Court awards life term for 13 in lynching of father-son duo in Murshidabad
A court in West Bengal’s Murshidabad convicted 13 persons of lynching a father-son duo, Harogobind Das and Chandan Das, at Samserganj in April amid a violent protest against the Waqf (Amendment) Act, 2025, and sentenced all of them to lifetime imprisonment on Tuesday (December 23, 2025). The court also directed the State to pay ₹15…