Enter your Email Address to subscribe to our newsletters
The victims, two Sadhus from the Shri Panch Dashnam Juna Akhara in Varanasi, along with their driver, were lynched in Gadchinchale village, Palghar district.
Read More
The parliamentary panel examining the three criminal justice bills is likely to recommend that the alternative punishment for murder by mob lynching on grounds of caste or community - proposed as not less than seven years in Clause 101(2) of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita Bill (BNS).
Gau Rakshak Monu Manesar, who was booked by Rajasthan Police for the murder of two Muslim men in February and is also accused of inciting violence in Nuh, was taken into custody by policemen on Tuesday. A video clip purportedly showed plainclothesmen taking him into custody.
Sikligar Sikh Lynching in Parbhani: On 27 May, two minors Arun Singh (15) and Kirpal Singh (14) and their relative Gora Singh (16), were brutally thrashed and beaten up by a "peaceful" mob in Maharashtra's Parbhani district on the suspicion of being thieves.
The erstwhile Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government had opposed the plea for a CBI probe into the incident and later, with the change in the dispensation in the state, it agreed to the petitions seeking an investigation by the central probe agency.
The case’s trial was finished on March 10 and the verdict was to be posted on March 18. Nevertheless, the date was first pushed to March 30 and then to April 4.
It was 16th April 2020, when 2 innocent Sadhu in their Bhagve Vastra, were going towards Surat, and when they entered in Palghar, they were lynched by a mob and were beaten to death by stones. On the land of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, this was happening. We still can’t forget the video that went viral, where One sadhu was holding the arm of a police officer, with so much trust in him, and that police officer literally handed him over to the crowd. No justice happened till now. However, a ray of hope came
The Jharkhand High Court directed the 2022 mob lynching case of a minor boy named Rupesh Pandey transferred to the Central Bureau of Investigation
Four accused have been arrested from Uttar Pradesh’s Kushinagar district for allegedly killing Muslim youth, Babar Ali, for celebrating Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) victory in the recently-concluded state Assembly elections.
Police has arrested the main accused and the in-charge of the Gurdwara Nijampur Mod, Amarjit Singh in this case.
Congress doesn’t believe in Lynching; its preferred tool is massacre or ‘riots’.
Preet Kaur Gill, British Sikh MP, deleted the tweet after the Indian mission in London and the Hindu community expressed anger over her this tweet on the incident.
Two individuals were killed in separate incidents in Punjab, with allegations of sacrilege being levelled against them.
Last week, an angry Islamist mob, tortured and lynched the Sri Lankan man Priyantha Kumara before setting his body on fire over rumors of blasphemy.
Palghar lynching: Misunderstanding, Mob Fury or Maoist Conspiracy? In the Palghar incident, even today, this angle also needs to be probed...
Expressing deep anguish and conveying sincere condolences over the brutal lynching of the Station House Officer (SHO) Ashwini Kumar of Kishanganj Police Station in Bihar, the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) has demanded to hang the killers of the police officer and drive the infiltrators out of the country.
In a yet another horrifying attack on Hindus in the Malvani area of Maharashtra, two Hindu youngsters who run a food stall were attacked by a mob, assaulted by blunt objects leaving heavy marks of injuries on their head and face.
Months of directed investigation and ton of redressed scrutiny has led the Maharashtra CID Crime Branch to arrest 24 more suspects including 5 minors in the Palghar lynching case.
The Vishva Hindu Parishad has expressed its concern over the brutal killing of a boy Rahul Kandela (Rajput), son of a driver from a poor backward class in Delhi, by some radical Muslims asking if this 19-year-old teenager being friends with a Muslim girl had become his crime, for which he was penalized by Jihadi elements with mob lynching?
Anguished over the slow pace of investigation in the lynching of two sadhus and their driver at Gadchinchle village in Palghar district of Maharashtra, the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) has reiterated its demand for a CBI probe into the incident.
All those involved and arrested in the lynching of two sadhus and their driver on April 16, 2020, near Palghar were released on bail as the Maharashtra Police failed to submit any evidence against them.
The BJP, however, demands a CBI probe into the lynching incident. BJP MLA Ram Kadam demanded the central agency probe into the killing of two sadhus and their driver on April 16, 2020 by an irate mob at Gadchinchale village in Palghar district near Mumbai. The hearing in this case is scheduled to begin from July 28.
The fact-finding committee appointed by Vivek Vichar Manch, a Mumbai-based NGO dedicated to addressing the issues of violation of Human Rights, Atrocities against Civil Rights, to study the Palghar lynching case of April 16, 2020, demanded to hand over the investigation to the central agencies.
The article gives a new insight into vexed relationship of the social organizations like Adivasi Vikas Parishad and the Catholic Church and the UN Forum.
In an another dreadful incident linked to the Palghar case, a lawyer representing the two sadhus lynched in Maharashtra’s Palghar district last month, died in a road accident on Wednesday. The deceased identified as 32-year-old Digvijay Trivedi was also the head of the legal cell of political party Bahujan Vikas Aghadi.
Involvement of local activists of the Communist Party (Marxist) and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) was exposed with the arrest of four more accused by the CID while investigating the case.
A rebuttal to Newslaundry from the Author.
The attack on Maharashtra Police vehicle at Chisda Village 13 km from Gadchinchle village, indicated the pattern followed by the Maoists in carrying out such surprise attacks elsewhere. Does this reveal the Maoist connection with these two incidents? This needs to be investigated in depth.
Over a fortnight has passed but there is hardly any headway in solving the mystery behind the ghastly murder of two Panchdashnami Akhara Sadhus and their driver that happened at Gadchinchle Forest Check Post in Maharashtra’s Palghar district on the night of April 16.
VHP President Justice (Retd) V. S. Kokje and Secretary-General Milind Parande called on President Ram Nath Kovind and submitted a memorandum to him requesting for directions to state and central governments for a speedy investigation into the case.
Enraged and aggrieved by the heinous lynching by two Panch Dashnami Juna Akhara Sadhus – Mahant Kalpavruksha Giri and Mahant Sushil Giri Maharaj and their driver Nilesh Telghare in Maharashtra’s Palghar district on April 16 night, the entire nation paid tributes to them and prayed for their eternal peace by lighting lamps at their respective houses.
Singh, who served as IG of Palghar tribal area for some time recalled how the attempts were made to convert those tribal people in the name of social service.
Painful as the event may have been, the Palghar mob lynching act where 2 Sadhus and a driver were put to death, was anything but a wake up call for the state of Maharahstra. But it appears that the Uddhav Thackrey led state governmnet has set the matter of firm action aside behind the curtains of Corona virus spread in the state.
The Muslim Rashtriya Manch (MRM) has strongly condemned the ghastly murder of two sadhus belonging to the Panchdashnami Juna Akhara in Maharashtra’s Palghar district.
The lynching of two sadhus in Palghar in Maharashtra appears to be a pre-mediated anti-Hindu conspiracy, opined Secretary-General of Vishwa Hindu Parishad Milind Parnade.
The Mahant of Tryambekeshwar Dakshinmukhi Hanuman Temple Kalpvriksha Giri Maharaj (70), his fellow Mahant Sushil Giri Maharaj (35) and their driver Nelesh Telgade (30) were killed in heinous lynching on April 16, 2020.
Raising his voice out loud again, this time in case of the Palghar mob lynching, where two Sadhus and a driver were forced to breath last in presence of the police, the law, Arnab Goswami has again proved his pen works only for thruth.
The Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) Monday demanded a high-level investigation into the lynching incident that took place in Palghar district of Maharashtra on April 16 night where a mob allegedly lynched two sadhus belonging to Juna Akhada along with their driver.
Trying to malign the position of Prime Minister Narendra Modi by deliberately pointing out instances of mob lynching where Muslims are targeted, these 49 members got a befitting reply from 62 personalities as they have written an open letter against the "selective outrage and false narratives". Titled 'Against Selective Outrage & False Narratives,' the letter terms those who wrote about mob-killings as "self-styled guardians and conscience keepers" and charges them of political bias.
Clarifying stand on mob lynching incidents, Indresh Kumar, Senior RSS functionary and Patron of Muslim Rashtriya Manch (MRM) categorically stated that anyone involved in incidents like mob lynching should not be spared. Mob lynching is a crime and should be treated as one without applying any selective or discriminatory approach, he said, addressing a Muslim gathering here on Wednesday.
After launching a stinging counter-attack on Congress in the Lok Sabha, Prime Minister in his reply to motion of thanks to President’s address drew another remark at the opposition. Prime Minister Modi attacked the opposition by asserting that the party is not ready to accept their defeat in the Lok Sabha elections and cannot accept victory either. By doing this they are insulting the people’s mandate.
“Blaming the whole state for one incident was not right,” says PM Narendra Modi while speaking in Rajya Sabha. Also, he condemned the incident of mob lynching of a man in Jharkhand. "Death of youth in mob lynching is sad, culprits will be punished but blaming entire Jharkhand for it is not right." PM Modi said and added that he was saddened to see the Opposition maligning a single state.
In Jharkhand, 8 people have been sentenced to life imprisonment with a fine of rupees 25 thousand each for killing two animal traders.
With instances of mob lynching making news, the Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh said that the state governments to maintain law and order. Acting on Supreme Court directives, the Maharashtra government has appointed nodal officers in districts and cities to take measures to prevent incidents of lynching and mob violence.
With an aim to stop mobocracy, the PM Modi-led central government will soon bring a bill proposing the death penalty for the crime of lynching. This was said by Minister of State for Home Affairs Hansraj Ahir on Monday to a delegation of the Nathjogi community who called on him in Yavatmal, Maharashtra.
As many as 111 people were killed in 822 incidents of communal violence in the country last year. This was said by Minister of State for Home Affairs Hansraj Ahir on Wednesday. In a written reply to Rajya Sabha, Minister Hansraj Ahir said that 111 people were killed in 822 incidents of communal violence in the country in the year 2017. He further stated that 86 people were killed in 703 incidents of communal violence in 2016 and 97 people lost their lives in 751 such incidents in 2015.
Expressing concern over the unfortunate incidents of mob lynching, veteran activist and Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi said that violence under any condition is not good for the society.
Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday blamed fake news and rumours on social media for mob violence and lynching in the country while putting the responsibility on the state governments to maintain law and order situations. Notably, the reply comes after the opposition Congress gave an adjournment notice to discuss on the issue of mob lynching with asking the government to pass a law.
Supreme Court on Tuesday condemned all forms of mob-lynching incidents across the country and urged the Parliament to enact a separate law to deal with the offence of lynching. Today’s judgment comes on a writ petition filed by Congress leader Tehseen Poonawalla and Mahatma Gandhi’s great-grandson Tushar Gandhi, in the light of the rising instances of cow vigilantism.
This simple and straightforward directive of the Supreme Court has been twisted and targeted against the ‘cow vigilantes’ by the so called progressive, secular and impartial media. All of the news channels, news portals and newspapers have forcefully mentioned the violence allegedly involving the ‘cow vigilantes’ in their attempt to paint the Supreme Court judgement targeting the violence of cow vigilantes.
