'Say Jai Shri Ram,' Said Killers of Muslim Man in NCR

Jharkhand Man Lynched For Allegedly Stealing Goat, Case Against Him Too

Villagers claim the two men were spotted cutting up the goat outside the village by some men who surrounded them and started calling them thieves. The man who died was Subhan Ansari, 26. Dumka, Jharkhand: Two young men were tied with ropes and beaten up so brutally at a Jharkhand village that one of […]

Gau rakshak economy at root of lynching

The cold truth is that Pehlu Khan invited his doom by avoiding payment of the exaggerated rates of cattle transportation. He fell prey to the compulsions of the gau rakshak economy. Now, cow politics, in the face of the verdict of acquittal, has resurrected his lynching all over again

MP: Man arrested under NSA for selling ”beef”

On the basis of a police report issued on Sunday, the district administration sent the accused to jail under the National Security Act (NSA), Superintendent of Police (West Zone) Mahesh Chandra Jain said. Under the NSA, a person can be detained without a charge for up to 12 months if authorities are satisfied that he […]

Mob attacks Christian pastor, family in Uttarakhand

After a Hindu 'baba' threatened black magic against Christians in the village, all Christian families except the pastor's hurriedly converted to Hinduism. The attack came soon after

Burning Shame: The Killing of Graham Staines and his sons by Bajrang Dal activist

No sooner had its macabre mission been completed than the mob melted away in the darkness as the flames that had leapt skywards simmered. But the heat generated by the senseless killings and the outrage stoked are far from ebbing days after the incident

In the age of fake news, flashback to first kill: Graham Staines

Director of Graham Staines story says little has changed in 20 years

Mohammad Akhlaq: The lynching that changed India

Dozens have been killed since 2015 killing of Akhlaq. We tell the stories of some of the victims and their accused.

Muslim farmer killed in Jammu, attacked with sharp weapons; one arrested

With an increase in attacks against minority groups in the country, another case of mob lynching has surfaced. A 42-year-old farmer identified as Shabir Chaudhary was lynched by an alleged gang near his home in Phalian Mandal village in Satwari Police limits on the outskirts of Jammu city on According to reports by Clarion India, […]

Vigilante cow protection groups attack minorities in India

Authorities Should End Communal Rhetoric, Prosecute Assailants, Recommends Human Rights watch Members of a cow protection group patrol the streets of Ramgarh, Rajasthan, and confiscate cattle being transported by traders, November 2015.© 2015 Allison Joyce/Getty Images (New York) – The Indian government should prevent and prosecute mob violence by vigilante groups targeting minorities in the […]

How the police protected the murderers of Pehlu Khan

A local court in Rajasthan acquitted six out of the nine accused in 2017 Pehlu Khan lynching case. Pehlu Khan and his two sons were brutally attacked on the Highway linking Jaipur to Alwar by a mob of more than two dozen people 2017. Investigative Report An exhaustive independent civil society investigation in Pehlu Khan’s […]

‘Violence against Christians has more than doubled under Modi as PM’

Christians in India suffered 247 instances of persecution in just the first eight months of 2019. But police filed FIRs only in 28 cases. Pastors say police are hand-in-glove with the Hindu nationalists behind the violence

Two lynched in West Bengal over suspicion of cow theft

The accused have been arrested on charges of murder, and more charges are likely to be added, the officer said.

“If there is any justice left in India, we will get it,” say Muslim youth beaten by mob in Maharashtra on accusations of animal theft

Nazish Hussain Malegaon: On the night of 22 July, 30-year-old Wasim Khan and 28-year-old Mubin Shaikh were returning to their village in Malegaon in Maharashtra. After entering Parola (a Municipal council in Jalgaon District in Maharashtra) and crossing the village Vasantwadi, they realized they had lost their way, forcing them to return. Upon returning, they […]

Hollywood film memorializes lynched Australian missionary Graham Staines

The story of the Staines family has been made into an inspiring and highly anticipated film called The Least of These, starring Stephen Baldwin as Graham Staines, Shari Rigby as Gladys, directed by Aneesh Daniel and written by Andrew Matthews

Man beaten in Delhi on suspicion of conspiracy to spread COVID-19

Police said the man had gone to Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh for a Tablighi Jamaat conference and returned to the national capital in a truck of vegetables after 45 days. The victim is a resident of Harewali village in Bawana, police officials said. (Representational Image/Express photo by Tashi Tobgyal) A 22-year-old man was allegedly attacked […]

Jharkhand man beaten by mob for hours, made to chant ‘Jai Sri Ram’, dies

Tabrez Ansari, 24, was caught by a mob on Tuesday evening, tied to a pole and beaten for more than seven hours and then handed over to the police on Wednesday morning after he fell unconscious.

4 Dalits Killed in 4 Days in Tamil Nadu, Activists Say Upper Castes Using Lockdown as Opportunity for Assaults

Image: Representational TDN World Desk: Covid lockdown has manifolded the distress of the oppressed Dalits in Tamil Nadu. Since the first phase of lockdown, which began on march 25, more than 30 major incidents of caste-based violence occurred in the state, as claimed by Madurai-based NGO Evidence. As reported by News 18, in the […]

‘The Graham Staines Story’ a grim reminder of horrors of religious persecution

Two days before the March 29 release of The Least of These: The Graham Staines Story, a Twitter post was being widely circulated, accusing the movie of “attempting to polarize voters by inciting communally & politically sensitive content during elections season”. It was hardly surprising that hardline Indian nationalists on social media were against the release of a movie that documented one of the darkest days in independent India's history

Gurgaon: Cow Vigilantes Beat Man Brutally on Suspicion of Transporting Beef

The Wire Staff New Delhi: A video showing a man being brutally beaten on suspicion of transporting beef in Gurgaon, while police stand watching, has been doing the rounds on social media. NDTV has reported that the incident took place on Friday, at 9 am. Times of India has identified the victim, Lukman, as a 25-year-old meat supplier from Mewat in […]

Mob lynchings in India: The need to act now is upon us

Most cases of mob violence are related to cow vigilantism, the other triggers have been rumours of child lifting and allegation of being a witch. MOB LYNCHING has drastically increased in recent years, particularly since the the BJP government came to power. There has been fourfold increase in cow related violent incidents — from less […]

‘He asked if I eat beef and then started hitting me’: IIT Madras student

Sooraj R, the IIT Madras student who was attacked on Tuesday for participating in a beef fest, has in a video statement to the police said that Manish Kumar had approached asking whether he ate beef. Sooraj said that on the day of the incident, a group of eight students, including Manish Kumar, a Master’s degree […]

The Modi Years: What has fuelled rising mob violence in India?

The ruling party’s leaders have supported violence in the name of cow protection.

What is behind India’s epidemic of ‘mob lynching’?

Is the spate of 'mob lynchings' in India really just a spontaneous expression of mob anger?

Cow And Hindutva: Myths And Facts

The Hindutva juggernaut which rode on with Ram, love jihaad and ghar wapsi on top of it, is riding with cow this time. There have been countless incidents of lynching, maiming and robbing of Muslims and Dalits in the name of saving holy cows.

Police complicit in cow vigilante violence against minorities: Human Rights Watch

On March 18, 2016, a group of men murdered two Muslim cattle herders who were on their way to sell bulls at an animal fair in India’s Jharkhand state. The attackers, all linked to a local “cow protection” group, accused Mohammed Mazlum Ansari, 35, and Imteyaz Khan, 12, of selling the cattle for slaughter, then […]

Every third Indian policeman finds mob lynchings a ‘natural’ response to cow slaughter: Survey

On June 18, a Muslim cattle trader was lynched on suspicion of cow slaughter in Hapur, Uttar Pradesh. | PTI A new survey reveals the biases among India’s police forces. Every third Indian police person thinks it is natural “to a large extent” or “somewhat” – for a mob to punish culprits when there is […]

Cop killed in mob violence over cow slaughter allegations in UP

Police inspector Subodh Kumar Singh was killed in mob frenzy over cow carcasses found near a village in Uttar Pradesh's Bulandshahr

The Meaning of India’s ‘Beef Lynchings’

The rise in anti-Muslim violence under Modi suggests that the demons of the country’s past are very much alive. One day in June, towards the end of Ramadan, two young Muslim brothers on a visit to Delhi to buy new clothes for Eid boarded a train to return home, three hours away. Soon, they became […]

Hindutva fanatics kill man in Odisha after converting to Christianity

The man's name was Anant Ram Gand and he was the father of five children. He was dragged away from his house before his son's eyes. He was baptized two months ago in the Evangelical Church, but his conversion was opposed by the village radicals. President of Persecution Relief: "We want freedom of worship"

‘This is it. I’m going to die’: India’s minorities are targeted in lynchings

“It’s like they are trying to erase us — erase all of my people,” says Jaibuna, the widow of Pehlu Khan. The 55-year-old Muslim man was beaten to death in 2017 by Hindu men who objected to his transporting cows. Furkan Latif Khan/NPR Last year, a long-distance truck driver, Mohammad Hashim, was hauling a load […]

The Real Objective Of MOB Violence Against Muslims In India

During the past several days, more than thirty people have been killed in mob violence primarily targeting Muslims in the Indian capital of New Delhi. At the center of the conflict is the Citizenship Amendment Act (C.A.A.), a law passed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu majoritarian government that creates a path to citizenship for […]

Lynching, the scourge of new India

The word lynching is of foreign origin. But this does not mean that mob killings are alien to India In the years since Narendra Modi was elected in 2014, ugly mob hate has spilled onto the streets, trains and people’s homes. Fevered throngs surround, brutally assault and sometimes kill unarmed men, mostly Muslim. The crowds […]

WhatsApp fake news connects with media bias: LSE report

LSE’s Shakuntala Banaji and Ram Bhat explain the findings of their recent research into how Whatsapp is used to spread misinformation in India, and make recommendations to improve how the platform and others tackle this problem.

Bihar cattle trader lynched after refusing to pay extortion money

After Mohammad Jamal’s body came home, the next morning on 12 November, there was an angry mob that gathered to express their frustrations. (Photo: Aishwarya S Iyer/The Quint) On the night of 11 November, Monday, Mohammad Jamal was lynched by four men while he was on his way to sell cows about thirty kilometers from […]

Murders of Religious Minorities in India Go Unpunished, Report Finds

NEW DELHI — The Indian authorities have delayed investigating a wave of vigilante-style murders of religious minorities, with many instead working to justify the attacks or file charges against some of the victims’ families, according to a report released Tuesday by Human Rights Watch. The 104-page report said that since Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s governing […]

Christian tribal lynched to death in Jharkhand by cow vigilante mob

Cow slaughter and beef sale are banned in Jharkhand, which has emerged as a lynching hotbed, accounting for 17 of the 44 deaths the country witnessed at the hands of mobs between May 2015 and December 2018. Most of the lynchings in the state were related to suspected cow slaughter or beef possession

‘Why do mob lynchings still continue unabated?’

The idea ‘instant’ justice is immensely popular, and its acceptance even higher if the perceived crime is allegedly committed by a Muslim, Dalit, Christian or tribal. On Friday, a 50-year-old man, accused of child lifting, was killed by a mob in the Dhanbad district of Jharkhand. Just three days before this incident, on Tuesday, six people […]