Citizens for Justice and Peace
Meat pieces found in village near Bishada, security stepped up
06-Oct-2015
Greater Noida, Oct 5, 2015, (PTI) Tension today spread to nearby areas of Bishada after meat pieces were found in an adjoining village even as the District Magistrate decided to further restrict entry of visitors to the troubled spot and examine statements made by controversial BJP MLA Sangeet Som during his visit to the area.…
Family gets 10 years rigorous imprisonment for acid attack
06-Oct-2015
Oct 06, 2015 | A sessions court in Mumbai on Monday convicted and sentenced a woman along with her husband and son to 10 years of rigorous imprisonment for throwing acid on her three sisters and a year-old child. According to public prosecutor Jyoti Sawant, all the victims and the accused women were sisters. The…
BJP, VHP, RSS nexus against ‘love jihad’
06-Oct-2015
NEW DELHI, Oct 06, 2015, DHNS A sting operation made public on Monday by investigative portals — Cobrapost and Gulail — said that Hindutva groups use “violence, intimidation and emotional blackmail” to break up Hindu-Muslim married couples. The claim came after secret camera shootings conducted by these portals in Delhi, Muzaffarnagar and Meerut (Uttar Pradesh),…
More youths take to militancy as violence flares in Kashmir
06-Oct-2015
Josy Joseph NEW DELHI, October 6, 2015 A dozen locals turned militants in August-September At least a dozen more local youths have joined militancy in Kashmir in the last couple of months, as violence continues to flare up in the Valley. Four soldiers and three militants have been killed in the Valley in three different…
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…