'...A day after a Muslim man was brutally lynched over rumours that he had eaten beef, local Bharatiya Janata Party leaders on Monday seemed to justify the murder by suggesting that the victim was at fault if he really did have beef stored in his house. The party is also threatening to hold a mahapanchayat if the accused are charged with murder instead of the less serious charge of culpable homicide. BJP district president Thakur Singh told the Times of India, “The locals gave samples of meat to the police but they (the cops) did not take it seriously.
"There was a communal riot every day in north Karnataka for six straight days to Monday. What was the police doing, and can they be trusted to put out future fires? Luckily nobody died but hundreds were injured and properties worth crores were lost in the riots: Mudhol-September 23, Chikkodi and Surpur-24th, Dharwad and Surpur-25th, Dharwad and Koujalagi-26th, Belgaum-27th and 28th. There were signs everywhere for weeks that riots might break out in the state.
"According to a 2010 report compiled by the Goa police, the Sanatan Sanstha is using a mix of murder, arson, hypnotism and sexual exploitation to build a future Hindu nation... The murder of communist politician Govind Pansare only tops off the list of crimes that the ultra-right organisation Sanatan Sanstha has been accused of. Over the years, that roster has come to include transgressions such as the issue of threats and more dangerously, terror activities such as bomb blasts.
"An IPS officer has accused the Vasundhara Raje-led BJP government in Rajasthan of targeting him after he refused to let rioters from the VHP and Bajrang Dal go free last year despite “pressure from all levels of government”. Former Bundi SP Pankaj Chaudhary said that he was removed from the post for resisting pressure from the administration, including senior IAS and IPS officers, to let the rioters go and “register false cases” against Muslims instead.
"It is seven years since the worst carnage against the Christian community took place in Kandhamal in Odisha. I, along with some others, was there to attend the annual observance, this time in Raikia, of the anniversary organized by the Kandhamal Committee for Peace and Justice in the memory of those killed, injured in 2008 and for those whose lives have been forever marked by the trauma and terror of the communal conflagration that lasted for several months.
'Leave alone justice for the riot victims of Muzaffarnagar, even the two documentary films that were made on the violence that broke out in August 2013 have been embroiled in bans and court cases. En dino Muzaffarnagar has suffered protests and disruptions of screenings by right-wing activists and the schedule screening of Muzaffarnagar Baaqi Hai in Mumbai has been postponed. More than 60 persons died and over 50,000 persons were displaced in the riots that broke out in Muzaffarnagar and Shamli districts of Uttar Prdesh in 2013.
"Incensed by the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad's stopping the screening of Muzaffarnagar Abhi Baki Hai at Kirori Mal College on Saturday, August 1, Democratic Students' Federation of Jawaharlal Nehru University had planned to screen at the dhaba at Godavari Hostel on Tuesday night. Already in Delhi to protest, members of the Film and Television Institute of India's students' union had also been invited to attend.
"The Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), the students’ wing of the BJP, on Saturday disrupted the screening of a documentary on the 2013 Muzaffarnagar riots at Delhi University’s Kirori Mal College (KMC), allegedly for being “anti-Hindu”. Police were called in to control the situation... The incident occurred at the screening of Muzaffarnagar Baaqi Hai, a film directed by Nakul Singh Sawhney, an FTII graduate.
"Incidents of communal violence in the country have gone up in the first six months of 2015 compared to the corresponding period last year, with 330 riots reported till June this year in which 51 people lost their lives. According to Home Ministry data, there were 330 incidents of communal violence between January and June, 2015 in comparison to 252 in the first six months of 2014. Altogether 51 people have lost their lives and 1,092 others injured in communal violence so far this year. As many as 33 people had lost their lives in first six months of last year.
"A group of Muslims from Bhumma village in Muzaffarnagar remained besieged in a mosque for half a day after it was surrounded by angry villagers protesting the killing of a Hindu youth nearby. The Muslims were rescued on Tuesday afternoon after police dispersed the mob with a lathicharge and by firing shots in the air. Trouble began Monday night after four motorcycle-borne assailants allegedly shot Satveer (25) outside his house in Bhumma. Soon, dozens of Hindus gathered outside the victim’s house to protest police inaction.
