Tripura: Families of mob lynching victims and their tiny hope for justice

Agartala: Type ‘lynching in India’ in Google, and almost all the lead stories are from mainland India. But dig a little deeper, and you see that Tripura in Northeast India has a shocking consistency when it comes to mob lynching cases. Now, since the police don’t keep a separate record for lynching cases, it would be difficult to ascertain how many such cases have been reported from Tripura. But when a senior police officer, off the record, says, “We are launching a special drive for public awareness against mob lynching” – it gives a fair assessment of how things are on the ground.