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 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.
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.
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.
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.