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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 2017 Alwar mob lynching was the attack and murder of Pehlu Khan, a dairy farmer from Nuh district of Haryana, allegedly by a group of 200 cow vigilantes affiliated with right-wing Hindutva groups in Behror in Alwar, Rajasthan, India on 1 April, 2017. [3] [4] [5] Six others who were with Pehlu Khan were also beaten by the cow vigilantes. [6] [7]
The 2017 Nowhatta mob lynching, was the lynch mob murder and mutilation of an on-duty undercover Indian Jammu and Kashmir Police officer Muhammad Ayub Pandith, on the Muslim holy night of Laylat al-Qadr on Thursday 22 June 2017 by a mob in Nowhatta after a crowd shouted slogans in favor of Pakistan as well as al-Qaida jihadist Zakir Musa.
This happened just weeks after a WhatsApp text warning of 400 child traffickers arriving in the southern Indian technology hub of Bengaluru led a frenzied mob to lynch a 26-year-old man, a migrant ...
Pages in category "Lynching deaths in India" The following 28 pages are in this category, out of 28 total. ... 2020 Palghar mob lynching; 2017 Pratapgarh lynching ...
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 ...
1 May 2017 Assam: 2 Two Muslim men were lynched in Nagaon district of Assam on suspicion of stealing cows. While the police managed to rescue the men, both of them died of their injuries. [61] 12 May 2017 – 18 May 2017 Jharkhand: 9 2 At least nine people were killed, including 4 Muslim cattle traders, in four different incidents. [62] 22 June ...
The 2017 Pratapgarh lynching refers to death of Zafar Khan, a political activist and member of Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) [1] based in the Pratapgarh district of Rajasthan on 16 June 2017 when he tried to stop 5 employees of the Pratapgarh municipality from taking pictures of women defecating in public.