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|short_description=Cattle trader Mazloom Ansari and 12-year-old Imteyaz Khan were killed and hanged from a tree in Latehar, Jharkhand, in March 2016; eight men were later convicted. | |short_description=Cattle trader Mazloom Ansari and 12-year-old Imteyaz Khan were killed and hanged from a tree in Latehar, Jharkhand, in March 2016; eight men were later convicted. | ||
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The '''2016 Latehar mob lynching''' was the killing of cattle trader Mazloom Ansari, 32, and 12-year-old Imteyaz Khan, whose bodies were found hanging from a tree in Latehar district, [[Jharkhand]], in March 2016 after they were attacked while taking oxen to a cattle fair.<ref name="quint-2018" /><ref name="wire-2018" /> In December 2018 a Latehar court convicted eight men of murder and sentenced them to life imprisonment.<ref name="scroll-2018" /> In April 2022 the Jharkhand High Court suspended the sentences and granted the convicts bail.<ref name="maktoob-2022" /> | The '''2016 Latehar mob lynching''' was the killing of cattle trader Mazloom Ansari, 32, and 12-year-old Imteyaz Khan, whose bodies were found hanging from a tree in Latehar district, [[Jharkhand]], in March 2016 after they were attacked while taking oxen to a cattle fair.<ref name="quint-2018" /><ref name="wire-2018" /> In December 2018 a Latehar court convicted eight men of murder and sentenced them to life imprisonment.<ref name="scroll-2018" /> In April 2022 the Jharkhand High Court suspended the sentences and granted the convicts bail.<ref name="maktoob-2022" /> | ||