On the night of Monday 4th June 2015, less than a fortnight of the swearing in of the new government headed by Mr. Narendra Modi, 28-year-old Information technology manager Mohsin Mohammed Shaikh was lynched in Pune, Maharashtra. The Times of India reported on 5th June under the headline “In Pune, ‘Hindu zealots’ kill man over ‘offensive’ Facebook post, 13 arrested”. Shaikh was killed randomly after rumours spread over an objectionable post on Facebook. His killers were members of the Hindu Rashtra Sena, a police inspector said. Shaikh and his roommate were returning home on their motorcycle after picking up their dinner when a the gang blocked his way near the lane just behind his house and started hitting him with hockey sticks. While the roommate managed to escape, they bludgeoned the young man. Shaikh died a little while later in the hospital where he was taken. Earlier, a little before the murder, the same youths had beaten up two other men at the same spot, the Times reporter said. [. . .]
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