Biotechnology student Pratik Bhardwaj was attacked inside the campus and hospitalised, while another student was surrounded by a large mob. ABVP criticised Delhi Police and JNU security for failing to prevent the escalation.
Arafat was not just a participant but the key instigator of the mob violence. He used his influence in the local area to gather people and provoke them against Dipu Das.
Human rights lose moral force when attention appears conditional. Advocacy loses credibility when outrage is immediate in some theatres but restrained or absent in others. For the victims and their families, this disparity is not academic, but it shapes whether justice is pursued with seriousness or allowed to dissolve into procedural formality and forgotten headlines.
Investigators in Bangladesh confirmed no evidence that Hindu garment worker Dipu Chandra Das insulted any religion before his mob lynching. RAB checked his Facebook, interviewed locals and coworkers everyone admitted the Prophet Muhammad insult rumor was baseless, sparking unchecked violence.
In an interview with NDTV, Dipu’s father, Ravilal Das, said that he first came to know about his son’s killing through social media. “We started hearing things on Facebook. Then people began telling us he had been badly beaten. After some time, my uncle told me they had tied my son to a tree,” the deceased's father narrated.
The unsettling similarity between Dipu and Priyantha is not limited to just how they were lynched and by whom, the allegations against them were similar too. Flimsy accusations of ‘blasphemy’, baseless rumours of ‘insult to Islam’ and ‘Insult to the Islamic prophet’.
The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) issued a statement on Friday clarifying the circumstances surrounding the deaths of three Bangladeshi nationals in Tripura, rejecting...