Citizens for Justice and Peace
Four remanded for attack on madrassa
10-Jun-2014
A local court here on Monday remanded four men in police custody till June 12 for allegedly ransacking a madrassa along the Handewadi bypass in Hadapsar during the protests over some objectionable posts on social networking sites on the night of May 31. According to the remand plea, the four were part of a larger…
2 mosques burnt in riot-hit Mewat village, curfew on
10-Jun-2014
Curfew has been clamped in the area where paramilitary and police personnel have been deployed in strength. At least two mosques, one barely 100 metres away from a police station, were gutted during clashes between Hindus and Muslims following a road accident in Tauru, 35 km from Gurgaon, in Mewat Sunday. At least 15 people,…
Morphed pics of Ambedkar stoke violence in Pune, parts of state
09-Jun-2014
Cases registered against unidentified people for uploading derogatory photos PUNE: Four people were arrested after violence broke out in Pune and other parts of Maharashtra on Sunday, t his t i me over some morphed pictures of Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar going viral on the social media. The police have also registered cases against unidentified people…
June 1 riots: Hit by stone hurled at bus, man in coma
09-Jun-2014
40-yr-old was on his way to Solapur from Mumbai when the Volvo bus was caught in violence in Karjat. On June 1, 40-year-old Vasant Rupnar was on his way home to Solapur from Mumbai, when the bus he was travelling in was caught in the violence triggered by objectionable posts on social networking site Facebook.…
Communal riots rock Gurgaon, 15 hurt
09-Jun-2014
Jun 09 2014 : The Times of India (Mumbai) The death of a man in an accident triggered communal riots on Sunday in Tauru, a town just 32km from Gurgaon, leaving at least 15 people injured. In the violence that began in the morning and continued for over four hours, past noon, rioting mobs fired…
Muslims will soon give nod to Ram temple at Ayodhya: VHP
09-Jun-2014
Jaipur: Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) on Sunday said it was hopeful that the Muslim community will give up its opposition to the construction of Ram temple in Ayodhya. “We firmly believe the Muslim community will understand this truth… Will respect religious sentiments… And will voluntarily give decision with regard to temple construction,” Champak Rai, VHP’s…
Another plaint filed against Togadia for hate speech
07-Jun-2014
Ahmedabad: A man lodged a complaint against Pravin Togadia, international working president of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) with the court for a hate speech given by the latter on April 22. The video, broadcast by YouTube, sparked communal resentment. Aashim Shaikh, a resident of Teen Darwaja in Ahmedabad, filed a complaint against the VHP…
Twenty injured as Hindus, Muslims clash over sewer line in UP village
06-Jun-2014
The family of the pradhan, Mohammad Irshad, however, alleged the Hindus came armed and attacked them. They had been living harmoniously for decades until work on a sewer line ruptured ties between Hindus and Muslims at Chausana village in UP’s Shamli district late Wednesday night. The two communities clashed over displacement of a Hindu place…
Techie murder: BJP MP says some repercussions to Facebook post ‘natural’
06-Jun-2014
The trigger for the attack on Sadiq was apparently uploading of derogatory pictures of warrior king Shivaji and late Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray. BJP MP from Pune, where a techie was bludgeoned to death on Monday allegedly by members of a Hindutva outfit, on Thursday said some repercussions to the Facebook post derogatory of…
`Raped Badaun girls were hanged alive’
05-Jun-2014
Subjected To Severe Torture, Autopsy Says The post-mortem report of the two gangraped Badaun cousins has shown that they were hanged while they were still alive, the police said here on Wednesday . The barbaric nature of the sexual assault could be gauged from the fact that apart from innumerable abrasions, scratches and contusions on…