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By Vipul Kumar In July 2023, Himachal Pradesh and parts of Uttarakhand were reeling under severe floods. Tanushree Pandey - a journalist from Delhi, was in the field to report from these two ecologically-sensitive North Indian states that are increasingly in the crosshairs of climate change. Tanushree was stranded on the outskirts of Delhi held up by an unregulated Kanwar Yatra on the highway. The Kanwar Yatra is an annual pilgrimage where, mostly young Hindu men who are devotees of the Hindu god Shiva, carry water from the river Ganges and other shrines. A few hours after being stuck, Tanushr...
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By Hera Rizwan A few weeks following Substack co-founder Hamish McKenzie's defense of the company's choice to permit Nazi content, the newsletter publishing plaform has now agreed to remove some of the publications that endorse Nazi ideologies. Founded in 2017 in San Francisco, Substack has evolved into a central platform for journalism and online blogging. It simplifies the publication of email newsletters, enabling writers to retain 90% of their sales, while the company takes a 10% commission. However, a few writers who have been using Substack to establish email newsletter businesses have l...
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By Vipul Kumar On February 19, on the occasion of Shivaji Jayanti, T Raja Singh, a suspended BJP MLA from Telangana said, “Don't leave a single love jihadi alive in Maharashtra. Our sisters are being trapped by love jihad. They are being made into a machine for childbirth. Any sister who does not obey is being cut into 35 pieces”. Eight days later, the Latur police filed an FIR under sections 153A (Promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion, race, place of birth, residence, and language), 153B (punishment against imputations and assertions prejudicial to national integrat...
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By Ritika Jain Supreme Court on Wednesday observed it “was necessary” to issue notice of contempt against states that failed to act against hate speech. It was important for the message to go that the Supreme Court has passed orders that are defined and the same must be implemented, the bench observed. The Supreme Court's observation comes a day after the bench said, "Abjuring hate speech is a fundamental requisite for the maintenance of communal harmony." Today, while taking a dim view of hate speech spouted at rallies in Maharashtra, the bench of Justices KM Joseph and BV Nagarathana said th...
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By Ritika Jain Supreme Court Constitution Bench held that additional restrictions cannot be imposed on a lawmaker's right to free speech. However, Justice BV Nagarathna dissented on certain points and observed that considering the impact they have on the masses, public functionaries and celebrities must be circumspect in what they say in public. The majority verdict—authored by Justice V Ramasubramanian and concurred by Justices S Abdul Nazeer, AS Bopanna, and BR Gavai—further said a government cannot be held vicariously liable for statements made by its ministers. The Supreme Court's verdict ...
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By Ritika Jain Supreme Court said police will face contempt of court action if they did not act against hate speech irrespective of which religion it is against. The top court directed Uttar Pradesh Police, Uttarakhand, and Delhi Police to take suo motu action against whoever makes speeches that attract penal provisions of the law and not wait till a complaint has been filed. "There cannot be fraternity unless members of the community drawn from different religions and castes are able to live in harmony," it said. The top court stressed that the petition before them was serious, and it related...
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By Kashif Kakvi Once infamous for dreaded dacoits, the Bhind city of Madhya Pradesh was on the verge of communal riot on August 3, 2022 over a fake video and a morphed voter ID card. Fuelled by misinformation, a mob of over 5,000 men led by Shree Rajput Karni Sena took to the streets. Amid vapid sloganeering, the mob demanded to demolish the home of one Taufeeq Khan (38) for converting and looting a Hindu woman Nandini Tomar (35) on the pretext of love. They alleged that Nanidini's suicide was abetted by Taufeeq, who, they said, had also conned several other women across the country. Several c...
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By Archis Chowdhury A recent study by a Europe-based human rights organisation found hate-related content thriving on fan pages of controversial figures embroiled in hate speech cases in India, on Meta-owned Facebook. It found significant spikes in interactions in these pages, peaking around inflammatory content showing calls for violence and genocidal statements involving these individuals. The damning study, by Foundation The London Story, was published shortly after Meta released a summary disclosure of a human rights impact assessment (HRIA) commissioned nearly three years ago, to assess p...
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By BOOM FACT Check Team Bajrang Muni is a respected religious mahant in Sitapur with a large following, Additional Solicitor General SV Raju said during the hearing of a plea by Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair seeking bail in a complaint filed against him by the Uttar Pradesh Police in Sitapur for hurting religious sentiments. "When you call a religious leader hate-monger, it raises problems," Raju said in court. Also Read: Supreme Court Grants Interim Bail to Mohammed Zubair, Bar on Tweeting Uttar Pradesh Police filed a case against Zubair on the basis of a tweet where he termed Mahant Ba...
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By Ritika Jain The Supreme Court on Friday granted interim bail for five days to Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair in the case filed by the UP Police for calling Hindu seers "spreaders of hate". The Sitapur court on Thursday remanded Zubair to police custody till July 14. However, even though the top court granted interim bail, Zubair has been directed to surrender before the competent authorities in Delhi where he is currently remanded to judicial custody in a separate case lodged here. While granting interim bail, the Supreme Court barred Zubair from tweeting or posting anything on social ...
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