Citizens for Justice and Peace
Beef search on train: Gauraksha leader warns SP on arrests, threatens riots
17-Jan-2016
In a purported audio tape of the conversation, Rajpurohit alias Tiger, who is the main accused in the 2013 riots, has accused the police of partisan action against Hindus. Written by Milind Ghatwai Bhopal Updated: Jan 17, 2016, 9:31 AFTER THE arrest of two Gauraksha Samiti activists for the alleged attack on a Muslim couple…
Mangalore killings accused nabbed in city
17-Jan-2016
Jan 17 2016 : The Times of India (Ahmedabad) Ahmedabad TIMES NEWS NETWORK In a joint oper ation with Mangalore cops city crime branch offi cials nabbed Raviraj Pujari 30, resident of Bantwal talu ka of Dakshin Kannada dis trict, Karnataka, for murder of two VHP activists during the protests held against the cele bration…
5 J&K students claim they were beaten up in Haryana
17-Jan-2016
“The three men were drunk and thrashed us for no reason,” Amir Jameel, one of the victims, told The Sunday Express over the phone from Bijbehra town in south Kashmir. Chandigarh Published:Jan 17, 2016, 2:17 FIVE students from Jammu and Kashmir have alleged that they were beaten up by three men when they had come…
Slight increase in crimes against women
17-Jan-2016
• 17 Jan 2016 • Hindustan Times (Mumbai) • HT Correspondent htmetro@hindustantimes.com ONLY 75% OF CASES SAW THE ARREST OF ONE OR MORE SUSPECTS IN 2015, COMPARED TO 92% OF CASES IN 2014 MUMBAI: The number of crimes against women registered in Mumbai’s south region rose marginally from 2014, when 322 cases were registered, to…
VHP asks pol parties to stop Muslim appeasement policy
17-Jan-2016
Bengaluru, Jan 17, 2016, (PTI) The VHP today asked political parties to stop Muslim appeasement “policy”, claiming this was “uneding” and was hurting the country. It also pitched for a uniform population policy in the country, noting that the Muslim population was growing at a faster rate than the Hindu community. Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP)…
Sex education class leads to molester’s arrest
16-Jan-2016
Jan 16 2016 : Mirror (Mumbai) GITANJALI DAS In perhaps the biggest example highlighting the importance of sex education in schools, a Mulund man was arrested after an 11-year-old student realised that she and a friend had been molested by him after attending once such class. After her teacher’s talk on `good touch and…
`Cow slaughter’ being used to target us, says Shami’s dad
16-Jan-2016
Jan 16 2016 : The Times of India (Mumbai) Sandeep Rai Meerut: A day after cricketer Mohammad Shami’s brother Mohammad Haseeb was booked–he was later released on bail-for allegedly assaulting a cop and “pressuring cops“ to release a few men arrested on charges of cow slaughter, his father said his family was in “danger“ as…
After 400 years, temple opens doors to Dalits
16-Jan-2016
Jan 16 2016 : The Times of India (Mumbai) Kautilya Singh Dehradun: TNN For nearly 400 years, Dalits and women, all in the name of “tradition“, had been barred from entering the famous Parsuram temple in Garhwal’s Jaunsar Bawar region. All that is set to change now with the management of the Parsuram temple announcing…
`Gaurakshaks’ assault Muslim couple on train
16-Jan-2016
Jan 16 2016 : The Times of India (Mumbai) Bhopal: TIMES NEWS NETWORK GRP Cop Rescues Woman From Vigilantes In MP Several members of Gauraksha Samiti raided Go akhpur-Mumbai Kushinagar Express at Khirkiya railway tation in Harda district of Madhya Pradesh on Friday , suspect ng some passengers of carry ng beef, and assaulted a…
‘Attacked despite stating that we had no beef’
16-Jan-2016
• 16 Jan 2016 • Hindustan Times (Mumbai) • HT Correspondent letters@hindustantimes.com About four men boarded our coach first and others joined them later. They started pushing and manhandling passengers, including my husband. NASEEMA, resident of Harda in Madhya Pradesh BH O PA L/ H A R DA : A couple assaulted by activists of…