DDA demolishes house of Uttarkashi tunnel rescuer Vakeel Hasan
Mr. Hasan said, “We were not given any notice of the demolition, the area we live in is a regularised colony, I built my house in 2012-13 but DDA came suddenly at 9 a.m. and pushed us out of our home.”
Gujarat Home Minister Brags About Demolishing 108 Mazars, Says State's Bulldozer Is Everywhere
"Now, Dada’s [Bhupendra Patel's] bulldozer is moving around in every nook and corner of the state so that no temple or devsthan can be removed while hatching a conspiracy," he said.
How Uttarakhand is selectively targeting Muslim shrines
The administration claims to be conducting a drive against all encroachment. But on the ground, it is chiefly Muslim sites that have been razed to rubble.
India in a state of perpetual violence? Some scary pointers
Under international human rights law, states must ensure that evictions only occur in exceptional circumstances, require full justification and the provision of adequate legal safeguards. None of that here in New India, of course, writes Aakar Patel.
Haldwani violence: Uttarakhand Police registers case against over 5,000 people, Curfew lifted from outer areas
Two days after the riots in the Banbhoolpura area of Haldwani, the Uttarakhand Police has registered a case against 19 named and 5,000 unidentified people, SSP Nainital Prahalad Narayan Meena told media on Saturday.
‘Fashionable to demolish homes without following principles of natural justice’ — Madhya Pradesh HC
HC's Indore bench has awarded compensation of Rs 1 lakh each to 2 petitioners, stating that their houses were wrongly demolished by Ujjain's municipal authorities.
Haldwani: Six Muslims Killed after Shoot-at-Sight Orders over Madrasa and Mosque demolition
Around six people have been killed due to bullet injuries hours after shoot-at-sight orders were issued by Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami on Thursday amid clashes between protestors and police over the demolition of a Madrasa (Islamic seminary) and mosque in Haldwani’s Banbhoolpura area.
'Police Didn't Stop the Mob': Shopkeepers, Injured Recount Hindutva Violence at Mumbai's Mira Road
Coinciding with the consecration of Ram Temple in Ayodhya, around 300 young men descended on the Mumbai's neighbourhood and attacked shops that had a seemingly Muslim name and even others that did not hoist a saffron flag outside their establishments.
Muslim Teen Gets Bail After 151 Days In MP Case Of Spitting On Hindu Procession. Complainant, Witness Deny Police Claims
Acting on a complaint with no evidence, police in the Madhya Pradesh city of Ujjain in July 2023 arrested three Muslim teenagers accused of spitting on a Hindu procession. Now, the complainant and witness have told a local court that police asked them to sign a complaint, that they neither knew what was in the first information report nor had agreed to it. Based on these statements, the High Court granted bail to the only adult of the three accused.
Arms, ethnic domination, choking dissent: Why India is embracing the Israel model
From refusing to recognise Israel to making Tel Aviv a key ally, India’s trajectory reflects a questioning of its very foundations, writes Sajjad Hassan.
‘Did Ram say kick out the poor?’ The discontent of the displaced in new Ayodhya
Evicted from their homes, dispossessed of land and poorly compensated, Ayodhya residents question the price they have had to pay for the town’s development.
Families In Distress, Children Drop Out Of School, As Hundreds At Site Of Largest Delhi Demolition Struggle To Get By
In April this year, 2,000 homes were razed for the G20 summit, with no rehabilitation plan as the law requires. Five months later, Article 14 found families splintered, plunged further into poverty, uncertain what to do next, and children out of school. The Tughlakhabad demolitions were the largest carried out in Delhi in the run up to the G20 summit. Daughters had been sent to stay with relatives for safety, as parents lived amid the rubble of destroyed homes.
Palestine: Shireen Abu Akleh shrine desecrated in the West Bank
The site of Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh’s killing in Jenin has been bulldozed and her shrine desecrated, in an unexplained early-morning operation on 26 October.
Homes Demolished, the Right to Fish Denied: The Lives of Gujarat’s Muslim Fishermen
Since October 2022, the region's coastal belt has experienced several targeted demolition drives. Today, thousands of Muslim fishermen are suffering the consequences, with communal tensions escalating around coastal Gujarat.
G20 face-lift: Delhi removes poor people, but not poverty
As tulips were flown in and posters of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi went up, thousands of poor people in India’s capital have been displaced amid a strategic beautification drive. Experts say the $112 million face-lift has come at a hefty cost to the city’s most vulnerable people.