Tag: Communal Violence

In the backdrop of mobs swarming the area, vandalism and setting fire to property, and BJP MLA making incendiary statements, Mumbai’s Mira Road continues to remain charged with tension

An individual, identified as Amit Rastogi, allegedly removed the flag of the other procession, resulting in chaos 

Demanding an impartial probe into the September 10 incidents in western Maharashtra, this detailed report by the Centre for the Study of Society and Secularism (CSSS), also investigates how a derogatory social media post on Allah was created and used in ‘tit for tat’ tactics to further communal polarisation; on September 15, citizens of Mumbai and Maharashtra had demanded compensation for Nurul Hassan Shikalgar and a judicial probe; Satara police had found that the August 2023 social media post attributed to a young Muslim was posted by another

Part II of the Nuh fact finding report, Anatomy of Violence in the Hithero peaceful Nuh, undertaken by the Centre for the Study of Society and Secularism

A delegation of citizens including senior activists, journalists and members of political paries, have met the district collector and demanded an independent judicial inquiry, action against persons responsible for manipulated instagram posts that out the blame on a Muslim youth and criminal cases against Shambhaji Bhide (Shiv Pratishthan) and Vikram Pawaskar (Hindu Sena) , serial offenders who have been provoking violence in western Maharashtra, especially Satara district

Section 144 imposed, and internet suspended as authorities try dispel communal tension in Maharashtra's Satara district.

For days before the violence erupted in Nuh, Haryana, hate speeches were made, social media was used for amplification and mobilising and finally an armed procession succeeded in the sinister plan: communal clashes in Nuh, Haryana

'The whole country will burn like Manipur if these people are not contained,' the former J&K governor said, in an apparent reference to the Modi government. He also stated that like the ‘security lapse’ at Pulwama when 44 CRPF men in a road convoy were not given protection nor secure air travel, the next few months could see “attacks on the Ram temple’ at Ayodhya or the ‘killing of a senior BJP leader’

MOS Home in the union government, Rao Inderjit Singh said he approached Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar and the Union Home Ministry to send Central forces to Nuh after realising that the police force was "insufficient".

Gurgaon’s Sector 57 mosque was vandalised, set on fire...