Pratapgarh lynching: Raje trolled for tweeting ‘demise’ instead of ‘murder’

shop and worked for rights of labourers, had repeatedly petitioned the municipal councillor to release money for construction of toilets in the homes, the villagers said. The photographing of people defecating in the open is part of the government’s Swachh Bharat scheme to shame and discourage public defecation. But many experts say such namingand-shaming doesn’t work because poor and backward communities have scant access to functional toilets or funds to build their own facilities.

The incident in Pratapgarh – around 400 kilometres from state capital Jaipur – is the latest in a string of cases of lynching across India. In April, a Muslim dairy farmer was killed by alleged cow protection vigilantes while legally transporting cattle.