Citizens for Justice and Peace
Heroes emerge amid loot and arson in Saharanpur
08-Sep-2014
Sep 08 2014 : The Times of India (Mumbai) Avijit Ghosh Saharanpur (UP): A Hindu couple sheltered three Muslim women for three days during curfew; an old Muslim offered to mortgage his home to help a Sikh whose shop had been reduced to rubble The July riots left a trail of burnt shops and broken…
BJP men beat up Muslims over elopement
07-Sep-2014
Written by Amit Sharma | Meerut | September 7, 2014 12:54 am A minor Muslim boy and a Class X Hindu girl who had eloped on Thursday morning from here have been traced and are being brought home after the BJP led protests threatening to make it a communal issue. BJP workers tried to attack…
Teachers’ Day function begins with RSS anthem
06-Sep-2014
Written by Ritu Sharma | Gandhinagar | September 6, 2014 9:50 am The Teachers’ Day celebrations in the state started at the Mahatma Mandir in Gandhinagar Friday morning with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) anthem “manushya tu bada mahaan hai, bhool mat”. The song that was sung by a group of students near the stage…
Hindutva outfit warns TV anchor
06-Sep-2014
A Hindu Janajagruti Samiti delegation met television anchor Nikhil Chinapa on Friday demanding that he stop the “vulgar presentation” of the reality show MTV Splitsvilla on MTV India and preserve Indian culture, Ramesh Shinde, spokesperson of the rightwing outfit, said. Mr. Chinapa told the delegation to raise their demands with the producer of the show.…
Sangh re-converts Dalit Muslim converts
05-Sep-2014
Written by Milind Ghatwai | Shivpuri | September 5, 2014 2:08 am A day after they were arrested for converting to Islam, four Dalits were “re-converted” to Hinduism by VHP and Bajrang Dal activists in a ceremony at the Hanuman Temple here on Thursday. Calling it “Ghar Vapasi”, the Hindu organisations also brought in over…
Dalit student’s wrist cut off for wearing watch at school in Madurai
05-Sep-2014
Written by Arun Janardhanan | Chennai | September 4, 2014 6:05 pm A Dalit teenager’s wrist was cut off by seniors at a village school near Madurai for wearing a wrist watch. The incident happened on Wednesday night when a gang of seniors waylaid P Ramesh, 16, and attacked him with knives. He was admitted…
2002 riots: Court acquits all 44 accused in Gomtipur case
04-Sep-2014
Express News Service | Ahemedabad | September 4, 2014 10:02 am The riotous mob from both the communities attacked each other by pelting stones and wielding swords. A sessions court on Tuesday acquitted all 44 persons, including a former BJP MLA, in one of the post-Godhra riots cases in 2002 in Gomtipur area in Ahmedabad.…
Muzaffarnagar victims stuck in camps
01-Sep-2014
Mohammad Ali A year since communal riots broke out in Muzaffarnagar-Shamli, politicking over the rehabilitation issue has left thousands of victims still stuck in relief camps. The plight of nearly 20,000 people in a relief camp at Dabheri Khurd village in the Kairana Assembly constituency exposes the lack of options for the victims who cannot…
Aligarh tense after girl goes missing
01-Sep-2014
TNN Tension prevails in the city’s Bhojpura locality since Saturday night after police picked up some local youths belonging to a particular community for interrogation following the disappearance of a college student. While some see it as a case of “love jihad“ or elopement others think it is an instance of abduction. This has divided…
Two booked for converting to Islam without nod in MP
01-Sep-2014
Written by Milind Ghatwai | Bhopal | September 1, 2014 9:51 am Dalit youths claim they have returned to Hinduism. Shivpuri police have booked two Dalit youths for allegedly converting to Islam without seeking permission from the district authorities as mandated by the state’s anti-conversion legislation, but are unsure about the next course of action…