Hate Speech

CJP files complaint against BJP MLA & Minister Nitesh Rane and right-wing leaders over alleged hate speeches in Maharashtra and West Bengal

Through detailed complaints submitted to senior police officials, CJP has alleged that speeches delivered in Mumbai, Pune, and Nadia promoted religious enmity, intimidation, violence, and economic boycott against Muslims, CJP has also cited Supreme Court directions and Maharashtra Police circulars mandating immediate preventive and penal action against hate speech and communal incitement

Assam CM call to expel ‘Miya Muslims,’ leads to violence against Bengali speaking Muslim Labourers

FIR registered against BJP leader for assault on Bengali speaking Muslim labourers and threatens them to leave Assam and Assamese Muslim singer arrested for protest song “Miya Bihu”

CJP sent three complaints to Maharahtra Police against right-wing outfits

In complaints, CJP asked Maharashtra Police to deny permission of the proposed events of right-wing extremist organizations SHS and HJS, CJP also highlighted the recent violence that erupted in Maharashtra during the “Morchas” called by the extremist right-wing outfits

BJP MP Kangana’s foul mouthed slip against farmers, again, compels saffron party to a hurried public apology

Issuing a public statement on X, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) distances itself from another foul mouthed faux pas by its elected MP from Mandi, HP, after she says “dead bodies were hanging from trees,” rapes happened during farmers protests!

Human Rights Watch reports that Modi made at least 110 Islamophobic remarks during 2024 election campaign

HRW also found notable increase in violence against minority communities in India during the decade long BJP rule

Kalicharan’s inflammatory rhetoric promoting division and inciting violence in Maharashtra, CJP calls for urgent intervention

In his speech delivered in Nashik, Kalicharan has made strange and offensive claims against the Muslims to spread his divisive ideology, attempted to encourage violence against the Muslim community by distorting India’s past as well as the history of the beloved leaders of Maharashtra.

Punjab MP seeks curb over communal hatred posts on social media

In Parliament, Punjab MP Vikramjit Singh Sahney asked the Centre to furnish details of the steps & actions taken by the government to control religious and communal hate posts on the social media, Sahney also submitted the private member bill against online hate

Assam CM compares districts of Assam with Bangladesh; calls some of the districts ‘tiny Bangladesh’

Himanta Biswa Sarma once again delivers hate speech targeting Muslims; says fear in some people that government might use police and military is keeping Hindus safe

Assam CM Sarma announces introduction on legislation to prohibit ‘Land-Jihad’, amendments to law on ‘Love-Jihad’

The proposed legislation will restrict exchange of land between people of different faith as no Hindu could sell their land to non-Hindus or Muslims, and vice-versa, without the prior permission of the state government.

CJP moves UP Police against the communal and hate-spewing speeches

Both the complaints raise concern over the incidents of Hate Speeches growing in Uttar Pradesh against the Muslims and Christians, prayed UP Police to take immediate action and register FIR against the serial hate offenders.

Multiple hate speeches emerge from Gujarat, Bihar, and West Bengal, sparking concerns, CJP files complaints

The legal complaints against the three hate speeches in these states have been sent to the relevant police authority and district magistrate

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