Iftekhar Patna (CNA Media/Insaaf Times) A dalit boy has been fined Rs 60,000 for touching the feet of the idol deity in Karnataka“Last week, the village deity was taken out in a procession, when the boy belonging to a Dalit community, touched Bhootamma’s (village deity) idol,” police officials said.Residents of the village, along with Gram Panchayat … Read more
Patna (CNA Media/Insaaf Times) Chennai: Muhammad Iklas hails from Kodambakkam area of Chennai. Student of 8th standard and has been learning Quran at Rahima Masjid in Rangarajapuram.Around 8 pm he was returning home on a bicycle from the mosque. A Hindu fanatic intercepted and assaulted him calling names. The enraged boy’s parents informed people in … Read more
Patna (Press release/Insaaf Times) Jamaat-e-Islami Hind (JIH) President Syed Sadatullah Husaini has deplored the raids and crackdown on PFI leadership and offices by the NIA and ED.In a statement to the media, the JIH President said: “Jamaat-e-Islami Hind is highly concerned over the raids conducted by the NIA and ED on the Popular Front of … Read more
Patna(CNA Media/Insaaf Times) More and more Indian Muslims are facing discrimination when accessing salaried jobs and income through self-employment than non-Muslims according to a report by a UK based independent charitable organization.Unemployment in rural areas has increased by 17% compared to non-Muslims during the first quarter of COVID, bringing the rate to 31.4% states Oxfam … Read more
Patna (Nazli Siddique/Insaaf Times) ”Don’t miss the chance, if you miss it then no one will come to help”In this era, journalists have freedom of speech. Journalists can publish their thoughts and views also, yet there is a lack of true journalism but at the time, when writing against the government was a crime, then … Read more
Patna (CNA News/Insaaf Times) Members of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) harassed a group of Muslim men from West Bengal and reported them to the police in Shahjahanpur district of Uttar Pradesh after they prayed namaz on the roadside.Although the incident took place on September 11, it came to limelight after videos of the event … Read more
Patna(CNA Media/Insaaf Times) The Supreme Court stated that the Karnataka government’s order disallowing hijab ‘came as a death knell for students desirous to take secular education.’Senior advocate Huzefa Ahmadi argued before Justices Hemant Gupta and Sudhashu Dhulia, on behalf of the petitioners, stated that there was no legitimate interest of the state in imposing the … Read more
Patna(CNA Media/Insaaf Times) The Supreme Court has recently ruled that bail application should be decided as expeditiously as possible and shouldn’t be posted in ‘due course’.Justices Ajay Rastogi and B.V. Nagarathna dealt with a petition filed challenging the order where the HC while dealing with an application seeking anticipatory bail dismissed the interim relief by … Read more
Patna (CNA Media/Insaaf Times) jails have 4 types of prisoners – convicts (persons found guilty of a crime and sentenced by a court), undertrials (currently on trial in a court of law), detenues (persons held lawfully in custody), and those who don’t belong to any of these three categories and make up a small share … Read more
Patna (CNA Media/Insaaf Times) NCRB report shows that the stories of oppression of Dalits in India are increasing continuously. You must remember 2 years ago a traumatic incident took place in Hathras, Uttar Pradesh, which shook the entire country.On 14 September 2020, a 19-year-old Dalit girl from Boolgarhi village in Hathras had gone to cut … Read more