Hindu right-wing handles have once again intensified their hate, now openly calling for rape and sexual violence against Kashmiri Muslim women, amid a surge of Islamophobic attacks and violence against Muslims, especially Kashmiris, across India following an attack by militants on tourists in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pahalgam on Tuesday, killing 26 people.
Fraternity Movement of India, Campus Front of India, and All India Students’ Association (AISA) on Saturday protested outside the Uttar Pradesh Bhawan against a Hindu seer, who delivered a hate speech against Muslims and made a rape threat against Muslim women, and demanded his arrest.
A video is doing the rounds on social media where a Hindu Mahant named Bajrang Muni Das can be heard shouting he will abduct Muslim women from their homes and rape them in the open if any Muslim man goes after Hindu women.
Mumbai police on Thursday arrested a 24-year-old man from Madhya Pradesh’s Bhopal city for sending death and rape threats to journalist Rana Ayyub on social media.
The Mumbai Police has arrested a 23-year-old man Ramnagesh Srinivas Akubathini from Hyderabad for issuing a rape threat to Virat Kohli and Anushka Sharma's minor daughter on Twitter.