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How defending a 70-year-old Muslim shopkeeper triggered FIRs, highway blockades, and a law-and-order crisis in Uttarakhand
What began as a local intervention against alleged intimidation over a shop’s name spiralled into right-wing mobilisation, multiple FIRs, and a national debate on selective policing, free speech, and communal harmony in Kotdwar
Is There A Bhagwa/Saffron Love Trap For Muslim Girls?
The allegation is that Hindu men are being trained to trap Muslim girls with the express intention of converting them.
No justice for Rakbar Khan: Four convicted for culpable homicide, VHP leader Naval Kishore acquitted of all charges
Judgment receives criticism as only seven years’ imprisonment meted out, Khan’s family says order will be challenged in Rajasthan High Court
Uttarkashi: Muslims flee homes as right wing threatens the community over abduction of young girl
A minor girl was reportedly abducted by two men, one of whom was a Muslim which sparked outrage in the area
Ghastly murder of a minor girl on street fuels communal fire: Delhi
Violence of another kind grips Delhi: the victim, a 16-year-old girl, was stabbed more than 20 times, head bludgeoned with a stone as bystanders stand & watch
Idrees Pasha Lynching in Sathanuru, Karnataka: Lapses in prevention of crime, nabbing accused, weak investigation
The brutal killing on the night of March 31 was preceded by inept prevention by local police, subsequent to the killing attackers were not apprehended even though police personnel witnessed assault and saw accused including Puneeth Kerejhalli using social media to broadcast the crimes; overall investigations faulty and weak, says the Fact Finding Report into the Murder of Idrees Pasha in Sathanuru, Ramnagar, Karnataka. The family was not even provided a copy of the post mortem report
Gujarat HC orders status quo on Dahod Nagina Masjid demolitions
The Gujarat High Court directed the Dahod municipality to follow ‘due process of law’ on Nagina Masjid plot and give the petitioners the opportunity of a hearing.
120 Churches destroyed, Christians insecure: Manipur
With the internet being again shut down over the weekend in the state of Manipur, reports of close to 120 churches being burnt down has thrown into doubt and question the quality of governance in the state
Escalating atrocities against minorities, US urged to issue sanctions against offending individuals: IAMC
The first quarterly report of the Indian American Muslim Council (IAMC) makes a detailed set of recommendations as it flags religious persecution in India
61 Muslims win in Uttar Pradesh urban polls on BJP tickets
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Results which give significant representation to the minority otherwise invisible in the political sphere have raised a debate on whether Muslims in the state are willing to vote for a party that has often stigmatized its own
K’taka: Bail to cow vigilante, Puneeth Kerehalli, accused of killing Muslim man
Kerehalli and 4 others were arrested on April 5 and were denied bail by trial court
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