Citizens for Justice and Peace
Man hands out triple talaq through WhatsApp
08-Oct-2015
Thiruvananthapuram, Oct 08, 2015, DHNS: A 21-year-old female BDS student in Kerala was handed out a triple talaq by her husband on WhatsApp, about a month after their wedding. The incident, happened in early 2014, came to light after the girl, a native of Cherthala in Alappuzha district, approached the Kerala Women’s Commission (KWC) during…
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.…
SP leader calls for killing of Sadhvi Prachi
06-Oct-2015
Lucknow, Oct 06, 2015, DHNS: A Samajwadi Party (SP) leader, who was chairman of a municipality, triggered a controversy after he virtually called for killing of firebrand saffron leader Sadhvi Prachi over latter’s statement on Dadri lynching. Chairman of Deoband municipality in Saharanpur district, about 500 km from here, Mavia Ali on Sunday told reporters…
B’luru imams to preach against ISIS, jehad
06-Oct-2015
Tuesday, 06 October 2015 | Kestur Vasuki | Bengaluru In a bid to avert Islamic State’s (ISIS) influence on Muslim youth, all Bengaluru mosques have started sermons against ISIS and terrorism in their weekly prayers. According to Imam of Jamia Masjid of Bengaluru, around 150 mosques across the city will give sermons against ISIS and…
Dadri tension spills over to neighbouring areas
06-Oct-2015
Bishara, October 6, 2015 The head of a slaughtered calf, pieces of meat and an animal carcass caused tension in two adjoining villages. A week after the violence in Bishahra village in Dadri that resulted in the public lynching of Mohammmad Akhlaq, communal tension has spilled over to adjacent areas of Noida. The ruse of…
Rapists still not caught in Nirmal Nagar gang-rape case
06-Oct-2015
Tuesday, October 06, 2015 By Zuber Ansari More than a month has passed since the gang rape of the 20-year old girl in Nalasopara, but the Nirmal Nagar police who are investigating the case are yet to get hold of the trio accused of gang rape. Shockingly, these three individuals are not only wanted in…
BJP dislikes ‘Beef’, even if it’s a village
06-Oct-2015
Oct 06, 2015 | Namrata Biji Ahuja| New Delhi New Delhi: The word ‘Beef’ is something the present government does not seem to be comfortable with and hence, it has changed the name of a village called ‘Beef’ in Uttarkashi district of Uttarkhand and changed it to ‘Narayanpuri’. The go-ahead was given by the Union…
In Dadri, BJP legislator Sangeet Som warns: ‘Befitting reply if innocents framed’
06-Oct-2015
Written by Abhishek Angad , Aditi Vatsa | Dadri | Updated: October 5, 2015 12:03 pm Controversial BJP MLA Sangeet Som, accused of making inflammatory speeches during the 2013 Muzaffarnagar communal riots, threatened in Bisara on Sunday that they were capable of giving a “befitting reply” if “innocents were framed” for lynching of a man…
Dadri: Killing a cow is a crime, such people should be punished, says BJP worker
06-Oct-2015
Sanjay Rana Local BJP worker Sanjay Rana said police have framed his son. Written by Aditi Vatsa , Abhishek Angad Dadri Updated: Oct 6, 2015, 7:02 Local BJP worker Sanjay Rana, whose son has been arrested as a prime accused in the lynching of 50-year-old Mohammed Akhlaq in Dadri’s Bisara village, demanded a CBI inquiry…
Continuing scandal Statistics confirm that the criminal justice system is inefficient, and prejudiced against minorities and poor.
06-Oct-2015
05OCT2015 By: Express News Service | Published:October 5, 2015 12:02 am The National Crime Records Bureau figures for 2014 point to a problem that is still with us: almost 68 per cent of the inmates of India’s overflowing prisons are undertrials, and 70 per cent of those convicted are illiterate. Affluent states like Goa, Punjab,…