{"id":194789,"date":"2026-02-12T19:30:28","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T14:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/?p=194789"},"modified":"2026-02-12T19:30:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T14:30:28","slug":"mamata-grieved-over-alleged-lynching-of-bengali-labourer-in-maharashtras-pune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/2026\/02\/12\/mamata-grieved-over-alleged-lynching-of-bengali-labourer-in-maharashtras-pune.html","title":{"rendered":"Mamata grieved over alleged lynching of Bengali labourer in Maharashtra&#8217;s Pune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-194790\" src=\"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2026\/02\/mamta-baner.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"390\" height=\"220\" \/>Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has expressed deep grief and anger over the alleged lynching of 24-year-old Bengali labourer Sukhin Mahato in Pune district of Maharashtra state.<\/p>\n<p>According to Kashmir Media Service, Mamata Banerjee, in a post on X, termed the incident a &#8220;hate crime&#8221; and said that the victim was killed just for speaking Bengali. She demanded strict action against the elements involved in the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Mamata Banerjee said that Sukhin Mahato was the sole bread earner of his family who was killed in a xenophobic attack. The young man was targeted and killed because of his language and his identity.<\/p>\n<p>He said this incident is the result of the hateful environment created by the Modi government of India and the BJP state government where xenophobia is being used as a weapon and innocent people are being targeted.<\/p>\n<p>Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee demanded the immediate arrest of the culprits and the strictest punishment and expressed her condolences to the victim&#8217;s family.<\/p>\n<p>It should be noted that in Modi&#8217;s India, Bengali Muslims and other minorities are subjected to reprisals, especially mob lynching, and hateful violent incidents against Muslims on the basis of language, religion and identity are on the rise.<\/p>\n<p>The Hindutva BJP leaders openly call Bengali-speaking Indian citizens and Muslims as infiltrators, foreigners and suspects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has expressed deep grief and anger over the alleged lynching of 24-year-old Bengali labourer Sukhin Mahato in Pune district of Maharashtra state. According to Kashmir Media Service, Mamata Banerjee, in a post on X, termed the incident a &#8220;hate crime&#8221; and said that the victim was killed just &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":194790,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2026\/02\/mamta-baner.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194789"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":194791,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194789\/revisions\/194791"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}