Citizens for Justice and Peace
Minor girl, her Dalit lover lynched in Bihar
15-May-2015
Gaya: A minor girl and her Dalit married lover were lynched and their bodies set on fire allegedly by her family members at Ametha in this district, police said on Thursday. “The victims, identified as Parvati Devi (15) and Jairam Manjhi (25), were residents of the same village and were in love. Manjhi was already…
Dalit asks for wages, gets beaten up
14-May-2015
Special Correspondent Mumbai, May 14, 2015 A Dalit youth in Maharashtra’s Osmanabad district was beaten up in full public view by a dominant caste landowner after the former asked for wages due to his family. The incident took place on Monday in Sarola village. Raju Dhaktode (21), whose father worked as labourer in the fields…
Gujarat judge Jyotsana who convicted Kodnani, Babu Bajrangi gets 22 threat letters
09-May-2015
On August 29, 2012, Yagnik delivered the Naroda Patiya case order, convicting 32 people, among them Kodnani and Babu Bajrangi. Written by Parimal A Dabhi | Ahmedabad | Updated: May 11, 2015 10:28 am Jyotsana Yagnik, the special judge who convicted and handed life terms to former Gujarat minister and BJP leader Maya Kodnani, former…
4 killed in communal clash in Nadia
05-May-2015
Kolkata Bureau Kolkata, May 6, 2015 Four persons were killed and seven injured in a clash between two communities in Kaliganj block in West Bengal’s Nadia district on Tuesday. A senior police official confirmed the incident to The Hindu , and said that the situation had been brought under control. “This is a fact (that…
Violence in Mathura over inter-faith elopement
05-May-2015
Thursday, 07 May 2015 | IANS | Lucknow Violence broke out in Mathura district of Uttar Pradesh on Wednesday after a girl eloped with a boy from a different community, officials said. After police failed to recover the girl in Sonkh town, locals set some items belonging to a religious place on fire, and resorted…
Tension in Shamli: Locals see a political plot
04-May-2015
Written by Dipankar Ghose | Kandhla (shamli) | Updated: May 4, 2015 6:21 am In September 2013, as Shamli and Muzaffarnagar burned around them, the small town of Kandhla was largely untouched, with leadership working overtime to keep the peace. On Sunday, a day after 17 people were injured in a clash between the police…
Tension in Haryana village over construction of stadium
04-May-2015
Tension prevailed in Tigara village of Haryana’s Yamunanagar district on Sunday following a clash between members of two communities over the construction of a sports stadium, prompting the authorities to deploy heavy security in the area. Members of one group torched vehicles parked outside the houses of the other in the village on Saturday night,…
Five Muslim scholars from M’rashtra attacked on UP train
02-May-2015
May 03 2015 : The Times of India (Mumbai) Sandeep Rai Meerut: Kandhla town in Shamli district saw rowdy crowds take to the streets on Saturday resorting to violence to protest against the alleged assault of five Muslim scholars from Maharashtra, who were purportedly beaten up by miscreants in a train on Friday night. Protesters…
Village tense after Adityanath’s outfit enters land row, ‘150 Muslim families leave homes
25-Feb-2015
Written by Mohd Faisal Fareed | Lucknow | February 25, 2015 2:12 am Tension prevailed in Madhopur village in Uttar Pradesh’s Kushinagar district after 150 Muslim families reportedly left their homes Monday, fearing a backlash from BJP MP Yogi Adityanath’s outfit Hindu Yuva Vahini (HYV) over a land dispute. Heavy police force including PAC personnel…
2 held for raping Dalit girl in Uttar Pradesh; body found hanging from tree
20-Feb-2015
By: Press Trust of India | Lakhimpur | February 19, 2015 9:08 pm In a grim reminder of the infamous Badaun incident, a teenage Dalit girl was raped and her body was later found hanging from a tree in Nighasan area of the district, police said on Thursday. The body of the 16-year-old girl was…