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Court directs govt to appoint special public prosecutor in trial against police officers
 https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/mumbai/agnelo-valdaris-custodial-death-case-cbi-pocso-act-trial-against-eight-police-officials-in-grp-theft-case-8953366/

Special Judge S M Menjoge said that Agnelo had died in police custody and the high court has directed to frame charges against the accused police personnel including under Section 302 (murder) of the Indian Penal Code. “This court cannot differentiate the directions given by Hon’ble High Court that it is not in respect of custodial death in other cases. Custodial death means custodial death,”     The CBI in its probe had said the death could not be considered a murder and sought for the accused police personnel to be charged for assault and sections of POCSO. The high court had, however, directed the trial court to charge the police officials for murder.

In Satara, murder during a prayer https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/other-states/in-maharashtras-satara-murder-during-a-prayer/article67334686.ece
On September 10, ... According to the police, the violence was alleged ly triggered by two ‘objectionable’ messages — one about Lord Rama and Sita and another about Shivaji Maharaj — posted by two young Muslims on a social media platform. As soon as the social media monitoring team of the local police came across the post, they picked up one of the men, while the other, a native of Pusesavali, was traced to Kolhapur. “While the police were questioning a young man about the post at the outpost, some people began to create a ruckus outside the out post. They started moving towards the mosque.
It all happened within a few minutes,” says a senior police officer, who is privy to the investigation. The officer says at least 10 policemen suffered injuries. The mob torched a couple of police vehicles, he says. The mob, which allegedly consisted of Hindu men from Pursesavali and the neighbouring villages of Thorvewadi NV and Wadgaon Jairam Swami, reached the mosque and began rioting.

Former Maharashtra Chief Minister and Congress leader Prithviraj Chavan has raised concerns over police inaction in the Pusesavali riot, labelling it a “preplanned and predetermined coldblooded murder.” Chavan claims that the State government has been actively polarising people through social media in the leadup to the Lok Sabha and Assembly elections. He said to The Hindu: “During my visit, the people informed me that the rioters
continuously chanted, “‘Hamara Home Minister hai, kuch nahi hoga” (Our Home Minister is with us; nothing will happen to us)’. I believe this incident is part of a pogrom and I demand a judicial inquiry into the riot. Chief Minister Eknath
Shinde and Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis should visit the bereaved family. The rioters wanted to terrorise the Muslim community.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yI6WHnm220I भारत बना माइनॉरिटी पर अत्याचार का हब_रिपोर्ट में बड़ा खुलासा, UN report On Indian Minorities, pm modi

Full text of submission by Fernand de Varenes: UN Special Rapporteur https://www.uscirf.gov/sites/default/files/Fernand%20de%20Varennes%20Testimony.pdf Human rights defenders, lawyers and journalists, face harassment, surveillance or even detention under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act. Nongovernmental organizations have also been targeted and in some cases closed under the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act.
Let me repeat: India risks becoming one of the world’s main generators of instability, atrocities and violence, because of the massive scale and gravity of the violations and abuses targeting mainly religious and other minorities such as Muslims, Christians, Sikhs and others. It is not just individual or local, it is systematic and a reflection of religious nationalism.

Official silence over violent attacks and rhetoric is encouraging majority nationalist groups to even more brazen violence with a religious tint.  The violence in Manipur is also a warning of the dangers of inaction.

A study noted a 786% increase in hate crimes against minorities between 2014 and 2018 - Dominance of Majoritarian Poltics and Hate Crimes Against Religious Minorties in India, 2009-2018, Deepankar Basu, Political Economy Research Institute. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1274&context=econ_workingpaper

Disturbing visuals https://youtu.be/JZpSINiulDg