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  • Man beaten up for kissing his wife in Sarayu river in Ayodhya

    Man beaten up for kissing his wife in Sarayu river in Ayodhya

    Scroll Staff
    · Jun 23, 2022 · 11:16 am
  • NRC: As Mizo student body checks travellers from Assam for ID papers, state government looks on

    NRC: As Mizo student body checks travellers from Assam for ID papers, state government looks on

    Arunabh Saikia
    · Aug 30, 2018 · 07:30 am
  • India doesn’t need a new law to curb lynchings, enforcing existing laws is enough, say legal experts

    India doesn’t need a new law to curb lynchings, enforcing existing laws is enough, say legal experts

    Vijayta Lalwani
    · Jul 22, 2018 · 06:30 am
  • The big news: SC tells Parliament to consider framing law to stop lynchings, and 9 other top stories

    The big news: SC tells Parliament to consider framing law to stop lynchings, and 9 other top stories

    Scroll Staff
    · Jul 17, 2018 · 02:06 pm
  • ‘Mobocracy cannot be allowed’: Supreme Court recommends new law against lynching

    ‘Mobocracy cannot be allowed’: Supreme Court recommends new law against lynching

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    · Jul 17, 2018 · 10:57 am
  • Opinion: To counter Hindutva vigilantism, India needs a movement like the 2011 anti-corruption stir

    Opinion: To counter Hindutva vigilantism, India needs a movement like the 2011 anti-corruption stir

    Ajaz Ashraf
    · Dec 31, 2017 · 08:00 am
  • ‘It’s like blackening faces’: Why I am uneasy with the name and shame list of sexual harassers

    ‘It’s like blackening faces’: Why I am uneasy with the name and shame list of sexual harassers

    Kavita Krishnan
    · Oct 25, 2017 · 07:30 pm
  • Married couples only: Conservative India’s moral policing extends to Airbnb

    Married couples only: Conservative India’s moral policing extends to Airbnb

    Ananya Bhattacharya, qz.com
    · Jul 21, 2017 · 07:30 pm
  • Cow vigilantism: Families contest Jharkhand government's claims on Latehar lynchings

    Cow vigilantism: Families contest Jharkhand government's claims on Latehar lynchings

    Manob Chowdhury
    · Mar 23, 2016 · 04:30 pm