Tag: Lynchings
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Lynchings, Hijab Bans, and Bulldozer Injustice: Will Justice Ever Prevail in the World’s Largest Democracy?
India’s human rights record came under scrutiny as NGOs and activists highlighted systemic abuses, including the persecution of minorities, misuse of anti-terror laws, and escalating state-backed injustices. Calls for justice rang loud, urging action against lynchings, the incarceration of activists, and the destruction of homes under the guise of legality. The program marked the 75th…
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Dissatisfied with progress, families of Ranchi lynching and alleged police killing write to NHRC and Minister
Ranchi: The families of both – the Ranchi lynching victim and the alleged police killing case, are living in despair. None are satisfied with the progress in the respective cases. Mumtaz Ansari, father of Wasim Sajjad wrote to Hemant Soren’s cabinet minister and Garhwa MLA Mithilesh Thakur, who had intervened and helped register an FIR…
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Video Story: Is Jharkhand a failed state or having a Jungle Raj? 22nd Mob Lynching cases in Raghubar government
Ranchi: Mubarak Ansari, 48, becomes 22nd mob lynching victims in Jharkhand. While Akhtar Ansari, 26, has managed to live on, despite receiving serious injuries from a mob thrashing. He is undergoing treatment in a hospital in Bokaro district of Jharkhand. Mubarak and Akhtar were accused of stealing a battery from a truck in Govindpur colony…
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Five cases of mob lynching amid child-lifting rumours reported in a single day in Jharkhand, one dies
Ranchi: Jharkhand, which is infamous for mob lynching incidents over cattle transportation or beef-eating suspicion, is now witnessing lynching incidents over child-lifting rumours on daily basis. And leave aside the common people, police not sporting uniform, are also being termed as child-lifters and are being attacked. On Wednesday, at least five cases of mob lynching…
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Six mob lynched in Jharkhand allegedly for being child-lifters
Ranchi: In yet another mob lynching case in Jharkhand, six people (three from Jharkhand and three from Uttar Pradesh) have been mercilessly beaten on suspicion of being child-lifters in Koderma district, on Tuesday. Three tribal youth—Naresh Soren, Anil Soren and Mahadev Soren were riding a bike, to reach their sister’s house. However, when they stopped…
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PM Modi’s Independence Day speech: A roadmap to one party- one leader rule
daroniyo Pradhan Mantriji, PM Modi Badhai Ho, Sriman! Your Independence Day speech at Red Fort ramp has endeared you to me more since it provided me a veritable road map to your elevation as Bharat Samrat . It proved your genius again when you dovetailed your ‘courageous’ decisions to revoke articles 370 and 35A of…
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No One Killed Pehlu Khan
Alwar/Jaipur: A local court announced the verdict in the Pehlu Khan mob lynching case on Wednesday, August 14. The court of additional district judge no 1, Sarita Swami, gave benefit of doubt to six of the nine accused in Pehlu Khan lynching case. A total of nine people were accused in this case, of which…
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Today ‘Jai Sri Ram’ has become a provocative ‘war-cry’ 49 celebs write open letter to PM Modi
Kolkata: Around 49 intellects including the likes of Mani Ratnam, Goutam Ghose, Shyam Benegal, Anurag Kashyap, Aparna Sen, Konkona Sen Sharma, Ashish Nandi, Binayak Sen, Ram Chandra Guha, Shubha Mudgal and more, have written an open letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, expressing their anguish over increasing incidents of lynching and crushing of the voice…
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How anger of tribals, minorities and working class is defining this Lok Sabha election in Jharkhand
Ranchi: As Jharkhand is all prepared for the third phase of Lok Sabha Elections, in which voters from Dhanbad, Giridih, Singhbhum and Jamshedpur constituencies will exercise their franchises. Last week people of Ranchi, Khunti, Hazaribagh and Koderma have cast their vote. In the fourth and last phase, on May 19, voters of Dumka, Godda and…
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Son of Jharkhand lynching victim dies after complaining of headache, mother alleges foul play
Ranchi: The elder son of Alimuddin Ansari, who was lynched by a mob in Ramgarh on suspicion of carrying beef died today at a private hospital in Ranchi after complain of headache. Twenty-two-year-old Shahzad Ansari was looking after the family after the brutal killing of his father, on June 29, 2017. “Yesterday, he complained of…