Vigilante Justice

In an incident of vigilante justice a man accused of sexually assaulting a nine-year-old girl was lynched allegedly by residents of a village in Bihar's Katihar district on Thursday, police said.

Amid a controversy over the name of Pehlu Khan, a dairy farmer killed by a group of cow vigilantes in Rajasthan in 2017, in a chargesheet, his son on Saturday said that he his hopes of justice from the Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot-led Congress government were dashed.

As many as 19 residents of a village in Assam's Karimganj district have been arrested for stripping a woman and inserting chilli powder into her private parts as "punishment" for allegedly selling illicit liquor in the area.

After an NDTV investigation in which men accused of lynching are caught on hidden camera bragging about the killings, the Supreme Court has agreed to take up the Hapur lynching case. Lawyers for the Hapur lynching victims went to the Supreme Court for an "urgent hearing" after NDTV aired the sting operation on Monday. Chief Justice of India Dipak M...

A bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra, Justice A.M. Khanwilkar and Justice D.Y. Chandrachud, while reserving their order, had reminded the central and state governments of their responsibility to curb violence by vigilante groups.

The incidents of cow vigilantism are not acceptable and it's for the states to ensure that such events don't happen, Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra said today.The Supreme Court, which was hearing petitions on cow vigilantism, also warned against linking mob violence to religion or caste and said "a victim is a victim".

A year since Pehlu Khan was killed allegedly by cow vigilantes in Rajasthan's Alwar district, his eldest son Irshad has been fighting a two-front war as the only breadwinner in the family and seeking justice for his father.

On February 14, members of the Dalit community have called a massive protest rally against the Home Ministry's decision to cancel the FCRA permit or the license to receive donations from overseas for Navsarjan, one of Gujarats most prominent Dalit organisations. Last July, Navsarjan had been involved in the campaign for justice after the Una incide...

The Social Justice Ministry has proposed release of 90 per cent of the total allocated funds to Gujarat for various welfare schemes for Dalits, two months after seven men of the community were flogged by cow vigilantes' in the state leading to widespread protests there.

The rise of these citizen enforcers, who enjoy widespread support in Cajamarca, is just one response in Latin America to the failure of police forces to offer the most basic protections.

A mob of doctors killed a suspected thief at a medical college in Kolkata by tying him up and then slashing his penis with a razor, in what the police are describing as a case of vigilante justice.

Three teenaged girls were tied to a lamp post and brutally beaten up by a group of people for allegedly stealing Rs 1,000 from a textile shop in Salem in Tamil Nadu.

Bihar continues with its tradition of mob justice. In a brazen act, villagers of Madhepura district lynched two men, known to be rowdies, under the broad daylight. Incidentally, the duo is said to have had a past criminal record and were habitual offenders, confirmed Varun Kumar Sinha, Superintendent of police. This afternoon, while the two men wer...

In an incident of vigilante justice a man accused of sexually assaulting a nine-year-old girl was lynched allegedly by residents of a village in Bihar's Katihar district on Thursday, police said.

Amid a controversy over the name of Pehlu Khan, a dairy farmer killed by a group of cow vigilantes in Rajasthan in 2017, in a chargesheet, his son on Saturday said that he his hopes of justice from the Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot-led Congress government were dashed.

As many as 19 residents of a village in Assam's Karimganj district have been arrested for stripping a woman and inserting chilli powder into her private parts as "punishment" for allegedly selling illicit liquor in the area.

After an NDTV investigation in which men accused of lynching are caught on hidden camera bragging about the killings, the Supreme Court has agreed to take up the Hapur lynching case. Lawyers for the Hapur lynching victims went to the Supreme Court for an "urgent hearing" after NDTV aired the sting operation on Monday. Chief Justice of India Dipak M...

A bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra, Justice A.M. Khanwilkar and Justice D.Y. Chandrachud, while reserving their order, had reminded the central and state governments of their responsibility to curb violence by vigilante groups.

The incidents of cow vigilantism are not acceptable and it's for the states to ensure that such events don't happen, Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra said today.The Supreme Court, which was hearing petitions on cow vigilantism, also warned against linking mob violence to religion or caste and said "a victim is a victim".

A year since Pehlu Khan was killed allegedly by cow vigilantes in Rajasthan's Alwar district, his eldest son Irshad has been fighting a two-front war as the only breadwinner in the family and seeking justice for his father.

On February 14, members of the Dalit community have called a massive protest rally against the Home Ministry's decision to cancel the FCRA permit or the license to receive donations from overseas for Navsarjan, one of Gujarats most prominent Dalit organisations. Last July, Navsarjan had been involved in the campaign for justice after the Una incide...

The Social Justice Ministry has proposed release of 90 per cent of the total allocated funds to Gujarat for various welfare schemes for Dalits, two months after seven men of the community were flogged by cow vigilantes' in the state leading to widespread protests there.

The rise of these citizen enforcers, who enjoy widespread support in Cajamarca, is just one response in Latin America to the failure of police forces to offer the most basic protections.

A mob of doctors killed a suspected thief at a medical college in Kolkata by tying him up and then slashing his penis with a razor, in what the police are describing as a case of vigilante justice.

Three teenaged girls were tied to a lamp post and brutally beaten up by a group of people for allegedly stealing Rs 1,000 from a textile shop in Salem in Tamil Nadu.

Bihar continues with its tradition of mob justice. In a brazen act, villagers of Madhepura district lynched two men, known to be rowdies, under the broad daylight. Incidentally, the duo is said to have had a past criminal record and were habitual offenders, confirmed Varun Kumar Sinha, Superintendent of police. This afternoon, while the two men wer...