Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh Law Commission has submitted a draft Bill recommending up to life imprisonment for mob lynching crimes. The chairman of the Commission, Justice (retd) A.N. Mittal submitted the report on mob lynching, along with the draft Bill to Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath. The 128-page report has cited various cases of lynching in the […]
Aligarh: Mohd Farman Niazi is a victim of mob lynching – only he has survived to tell his tale of woe. Niazi, a student of a madrasa in Bareilly, was travelling from Aligarh to Bareilly two days ago on a train when some youths entered the train at the Rajghat Narora station and seeing his […]
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said the lynching of a young man by a mob in Jharkhand had pained him but said it was unfair to blame the entire state for it. Breaking his silence on the crime which took place over a week ago, Modi, speaking in the Rajya Sabha, slammed […]
Ranchi: Five people involved in the lynching of a Muslim youth in Jharkhand have been arrested while two policemen have been suspended. “Two cops, one Sub Inspector and one Assistant Sub Inspector, have been suspended for dereliction of duty. Five people have been arrested so far,” said a Deputy Superintendent of Police to IANS over […]
Hyderabad: AIMIM President Asaduddin Owaisi on Tuesday said mob lynchings were a legacy of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. He said Modi would be remembered in Indian history for mob lynching as the highest number of incidents occurred during his tenure. “These incidents will haunt Modi forever because as the Prime Minister he could not stop […]
New Delhi : Days after Congress President Rahul Gandhi denied his party’s links in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, Delhi BJP spokesperson Tajinder Pal Singh Bagga on Tuesday put up posters here describing the late Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi as the “father” of mob lynching. Bagga told IANS, “I have put up the posters across the […]
New Delhi : As discussions continue over incidents of mob lynching, BJD MP Bhartruhari Mahtab on Thursday sought to draw the government’s attention to the rumours of children’s kidnapping in social media, which have fuelled several lynchings. “Giving chocolates even out of love to children creates a panic situation in the country. Locals in Chennai […]
Lucknow : Samajwadi Party leader Mohd Azam Khan on Tuesday said the safety and security of minorities in the country was in danger, adding that post independence this was by far the worst period for Muslims. Talking to reporters in his home town Rampur, the former Uttar Pradesh minister charged the BJP governments at the […]
New Delhi : Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday urged all the state governments to take strict action against those involved in mob lynching incidents and punish them to curb the menace happening in the country for the last few months. “Any instance of violence brings shame to the nation. I will once again urge […]
New Delhi : Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh for the first time admitted in the Lok Sabha on Thursday that fake news on social media has resulted in many mob lynching incidents in the country, saying the government has asked service providers to put a check on rumour mongering on social media. Not satisfied with […]
