Citizens for Justice and Peace
Dalit Catholics continue to battle upper caste aggression
02-Aug-2015
Sudipto Mondal, Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Updated: Aug 02, 2015 15:28 IST Why do Dalits convert to Christianity? To break out of the Hindu caste system, you might say. Not completely true, as we found out in Harobele, just 60 km from Bengaluru. Christianity entered the region centuries ago. The Catholic mission here, one…
Dalits attacked for deciding to boycott panchayat polls
02-Aug-2015
MUMBAI, August 2, 2015 Eleven Scheduled Caste Buddhist families at Ansurda village in Osmanabad district of Maharashtra have been attacked by upper caste men as they decided to boycott the August 4 gram panchayat elections in protest a social boycott on them. In a report headlined “Dalit families in Maharashtra want to relocate” in The…
Land-owning Dalits lack legal awareness: study
02-Aug-2015
HYDERABAD, August 2, 2015 R. Ravikanth Reddy While the social suffering germinating from not owning a piece of land haunts scores of Dalit families, even those owning a few acres suffer from several kinds of problems that snatch away their social pride. Inaccuracies in land records and title deeds, absence of passbooks and land inherited…
Tension in UP dist after miscreants attack religious group president
01-Aug-2015
Saturday, 01 August 2015 | PNS | Lucknow Tension prevailed in the Mahoba district of Bundelkhand region, Uttar Pradesh after some miscreants attacked Hindu Yuva Vahini district president on Thursday night. Hindu Yuva Vahini is a group formed by BJP MP Yogi Adityanath. Reports said that Vahini’s district president Ashish Tripathi was attacked by some…
Communal clashes in Wazirabad area
01-Aug-2015
Aug 01, 2015 | : Age Correspondent| New Delhi Tension in area after some animal skins recovered early on Thursday Tension gripped northeast Delhi’s Wazirabad area on Friday morning after two communities reportedly clashed following recovery of some animal skins early on Thursday. The police said that at least two motorcycles were damaged in the…
Khajuri Khas simmers after violence over ‘cattle hide’ find, 10 injured
01-Aug-2015
Police maintained that the incident was “not a clash between two communities”. Written by Aditi Vatsa , Abhishek Angad New Delhi Published:Aug 1, 2015, 2:36 At least 10 people were reportedly injured when violence erupted at Khajuri Khas in northeast Delhi on Friday afternoon, hours after residents intercepted a truck which was allegedly transporting cattle…
Those who attended Yakub Memon’s burial are ‘potential terrorists’: Tripura Governor Tathagata Roy
01-Aug-2015
Tripura Governor Tathagata Roy clarified in his tweet, “When I suggested intelligence keeping a tab, I mentioned no community.” Written by Samudra Gupta Kashyap Guwahati Updated: Aug 1, 2015, 9:11 Hours after he tweeted that intelligence agencies should keep a tab on people who assembled for 1993 Mumbai blasts convict Yakub Memon’s last rites as…
Villagers in Dalit basti in Mathura want to return
01-Aug-2015
Written by MAYURA JANWALKAR New Delhi Updated: Aug 1, 2015, 3:06 Four days after a mob lynched two Dalit men accused of raping and murdering a minor, nearly 20 Dalit families who fled from Parkham village in UP’s Mathura district told the police that they wanted to return to their homes. “The Valmiki families who…
Acid attack survivors allege threat by accused
31-Jul-2015
Vithika Salomi, TNN | Jul 31, 2015, 03.36AM IST PATNA: It’s close to three years since the two Dalit sisters survived an acid attack. They have neither received the full compensation amount nor the accused have been punished yet. Rather, the four boys accused in the case are roaming free on bail and still threatening…
Sanitation workers stage novel protest
31-Jul-2015
Striking municipal workers performing mock hanging in Nizamabad on Thursday: (Right) Workers pleading with a policeman not to come in the way of their agitation in Gram panchayat sanitation workers staged a protest here on Thursday demanding hike in their salary and other benefits. They said that though their strike entered 30th day on Thursday,…