Citizens for Justice and Peace
Trivial matters trigger communal violence in MP and UP, 13 injured
06-Jul-2014
Seven injured in Raisen, MP, after a fight over a bus seat, while six hurt in Meerut following an argument over Rs 100 An argument over a bus seat and a fight over Rs 100 resulted in two separate incidents of communal violence 630 km apart. Curfew was imposed on Friday night in Raisen town…
Moradabad violence: Centre seeks report from UP government
05-Jul-2014
July 05, 2014 23:14 IST The Union government has sought a report from Uttar Pradesh about the violence in Kanth area of Moradabad district, Home Minister Rajnath Singh said on Saturday. “A report has been sought from the UP government on the entire incident. I will be in a position to say anything only after…
Petty quarrels trigger fresh clashes
24-Jun-2014
Vadodara: TIMES NEWS NETWORK The string of rioting incidents in the city continued with two communal clashes giving cops the sleepless night on Sunday. The incidents left four persons injured in stone pelting and brawls. Rioting began in the city on Monday night in the Nagarwada area after two persons had a quarrel when the…
27 HELD IN DHULE AFTER VIOLENCE OVER OFFENSIVE ONLINE CONTENT
21-Jun-2014
Seven police personnel were injured after a mob pelted stones in Deopur, Dhule district, on Thursday night, in what was another case of offensive content on social media instigating violence. Twenty seven people from a minority community were arrested for rioting, said officials. Earlier this month, a 28-year old IT professional was murdered in Pune,…
Tension grips MP town after RSS worker’s murder
20-Jun-2014
Tension gripped Pithampur industrial area near Indore after the alleged murder of a RSS worker, following a dispute between children over playing cricket, police said today.The RSS worker, identified as Prashant Sharma, had gone to the cricket ground in Vishwas Nagar area last evening to pacify a group of children who had a fight over…
Four remanded for attack on madrassa
10-Jun-2014
A local court here on Monday remanded four men in police custody till June 12 for allegedly ransacking a madrassa along the Handewadi bypass in Hadapsar during the protests over some objectionable posts on social networking sites on the night of May 31. According to the remand plea, the four were part of a larger…
2 mosques burnt in riot-hit Mewat village, curfew on
10-Jun-2014
Curfew has been clamped in the area where paramilitary and police personnel have been deployed in strength. At least two mosques, one barely 100 metres away from a police station, were gutted during clashes between Hindus and Muslims following a road accident in Tauru, 35 km from Gurgaon, in Mewat Sunday. At least 15 people,…
Morphed pics of Ambedkar stoke violence in Pune, parts of state
09-Jun-2014
Cases registered against unidentified people for uploading derogatory photos PUNE: Four people were arrested after violence broke out in Pune and other parts of Maharashtra on Sunday, t his t i me over some morphed pictures of Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar going viral on the social media. The police have also registered cases against unidentified people…
June 1 riots: Hit by stone hurled at bus, man in coma
09-Jun-2014
40-yr-old was on his way to Solapur from Mumbai when the Volvo bus was caught in violence in Karjat. On June 1, 40-year-old Vasant Rupnar was on his way home to Solapur from Mumbai, when the bus he was travelling in was caught in the violence triggered by objectionable posts on social networking site Facebook.…
Communal riots rock Gurgaon, 15 hurt
09-Jun-2014
Jun 09 2014 : The Times of India (Mumbai) The death of a man in an accident triggered communal riots on Sunday in Tauru, a town just 32km from Gurgaon, leaving at least 15 people injured. In the violence that began in the morning and continued for over four hours, past noon, rioting mobs fired…