Police in Bareilly district detained 12 Muslim men after they allegedly offered namaz inside a vacant house without official permission, Press Trust of India reported. The men were booked under provisions related to breach of peace and later produced before a magistrate, who released them on bail. According to police, the action followed information that...
The Allahabad High Court’s Lucknow bench has ruled that educational institutions, including madrasas, cannot be forcibly closed solely for operating without government recognition, reinforcing constitutional protections for minority-run institutions, Urdu daily Inquilab reported. The court set aside a district administration order dated March 23 that directed the closure of Madrasa Sanat Imam Ahmad Raza in...
Data shows 23 deaths involving state security forces and 27 linked to Hindu extremist violence At least 50 Muslims were killed in alleged extrajudicial incidents across India in 2025, including 23 deaths involving state security personnel and 27 attributed to violence by Hindu extremists, according to data released by advocacy group South Asia Justice Campaign...
Authorities imposed prohibitory orders across Kumarghat subdivision in Tripura’s Unakoti district after communal violence erupted on Friday, with a mosque and several houses and shops belonging to Muslims set on fire, officials said. The violence broke out in the Saydarpara Shimultala area under Fatikroy police station limits. Police said tensions arose over the collection of...
Farhad Ali, a 19-year-old BCom student, suffered about 8% burns in the attack; police named fellow students Aarush Singh and Deepak Kumar as the accused. A 19-year-old commerce student was set on fire outside an examination centre at a college in Uttar Pradesh’s Moradabad district on Thursday, allegedly by two fellow students, police said. The...
Authorities in Assam have demolished more than 1,200 houses belonging to Bengali Muslim families during a two-day eviction drive in Sonitpur district, officials said this week. The demolitions were carried out on January 5 and 6 in areas falling within and around the Burhachapori Wildlife Sanctuary, as the state government moved to remove what it...
Four activists arrested in connection with the 2020 Delhi violence case linked to protests against India’s citizenship law were released from jail on Wednesday, two days after the Supreme Court granted them bail, following more than 2,000 days in custody as undertrial prisoners. Gulfisha Fatima, Shifa Ur Rehman, Mohd Saleem Khan and Meeran Haider were...
Internet services were also suspended as a precautionary measure to prevent the situation from escalating Police in Jaipur detained more than 100 people on Friday after a stone-pelting incident in the city’s Chomu area following a dispute linked to alleged encroachment near a mosque, officials said, ANI reported. Tension flared when police moved to act...
Police have also seized a sample of the meat and sent it to a laboratory in Mathura for forensic testing. Results are pending. Police in the northern Indian city of Aligarh have detained two men after a Muslim meat trader was allegedly assaulted by a group that accused him of transporting beef, officials said, reported...
The court made the observation while rejecting the bail plea of an accused in connection with violence that broke out in Bareilly in September. The Allahabad High Court has said that raising the slogan “gustakh-e-nabi ki ek saza, sar tan se juda, sar tan se juda” amounts to a challenge to the authority of law...