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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.
The Singhu Border Beadbi 2021 [1] refers to the incident that occurred in the early hours of 15 October 2021 at Delhi's Singhu border, resulting in the death of Lakhbir Singh, [2] from Tarn Taran district of Punjab, India.
On night of 14 October 2021, a dalit Sikh labourer, Lakhbir Singh from Cheema Khurd village of Tarn Taran district was lynched by Nihang Sikhs present at farmers' protest site on the allegations of sacrilege [7] by his picking up the copy of a Sarbloh Granth. [8] [9] Family members of Lakhbir denied his role in alleged sacrilege. [10]
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2017 Pratapgarh lynching; 2021 lynchings in Punjab, India; S. Rajen Sharma; Murder of Rinku Sharma; Lynching of Jagmael Singh; 2021 Singhu border lynching; Y. Akku Yadav
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Some people who were accused of blasphemy have been lynched, including Priyantha Kumara in Sialkot, Punjab, in 2021 and Mushtaq Ahmed in Tulamba, Punjab, in 2022. International and national human rights groups say that blasphemy accusations have often been used to intimidate religious minorities. [ 1 ]
Local law enforcement deny a lynching took place in Vance County, despite calls for justice for a Black truck driver found dead with a rope around his neck in Henderson going viral on social media.