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However, the law – with some exceptions – does not recognise hate crimes as separate offences. Since then, 603 hate crimes have been recorded in an interactive website, ‘Halt the Hate’, run by Amnesty.The Amnesty report stated that in the first six months of 2018, a total of 67 hate crimes against Dalits and 22 against Muslims were recorded across the country.Cow-related violence and honour killings were among the most common causes of the hate crimes, according to data compiled by Amnesty. Police need to unmask any potentially discriminatory motives during investigation and duly record them,” said Aakar Patel, executive director, Amnesty International India. This means that even today, the extent of hate crime in India is unknown. Meerut: According to human rights advocacy group Amnesty international, in the first six months of 2018, 100 hate crimes have been committed against people from marginalised groups including Dalits, Adivasis, members of racial or religious minority groups and transgender people across the country..