Citizens for Justice and Peace
Muslim panel seeks probe into sting operation disclosures
09-Oct-2015
Raghava M. MANGALURU, October 9, 2015 The Central Muslim Committee, Dakshina Kannada and Udupi, has sought an inquiry into the alleged disclosures by local Bajrang Dal leaders and a BJP MLC on “Love Jihad” in a sting operation by the Delhi-based Cobrapost and Gulail. Talking to reporters here on Thursday, committee’s president and the former…
Video of Dalit family allegedly stripped by police creates storm on social media
09-Oct-2015
Dadri, October 9, 2015 A video of a Dalit man and his wife allegedly stripped by the police in Greater Noida in Gautam Buddh Nagar has created a storm on social media. The authorities are yet to act on it. Sunil Gautam and his wife were reportedly stripped naked publicly by the local police after…
Cow carcasses found in J&K’s Udhampur; situation tense
09-Oct-2015
Friday, 09 October 2015 | PTI | Udhampur Protests broke out on Thursday in Udhampur district of Jammu & Kashmir, after “carcasses of three cows” were found behind the office of the Sub-Divisional Magistrate, police said. Irate protesters blocked the Jammu-Srinagar National Highway near Chenani tehsil, they said. On the assurance of Deputy Commissioner Udhampur,…
Katju in trouble over cow remark
09-Oct-2015
Chandigarh, Oct 09, 2015, DHNS: The Jalandhar police in Punjab is looking into the veracity of charges leveled by a local resident who has accused the former Supreme Court Judge and ex-chairman of the Press Council of India Justice Markendey Katju of “hurting religious sentiments.” The complaint against Katju relates to his recent comment on…
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…
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…
Denied entry in temple, Dalits launch protest
08-Oct-2015
Kautilya Singh, TNN | Oct 8, 2015, 01.13PM IST DEHRADUN: After being “forcefully” removed from their village, group of Dalits from Gabella village, who were denied permission to enter the temple, sat on a hunger protest outside the Gandhi Park of Dehradun on Thursday morning. On a written complaint by the villagers, the district authorities…
Iqlakh’s family leaves Bishada, saffron outfits denied entry into restive village
08-Oct-2015
Thursday, October 08, 2015 Dadri (UP): The family of Mohammed Iqlakh, who was was beaten to death on a street near Dadri last week over rumours of eating beef, has left its home for comparative safety of Delhi, as VHP leader Sadhvi Prachi was yesterday prevented from entering the restive Bishada village defying prohibitory orders.…
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…
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…