Days after a Hindutva mob killed a 37-year-old Muslim man in Moradabad over allegations of cow slaughter, police on Wednesday arrested his friend, who was with him at the time of the brutal assault. However, no arrests have been made in the murder case.
Hindutva groups organized a protest in Uttar Pradesh’s Moradabad, demanding the removal of a statue of Padma Bhushan awardee Ustad Ahmed Jan Khan Thirakwa, a renowned Muslim tabla player, placed at a main crossing in Moradabad.
A judicial commission report on the 1980 Moradabad anti-Muslim riots which was presented after 40 years in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly on Tuesday has given a clean chit to the Hindutva organisations Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, Bharatiya Janata Party and the local administration of wrongdoing.
Members of the Hindutva outfit Bajrang Dal on Saturday stopped Muslims from holding Taraweeh prayer inside a warehouse in Uttar Pradesh’s Moradabad.
Bajrang Dal state president Rohan...