Citizens for Justice and Peace
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…
VHP protests shooting of Shah Rukh Khan’s film Raees in Bhuj
04-Feb-2016
VHP protests shooting of Shah Rukh Khan’s film “Raees” in Bhuj By: PTI | Bhuj | Updated: February 4, 2016 10:13 am Shah Rukh Khan had entered the ongoing debate on intolerance on November 2 last year by expressing that there was “extreme intolerance” in the country. Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) members protested against the…
Nine injured in Muzaffarnagar group clash
04-Feb-2016
Muzaffarnagar, February 4, 2016 At least nine persons were on Wednesday injured in a clash that broke out between two groups over the appointment of an Imam at a mosque at Doheli village here, the police said. The incident occurred at the village under Purkazi police station area when the two groups confronted each other…
Uproar over police assault: Two men who beat up protesters seen standing with police minutes before baton charge
03-Feb-2016
In an earlier video, the men were seen assaulting the student protesters even as police denied they were part of the force. Written by Mahender Singh Manral , Alok Singh | Delhi | Updated: February 3, 2016 7:53 am A new video of the Delhi Police beating students during a protest at the RSS headquarters…
12-year-old mentally unstable girl raped
03-Feb-2016
Arvind Walmiki @airwind05 The Shil Daighar police have launched a manhunt for the accused after it came to light that a 12-year-old mentally unstable girl was raped on Monday. The victim was returning home at Shil village in Shil Daighar in the afternoon when an unknown man allegedly raped her. When she did not return…