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In a rare move, Indian police have filed charges against an army officer as well as two civilians for planting guns on the corpses of three Kashmiri labourers shot and killed in July earlier this year.

“The accused persons had been stalking and sexually harassing my sister for the last three [to] four months and pressurising her to marry Satish Rai. They killed her because she refused.”

The Indian government has updated its law to allow any Indian citizen to buy land in Jammu and Kashmir.

Demographic shift fears as India starts to issue residency certificates to thousands of non-Kashmiris, almost a year after Modi’s Hindu nationalist government decided to strip Kashmir of its special constitutional status.

Both India and China have blamed each other following a heated and deadly confrontation in the strategic Galwan Valley, located in the Indian Ladakh region, where physical fights saw the death of 20 Indian soldiers.

A prominent member of India’s governing party, the BJP, has been filmed warning Indians against buying vegetables from Muslim vendors amid the nationwide COVID-19 lockdown.

The outbreak of the coronavirus has provided a fresh opportunity for a new wave of Islamophobia to grip the Indian Muslim community. False claims that Muslims are responsible for the pandemic have escalated into attacks and boycotts across the country.

Violence continues as over 21 people have been killed, nearly 200 injured and a Mosque in the Indian capital set ablaze.

The Delhi Police have implemented the use of facial recognition technology in order to “screen” crowds protesting against a controversial new citizenship law.

“I did not think this was possible in my lifetime … I hope this will bring the two countries together.”