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Earlier this month, a cloth vendor was allegedly lynched in Bihar over his religious identity. Between 2014 and 2023, India recorded 189 lynching cases — less than 1 per cent of over 526,000 incidents of mob violence. As of 2025, only Manipur, Rajasthan, West Bengal and Jharkhand have anti-lynching laws.
Mob violence cases slowing down
Mob violence cases in India fell to 39,274 in 2023 from 66,044 in 2014. Lynching incidents were 0.01-0.11 per cent of such cases during the same period.
‘Big problem’
A 2021 Pew Research survey had found that 65% of Indians considered communal violence a
