Citizens for Justice and Peace
Perpetrators of Indapur Dalit assault still at large
12-Jul-2015
Crime motivated by caste considerations and political patronage protecting accused, say victims Nitin Patankar & Shailendra Paranjpe @dna Eleven days after an attack on the Bhingardive and Kamble families from Lakhewadi near Indapur in Pune district, the main suspects remain at large. The victims said the crime was motivated by caste considerations, which the state…
Hindu cop slammed for bigotry fasts every Ramzan
12-Jul-2015
Sujata Patil’s Poem On Azad Maidan Rioters Was Panned Sujata Patil, senior police Inspector at Kherwadi police station, Bandra East, liberally uses terms like mureed (disciple), ziyarat (visits to holy shrines) and wazu (ablutions before prayers) when she interacts with a Muslim. But it is not only terms associated with Islam that she is familiar…
Dalit student beaten up by classmates in Dehgam
12-Jul-2015
The standard XI student has said in the FIR that he was humiliated and slapped in the presence of school teachers, including the principal. Written by Satish Jha | Ahmedabad | Published on:July 12, 2015 12:00 am Gandhinagar district police on Friday lodged an FIR against four students who allegedly hurled casteist remarks and beaten…
Bengal church broken into, vandalized
12-Jul-2015
Taherpur: Unidentified persons vandalized a church at Taherpur in West Bengal’s Nadia district, police said on Friday .Miscreants entered the St Thomas Catholic Church in an attempt to steal valuables, Nadia superintendent of police Bharatlal Meena said.The church’s caretaker found on Friday morning that the main door was ajar and a few belongings and the…
Hindu Mahasabha to oppose ‘communal harmony’ meet
10-Jul-2015
Muslim Rashtriya Manch’s August 8 meet in Lucknow only a drama; prepared for a clash too, says national chief. Written by Lalmani Verma | Lucknow | Updated: July 10, 2015 12:50 am Hindu organisation Akhil Bharatiya Hindu Mahasabha (ABHM) has announced that it will oppose the All India Ulema meet being organised by Rashtriya Swayamsevak…
RSS affiliate bats for Sanskrit, mother tongue in schools
09-Jul-2015
New Delhi, July 8, 2015, DHNS: Students should be taught Sanskrit or a classical language like Latin or Persian with the choice to study without learning English or Hindi after class 8, RSS-affiliate Bharatiya Sikshan Mandal (BSM) has said. In the “integrated and holistic education policy” it released here on Wednesday, BSM also wanted compulsory…
‘Discrimination in compensation to Hashimpura victims’
09-Jul-2015
ALLAHABAD, July 9, 2015 The Allahabad High Court has asked Uttar Pradesh government to file its reply on a petition alleging discrimination in grant of compensation to victims of police firing in Hashimpura locality of Meerut which was rocked by communal clashes in 1987. A Division Bench, comprising Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and Justice…
Communal clash in kannauj: Suspected of inciting Hindus, BJP Subrat Pathak leader who inherited RSS ideology from father
09-Jul-2015
Party’s sitting Kannauj president Narendra Rajpoot says that Subrat Pathak is ‘a dedicated worker of the BJP and remains active in all the events organised by the party’. Written by Lalmani Verma | Lucknow | Updated: July 9, 2015 5:39 am Subrat Pathak, who allegedly incited a mob of Hindu men that clashed with Muslims…
Congress, Muslims join chorus against Jaipur temple demolitions
09-Jul-2015
Several Muslim residents of the Walled City too joined the Congress workers, protesting against the “inappropriate” demolition of age-old temples. Written by Mahim Pratap Singh | Jaipur | Updated: July 9, 2015 8:15 am The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, in a standoff with “its own” BJP government over demolition of temples in the Pink City, found…
Kongu region, a hotbed of casteism?
09-Jul-2015
Writer Perumal Murugan, who was forced to leave his hometown after his novel Mathorubhagan evoked protests from some caste groups. Recent murder of Dalit youth and social boycott of writer Perumal Murugan provide ample evidence of the western belt in Tamil Nadu being more casteist than southern districts. Caste conflicts, it is generally believed, are…