By Aishwarya Aiyar On the night of 11 November, Monday, Mohammad Jamal was lynched by four men while he was on his way to sell cows about thirty kilometers from Katihar in eastern Bihar. Jamal was taken to a government hospital where he was declared dead the same night. The Quint confirmed that Jamal was with his uncle and …
By Harsh mander There is no other part of the world that Zainul Ansari had known and loved in the eight decades of his life. This noisy, crowded, impoverished, vibrant piece of Bihar had been his only home, Sitamarhi. I guess that there would be no other place he would have wanted to breathe his last breath. But not …
Ahmedabad: A 30-year-old Dalit man was beaten allegedly by four men from a backward community on late Sunday night in Sabarmati area of Ahmedabad in Gujarat after dropping a dish at an eatery, police said on Monday. As per the complaint filed with police, Pragnesh Parmar was hit by Mahesh Thakor, Jogi Thakor and two others when he went to Mahesh’s …
Days after 23-year-old Sahil, a first-year college student, lost his life after being beaten in north Delhi’s Jafrabad, reportedly because of a dispute over using a lane, his family has claimed that he was killed as the accused mistook him “to be a Muslim”. The police, however, say the incident is not communal, and have arrested two on the charge …
JULY 24, 2019 15:17 IST The letter also states that the phrase “Jai Shri Ram” has been reduced to a “provocative war cry” The lynching of Muslims, Dalits and other minorities must be stopped immediately, celebrities from various fields have said in an open letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi while also stressing that there is “no democracy without dissent”. …
A mob in eastern India has beaten to death three men suspected of trying to steal cattle, police say. They say the suspects were caught by villagers in the Bihar state as they were trying to load a buffalo and a calf onto a lorry on Friday morning. This is the latest in a spate of “cow vigilante” attacks that …
A newly married welder, who died after a lynch mob pounced on him last week near Jamshedpur on suspicion that he was a thief, was forced to chant “Jai Shri Ram” and “Jai Hanuman”, suggests footage that has emerged since then. Tabrez Ansari, 24, who works in Pune and was home for the Id holidays, was waylaid by the mob …
Local police may have been complicit in the lynching of Prakash Lakda, a 50-year-old Adivasi of Jurmu village in Gumla’s Dumri block, on April 10, 2019, when he and three others were beaten up by a right-wing mob. He was killed by a mob of men from the Sahu community of the neighbouring Jairagi village.… After being beaten for around …
Poonam Kaushal Uttar Pradesh “He always dreamt of seeing himself in Indian Army uniform, he wanted to be a Lieutenant. ‘How would I look in uniform,’ he would ask. I would ask him to tone it down, lest an evil eye may spoil it. My brother was influenced by the evil eyes of the mob.” Babli Chaudhry remembers her younger …
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Religious freedom activists from across the U.S. have criticized Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his failure to stop the violence carried out by Hindutva groups against religious minorities, including Muslims and Christians. At an event titled “Religious Freedom in India: A Briefing on Capitol Hill”, organized by the Indian American Muslim Council (IAMC) on the Capitol Hill …
