North India

Defending the FIR against the co-founder of fact checking website AltNews and prominent Muslim journalist Mohammed Zubair, Additional Solicitor General SV Raju, appearing for UP Police, argued before the Supreme Court on Friday that Bajrang Muni, a Hindu monk who threatened Muslim women with rape in police presence, is a respected religious scholar.

Supreme Court grants interim bail to Alt News co-founder and prominent Muslim journalist Mohammed Zubair for 5 days in the FIR registered by UP Police over calling Hindutva monks "hate-mongers" on condition that he will not leave jurisdiction of the Sitapur Magisrate and will not post any tweets.

A local court in Aligarh on Wednesday acquitted three Hindu nationalists including former Bhartiya Janta Yuva Morcha (BJYM) office-bearer Vinay Varshney in the murder case of Mohammad Tariq Munawwar, who was killed during protests against CAA in Aligarh in February 2020.

The Enforcement Directorate has summoned Samajwadi Party senior leader and Uttar Pradesh MLA Azam Khan, his wife and son to appear before it in a case related to alleged illegal acquisition of property.

Mohammed Talib, a Muslim roadside restaurant owner has been arrested in Uttar Pradesh’s Sambhal district for wrapping a meal containing meat in a newspaper carrying images of Hindu deities.

On Tuesday, July 5, the Noida Police arrested Zee News anchor Rohit Ranjan in Ghaziabad after the channel aired reportedly false clips against Congress leader Rahul Gandhi.

Jawaharlal Nehru University student and Muslim activist Sharjeel Imam, who is in jail under draconian UAPA, Monday alleged that he was assaulted by convicts at Tihar Jail and called a terrorist during a search inside his cell on 30 June.

The court of an Executive Magistrate here on Monday ordered the release of Bhim Army chief Chandra Shekhar Azad, who was arrested from a hotel in the intervening night of July 1 and 2, after he spent two days in judicial custody.

A priest in Uttar Pradesh’s Ayodhya on Friday burnt the poster of AIMIM chief and Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi, and said the so-called anti-national leaders will be burnt alive if “they don’t come to their senses.”

Congress spokesperson Pawan Khera has alleged that one of the main accused in the Udaipur murder of Kanhaiya Lal, Riyaz Attari is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party.

Delhi's Patiala House Court has rejects the bail plea of Alt News co-founder and prominent Muslim journalist Mohammed Zubair, and grants 14-day Judicial custody.

The Gurgaon Police in Haryana have registered a first information report after members of Hindutva bodies VHP and Bajrang Dal chanted hateful and genocidal slogans against Muslims at a rally held on 29 June to protest the killing of a tailor in Udaipur.