Attack On Swami Agnivesh

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  Approach High Court For CBI Probe In Assault Case: Top Court To Agnivesh

  The Supreme Court today asked social activist Swami Agnivesh to approach the High Court for a probe by the CBI or the NIA, into attacks on him in Jharkhand and Delhi.

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  Police Files Case After Attack On Swami Agnivesh Outside BJP Headquarters

  After social activist Swami Agnivesh was attacked near the BJP headquarters in Delhi on Friday, a case has been filed by the police against unidentified persons.

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  Swami Agnivesh Attacked On Way To Pay Tribute To Vajpayee At BJP Office

  Swami Agnivesh was surrounded and manhandled today near the BJP office in Delhi, where he had gone to pay his last respects to former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee. This is the second attack in a month on the 79-year-old social activist, who was earlier beaten in Jharkhand by a mob that allegedly included BJP workers.

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  Swami Vivekananda Would Be Attacked With Engine Oil Today: Shashi Tharoor

  Congress lawmaker Shashi Tharoor on Sunday said that Swami Vivekananda, the 19th century spiritual leader who took Indian philosophy to the West, would face violent attacks for endorsing humanity in present day India as he took on the BJP and Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government.

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  "No Arrests Yet": Swami Agnivesh To Move Top Court Over Jharkhand Assault

  Social activist Swami Agnivesh has said he will move the Supreme Court over the assault on him last month in Jharkhand. There have been no arrests in the case 18 days after the incident, he said at an event.

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  Attacked For Supporting Tribals, Says Swami Agnivesh

  Social activist and Bandhua Mukti Morcha leader Swami Agnivesh on Tuesday alleged that he was attacked in Jharkhand for his support to tribals protesting massive land acquisition by the state government for a corporate group.

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  Swami Agnivesh Planned Own Attack To Gain Popularity: Jharkhand Minister

  A minister in Jharkhand, where Swami Agnivesh was mercilessly beaten up on Tuesday, accused the social activist of planning the attack on himself to "gain popularity". Swami Agnivesh, said CP Singh, is a "fraud" and wears saffron to "deceive simple people of the country".

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  Swami Agnivesh Seeks Judicial Probe Into The Mob Attack On Him

  Social activist Swami Agnivesh on Wednesday demanded a judicial probe into his thrashing by suspected rightwing activists and said the attack was pre-planned.

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  Opposition Stages Protest In Jharkhand Assembly On Swami Agnivesh Attack

  Opposition parties today staged noisy protest over assault on social activist Swami Agnivesh in Pakur yesterday forcing adjournment of the House till lunch break.

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  BJP Leader Questions Swami Agnivesh's "Track Record" After Mob Attack

  Social activist Swami Agnivesh was thrashed, punched and kicked by a mob allegedly of BJP workers in Jharkhand on Tuesday, on a day the Supreme Court said "mobocracy cannot be the new normal" and held governments responsible for preventing such attacks.

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  "Who Am I?": Rahul Gandhi's "Pop Quiz" Jabs BJP On Swami Agnivesh Attack

  Rahul Gandhi's strike at the ruling BJP over a mob attack on social activist Swami Agnivesh yesterday took the form of a "pop quiz" on Twitter. Swami Agnivesh, 80, was assaulted, punched and kicked by a group allegedly of BJP Yuva Morcha or youth workers in Jharkhand.

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  Swami Agnivesh Allegedly Attacked By BJP Workers In Jharkhand

  Social activist Swami Agnivesh was attacked and beaten up, allegedly by supporters of the Bharatiya Janata Party Yuva Morcha (BJYM) in Jharkhand''s Pakur district on Tuesday.