Wednesday, April 17, 2024

Topic: Hate crimes

Hate crime: BJP worker arrested after mentally ill man found dead in MP

Two days after a 65-year-old mentally ill man, Bhawarlal Jain, was found dead in Madhya Pradesh’s Neemuch, police arrested a local BJP worker who was seen in a video assaulting elderly man while asking him if he was Muslim and his name name was Mohammed.

“Are you Mohammed?”: Mentally ill Jain man thrashed, later found dead in MP

The body of a 65-year-old Jain man who had been missing for five days was found in Madhya Pradesh’s Neemuch district on Friday, and a video showed a man associated with BJP asking him if his "name is Mohammed."

Muslim vegetable vendor lynched to death in Rajasthan’s Beawar

Mohammad Saleem, a 55-year-old vegetable vendor from Beawar, a city in Rajasthan's Ajmer district was lynched to death by half a dozen Hindu men...

“Suspect it was a hate crime,” says family of Indian student shot dead in Toronto

A day after the death of a 21-year-old student Kartik Vasudev in Canada’s Toronto, his family said that they will knock every possible door for justice.

70-year-old Sikh assaulted in New York; Indian Consulate, Sikh, Muslim groups condemn

A 70-year-old Sikh man Nirmal Singh who is visiting from Punjab, India, was punched in the unprovoked assault on Sunday morning in New York.

On camera, Muslim driver assaulted by Hindutva men in Uttar Pradesh’s Mathura

A 35-year-old Muslim Mohammad Aamir who is a driver of a pick-up van was mercilessly beaten up by Hindutva men in Mathura’s Raal village, on Sunday night. The attackers accused Amir of 'ferrying beef and smuggling cattle' in his vehicle.