The news press does not give fair or comprehensive reporting that may be used to conduct a fair, pan-India analysis. Many news organisations have been found cherry-picking examples when the victim-perpetrator equation fits their storylines. It’s fundamentally designed to portray Muslims as overwhelmingly the victims and Hindus as overwhelmingly the culprits, giving minorities the misleading impression that they’re being attacked by ‘fascist’ Hindus with strong governmental support. In India, Hindus have been disproportionately targeted by hate crimes. Hindus have been ruthlessly slaughtered and lynched for speaking out in anti-Hindu riots led by Islamists, while some have been killed simply because they are Hindus.

This same press avoids discussing these situations, and those who do are frequently targeted by the same ecosystem. Even when the attackers aren’t Muslims, Hindu victims don’t seem to elicit the same level of anger as Muslim victims.

There have been 27 cases of Hindus being brutally murdered, but the mainstream media and the ‘liberal’ elite have failed to express any indignation.

In Palghar, Maharashtra, two Sadhus and their driver, Nilesh Telgade, were lynched.

Two Sadhus, 70-year-old Kalpavrishka Giri Maharaj and 35-year-old Sushil Giri Maharaj, along with their driver, 30-year-old Nilesh Telgade of the Juna Akhara, who were on their way from Mumbai to Gujarat to give Samadhi to another Sadhu, were brutally lynched by a mob of over 100 people on April 16, 2020, in Palghar, Maharashtra.

Unlike what the biased media portrays, the blood-curdling Palghar lynching tragedy serves as a stark reminder that such crimes against Hindus occur regularly.

The names of a few more Hindus who have faced great outrage and hostility are listed below.

Islamists shot and killed Delhi Police Chief Constable Ratan Lal.

On February 24, 2020, Head Constable Ratan Lal was killed after Islamists opposing the CAA pelted stones at him during anti-CAA riots in Delhi, which coincided with US President Donald Trump’s visit to India. Ratan Lal died of a bullet wound, according to the post-mortem report. The suspects’ names were Salim Malik, Mohammad Jalaluddin, Mohammad Yunus, Mohammad Ayub, Arif, Danish, and Mohammad Salim Khan, according to an India TV report.

Ankit Sharma, an IB detective, was brutally murdered by an Islamist mob.

During the Delhi anti-Hindu riots, rioting Islamists brutalised Intelligence Bureau staffer Ankit Sharma to the point of insanity. During anti-Hindu rioting in the national capital, the body of an Intelligence Bureau constable was discovered in a drain in North East Delhi. Ankit Sharma, a Chand Bagh resident, was returning home one evening when he was beaten to death by a tumultuous mob on the Chand Bagh bridge. His body had been tossed down a drain by a Muslim mob.

Ankit Sharma was stripped naked before he was killed, according to Delhi police. His garments were stripped to check his religion before he was brutally slain, according to ABP News. On his head, chest, and face, he had damaged marks. An acid-like liquid was sprayed on Ankit Sharma after his murder to disguise his identification. Ankit Sharma was stabbed many times for four to six hours, according to his incident report.

Tahir Hussain, the leader of the AAP, is suspected of being the mastermind behind the assassination of IB detective Ankit Sharma and the violent disturbances that erupted in Delhi in February of this year.

Jihadis assassinated Hindu activist Kamlesh Tiwari.

Kamlesh Tiwari, a Hindu activist and leader of the Hindu Samaj Party, was brutally murdered by Jihadis at his Lucknow home on October 18, 2019. His throat was slit by the murderers after he was shot. Since then, there have been significant developments in the case, and several persons have been arrested for their roles in the murder.

According to the post-mortem report on Kamlesh Tiwari’s death, the Hindu leader was stabbed 15 times and shot once. He had been stabbed in the upper body, from the jaws to the chest, by Jihadis. Within 10 cm of each other, the wounds were inflicted. According to the investigation, there were two deep cut wounds on his neck, indicating an attempt to slit his throat.

The primary conspirators, Rashid Pathan, Faizan Pathan, and a Maulvi named Mohsin Sheikh, were apprehended by the Gujarat ATS a day after the murder. They admitted following an interview that they plotted Tiwari’s murder in 2015 because of his ‘blasphemous’ comments on Prophet Muhammad’s sexuality.

Four days after the murder, a squad of Gujarat ATS officers commanded by DIG ATS Himanshu Shukla apprehended Ashfaq and Moinuddin, the two main suspects in the case, along the Gujarat-Rajasthan border. To earn Tiwari’s trust, Ashfaq fabricated his colleague’s Aadhaar and pretended to be Rohit Solanki, a Hindu rights activist.

The Jihadis exposed their true objectives and handed out grisly details of the murder during their interrogation in police custody.

Investigations into the case revealed that Kamlesh Tiwari’s assassination was meticulously planned, with all contact taking place through a WhatsApp group with 72 people implicated in the crime.

In Kanpur, Vikas Yadav was tied to a tree and savagely beaten by a mob.

Following a quarrel at a wheat flour factory, a man called Vikas Yadav was savagely assaulted by a gang of irate Muslim men in Bindki town, Fatehpur district, Uttar Pradesh, on October 18, 2019. Vikas was tied to a tree by a frenzied mob of enraged Muslim men baying for his murder, according to a viral video of the incident.

Murshidabad triple murder investigation

Bandhu Prakash Pal, a Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) worker, his pregnant wife, and their six-year-old kid were brutally killed on October 10, 2019, in West Bengal’s Murshidabad district. A week after a family of three was brutally killed in Murshidabad, West Bengal, police caught one guy, Utpal Behera, who confessed to the killing over a dispute over  Rs24,000.

Gangaram Singh Chauhan was murdered for filing a written report about his daughter’s abduction when she was 13 years old.

Gangaram Singh Chauhan of Aliyabad village in Uttar Pradesh’s Moradabad district was lynched at his home on June 27, 2019, after making a written complaint against his 13-year-old daughter’s kidnapping at the nearby Dilari police station. Chauhan decided to contact the police when the minor daughter was abducted for the second time, allegedly by her 25-year-old neighbour Mohammad Danish. The family had previously swept the incident under the rug, fearful of social repercussions.

Sadly, the 55-year-old Chauhan had to pay the ultimate price for protecting his daughter: his life. Chauhan’s wife stated that six men and two women armed with lathis and butcher’s knives barged into their home, screaming insults and hitting her in the head. They then hit Chauhan on the chest when he was resting on a cot, lifted him, and slammed him on the floor many times. They fled once he was knocked out.

“Leave our neighbourhood, you Hindus,” Safayat Nabi’s relatives yelled as Gangaram Singh Chauhan, 55, was lynched.

On the same night, a first information report (FIR) was filed, naming six suspects: Safayat Nabi, his three sons Mohsin, Chhotu, and Danish, and their two cousins Akram and Irrfan.

Bharat Yadav, a Hindu lassi shop owner, was lynched by a Muslim mob in Mathura.

On May 18, 2019, an enraged Muslim mob in Mathura attacked two Hindu lassi shop owners, both brothers, who were located in the crowded Chowk Bazaar near the Krishna Janmabhoomi shrine. Following a minor altercation, a burqa-clad woman arrived at the famed ‘Nattho Yadav Lassiwale’ with a bloodthirsty mob to get revenge for the perceived inequality meted out to her. The lassi store owners were mercilessly thrashed by the mob, who called them ‘Kaafirs,’ a derogatory term for non-Muslims.

The two brothers who were managing the shop at the time, Pankaj and Bharat Yadav, were severely hurt in the attack. Though the brothers were transported to be dressed for their exterior wounds, the oldest brother Bharat had internal injuries, and his condition deteriorated within a week, on May 24, and he died the next day. Bharat’s brain and nerves were harmed in the attack, according to the post-mortem.

After a little squabble in Gonda, Uttar Pradesh, Vishnu Goswami was set on fire.

Vishnu Kumar Goswami, a resident of Mughal Jot hamlet in Chistipur, Gonda district, Uttar Pradesh, was doused in petrol and set on fire following a small dispute on May 15, according to Amar Ujala.

Vishnu had gone to Jamuna Bagh to get his father Ramdi Goswami. The father and kid stopped to drink water on the side of the Gonda-Ayodhya route on their way back.

A petrol truck driver and a few others got into a dispute with Vishnu there. The situation immediately escalated, and the four defendants — Imran, Tufail, Ramzan, and Nizamuddin – drenched Vishnu with gasoline and lit him ablaze.

Dhruv Tyagi, a Delhi businessman, was stabbed to death in protest over his daughter’s abuse.

In May 2019, Dhruv Raj Tyagi, a businessman who owned multiple residences and shops in Delhi’s Moti Nagar, was stabbed to death by Jehangir Khan and his son Mohammad Alam. When the victim went to Jehangir to complain about his son who had abused Tyagi’s daughter, the father-son duo hacked him to death. The weapon with which Tyagi was slain, a butcher’s knife, was donated by Jehangir Khan’s wife and daughter. Tyagi’s corpse was mangled, his fingernails were taken out, and his teeth were smashed in addition to being slain.

In Tamil Nadu, activist V Ramalingam was brutally murdered.

V Ramalingam, a PMK (Pattali Makkal Katchi) leader in Tamil Nadu, was brutally murdered by a group of persons from a minority community on February 6, 2019, for opposing religious conversion. On his way home, Ramalingam was beaten by a bunch of unidentified individuals in Kumbakonam, Thanjavur district, and his hands were hacked off. Due to heavy bleeding, Ramalingam died on the way to the hospital.

During protests against unlawful slaughterhouses, Inspector Subodh Singh killed Bulandshahar.

There is only one cop. Inspector Subodh Singh died in December 2018 after protesters in Bulandshahar battled with the police over illegal slaughterhouses.

According to accounts, protesters gathered outside a police station, claiming to have discovered cow carcasses in their neighbourhood. They clashed with the cops, enraged by police inactivity after repeated complaints.

According to reports, the cops opened fire on the demonstrators. The cops were allegedly compelled to open fire as demonstrators pelted them with stones. Inspector Subodh Kumar Singh was killed in the ensuing pandemonium. Sumit, too, was a young man who died as a result of his injuries.

Avinash Saxena, an auto driver, was lynched in Delhi for allegedly stealing car batteries.

On November 26, 2018, a crowd allegedly tied two men to an electric pole, assaulted them, and displayed them for allegedly stealing car batteries in West Delhi’s Mohan Garden. A 26-year-old auto driver died, while two other men were hospitalised.

Saxena shared a rented property in Mohan Garden with his parents, wife, and two children. He did much of his work at night. Between 3.30 and 7.30 a.m., he was lynched near Pipal Chowk, around two kilometres from his home.

The parents of the car driver arrived on the scene to see their son tethered to an electric pole. The couple tried unsuccessfully to phone the police in an attempt to save their youngster. They were compelled to return home, abandoning their son.

For resisting bike stunts, Bhavesh Koli was stabbed to death:

On July 5, 2018, seven bikers stabbed Bhavesh Koli, a 24-year-old Hindu man, to death for stopping them from speeding and executing bike stunts on the ES Patanwala Marg in Mumbai. Shahzada Usman Shaikh and Anus Shaikh have been recognised among those arrested.

Madhu Chindaki, a tribal youth, was lynched, and her accuser, Ubaid, took a selfie with her before killing her.

On the 22nd of February 2018, a mob in Attappadi, Kerala, mercilessly lynched an impoverished tribal youth on suspicion of food theft. Madhu Chindaki, who was 27 years old at the time, was said to be mentally challenged. He was found hiding near the Attappadi forest by a crowd, who lynched him before handing him over to the cops, where he succumbed to his injuries.

Things got so out of hand that one of the defendants, Ubaid, snapped a selfie with Madhu before lynching him.

Ankit Saxena was assassinated in Delhi for falling in love with a Muslim girl.

In February 2018, a Hindu kid named Ankit Saxena was brutally murdered in Delhi for having a relationship with a minority girl named Shehzadi. The killers were the girl’s relatives, including her parents. Ankit had been pressed to end his relationship with the young lady. He was slain with his neck sliced because he refused to comply.

Amit Gautam, a Dalit youngster, was beaten to death in Hathras, Uttar Pradesh.

On January 31, 2018, a Dalit youth called Amit Kumar Gautam (27) was beaten to death in Hathras, Uttar Pradesh’s Gadhi Khandari neighbourhood (which has a mixed religious population). The youth’s bruised body was discovered near a Mosque. According to sources, the murder was perpetrated over a motorcycle quarrel.

Amit’s family had filed a complaint against Alam, Saddam, Khalid, Sukel, and Ashu, five Muslim youngsters.

Chandan Gupta was assassinated in Kashganj, Uttar Pradesh, during a Republic Day rally.

Chandan Gupta died of gunshot wounds on January 26, 2018, while participating in a motorbike rally in Kashganj, Uttar Pradesh, to commemorate Republic Day. His assassination sparked communal unrest in the town in western Uttar Pradesh. Three stores, two buses, and an automobile were all set ablaze. Because he refused to say “Pakistan Zindabad,” both of his parents reported that their kid was shot.

Police apprehended one Salim on January 31, 2018, and designated him as the primary suspect in the murder investigation. On February 9, 2018, Asif Gymwala, who was designated as a suspect in the murder of Chandan Gupta, appeared before the Chief Judicial Magistrate’s court.

Ravinder Kumar, an e-rickshaw driver, was killed in a public urinating incident.

Ravindra Kumar (32) an e-rickshaw driver in north Delhi was lynched by five students in June 2017 after the former prevented the latter from urinating in public. Ravinder Kumar was going to start his lunch in his e-rickshaw on June 2nd at around 1.30 PM when he observed two youths urinating on the roadside near the GTB Metro station. He offered money to the youths for using a public bathroom, which was only a few steps away from where they were urinating, to disgrace them.

However, he got into a fight with the two teenagers. They threatened him and warned they would come back soon to “disfigure his face” before departing the scene.

They returned seven hours later, armed with iron knuckles and stones covered in towels, and beat the Hindu guy to death. Ravindra slumped, and the group took off. Ravindra’s relatives hurried him to a nearby hospital, where he died as a result of his injuries.

Riya Gautam, an aspiring air hostess, was stabbed to death in broad daylight in Delhi.

Riya Gautam, a Hindu from the Ramnagar neighbourhood of Mansarovar Park in Delhi, was severely stabbed in broad daylight by one Adil Banne Khan at a popular market on July 5, 2017. Adil attacked Riya and then chased her into a business in Ram Nagar Colony, according to CCTV footage from a camera located outside the shop.

Later, he was spotted pushing people away and fleeing with a knife in his hand. The bleeding girl was brought to Guru Tegh Bahadur Hospital and underwent surgery, but she died as a result of a serious cut in her upper belly and heavy bleeding caused by a sliced wrist. On July 8, 2017, Mumbai Crime Branch arrested Adil Banne Khan (23) and two of his subordinates, Juned Salim Ansari (19) and Fazil Raju Ansari (18).

Yogesh Kumar, 14, was lynched by Muslim buddies.

Yogesh Kumar, the victim, was discovered dead near New Delhi Railway Station in June 2017 under unknown circumstances. He had several damage marks all over his face and body, indicating that he had been beaten to death. According to his post-mortem, the injuries on his body were evident indicators of a sharp object attack. Seema, the victim’s mother, said that her son was lynched by his Muslim buddies, who demanded money from her while holding Yogesh hostage. She even stated that they forced her to hear Yogesh’s frightened voice for the first time.

Dr Pankaj Narang was kidnapped from his home and brutally beaten to death over a minor quarrel.

A Muslim mob gathered outside Dr Pankaj Narang’s home on March 26, 2016, and beat him to death with sticks and rods. Dr Narang had merely ventured to reprimand two motorcycle-riding teenagers for brushing by his kid who was playing cricket on the road, as a worried father would. Soon after, a skirmish erupted, followed by a Muslim crowd demanding Dr Narang’s blood. The four adolescents were committed to a correctional home by a Delhi court, while the five other defendants Naseer, Maesar, Amir, Ameer, and Gopal were condemned to Tihar jail.

Prashant Poojary, a Bajrang Dal activist, was slain while attempting to stop illicit cow slaughter.

Prashant Poojary, a Bajrang Dal activist, was savagely hacked to death on October 9, 2015, for attempting to stop unlawful cow slaughter by men from the Popular Front of India (PFI), a pro-Muslim organisation. Poojary was attacked in broad daylight in a marketplace by six bike-riding males. He died the day after sustaining his injuries.

These are just a handful of the countless occasions when the level of brutality inflicted on Hindus was unfathomable, but sadly, most of these cases never received the attention they deserved in the media. The majority of the left-liberal media refused to mention these “lynching” episodes, and if they did, they were twisted or discounted since the victims were Hindus.

As Nero’s guests, the mainstream media has meticulously built the victim narrative that politicians have frequently utilised to keep the Muslim vote bank intact. The Hindus are always the default aggressors in that storey. One recalls how Rajdeep put the murder of Prashant Poojari in a political perspective, or how Sonia Gandhi’s NAC intended to propose the Communal Violence Bill, with the victim of any sectarian violence always being a Muslim and the perpetrator always being a Hindu. One remembers how, that during the Delhi anti-Hindu riots, which began in the first week of November when Muslim mobs went on a rampage protesting NRC and CAA, the narrative of the riots being anti-Muslim was flipped on its head.

Even when they are massively slain, lynched, and brutalised, the Hindu must never be depicted as the victim for this narrative to survive. Because their religion is not the correct religion to be considered victims, the media simply ignores the victims.

The foundation of this affliction is entrenched Hindu phobia, as well as the reality that the majority of India’s media is skewed to the left. While the media remains silent, these Hindu victims, and others like them, must be remembered so that the plight of the oppressed Hindu is not lost in the noise of minoritarian.