Rajasthan 3rd in hate crimes in India in ’2018: Amnesty India
Yeshika Budhwar | TNN | Updated: Mar 6, 2019, 06:56 IST
Picture used for representational purpose onlyJAIPUR: According to data released on Tuesday by the Amnesty India on its interactive website ‘Halt the Hate’, Rajasthan was third in the country in terms of hate crimes in 2018, topped only by UP and Gujarat. According to the data collected through media reports, there were 18 incidents of alleged hate crimes in Rajasthan, which included crimes related to cows, religion and caste, among others. UP has 57 such crimes, while Gujarat has 22. For Rajasthan, the number has increased from three in 2015 to 49 till 2018.
The website states that ‘Halt the Hate’ documents alleged that hate crimes in India started from September 28, 2015, when Mohammad Akhlaq, a Muslim resident of Dadri, Uttar Pradesh, was murdered in his home by a mob claiming that he had eaten beef. Its documents alleged hate crimes against Dalits, Muslims, Adivasis, Transgender people, Christians, and ‘other’ vulnerable groups.
For Rajasthan, the data reveals that after September 28, 2015, there were three such hate crimes in the state, while in 2016 there were ten, eighteen in 2017 and the same in 2018 while none in 2019 till now.
The alleged motives in these cases range from caste to ‘love jihad’. Alleged caste-motivated crimes were at the top of the list with thirty-three recorded between 2015 to now, while religion came a close second as a suspected reason behind the criminal acts and data shows there were seventeen religion-motivated crimes between the same years. Cows and gender also featured on the list, as few of the alleged causes with the former having eight such crimes to its credit and twelve for the rest. Other reasons for the hate crimes included honour killings, ‘love jihad’ etc. The nature of harm in these cases are mostly harassment, killings, assault as well as rape, sexual harassment and property damage.
After September 2015 to 2018, 721 cases of alleged hate crimes have been recorded across the country out of which 218 were in last year itself.
In the national capital, a total of 18 such crimes have been noticed in the last three years with seven in 2018. Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim, Nagaland and few other states/union territories had no such incidents last year.
The website states that ‘Halt the Hate’ documents alleged that hate crimes in India started from September 28, 2015, when Mohammad Akhlaq, a Muslim resident of Dadri, Uttar Pradesh, was murdered in his home by a mob claiming that he had eaten beef. Its documents alleged hate crimes against Dalits, Muslims, Adivasis, Transgender people, Christians, and ‘other’ vulnerable groups.
For Rajasthan, the data reveals that after September 28, 2015, there were three such hate crimes in the state, while in 2016 there were ten, eighteen in 2017 and the same in 2018 while none in 2019 till now.
The alleged motives in these cases range from caste to ‘love jihad’. Alleged caste-motivated crimes were at the top of the list with thirty-three recorded between 2015 to now, while religion came a close second as a suspected reason behind the criminal acts and data shows there were seventeen religion-motivated crimes between the same years. Cows and gender also featured on the list, as few of the alleged causes with the former having eight such crimes to its credit and twelve for the rest. Other reasons for the hate crimes included honour killings, ‘love jihad’ etc. The nature of harm in these cases are mostly harassment, killings, assault as well as rape, sexual harassment and property damage.
After September 2015 to 2018, 721 cases of alleged hate crimes have been recorded across the country out of which 218 were in last year itself.
In the national capital, a total of 18 such crimes have been noticed in the last three years with seven in 2018. Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim, Nagaland and few other states/union territories had no such incidents last year.
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