Incidents of mob-lynching in India and the lackadaisical response by state machinery seem to have opened up a channel for those directly affected by the violence to seek asylum in Europe.
A judgement by the High Court of Ireland, issued in October 2022 and accessed now by this writer, reveals that a wealthy meat trader from Mumbai applied for international protection in Ireland in August 2017 along with his children. The International Protection Appeals Tribunal had refused him asylum, but Justice Siobhan Phelan quashed that decision and remitted it back for consideration by a new tribunal member.
