On January 12, 2022, India’s Supreme Court announced it will petition to seek the prosecution of several Hindu leaders for allegedly making highly inflamed speeches against Muslims at a closed-door meeting back in December.
On January 5, 2022, Muslim clerics in the Jama Masjid in Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch district, India, issued a fatwa (a ruling on a point of Islamic law given by a recognized authority) against playing music at weddings or any marriage function.
On December 29, 2021, a Dalit-Christian family in the state of Karnataka, India, was attacked by a group of right-wing Hindu Nationalists in their own home under the suspicion that they were conducting illegal conversions.
On New Year's Day, 2022, an app called Bulli Bai uploaded hundreds of photos of Muslim women in India to be “auctioned off,” in an attempt to degrade and harass them. Some of the women on the app are journalists and politicians.
On December 28, 2021, Suresh Chavhanke of Sudarshan News posted a video on twitter depicting Indian students doing a Nazi-like salute while reciting a Hindu nationalist inspired oath.
On Christmas Day of 2021, the Indian government froze all funding towards the Missionaries of Charity (MOC), the same charity that was founded in 1950 by Mother Teresa.
On December 22, 2021, 14-year-old Arzoo Fatima, a girl who was kidnapped and forcibly married to a 44-year-old Muslim man, has agreed to return to her parents after being away from them for over a year. The agreement carries the condition that she is allowed to continue to practice Islam while being raised by her Catholic parents.
Sunita Devi, a Dalit woman who was hired to be a school cook in Sukhidhang government inter college (Secondary school), was fired after students refused to eat her food. Devi supposedly had no issues on her first day. The day after, however, 44 out of the 60 students, with support from their parents, refused to eat the school food and began bringing food from home.
Devi was hired in early December. The temporary position only paid Rs. 3000 ($40.23 USD) a month.
On December 23, 2021, during the winter assembly of the legislative body of the state of Karnataka, India, the controversial Karnataka Protection of Right to Freedom of Religion Bill 2021 was successfully passed. The bill explains that “No person shall convert or attempt to convert either directly or otherwise any other person from one religion to another by use of misrepresentation, force, undue influence, coercion, allurement or by any fraudulent means or by marriage, nor shall any person abet or conspire for conversions”.