Tag: mob lynching

Court acquits six of killing Pehlu Khan in cow vigilante case

NEW DELHI – A court on Wednesday acquitted six men of the killing of a 55-year-old Muslim dairy farmer, citing lack of evidence, raising questions over the prosecution’s failure to make its case despite videos of a crowd beating him in the street. The 2017 attack on Pehlu […]

Won’t tolerate mob lynching or any crime: Jharkhand CM

Ranchi, Jul 7: Jharkhand Chief Minister Raghubar Das has asserted that there will be no discrimination on the basis of caste or religion while dealing with those involved in mob lynching or other crimes and anarchy won’t be tolerated. Talking about the recent lynching of a Muslim youth, accused […]

Mob lynching, cow vigilantism on voters’ minds in Nuh

Nuh (Haryana) ;  It’s 11 am and about a dozen people sitting at a tea shop in Ferozepur Namak village here are discussing politics over hot cuppas. “First it was demonetisation and now cow vigilantes are after our community,” said a visibly angry Ali Mohammad. “Don’t ask anyone here […]

Muslim women come out with manifesto for political parties, demand law against mob lynching

New Delhi: A group of Muslim women from over 10 states Wednesday said the new dispensation at the Centre should bring a law against mob lynching. Ahead of the April-May parliamentary election, the women, including Khalida, the wife of alleged lynching victim Umar Khan, published a manifesto listing their […]

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