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The Tribune
March 6, 2017
The police have registered a case under various sections of the IPC against unknown cattle smugglers who opened fire at some self-styled cow vigilantes and escaped leaving the ferried cattle and a vehicle on the spot on the night of March 3. The police ...
Firstpost
March 6, 2017
Human rights activists and journalists (in India) faced intimidation and attacks from both state and non-state actors. The crude, colonial-era sedition law was unleashed to silence government critics.
Times of India
March 5, 2017
As the movie business grows more saturated with stories about costumed vigilantes, studios are trying to find ways to differentiate their own comic book adaptations.
Times of India (blog)
March 5, 2017
In the clash that accompanied a protest march by the Inquilab Zindabad the Sailor!-inspired All India Students' Association (AISA) and the Students' Federation of India (SFI) - both of which traditionally have a tendency of spotting a fascist in a ...
Times of India
March 4, 2017
Moreover, cow vigilantes had set ablaze a truck near Varsamedi village near Anjar town reportedly because the truck was carrying cows to the slaughter house.
Daily News & Analysis
March 4, 2017
The authorities reject that and blame vigilantes or drugs gangs. The U.S. State Department's annual country report on Human Rights Practices, released on Friday, said the most significant problems for the Philippines were killings allegedly undertaken ...
Calcutta Telegraph
March 4, 2017
In its present avatar, with the BJP in command of an absolute majority at the Centre, the ABVP isn't a student body, it is a vigilante organization, the sole purpose of which is to coerce Indian universities and their students into obeying the ...
Daily News & Analysis
March 4, 2017
Togadia demanded withdrawal of advisory issued against cow protectors due to alleged increase in cow slaughter. He said the order terming 'Gaurakshaks' as "vigilantes" is absolutely wrong since they only protect cows from slaughter. "In fact the ...
Deccan Herald
March 3, 2017
The Amnesty International's annual report for 2016-17, which was released last week, has drawn attention to the widespread human rights violations in India. These abuses have taken place in many parts of the country and in most fields of life where ...
Hindustan Times
March 3, 2017
Hundreds of KoL campaign supporters showed up, holding hands, hugging and kissing in public, braving threats of physical violence by vigilante groups, who also turned up in hundreds. The police took over 100 KoL activists into custody for what theyÃÂ ...
National Herald
March 2, 2017
Daughter of a soldier who laid down his life for India in Kargil, Gurmehar has been stripped of her right to freely speak her mind, her claim to the patriotic legacy of her father, her social media space and even her city.
Daily News & Analysis
March 2, 2017
Human Rights Watch found no distinction between killings in police operations and those the authorities attributed to unknown gunmen or vigilantes. In some of those cases, the victims had hours earlier been in police custody, it added. Duterte's anti ...
Truth-Out
March 2, 2017
The latest incarnation of this are so-called "Anti-Romeo Squads" -- vigilante groups that purport to prevent sexual harassment but which many say are instead harassing interreligious couples -- set up in a northern Indian state to coincide with local ...
ELLE India
March 2, 2017
The film has been directed by acclaimed London-based documentary film maker Jayisha Patel, who has previously directed films on under-reported subjects like the vigilante group of Indian rape victims who train in Karate and other forms of self-defence ...
India.com
March 2, 2017
It's a vigilante film and he has done complete justice to the script," Motwane said in a statement here. The film's shooting is underway, and Motwane said it is shaping up well.
India Today
March 1, 2017
Ram Gopal Varma is back on the Bollywood big screen with his latest venture Sarkar 3 and it stars Amitabh Bachhcan as the vigilante do-gooder Subhash Nagre, angrier and meaner than the last time you saw him. The story of Sarkar 3 follows SubhashÃÂ ...
Times of India
March 1, 2017
While Pakistan has not executed anyone convicted of blasphemy, there have been numerous cases of vigilante justice. The judiciary is also reluctant to hand out acquittals in such cases, leaving those accused languishing in prison.
Newsweek
February 28, 2017
Others worry that a registry might lead to vigilante justice. Take Rastogi's case. Before his most recent arrest, members of his family and his neighbors told The Indian Express that irate fathers beat Rastogi badly on at least two occasions when they ...
Newsweek
February 28, 2017
Since 2012, when the vicious gang rape and murder of a young Indian woman aboard a bus in Delhi made international headlines, India has passed stronger laws against crimes like sexual harassment, stalking and voyeurism; it has also increased jail ...
Aljazeera.com
February 27, 2017
"The goons should be arrested as soon as possible," the undergraduate student at Aurobindo College of Delhi University said, referring to Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (the All Indian Students Council) or ABVP. The ABVP is ... Since Narendra Modi ...
The Diplomat
February 27, 2017
The ideologues are now on a mission to reassert India's "Hinduness." "Cow vigilante" groups have been responsible for the brutal murders and beatings of Muslims and lower castes suspected of eating beef or killing cows.
Times of India
February 25, 2017
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India.com
February 24, 2017
A military source in Maiduguri and a civilian vigilante, Babakura Kolo, both told AFP yesterday that the fighting lasted for about two hours and that three soldiers were killed.
Times of India
February 23, 2017
"These attacks indicate a deliberate attempt to browbeat and muzzle the press whenever it tries to report violence by supporters and vigilante groups of the ruling party," DUJ said, adding, "An attack on the media is an assault on democracy. We demand ...
Zee News
February 23, 2017
Kochi: A young man, believed to be in his 20s, committed suicide days after he was attacked, harassed and filmed by moral vigilantes on Valentine's Day in Kerala. According to reports, his body was found hanging outside his home in Kerala's PalakkadÃÂ ...
Hindustan Times
February 21, 2017
"Caste-based violence and vigilante cow protection groups harassing and attacking people in states including Gujarat, Haryana, Madhya Pradesh and Karnataka in the name of upholding laws prohibiting the killing of cows were also highlighted as areas ofÃÂ ...
Deseret News
February 19, 2017
The report cited India's anti-conversion laws, cow protection legislation and the treatment of Dalits, or so-called untouchables, as points of concern.
Daily News & Analysis
February 16, 2017
In a relief for advertising executive Barun Kashyap, whose account of 'harassment by cow vigilantes' had created sensation, the Bombay High Court today said prima facie the offence of promoting enmity between two religious groups wasn't made out ...
Firstpost
January 20, 2017
Dalit experts say they remain under-represented in elected posts, public positions and sidelined in social events and practices which form the ethos of the Indian subcontinent. The National Crime Records Bureau data indicates that the number of ...
Oneindia
January 20, 2017
Here the situation of the bull is akin to that of a gau (cow), for whom gaurakshaks (cow vigilantes) are ready to attack and kill anyone who comes on their way and their devotion towards their matai (mother).
International Business Times UK
January 18, 2017
The recent high-profile Cellebrite data breach, which saw a vigilante hacker reportedly break into the Israeli phone hacking firm's systems made headlines for the nature of the attack.
Los Angeles Times
January 18, 2017
It was one of thousands of cases that Navsarjan has fought since 1988 on behalf of Dalits, formerly known as "untouchables," who continue to endure social stigma and economic marginalization 70 years after India's constitution outlawed caste-based ...
NDTV
January 17, 2017
He campaigned heavily for the need for gau-rakshaks - cow protection vigilantes, lately at the centre for controversies over attacks, some of them fatal, on people they accused of involvement with slaughtering cows.
India Today
January 17, 2017
The Supreme Court had earlier restrained vigilante groups in Kerala from imparting training to children, distributing airguns to the people at subsidised rates to kill stray dogs and publicly propagate that there was a "war" against canines in the ...
The Indian Express
January 17, 2017
When one of the petitioners told the apex court that he wanted to "totally destroy" stray dogs across India, the bench said "nobody can destroy stray dogs in entirety.
Mirror.co.uk
January 17, 2017
A man was stripped naked before being tied up and tortured by a gang of vigilante thugs who thought he was walking "suspiciously", say police .
Times of India
January 16, 2017
Rudrapur: When sub-inspector Ram Pradesh ventured out on his motorcycle without wearing a helmet on Sunday morning, little did he imagine that he would draw the attention of a vigilante youth and get a rap from the additional superintendent of police.
Deutsche Welle
January 16, 2017
The controversy in India about Amazon selling "national flag doormats" hadn't really settled when the global online retailer found itself embroiled in a new contention over "Gandhi flip-flops.
RT
January 16, 2017
Cows are seen as a sacred animal in traditional Hindu culture and have historically been viewed as a taboo subject in India. Last year, vigilantes attacked and murdered people suspected of killing the animal or consuming its meat, leading to a wave ofÃÂ ...
Hindustan Times
January 15, 2017
Earlier this week, the soft-spoken former governor of Reserve Bank of India chose strong words to describe the state of play at the central bank.
Financial Express
January 13, 2017
A human-rights advocacy group has voiced concern over the attacks on religious minorities in India often led by vigilante groups and the blocking of foreign funding to NGOs as well as the pressure on media and civil society groups critical of the ...
Scroll.in
January 12, 2017
The report also noted that authorities had failed to prevent vigilante groups "claiming to be supporters of the Bharatiya Janata Party" from harassing religious minorities.
Variety
January 12, 2017
The slate also includes "Sarkar 3," the third instalment of Ram Gopal Varma's Sarkar franchise, Vikram Motwane's vigilante drama Bhavesh Joshi with Phantom Films. A sequel to hit political thriller drama Nayak - Nayak 2 - written by K.V. Vijayendra ...
Communities Digital News
January 11, 2017
Great Britain is still reeling from Brexit, the eurozone is mired in a banking crisis, Japan is in demographic deflationary decline, and emerging markets like Brazil and India are feeling the effects of the commodities bust. Even the vaunted Swiss ...
CounterCurrents.org
January 9, 2017
The photos of the activists were taken by the police and circulated through social media and were circulated to vigilante groups who in turn concocted a story of JNU students having come to Bastar for provoking people.
The Indian Express
January 3, 2017
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NDTV
January 3, 2017
This is also the state where right-wing vigilante groups like the Ram Sene have raided bars and beaten up young women, earning praise for their actions from political leaders.
The Indian Express
January 3, 2017
They said the raid was conducted in a 'joint operation' with Gau Raksha Dal, a cow vigilante group, after they received a tip-off of cattle being slaughtered at the spot.
Human Rights Watch
January 3, 2017
"Those who have worked for the most marginalised and disempowered sections of society, while holding the government to account, are being persecuted," read a joint statement by Indian activists after over two dozen groups were denied license to receive ...
Times of India
January 3, 2017
Further, talking about reasons that trigger moral policing and other communal incidents, he said provocative speeches by political and religious leaders lead to tension in the region.
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