The Supreme Court of India on Monday rejected the bail application of one of the accused in the mob lynching of 23-year-old Muslim man during a cricket match in Gujarat’s Anand district.
In a public statement, AIISCA President Dr. Rahul Sonpimple described the incident as a stark reflection of the “everyday casteist brutality” faced by Dalits in Gujarat, a state that projects development while enforcing caste supremacy.
A Muslim man was killed and his brother seriously injured after a mob brutally attacked them over alleged animal theft in Khanua Mohalla of Ahitoli area of Chhapra, under the Nagar police station limits in Saran district of Bihar.
The Karnataka Police Department has suspended three officers, including an Inspector, for negligence in connection with the Hindutva mob lynching of a mentally unwell Muslim man from Kerala in Mangaluru.
The body of Ashraf, a 36-year-old mentally unwell Malayali Muslim man brutally lynched by a Hindutva mob in Mangaluru, Karnataka, was laid to rest Wednesday at the Cholakkundu mosque graveyard in his hometown of Kottakkal, Malappuram.