Nuh Riots Correspond to Larger Persecution of Region's Muslims: Fact-Finding Team
A fact-finding team constituted by the Centre for Study of Society and Secularism found that Nuh's residents were resentful about how easily its Muslim youth were abducted or killed while the culprits enjoyed impunity.
Two months after violence hit Delhi’s corporate suburb, Muslims who fled their temporary houses to go back to West Bengal, where they felt safer, are back. At home, in some of the State’s least developed areas mainly bordering Bangladesh, there are few jobs and little opportunity. Caught between hunger pangs and threats, Alisha Dutta and Samridhi Tewari ask why they picked the latter.
Accused in Nasir-Junaid Murder Case Monu Manesar Reveals Shocking Details During Interrogation
According to Manesar, the entire conspiracy was hatched eight days before the fateful night of February 14-15, when Junaid and Nasir were abducted and subsequently burned alive. The planning encompassed every detail of the operation, including the when, how, and where of abducting both victims.
Monu Manesar to be questioned in connection with murder of two Muslim men from Rajasthan
Monu Manesar — booked by Rajasthan Police for the murder of Nasir and Junaid and accused by some of inciting the recent violence in Nuh — was nabbed on Tuesday.
In Opening Session Speech, UN Human Rights Chief Raises Manipur and Nuh Violence
Speaking on the situation in India, Volker Türk said that his office “frequently receives information that marginalised minority communities are subjected to violence and discrimination”.
After Nuh Violence, Farmers and Khap Panchayats in Mewat Stand Up Against Hate
Since July 31, farmers have held three major meetings in the region to counter the communal build-up in Haryana. Besides, over 20 Khap panchayat meetings have been held since anti-Muslim violence rocked Nuh and Gurugram.
Innocent Muslims being murdered in India due to Hindu radicalism
ITV News reveals the impact of the dangerous rise of Hindu radicalism, inspired by - critics tell us - Prime Minister Modi & his party, as John Ray reports.
India’s home demolitions wipe off ‘labour of generations’
Rattled by communal violence and crushed by ‘bulldozer justice,’ poor Muslim families in Haryana state’s Nuh district say they have hit a dead-end in their own country.
'I Feel Bad That They're Scared': Nuh's Hindus Condemn Violence, Demolitions Against Muslims
Broken shacks, shanties and sign boards are the casualty of the Haryana government’s abrupt move to demolish “illegally constructed” buildings in the Muslim-dominated Nuh, which recently saw a storm of violence leaving six dead and injuring more than a hundred.
The recent communal violence in Nuh and the government's punitive measures have further dispossessed its Muslim residents, already victims of cow vigilantes and of poverty, writes Harsh Mander.
In Riot-Torn Nuh, A Muslim Man Has Found It Impossible To Get His Complaint Registered
As the Punjab and Haryana High Court questions if the Bharatiya Janata Party government in Haryana is conducting “ethnic cleansing”, we chronicle the struggle of a Muslim man with a seemingly impossible task of getting the police to register his complaint against a far-right Hindu group in the aftermath of the communal violence.
At Haryana's Palwal, renewed call for boycott of minorities
A lawyer who had been booked for hate speech at a panchayat in Gurgaon’s Tigra village on August 6 was one of the organisers of another such meet in Palwal on Sunday.
Kulbhushan Bhardwaj, a district court lawyer, on Sunday dared the administration to lodge a second FIR against him and exhorted youths to take out another Brij Mandal Jalabhishek Yatra on August 28, “come what may”.
How India's Bulldozers Became a Vehicle of Injustice
In many BJP-governed states, especially in northern India, demolition drives have not only become a common tactic to quash Muslim dissent, but bulldozers have evolved as a Hindu-nationalist symbol. They feature during election victories, in parade floats in both India and abroad, on packets of chips, and in several Hindu nationalist anthems.
As the 2024 Elections Approach, India Is Entering the Most Dangerous Phase of Its Existence
The violence in Nuh, Palwal and Gurgaon makes it clear Narendra Modi has fallen back on the one antidote with which he is familiar, which worked unfailingly in Gujarat and in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. This is the stirring up hatred of Muslims and other minorities in the Hindu majority.
Demolitions as state-sanctioned collective punishment
Abandoning the rule of law for ‘bulldozer justice’ is the first step towards an authoritarian society where ensuring a person’s safety, life and liberty will be at the whims and fancies of state officials, writes Gautam Bhatia.
Haryana: Resolutions banning entry of Muslims traders withdrawn after authorities send show-cause notice
On August 3 and 4, around 50 village panchayats from three districts collectively signed boycott letters against Muslim traders, renting houses to Muslims.
Women & children hardest hit after Nuh bulldozer run
Parmeena (27) has to mix sugar with water when her 18-month-old son Zeeshan cries for milk. Her elder son (5), stewing in humid weather, keeps asking when the family will be able to sleep with a fan on.