Citizens for Justice and Peace
Four teams to probe into Belgaum violence
28-Sep-2014
Excise Minister and district in-charge Satish L. Jarkiholi has asked the Police Department to investigate the violent incidents reported from Angol and other parts of the city on Wednesday and Thursday. On Friday, the situation remained under control but Section 144 was extended up to 6 p.m. on September 28. Meanwhile, six persons were detained…
Communal clash in Vadodara continues for second day; four teargas shells fired
26-Sep-2014
Yet another communal clash was witnessed in the old city area of Vadodara a day after people from two communities clashed reportedly after a photoshopped image doing the rounds on WhatsApp hurt religious sentiment of a community. Stone pelting ensued at around 2:30 pm in several areas simultaneously, soon after people from Muslim community finished…
Tension following communal flare-up in several areas of Belgaum city
10-Sep-2014
Vijaykumar Patil Tension continued in Belgaum city following fresh violence in some areas on Thursday morning. The police resorted to lathi-charge and arrested 10 miscreants allegedly indulging in stone-throwing and unruly behaviour. In all, the police arrested 22 persons in connection with the violence that broke out in the communally-sensitive areas of Chavat Galli, Darbar…
Man bludgeoned to death as minor fracas turns into communal clash
09-Sep-2014
A 30-year-old man was bludgeoned to death and 28 were injured in a violent communal clash between members of two communities at Ijeri village in Jewargi taluk in Gulbarga district on Monday. The police said that the victim died on the spot. Of the 28 injured, the condition of eight, including two women, was stated…
BJP men beat up Muslims over elopement
07-Sep-2014
Written by Amit Sharma | Meerut | September 7, 2014 12:54 am A minor Muslim boy and a Class X Hindu girl who had eloped on Thursday morning from here have been traced and are being brought home after the BJP led protests threatening to make it a communal issue. BJP workers tried to attack…
Bareilly tense after 2 BJP netas killed
24-Aug-2014
1 Held, Search On To Arrest Other Accused Two local BJP leaders were killed in separate incidents within a span of 24 hours in the district, triggering tension in the area, officials said. In the first incident, body of Mahendra Pal Kashyap (40), a local BJP leader, was found hanging from a tree in Manakpur…
Hapur blames ‘teasing’ for riots, no girl in sight
24-Aug-2014
Written by Siddhartha Gupta | Hapur | August 24, 2014 12:00 am Members of the Qureshi and Lodha community in the village clashed after the two boys got into a fight. A day after Bahadurgarh, a small village in Hapur district, saw a communal flare-up over a minor quarrel between two 15-year-old boys — one…
One year later, Muzaffarnagar again on edge
23-Aug-2014
Tension is simmering in Muzaffarnagar once again as both Hindus and Muslims prepare to mark the first anniversary of last year’s deadly riots that rendered over 50,000 homeless and left 63 dead. With less than a week for it, the family of Sachin and Gaurav, who were lynched by a mob after they had killed…
Quarrel between children sparks communal clashes in Hapur
22-Aug-2014
Express News Service | Bahadurgarh | August 22, 2014 2:38 am Heavy police force has been deployed on the ground at Bahadurgarh with civil police officers from Hapur. A minor quarrel between two 15-year-old school children, one Hindu and the other Muslim, spiralled out of control after their families clashed in Bahadurgarh village in Hapur…
Minor’s `rape’ sparks UP communal clashes
19-Aug-2014
Loni (Ghaziabad):Communal clashes broke out in Loni, a subdivision town in Ghaziabad adjoining Delhi, on Monday after the alleged rape of a 10-year-old girl by a 65-year-old man from another community. Rival mobs pelted stones and opened fire on each other in a frenzy of violence that started around 9am on the Delhi-Saharanpur highway. The…