Citizens for Justice and Peace
21 arrested after clashes in UP
11-Oct-2015
Oct 11, 2015 | Age Corespondent| Lucknow Twenty one persons have been arrested following communal clashes in Karhal in Mainpuri, that erupted after reports of cow slaughter.As soon as the rumour spread on Friday evening, people in Nagaria village pelted stones, set police jeeps on fire and damaged several other vehicles and shops. Additional forces…
Hindus lend a hand for Muslim wedding
11-Oct-2015
Oct 12, 2015 | PTI| Dadri (UP) Shaken by the beef lynching episode, the troubled Bishada village in the district is agog with activity on Sunday, with Hindus joining their Muslim brethren in making preparations for the wedding of two girls belonging to the minority community. Bishada resident Hakeem, who till a few days ago…
Harmony triumphs in Dadri: Hindus fund and organise wedding for Muslim family
11-Oct-2015
The village that made headlines over the lynching incident, came out and gave the perfect example of communal harmony with the wedding on Sunday Bishada (UP): Dispelling rumours of communal tension and hatred, the Hindu community of Dadri’s Bishada village came together on Sunday to organise a wedding for the daughters of a Muslim family.…
VHP to writers: Dare you to eat pork in Saudi
11-Oct-2015
Oct 12 2015 : The Times of India (Mumbai) TIMES NEWS NETWORK HP spokesman Surendra V Jain on Sunday “dared“ writers returning their Akademi awards over the Dadri episode, among other things, to ask for pork in Saudi Arabia. “If they do so and return alive, I will myself welcome them. Otherwise, they should stop…
Jammu shut over ‘beef party’ and 3 dead cows
11-Oct-2015
• Srinagar A partial to complete shutdown was observed in Jammu, the winter capital of Jammu and Kashmir, and some other towns of the region against an Independent MLA’s hosting a “beef party” in the summer capital earlier this week and death of three cows due to poisoning in the State’s Udhampur district. Shops and…
20 held for Mainpuri violence, 2 who skinned cow among them
11-Oct-2015
Oct 11 2015 : The Times of India (Mumbai) Ishita Mishra Karhal (Manpuri): Twenty people have been arrested for the violence that erupted on Friday in Mainpuri after an angry mob went on the rampage allegedly over rumours of cow slaughter. Even as the situation in the village remained tense and heavy security was deployed…
The cow keepers: Some cattle vigilante groups operating in Delhi and neighbouring states
11-Oct-2015
They waylay trucks, set them on fire, beat up ‘offenders’, all in the name of the holy cow. Written by Abhishek Angad , Ankita Dwivedi Johri Updated: Oct 11, 2015, 9:03 On most weekdays, 25-year-old Akhilesh Singh goes to work at a Central telecom firm in Sahibabad in Ghaziabad, a district in Uttar Pradesh on…
Enraged man kills wife in Gandhinagar, arrested
11-Oct-2015
Oct 12 2015 : The Times of India (Ahmedabad) Ahmedabad: TIMES NEWS NETWORK A 25-year-old woman was bludgeoned to death by her husband near Gandhinagar railw ay station late on Saturday night.The couple got into an altercation as the husband came home drunk. Sector 7 police have arrested the accused on Sunday. According to Sector…
Tension in Gujarat town after dead cow calf recovered from hotel premises
11-Oct-2015
Battalion of the Special Operations Group (SOG) was called in from Bharuch to ensure that the tension does not escalate into a communal clash. By: Express News Service Vadodara Updated: Oct 11, 2015, 5:48 Tension gripped Jambusar town in Bharuch district, situated some 50 kilometers from Vadodara, after a dead cow calf was found in…
The silenced letter: 60-year-old Dalit rape victim fights to restore her SC name
11-Oct-2015
In Tirunelveli, the Tamil Nadu district infamous for its cases of atrocities against lower castes, a 60-year-old rape victim fights, starting with the bid to restore her SC name Written by Arun Janardhanan Updated: Oct 11, 2015, 7:44 In Tirunelveli’s caste maze, all it took was an ‘a’ to change the course of this 60-year-old’s…