Lynching now seems to have become the new normal in the country with the increased number of such cases that have gained immense traction since the 2015. After a the ban on beef in Maharashatra incidents of lynching came to light. In most of the cases reported, cow vigilantism has become a regular excuse.
It seems that Home Minister Rajnath Singh's warning on action against those involved in lynchings has fallen on deaf ears. The incident took place on Friday when Akram Khan and another man were taking two cows to their village in Haryana through a forest area near Lalawandi in Alwar district, when a group of people severely thrashed Khan till he died.
Ayub Khan Lynching Case (June 23, 2017, J&K): Police officer Mohammed Ayub Pandith was lynched by an angry mob after he allegedly opened fire at a group of people who caught him clicking pictures near the mosque.
West Bengal Lynching Case (June 26, 2017, Durgapur): On Saturday, barely two days before Eid, three Muslim youth were lynched in Durgapur village, West Bengal, by a mob of cow vigilantes over suspicion of cow theft.
Guwahati Lynching Case : A mob allegedly lynched two men in Nagaon district of Assam, after they were suspected to be cattle thieves. This was the first case of gau rakshaks going to such extremes in the state.
Harpur Lynching Case: Qasim (45) and Shamiuddin (65) were thrashed by a mob on rumours of their involvement into cow slaughter. The incident hogged headlines when a video showing both lying in a pool of blood and men from the mob shouting at them for facing the punishment for attempting cow slaughter.
Junaid Lynching Case: Naresh Rakh, the accused arrested for the murder of 16-year old Junaid Khan, told the police in his statement that he attacked Junaid and others with a knife after they had hit him with a belt and he had started bleeding. He further said that he had thrown the murder weapon into a pond in his village at Jataula, Haryana. Rakh works as a guard at the National Museum.
Alwar Lynching Case: Man lynched to death on suspicion of being cow smuggler. In a shocking incident, another lynching has been reported from Ramgarh in Alwar district of Rajasthan. The lynching was done on suspicion of cow smuggling and comes a year after Pehlu Khan was lynched by gau rakshaks in the district. Pehlu Khan died later and the incident caused massive stir nationwide.
Dhule Lynching Case: Mob violence fanned by child-abduction rumours on social media snuffed out five lives in Dhule district, adding to the new wave of lynchings across the country. The police have detained 15 people for their alleged role in the crime.A bustling weekly market at Reinpada, a cluster of tribal hamlets with a population of 2,500, turned into a killing field after angry locals chased seven people mistaking them for child-lifters. While two of them escaped, but the others were not so lucky, local journalist Rajendra Khairnar told DNA.
Akhlaq Lynching Case: The accused in Mohammed Akhlaq's murder case, who was dragged and killed by a mob on suspicion of eating beef In Dadri's Bishada village, may soon secure a job. Mohammad Akhlaq was dragged out of his home and stoned to death on a village street after a public announcement from the local temple that the family had slaughtered a calf and eaten its meat, on September 29, 2015.
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