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Kapurthala lynching: How Punjab police did u-turn after a mysterious phone call during the presser, booking dead victim instead of mob

OpIndia Staff - 20 December, 2021

Punjab police had at first confirmed that a case had also been registered against the accused in Kapurthala lynching case, but later backtracked during the press conference after they received repeated phone calls.

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Political conspiracy, ISI-Khalistan, caste clashes and others: Theories fly after two lynching cases in Punjab over sacrilege charges

OpIndia Staff - 19 December, 2021

Several theories have been floating around as possible reasons of increase in lynching cases linked to sacrilege in Punjab

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Man lynched in Kapurthala over sacrilege charge was a thief, mob gathered after announcement from Gurudwara and social media posts: Punjab Police

OpIndia Staff - 19 December, 2021

After the man was caught, there was an announcement from the Gurudwara in Kapurthala asking people to gather in large numbers

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Punjab: Mob kills another man over alleged sacrilege in Kapurthala, second such lynching within 24 hours

OpIndia Staff - 19 December, 2021

Earlier reports had suggested he was handed over to police alive, but it now appears the police was not allowed to intervene and he was killed.

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Another mob justice for blasphemy in Punjab: Youth thrashed by Sikhs for alleged sacrilege of Nishan Sahib in Kapurthala district

OpIndia Staff - 19 December, 2021

Youth brutally thrashed on charges of disrespecting the Nishan Sahib at a Gurdwara in Nizampur village in the Kapurthala district of Punjab.

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Man accused of sacrilege lynched at Golden Temple in Amritsar, video shows people hailing instant mob justice

OpIndia Staff - 18 December, 2021

A man was killed in Amritsar after he picked up a kirpan placed next to the Holy Granth Sahib at the sanctum sanctorum of Golden Temple

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‘Some kids got angry’: Pakistan Defence Minister finds excuses for the lynching of Sri Lankan man over ‘blasphemy’ allegations

OpIndia Staff - 6 December, 2021

"They got angry and killed him. This doesn't mean that the (social fabric) of the society has broken," the Pakistani Defence Minister said.

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Imran Khan fighting blasphemy is Joker protecting Gotham: Here is why Pakistan will remain a hell hole

Nirwa Mehta - 6 December, 2021

The way Joker in Batman wanted to watch the world burn, Pakistan, too wanted to do that till hell came home and their own country started feeling the burn. Which is why it has turned into the hell hole that it is.

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