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CJP’s 2025 Hate Watch: leading the fight for accountability in the digital media

In 2025, CJP emerged as India’s leading voice confronting digital hate on television, spearheading sustained NBDSA interventions that challenged communal broadcasts/debate, secured corrective orders, and strengthened accountability frameworks to restrain the spread of hateful and polarising content across news media

Police bandobast inadequate, uncontrolled mob in Ram Navmi procession in Shambhajinagar (Aurangabad), 1 killed: Tv9

An independent investigation into the CCTV footage of the Ram temple (mandir) will reveal how the violence erupted at Shambhajinagar (Aurangabad; this) is urgently needed says member of parliament (MP) Imtiaz Jaleel who was on the streets to prevent escalation of violence. One person died from an alleged bullet wound during clashes on on Ram Navami

Ram Navami: West Bengal administration on alert as 2000 celebrations planned

Celebrations at such a large scale uncommon in the state 

Faridabad: Far right speakers at the Hindu Ekta rally gave anti-minority speeches, used anti-Muslim slurs, made open calls for economic boycott and genocide

The Bajrang Dal-organised event featured speakers Suresh Chavhanke and Jagadguru Paramhansa, no action taken by the police

Police to closely monitor Ram Navami processions in Hyderabad and Mumbai

CJP wrote to the local police in both cities and sought preventive action against these rallies organised by right wing groups, whoever the police assured strict vigilance

Open display of “welcome to Akhand Hindu Rashtra” accepted while “discomfort” over Namaz being offered in basement, is this the New India?

Muslims on edge during Ramadan as multiple incidents of violence, abuse and intimidation are being reported

Why did Delhi Police deny permission for Ram Navami procession in Jahangirpuri?

Ram Navami is going to be celebrated on March 30, however Delhi police wants to avoid a law and order situation in Jahangirpuri, given its ugly past

Kajal Hindusthani, Kapil Mishra, amongst others, target Muslim religious minorities, calls for their “erasure” and “Ghar Wapasi” unchallenged

These hate speeches were made at the “Hindu conclave”, organised by Digital Hindu Bhopal, a convention of Madhya Pradesh (MP)’s supremacist social media influencers held to further Hindutva agenda of establishing Hindu Rashtra

Cow vigilantism continues with impunity in northern states of India

Every month incidents of cow vigilantism are reported from the northern parts of the country, guilty rarely punished

MP, UP: incidents of hate, intolerance and violence against Muslims reported from both states

Targeting of religious minorities continue, in one shocking incident the police reportedly beat up Muslim locals who had called them for help

Bilkis Bano gang rape convict shares stage with BJP MP, MLA: Gujarat

On the day before the Supreme Court of India is set to hear a batch of petitions challenging the premature release of all 11 convicts by the Gujarat government on March 27, an elected representative of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) shares a stage with gang rape convict

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From Permanent Refuge to Perpetual Limbo: Why Sri Lankan Tamil refugees remain without citizenship even as electoral assurances reshape belonging in Bengal

Four decades after the 1983 exodus, thousands of Sri Lankan Tamil refugees remain classified as foreigners despite generations of residence in India — even as citizenship becomes a visible electoral assurance in Bengal through CAA-linked mobilisation

Making Waves: After inspiring swathes of peacemakers all over India, ‘Mohammed’ Deepak and his friend will launch a nationwide ‘Insaniyat Jodo Yatra’ to fight hatred

Unfettered by the attacks on himself and his friend after he intervened against Bajrang Dal hooliganism in Kotdwar, Uttarakhand, Deepak will now launch an Insaaniyat Jodo Yatra

SCs, Muslims both live in highly segregated neighbourhoods with poorer public services: International Study

The international working paper found that government services – like secondary schools, clinics and hospitals, electricity, water and sewerage – were all “systematically worse” in marginalised neighbourhoods

Ensure transparency and inclusion in the 2027 Census: CCG

In a letter to the Registrar General & Census Commissioner of India, over 90 members of the Constitutional Conduct Group (CCG), a collective of former civil servants from the All India and Central Services have urged that the Census process be transparent and inclusive; that OBCs be specifically enumerated, DNTs be enumerated as also the 1369 mother tongues in India be also separately classified (through supervision of the Anthropological Survey of India

CJP 2025: a constitutional vanguard against hate and coercion during elections

Citizens for Justice and Peace (CJP) spent 2025 defending India's secular fabric, filing rigorous and fearlessly complaints against communal polarisation and state-sponsored demonisation, by invoking the Model Code of Conduct, CJP successfully initiated challenges electoral hate speech and the weaponisation of welfare