Niha Masih And Tanima Biswas

• Meerut Woman Goes Back on Statement in Blow to 'Love Jihad' Pitch

  A young woman who had alleged in a police complaint earlier this year that she was abducted, gang-raped and forced into religious conversion, has now gone back on her statement, the Meerut police have said.

• Truth vs Hype: 1984 Riots - Political complicity, aborted justice

  Rahul Gandhi's claim that in 1984, Congress government protected the Sikhs, has reopened old wounds. Evidence, however, suggests how the regime of the day was not just complicit in the violence, but made every attempt to suppress justice for over three decades.

• Muzaffarnagar: Witnesses unsafe, as riot accused roam free

  Their refugee camp shut down, we meet we meet Imran and Ilyas, in a house in the town of Shahpur. They are from Kutba village, where eight people were killed, and are crucial witnesses to a weekend of horrific violence in early September last year.

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  Muzaffarnagar riots: men police can't find are easily located

  At the Jhauli police station, 34 people have been named as accused, none have been arrested. The police say that's because the attackers are missing. But when we visit Jhauli, we easily found one of the accused, a young man called Gullu.

• The Mystery of Kawwal: Were Muzaffarnagar riots based on distortion of facts?

  The reasons ascribed to justify the killing of Shahnawaz (and by default the riots that followed) -- the supposed protection of the honour of Jat women -- are not borne out by the facts.

• Muzaffarnagar riots: in the violence, signs of careful political design

  The village of Fugana, like so many in the sugarcane belt of Western Uttar Pradesh, has been prosperous, but for the most part, it was a quiet one, with few flashpoints between the Hindu Jats who form the majority and a few hundred Muslim families, who work their fields. The white-hot signs of how that changed this weekend are everywhere today - in...

• Muzaffarnagar riots: a meeting after Friday prayers exploited by politicians

  The prelude to the riots that have ripped through Muzaffarnagar in western Uttar Pradesh killing 38 people unfolded in the village of Kawal, where in the last week of August, two Jat brothers killed a Muslim boy who was stalking their sister. Less than an hour later, they were lynched to death.

• Muzaffarnagar clashes: The violent countryside

  The army's show of strength through the deserted streets of Muzaffarnagar town has helped ensure a tense and uneasy calm.