Citizens for Justice and Peace
Police records in Bihar show ways in which communal pot was kept boiling
22-Aug-2015
In clashes since the BJP-JD(U) split, triggers show a trend: animal parts in places of worship, vandalism and revival of disputes long forgotten Written by Appu Esthose Suresh Vaishali/ Muzaffarpur/ Motihari Updated: Aug 22, 2015, 8:57 From throwing carcasses of animals in places of worship to digging up buried issues, police records in Bihar have…
Mapping the surge in Bihar: Tension in areas where BJP made big electoral gains
21-Aug-2015
In the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, the BJP won 18 of the 23 seats from the 18 districts that The Indian Express visited. Written by Appu Esthose Suresh | Jehanabad/ Saran/ Nalanda | Updated: August 21, 2015 9:23 am The almost three-fold spike in “communal incidents” after the BJP-JD(U) ruling alliance broke up on June…
Samba tense over ‘act of sacrilege’, curfew imposed
21-Aug-2015
On Wednesday, people had blocked the national highway near Bari Brahmana in protest over the burning of some religious books at a local industrial unit By: Express News Service | Jammu | Published:August 21, 2015 3:32 am Curfew was imposed in Samba and the Army called out to control the situation following largescale arson and…
Learning disability: No testing tool yet for Urdu medium students
20-Aug-2015
Chief Justice Mohit Shah and Justice A K Menon were hearing a suo motu public interest litigation (PIL) in the form of a letter written to the court by two psychiatrists. Mumbai Published:Aug 20, 2015, 3:24 While hearing a matter pertaining to students with learning disability, the Bombay High Court was informed that no test…
2002 Godhra riots: IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt who took on Gujarat govt is sacked
20-Aug-2015
Sanjiv Bhatt had taken on the Gujarat government headed by Narendra Modi over the 2002 post-Godhra riots. By: PTI Ahmedabad Updated: Aug 20, 2015, 7:20 IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt, who had taken on the Gujarat government over its handling of the 2002 riots, has been dismissed from service for “flagrantly” flouting rules “with complete disregard…
`Political riots deadlier than religious’
20-Aug-2015
Aug 20 2015 : The Times of India (Mumbai) UP Tops List In Communal Violence: NCRB More people get injured or killed in political riots than in communal conflagration. According to latest data released by National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), in 2014, there were over 2,400 victims of political violence, while 2,000 people were injured…
Police arrests 5 FTII students in midnight crackdown on charges of rioting
19-Aug-2015
The arrested students have been taken to the Deccan police station Pune: In a midnight crackdown, police arrested five students of Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) from its campus on charges of rioting. The arrests come after a group of striking students had on Monday gheraoed the institute director, Prashant Pathrabe, protesting against…
Khap panchayat in UP orders rape of 2 girls to seek revenge for brother’s action
19-Aug-2015
Aug 19, 2015 | Age Correspondent| New Delhi One of the girls moved the Supreme Court seeking protection New Delhi: A khap panchayat in Uttar Pradesh issued a diktat that a Dalit girl and her sister should be raped and paraded naked in the village. Reportedly, the diktat was issued to seek revenge for their…
Act as human bombs, Sena tells Hindus
19-Aug-2015
MUMBAI, August 19, 2015 In highly controversial remarks, the Shiv Sena has exhorted Hindus to act as “human bombs” and invade Pakistan, and said that its founder, Bal Thackeray, had instilled the “fear of Hindus” in other Indians. The comments came in the context of the controversy over the latest issue of the weekly magazine…
Ranveer Sena killed 144 Dalits: Cobrapost
19-Aug-2015
NEW DELHI: Investigative web portal Cobrapost on Tuesday claimed that it has confession on camera of operatives of Ranveer Sena claiming to have been involved in mass murders in Bihar between 1994 and 2000. As many as 144 dalits were killed in these massacres including several women and children. The Cobrapost on Tuesday claimed that…