Bengaluru: The lynching of scores of people across the country by mobs, which suspected them of being child-lifters, has centred attention on the issue of child abductions in India. While the mob lynchings may have been driven purely by rumours circulated through instant messaging services such as WhatsApp, the mob frenzy that claimed innocent lives may have partly risen from anxieties related to the growing incidence of child kidnapping and abduction in the country.