Tag: Cow vigilantes
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Indian government must act against cow vigilantes: Human Rights Watch
Between May 2015 and December 2018, at least 44 people - including 36 Muslims - were killed in such attacks, the report said.
February 20, 2019 -
Rakshaks or goons?
It would be a “shocker” if Yogi Adityanath and his vocal squad of cheerleaders were to give any credence to a study by the Hyderabad-based National Research Centre on Meat on 112 samples submitted from across the country.
January 5, 2019 -
Overdue outreach
More than all Rahul Gandhi’s ranting about corruption in the Rafale acquisition, the chowkidar being a chor etc, what hurt the Modi-Shah duo was their making light of farm woes, and a skewed belief that higher minimum support prices (MSPs) would suffice.
December 30, 2018 -
Failure’s figures
Sometimes, however, the words of an old song Little things mean a lot kick-in ~ as they do in a written reply from the home ministry to a query on terrorism. Mr Hansraj Gangaram Ahir presented a few statistics on what obtained in the last three years (till 2 December) and left it at that.
December 15, 2018 -
BJP trying to convert India into RSS Raj: AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi
Reacting to Shah's comments, Owaisi, the Hyderabad MP, advised him not to "dance to the tune of gau rakshaks (cow vigilantes)".
October 11, 2018 -
Cow vigilantes detain train for 4 hours in Odisha
The Puducherry-Howrah Express was stranded at the Balasore station between 8.12 pm and 12.35 am, station manager Bhagabat Das said.
September 14, 2018 -
Lynchings: SC irked over states non-compliance
A Bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra gave one more week to the remaining 20 states and 5 UTs to comply with its order, warning them that any default would be viewed sternly.
September 8, 2018 -
Lynch-cancer rages
Even as bureaucratic lethargy hinders the Supreme Court directive to enact legislation to curb cow-vigilantes, it is now revealed that the attack on JNU student-activist Umar Khalid was conducted by goons wanting to give the nation an “Independence Day” gift ~ only their pistol jammed. Their audacity can well be attributed to the failure of …
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August 23, 2018 -
How ‘seriously’?
The home minister has only himself to blame if an impression has been created that the government is tepid in its response to the apex court’s strongly-worded insistence that Parliament enact specific legislation to contain mob lynching and curb the increasing tendency for “justice” to be delivered on the streets. For when lynching came under …
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July 26, 2018 -
‘BJP bringing bad name to Hinduism’
Criticising the recent incident of lynching by self-proclaimed ‘Gau Rakshaks’ (cow vigilantes) in Alwar district of Rajasthan, Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday slammed BJP for bringing a bad name to Hinduism and urged senior leaders to control their partymen instead of giving statements in the Parliament against lynching and vigilantism. Quoting Union home …
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July 24, 2018 -
Flogged by cow vigilantes, Dalits embrace Buddhism
The family infamously flogged by cow vigilantes for skinning a dead bovine in 2016 today led nearly 300 Dalits who embraced Buddhism under heavy police security. Two boys of the Saravaiya family, who had earlier announced their intention to convert to Buddhism to escape caste discrimination as Hindus, were waylaid by the accused last week …
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April 29, 2018 -
‘Jharkhand police sabotaged probe into 2 murders by cow vigilantes’
An independent probe into the murder of a 12-year-old boy and a 32-year-old cattle trader – both Muslims – in 2016 in Jharkhand claims that police sabotaged the investigation and denied justice to the families of the victims as all the accused are out on bail. The report “Hanged by Gau Rakshaks, Denied Justice by …
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April 2, 2018 -
Una Dalit assault: Victims to convert to Buddhism
A Dalit family, that was allegedly beaten up by cow vigilantes for skinning the carcass of the animal in Una tehsil in Gujarat, have decided to embrace Buddhism. In July last year, seven Dalits of Mota Samadhiyala village were allegedly paraded and flogged for skinning a dead cow, an incident that caused nation-wide outrage after …
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January 9, 2018 -
Two cow vigilantes arrested for lynching Muslim in Alwar
Two persons have been arrested in connection with the murder of a Muslim man by cow vigilantes in Rajasthan’s Alwar district and sent to three-day police custody, a police officer said on Tuesday. The two — Bhagwan Singh and Ramveer Gurjar — were arrested late on Monday and have been sent to police custody for …
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November 14, 2017 -
Don’t give communal colour to lynchings: Naqvi
Incidents of lynching in the name of cow protection are criminal acts and should not be given a communal colour, Union Minority Affairs Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said here on Tuesday. On the lynching of a farmer, Umar Khan, by cow vigilantes in Rajasthan’s Alwar district last week, Naqvi said the Rajasthan government is doing …
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November 14, 2017 -
Centre fails to control cow vigilantes: Sharad Yadav
Janata Dal-United (JD-U) leader Sharad Yadav on Tuesday said lynching of a dairy farmer by cow vigilantes in Rajasthan was “unfortunate” and criticised the Centre for failing to control the menace. “Government is unable to control cow vigilantes as again one Ummar (Khan) has been killed in Alwar while transporting cows and calves,” Sharad Yadav …
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November 14, 2017 -
Congress condemns Alwar lynching, asks why such incidents during polls
The Congress on Monday said lynching of a dairy farmer Umar Khan by cow vigilantes in Rajasthan was unfortunate and asked why such crime occurs only ahead of elections. The party also asked who were the people who do politics of “religious polarisation”. Khan was allegedly shot dead by cow vigilantes in Govindgarh in Alwar …
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November 14, 2017