A woman holds a placard during a protest against the lynching of a Muslim man Tabrez Ansari by a Hindu mob, in Kolkata, India, June 26, 2019. REUTERS/Rupak De Chowdhuri
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Protests were held in several Indian cities on Wednesday following the lynching of a Muslim man last week by a Hindu mob that suspected he was a thief.
Increasing anger about the killing in the eastern state of Jharkhand prompted Prime Minister Narendra Modi to make his first comments on the matter on Wednesday, telling the upper house of parliament he was "pained" to hear about it and calling for "the strictest possible punishment to the accused".
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