Banda (Uttar Pradesh): Reports on WhatsApp about child lifting that are linked to organ trade, have created panic in Banda district of the state. Parents have stopped sending children to school and keep them inside the house. ‘Khabar Lahariya’ a local daily carried out a multi-district investigation and found that strangers, elders and mentally challenged […]
Kolkata: A youth was lynched in Asansol of West Bengal’s West Burdwan district on Wednesday by locals, who suspected that he was a child-kidnapper, police said. The locals became suspicious on seeing the youth roam aimlessly in Salanpur and challenged him. Not convinced with his reply, the mob dragged him on the ground and started […]
Sitapur: Vice principal of a government intermediate college here has been arrested for spreading child-lifting rumours, police said. Rupesh Singh, vice-principal of Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Inter College was arrested on Saturday for spreading rumours that two students from primary section were missing for the last two days and had probably fallen victim to child-lifters, […]
Lucknow: After mob lynching in the name of cow slaughter, it is rumours of child lifting that are fueling similar incidents in Uttar Pradesh, where over 20 such cases reported during the past three days. In the latest incident in Sambhal, a man suspected of being a child lifter, was thrashed to death by a mob […]
Bhopal (2 MIN READ): Mob-lynching episodes owing to the spread of child lifting rumours on various social media platforms like WhatsApp are back in the state and this time, the authorities are concerned about the ferocity of such misinformation attack. In Madhya Pradesh, child kidnapping rumours in the past three days have led to several […]
