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Mainstream, Vol 63 No 9, March 1, 2025

Need for a special law to protect and promote minority rights in the criminal justice system | KS Subramanian

Saturday 1 March 2025, by K S Subramanian

The below text was presented at Discussion on Indian Constitution @75: A Federal Democracy Perspective, 25 January 2025

Minority rights in India are in dire straits as revealed in the January 2018 horrific abduction, gangrape and murder in a Hindu temple, of the eight-year-old Asifa Bano of the minority Muslim community at Kathua in Jammu & Kashmir. The culprits were from the majority Hindu community represented by the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

The persisting violence and crimes against the minority Muslim, Christian, Sikh and