Citizens for Justice and Peace
Bajrang Dal attacks K’taka cattle trader
09-Oct-2015
POLICE ARRIVED IN THE NICK OF TIME TO RESCUE IBRAHIM PADUBIDRI FROM A DADRI-STYLE LYNCHING BENGALURU: A cattle trader in Karnataka had a narrow escape after Bajrang Dal activists attacked him with metal rods and chains on a rumour about a stolen cow even as protests erupt across the country against the lynching of a…
In Jodhpur, Dalit family lives in fear after boy touches non-Dalit’s plate
09-Oct-2015
The teacher at the Rajkiya Ucch Madhyamik Vidyalaya here was arrested two days after the beating and is out on bail but now, Class 4 student Dinesh’s elder brother Narpat, 17, has allegedly received a death threat from local Jat youths. One week after a 12-year-old Dalit student was severely beaten by a teacher for…
Bisada’s Hindus, Muslims unite in prayer for peace
09-Oct-2015
Oct 09 2015 : The Times of India (Mumbai) Dadri:In the aftermath of the Bisada lynching episode, people from the Hindu and Muslim communities in the village are praying in the temple and the mosque for restoration of peace and harmony in the area. The administration too held a peace meeting in Dadri.Villagers have demanded…
Meat in Akhlaq fridge was mutton, not beef
09-Oct-2015
Oct 09 2015 : The Times of India (Mumbai) Purusharth Aradhak Dadri (UP): Mohammed Akhlaq’s family had insisted all along that there was no beef in the house. And now a forensic test has proved precisely that: the meat that the mob found in Akhlaq’s fridge, and which they claimed was the proof they needed…
More attempts to organise beef fest in Kerala; 10 students suspended
08-Oct-2015
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, Oct 08, 2015, DHNS The politics over food continued to trigger dissent in beef-loving Kerala as attempts to organise more “beef festivals” were made by college students on Wednesday leading to opposition from college authorities. There were minor clashes and at least 10 students were suspended in Kottayam. Meanwhile, an assistant professor of Sree…
MLA thrashed over beef party: Omar says ‘done in Dadri way’
08-Oct-2015
Peerzada Ashiq Srinagar, October 8, 2015 At least seven BJP MLAs on Thursday thrashed independent legislator Engineer Rashid inside the Assembly for organising a beef party on Wednesday evening. The incident took place immediately after the Assembly met around 10 a.m. to discuss bills, with bills on beef ban listed for the day, though down…
Mob sets fire to truck carrying cows in UP, thrashes Muslim youth
08-Oct-2015
Lucknow, Oct 08, 2015, DHNS Tension prevailed in Malipur area in Uttar Pradesh’s Ambedkar Nagar district after locals torched a truck allegedly carried cows and assaulted a Muslim youth. Police sources here said the truck was on its way to the neighbouring Sultanpur district on Wednesday morning, when it collided with a tractor-trolley near Salahpur…
UP riots: Sahai panel indicts BJP MLA, suggests no action
08-Oct-2015
Lucknow: Justice Vishnu Sahai Commission’s report on Muzaffarnagar riots of 2013 has put the BJP’s Sangeet Singh Som on top of the list of those it has found responsible for the flare-up, but has not recommended any action against the Sardhana MLA. While elaborating that police officials informed him that Som uploaded a video that…
Not enough money for communal harmony!
08-Oct-2015
Manan Kumar @Manankmr New Delhi: The National Foundation for Communal Harmony (NFCH), an autonomous body under the union home ministry, neither has the money nor the manpower. This at a time, when the country needs it the most amongst a spiralling increase in cases of communal violence, the latest being the Dadri incident. Constituted on…
Uttar Pradesh on boil: 330 communal incidents since July 2014 over ‘cow slaughter’
08-Oct-2015
Of the 330 incidents recorded by the state police, 216 were reported from western UP, which includes Gautam Budh Nagar and Muzaffarnagar. Written by Appu Esthose Suresh New Delhi Updated: Oct 8, 2015, 7:40 At least 330 incidents of communal violence over alleged cow slaughter have been reported in Uttar Pradesh since June 2014, according…