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The Kathua rape case involved the abduction, gang rape, and murder of an 8-year-old Muslim girl, Asifa Bano, by seven Hindu males (six men and a juvenile) in January 2018 in the Rasana village near Kathua in Jammu and Kashmir, India. A chargesheet for the case was filed, the accused were arrested and the trial began in Kathua on 16 April 2018.
Chinmoy Krishna Das (Bengali: চিন্ময় কৃষ্ণ দাস) is a Bangladeshi Hindu monk and community leader who is the spokesperson of Bangladesh Sanatan Jagaran Mancha. On 25 November 2024, he was arrested on sedition charges, leading to violent protests by his followers and diplomatic reactions from India.
He was reported to be a stickler of tradition and he streamlined the assets and income of the temple. He suspended two of the temple priests when there was a robbery in the temple and refused to allow them until they paid the loss of ₹ 105,000. He made the tenants and land leasers of the temple pay the arrears amount.
In October 2020, Babu Lal Vaishnav, a 50-year-old Hindu temple priest was killed in Bukna village, Rajasthan. [2] [3] Kailash Meena allegedly burnt Vaishnav alive after Vaishnav tried to stop Meena from trespassing on land belonging to the village temple. [4] [5]
Nithyananda was born Arunachalam Rajasekaran [19] [20] in Tiruvannamalai, Tamil Nadu, to father Arunachalam and mother Lokanayaki.He belongs to the Saiva Vellala community. [21] [20] Sources conflict as to his birth date – a 2003 United States visa gave a date of 13 March 1977, while a sworn affidavit in a 2010 Karnataka High Court case mentioned 1 January 1978.
Cars, homes, and shops of the local Hindu community were set ablaze by the mob, [16] and at around 14:00, roughly 2,500 Hindus including BD (Bajrang Dal) and VHP (Vishwa Hindu Parishad) members fled to a nearby Nulhar Mahadev temple for shelter. While in the temple they were attacked by the mob, who shot at them with guns, and pelted stones. [26]
With the beginning of the Sri Lankan civil war in 1983, attacks on Hindu temples by the majority Buddhist Sri Lankan security forces escalated, with the soldiers occupying, plundering, desecrating and ejecting priests and devotees from some temples such as the famous Thirukketheeswaram Temple in Mannar.
Ten people were arrested at the scene in Bada. [18] The multiple premeditated attacks started on 14 September 2008, with some 20 churches attacked in Karnataka; [12] of which 14 were attacked within one hour. [19] These included Catholic and Protestant churches as well as temples belonging to the Jehovah's Witnesses and the New Life Fellowship ...