This photo taken on July 10, 2018 shows Indian security personnel near the site of the lynching of two men in Panjuri Kachari village, in Karbi Anglong district some 180km from Guwahati, the capital city of India’s northeastern state of Assam. The smartphone footage shows the two blood-soaked men pleading for their lives. Moments later they were dead, two more victims of lynchings sparked by rumours spread on Facebook and WhatsApp in India. Abhijeet Nath and Nilotpal Das were beaten to death by a mob in Karbi Anglong district that suspected the youths to be child abductors on June 8. / AFP PHOTO / Biju BORO / TO GO WITH INDIA-TECHNOLOGY-MEDIA-INTERNET,FOCUS by Alexandre MARCHAND
NEW DELHI: India’s Supreme Court on July 17 asked the government to enact a new law and stem what it called “horrendous acts” of lynching, after some 22 people were killed by mobs this year.
Since February the country has seen a spate of mob lynchings, often in isolated areas where outsiders have been accused of child kidnapping and other crimes following fake rumours spread via WhatsApp.
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