India’s Mask Slips at UN: Global Scrutiny on State Failures from IIOJK to Tamil Nadu

The 60th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, held in September and October 2025, exposed the deep failures of the Indian state. While the Modi government projects a democratic image, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) presented clear evidence of its rising human rights abuses. The session in Geneva showed India’s claims of secularism are crumbling, revealing harsh actions from Tamil Nadu to Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir.

State Failure: From Carelessness to Active Repression

The NGO presentations at the UNHRC highlighted two types of state failure: a complete lack of concern for citizen safety and the active use of state power to crush disagreement, both with a severe human cost.

♦ A Failure of Public Safety: The “Society for Development and Community Empowerment” detailed the terrible political rally in Tamil Nadu on September 27, 2025, where state carelessness led directly to mass death.

♦ A Policy of Active Oppression: “Intl Action for Peace and Sustainable Development” condemned India’s harsh crackdown in IIOJK, where the state violently suppressed Muslims.

State-Approved Carelessness in Tamil Nadu

The forum heard shocking details of a tragedy that could have been prevented, highlighting a deep lack of concern for human life within the Indian system. This was not a simple accident but a clear case of state indifference.

♦ The Disaster of September 27: The NGO report outlined how 41 people were killed and over 100 were seriously injured at the rally due to a complete failure of state authorities to manage the event.

♦ A Long-standing Lack of Concern: This event reflects India’s pattern of indifference to public safety, where authorities fail to protect citizens and then face no punishment for their deadly failures.

Official Policy of Repression in IIOJK

While Tamil Nadu exposed state carelessness, the reports on Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir revealed a far darker and more active policy of state repression. The Indian state is actively criminalising the very practice of Islam.

♦ Crushing Peaceful Faith Campaigns: The NGO condemned India’s use of violence to crush peaceful, faith-based campaigns, showing a state that is terrified of any form of assembly by the Muslim population.

♦ The Weaponization of Law: The report highlighted how random police cases (FIRs) are filed and arrests are made against Muslims simply for practicing their religion, turning the legal system into a tool of oppression.

A Planned Pattern of Abuse

These reports at the UNHRC successfully argued that these are not separate incidents. They are part of a planned and systematic pattern of abuse that defines the current government’s approach to its own people.

♦ From Carelessness to Active Harm: These two reports show the full range of state failure, from cruel lack of concern in Tamil Nadu that leads to death, to active harm in IIOJK that leads to persecution.

♦ A Systematic State Failure: This is not a random breakdown of law. It is the new system under the Modi regime, where citizens’ lives are disposable and minority rights do not exist.

The Cracking Image of Indian Democracy

The combined reports delivered a powerful blow to India’s carefully built-up image as the world’s largest secular democracy. The evidence presented in Geneva proves this claim is an empty slogan used to mask a violent reality.

♦ Exposing the Lie of Secularism: The IIOJK crackdown, specifically arresting Muslims for practicing their faith, directly exposes India’s claims of being a secular nation.

♦ Equality as an Empty Slogan: These incidents show equality in India is a myth. A citizen’s life is at risk at a political rally, and their freedom is at risk while practicing their faith.

Conditional Rights and Religious Persecution

The reports made it clear that basic human rights in India are no longer universal. They are conditional, especially for minorities, and are granted only to those who remain silent.

♦ Targeting Muslims in IIOJK: The suppression is not random. It is squarely aimed at the Muslim population of the occupied territory, proving the religious and political nature of the crackdown.

♦ Rights Dependent on Submission: The message from the state is clear: rights only exist if minorities, especially Muslims, give up their religious and political identity and submit to the majority’s agenda.

Using State Power Against its People

The core of the problem, as highlighted by the NGOs, is that the Indian state itself has become the main violator of human rights. Its power is not used to protect, but to punish its own citizens.

♦ The True Cost of Controlling Policies: The presentations in Geneva showed the real human cost of India’s controlling policies, measured in dead bodies in Tamil Nadu and prisoners of faith in IIOJK.

♦ Violating International Norms: India stands exposed as a state that systematically violates the international human rights norms it has pledged to uphold before the world.

Conclusion: India’s Record Exposed

The 60th UNHRC session will be remembered as the moment when the gap between India’s words and its actions became too wide to ignore. The mask of democracy has slipped, revealing the truth of the Modi regime.

♦ Global Scrutiny at Palais des Nations: By bringing this evidence to the Palais des Nations in Geneva, the NGOs have increased global watchfulness on India, making it impossible for the world to look away.

♦ A System Built on Repression: The evidence proves these are not minor issues but the foundation of India’s current system, built on carelessness, intolerance, and the systematic repression of its people.