Thursday, February 19, 2026

Topic: Mob Lynching

Karnataka HC grants bail to man booked for mob lynching of mentally unwell Kerala Muslim

The Karnataka High Court last week granted bail to a man who was among those booked for mob lynching Ashraf, a 36-year-old mentally unwell...

Odisha: 35-year-old Muslim man lynched by cow vigilantes in Balasore, 5 held

A 35-year-old Muslim man was lynched in Odisha’s Balasore district on Wednesday after he was allegedly assaulted by a group of men who objected to the transportation of cattle in the van he was travelling in, police said.

Haunted by his brother’s lynching, Kerala Muslim man steps in to secure justice for lynched Dalit migrant

Haunted by the lynching of his own brother by a Hindutva mob in Mangaluru, a Kerala Muslim man stepped in to fight for justice for a Dalit migrant worker lynched in Walayar, determined that the state would not once again erase a hate killing through silence and haste.

Athar Hussain’s horrific ‘killing’ third reported case of lynching this year in Bihar’s Nawada

The alleged murder of 50-year-old Mohammad Athar Hussain in Nawada is the third reported incident of mob lynching in the southern Bihar district this year.  

“Victim of Sangh Parivar’s hate politics”: Kerala leaders after BJP workers arrested in lynching of Dalit migrant worker

Kerala’s political parties condemned the lynching of a Dalit migrant worker from Chhattisgarh in Palakkad, calling him a “victim of the Sangh Parivar’s hate politics” and warning that the spread of mob lynching to Kerala reflects the dangerous reach of the Sangh Parivar’s poisonous, racist ideology.

Kerala: Chhattisgarh migrant worker lynched after being labelled thief and asked “are you Bangladeshi?”

A 31-year-old migrant worker from Chhattisgarh was beaten to death by a group of local residents near Walayar in Kerala’s Palakkad district, reportedly after he was labelled a thief and questioned by the attackers, “are you a Bangladeshi?”, as seen in a video of the assault.