Tehreek-e-Labbiak Pakistan (TLP) had earlier filed an FIR on July 31 against a total of eight persons for alleged blasphemy, under Section 298-C for posing as Muslims and preaching their religion.
Surjewala claimed that without any prior intimation or public consultation or inviting suggestions from legal experts, jurists, criminologists, and other stakeholders, the Modi government introduced the three bills from its "black magic hat" on August 11.
The incident took place at the Ahatguri area in the Morigaon district where a group of villagers caught three persons on suspicion of cattle smuggling.
All ten convicts in the 2019 Tabrez Ansari lynching case have been sentenced to 10 years imprisonment by Jharkhand's Seraikela court under section 304 (culpable homicide not amounting to murder) of Indian Penal Code (IPC).
Officials said that the victim, identified as Rajesh Manchi, a native of Bihar, was brutally beaten by a group of people after he allegedly fell from a house in the Kizhissery area of Malappuram and was caught by locals on suspicion of theft.
A day after a man was lynched over blasphemy accusations at a rally of Imran Khan's political outfit Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), the Pakistan police officials claimed that the situation in the city was "under control" and that the authorities had begun to investigate the matter, reported
The Maharashtra government on Friday told the Supreme Court that it has decided to hand over to CBI the probe into the Palghar lynching case wherein two Sadhus were lynched to death.
The Supreme Court on Thursday adjourned for two weeks as the Maharashtra government sought time to respond on the transfer of probe to CBI into the Palghar lynching case wherein two Sadhus were lynched to death.
K Radhakrishnan, Kerala Minister for the Welfare of Scheduled Castes (SC) and Scheduled Tribes, said that justice has been served for Madhu's family after a court in Palakkad on Tuesday found guilty 14 people accused in the 2018 lynching to death of Madhu, a tribal youth from Attappady.