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The Supreme Court on Friday refused to stay the court proceedings in the multiple cases registered against Aumkareshwar Thakur, the creator of the Sulli Deals app in which scores of Muslim women were put on “sale” by right-wing Hindus.

It would be naïve to view the Sulli Deals or similar objectification of the “Other” women merely from a gender lens. A historical analysis that puts into perspective the sexualisation of racism will help us to interconnect multiple different incidents like claims of love jihad, population jihad, hyper-masculine jingoism, metaphorising of women as the nation, sexualisation of both Muslim women and men that currently seem to be distinct and unrelated.

On Thursday, Delhi based poet and Muslim woman activist Nabiya Khan has shared a brief but strong statement on action against "Sulli deals." Photographs of more than 80 other Muslim women, including students, activists and journalists, had been uploaded by an unidentified Hindutva group on an application “Sulli Deals” using GitHub on 4 July with the sole purpose to auction off the Muslim women. Nabiya Khan's profile was also up for virtual auction on “Sulli deals”. After days of outrage largely by Muslim women online against this hate crime, the Delhi Police registered a police complaint following the Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) and the National Commission for Women called for an investigation into the matter. Read Nabiya Khan's statement here:

On August 07, Railway Police filed an FIR against Chetan Singh, an RPF security personnel, who killed four people in the Jaipur-Mumbai Central Superfast...

The city civil and sessions court on Tuesday granted bail to three accused Hindu youth in the Bulli Bai App case, which was curated to auction Muslim women by doctoring their photographs.

Unrest and violence were reported in Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Jharkhand, West Bengal, Goa, Mumbai, and Delhi on the occasion of Ram Navami. Several organisations...