Incident 1: Mass disenfranchisement through Special Intensive Revision (SIR)
Date: 2026-04-01
Location: West Bengal (multiple constituencies, especially Muslim-concentrated seats in Murshidabad, Malda, Kolkata)
Description: Alt News’ analysis of Special Intensive Revision data across six constituencies in West Bengal shows Muslims make up around 92.6% of the 3,02,573 voters placed “Under Adjudication” while comprising roughly half the electorate, making a Muslim voter about twelve times more likely than a Hindu voter to be pushed into an uncertain status that can strip voting rights just before state polls.
Key sources: Alt News SIR investigations (Bhabanipur, Ballygunge, Manikchak, Mothabari, Samserganj, Baharampur)
Incident 2: Large-scale voter deletions with disproportionate Muslim impact
Date: 2026-04-01
Location: West Bengal (state-wide)
Description: IAMC’s April 9, 2026 human-rights bulletin notes that nearly two million voters were excluded from electoral rolls in West Bengal under SIR, with a Sabar Institute study finding that Muslims constitute up to 95% of deleted voters in some constituencies such as Nandigram, indicating targeted disenfranchisement of Muslims ahead of elections.
Key sources: IAMC Weekly India Human Rights Monitor (April 9, 2026)
Incident 3: Documented Islamophobic incidents and campaigns (structural dataset)
Date: 2026-04-05
Location: Kerala (state-wide)
Description: According to the Islamophobia Research Collective data summarised in IAMC’s weekly monitor, Kerala witnessed at least 909 Islamophobic incidents between January 2025 and March 2026, including hate speech, discriminatory actions, and communal campaigning, with BJP-linked candidates explicitly urging voters to elect “Hindu MLAs” as a counter to Muslims.
Key sources: IAMC Weekly India Human Rights Monitor (April 9, 2026) – section on Kerala Islamophobia
Incident 4: Communal processions, obscene anti-Muslim songs, and attacks on mosques/madrasas
Date: 2026-04-06
Location: Multiple states including Delhi, Jharkhand, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, West Bengal
Description: A The Wire essay documents Ram Navami and Hanuman Jayanti processions where saffron-flag-bearing mobs march through Muslim localities with DJs playing pornographic, anti-Muslim lyrics, and in many places climb onto mosques and madrasas, vandalise religious symbols and plant saffron flags, while police and administration largely look away and Muslims fear responding due to risk of arrest and demolitions.
Key sources: The Wire, “Hindu Society Looks Away, Letting Its Festivals Descend Into Obscenity and Hate” (published April 6, 2026)
Incident 5: Mob lynching of Muslim men over alleged dacoity
Date: 2026-04-07
Location: No. 1 Kathpara village, Rupahihat PS, Nagaon district, Assam
Description: Reports by IAMC, Madhyamam and Hindutva Watch/Observer Post describe three Muslim men – Saifullah, Ajibur alias Khairul and Enamul Haque – lynched by a mob in Nagaon district after accusations of dacoity, with a fourth man critically injured, in a context where Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has taken an openly hostile line towards “Miya” Muslims.
Key sources: IAMC Weekly India Human Rights Monitor (April 9, 2026); Madhyamam; Hindutva Watch / The Observer Post detailed report
Incident 6: Gendered hate crime against Muslim woman
Date: 2026-04-06
Location: Babughat, Maidan area, Kolkata, West Bengal
Description: IAMC and local e-paper reports note that 30-year-old Muslim woman Shagufta Parveen was lured to Babughat on the pretext of a job interview by a Hindu man, set on fire after she refused his marriage proposal, and later died of 90% burns at SSKM Hospital – a case that combines misogyny, communal othering and impunity.
Key sources: IAMC Weekly India Human Rights Monitor (April 9, 2026); South India Times e-paper, April 7, 2026
Incident 7: Cow-vigilante assault on Muslim cattle traders
Date: 2026-04-08
Location: Outskirts of Hyderabad, Telangana
Description: IAMC records that Muslim cattle traders near Hyderabad were assaulted by a mob of over 100 cow vigilantes despite having valid documents, illustrating how vigilante groups violently police Muslim livelihoods under the pretext of “cow protection”.
Key sources: IAMC Weekly India Human Rights Monitor (April 9, 2026) – hate crimes section
Incident 8: Demolition of Muslim religious and educational institutions as “encroachments”
Date: 2026-04-08
Location: Sambhal, Uttar Pradesh
Description: The IAMC bulletin notes that authorities in Sambhal demolished a madrasa, mosque and school used by Muslims after labelling them “encroachments”, a tactic increasingly used to collectively punish Muslim communities and delegitimise their religious infrastructure.
Key sources: IAMC Weekly India Human Rights Monitor (April 9, 2026) – hate crimes and discrimination section
Incident 9: Desecration of mosque with saffron flag during procession
Date: 2026-04-08
Location: Tughlakabad, Delhi
Description: IAMC reports that two men climbed a mosque in Tughlakabad during a procession and hoisted a saffron flag, leading to their detention; the pattern echoes The Wire’s documentation of Hindu processions asserting dominance by symbolically occupying Muslim religious spaces.
Key sources: IAMC Weekly India Human Rights Monitor (April 9, 2026); The Wire essay on festival processions
Incident 10: AI-generated disinformation targeting “Miya” Muslims
Date: 2026-04-09
Location: Assam (online platforms)
Description: An election monitoring report cited by IAMC identifies 432 AI-generated posts across Facebook and Instagram, with a network reach of over 407 million followers, spreading disinformation that vilifies the Miya Muslim community in the run-up to the Assam Assembly elections, an example of AI tools being weaponised for anti-Muslim propaganda.
Key sources: IAMC Weekly India Human Rights Monitor (April 9, 2026) – AI disinformation in Assam section
Incident 11: Vigilante mob assault on Muslim/Bahujan truck drivers
Date: 2026-04-23
Location: Near Umarkhed, Yavatmal district, Maharashtra
Description: The Wire documents how two truck drivers transporting fruit from Kerala towards Madhya Pradesh were chased for 20–30 km, intercepted and beaten by around 20 men described as a “Hindutva gang”; driver Mohammed Nadaf Nisar Qureshi suffered serious skull and facial injuries and was kept in ICU, even as police initially framed the case as minor “road rage”.
Key sources: The Wire report on attack on two truck drivers in Yavatmal, Maharashtra (late April 2026)
Incident 12: Misogynistic, anti-Muslim meme targeting West Bengal CM and “Bangladeshi Muslims”
Date: 2026-04-27
Location: India-wide (social media)
Description: A viral meme depicting Mamata Banerjee with a caricatured “Bangladeshi Muslim” passing between her legs, captioned “This is Momta Culture”, draws condemnation from more than 1,800 academics and citizens who call it violently misogynistic and viciously anti-Muslim, illustrating the fusion of Islamophobia and gendered vilification in online political attacks.
Key sources: The Wire, report on citizens’ statement against misogynist, anti-Muslim meme (published April 28, 2026)
Incident 13: Redrawing of districts that shrinks Muslim-majority representation
Date: 2026-04-28
Location: Ladakh (Union Territory)
Description: A Union government gazette notification expanding Ladakh from two to seven districts leaves Muslims a majority in only Kargil and Drass, while Buddhists gain majority status in Sham, Changthang, Nubra, Leh and Zanskar; Ladakhi academics and activists interviewed by The Wire argue this effectively reduces Muslims, who form a slim region-wide majority, to a structural minority in five of seven districts.
Key sources: The Wire, “Shrinking of Muslim-Majority Districts, Questions Over Wildlife” (live April 30, 2026)
Incident 14: Structural exclusion of Muslims from legislative representation
Date: 2026-04-29
Location: West Bengal (state-wide)
Description: A The Wire analysis on polling day notes that Muslims form more than 27% of West Bengal’s population but are projected to have their lowest assembly representation in over twenty years: the BJP fields zero Muslim candidates, the TMC fields only 47 Muslim candidates (about 16% of its slate), and SIR deletions plus delimitation make it harder for Muslim-majority constituencies to elect Muslim MLAs.
Key sources: The Wire, “On Polling Day, It’s Time to Recognise Bengal’s Lack of Muslim Representation” (April 29, 2026)
Incident 15: Detention of Muslim students under suspicion and communalised policing
Date: 2026-04-12
Location: Gujarat (including border district)
Description: Maktoob Media reports that 155 Muslim students traveling with eight adult escorts on an educational trip were detained by Gujarat police and the adults booked under Section 143(4) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita; parents allege the children were targeted solely because of their religious identity, reflecting a pattern where ordinary Muslim travel is criminalised.
Key sources: Maktoob Media, “Targeted because of their religious identity,” allege parents of 155 Muslim students detained in Gujarat (April 28, 2026; FIR dated April 12)
Incident 16: TCS Nashik “conversion” case and its communalised framing
Date: 2026-04-16
Location: TCS office, Nashik, Maharashtra
Description: From late March into April 2026, multiple FIRs are filed in Nashik against a group of mostly Muslim TCS employees, alleging sexual harassment and attempts to convert Hindu colleagues by pressuring them to offer namaz, recite the kalma, and remove Hindu symbols; media narratives and Hindutva groups rapidly reframe the matter as “corporate jihad” and a large-scale conversion racket. A detailed Newslaundry investigation, however, points out that none of the FIRs invoke Maharashtra’s anti-conversion law, that most allegations centre on harassment and derogatory remarks rather than clear-cut forced conversion, and that the case has been seized upon to revive demands for draconian anti-conversion provisions, including a Supreme Court plea to brand forced conversions a “terrorist act”.
Key sources: NDTV, Reuters and India Today coverage on Nashik TCS case; The Hindu and Economic Times reports on Supreme Court plea; Newslaundry, “Hindutva activists, a ‘crowd at midnight’, and 9 FIRs – The making of TCS Nashik case” (April 19, 2026)
