Citizens for Justice and Peace
Attempt to burn SRK effigy outside city hotel foiled
15-Feb-2016
Feb 15 2016 : The Times of India (Ahmedabad) Ahmedabad: TIMES NEWS NETWORK Right-wing groups continued their protest on Sunday against film star Shah Rukh Khan (SRK) who is in the city to shoot for his upcoming film `Raees’.On Saturday , protesters had pelted stones on a car in SRK’s convoy and, on Sunday ,…
WOMEN UNDER ATTACK – 16-yr-old mentally disabled girl raped
15-Feb-2016
Feb 15 2016 : The Times of India (Ahmedabad) Vadodara: TIMES NEWS NETWORK A 16-year-old mentally disabled girl was raped by a 20-year-old man n Dabhoi on Friday. The parents of the girl told po ice that Dilip Vasava took heir daughter to an isola ed area and raped her. The girl’s father told he…
Deaf-mute rape accused moves HC for bail to marry survivor
14-Feb-2016
Feb 14 2016 : The Times of India (Ahmedabad) Ahmedabad TNN The deaf and mute youth from Pachchham village near Dholera, Nagarbhai Anjara, who is accused of raping a similarly disabled girl, has moved Gujarat high court seeking bail on the ground so that he could marry the rape survivor and look after their child,…
Sabarkantha Rape Case – Victim’s friend may undergo DNA test
14-Feb-2016
Feb 14 2016 : Mirror (Ahmedabad) Ahmedabad Mirror Bureau amfeedback@timesgroup in Tweets @ahmedabadmirror Needle of suspicion in rape of 14-yr-old, who underwent abortion last year, points at friend with whom she exchanged letters on V-Day last year There is a twist in the Sabarkantha rape case where a 14-year-old had undergone medical termination of her…
SRK’s Raees on hold over permission issue
14-Feb-2016
Feb 14 2016 : Mirror (Ahmedabad) Ahmedabad Mirror Bureau amfeedback@timesgroup.in TWEETS @ahmedabadmirror Production house reportedly failed to secure Archaeological Survey of India’s green signal to shoot at Sarkhej Roza at night; shooting likely to resume today Shooting for the Shah Rukh Khan-starrer Raees hit a rough patch on Saturday after authorities from the Archaeological Sur…
Rohith suicide: SC panel summons Guntur Collector
14-Feb-2016
P. Samuel Jonathan GUNTUR, February 14, 2016 Collector and District Magistrate of Guntur Kantilal Dande has been summoned by the National Commission for Scheduled Castes in the case relating to the suicide of Rohit Vemula, a Dalit research scholar of the University of Hyderabad, on January 17. Mr. Dande is leaving for New Delhi to…
Bhojshala on Basant Panchami, the day after locals attack RSS office, leaders’ houses
14-Feb-2016
No one was injured in the stone-pelting that broke a few window panes but the attack led to tension in the town. Written by Milind Ghatwai | Dhar | Updated: February 14, 2016 1:55 am A day after they claimed victory for praying inside the Bhojshala-Kamal Maula mosque during the time meant for namaz, houses…
Namazis taken to Bhojshala rooftop via ‘secret’ ladder
14-Feb-2016
Arif Mansuri, a former BJP functionary whose nephew was among those who offered namaz on the rooftop, said the administration had stocked up water bottles and fruits inside the dargah for the namazis. Written by Milind Ghatwai | Dhar | Updated: February 14, 2016 2:04 am The administration had moved nearly two dozen Muslims in…
Senior Assam police officer suspended for anti-Muslim rants on social media
14-Feb-2016
• 14 Feb 2016 • Hindustan Times (Mumbai) • Digambar Patowary letters@hindustantimes.com GUWAHATI: A senior Assam police officer was suspended on Saturday after he posted messages against Muslims on Facebook. The suspension comes in the midst of increasing politics over the Bangladeshi migrants’ issue as elections approach in the state. Anjan Bora, the deputy superintendent…
Killing people for eating beef is heinous crime: Taslima Nasreen
14-Feb-2016
Feb 14, 2016 | • PTI | • Thiruvananthapuram India as a country is not intolerant as India has Constitution and laws, which do not support intolerance, says Nasreen. Thiruvananthapuram: Renowned Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasreen feels killing people for eating beef is not intolerance but a ‘heinous crime’ and it should be stopped. “It is…