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Spate of cow vigilantism in November 2024: Brutal assaults and legal impunity across North India
From Haryana to Uttar Pradesh and Punjab, a series of violent incidents highlight the unchecked rise of cow vigilante groups, with escalating attacks on the marginalised community, and the complicity of law enforcement in enabling such violence
Rajasthan: Muslim students barred from school, called ‘Chambal ke Daaku’ for wearing hijab
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.
Reason, emotion and history
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Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh: 5 Dalit children beaten with sticks, with hands tied behind their back, for drinking water from a well
Video of the incident shows a group of people standing mute as the man continues to beat the crying children mercilessly
To include or exclude: process of including a Community in SC or ST list
Established procedures and a collective assessment by the statutory NCSC and NCST Commissions, RGI is needed before the union government may accept a proposal for inclusion sent by any state government
Haldwani minorities fear deaths to be higher than official figures, narrate tales of police brutality & complicity: Fact-finding report
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
Dalit groom attacked, threatened, and beaten off a horse at his wedding in Gujarat
A group of higher caste men attacked a Dalit man at his wedding and forced him to get off his horse because they did not think Dalits can be allowed to ride horses. The police have arrested four of the accused as of now
Maharashtra Mob Violence: Muslim student and a fruit vendor, forced into chanting ‘Jai Sri Ram’
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.
Tiruppur district administration breaks down ‘Untouchability Wall’
The revenue department’s takes a step closer to dismantling casteist practices. A demand to bring down the caste wall was advocated by several advocacy groups against untouchability
Telangana: Transgender individual brutally lynched by mob in Nizamabad
A transgender person, Raju, accused of kidnapping children was killed by a mob who attacked them. They succumbed to their injuries despite being taken to the hospital.
Haldwani: Police allege planned mob attack, as local Muslims state police harassing and detaining family members without evidence
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.
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