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|short_description=Two men from Taljhari, Sirabuddin (Charku) Ansari and Murtaza Ansari, were beaten to death by villagers in Godda district, Jharkhand, in June 2018 after being accused of stealing buffaloes. | |short_description=Two men from Taljhari, Sirabuddin (Charku) Ansari and Murtaza Ansari, were beaten to death by villagers in Godda district, Jharkhand, in June 2018 after being accused of stealing buffaloes. | ||
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The '''2018 Godda lynching''' was the killing of two men, Sirabuddin Ansari (also reported as Chiraguddin or Charku Ansari) and Murtaza Ansari, by villagers in Godda district, [[Jharkhand]], on 13 June 2018.<ref name="wire-2018" /><ref name="scroll-2025" /> The villagers accused them of stealing buffaloes.<ref name="quint-2018" /> Police arrested four men, and the local Member of Parliament, Nishikant Dubey, said he would pay their legal expenses.<ref name="wire-2018" /><ref name="scroll-2025" /> | The '''2018 Godda lynching''' was the killing of two men, Sirabuddin Ansari (also reported as Chiraguddin or Charku Ansari) and Murtaza Ansari, by villagers in Godda district, [[Jharkhand]], on 13 June 2018.<ref name="wire-2018" /><ref name="scroll-2025" /> The villagers accused them of stealing buffaloes.<ref name="quint-2018" /> Police arrested four men, and the local Member of Parliament, Nishikant Dubey, said he would pay their legal expenses.<ref name="wire-2018" /><ref name="scroll-2025" /> | ||