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Caste Atrocity in 2025: Normalisation, neglect and the crisis of accountability

In 2025, between January and June alone, CJP recorded 113 incidents of caste atrocities on Dalit individuals across different states in India worst offending states were Uttar Pradesh (34 cases), Madhya Pradesh (15), and Tamil Nadu (8) while 962 reported land conflicts affect tribal populaces; of these 116 conflicts are in the Conservatory and Forestry sector, with 459,735 people currently affected.

Delhi violence update: 40 nabbed for spreading rumours, death toll touches 47

Panic spread across Delhi on Sunday as rumour mills worked over time, but on Monday truth came to light

Crisis medical help & health care wanting: Delhi Violence

A report by volunteers –Role of Health Systems in Responding to Communal Violence in Delhi--  involved in facilitating access to healthcare for victims of violence between February 25 to March 1, 2020

Legal help a priority as Police turned Perpetrator instead of Protector: Delhi

An eye witness report from the violence-affected areas of North East Delhi

Non-Partisan Judicial Inquiry into wilful police inaction in Delhi: 358+ Academics

Statement on the anti-Muslim pogrom in the capital demands accountability

Marooned by Hate: Muslims and the Delhi Pogrom

Arshad Alam for BeyondHeadlinesThe colonial usage of ‘riots’ denoted...

Govt(s) Centre & State absent from relief operations: Delhi Carnage

In the aftermath of communal violence in Delhi, a team of rights and political activists have examined the role of the government in ongoing relief operations and have found an abdication of responsibility. The activists have demanded that the chief minister, Arvind Kejriwal, ministers of the Central and Delhi government, MPs and MLAs must meet with all affected persons and immediately initiate confidence building measures. This Status report is based on visits to Bhajanpura, Chaman Park and Shiv Vihar on February 29, 2020

Turmoil in the North East: Ethnic divide widens in Meghalaya

Clashes between tribals and non-tribal communities during anti-CAA rally, curfew imposed in Shillong

Post riots, groups of men chant ‘shoot the traitors’ at Rajiv chowk metro and Connaught Place

Six men have been detained from the Rajiv Chowk metro station and are currently being questioned

Youth assaulted by cops in viral ‘national anthem’ video dies

Family alleges further custodial torture

Enormous emotional, psychological and economic impact on survivors: Report on Delhi violence

Fact finding team compiles eye witness accounts, finds clear signs of targetted violence

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