Tag: vigilantism
Congress leader on Monday accused the government of indirectly encouraging cow vigilantes and noted that there was an environment of “fear and terror” in the country.....
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said that killings in the name of 'gau bhakti' (cow worship) is not acceptable but his remark did not bring any change as a man accused of carrying beef was beaten to death in Jharkhand's Ramgarh district just after his statement.....
Twenty-three former bureaucrats have urged Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje to arrest those who killed a Muslim farmer and warned that unchecked cow vigilantism will lead to "large-scale violence". ....
In what is suspected to be a case of vigilantism in Karnataka’s communally sensitive Dakshina Kannada district, a group of men assaulted and stabbed a Muslim man traveling in a bus from Mangaluru to Bengaluru along with a friend, a Hindu woman, on Thursday night. The two, who are friends and former classmates according to the police, boarded an overnight bus in Mangaluru bound for Bengaluru.....