Plea for probe into Murshidabad violence: Supreme Court says PIL filed in haste, asks for changes

Protests against the Waqf Amendment Act, 2025, took place in many places in West Bengal in April 2025. News reports stated that these protests turned violent, with clashes and riots also taking place in Murshidabad district of West Bengal (here, here, here). According to these reports (here, here, here), three lives were lost in the clashes in Murshidabad, in which two Hindus, Chandan Das and Hargobind Das, were killed in a mob attack, and a Mus…

Plea for probe into Murshidabad violence: Supreme Court says PIL filed in haste, asks for changes

The Court also took exception to the language employed by one of the petitioners in his pleadings.

Murshidabad violence: Sukanta Majumdar targets Mamata, says she made West Bengal ‘Bangladesh version lite’

MEA condemned the incident in Bangladesh and urged the interim Government in Bangladesh to ensure protection for all minorities

Muslim employer arranges wedding of Hindu couple in riot-hit Murshidabad

The rare display of communal harmony comes just as the city is still smouldering from riots following the enactment of the Waqf Amendment Act.

SC dismisses PIL seeking judicial probe into Bengal violence; petitioner advised to file fresh plea - OrissaPOST

New Delhi: The Supreme Court Monday dismissed, as withdrawn, a public interest litigation (PIL) seeking the formation of a five-member judicial enquiry commission under the chairmanship of a retired apex court judge to enquire into the violent protests that erupted against the Waqf (Amendment) Act, 2025 in West Bengal’s Murshidabad. “You file a fresh petition,” a bench of Justices Surya Kant and N.K. Singh told the PIL litigant after he sought p…

Waqf law row: SC raps petitioner over allegations in PIL for probe into WB violence

Waqf law row: SC raps petitioner over allegations in PIL for probe into WB violence