The accused was a part of Telegram, WhatsApp, Snapchat and Discord groups named “Sanataniyon ki Nilami”, among others, which targeted Hindu women for conversion to Islam via love and rape jihad. Moin Khan was later arrested.
Both before and during the AI-era, Muslim men have been portraying Hindu women in religious attire in sexually suggestive scenarios, however, since victims were Hindu women and perpetrators Muslim men, nobody thought of it as an issue big enough to highlighted as weaponisation of social media and online editing tools against India’s Hindu women, but a few alleged cases, and whole ‘Muslim women under attack bogey’ is ready.
Born in 1990, Lauren Balik worked as a data professional, short seller, equities analyst, Substack writer, and conspiracy theorist. She also ran an X account with over 33,000 followers. Balik publicly presented as Lauren Balik (female), although her birth/legal name was Steven Charles Balik (male). Local media reports hint at possible detransition days before Balik’s death.
This is not the only time that the Sahitya Akademi is embroiled in controversy for offending Hindu sentiments. The institution is notorious for providing platform to Hinduphobic ideologies.
The High Court said that solely social media content without any mention of the date, time and place of the concert cannot be a ground for taking cognisance of such offence.
It is this selective framing by media outlets like The Washington Post that contributes to a broader problem: delegitimizing Hindu concerns while sanitizing hate under the convenient banner of political dissent.
Cachar Police informed, "A video recently emerged on social media in which Habiba Khatun of Tukergram, Silchar, was seen making derogatory & indecent remarks against Goddess Maa Kali, prompting arrested her & forwarded to the Hon’ble Court."
A private school owner from Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, who was absconding, was arrested by police from Kerala for allegedly posting objectionable remarks about Lord Ram on his WhatsApp status.