Citizens for Justice and Peace
Headman ‘sanctions’ retaliatory rape of Dalit girl, a village watches
07-Jul-2014
Written by Deepu Sebastian Edmond | New Delhi | July 11, 2014 11:09 am Nakabandi went up to the mukhiya and demanded that he be allowed to rape the girl. It is a rape that no one denies. The parents and neighbours of the 14-year-old Dalit girl raped in this hamlet on July 7 evening…
Trivial matters trigger communal violence in MP and UP, 13 injured
06-Jul-2014
Seven injured in Raisen, MP, after a fight over a bus seat, while six hurt in Meerut following an argument over Rs 100 An argument over a bus seat and a fight over Rs 100 resulted in two separate incidents of communal violence 630 km apart. Curfew was imposed on Friday night in Raisen town…
Moradabad violence: Centre seeks report from UP government
05-Jul-2014
July 05, 2014 23:14 IST The Union government has sought a report from Uttar Pradesh about the violence in Kanth area of Moradabad district, Home Minister Rajnath Singh said on Saturday. “A report has been sought from the UP government on the entire incident. I will be in a position to say anything only after…
Petty quarrels trigger fresh clashes
24-Jun-2014
Vadodara: TIMES NEWS NETWORK The string of rioting incidents in the city continued with two communal clashes giving cops the sleepless night on Sunday. The incidents left four persons injured in stone pelting and brawls. Rioting began in the city on Monday night in the Nagarwada area after two persons had a quarrel when the…
Activists slam non-inclusion of RSS in IB report
24-Jun-2014
dna correspondent @dnaahmedabad Ahmedabad: Eminent human rights activists of the city challenged, condemned and criticised the Intelligence Bureau’s ‘secret report’ on Wednesday. The report — Impact of NGOs on Development — claimed that NGOs availing of international funds plan to target economic development projects across the country. At a meet organised at the Darpana Academy…
27 HELD IN DHULE AFTER VIOLENCE OVER OFFENSIVE ONLINE CONTENT
21-Jun-2014
Seven police personnel were injured after a mob pelted stones in Deopur, Dhule district, on Thursday night, in what was another case of offensive content on social media instigating violence. Twenty seven people from a minority community were arrested for rioting, said officials. Earlier this month, a 28-year old IT professional was murdered in Pune,…
Tension grips MP town after RSS worker’s murder
20-Jun-2014
Tension gripped Pithampur industrial area near Indore after the alleged murder of a RSS worker, following a dispute between children over playing cricket, police said today.The RSS worker, identified as Prashant Sharma, had gone to the cricket ground in Vishwas Nagar area last evening to pacify a group of children who had a fight over…
RSS book in Vadodara schools
18-Jun-2014
Written by Aditi Raja | Vadodra | June 18, 2014 12:50 am The yoga chapters lay down a disciplinary daily schedule for students, right from physical yogasan to chanting Sanskrit shlokas. Books published by the education wing of the RSS in Gujarat have made it to the curriculum of students studying in the 105-odd primary…
Riot-displaced given 3-day ultimatum to leave camps
15-Jun-2014
press trust of india Muzaffarnagar (UP),14 June: Displaced villagers who have been living in camps on government land in the neighbouring Shamli district since the Muzaffarnagar communal riots in September last year have been asked to vacate them within three days by authorities. Subdivisional Magistrate Suresh Kumar Mishra today said that a team of government…
2 held in Aurangabad for disrupting harmony
10-Jun-2014
The Aurangabad police have arrested two persons for allegedly circulating some objectionable content through a cellphone application and trying to disrupt communal harmony. A mob protesting the circulation of the content resorted to stone-pelting in the Shambhu Nagar area and damaged six vehicles late on Friday night. Senior police officers said the arrested persons had…