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 …
Over 200 alleged hate crimes in 2017 in India, reveals ‘Halt the hate’ website In 2017, an alarming number of alleged hate crimes – including assault, rape and murder – were reported against people from marginalized groups, especially Dalits and Muslims, said Amnesty International India today, as it launched an interactive data website, ‘Halt the Hate’. “The first step to …
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New Delhi: Muslims were “selectively targeted” in the wake of the 26 January communal clashes in Uttar Pradesh’s Kasganj and the police probe into the violence was “grossly compromised”, a report prepared by civil rights activists has alleged. The report — Truth of Kasganj — released on Wednesday also alleged that there were “inconsistencies” in the police’s version of the violence, …
