Decoding Hate

Hate Watch: Gurgaon’s communal side; residents oppose Friday namaz offered in open space

The Muslims in Sector 47 offer namaz at a site that has been designated for the same 

UP: Where armed communal vigilante groups prowl the streets

An old man is abducted, assaulted in Loni; meatseller thrashed in Moradabad; vegetable vendor killed in Unnao; reporter threatened in Gorakhpur… all in the past one month!

Goa: Congress seeks withdrawal of gov’t order appointing hate monger Prashant Patel as State Counsel

SC lawyer Prashant Umrao has earned a reputation of spreading hate against minorities on social media

Priest Yati Narsinghanand says Muslim boy got ‘befitting reply’ for entering temple

Chief Priest of Dasna Devi temple came out in support of Shringi Yadav, who thrashed a young Muslim boy for entering a temple to drink water

Karnataka: BJP Minister says Muslim cannot contest for Belagavi Lok Sabha seat

The communal comment by the state Minster has attracted flak on social media for trying to further widen the gap between Hindus and Muslims in India.

Divisive videos promoting hate resurface as Bihar elections draw closer

The IT cell swings into action as it hunts down dated cases to disrupt social harmony and divert people’s attention from pressing issue to the usual ‘Hindu-Muslim-divide.’

‘UPSC Jihad’ in civil service recruitment: Suresh Chavhanke

The Editor-in-Chief of Sudarshan News dubs rising number of Muslim civil servants a communal conspiracy

UP BJP Spokesperson calls consensual marriage ‘love jihad’

A Kanpur woman marries a Muslim man in Lucknow against her family’s wishes, right-wing trolls challenge union on social media

Hate Hatao: Hindutva page on FB posts old videos to incite new hate

This page with over 18,000 followers posts old provocative videos of right wing leaders  

Social media hate machine goes into overdrive against Rhea Chakraborty

After Sushant Singh Rajput’s demise which is being investigated by the Police and now the Enforcement Directorate, Rhea has been constantly targeted on social media

Demolish temple to build mosque: Sajid Rashidi stokes controversy

This statement came a day after the Ram temple event of August 5. He is someone who is known to have supported BJP during Delhi elections

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Punjab & Haryana High Court refuses anticipatory bail to journalist accused of provocative, communal statements against Purvanchal community

Justice Sumeet Goel cites prima facie digital evidence, seriousness of hate-motivated speech, and the need for custodial interrogation

Six Days Behind Bars After Bail: Patna High Court orders ₹2 lakh relief, flags state-wide pattern of illegal detention

Court rejects “festival holiday” defence, directs IG Prisons to fix systemic lapses and ensure jail superintendents comply with court orders

The Politics of Processions: How the Sanatan Ekta Padyatra amplified hate speech in plain sight

As the Sanatan Ekta Padyatra traversed 422 village panchayats across three states, it carried not merely religious symbolism but explicit political messaging. Calls for a Hindu Rashtra, vilification of Muslim communities, and assertions of majoritarian dominance raise serious questions under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita’s provisions on promoting enmity, inciting violence, and disturbing public tranquillity. Yet, as the aftermath shows, ranging from protests in Datia to a clash in Vrindavan, the legal system’s response has been fragmented and cautious. This report interrogates that legal vacuum, situating the padyatra within established precedents of hate-speech jurisprudence and the enduring gap between statutory safeguards and ground-level enforcement.

A Decade after Bisada: Why Uttar Pradesh’s attempt to drop the Akhlaq lynching case defies law and constitution

Ten years after the Dadri lynching shocked India and forced a national reckoning on hate violence, the Uttar Pradesh government has moved to withdraw prosecution against the accused — raising critical questions of law, constitutional duty, and deliberate impunity

Bihar Elections: Trains for votes? The unanswered mystery of the ‘phantom’ specials from Haryana to Bihar

Explosive RTI documents reveal unannounced special trains running from Haryana to Bihar mere days before polling, serious allegations of state-sponsored voter smuggling, as the dust settles on the Bihar 2025 verdict, video evidence of ‘free tickets’ compounds the mystery, leaving questions over the violation of the Model Code of Conduct, the definition of "Corrupt Practice" under the RP Act, and the deafening silence of the Election Commission dangerously unanswered

Washed Away by Floods, Targeted by the State: Hamela Khatun’s fight for citizenship

CJP’s team helped Hamela piece together a lifetime of evidence — from 1950s land documents to contemporary electoral rolls — to establish beyond doubt that she is, and always has been, an Indian citizen

The Orchestrated Extremism: An analysis of communal hate speech in India’s election cycle (2024–2025)

This piece uncovers the rise of digital warfare—from caste-coded AI videos in Bihar to calls for the economic segregation of vendors—detailing the calculated strategy to fracture society and weaponise Dalits against Muslims to divert attention from joblessness and poverty

Communal Profiling at Malabar Hill, CJP’s files complaint with Maharashtra Police and NCM

The complaint to Maharashtra Police and the NCM details how a former BJYM office-bearer allegedly conducted unauthorised identity checks and singled out vendors on religious grounds