- Wednesday, May 08, 2024
By: Keerthi Mohan
A total of 10 people have been killed in India’s Maharashtra alone in the past one-and-a-half-months after rumours spread on social media that they were child traffickers. The latest incident happened on Sunday (1) when five people were lynched by a mob in Dhule district. Incidents of lynching have also been reported from Aurangabad, Nandurbar, Dhule, Jalgaon, Nashik, Beed, Parbhani, Nanded, Latur, Gondia and Chandrapur districts, reported news agency PTI. In all these cases, mob set upon strangers fearing they may either be child traffickers or were roaming around the locality with the intention of committing theft, Additional Director General of…
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