Citizens for Justice and Peace
Muslims perform last rites of 84-yr old Kashmiri Pandit
02-Feb-2016
Srinagar, Feb 2, 2016, (PTI): In a heart warming example of Kashmiriyat, Muslims of a village in Kulgam district of south Kashmir performed the last rites of a Kashmiri Pandit, who clung his roots and refused to leave the valley when all others in his family fled under threat from militants. Janki Nath (84), a…
Vemula protests: Video shows cops’ brutal face
02-Feb-2016
Woman pulled by her hair, agitating students beaten up Aradhna Wal @aradhnaw New Delhi: A video of extreme police brutality did the rounds on Monday, forcing people to take note of the lathicharge on university students carrying out a protest for justice of Rohith Vemula, the Dalit student from Hyderabad who had committed suicide earlier…
60 Dalit students in Bihar threaten suicide
02-Feb-2016
Amarnath Tewary Patna, February 2, 2016 Sixty Dalit students from Bihar, who are studying engineering in Orissa, have threatened to commit suicide after the Bihar government allegedly stopped paying their stipends to the college, and the students were forced to leave the institution. All the 60 students had secured their admission in Rajdhani Engineering College,…
There is no intolerance, says Najma Heptullah
02-Feb-2016
I took it up before the Cabinet and within a minute, the Cabinet increased it to Rs 3,000 crore. By: Express News Service | Jaipur | Published:February 2, 2016 12:57 am Minority Affairs Minister Najma Heptullah Monday said there was “no intolerance” in the country and that the decisions taken by the Narendra Modi government…
Ban on Thangadh Dalits’ killing inquiry report
02-Feb-2016
Feb 02 2016 : The Times of India (Ahmedabad) Vijaysinh Parmar Rajkot: The state government feels that the disclosure of an inquiry report into killing of three Dalit youths in police firing in Thangadh town of Surendranagar in 2012 may harm sovereignty and integrity of the country and incite hatred among sections of the society.…
Uproar over video of Delhi police and others beating protesters near RSS office
02-Feb-2016
By: Express News Service | New Delhi | Updated: February 2, 2016 3:35 am The video, shot on January 30, shows police officers and men in plain clothes beating protesters at Jhandewalan. A video that shows Delhi Police officers beating students, who were protesting outside the RSS headquarters in Jhandewalan over Dalit research scholar Rohith…
Vested interests trying to show Rohith was not Dalit: Karnataka CM
02-Feb-2016
In a letter to Vemula’s mother Radhika, Siddaramaiah expressed regret that the university campus has become a “place for unscrupulous elements to achieve their politically motivated, caste-based agenda.” By: PTI | New Delhi | Updated: February 2, 2016 6:40 pm Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has condemned the attempts by “vested interests” for projecting the Hyderabad…
Kerala: Four held in connection with brutal assault of youth
02-Feb-2016
The victim had reportedly made certain remarks against the father of one of the four accused which infuriated them. Thiruvananthapuram | Published:February 2, 2016 8:35 pm A day after the video of a youth being brutally attacked in broad daylight went viral, four persons were arrested today by a special police team in connection with…
Jamshedpur: Minor rape victim undergoing treatment at govt hospital raped again
01-Feb-2016
The incident occurred hours after Chief Minister Raghubar Das inspected the hospital and held a meeting with authorities assuring improvement in the condition of the hospital. By: PTI | Published:February 1, 2016 9:14 am A 15-year-old rape victim, undergoing treatment at the government-run M G M Hospital in Jamshedpur, was allegedly raped by a security…
Police beat me, didn’t even let me sip water: DSSW student
01-Feb-2016
A number of other protesters, predominantly JNU and Delhi University students, also painted a grim picture of the police action against them during a demonstration over dalit student Rohith Vemula’s suicide on January 30. By: PTI | New Delhi | Published:February 1, 2016 10:11 pm A Delhi School of Social Work (DSSW) student, who was…