Some cases of witch-hunting in the tribal pockets of Maharashtra appear to be linked to a term for patients in medical records — DOR, short for ‘discharged on request’. Doctors and other medical staff at primary health centres and hospitals in Gadchiroli, one of the State’s most underdeveloped districts, which borders Chhattisgarh and Telangana, say … Read more
In the early hours of June 7, 2024, two Uttar Pradesh residents were found dead while a third sustained injuries in the Arang area. Photo: Special Arrangement Till Sunday, nearly ‘nine to ten persons’, some with previous history of cow vigilantism, have been questioned in connection with the Arang mob lynching case of Chhattisgarh, an … Read more
A labourer from Bihar was lynched by a group of people at Kizhissery, near Kondotty, in the district on Saturday. Nine men were arrested in connection with the death of Rajesh Manji, who was working at a chicken farm at Kizhissery. Police said here on Sunday that it was a case of murder and the … Read more