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GUWAHATI: A Nagaon court on Friday sentenced 20 convicts to life imprisonment in the 2018 lynching of two youths from Guwahati in Assam’s Karbi Anglong district.Nagaon district sessions judge DJ Mahanta had on Monday convicted 20 of the 45 accused under various provisions of the IPC, including murder by members of an unlawful assembly, rioting,…
Hastsal village in Delhi is under heavy security following a fatal Holi incident NEW DELHI: The narrow lanes of Hastsal village, usually vibrant with the overlapping buzz of Navratri hymns and Eid preparations, are shrouded in uneasy silence this time.Following the lynching of 26-year-old Tarun Butolia during Holi – it happened after his cousin accidentally…
Bangladesh police on Wednesday arrested former madrasa teacher Yasin Arafat, the prime accused in the killing of Hindu worker Dipu Chandra Das, according to local media reports.Yasin was arrested in Sarulia, within the Demra police station jurisdiction, with support from the Dhaka Metropolitan Police.According to local media, Yasin, 25, son of Gazi Mia and a…
Right-wing activist Laura Loomer has reacted to the killing of Dipu Chandra Das, a 26-year-old Hindu factory worker in Bangladesh. She used the incident to warn about the spread of the Islamist hatred. Her comments followed after Das was lynched by a mob following unverified accusations of blasphemy linked to a workplace dispute.In a post…
NOIDA: A fast-track court on Tuesday rejected UP govt’s application for withdrawal of charges against 10 Bisada villagers facing trial for the mob lynching of Mohammad Akhlaq in Sept 2015.Additional district judge Saurabh Dwivedi ordered daily hearings instead to speed up the trial. The judge also asked the Noida police commissioner and Greater Noida DCP…
A Hindu garment factory worker in Bangladesh was brutally lynched by a mob of around 140 people, allegedly for a blasphemous social media post. DEHRADUN: Late on Dec 18, when a co-worker called Apu Chandra Das to say that his elder brother had been taken by a mob, the 22-year-old didn’t immediately understand. “Taken where?”…
NEW DELHI: A court in Gautam Buddha Nagar on Tuesday dismissed the Uttar Pradesh government’s plea seeking withdrawal of charges against all accused in the long-pending Akhlaq lynching case. The court also directed for trial on day-to-day basis.Additional district and session judge’s court rejected the prosecution’s plea as “baseless”, advocate Yusuf Saifi, counsel for Akhlaq’s…
The lynching of Dipu Das in Bangladesh has ignited protests across Bengal, with Hindu organizations condemning the “barbarism” against minorities KOLKATA/SILIGURI: The lynching of Dipu Das, a worker in Mymensingh, Bangladesh, sparked protests across Bengal even as Hindu organisations in Bangladesh on Sunday called it “barbarism being meted out to minorities”.A team from Bangladesh Sammilita…
Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan (ANI image) NEW DELHI: Kerala chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Monday assured strict action and justice for the family of Ram Narayan Bakel, who was killed in a mob assault in Walayar in Palakkad district, calling the incident unacceptable in a progressive society like Kerala.In a statement issued by the CMO,…
Bangladesh police have given a stark account of how a Hindu garment worker was killed by a mob in Mymensingh, admitting that a furious crowd and a massive traffic jam prevented officers from reaching the spot on time, and suggesting that a delayed call for help may have cost him his life.Also read: ‘Hostility towards…
