Monday, July 23, 2018

Man lynched in India over suspicion of being a cow smuggler

A man was lynched in the Indian state of Rajasthan after local villagers suspected him to be a cow smuggler.

This incident comes just days after India's Supreme Court condemned mob lynchings and directed the federal government to implement measures to prevent incidents of mobocracy.

A majority of Hindus consider cows to be holy animals and in the last three years, incidents of right wing groups attacking members of minority groups on the pretext of rescuing cows have been on the rise.

Our India correspondent Neha Poonia has more.

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