Hate Speech

From Words to Bulldozers: How a Chief Minister’s rhetoric triggered and normalised punitive policing in Bareilly

Following the “I Love Muhammad” controversy in September 2025, Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath’s public warnings—using phrases like “chedhoge to chodenge nahi” and “denting and painting must be done”—were swiftly mirrored by mass arrests, property demolitions, and internet shutdowns, raising urgent questions about legality, proportionality, and the social impact of executive speech

All of you will die, your children too: Narsinghanand tells Haridwar cops as they arrest Jitendra Tyagi

After the Supreme Court's notice Jitendra Narayan Singh Tyagi was the first accused to be arrested in the Haridwar hate speech case

CJP’s new map tracks Caste-based Hate Crimes across India in 2021

These are not figures from a century ago, but from the past year; Hate crimes against Dalits and Adivasis continue even today!

Hate Offender: Meet Deepak Sharma, a self proclaimed Hindutva ‘leader’ seeking political attention in UP

Sharma has declared he “will do a freelance campaign everyday,” for “bulldozer baba” as he fondly refers to UP’s CM Adityanath

Repeat hate offender Milind Ekbote once again rewarded with bail

He has been charged with rioting, disturbing peace, but was granted bail despite his previous track record of allegedly inciting hate and violence

SC issues notice in plea urging criminal prosecution in Dharam Sansad case

Spiritual leaders had called for genocide of minorities at the event, but little or no action has been taken against them so far

Minorities Commission forwards CJP’s complaint against Tejasvi Surya Bengaluru DGP

In May 2021, the BJP MP had insinuated that only volunteers of minority community were responsible for an alleged "bed blocking scam" in the city to prevent majority community Covid-19 patients from getting medical care

SC to hear plea seeking SIT probe in ‘Dharam Sansad’ due to lack of substantive police inquiry

The petition filed by former Patna High Court judge and a journalist, states that the police have failed to fulfill constitutional ‘duty of care’ by not conducting fair investigation

Socio-economic boycott of Muslims underway in Chhattisgarh?

Hindutva groups urge people to take an oath saying, “We Hindus will not buy goods from any Muslim”

Meet CT ‘Desh ke gaddaron ko goli maro’ Ravi, a repeat hate offender

The BJP leader has targeted minorities and women in the past  

Dalits and Adivasis suffered violence and discrimination even in 2021

Though most of these attacks emerge from societal prejudices and historic alienation, a dispensation that has encouraged a state of impunity to targeted crimes of the most marginalised has made matters more acute

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From Words to Bulldozers: How a Chief Minister’s rhetoric triggered and normalised punitive policing in Bareilly

Following the “I Love Muhammad” controversy in September 2025, Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath’s public warnings—using phrases like “chedhoge to chodenge nahi” and “denting and painting must be done”—were swiftly mirrored by mass arrests, property demolitions, and internet shutdowns, raising urgent questions about legality, proportionality, and the social impact of executive speech

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