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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 ...
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 [12] by his picking up the copy of a Sarbloh Granth.
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 Lakhimpur Kheri incident [18] was a sequence of violent incidents comprising a vehicle-ramming attack, drive-by shooting [19] and a mob lynching all on 3 October 2021 at Banbirpur village near Tikunia in Lakhimpur Kheri district, Uttar Pradesh, India.
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.