India: Report Documents 11 Incidents Affecting Muslims Across 10 States in One Week

India: Report Documents 11 Incidents Affecting Muslims Across 10 States in One Week
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An Indian media report has documented 11 incidents affecting Muslims across 10 states and union territories during the first week of November 2026, including physical assaults, damage to religious sites, house demolitions and forced evictions, raising concerns over alleged religiously motivated attacks and government actions.

According to a report released on November 7 by the Foej Media monitoring platform, the incidents were identified through publicly available media sources. The report distinguished between cases involving alleged religious identity-based targeting and incidents whose motives remain unclear.

Among the reported cases was an alleged assault on a Muslim delivery worker in Hyderabad after his religious identity became known. Other incidents included allegations of an attack on a Muslim livestock transporter in Gurugram, stone-throwing at a mosque and vandalism of a religious shrine in Dewas, Madhya Pradesh.

The report also highlighted large-scale demolition and eviction operations in Assam and Uttarakhand. In Almaganj, Dhubri district, authorities carried out an eviction drive affecting between 550 and 750 families, most of them Bengali-speaking Muslims, citing the recovery of government-owned land.

In Ramnagar, Uttarakhand, authorities demolished 86 houses in a predominantly Muslim residential settlement, claiming that the properties had been built on government forest land.

The monitoring report classified four incidents as reported cases of targeting Muslims, two as demolition and eviction operations, four as cases with undetermined motives, and one as involving disputed police action.

However, the report stressed that the 11 documented incidents should not automatically be classified as confirmed hate crimes, emphasising the need for further investigation into the circumstances of each case and the protection of citizens’ fundamental rights.