South Asia Human Rights Journalist Association

New Delhi, September 15, 2022: Muslims made up almost 30% of all detainees in Indian prisons in 2021, despite the community having a demographic percentage of only 14.2%. (as of 2011). 

 Bhopal : ,September 15, 2022: Anti- Muslim violence has come to light from Udaipura town in Raisen district Madhya Pradesh in India, during the Ganesh idol immersion procession. The incident took place on the night of September 10, 2022. A Ganesh idol immersion procession stopped at a Muslim locality, playing loud music with provocative  and anti Muslim songs which triggered violence.

 NEW DELHI, September 15, 2022: The Indian Home Ministry has dismissed an Indian Police Service officer, Satish Chandra Verma, who had assisted the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in its investigation into the fake encounter case of Ishrat Jahan, a month before he was scheduled to retire. 

 Lucknow, September 15, 2022: Political parties led by Muslims in Indian state Uttar Pradesh will now launch a campaign and mobilise people to oppose a survey of madrassas. The parties that are a part of this initiative include the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM), Peace Party and Rashtriya Ulama Council.

 Lucknow, September 15: The BJP government in Indian state Uttar Pradesh has suspended the Joint Director (Health), who had issued an order directing all the Chief Medical Officers (CMOs) to ensure that signboards/nameplates at all health facilities in the state, were written in Urdu as well. 
A senior Health Department officer confirmed that Joint Director (Health), Tabassum Khan had been suspended.

Lakhimpur Kheri, September 15: The two Dalit teenage sisters were kidnapped , raped and  found hanging from a tree in a sugarcane field located about a kilometre away from their house in the Nighasan police station limits in Lakhimpur Kheri  of Indian state Utter Pardash on Wednesday, police said. 

Kolkata, September 15:  The Indian state West Bengal Chief Minister, Mamata Banerjee has said that BJP brought goons from other states to create ruckus during its march to state secretariat Nabanna.  Mamata Banerjee has said that the law will take its own course against those who were responsible for creating trouble and setting police vehicles on fire in the sate.

New Delhi, September 15 :  The JNU scholar Umar Khalid’s mother  said that it is difficult to cope with the situation that we are in. How can a mother live in peace whose son is languishing in jail. In fact, every mother can understand what it feels like when her son is languishing in jail. All the same I’m proud of son. Despite all the odds his courage has not diminished by even one per cent.

 Srinagar, September 14: Three boys were injured after an unexploded shell went off  in Shirmal area of south Kashmir’s Shopian district on Tuesday . An unexploded shell went off when some boys fiddled with it, resulting in injuries to three minor boys,  all the injured were shifted to to PHC Litter, where their condition was said to be stable.

 Poonch, September 14, 2022:  Eleven (11) people died and 27 were injuried when a minibus plunged into a deep gorge in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district.