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You Are on the Street at Nedumpara: The Cost of Stepping Forward and the Cost of Standing Still

The Moolathara lynching, investigated by an SIT after the post-mortem revealed it, has revived concern in Kerala about mob violence against vulnerable people and about the duty of ordinary people who witness it. An unidentified, speech-impaired man was brutally lynched by a mob in Palakkad, Kerala, leading to the arrest of seven individuals under the newly enacted BNS Section 103(2) for group murder. The tragic incident…