Citizens for Justice and Peace
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,…
2002 post-Godhra riots: SC directs Gujarat govt not to take action against retired DGP R B Sreekumar
06-Oct-2015
The inquiry was initiated against Sreekumar by the Gujarat government for maintianing a ‘semi official’ diary, audio recording conversations with government officials and producing secret documents related to the 2002 communal riots. By: Express New Service | Ahmedabad | Published:October 5, 2015 8:14 pm The Supreme Court of India on Monday directed the Gujarat government…
How WhatsApp stoked tension in Dadri In past few months, police say they averted a few communal incidents by keeping a tab on social media activities
06-Oct-2015
Azaan Javaid @AzaanJavaid Dadri (Gautam Buddha Nagar, UP): The Uttar Pradesh Police in the last two months had diffused nearly five incidents of communal tension in various villages of Dadri. Authorities here had received intelligence inputs from multiple sources about village youth, who as the police believe, were having ‘conversations’ which might have disturbed the…
Woman sets self, her 2 girls ablaze
06-Oct-2015
Surat She Was Harassed For Not Bearing Son Unable to bear taunts of her mother-in-law for giving birth to two girls, a 34-year-old woman set her two daughters and self ablaze at Dandi village of Navsari district on Sunday .Pratibha Patel, a resident of Azad Faliya in Dandi, sprinkled kerosene on five-year-old Hetvi, nine-month-old Disha…
I am a proud RSS man: J&K Speaker after beef ban protest inside Assembly
06-Oct-2015
The National Conference members raised slogans against the beef ban and what they termed as “interference in religious matters”. Written by Bashaarat Masood | Srinagar | Updated: October 6, 2015 7:54 am While adjourning the House amid slogans against him and the RSS, Jammu and Kashmir Assembly Speaker Kavinder Gupta said on Monday that he…
Four jawans, militant killed in Kupwara encounter
06-Oct-2015
Army said that two operations were launched in Hafruda forests and Kursun Lolab after receiving information about the presence of militants. Written by Mir Ehsan | Srinagar | Updated: October 6, 2015 4:04 am The Army launched a search operation after the attack. Four Armymen were killed in North Kashmir’s Hafruda forest early Monday morning…
Madhya Pradesh: Three arrested for converting locals to Christianity in Motwa
06-Oct-2015
The three were booked under the Madhya Pradesh Freedom of Religion Act and sections 295, 506 and 34 of the IPC Written by Milind Ghatwai | Bhopal | Updated: October 6, 2015 12:20 am Three volunteers of Gospel Echoing Missionary Society (GEMS) were arrested from village Motwa near Satna for allegedly converting the local people…