An Indian judge, Tabassum Khan, is facing online abuse and death threats after sentencing 14 men to life imprisonment for the 2022 lynching of Nazir Ahmad. The attacks, fueled by religious hate, target Khan's Muslim identity rather than her legal reasoning, prompting judicial bodies to rally behind her and provide police protection.
Protests and political unrest have gripped West Bengal after an 11-year-old girl was raped and murdered, a man was lynched by a mob, and police killed a suspect. The incident has ignited a political row, with opposition parties accusing the ruling BJP of failing to maintain law and order.
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission added 9,909 Indian Army servicemen to its records. The Ram Temple Trust accepted its general secretary's resignation amid embezzlement allegations. A film on Sikh activist Jaswant Singh Khalra was pulled from an OTT platform. A mob lynched a man after a 12-year-old girl's body was found in West Bengal.
A Nagaon court sentenced 20 convicts to life imprisonment for the 2018 lynching of sound engineer Nilotpal Das (29) and businessman Abhijeet Nath (31) in Assam's Karbi Anglong district. The victims from Guwahati were attacked on June 8, 2018, at Kangthilangso picnic spot after being suspected of being child lifters. They died while being taken to hospital. The court acquitted 25 of the 45 accused, citing insufficient evidence. The convicts plan to appeal the verdict.
Two men, Abhijeet Nath (30) and Nilotpal Das (29), were beaten to death by a mob in Assam's Karbi Anglong region in June 2018 after rumours they were child kidnappers spread through WhatsApp. A court has convicted 20 people of murder and unlawful assembly, acquitting 25 others. The victims' families are dissatisfied with the verdict, particularly the acquittals, and are considering legal options. The case highlighted a wave of mob violence across India fueled by viral WhatsApp messages about child abduction gangs.
