mob lynching

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Treat social media platforms as engineered environments, not inevitabilities to endure.

The urgent need to counter mob justice

Nearly two dozen people have reportedly been lynched by mobs in the last month and a half, according to media sources.

Partition 1947: The perennial shadow of communalism

Communal violence is not a recent phenomenon in this part of the world.

Cow vigilantism: 1 killed in Rajasthan mob beating

A man suspected to be smuggling cows has been beaten to death by a mob in yet another instance of vigilantism in Alwar district of northern Indian state of Rajasthan, police say.

Indian SC for new law to curb mob lynching, cow vigilantism

The Supreme Court of India says the incidents of mob lynching and cow vigilantism cannot be allowed to become a new norm, and asks the parliament to consider enacting a new law with provision for deterrent punishment to effectively deal with such incidents.

4 ‘cattle lifters’ killed by mob in Noakhali

Four suspected cattle thieves were beaten to death by a mob in Subarnachar upazila of Noakhali early today.

2 ‘cattle lifters’ beaten dead in Pabna

Two suspected cattle lifters are beaten to death and another left injured in a mob beating in Ataikula of Pabna.

October 10, 2015
October 10, 2015

2 ‘cattle lifters’ beaten dead in Pabna

Two suspected cattle lifters are beaten to death and another left injured in a mob beating in Ataikula of Pabna.