“They misbehaved and assaulted my father. Despite his objections, they forcefully smeared him with Holi colors. He was hit with a bucket filled with color,” said Bushra, daughter of Mohammad Sharif, who died on March 15 after allegedly being assaulted by a group of people for resisting Holi colors in Uttar Pradesh’s Unnao district.
Six people have been arrested in connection with the lynching of a 35-year-old man at a construction site within Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya in South Tripura’s Belonia.
Days after a Hindutva mob killed a 37-year-old Muslim man in Moradabad over allegations of cow slaughter, police on Wednesday arrested his friend, who was with him at the time of the brutal assault. However, no arrests have been made in the murder case.
Sheikh Tajuddin, a 48-year-old Muslim man, succumbed to his injuries six days after being brutally beaten with sticks and rods by a mob on December 8 in Sapra village, located in Jharkhand’s Saraikela-Kharsawan district.
A 30-year-old Dalit man, Vishnu Jatav, was beaten to death with sticks and rods in Madhya Pradesh’s Shivpuri district on Tuesday by a village sarpanch and his family over a borewell dispute.