Communalism

Following the trend where Hindutva inclined organisations have been claiming several mosques as formerly being Hindu temples, another incident where a Hindu priest conducted a puja ceremony at a mosque, which comes under the Archaeological Survey of India, in West Bengal’s Malda.

Mira Road continues to be a tense neighbourhood. Citizens from the neighbourhood filed a complaint with the police, demanding a fair enquiry and asking that there be an investigation of those BJP politicians, who put the already-tense neighbourhood in danger by making reportedly incendiary statements.

School teachers reportedly turned away Muslim girl students from a government school in Rajasthan because they were wearing a hijab. The students have claimed that they have been threatened and ‘tortured’ by their teacher, and were told that their marks could be deducted.

First published on: June 10, 2022(In March 1994, as...

Several testimonies before the fact-finding team narrated the administration’s targeted attack on the evening of February 8, when officers arrived with bulldozers, sanitation workers and large police “protection” to demolition the mosque and madrasa “despite the matter being sub-judice;” today, Haldwani’s Banbhoolpura area suffers in silence as connectivity is cut with the outside world

The police have filed a case against a group of people in Maharashtra’s Parbhani for assaulting a young teenager and then later assaulting a fruit seller within a span of 30 minutes.

As BJP leaders encourage the idea that the protests were a ‘planned conspiracy’, 300 people have already migrated from the area citing fear and violence. Local Muslim residents allege that the police are harassing them and forcing their way into their homes.

Senior journalist Nikhil Wagle and his two associated were attacked by a mob when they were travelling to an event called Nirbhay Bano on February 9.

The police have arrested 10 people after journalist Nikhil Wagle’s car was attacked in Pune last week. However, Wagle himself was subjected to a new FIR filed against him after the attack for violating a police notice

Kankavli’s MLA from BJP, Nitesh Rane reached Govandi last week in Mumbai to lead a rally where he demanded bulldozer action against the mosques and Madrasas in the area, stating that they were illegal and that the area was becoming increasingly populated by “Rohingya and Bangladeshi.”