Citizens for Justice and Peace
Rohith was an OBC, parties should not politicise it: Union Min
04-Feb-2016
New Delhi, Feb 3 , 2016, PTI: Another Union Minister today claimed that Rohith Vemula, who committed suicide at Hyderabad University, was not a Dalit and parties should stop politicising his death for their own gains. “There is no question of this being a Dalit versus non-Dalit issue as Rohith and his family are an…
SIT to investigate sexual harassment charge, Sardar Singh says not engaged
04-Feb-2016
He said he had not seen the police complaint and was concentrating on the matches in the Hockey India League. Written by Divya Goyal , Nitin Sharma | Ludhiana | Updated: February 4, 2016 11:57 am A day after a hockey player from the UK filed a written complaint alleging sexual harassment charges against national…
VHP protests shooting of SRK’s film ‘Raees’ in Bhuj
04-Feb-2016
No permission About 20-30 VHP activists had on Tuesday handed over a memorandum to district officers and demanded that permission for the film’s shoot be withdrawn. He should think before talking about the country that gave him a name; if he still speaks about intolerance, the VHP won’t forgive him. —Ranchhod Bharwad, Gujarat VHP general…
Hashimpura Massacre: Records destroyed, victims to fight on
04-Feb-2016
s. With a hearing in the case scheduled before the Delhi High Court on February 17, a complainant in the case said the future course of action was under consideration and will be finalised soon in consultation with the victims’ lawyer, Vrinda Grover. Written by AMIT SHARMA | Meerut | Published:February 4, 2016 2:43 am…
Panchayat lets rapist go free after he touches survivor’s feet
04-Feb-2016
Feb 04 2016 : The Times of India (Mumbai) Mrigank Tiwari Bareilly:In a shocking decision, a local panchayat in Bareilly pardoned an alleged rapist after making him touch the survivor’s feet. The entire episode took place in front of a police station. After senior officials came to know of it, a complaint was lodged and…
Shamli couple, family battle to build new life after ‘love jihad’ furore
04-Feb-2016
At Shamli’s Kandhla, members of Mohammad Asif’s family, who had been on the run after being accused in a police complaint of abduction, are back home but have suffered “irreparable losses”. Written by Sweta Dutta | Kandhla | Published:February 4, 2016 1:50 am The Muslim boy’s family at their rasidence in Kandla area of Shamli…
‘I was beaten up for trying to rescue the girl who was stripped’
04-Feb-2016
K.V. Aditya Bharadwaj Bengaluru, February 4, 2016 Tanzanian national recounts the ordeal he and a woman went through on Sunday evening, when a mob thrashed them “The mob was so unruly that they chased the hapless girl for more than 20 minutes, beating her up, tearing her clothes, almost stripping her. When I tried to…
Bhilai gangrape: Witness ‘critical’ after suicide bid
04-Feb-2016
Written by Dipankar Ghose | Bhilai | Published:February 4, 2016 2:39 am A witness in the case against a doctor and two policemen, who are in jail for allegedly gangraping a 20-year-old BSc student in Bhilai in June 2014, allegedly attempted suicide Monday night. The police said Sonal Mahar, a nurse at Lal Bahadur Shastri…
Tanzanian girl stripped, thrashed in Bangalore
04-Feb-2016
Feb 04 2016 : Mirror (Mumbai) BENGALURU Three others were beaten up as well over `mistaken identity’; deeply pained, says Swaraj A Tanzanian woman student was allegedly beaten up and stripped by a mob in a case of “mistaken identity“ after a woman was mowed down by a car in Bengaluru. The Bangalore Police on…
IIMC Dalits lodge plaint against `casteist’ peers
04-Feb-2016
Feb 04 2016 : The Times of India (Mumbai) Himanshi Dhawan New Delhi: The controversial suicide of Dalit scholar Rohith Vemula in Hyderabad University has found an echo at the Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC) at Delhi. Posts on social media using abusive language against Dalit and tribal students have prompted around 17 IIMC…