Citizens for Justice and Peace
Meet Hate Offender Kalicharan ‘Maharaj’ His hate speech has targeted everyone from minorities to women to even Gandhi!
10-Jan-2022
On Friday January 8, 2022, a Pune Court granted bail to Kalicharan Maharaj, alias Abhijit Dhananjay Sarag, who was arrested by Pune police for a hate speech case from December 2021 where he allegedly spoke against Muslims and Christians. The court directed that Kalicharan be released subject to furnishing a bail bond of ₹25,000 and…
Majority must demand justice for minorities: Sign CJP’s petition NOW! A call to the comfortable majority of the country
06-Jan-2022
What should have served as a wake up call to all, just faded into the background like nothing had happened. In the past few weeks, the barrage of hateful attacks on the minority communities in this country is something that we have never seen before. Yet the majority, largely chose to remain silent. When only…
Hate Watch: Mapping Hate Crimes in India in 2021 A CJP initiative to track hate
04-Jan-2022
We had recently published a list of all incidents of communally motivated hate crimes. Now, we present an interactive infographic to record all the atrocities committed in the name of misplaced beliefs. It is noteworthy though, that the following information has been compiled using reportage by SabrangIndia, a sister organisation of CJP, and is not…
2021: A harvest of hate Unprecedented number of communal hate crimes
29-Dec-2021
2021 saw a surge in hate crimes against religious minorities, particularly Muslims and Christians. However, India does not possess an independent, comprehensive yet authoritative, or statutory database of the quantum and kind of hate crimes that have taken place across the country. Here, we have tried to compile a list of such hate crimes based…
Hate watch: TN Police debunk Sudarshan TV’s communal ‘Fake News’ The channel had claimed that a student was beaten for wearing a ‘rudraksha’ mala
19-Oct-2021
Suresh Chavhanke owner ‘editor’ of Sudarshan News” has been publicly snubbed by none other than Tamil Nadu Police’s senior officer Dr.P Vijaya Kumar I.P.S., Superintendent of Police of Chengalpattu district, for sharing fake and maliciously distorted news. This is Fakenews @TwitterIndia https://t.co/Q6Eo5Elz8X — Vijayakumar IPS (@vijaypnpa_ips) October 18, 2021 CJP is dedicated to finding…
Christian nuns, congregation attacked in UP: CJP approaches NCM Right-wing mob falsely accuses them of religious conversion
14-Oct-2021
Citizens for Justice and Peace (CJP) has written to the National Commission for Minorities (NCM) over widespread reports of right-wing vigilante mobs that have been out on the streets in Mau, Uttar Pradesh, allegedly disturbing peaceful prayers and mistreating nuns by handing them over to the police, after falsely accusing them of carrying out religious…
Attacks on Churches: Why CJP has written to Minorities Commission We demand a full fledged investigation so that the culprits are arrested
13-Oct-2021
Watch: Following multiple instances of attacks on Churches in Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Uttar Pradesh, New Delhi and, most recently, in Roorkee, Uttarakhand among many others, CJP has written to the National Commission for Minorities (NCM) to take cognisance of these various instances of attacks. We are dedicated to finding and bringing to light instances of…
Hate Watch: Paramhans Das raises demand for “Hindu Rashtra” Ayodhya "Godman" makes hateful comments about minorities
08-Oct-2021
Jagadguru Paramhans Das of Tapasvi Chhawani in Ayodhya had recently issued a statement that he will take his own life by immersing himself in water if the Union government did not declare India a ‘Hindu Rashtra’ by October 2. He further said that citizenship of Muslims and Christians should be terminated. After this announcement, he…
CJP writes to Minorities Commission over attacks on churches Churches in UP, MP, Uttarakhand were vandalised by Hindutva outfit members
07-Oct-2021
Citizens for Justice and Peace, has written to the National Commission for Minorities (NCM) to take cognisance of the various instances of attacks on churches, allegedly by right-wing outfits in various states over the past one week. Multiple attacks have taken place in Uttarakhand, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Uttar Pradesh. In the city of Roorkee,…
Remembering the anti-minority violence in Kandhamal After travelling to Gujarat following the pogrom of 2002, I began inquiring into Hindutva nationalist mobilisations in Odisha
01-Sep-2020
The Hindutva Right’s contemporary targeting of Muslim and Christian religious minorities may be traced to the 1990s. The Muslim community in Bhadrak was targeted through massified violence in March 1991. In January 1999, Graham Staines, 58, Australian missionary, and his 10 and 6-year-old sons were murdered in Keonjhar district. In August 1999, Shiekh Rahman, a Muslim clothes merchant, was mutilated and burned…