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Neighbours protest after Muslim couple buy home in India: ‘This is a Hindu society’ https://www.independent.co.uk/asia/india/moradabad-muslim-doctor-house-hindu-society-b2660034.html  Alisha Rahaman Sarkar  06 December 2024 Protesting residents hold up banners asking previous Hindu owner to take house back 

The RSS Must Confront Its Crisis of Vision   https://thewire.in/religion/the-rss-must-confront-its-crisis-of-vision  Harish Khare 03/Dec/2024 Even Bhagwat has felt compelled to restrain the more extreme elements within his fold, admonishing them against searching for a trishul under every mosque. But therein lies the problem.

The RSS has built a vast ecosystem of respectability. This includes eminent personalities – retired Supreme Court judges, generals, bureaucrats, IPS and IFS officers, middle-class professionals, and even housewives and grandmothers – singing the tune of a “Hindu renaissance” scripted in Nagpur.

The organisation is now reduced to banalities, such as advocating for Hindus in Bangladesh or urging families to “produce three children.”

 Gujarat court acquits ex-IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt in custodial torture case  https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/gujarat-court-acquits-ex-ips-officer-sanjiv-bhatt-in-custodial-torture-case/article68961190.ece Additional chief judicial magistrate Mukesh Pandya on Saturday (December 7, 2024) acquitted Bhatt, the then superintendent of police (SP) of Porbandar, in a case registered against him under IPC sections pertaining to causing grievous hurt to obtain confession and other provisions by giving him the benefit of the doubt due to lack of evidence.

He is also an accused in a case of alleged fabrication of evidence in connection with the 2002 Gujarat riots cases along with activist Teesta Setalvad and former Gujarat director general of police R.B. Sreekumar.

Bhatt, who was removed from police service by the Gujarat government over unauthorised absence, moved the Supreme Court challenging the Gujarat High Court's January 9, 2024 order dismissing his appeal.

Supreme Court notice to Gujarat on Sanjiv Bhatt's plea against conviction in custodial death case https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/supreme-court-notice-to-gujarat-govt-on-sanjiv-bhatts-plea-against-conviction-in-custodial-death-case/article68572098.ece 

Gujarat police officer implicates Modi in riots https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/Gujarat-police-officer-implicates-Modi-in-riots/article10321755.ece 
He told us to let rioters & teach a lesson' to Muslims