A Hindutva mob armed with wooden sticks stormed Magneto Mall in Raipur, the capital of Chhattisgarh, on Wednesday and vandalised Christmas decorations during “Chhattisgarh bandh,” against alleged religious conversions.
A complaint has been registered at Bengaluru’s Koramangala police station after a video showing a man aggressively interrupting what appears to be a Christian prayer programme went viral on social media, triggering widespread outrage and calls for police action.
Haunted by the lynching of his own brother by a Hindutva mob in Mangaluru, a Kerala Muslim man stepped in to fight for justice for a Dalit migrant worker lynched in Walayar, determined that the state would not once again erase a hate killing through silence and haste.
The alleged murder of 50-year-old Mohammad Athar Hussain in Nawada is the third reported incident of mob lynching in the southern Bihar district this year.
Two Muslim street vendors who were selling non-vegetarian patties have been assaulted by Hindutva men near a “Gita Path” event at Brigade Parade Ground in Kolkata, triggering outrage from the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC), the CPI(M), and renewed accusations of rising Hindutva vigilantism.