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An army-enforced curfew was imposed after riots between Hindus and Muslims left more than 60 people dead in Uttar Pradesh India, 9 September 2013. Photograph: Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP An army-enforced curfew was imposed after riots between Hindus and Muslims left more than 60 people dead in Uttar Pradesh India, 9 September 2013. Photograph: Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP On a hot and quiet afternoon, a woman lies on a wooden charpoy under a squeaking slow-moving fan inside her mud-walled house. “I have not been this happy in the past 10 years,” she says. It is days after a court in Muzaffarnagar found two Hindu men guilty of gang-raping her and holding a gun to her baby son’s head. A third man died before the case came to court. Amena was 26 when she was gang-raped during riots in Muzaffarnagar, Uttar Pradesh, in September 2013. Photograph: Jyoti Thakur Amena* was 26 when the violence swept through the Muzaffarnagar and Shamli districts of Uttar Pradesh – India’s most populous state – in September 2013. A decade on, she was the last of seven women to still be pursuing justice for a rape reported to police at the time. The others withdrew their complaints in the face of years of intimidation. The convictions in May are being welcomed by Muslims facing increasing discrimination under the populist rightwing prime minister Narendra Modi. Modi’s Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) is in power in Uttar Pradesh and is pushing The violence was triggered by rumours that a Muslim boy had sexually abus...

New Delhi: After Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh was convicted of rape and his followers wrecked havoc in parts of Punjab, Haryana and Delhi – leading to the death of at least 30 people – several BJP leaders were left in an awkward position. Several Haryana BJP leaders had gone to pay their respects to the Sirsa-based Dera chief after the elections in 2014. BJP MP Sakshi Maharaj invited intense backlash by openly supporting Singh and suggesting that the rape survivor should not be believed. “Who is right? Crores of people who see god in Ram Rahim or that girl who filed a complaint? Accusing a noble soul like Ram Rahim,” the Hindutva leader, who the Election Commission has “There is so much of ruckus over it, law and order has been disturbed, people are dying… Shouldn’t this be a consideration,” he added. “Can the Supreme Court or High Court call the Shahi Imam (head) of Jama Masjid in this manner? He is also wanted in many cases… Is he their relative? Ram Rahim is a simple man so he is being harassed,” Maharaj said, Times of India, other members of the ruling party tried to distance themselves from his comments. “The party does not agree with what Sakshi Maharaj has said… we strongly condemn the violence and have full respect for the judicial system of the country,” the newspaper quoted senior party Kailash Vijayvargiya – who has been a prominent supporter of Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh – as saying. Even as Haryana was reeling under the violence of the baba’s ri...

In the aftermath of the horrific rapes that occurred in the country last week and the extra judicial murders of the accused in the Hyderabad rape case, it is important to once again look at who our lawmakers are and what their credentials are. It becomes contextual after Samajwadi Party Jaya Bachchan had openly called for lynching of the accused in the Hyderabad rape and murder case. According to a report by Association of Democratic Reforms (ADR) released in May 2019, nearly half of the newly elected Lok Sabha members have criminal charges against them, a 26% increase as compared to 2014 and a 44% increase when compared to 2009. Out of the 539 winners analysed in Lok Sabha 2019, 233 MPs or43% have declared criminal cases against themselves. After analysing data of state Assemblies and Lok Sabha, ADR found that the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has the most number of MPs/MLAs with cases of crimes against women. About 30% of them face very serious charges, like those related to rape and other crimes against women, murder, kidnapping. The BJP has 116 MPs or 39% of its winning candidates with criminal cases, followed by 29 MPs from the Congress, 13 from the JDU, 10 from the DMK and nine from the TMC, the ADR said. BJP, sending the highest number of candidates to the parliament, has 87 of its members facing serious criminal charges, while 29 others face charges for non-serious offences. JD(U) sent the highest percentage of candidates with criminal cases, with 50% of thei...

Balesh Dhankharis a prominent member of the Indian diaspora in Australia and was one of the founders of the Overseas Friends of BJP in Australia, which supports the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The Australian media has called him one of the worst serial rapist in Sydney's recent history.Photo via Facebook/Balesh Dhankhar One of the worst serial rapists in Sydney’s recent history has been found guilty. Balesh Dhankhar, a 43-year-old data expert, was convicted on Monday for raping five Korean women in his home after drugging them. He also recorded his assaults, acts that left members of the jury writhing as they examined the video evidence, the Sydney Morning Herald In 2018, Dhankhar methodically lured the women to fake job interviews at a luxury hotel before spiking their drinks and assaulting them in his studio apartment in the Sydney central business district, the court heard. Dhankhar filmed the rapes on his phone and a camera hidden in a bedside clock, videos that helped the jury return guilty verdicts on each of the 39 charges brought against him. The five survivors said Dhankhar lured them to his apartment in similar ways: He invited the women to the Hilton hotel for a fake job interview and followed it up with dinner at a Korean restaurant. Then he would make an excuse to take them to his apartment, such as claiming that he needed to pick up his car keys so he could drive them home, before serving them spiked wine or ice-cream. Traces of sedatives were found ...

A story by The Indian Express from 2014 quotes Dhankhar as a member of the Overseas friends of BJP during Modi’s Australia visit in November 2014. Moreover, in a 2014 story by Indo-Asian News Service (IANS), Dhankhar is quoted as the “president of Overseas Friends of BJP (OFBJP)'s Australia chapter.” Dhankhar has also spoken at several events, including lectures on interfaith exchanges at the University of Sydney, on behalf of the Hindu Council of Australia, whose mission is to develop a strong, cohesive and active Hindu community in Australia. While he was on bail in this case, the purported LinkedIn profile indicates that Dhankhar was hired by pharma-giant Pfizer and news channel ABC on single-year contracts to work as a data visualisation consultant from 2019 and 2021.

An army-enforced curfew was imposed after riots between Hindus and Muslims left more than 60 people dead in Uttar Pradesh India, 9 September 2013. Photograph: Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP An army-enforced curfew was imposed after riots between Hindus and Muslims left more than 60 people dead in Uttar Pradesh India, 9 September 2013. Photograph: Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP On a hot and quiet afternoon, a woman lies on a wooden charpoy under a squeaking slow-moving fan inside her mud-walled house. “I have not been this happy in the past 10 years,” she says. It is days after a court in Muzaffarnagar found two Hindu men guilty of gang-raping her and holding a gun to her baby son’s head. A third man died before the case came to court. Amena was 26 when she was gang-raped during riots in Muzaffarnagar, Uttar Pradesh, in September 2013. Photograph: Jyoti Thakur Amena* was 26 when the violence swept through the Muzaffarnagar and Shamli districts of Uttar Pradesh – India’s most populous state – in September 2013. A decade on, she was the last of seven women to still be pursuing justice for a rape reported to police at the time. The others withdrew their complaints in the face of years of intimidation. The convictions in May are being welcomed by Muslims facing increasing discrimination under the populist rightwing prime minister Narendra Modi. Modi’s Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) is in power in Uttar Pradesh and is pushing The violence was triggered by rumours that a Muslim boy had sexually abus...

In the aftermath of the horrific rapes that occurred in the country last week and the extra judicial murders of the accused in the Hyderabad rape case, it is important to once again look at who our lawmakers are and what their credentials are. It becomes contextual after Samajwadi Party Jaya Bachchan had openly called for lynching of the accused in the Hyderabad rape and murder case. According to a report by Association of Democratic Reforms (ADR) released in May 2019, nearly half of the newly elected Lok Sabha members have criminal charges against them, a 26% increase as compared to 2014 and a 44% increase when compared to 2009. Out of the 539 winners analysed in Lok Sabha 2019, 233 MPs or43% have declared criminal cases against themselves. After analysing data of state Assemblies and Lok Sabha, ADR found that the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has the most number of MPs/MLAs with cases of crimes against women. About 30% of them face very serious charges, like those related to rape and other crimes against women, murder, kidnapping. The BJP has 116 MPs or 39% of its winning candidates with criminal cases, followed by 29 MPs from the Congress, 13 from the JDU, 10 from the DMK and nine from the TMC, the ADR said. BJP, sending the highest number of candidates to the parliament, has 87 of its members facing serious criminal charges, while 29 others face charges for non-serious offences. JD(U) sent the highest percentage of candidates with criminal cases, with 50% of thei...

A story by The Indian Express from 2014 quotes Dhankhar as a member of the Overseas friends of BJP during Modi’s Australia visit in November 2014. Moreover, in a 2014 story by Indo-Asian News Service (IANS), Dhankhar is quoted as the “president of Overseas Friends of BJP (OFBJP)'s Australia chapter.” Dhankhar has also spoken at several events, including lectures on interfaith exchanges at the University of Sydney, on behalf of the Hindu Council of Australia, whose mission is to develop a strong, cohesive and active Hindu community in Australia. While he was on bail in this case, the purported LinkedIn profile indicates that Dhankhar was hired by pharma-giant Pfizer and news channel ABC on single-year contracts to work as a data visualisation consultant from 2019 and 2021.

New Delhi: After Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh was convicted of rape and his followers wrecked havoc in parts of Punjab, Haryana and Delhi – leading to the death of at least 30 people – several BJP leaders were left in an awkward position. Several Haryana BJP leaders had gone to pay their respects to the Sirsa-based Dera chief after the elections in 2014. BJP MP Sakshi Maharaj invited intense backlash by openly supporting Singh and suggesting that the rape survivor should not be believed. “Who is right? Crores of people who see god in Ram Rahim or that girl who filed a complaint? Accusing a noble soul like Ram Rahim,” the Hindutva leader, who the Election Commission has “There is so much of ruckus over it, law and order has been disturbed, people are dying… Shouldn’t this be a consideration,” he added. “Can the Supreme Court or High Court call the Shahi Imam (head) of Jama Masjid in this manner? He is also wanted in many cases… Is he their relative? Ram Rahim is a simple man so he is being harassed,” Maharaj said, Times of India, other members of the ruling party tried to distance themselves from his comments. “The party does not agree with what Sakshi Maharaj has said… we strongly condemn the violence and have full respect for the judicial system of the country,” the newspaper quoted senior party Kailash Vijayvargiya – who has been a prominent supporter of Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh – as saying. Even as Haryana was reeling under the violence of the baba’s ri...

Balesh Dhankharis a prominent member of the Indian diaspora in Australia and was one of the founders of the Overseas Friends of BJP in Australia, which supports the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The Australian media has called him one of the worst serial rapist in Sydney's recent history.Photo via Facebook/Balesh Dhankhar One of the worst serial rapists in Sydney’s recent history has been found guilty. Balesh Dhankhar, a 43-year-old data expert, was convicted on Monday for raping five Korean women in his home after drugging them. He also recorded his assaults, acts that left members of the jury writhing as they examined the video evidence, the Sydney Morning Herald In 2018, Dhankhar methodically lured the women to fake job interviews at a luxury hotel before spiking their drinks and assaulting them in his studio apartment in the Sydney central business district, the court heard. Dhankhar filmed the rapes on his phone and a camera hidden in a bedside clock, videos that helped the jury return guilty verdicts on each of the 39 charges brought against him. The five survivors said Dhankhar lured them to his apartment in similar ways: He invited the women to the Hilton hotel for a fake job interview and followed it up with dinner at a Korean restaurant. Then he would make an excuse to take them to his apartment, such as claiming that he needed to pick up his car keys so he could drive them home, before serving them spiked wine or ice-cream. Traces of sedatives were found ...