Hate Crime
On June 14, All India Lawyer’s Association for Justice (AILAJ), a progressive lawyer’s organisation, issued a statement demanding an in-house inquiry against Allahabad high court judge, Justice Shekhar Kumar Yadav for Islamophobic statements made in December 2024 at an event of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP), a Hindu right-wing organisation. In the statement issued by the AILAJ National Committee, the organisation stated, “Bigotry is the antithesis of fraternity, and the judiciary must not tolerate it within its ranks”. Lawyers' Body Renews Call for In-House Inquiry Against Allahabad HC Judge Over Anti-Muslim Hate Speech - The Wire
The demand comes in response to Justice Yadav’s speech made during a lecture on the “Constitutional Necessity of Uniform Civil Code” on December 8, 2024 in Prayagraj, organised by VHP. The speech markedly adopted a language that many characterised as a ‘hate speech’ against Indian Muslims.
by Simran aur
19/06/2025
The Karnataka IAS Officers’ Association strongly condemned the remarks on a senior Muslim officer by Bharatiya Janata Party leader and chief whip of the Opposition in the state legislative council, N. Ravikumar, who had said that she “may have come from Pakistan”. https://theprint.in/india/karnataka-bjp-mlc-booked-for-pakistan-remark-on-muslim-dm-state-ias-association-demands-apology/2638455/
The remarks were made against Fouzia Taranum, the deputy commissioner and district magistrate of Kalaburagi district.
by Sanya Dhingra
27/05/2025
An apology has come from the Gopalakrishna Temple Trust in Tekkar village of Belthangady taluk in Karnataka’s Dakshina Kannada district, to Muslims who were hurt by the alleged hate speech made by Belthangady MLA Harish Poonja during a temple programme on May 3, The Hindu reported.
Poonja, an MLA of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), had reportedly delivered a provocative speech during the temple’s Brahmakalashotsava function in which he allegedly blamed a section of the Muslims for damaging some tube lights put up by the organising committee of the event.
15/05/2025
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Kunwar Vijay Shah on Thursday (May 15) moved the Supreme Court challenging the Madhya Pradesh high court order directing action against him over his remarks on Colonel Sofiya Qureshi. https://thewire.in/communalism/high-court-orders-fir-against-mp-minister-over-derogatory-remarks-against-col-sofiya-qureshi
The high court had ordered a police case to be filed urgently against the Madhya Pradesh cabinet minister over his recent derogatory remark against Colonel Qureshi, who held a series of media briefings on Operation Sindoor last week.
A division bench of Justice Atul Sreedharan and Justice Anuradha Shukla on Wednesday (May 14) initiated a suo motu case against Shah, calling his remarks against the Colonel “dangerous”.
15/05/2025
For the past few years, the ruling establishment and right-wing organizations have been brazenly and openly carrying on the politics of caste/religious hatred. Hate speech, religious slogans, caste/religious or violence are used at capital level. Most of the participants are completely surprised. No action is taken against them. The only objective is to destroy differences of any kind. Even if the differences are based on ethnic/religious issues, they are being twisted that way. Apart from this, new laws like anti-conversion law, public safety law etc. have been created.
For the last few months, rallies organized by Sakal Hindu Samaj, near the airport, Ram Navami Mirvanuk and Nitesh Rane and other persons have been making hate speeches. There would have been religious violence in Malad during Eid and during the inauguration of Ayodhya temple last year, there would have been Meera Roadwar violence.
Similarly, incidents of hate speech and violence have occurred on a large scale in Maharashtra, Nagpur, Malvan, Parbhani etc. People's houses and shops are being destroyed illegally using bulldozers. The police do not take any action against the gathering and they are given complete freedom to resort to violence. The situation is getting worse day by day in terms of ethnic/religious polarization, violence and discrimination. On the other hand, by changing the law or by the decision of the Supreme Court to ban further demonstrations against the students of institutions like TISS, Kunal Kamrachya case and Azad Maidan, the democratic way of showing protest has come to be restricted. Many examples can be given but this is not the purpose of the appeal.
After the brutal massacre in Pahalgam, Hindutva forces are using power or influence to create more Islamophobia - leading to violence against Muslims in Mumbai and Maharashtra in general.
Gayatri Singh, Sitaram Shelar,
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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.
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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
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Two Muslim-owned restaurants in Wani, Yavatmal, were forcibly shut down by members of the Bajrang Dal
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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.
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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/