'The shocking incident took place at the Silver Link Oyo hotel on Saturday morning when the man, a 31-year-old assistant professor from Udaipur tried to check in to his room. His companion, the Hindu woman was expected to join him later when she arrived from Delhi. He told Indian Express, “I had booked a room for two in the hotel through a travel app. I reached the hotel somewhere around 8-9 am. The receptionist then asked me about the other person who was to check in with me and I gave them my friend’s name, but to my shock I was told that ‘this is a problem.
'The police in Alwar, Rajasthan on Sunday (October 6) morning arrested two men for forcing a Muslim couple to chant ‘Jai Shri Ram’ and harassing them. According to the Hindustan Times, the couple, from Haryana, was waiting at a bus stop in Alwar at 11:30 pm on Saturday when two men on a motorcycle stopped and harassed them. “According to the FIR, they forced the couple to chant Jai Shri Ram and one of the men flashed before the woman,” police said...'
'Almost a month after an Alwar court pronounced its judgement in the Pehlu Khan lynching case, a similar case is lined up to have its day in court. In this case too, self-styled gau rakshaks, apparently convinced of Muslim men being cattle smugglers, thrashed him to death. Rakbar Khan was killed on the night of July 20, 2018, when he and his friend Aslam Khan were brutally attacked by a mob while they were transporting milch cows on foot to their home in Haryana’s Kolgaon from a village in Alwar...'
'The Rajasthan human rights commission has said that women who live with their partners before marriage are “like concubines”, and that live-in relationships should be legislated again to “protect women”. “It is the responsibility of the government and human rights organisations to protect women from the harms of live-in relationship through intensive awareness campaigns,” an order issued by the commission’s chairperson, Justice Prakash Tatia, and member, Justice Mahesh Chand Sharma, said.
'On April 1 2017, dairy farmer Pehlu Khan was dragged out of the truck in which he was transporting cattle bought from a fair and assaulted by a mob of cow vigilantes on the Jaipur-Delhi highway. The 55-year-old died in hospital. Two years on, the men seen yanking Pehlu Khan by the neck, throwing him to the ground and kicking him repeatedly, have been acquitted by a court in Rajasthan on the benefit of doubt...'
'At least 500 cows have died owing to starvation over the past five days at Hingonia Cow Rehabilitation Centre in Jaipur. The agency managing the cattle centre, Shri Krishna Balram Trust, alleged it has not received funds to the tune of Rs 11.84 crore from the Jaipur Municipal Corporation since last October to purchase the fodder, sources told Newsclick. For the past few weeks, cows were surviving with very little amount of fodder and the number of dying cows began shooting up from 12 February when it rose to 70 and to 72 on 14 February.
'Saddled with new school textbooks introduced in July 2016 that educationists criticised as narrow, sectarian and unscientific, some teachers in Rajasthan made an effort to limit the damage. Vakil Singh, former principal of Government Senior Secondary School in Kaliyan in Sri Ganganagar district, for instance, stocked the school library with magazines and other reading material for even the junior classes. He made weekly library visits mandatory for all children.
'On the morning of July 20, 2015, Rajasthan’s education minister Vasudev Devnani held a meeting with education officials in Jaipur and laid out a roadmap: he wanted new textbooks for Classes 1 to 8 within three months. And by the same evening, he wanted a list of experts who could write them. The rewriting took longer than what the minister wanted – the new textbooks were introduced in schools in July 2016. But all other objectives laid down in the meeting were achieved.
'...Educationists in Rajasthan say these changes are in keeping with the larger trend of textbook revisions made under the Bharatiya Janata Party government. Not only do the new textbooks reinforce the Hindu majoritarian worldview, they all but erase minority identities. Science is explained through stories from Indian mythology and every maths textbook from Class 3 to 8 has a chapter on Vedic maths. The banned practice of sati is described in glowing terms, as are government schemes and initiatives.
'As the details are emerging about the brutal killing of Akbar Khan, also known as Rakbar Khan, who was lynched to death at Lalawandi village in Alwar district of Rajasthan on July 20 night by self-proclaimed Gau Rakshaks (cow vigilantes) on the suspicion of cow smuggling, it appears that the police was complicit in the attack. The 28-year-old Khan, a resident of Kol village in Haryana, was in the custody of the cops for around three hours and 45 minutes before he was taken to a Community Health Centre, which is around six kilometre away from the spot, where he was declared brought dead.
