Eight arrested for lynching of inmate inside rehabilitation centre in Assam
All three were subsequently admitted to the New Life Foundation rehab centre in Goalpara district in Assam.
All three were subsequently admitted to the New Life Foundation rehab centre in Goalpara district in Assam.
In the face of a series of lynching cases in the recent days, a worried state government today ordered the police to step up vigil and take appropriate steps, according to provisions entailed in 2019 anti-lynching law that was passed in the state Assembly.
Today, Prasen Mondal, a 22-year-old youth suspected to be a thief, was beaten to death by some youths at Polenite under Electronics Complex police station.
A patrol team of Border Home Guards caught the duo felling trees in the Harsora area under Sariska DFC and manhandled them.
Most of the 'disturbed' polling booths the Central forces and the state police either were 'conspicuously' absent or were outnumbered.
The quantum of punishment for the accused guilty of lynching a tribal youth, Madhu. will be pronounced on Wednesday.
The victim's father has filed an FIR against 18 persons for this act.
Two monks and their driver were lynched by a mob at Gadchinchale village in the district on April 16 when they were travelling in a car to Surat to attend a funeral amid the coronavirus-induced lockdown, police have said.
While taking a walk alone this morning on the highway along the Indo-Bangla international border at the Jalangi area in Murshidabad district, the teacher was almost lynched allegedly by some BSF jawans.
Besides, any person involved in a conspiracy to lynch another person or who abets an act of lynching shall be “punished in the same manner as if he had himself committed lynching”.
