Tag: Attack on Muslims

Days After Muslim Properties Torched in Tripura, Opposition Parties Say Atmosphere of Fear Persists

While police remain uncertain whether the violence stemmed from a puja subscription dispute or a traffic altercation, political parties have come forward with their conflicting versions of events.

Unchecked Vigilantism, Repeated Harm: Why CJP has filed a fresh complaint on Malabar Hill incident

CJP’s urgent follow-up complaint warns that silence and inaction have allowed religious vigilantism to become a tool of everyday governance

Partitioned minds, a Saffron Fatwa & Denial of Fair Opportunity: Mata Vaishno Devi University, Jammu

Each time, or several times in the past eleven plus years, incident after incident, brazen, bloody and discriminatory slips us lower into the abyss; the latest but sadly not the last is what transpired just this week at the Mata Vaishno Devi University, Jammu

CJP moves National Commission for Minorities over vigilante violence, identity policing, and targeted evictions across states

Complaint documents a pattern of assaults, economic intimidation, disruption of prayer meetings, and selective state response affecting Muslim and Christian communities between September and November 2025

Documenting a national pattern of vigilantism & targeted action against minorities

Incidents recorded between September and November 2025 point to a recurring pattern of assaults, intimidation, identity policing, religious disruption and state action affecting Muslim and Christian communities across multiple states

Muslim clothes hawker dies after prolonged mob torture in Bihar’s Nawada

A week after being brutally attacked in Nawada, Mohammad Athar Hussain succumbed to his injuries, leaving behind unanswered questions on accountability, identity-based violence, and justice

Communal Profiling at Malabar Hill, CJP’s files complaint with Maharashtra Police and NCM

The complaint to Maharashtra Police and the NCM details how a former BJYM office-bearer allegedly conducted unauthorised identity checks and singled out vendors on religious grounds

Can majoritarian societal pressure re-write the rulebook? The illegality behind forced non-veg shutdowns during festivals

Across cities, self-styled vigilantes and pliant administrations are turning a majoritarian religious sentiment into state policy—forcing meat shops shut, harassing small vendors, and eroding constitutional freedoms. As livelihood and dietary choice fall victim to faith-led policing, we ask, can devotion be invoked to justify discrimination? Does this trend underline how faith is being weaponised to erode rights and livelihoods?

CJP files complaint to Maharashtra DGP, SP Jalgaon over police participation in communal rally amid Suleman Pathan lynching probe

Citizens for Justice and Peace demands disciplinary action against Jamner police officers seen marching with Shiv Pratisthan Hindustan — the same outfit linked to the accused in Suleman Pathan’s lynching, calling it a grave breach of constitutional neutrality and investigative integrity

Tilak, ID Checks & Religious Tests: what’s happening at Garba events?

As Navratri begins, joy meets judgment with Aadhaar checks, tilaks, and demands for Muslim entry bans, festival grounds are turning into sites of exclusion

Madhya Pradesh Muslim man lynched in Rajasthan’s Bhilwara over cattle transport; family alleges religious targeting & extortion plot

Family alleges hate crime and extortion as Bhilwara police probe mob attack; victim leaves behind wife and two young children

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