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The Indian WhatsApp lynchings are a spate of mob-related violence and killings following the spread of rumours, primarily relating to child abduction and organ harvesting, via WhatsApp. The spate of lynchings commenced in May 2017 with the killing of seven men in Jharkhand , but did not become a matter of national attention until the beginning ...
The Nasir-Junaid murder refers to the kidnapping and subsequent killing of Nasir (age 25), and Junaid, (age 35), residents of Ghatmika village in Bharatpur district.They were allegedly killed by cow vigilantes affiliated with the Bajrang Dal in Haryana.
A Nihang Sikh [5] group took responsibility for the killing after the man committed sacrilege of their holy scripture. [6] A Nihang accepted his role in the murder, and gave arrest on the same day. The second accused, who also belongs to the Nihang group, was arrested by the Amritsar police.
Fake news isn't just an American problem, or a political problem, or a Facebook problem or a Twitter problem. Yesterday, the Washington Post reports five people were killed in a lynching in India ...
2020 Palghar mob lynching Gadchinchale Gadchinchale (Maharashtra) Location Gadchinchale, Palghar District, Maharashtra, India Coordinates 20°05′04″N 73°03′40″E / 20.0843517°N 73.0611882°E / 20.0843517; 73.0611882 Date 16 April 2020 Attack type lynching Weapons stones, axes, sticks Deaths 3 Accused 115 villagers, 9 juveniles On 16 April 2020, a vigilante group lynched ...
The 2021 lynchings in Punjab, India [1] refers to the widely reported lynching incidents that occurred between December 18-19, 2021, at two Sikh temples in Punjab, India in which enraged mobs killed 2 men in response to alleged acts of sacrilege.
In the 2023 Bhiwani killings, on 16 February 2023, the charred bodies of Nasir (age 25), and Junaid, (age 35), residents of Ghatmika village in Bharatpur district, were discovered inside a burnt vehicle near Loharu in Haryana's Bhiwani district.
The 2006 Bhiwandi lynching was the murder of two police constables in Bhiwandi, Thane district, Maharashtra, India by a Muslim mob. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] They were killed and then burned after police had shot at a mob pelting stones causing the death of two Muslim men. [ 3 ]