Niha Masih And Tanima Biswas

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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...

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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...

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.

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