- Friday, April 26, 2024
By: Eastern Eye Staff
SOCIAL MEDIA RUMOURS BEHIND ‘HORRENDOUS ACT’ OF LYNCHING INDIA’S supreme court on Tuesday (17) asked the government to enact a new law and stem what it called “horrendous acts” of lynching, after some 22 people were killed by mobs this year. Since February the country has seen a spate of mob lynchings, often in isolated areas where outsiders have been accused of child kidnapping and other crimes following rumours spread via social media forums such as WhatsApp. The latest incidents saw a Google engineer killed in a mob attack last week in Karnataka state and five people were lynched in…
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