Lynching in Jharkhand over WhatsApp rumours, Major Gogoi awarded; more

Jharkhand's steel city of Jamshedpur is limping back to normalcy after large scale violence was witnessed last week. 7 persons were lynched, four of them Muslims, in two separate incidents.

The violence was triggered by the circulation of WhatsApp messages of "child lifters" being active in the Kolkhan area of Jamshedpur. Apart from the lynching, the region also saw other communal clashes over the child kidnapping rumours.

"There was a WhatsApp message which was going viral in the area for last 10 days and because of this rumor, the incidents happened in which seven persons were killed", said Anup T Mathew, the Senior Superintendent of Police, Jamshedpur.