Communalism
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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFNSO7ho2DI What LK Advani Said On Babri Mosque Demolition (Aired: December 2000)
NDTV
Flashback: On Babri Masjid Demolition and Bombay Violence in 1992/3, LK Advani to Karan Thapar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vryZrQItkYc
The Wire An interview with LK Advani recorded in April 1993 for Eyewitness on the Babri Masjid demolition, Bombay riots, attitude and treatment of Muslims, immigrants from Bangladesh and his response to Hindu hardliners/extremists.
Subcategories
Hate Crime
Hate Speech / Incitement to violence
Hate Speech Maharashtra
PUCL Maharashtra has decided to showcase information on Hate Speech in Maharashtra as presented in the different websites, social media of Civil Society organisations and concerned individuals. Each one has their own style of documentation and each one is a shining node. We hope to have a decentralised platform which will valorise whatever work individuals an organisations are doing, such that while they do their regular work of posting, creating websites, blogs, data directories, such that it can be searched, and researched, and help activist (information activist, if you will) curate this content into learning modules, state of the art reports.. letting a thousand nodes glow.
250811-Jalgaon-lynching of Pathan after being seen with Hindu woman at cafe
A 21-year-old Muslim man was on Monday beaten to death allegedly by members of a Hindutva group in the town of Jamner in Maharashtra’s Jalgaon district. The perpetrators allegedly assaulted Suleman Rahim Khan Pathan after he was seen with a Hindu woman from the same village at a cafe
250114-Yavatmal
Two Muslim-owned restaurants in Wani, Yavatmal, were forcibly shut down by members of the Bajrang Dal
2501XX-Mumbai-Kurla
At the “Samrast Yatra” event in Kurla, Mumbai, organised by the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) and Bajrang Dal, a Jain monk disseminated hate speech rife with anti-Muslim propaganda.
250200-Rane
Rane’s speeches continued throughout the month of February, spreading more hateful conspiracy theories, and even suggesting that if Muslims “looked at Hindus in an incorrect manner,” they would face consequences. He stated that, “Our government is very bad. What is going on around I am aware of everything. You don’t have to struggle. Wherever something wrong is happening, wherever someone tries to slaughter a cow, wherever someone tries to smuggle, wherever green snakes try to wriggle, just make one call, and leave the rest of the arrangements to me., https://cjp.org.in/the-role-of-leaders-in-spreading-divisive-rhetoric/