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Īs of 20 April, 101 villagers have been arrested by the Maharashtra police on charges of murder of the three men and an investigation is ongoing. The policemen who intervened were also attacked, with four policemen and a senior police officer getting injured. The vigilante group of villagers had mistaken the three passengers as thieves and killed them. The incident was fuelled by WhatsApp rumours, about thieves operating in the area, during the country wide lockdown due to the coronavirus.
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On 16 April 2020, a vigilante group lynched two Hindu Sadhus and their drivers in Gadchinchale Village, Palghar District, Maharashtra, India. In at least some of the cases prime instigators have used child-abduction fears to stir up the violence and settle old scores.
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In some cases the mobs were composed largely of illiterate or poorly educated men that were unemployed or working as day labourers as well as being under the influence of alcohol at the time of the attack. The lynch mobs included men, women and children. The majority of the attacks have occurred deep within the interior regions of villages. In almost all of the lynching locations, no child abductions had been recorded in the previous three months. Fake messages customised with locally specific details are circulated along with real videos attached to fake messages or claims. The spate of lynchings commenced in May 2017 with the killing of seven men in Jharkhand, but did not become a matter of national attention until the beginning of the following year. The Indian WhatsApp lynchings are a spate of mob-related violence and killings following the spread of rumours, primarily relating to child-abduction and organ harvesting, via the WhatsApp message service. Moral panic, mass hysteria, lynchings, mob violence