Hyderabad, July 31 -- India logged 87 incidents of hate crime against religious and caste minorities in June, a jump of nearly 15 per cent over the previous month, according to data compiled by Siasat.com.

The attacks ranged from public beatings and mob lynchings to open threats and torture. And it was not only violence. Through the month, several public figures also used harsh, divisive language against minorities.

The count reflects only those cases the platform was able to document and should not be read as a definitive number. A great deal of everyday discrimination and intimidation never makes it into a news report, which means the real scale of what Muslims, Dalits and Christians faced through June is almost certainly larger than ...