Engineer said the organisation has identified certain states where mob lynching incidents have taken p...
Those who sow Hindu terror will reap Muslim terrorGoing by this definition, the lynch mobs that beat up and kill people suspected of carrying beef are terrorists. So too are Muslim lynch mo...
Amid tensions, activists propose new law against lynchingThe activists, who would unveil the draft on Friday, would write to PM Narendra Modi asking him to introduce the legislation in the forthco...