Hate Crimes in 2018: 100 Incidents in First Six Months, UP Tops the List, Says Amnesty Report
According to data compiled by Amnesty, cow-related violence and honour killings were among the most common causes of the hate crimes. As per details available, the report comes during the ongoing probe into a lynching in Hapur, where a local man named Mohammad Qasim was assaulted by a mob over suspicion of cow slaughter in June.
New Delhi, July 18: At least 100 hate crimes have been reported against people from marginalised groups across India in the first half of 2018, human rights advocacy group Amnesty International has revealed. The hate crimes have been committed against people belonging to communities like Dalits, Adivasis, members of racial or religious minority groups and transgender people.
According to a TOI report, Uttar Pradesh tops the list with 18 such crimes among the other states of the country, followed by Gujarat with 13, Rajasthan accounts for eight while and Tamil Nadu and Bihar account for seven each.
The Amnesty report stated that in the first six months of 2018, a total of 67 hate crimes against Dalits and 22 against Muslims were recorded across the country. According to data compiled by Amnesty, cow-related violence and honour killings were among the most common causes of the hate crimes. As per details available, the report comes during the ongoing probe into a lynching in Hapur, where a local man named Mohammad Qasim was assaulted by a mob over suspicion of cow slaughter in June.
The human rights’ group began keeping an account of hate crimes across the country after Mohammad Akhlaq was killed in Uttar Pradesh’s Dadri September 2015 for allegedly storing beef at home. The TOI report informs that since then, a total of 603 hate crimes have been recorded in an interactive website, ‘Halt the Hate’, run by Amnesty.
The TOI report further informs that the western part of Uttar Pradesh has been the epicentre of such incidents. The violence across the state due to increasing hate crimes have triggered tensions between many communities.
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