Citizens for Justice and Peace
Bengal church broken into, vandalized
12-Jul-2015
Taherpur: Unidentified persons vandalized a church at Taherpur in West Bengal’s Nadia district, police said on Friday .Miscreants entered the St Thomas Catholic Church in an attempt to steal valuables, Nadia superintendent of police Bharatlal Meena said.The church’s caretaker found on Friday morning that the main door was ajar and a few belongings and the…
Communal clash in kannauj: Suspected of inciting Hindus, BJP Subrat Pathak leader who inherited RSS ideology from father
09-Jul-2015
Party’s sitting Kannauj president Narendra Rajpoot says that Subrat Pathak is ‘a dedicated worker of the BJP and remains active in all the events organised by the party’. Written by Lalmani Verma | Lucknow | Updated: July 9, 2015 5:39 am Subrat Pathak, who allegedly incited a mob of Hindu men that clashed with Muslims…
Kannauj clash: BJP leaders booked for firing, inciting violence
08-Jul-2015
Sunday’s violence stemmed from a dispute between a landlord and a tenant. Imran Warsi’s shop was taken on rent by his neighbour Satish and had remained with the latter for over 50 years. Written by RAMENDRA SINGH | Kannauj | Updated: July 8, 2015 1:47 am Long before Hindus and Muslims clashed in Kannauj after…
Atali clashes may have sparked off Palwal violence, say police
08-Jul-2015
Written by Aniruddha Ghosal | New Delhi | Published on:July 8, 2015 2:52 am With the communal violence at Tikri Brahman village at Palwal in Haryana taking place close on the heels of rioting at Atali village less than 30 km away, police admit that the “charged atmosphere” in the Jat-dominated villages of the area…
Communal clash in UP, 1 dead, 20 hurt
07-Jul-2015
Kanpur: TIMES NEWS NETWORK A 42-year-old man died and over 20 persons were injured -one of them critically -in a clash between members of two communities in UP’s Kannauj district. The police booked 12 persons for inciting the mob on Sunday . The clash was the fallout of an incident where a mob attacked a…
Both Muslims and Jats leave Atali — for different reasons
07-Jul-2015
Violence erupted in the village on May 25 as 2,000 armed men allegedly set fire to the only mosque in the village as well as Muslim homes and shops. Written by Aniruddha Ghosal | Atali | Updated: July 7, 2015 3:04 am On Monday evening, Atali village was a pale shadow of its former self.…
Haryana: After clashes, Palwal tense, 17 held
07-Jul-2015
Written by Aniruddha Ghosal | Tikri Communal clashes that broke out between Hindus and Muslims at Tikri Brahman village at Palwal in Haryana on Sunday left 39 people injured. Police have arrested 17 people.Tikri Brahman village is a little over 30 km from Atali village in Ballabhgarh, which saw rioting in May and has been…
14 arrested day after violence in Pratapgarh
07-Jul-2015
At least 14 people have been arrested in connection with the arson in which nearly half-a-dozen shanties of Muslims were gutted in Gabi Mahuaban village under Lalganj police station area of Pratapgarh district on Sunday. The arson had occurred in the wake of a firing incident in the village Saturday evening, following a fight between…
In Meerut, minor tiff turns into communal clash
07-Jul-2015
Written by AMIT SHARMA | Meerut | Published on:July 7, 2015 3:21 am A minor argument over a tractor entering a field snowballed into a communal clash in the Pawlikhas village, which falls under Meerut’s Kankadkheda police station on Sunday evening. A dozen persons were injured as both sides indulged in brick-batting and, according to…
Radical Hindutva leader chased, attacked
07-Jul-2015
A complaint was later registered at the Cantonment police station, after which police detained a few suspects and questioned them. By: Express News Service | Pune | Published on:July 7, 2015 1:55 am Unidentified persons armed with hockey sticks and sharp weapons allegedly chased and attacked Shiv Sena leader Milind Ekbote, who heads the radical…