Citizens for Justice and Peace
SC scans Shah Bano law
28-Oct-2015
R. Balaji New Delhi, Oct. 27: The Supreme Court has ruled that the controversial law enacted by the Rajiv Gandhi government to annul the Shah Bano judgment should be visited by a constitution bench and Muslim women cannot be discriminated against in terms of polygamy and alimony. The Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Divorce)…
After writers, artists enter protest-against-intolerance canvas
28-Oct-2015
Oct 28 2015 : Mirror (Mumbai) Sobhana K Nair in New Delhi mirrorfeedback Days after writers took to streets protesting the growing intoler ance, artists have now begun to raise questions. On Tuesday, over 400 artists, including Vivan Sundaram, Anjolie Ela Menon and Subodh Gupta, condemned recent attacks on rationalists and minorities. The creative bunch…
Communal clash in Rajasthan town
28-Oct-2015
Rajasthan Jaipur, October 28, 2015 Three days after communal clashes rocked Sri Dungargarh and Bhilwara towns, a clash was reported in the Chippabarod area of Rajasthan’s Baran district. On Monday night, a group beat up two persons from the Gujjar community in Chippabarod. One of the injured was rushed to the hospital. The same night…
Writers were not blind to ‘love jihad’ or ‘ghar wapsi’, our agitation not manufactured
28-Oct-2015
IE EDIT 28OCT2015 Writers were not blind to ‘love jihad’ or ‘ghar wapsi’. Our agitation was not manufactured. by Keki N. Daruwalla | As dust settles over the anti-Sahitya Akademi protests, certain questions hang in the air, unanswered. Why did politicians see a hidden political knife somewhere in this unrest? Why did they feel insecure…
Kerala House beef row: Delhi Police should have shown restraint, says Chandy
27-Oct-2015
Biju Govind Kozhikode, October 27, 2015 Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy on Tuesday criticised the Delhi Police for carrying out “raids” at the Kerala House in the national capital last evening. A team of the Delhi Police had gone to Kerala House following complaints from an activist of the Hindu Sena that cow meat was…
Now, Hindu Sena targets Kerala House
27-Oct-2015
Shubhomoy Sikdar NEW DELHI, October 27, 2015 Activists say canteen has beef on menu; official denies cow meat is served. Activists from a right wing group created a ruckus at Kerala House near Jantar Mantar on Monday, alleging that the canteen there was serving cow meat (in the name of beef on the menu). K.G.…
Communal scene worsens in U.P.
27-Oct-2015
Mohammad Ali Meerut, October 27, 2015 According to officials in the Lucknow police headquarters, over 100 people have been arrested and 25 cases filed in the last one week. Uttar Pradesh is on the boil again. In just about three weeks, there were as many as a dozen incidents of communal violence. Nine districts of…
Surat woman sacrifices her baby girl
27-Oct-2015
As per police, Shakuntala had already injured her baby before she left her at Yadav’s place Shakuntala inflicted burn injuries on her 3-month- old baby dna correspondent Surat: A 25-year-old woman was arrested by Surat police for allegedly sacrificing her three-month-old daughter. The infant had suffered serious burn marks on her stomach, which according to…
Mob lynches man for killing Dalit youth in UP
27-Oct-2015
Bhadohi (UP), Oct 27 , 2015,(PTI) A 50-year-old man was lynched by a mob after he allegedly shot dead a Dalit youth over political rivalry in Gopiganj area here, police said today. Jatan Ram shot dead the Dalit youth Bhola Nath (21) on the last day of campaigning for the panchayat poll in Sujatpur village…
Cops set communal harmony example
27-Oct-2015
Oct 27 2015 : The Times of India (Ahmedabad) TIMES NEWS NETWORK Keeping the tradition of a police inspector performing a havan (religious ritual) at a temple in Rakhial for prosperity and peace of the area, Barkatali Chavda, a Muslim and inspector of the area, performed the rituals for the second consecutive year. “When I…