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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 killing began with the victim's hand and a leg being chopped off, and later his body was hanged on a barricade near the farmers’ protest site. [1] A Nihang Sikh [ 5 ] group took responsibility for the killing after the man committed sacrilege of their holy scripture. [ 6 ]
Jagmael Singh [a] was a lower caste Dalit construction worker from Sangrur district of Punjab. [6] He was a poor man and lived in a family of six people in the village of Changiwala with his old mother, wife Manjit Kaur, two daughters and a son.
Priyantha Kumara Diyawadana was a 49-year-old [2] Sri Lankan man who was lynched by a mob on 3 December 2021 in Sialkot, Punjab, Pakistan [3] over allegations of blasphemy. [4] Supporters of the Sunni party Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) were believed to be part of the killing of Kumara, while the TLP officially distanced itself from the ...
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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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 ]