Online hate is often a driver of violent physical attacks against religious minorities, said the UN chief on Tuesday, calling on governments, community and religious leaders, to “speak out against hate and incitement to violence.”
No data is available with the Union government on the attacks on minorities in the country, Union Minority Affairs Minister Smirti Irani told the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday.
62-year-old Kazim Ahmed Sherwani who was attacked by three Hindu youth in Noida in July this year, moved the Supreme Court, seeking action against those who tortured him and the police officers who refused to take action.