In the latest incident, five people were lynched in Dhule, Maharashtra after they were suspected of being child kidnappers.
Prof. Jamkhedkar, who taught at Dhule, Nagpur and Mumbai,
was vice-president of the Asiatic Society of Mumbai from 2007 to 2013.
In July this year, for example,
five people were lynched to death in the Rainpada village of Maharashtra's Dhule district because villagers believed them to be child
kidnappers because of a WhatsApp rumor.