The headline, which is quite clearly a lurid attempt to grab eyeballs, implies that the minority community will respond to lynching with violence.

Many Indian news channels have been coming up with similarly communally charged headlines. In the scuffle to up viewership, channels not only popularise stereotypes attributed to particular communities, but also deepen the divide between the majority and the minority. This whips up mass hysteria as well as incites hatred against certain sections of society.

Hence, Twitter users responded to the post asking what agenda the channel is attempting to propagate with posts such as these.