Citizens for Justice and Peace
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…
Enter Bisara village at your own risk, cops tell journalists
05-Oct-2015
Mob accuses media of one-sided reporting, roughs up reporters and video journalists, stones vehicles Azaan Javaid @AzaanJavaid Dadri (Gautam Budh Nagar, UP): A day after Union minister Mahesh Sharma launched a scathing attack on the media for allegedly giving a communal colour to the lynching of Mohamad Akhlaq, reporters, photo and video journalists were chased…
Police bias contributes to flare-ups in Haryana
05-Oct-2015
Posted at: Oct 5 2015 12:35AM Dalit anger erupts The killing of a Dalit youth led a mob to torch two Haryana Roadways buses in a Hisar village on Friday. The incident of arson and rioting is blamed on police inaction against wanted criminals and is an indication of the simmering Dalit resentment, which easily…
How a tech error by NIA led to acquittal of Goa blast accused
05-Oct-2015
NEW DELHI: A technical error committed by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in its charge sheet against six members of Sanatan Sanstha in the Goa blast case considerably weakened their trial, HT has learnt. “In order to file charges under the Explosive Substance Act of 1908, a sanction is required from the district magistrate. Rather…