communal violence

In 2014, 147 cases including the death of at least two persons in 2014 killed for their Christian faith were recorded by Alliance Defending Freedom India and The Evangelical Fellowship of India along with other Human Rights and Civil Society groups. The vicious hate campaigns, physical violence, police complicity and State impunity contribute to the persecution of the Christian community in many states of India.

"Three persons, all belonging to the minority community, were burnt alive this afternoon in Bihar's Muzaffarpur district after a mob attacked a village, torching as many as 25 huts. Two people, who sustained serious burns, are at the local government hospital. Initial investigations at Bahilwara village, around 55 km from state capital Patna, indicate the incident was one of revenge killing, police said. A few days ago, a youth belonging to the backward castes living in an adjoining village had eloped with a girl from the minority community, an officer said.

'While many within the Congress blame its electoral debacle to the party's obsession with "minority appeasement", a recent study conducted by three political scientists of the Yale University claim that had Congress lost all close elections between 1962 and 2000, there could have been 10% more communal riots in the country. Gareth Nellis, Michael Weaver, Steven Rosenzweig, political scientists from the Yale University in their paper titled "Do parties matter for ethnic violence?

"An accessories store owner in Mangalore, Zabeullah, was on Monday attacked by a gang when he was escorting one of his women employees home. She happened to be a Hindu and the attackers allegedly accused Zabeullah of being a 'love jihadist' as they assaulted him. The police have arrested six Bajrang Dal activists for the attack and identified them as Prasad (21), Arun (24), Rakshit (21), Praveen (26), Deepak (26) and Yuvaraj (23)... Coming to the defence of the six attackers, senior lawyer and Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) leader Jagadish Shenava told HT, "We don't believe in violence.