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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

CJP complaints to CP, Amravati against Sakal Hindu Samaj event, urges stringent action

Bharatanand Saraswati had delivered a hate speech last week at Amravati, riled up the audience by the Muslim community for spread of Covid

30 FIRs Registered against Hate Speech and Hate Crimes: DGP, Maharashtra

In its affidavit filed in the Supreme Court of India (SC) in the ongoing case filed by Shaheen Abdullah v/s Director General of Police, Maharashtra (DGP), the Maharashtra police has stated that, since February 2023 as many as 30 FIRS have been registered in hate speech related cases in the state

Jaipur: FIR against Sadhvi Prachi for delivering anti-Muslim hate speech

The far right leader delivered the speech inside a movie theatre showing ‘The Kerala Story’, instigated Hindu women

Hate Crime & Hate Speech, SC’s scrutiny to continue

Prompt action, irrespective of religion ensures no hate crimes, Justice KM Joseph says on his last hearing before the SC vacation

What a one-sided Kerala Story does to society – Part II

Some more videos have surfaced online which show right wing groups entering movie halls screening the movie and instigating the audience

Second hate speech FIR against Kallicharan Maharaj: Aurangabad rural

This will be the ninth FIR filed by the Maharashtra police over the past four months; no arrests so far made

Suresh Chavhanke’s hate mongering continues with immunity: Shrirampur, Ahmednagar

Muslim community targeted by Chavhanke again, calls of violence reverberate in another hate speech; Maratha king's birth anniversary celebration in Shrirampur provides another opportunity for hate mongering

Pursuant to complaint by CJP to Jalgaon police, against hate event on Apil 30, a diverse delegation of citizens approach police, demand prompt action

At this event organised by the Hindu Janjagruti Samiti on April 30, incendiary and inciteful speeches were made, Muslims were the target

What a one-sided Kerala Story does to society

Some videos have surfaced online which show how the reactions to the movie have created fear mongering and in some cases even led to violence. The fear is that there is possibly more to come

Former RAW officer makes inciteful speech, belittles Islam and Christianity

In this undated speech, RSN Singh, known to have made controversial statement against Prophet Mohammad in the past, said that Hindus have the right to analyse all other religions

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