Shiv Kumar Maurya

Sep 28, 2024 | thequint.com | Aliza Noor |Shiv Kumar Maurya

"Section 14 of the law shifts burden of proof on the victims as opposed to general laws in India," says Adv Devla. Sitting on a charpai (cot), sixty-year-old Hazra is still traumatised. Often, she thinks of how her 21-year-old son Waris Khan was lynched on the suspicion of cow smuggling. Hers is a shared yet personal grief in Haryana where violence against locals under the Cow Protection Law has only seen a rise in recent years.

May 28, 2024 | thequint.com | Himanshi Dahiya |Shiv Kumar Maurya |Abhishek Sharma

As Varanasi votes on 1 June, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is seeking a third term from the constituency. 68-year-old SM Yasin is a busy man. The Joint Secretary of the Anjuman Intezamia Masjid Committee, he represents the Muslim side in several temple-mosque disputes across India, including the Gyanvapi Mosque-Vishwanath Temple case in Uttar Pradesh's Varanasi. "We don't have faith in the judiciary anymore.

Apr 20, 2024 | thequint.com | Himanshi Dahiya |Shiv Kumar Maurya

As Mathura goes to vote, locals weigh in on the Mandir-Masjid dispute, inflation, unemployment and other issues. Video Editor: Kriti SaxenaMonu Sharma, 19, juggles multiple jobs to make ends meet. A priest by the day and a daily-wage labourer by the evening, he also works at a sweet shop in Mathura — a city in western Uttar Pradesh, 183 km from Delhi.