Global InformationTabrez Ansari lynching information
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  Tabrez Ansari lynching (Jharkhand)  Tabrez Ansari lynching (India) | |
| Location | Dhatkidih, Saraikela, Jharkhand, India |
| Date | 17 June 2019 |
| Target | Tabrez Ansari |
Attack type | Lynching |
| Weapons | Blunt objects |
| Deaths | 1 (Tabrez Ansari) |
| Perpetrators | Mob |
| Accused | 11 |
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On 17 June 2019, 24-year-old Tabrez Ansari was attacked by a lynch mob in Jharkhand, India. Ansari, a Muslim, was tied to a tree, brutally beaten and forced to chant Hindu religious slogans.[1] He died four days later.[2] The incident came to light after a video of the lynching went viral.[3] The attackers accused him of bike theft.[1] India's Prime Minister commented on this lynching in the Parliament of India.
The police investigating the case, later dropped murder charges against a dozen accused.[2] Instead a relatively milder charge of culpable homicide not amounting to murder was invoked against a dozen accused.[1] This resulted in allegations of weakening the case. The police filed a supplementary charge sheet and charged 11 accused with murder.
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video reportwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ a b "Tabrez Ansari lynching: Police drop murder charges against 11 citing autopsy report". indiatoday.in.
- ^ "Jai Shri Ram: The Hindu chant that became a murder cry". BBC. 10 July 2019.