A dated, sourced record of incidents reported between 1 and 31 Oct 2026 · compiled 31st Oct 2026
Scope and Method
Only incidents that took place in October 2026 are listed. Where an outlet gave the publication date but not the incident date, the entry says reported. Sources searched: The Wire, Maktoob Media, Clarion India, The Observer Post, Alt News and Mohammed Zubair (@zoo_bear), The Indian Express, The Telegraph, The Hindu, and — as requested — the wider web (Scroll, The Quint, Siasat, Madhyamam, Muslim Mirror, SabrangIndia, Millat Times, LiveLaw, ThePrint, Al Jazeera, HRW, and the IAMC weekly monitors of 3, 15, 22 and 29 October). Accounts are given as reported, including disputed police versions. Inclusion means an incident was credibly reported, not that every allegation has been proven.
1. Killings and deaths in custody
Date: 3 Oct
Place: Bagdogra–Matigara, Darjeeling, West Bengal
Incident: Mob accused five Muslim men of cattle theft around 2:30 am, chased and beat them and set their pickup on fire. Shahid Akhtar (Chopra) and Sajjad Mohammad (Haryana) were killed; Amir Sattar, Akram Khan and Arif Khan were injured.
Sources: Maktoob (4 Oct); Siasat (4 Oct); The Wire, ‘Naxalbari lynchings’ follow-up (16 Oct)
Date: 12 Oct
Place: Sahodra, West Champaran (Bettiah), Bihar
Incident: Dilshad Ansari (25) died after a 2 am police raid. Police say he jumped from the vehicle; his father says officers struck him on the head. Six personnel including the SHO were suspended; family seeks a murder case.
Sources: SabrangIndia (14 Oct); Hindustan Gazette (16 Oct); Maktoob (17 Oct); Observer Post
Date: 15 Oct
Place: Nuh, Haryana
Incident: Mohammad Shahid (27) shot dead in a police ‘encounter’ over alleged cattle smuggling. His brother told the magisterial inquiry it was murder; villagers called the police account fake.
Sources: ETV Bharat (15 & 22 Oct); IAMC monitor (22 Oct)
Date: 15 Oct
Place: Dubrajpur, Birbhum, West Bengal
Incident: Barjahan Shah (35), handed to police on a theft suspicion, died after being held at the station. His wife says he was beaten and denied care; she saw blood from his mouth and nose.
Sources: Muslim Mirror (17 Oct)
Date: Week to 29 Oct
Place: West Bengal
Incident: Police shot dead two men in custody within 24 hours, including murder accused Samiul Sheikh; opposition leaders called the killings staged.
Sources: Millat Times; IAMC monitor (29 Oct)
2. Mob assaults and hate attacks
Date: Reported 1 Oct
Place: Hyderabad, Telangana
Incident: BJP corporator Akula Srivani booked after she and Hindu Vahini members harassed and threatened a Muslim teacher over a claim that she asked pupils to remove rakhis.
Sources: Maktoob (1 Oct)
Date: Reported 1–3 Oct
Place: Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh
Incident: 12-year-old Muslim boy attacked after refusing to chant ‘Jai Shri Ram’; a crowd followed him home and stoned the house and a nearby mosque, injuring his uncle. (Exact incident date not given.)
Sources: Observer Post; IAMC monitor (3 Oct)
Date: 11 Oct
Place: Delhi (anti-SIR protest)
Incident: Men wearing press cards surrounded Maktoob journalists Fida Fathima and Nada Saeeda and journalist Akhtarisa Ansari, calling them ‘Topi Media’. Muslim women protesters also reported a hijab being pulled.
Sources: Maktoob (11 Oct); The Quint (29 Oct)
Date: 16 Oct
Place: SAM College, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh
Incident: Bajrang Dal members took the garba stage, told people of ‘jihadi mentality’ to leave in five minutes and assaulted two Muslim students. Police filed an FIR against Muslim law student Sameer Alam on a Bajrang Dal complaint; his complaint was not registered.
Sources: The Wire (20 Oct); Siasat; Madhyamam
Date: 20 Oct (night)
Place: Panskura, East Midnapore, West Bengal
Incident: 25–30 men with sticks and iron rods vandalised a madrasa and nearby Muslim homes, destroyed books and documents, scrawled a Hindu nationalist slogan and threatened teachers and students with death.
Sources: Clarion India (25 Oct); Observer Post; IAMC (29 Oct)
Date: 21 Oct (night)
Place: Garwar, Ballia, Uttar Pradesh
Incident: Islamic flag on a pole outside a mosque set alight during a Durga immersion procession amid inflammatory slogans; police visible in the video. Case filed against two unidentified people.
Sources: PTI via Siasat (23 Oct); Muslim Mirror (23 Oct); Clarion India (23 Oct)
Date: Reported 23 Oct
Place: Madhya Pradesh
Incident: Arms openly displayed and shots fired into the air outside a Jama Masjid during an Ayudha Puja procession.
Sources: Clarion India (23 Oct)
Date: Week to 22 Oct
Place: Hyderabad, Telangana
Incident: Two Muslim electricians beaten with sticks and hospitalised; they say they were told to chant ‘Jai Shri Ram’.
Sources: Observer Post; IAMC monitor (22 Oct)
Date: Week to 15 Oct
Place: Chhatarpur, Madhya Pradesh
Incident: The only Muslim family in a village of ~25 Hindu households alleges assault and a knife attack over a blocked pathway.
Sources: Observer Post; IAMC monitor (15 Oct)
Date: 26 Oct
Place: Hindoriya, Damoh, Madhya Pradesh
Incident: Bajrang Dal-linked men stoned and chased a pickup, then tied up and beat buffalo traders Abid Qureshi, Hasan Qureshi and Hussain with sticks and bats; two critical. Police also booked the victims under animal-cruelty law.
Sources: Siasat (28 Oct); Maktoob (29 & 30 Oct); Hindustan Gazette (29 Oct); Observer Post
Date: Reported 27 Oct
Place: Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh
Incident: Elderly bearded Muslim man beaten near a police post and pressed to chant ‘Jai Shri Ram’; Rinku Yadav, who intervened, was also beaten. Police confirmed injuries after medical examination.
Sources: Clarion India (27 Oct); KMS (28 Oct)
Date: Reported 28 Oct
Place: Azhiyur, Kerala
Incident: RSS worker Vimal Shivashakthi arrested for sexually abusive, Islamophobic Facebook comments on the photo of a Muslim schoolgirl felicitated for an abacus win.
Sources: Madhyamam; Observer Post (28 Oct)
3. Exclusion, boycott calls and hate speech
Date: 2 Oct
Place: Bankura, West Bengal
Incident: About 30 Muslim women seeking Annapurna Yojana payments say BJP MLA Niladri Sekhar Dana made them chant ‘Jai Shri Ram’ and said Hindu women would be paid first. He admits the slogan, denies insulting them.
Sources: The Wire (3 & 8 Oct); Siasat; Madhyamam
Date: Pre-Durga Puja
Place: Siliguri, West Bengal
Incident: RSS-affiliated groups put up posters urging people to buy only from Hindu-owned shops.
Sources: Observer Post; IAMC monitor (15 Oct)
Date: 13 Oct
Place: Vartej, Gujarat
Incident: Over 40 Antarrashtriya Hindu Parishad activists detained after protesting Muslim participation at a garba venue.
Sources: Madhyamam (19 Oct)
Date: 14 Oct
Place: Ahmedabad, Gujarat
Incident: Announcement at a garba headlined by Aditya Gadhvi asked Muslims and other non-Hindus to leave and gave a helpline to report ‘suspicious’ people; the singer disowned it.
Sources: Madhyamam (19 Oct)
Date: 17–18 Oct
Place: Jaipur, Rajasthan
Incident: Two garba appearances by influencer Javed Ali Khan cancelled after VHP, Bajrang Dal and Sanatan Suraksha Dal threatened vandalism. The latter says it checks entrants at 70–80 pandals and bars non-Hindus.
Sources: The Wire (18 Oct); Observer Post
Date: 20 Oct
Place: Nalasopara / online
Incident: After a Muslim teenager was arrested for slapping a girl at a garba, BJP leader Kirit Somaiya and commentators used it to brand ‘love jihad’ and argue for barring Muslims from garba.
Sources: Organiser (21 Oct)
Date: Reported 23 Oct
Place: Madhya Pradesh
Incident: BJP MLA appealed to Hindu families to withdraw children from convent schools and madrasas.
Sources: Observer Post (23 Oct)
Date: 27 Oct
Place: Maharashtra
Incident: Minister Nitesh Rane urged Hindus to buy Diwali goods only from shopkeepers who wear tilak, say ‘Jai Shri Ram’ and can recite the Hanuman Chalisa.
Sources: Siasat (27 Oct); Muslim Mirror
Date: Week to 29 Oct
Place: Gujarat
Incident: State government dropped Muslim poet Aziz Tankarvi’s poem from its official Diwali magazine after a VHP objection.
Sources: Observer Post; IAMC monitor (29 Oct)
4. Policing, prosecution and courts
Date: 1 Oct
Place: Kotdwar, Uttarakhand
Incident: Deepak Kumar (‘Mohammad Deepak’), who in January defended an elderly Muslim shopkeeper from Bajrang Dal, arrested on a businessman’s complaint as a ‘preventive measure’.
Sources: The Wire; Outlook
Date: 1 Oct
Place: Mumbai, Maharashtra
Incident: BJP’s Kirit Somaiya says a minister ordered an FIR against the trustees of the airport-area mosque; trustees say the prayer space was authorised in 2015 and the matter is in court.
Sources: Clarion India (27 Oct)
Date: Reported 9 Oct
Place: Central University of Kerala
Incident: Five students, most of them Muslim, suspended and 25 booked over protests against an RSS-linked seminar; NSUI accuses the administration of targeting Muslims.
Sources: Maktoob (9 Oct); The News Minute
Date: Week of 9 Oct
Place: Delhi
Incident: Human Rights Watch reports a police officer entered a mosque during Friday prayers to warn Muslims against joining anti-SIR protests.
Sources: HRW (13 Oct)
Date: c. 10 Oct
Place: Najibabad, Bijnor, Uttar Pradesh
Incident: Muezzin Mohammad Faizan of Najib-ud-Daula Mosque arrested and remanded for 14 days over azaan loudspeaker volume, with no sound reading disclosed. (Drive also covered temples and gurdwaras.)
Sources: Madhyamam; The Hans India; Muslim Network TV
Date: 20–21 Oct
Place: Songadh, Tapi, Gujarat
Incident: After stones were thrown at a house on 20 Oct over Instagram remarks about Moti Masjid, police paraded nine arrested Muslim youths through town tied with ropes. No action reported against the commenter.
Sources: Madhyamam; DeshGujarat (21 Oct); Observer Post (21 Oct)
Date: Reported 23 Oct
Place: Uttar Pradesh
Incident: Associated Press review: UP police have shot ~650 alleged cow smugglers since 2020; 93% of those identified were Muslim, mostly shot in the legs.
Sources: Clarion India & Observer Post (23 Oct); Maktoob (24 Oct)
Date: Reported 29 Oct
Place: Kalol, Gujarat
Incident: Sessions court gave three Muslim men life imprisonment in a beef case (277 kg), quoting the Vedas and Manusmriti; Deputy CM Harsh Sanghavi publicly celebrated on 30 Oct.
Sources: Clarion India (29 Oct); The Wire (30 Oct, citing The Indian Express)
5. Mosques, madrasas, demolitions and evictions
Date: 1 Oct
Place: Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh
Incident: Minaret of the 14th-century Shahi Masjid, being pulled down for road-widening for a Hindu festival, fell onto the mosque and damaged its dome and first floor. Officials blamed faulty machinery.
Sources: Al Jazeera (1 Oct); Scroll; IAMC (3 Oct)
Date: 5 Oct notice
Place: Laharpur, Sitapur, Uttar Pradesh
Incident: Seven-day eviction notice pasted on the Madarsa Islamia Zia-Ul-Uloom mosque complex (madrasa from 1918) while the case is pending in the High Court.
Sources: The Wire (10 Oct)
Date: 7–29 Oct
Place: Race Course, New Delhi
Incident: Water and power to the century-old Race Course Masjid (Waqf since 1977) cut on 7 Oct during demolitions that displaced ~700 families; imam told to vacate in six days. HC refused to restore utilities on 15 Oct, issued notice on 27 Oct and granted four weeks’ protection on 29 Oct.
Sources: ThePrint; Siasat; The Quint (23 Oct); LawChakra (27 Oct); Maktoob (29 Oct)
Date: 11 & 26 Oct
Place: Bharuch, Gujarat
Incident: High Court asked the ASI to examine a plea claiming the historic Jama Masjid was a Jain temple; notices issued to Centre, state and ASI on 26 Oct.
Sources: Maktoob (11 Oct); Organiser (27 Oct)
Date: 18–19 Oct
Place: Nagaon, Hojai, Golaghat, Assam
Incident: Over 1,100 mostly Bengali-speaking Muslim families evicted from forest land in two days; more than 10 mosques, some over 50 years old, razed. Residents say the state itself settled them in 1974.
Sources: Daily Pioneer; Scroll; Maktoob; Clarion India (19 Oct)
Date: Week to 22 Oct
Place: Uttarakhand
Incident: Friday weekly holiday at recognised madrasas scrapped and replaced with Sunday.
Sources: Maktoob; IAMC monitor (22 Oct)
Date: c. 22 Oct
Place: Ramnagar, Uttarakhand
Incident: Two shrines (mazars) bulldozed; the state claims 602 demolished in recent months. The CM later posted video of police removing mosque loudspeakers.
Sources: ETV Bharat; Millat Times; IAMC (29 Oct)
Date: 24 Oct
Place: Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh
Incident: Revenue court issued notices to four managers of a mosque and madrasa in a land dispute.
Sources: Millat Times (24 Oct)
Date: Week to 15 Oct
Place: Kolkata, West Bengal
Incident: Airports Authority opposed resumption of prayers at the 136-year-old Bankra mosque, closed since July.
Sources: Millat Times; IAMC monitor (15 Oct)
Date: Week to 15 Oct
Place: Jammu & Kashmir
Incident: Waqf Board moved to have a committee fix Friday sermon topics in advance for mosques and shrines.
Sources: The Wire; IAMC monitor (15 Oct)
Date: Week to 29 Oct
Place: Jammu
Incident: Hundreds of Rohingya refugees evicted from their settlements.
Sources: AsiaNews; IAMC monitor (29 Oct)
6. Voter-roll revision (SIR) and targeting Muslim voters
Date: 1 Oct
Place: Karnataka & Telangana
Incident: Over 4,000 Form-7 objections in Karnataka, most seeking removal of Muslim names; alleged drive against ~725 Muslim voters in Enkoor, Bidar; pre-printed forms against ~30 members of one Muslim family in Musheerabad, Hyderabad.
Sources: The Wire (1 Oct); Maktoob (1 Oct)
Date: 3 Oct
Place: West Bengal
Incident: ECI’s state-driven appeals against voter inclusion concentrated in 26 seats averaging 35.6% Muslim population.
Sources: The Wire (3 Oct)
Date: 14 Oct
Place: Delhi
Incident: Muslims are 13.6% of the draft roll but 20.3% of voters flagged for ‘logical discrepancies’ and 58% of those flagged for having six or more children.
Sources: The Wire (14 Oct)
Date: Week to 22 Oct
Place: West Bengal
Incident: 80.2% of 6,444 rejected reinstatement appeals carried Muslim names.
Sources: The Wire; IAMC monitor (22 Oct)
Date: 30 Oct
Place: Samserganj & Sujapur, West Bengal
Incident: ECI appealed against 76,000+ judge-cleared voters, nearly all with Muslim names — more than the winning margins in both seats.
Sources: Maktoob (30 Oct)
7. Contested cases (communal motive not established)
Date: 18 Oct
Place: Hapur, Uttar Pradesh
Incident: Muslim journalist Mohammad Naseem Ahmad (60, Dainik Janvani) beaten to death after a dispute over a Diwali advertisement. Reports do not establish a religious motive.
Sources: Clarion India (19 Oct)
Date: 23–26 Oct
Place: Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh
Incident: Dar-ul-Quran madrasa sealed and 26 children moved after an inspection; officials cite abuse and poor conditions, while Muslim groups object to the raid.
Sources: Clarion India (25 Oct); Organiser (24 Oct); Free Press Journal (26 Oct)
Excluded: widely reported in October but occurred earlier
- Saikun Khan, killed outside Baroda Meo police station, Alwar — 24 Sep (The Wire, Madhyamam).
- Mir Allama Kabir, lynched in Dinhata, Cooch Behar — night of 20–21 Sep (The Wire, 7 Oct).
- Aliah University students assaulted and called ‘jihadi’, Kolkata — 24 Sep (Siasat).
- Mohamadi Masjid, Bhuj — demolished 21 Jun; only the High Court hearings fell in October.
Coverage notes
Mohammed Zubair’s X timeline requires a login and could not be read in full; only posts surfaced through search were checked, and none added an October incident not already listed. Searches of The Indian Express, The Telegraph and The Hindu did not surface October incidents beyond those already covered by other outlets. Several regional and Hindi-language reports may not be indexed; this record should be read as comprehensive for English-language reporting, not as a complete count.
