South Asia Human Rights Journalist Association

Kanpur,  August 1: The Hindutva outfits furore over the kids on reciting of Kalma in a school in Indian state Utter Pardash.The practice of reciting the Gayatri Mantra, Gurubani which is part of Sikhism, and Islamic verse (Kalma), and other religious verses in the morning assembly has been going on for a decade now but suddenly it caught the eye and mind of Hindutva outfits and they created controversy over Kalma only in teh Florets School in Kanpur city of the state. 

Chitrakoot (UP),July 31: Thirteen Indian police personnel  incluidng a former officer booked on a fake encounter case in Indian stete Utter Pardash. A case of murder has been registered against 13 police personnel, including a former superintendent of police, in connection with an  fake encounter in Chitrakoot area of the state.

Aligarh, July 29 :Four persons have been booked for y trying to strip a 38-year-old Dalit woman in  Indian state Uttar Pradesh. The police registered an FIR against the four people  who assaults or uses criminal force to any woman or abets such act with the intention of disrobing or compelling her to be naked at Harduaganj police station  in Aligarh district.  The victim said that she was informed about a clash between her sons and some upper caste Hindu men over watering their field.

 Srinagar, July 26 :  A barbecue seller was found injured after being allegedly kidnapped by some unknown persons in Budgam district in  Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir. 

 Srinagar, July 25 :   Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir has witnessed nearly 10% rise in the crime cases in one year under undemocratic Modi regime and military siege. 

 Jammu, July 25 :  An Indian Border Security Force (BSF) sub-inspector committed suicide in Jammu district in IIOJK.The BSF officer Ramdev Singh shot himself dead with his service assault weapon at a post in the district. Ramdev Singh was found lying in a pool of blood and his personal assault weapon was found by his side when a junior rank soldier reached his room morning time, officials said. 
 

New Delhi, July 25:  A Hindutva party Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader hired a woman to frame a Muslim businessman of raping her in the love jihad case in  Indian state Uttar Pradesh. A Hindu woman who had earlier accused a Muslim businessman of raping her, said that she was hired by two men including a local Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader to frame the man in the love jihad case.

  Shillong July 25  : The brothel run by BJP leader was busted and half a dozen were rescued by police in Indian state Meghalaya. The police found at least six minor girls locked up inside dingy cabin-like rooms under unhygienic conditions during the search in a resort in Rimpu Bagan area.

 By Syed Ali Mujtaba :Wendy Doniger, the acclaimed US-based scholar on Hinduism, has come up with a new book ‘An American Girl in India – Letters and Recollections (1963-64)’. The book was released on May 10, 2022. Talking about her latest book, Wendy Doniger, who retired from the University of Chicago in 2018, reportedly said that this actually was a bunch of letters to her parents in America when she was in India in 1963-64 to research Hinduism.