The Central Government has decided to rename the Ayushman Bharat Health and Wellness Centres as ‘Ayushman Arogya Mandir’, said a letter accessed by ANI.
The Union Health Ministry has sent a letter to the states and Union territories to implement the rebranding exercise.
“Going one step ahead and to realise the dream of Ayushman India, the competent authority has decided to rename the Ayushman Bharat-Health and Wellness Centres as ‘Ayushman Arogya Mandir’ with the tagline ‘Arogya Parmam Dhanam'”, the letter read.
“The new title will be ‘Ayushman Arogya Mandir’ with the tagline ‘Arogyam Parmam Dhanam’. It has to suitably replace the existing title, Ayushman Bharat-Health and Wellness Centres’ across all operationalized AB-HWCs”, it added.
Centre to rename the Ayushman Bharat-Health and Wellness Centres as 'Ayushman Arogya Mandir', the Union Health Ministry has sent a letter to the states and Union territories to rename the health and wellness centres. pic.twitter.com/A9DaSqvJn9
Ayushman Bharat (AB) is a scheme launched by the central government in 2018 that aims to provide free health care services and health insurance coverage to low-income earners in the country.
It has two components that are complementary to each other. Under its first component,Health and Wellness Centres (HWCs) have been created to deliver comprehensive primary health care that is universal and free to users, with a focus on wellness and the delivery of an expanded range of services closer to the community.
The second component is the Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (PM-JAY), which provides health insurance cover of Rs. 5 lakhs per year to low-income earners in the country.
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On Sunday, November 26, Supreme Court lawyer Jai Anant Dehadrai took a veiled swipe at cash for query scam accused Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra saying that “Rolex Kumari” has no ‘material’ to attack Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Taking to X, he further claimed that Mahua Moitra had plans to dump the TMC and West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee after obtaining funds sufficient to launch her own “Bengal Party”. Moitra’s “jilted-ex” went on to claim that the TMC MP used to abuse Mamata Banerjee’s nephew and TMC leader Abhishek Banerjee.
“Even Rolex-Kumari knows zero material to attack Prime Minister. Plan was to dump Didi and TMC Platform once enough “funds” accumulated to start rival Bengal Party. Abused Bhaipo everyday – called him corrupt charisma-less dunce with no political capital. Didi is no fool,” Dehadrai posted.
Even Rolex-Kumari knows zero material to attack Prime Minister.
Plan was to dump Didi and TMC Platform once enough “funds” accumulated to start rival Bengal Party.
Abused Bhaipo everyday – called him corrupt charisma-less dunce with no political capital.
Prior to this, Jai Anant Dehadrai asserted that “Rolex Kumari” would have to shift from this planet after “everything else comes out”.
“Save this tweet: Don’t know about shoes or foreign trips being investigated, But when everything else comes out, Rolex-Kumari will have to find another planet to shift to,” Dehadrai posted on X on Thursday.
Save this tweet:
Don’t know about shoes or foreign trips being investigated,
But when everything else comes out,
Rolex-Kumari will have to find another planet to shift to.
Notably, on November 22, Dehadrai dropped a picture of himself sporting an HMT watch on X and wrote that his HMT is better than a stolen Rolex in a veiled dig at Mahua Moitra who is accused of taking gifts in exchange for asking specific questions in the Lok Sabha and sharing her parliamentary login credentials with Dubai-based businessman Darshan Hiranandani.
“My HMT > Chori Ki Rolex,” Dehadrai posted. It is notable that Mahua Moitra was seen wearing a luxury Rolex Pink Gold Lady Datejust watch that sells for ₹23 lakh to ₹25 lakh.
In response to an X user’s comment that he looked wearing a Rolex watch as well, Dehadrai doubled down saying that he bought it with his own hard-earned income and that he has the watch’s receipt too.
“Don’t you love it? It’s a gorgeous Rolex submariner. Bought with my own income earned from fighting cases – came with a receipt too!” Dehadrai replied.
Don’t you love it? It’s a gorgeous Rolex submariner. Bought with my own income earned from fighting cases – came with a receipt too!
Interestingly, Columnist and Defence Analyst in an X post on November 22 claimed that Mahua Moitra has changed her WhatsApp display picture in which she is seen wearing a Rolex Pink Gold Lady Datejust watch worth Rs 25 lacs.
“Highly respected MP Hon’ble Sushri Mahua Moitra ji, has according to sources changed her WhatsApp DP after it showed her wearing the Rolex Pink Gold Lady Datejust that reportedly retails for 25 lacs. A similar one with diamonds retails for 34 lacs (not including import duty),” Mitra posted.
Highly respected MP Hon’ble Sushri Mahua Moitra ji, has according to sources changed her WhatsApp DP after it showed her wearing the Rolex Pink Gold Lady Datejust that reportedly retails for 25 lacs. A similar one with diamonds retails for 34 lacs (not including import duty) pic.twitter.com/8SSp5zqOv1
Mahua Moitra and Jai Anant Dehadrai’s battle for ‘Henry
Earlier this month, Dehadrai announced that his beloved dog named ‘Henry’ who was supposedly stolen by TMC MP Mahua Moitra has returned to him. Dehadrai shared a video on X and expressed his happiness over welcoming ‘Henry’, a Rottweiler. The feud between TMC MP Mahua Moitra and her ‘jilted ex’ advocate Jai Anant Dehadrai had gotten murkier with the duo fighting over the custody of a dog. Earlier, Dehadrai had written to the Delhi police commissioner accusing Mahua Moitra of stealing and hiding his pet dog Henry.
MahuaGate
On 14th October, the Indian political scene experienced a major tremor as BJP MP Nishkant Dubey wrote to the ethics committee seeking an inquiry against TMC MP Mahua Moitra in the ‘Cash for Query’ matter. He based his complaint on the letter written by Supreme Court lawyer Anant Dehadrai, who alleged that most of the questions asked by the TMC MP in Lok Sabha directly or indirectly benefit businessman Darshan Hiranandani.
Notably, Moitra has accepted that she had shared credentials with Darshan Hiranandani. Following this development, it was recently reported that PAs of Lok Sabha MPs have lost access to Digital Sansad login.
Meanwhile, it was also reported earlier that Darshan Hiranandani who is also an accused in this alleged scam, turned approver and accepted the allegations. In his affidavit, he said that Moitra gave him her Parliament username and password so he could post questions on her behalf. As reported earlier, the IT ministry had stated that it had sent a report to the Lok Sabha Ethics Committee confirming that the TMC leader’s parliamentary ID was accessed 49 times from Dubai. As reported earlier, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) initiated an inquiry against the TMC MP.
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Sunday conducted raids across four states in the Pakistan-backed Gazwa-e-Hind module case.
The raids were conducted at the premises of suspects in Dewas district of Madhya Pradesh, Gir Somnath district of Gujarat, Azamgarh district of Uttar Pradesh and Kozhikode district of Kerala.
The raids revealed links of the suspects, whose premises were searched earlier on the day with Pakistan-based handlers.
“These suspects were in contact with the handlers, and were involved in propagating the radical, anti-India idea of Gazwa-e-Hind,” said the agency.
The raids led to the seizure of incriminating documents and digital devices like mobile phones, and SIM cards. Several documents were also seized during the NIA crackdown, as part of the ongoing investigations in the case, commonly referred to as the Gazwa-e-Hind case, Patna (Bihar).
The case was initially registered on July 14 last year by Phulwarisharif Police in the Patna district of Bihar, following the arrest of one Marghoob Ahmad Danish alias Tahir. Marghoob was the admin of WhatsApp Group ‘Ghazwa-e-Hind’, created by a Pakistani national identified as Zain.
The accused, Marghoob, had added many persons from India as well as other countries, including Pakistan, Bangladesh and Yemen, to the group, which was also active on other social media platforms such as Telegram and BiP Messenger, said the NIA.
“Aimed at radicalizing impressionable youth in the name of the establishment of Ghazwa-e-Hind over the territory of India, the group was being operated by Pakistan-based suspects,” reveals NIA investigation.
As per the investigations, the NIA said, Marghoob was trying to motivate the group members with an ulterior objective of raising sleeper cells for carrying out terrorist activities across India.
“Further, the accused had created another WhatsApp group in the name of ‘BDGhazwa E HindBD’, to which he had added Bangladeshi nationals,” said the federal agency.
The NIA has been probing the case since July 22 last year, when it took over the investigations.
The anti-terror agency had filed a chargesheet against accused Marghoob Ahmad Danish on January 6 this year under various sections of the Indian Penal Code and Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967.
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Continuing their unwavering commitment to saving lives, the government is actively engaged in ongoing rescue operations at the Silkyara Tunnel in Uttarkashi, where 41 workers remain trapped. The 2 km section of the tunnel, with completed concrete work ensuring the safety of the workers, is the focus of the rescue efforts.
Various government agencies are working tirelessly on each assigned specific tasks to ensure the safe evacuation of the workers. National and International experts are present at site to advice on the rescue operation. The government maintains constant communication to boost the morale of those trapped.
Key Updates on Rescue Operations:
NHIDCL Lifeline Efforts:
Freshly cooked food and fresh fruits are being inserted inside the tunnel at regular intervals using the 2nd life line (150 mm dia.) service.
Sufficient fruits like orange, Apple, Banana etc., along with medicines and salts has also been supplied in this lifeline in regular interval. Additional Dry Food are also being supplied for future stock.
Modified communication system with wire connectivity developed by SDRF is being used for communication regularly. People inside have reported that they are safe.
2. Horizontal Boring by NHIDCL
Auger drilling started at 0045 Hrs on 22.11.2023 was halted due to metallic object (Lattice girder rib) being encountered in front of the pipe and the pipe could not be inserted further. Cutting of Metallic object (Lattice Girder rib) using Gas cutters has been completed. Pushing of 9th pipe reached an additional 1.8 meter distance. Minor vibration was noted, so Auger was pushed slightly back to re-assess the force to be applied. Obstructions were observed.
A bend part of forepole (pipe) from tunnel lining was struck in the auger assembly which led to vibrations.
Strengthening of platform for auger machine using accelerating agent for rapid hardening of concrete completed followed by anchoring and bolting of the platform.
Pushing of 10th Pipe( 4.7 m length) started at 1625 hrs on 24.11.2023 and a length of 2.2 m was inserted upto 1750 hrs on 24.11.2023 resulting In total inserted length of 46.9 m.
During pushing of 10th pipe, further obstruction was observed and pushing of pipe had to stop. Thereafter, pulling back of auger was initiated. 15 m length of Auger came out initially by pulling and thereafter the auger joints got broken and facing difficulties for pulling of auger in one go due to probable hard stuck of auger.
Thereafter manual cutting of auger in small pieces by gas cutting and taking out of the same from inside the pipe (800 mm) is adopted.
DRDO Team from Hyderabad with Plasma Cutter has arrived at site. Cutting of Auger with Plasma cutter started at 0400 hrs on 26.11.2023 which had to be stopped due to operational difficulties at site and cutting using Gas cutters resumed at 0710 hrs on 26.11.2023. At the time of reporting, 33.80 m length of Auger has been pulled out.
Erection of False Ribs (@ 500 mm c/c) from face of tunnel towards Tunnel exit on Silkyara side to protect the Operational area started at 1950 hrs on 25.11.023. Total 6 number of Rib erection completed.
3. Vertical Drilling (1 m dia) for Rescue by SJVNL:
Drilling Machineries arrived at site.
Platform for launching of drilling machine has been completed.
Marking of drilling point over the tunnel has been finalized at Ch. 300 L/S after discussion with GSI, RVNL & ONGC.
Main machine reached at Drilling site. Drilling rig of machine transported from tunnel portal to drilling site. Drilling started at 1205 hrs on 26.11.2023.
4. Horizontal Drilling from Barkot Side by THDCL:
THDC has initiated the construction of a rescue tunnel from the Barkot end.
Fifth blast taken at 0225 hrs at 26.11.2023.
Total executed length of drift is 10.6m. Fabrication work of 13 number of ribs has been completed.
5. Perpendicular-Horizontal Drilling by RVNL:
Equipments for micro tunneling required for horizontal drilling to rescue labourers has reached site from Nashik and Delhi.
The work of making platform is under progress.
6. Vertical Drilling (8 inches dia) by RVNL at Silkyara end:
Access road of 1150 meter has been completed by BRO and handed over to RVNL. Machine for drilling towed to location by BRO.
Electric Connection has been provided to RVNL.
Platform for vertical drilling has been completed.
Drilling started at 0400 hours on 26.11.2023 and 40 meter completed.
7. Vertical Drilling (24 inches dia) Toward Barkot End by ONGC
ONGC drilling team visited the site on 20.11.2023.
Air Drilling Rig from Indore has reached site.
All the associated material of Air Hammer Drilling Rig mobilized by ONGC are in standby at Rishikesh as the road and location for placement of Rig for drilling are being prepared by BRO.
For assisting in cutting the Auger blades and Shaft, ONGC has arranged a Magna Cutter Machine. Team with machinery reached the site at 1000 hours on 26.11.2023.
8. Drift Tunnel by Manual-Semi Mechanized Method by Joint Team of THDCL /Army/Coal India and NHIDCL:
Drift design completed (1.2m X 1.5m sections)
Material available at site.
Fabrication started on 21.11.2023 by Army welders.
22 numbers of frames have been fabricated.
9. Road Cutting and Supportive Work by BRO:
BRO has completed construction of approach road for vertical drilling by SJVNL and RVNL.
BRO is also building approach road for ONGC with geological surveys conducted by ONGC. 1050 meters of approach road has been constructed so far out of 5000 meters.
Background:
On 12th November 2023, a collapse occurred in the under-construction tunnel from Silkyara to Barkot due to debris falling in a 60-meter stretch on the Silkyara side. Immediate mobilization of resources by the State and Central Governments ensued to rescue the 41 trapped labours.
Initially opting for a 900 mm pipe through the debris, safety concerns led to the exploration of multiple rescue options simultaneously. The area of entrapment, measuring 8.5 meters in height and 2 kilometres in length, is the built-up portion of the tunnel, offering safety to the labours with available electricity and water supply.
Five agencies—ONGC, SJVNL, RVNL, NHIDCL, and THDCL—have been assigned specific responsibilities, working collaboratively with occasional task adjustments for operational efficiency.
Note: The timelines provided are subject to change due to technical glitches, the challenging Himalayan terrain, and unforeseen emergencies.
Farmers from all across Punjab and Haryana have begun to gather in large numbers to participate in a three-day protest in Chandigarh. The call for protest was issued earlier by the Sanyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM) to push for ‘pending demands’ on the third anniversary of the anti-farm law protest.
(Farmers gathering in Chandigarh for a three-day protest, Video courtesy – The Tribune)
The three-day protest began on Sunday and thousands of farmers from Punjab and Haryana are expected to reach Chandigarh. As per India Today report, hundreds of tractor trolleys have lined up on the roads leading to Chandigarh, a move that resembles a Singhu-Tikri border gathering near Delhi in 2020.
To avoid any untoward incident and repeat of protracted Delhi-like anti-farm law protests, Punjab, Chandigarh, and Haryana police have barricaded interstate borders. The police authorities are taking steps to prevent farmers from entering Chandigarh. Around 2,000 police personnel were slated to be deployed at entry and exit points of the city on Sunday.
According to media reports, the farmers are expected to gather at Gurdwara Amb Sahib in Mohali. Subsequently, on Monday (27th November), the protesting farmers may attempt to march toward Chandigarh.
The SKM which is an umbrella organisation of over two dozen farmer unions has prepared a demand charter for submission to the Governor and Chief Minister of Punjab. Speaking with India Today, the Farmer leaders said that the demands that were “agreed to” at the time of the withdrawal of the three farm laws have not been fulfilled.
The farmers have been pressing the government to ensure a legal guarantee of the minimum support price (MSP) in line with the recommendations of the Swaminathan Commission report. Their demands also include extending MSP to various crops, withdrawing charges against protesting farmers, addressing concerns related to burning paddy, and providing a monthly pension of Rs 10,000 for farmers aged 60 and above.
Meanwhile, Five farmers’ associations have also extended support to SKM’s call for a three-day protest in Chandigarh, from November 26 to 28.
On 26th November (Sunday), a BJYM official filed a Police Complaint against Anand Prakash, a member of the OBC Commission of the Delhi government and a part of AAP’s teacher wing, after he accused BJP of orchestrating the Pulwama terror attack. The complaint states that Prakash hurt the sentiments of the general public and defamed the Union government by ‘deliberately’ spreading disinformation about the February 2019 Pulwama terror attack.
Anand Prakash shared a Tweet on X on 26th November 2023 in which he accused the Modi government of carrying out the Pulwama attack to win the Lok Sabha 2019 elections. The complaint also includes the contents and link of the said post.
Professor Anand Prakash’s post read, “भाजपा ने क्या किया नौ सालो मे? पुलवामा अटैक खुद करवा कर चुनाव जीता देश के जवानों को मार कर”. (Translation – What has the Modi government done in last nine years? It carried out Pulwama attack on its own and won elections after killing Indian soldiers)
(The Purported post by member of OBC Commission of Delhi government accusing Modi government of staging false flag operation in Pulwama to secure Lok Sabha 2019 election victory)
However, following the police complaint, he deleted his Twitter account (@anand11_aap), therefore the tweet doesn’t exist.
Notably, Anand Prakash is an Assistant Professor at Rajdhani College, University Of Delhi. According to his LinkedIn profile, he is also a Member of the OBC Commission of the Government Of NCT of Delhi.
He is also a member of the Aam Aadmi Party, and his Instagram account ID is Anand11_AAP. He is a part of the Academics for Action and Development Teachers’ Association (AADTA), the teachers’ wing of the Aam Aadmi Party.
(Image Source – Professor Anand Prakash’s Linkedin Profile)
(His Twitter account doesn’t exist now)
The Police complaint has been filed at the Moti Nagar Police Station by the National Executive Member of Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM) Abhimanyu Tyagi.
Regarding the alleged defamatory post, the complaint states, “This post come when the country is mourning over the 26/11 Mumbai attacks and paying homage to the soldier, police officers and other soldiers martyred concerned security and the citizens who were killed in the 26/11 terrorist attack…”
It added, “..the post of the Accused where he is defaming our country and alleging that the ruling government led by Bharatiya Janata Party had pre-planned the Pulawama attack and killed the soldiers of our country for the sake of winning elections.”
Abhimanyu Tyagi filed the complaint after BJP leader Tajinder Bagga asked him to do so. “He is Assistant Professor in Rajdhani college and blaming India for Pulwama terrorist attack. @Abhiemanyu ji pls go to local police station and file FIR against him,” Bagga had tweeted.
. @DCPWestDelhi He is Assistant Professor in Rajdhani college and blaming India for Pulwama terrorist attack. @Abhiemanyu ji pls go to local police station and file FIR against him https://t.co/niwHZyuYnu
According to the complaint, the post was shared to target the ruling government to dishearten and discourage the soldiers which can be exploited by the enemy countries to plan a war against our nation.
The complaint argued that such an irresponsible statement and post were made by the accused deliberately to invoke and provoke riots in Delhi and other parts of the country by using such disparaging and deprecatory words.
The complaint further reads, “That Posting such an irresponsible statement by the Accused is deliberate and intentional attempt to invoke and provoke the riots in Delhi and other parts of the country by using such disparaging and deprecatory words by an Assistant Professor who is supposed to be a prudent man and have more responsibility compared to others as he is a teacher and the future of so many students is in the hand of him. It can be very well understood that if he can post such statement than what he must be teaching in his classes.”
The said defamatory post by Professor Anand Prakash is an offence in the Indian Penal Code, 1860 as well as the Information Technology Act, 2000, the complaint added. Subsequently, the complainant demanded that a thorough investigation should be initiated and an FIR be registered against the accused. As per the complaint, prima facia “defamatory post against the BJP-led ruling Government can be a tool to instigate riots”.
Pulwama terror attack
On February 14, 2019, a convoy of vehicles carrying Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel to Srinagar via National Highway 44 came under a suicide bombing attack in Pulwama. 22-year-old Adil Ahmad Dar, a Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) terrorist from Kakapora in Jammu and Kashmir, rammed his explosive-laden vehicle into a bus carrying the CRPF personnel. 40 of our jawans were martyred in that cowardly terror attack.
The terrorist organisation Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), based in Pakistan, claimed responsibility for the attack. They also posted a video of the Islamic terrorist Adil Ahmad Dar, who had joined the outfit a year before. In an official statement, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) stated that Pakistan was responsible for assisting terrorist attacks and that JeM founder Maulana Masood Azhar had been “given the freedom to target India.”
However, the ghastly terror attack was not spared by certain opposition leaders and political parties who tried to give a clean chit to Pakistan and the terrorists involved.
The opposition leaders tried to pin the blame on Narendra Modi instead and tried to spin conspiracy theories around the attack. The anti-Modi sentiment and the fear of getting wiped out from the political spectrum ahead of the 2019 general elections were so deep-rooted in the opposition leaders that they went on to accuse Modi of executing this brutal attack for BJP’s political gains. Many of them also questioned the role of the armed forces during this attack. Others questioned the air strike by the Indian Air Force in Balakot after this attack.
Strikingly, on 21st July this year, West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee also tried to pass off the 2019 Pulwama terror attack as a ‘staged incident’ at her Martyr’s Day rally at Esplanade in Kolkata.
In her speech, Banerjee claimed, “I will tell the students and the youth that the BJP is planning to pull off staged events such as Pulwama (terror attack).”
“They are planning to create fake, staged videos like in movies. They will stage dramas, shoot videos, and defame Bengal. This is their conspiracy,” she brazened it out.
On 26th November, Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge got angry at his own party supporters during a public meeting in Kalwakurthy, Telangana. During his address at the political rally for the upcoming Telangana Elections, Kharge got angry at the supporters because they were saying something and asked them to leave if they did not want to listen to him.
In the live stream of the video, it can be seen that when Kharge was addressing the rally in Hindi which was being translated to Telugu by a party leader, some people in the audience were raising their hands and chanting some slogans, which were not audible. Kharge got angry with this and asked them to shut up or leave the venue.
He said, “Hey keep quiet! If you want to listen, stay, otherwise get out. Don’t talk [like] that. Don’t you realise, the person speaking at this meeting is a leader of the All India Congress Committee? And you are saying whatever you like. If you are willing to listen, then listen, otherwise go to your place.”
Sharing the clip, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) IT Cell chief Amit Malviya said, “This is not unusual. Kharge ji, despite being the Congress President, is humiliated in all his public meetings. He helplessly screams and shouts at his workers, who don’t give him the requisite respect. The Gandhis have reduced him to a rubber-stamp President. His photos had either disappeared or reduced to stamp size in all Rajasthan ads, for instance, whereas Rahul Gandhi and Gehlot’s pictures were displayed dominantly. Is the Congress insulting Mr Kharge because he is a Dalit?”
This is not unusual. Kharge ji, despite being the Congress President, is humiliated in all his public meetings. He helplessly screams and shouts at his workers, who don’t give him the requisite respect. The Gandhis have reduced him to a rubber stamp President. His photos had… pic.twitter.com/7YltgerCMG
Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge has a long history of association with controversies. In August this year, despite being chief of the second largest political party in the Lok Sabha, Kharge decided not to attend the Independence Day ceremony. The seat designated for him remained vacant at the function. In May 2023, a complaint was filed against Kharge for bringing up President Droupadi Murmu’s caste ahead of the new Parliament building. In April 2023, Kharge called Prime Minister Narendra Modi a “poisonous snake” ahead of the Karnataka Assembly elections. Earlier in November 2022, he compared PM Modi with demon king Raavan during an election rally.
Telangana Assembly Elections
The voting for Telangana Assembly Elections is scheduled for 30th November 2023 to elect all 199 members. The result will be announced on 3rd December 2023 with four other states which are Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, Mizoram and Madhya Pradesh.
Shahid Hussain – a tailor in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh – killed his wife by stabbing her neck with scissors. The reason for the murder is said to be not giving money to eat chicken fries. Police have arrested Shahid Hussain and sent him to jail. The matter is being investigated and further legal action is underway. The incident took place on Saturday (25th November).
According to Ghaziabad police, this case is from the Loni police station area. Here, 50-year-old Shahid Hussain (son of Makdoom Hussain) lives near 100-feet Road in Prem Nagar. He is a tailor by profession and runs his business from his own house. For this, he has installed sewing 3 machines in the house. Shahid’s daughters also help in their father’s work.
Shahid had borrowed Rs 600 from his wife Noor Bano to buy yarn etc for his shop. On Saturday, Shahid received an order from a customer to sew some clothes. Shahid had taken Rs 2,000 in advance from the customer who ordered pyjamas and repaid his wife’s loan of Rs 600.
आज दि0 24..11.23 को थाना लोनी पुलिस को सूचना मिली कि प्रेम नगर क्षेत्र मे शाहिद हुसैन पुत्र मकदूम हुसैन ने अपनी पत्नी नूर बानो उम्र 46 वर्ष को कैंची मार दी है जिन्हे उपचार हेतु जीटीबी अस्पताल ले जाया गया जहां पर डाक्टर ने उन्हे मृत घोषित कर दिया । पुलिस द्वारा शाहिद हुसैन को 1/2 pic.twitter.com/dOKty3FSFQ
— POLICE COMMISSIONERATE GHAZIABAD (@ghaziabadpolice) November 24, 2023
After a while, when Shahid felt like eating chicken fries, he again demanded money from his wife Noor Bano. Noor Bano refused to give money to her husband, which led to an argument between the two. But after a while, Noor Bano ordered chicken fries herself. However, Noor Bano’s children refused to eat it. Shahid and Noor Bano once again started fighting over this matter.
The argument escalated between the husband and wife, and he took his scissors and struck her on her neck with it. Realising what he had done, Shahid Hussain fled from the house, and his son and daughter took their mother to the hospital.
— POLICE COMMISSIONERATE GHAZIABAD (@ghaziabadpolice) November 25, 2023
Noor Bano’s son admitted his mother to GTB Hospital in Delhi but the victim died there. The police apprehended Shahid on 25th November and sent him to jail after necessary legal action. According to media reports, the deceased woman’s sons Arsalan and Shahnawaz have accused their father of coming home drunk on the night of the incident. They also said that their mother was very upset with this habit.
15 years have passed since the 26/11 deadly terrorist attacks in Mumbai. On November 26, 2008, ten Pakistani terrorists arrived in Mumbai via sea. They attacked various locations in the southern part of the city, including Nariman House, Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, Leopold Cafe, and grand hotels like Taj Palace and Trident.
They opened fire in public and killed scores, planted a bomb inside a taxi and drove it into Mumbai’s suburbs. Ajmal Kasab was apprehended alive, and his nine accomplices were neutralized in a 60-hour operation.
It is worth recalling that controversial filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt’s son Rahul Bhatt was named by 26/11 terrorist David Headley during interrogation. A lesser talked about fact relating to Rahul Bhatt’s ‘friendship’ with terrorist David Headley is that back in 2008, he warned Rahul Bhatt not to go to South Mumbai on 26/11.
Screengrab of the news report
The duo first met at a gym in Mumbai in 2007. In 2011, David Coleman Headley told a Chicago court that he told Bhatt not to go to South Mumbai on November 26, the day of the Mumbai terror attacks. Even after the attacks Headley and Rahul Bhatt were in touch over emails.
Headley reportedly told the court that was “never more pleased” although he was said to have written “sorry” to Rahul Bhatt. Terrorist David Headley had told the court back then that he began liking Rahul Bhatt t and that he had planned to make a movie with him.
Headley told the Chicago court that he intended to recruit Bhatt as an ISI agent and take him to Pakistan’s tribal areas, but not to kidnap or kill him, as defence attorney Charles D Swift alleged.
In an interview with NDTV thirteen years back, Rahul Bhatt said that he and his gym trainer friend Vilas used to call Headley as “Agent Headley” saying that he was very intelligent and used jargon like a secret agent. Bhatt revealed that Headley had told him that he was of Irish descent.
Headley had also told his ‘friend’ that attacks like the one at the Marriot Hotel in Pakistan’s Islamabad in 2008 that left around 53 dead and hundreds injured could happen in India as well. However, Bhatt did not take it seriously.
“Once we were talking about terror attacks and a bomb blast at one of the hotels in Islamabad. Headley said to me that looking at the situation around, ‘you can see similar things happen in your country too’. But I never got any negative vibe from him,” Rahul Bhatt said.
When Mahesh Bhatt wanted to name his son Rahul as ‘Mohammad’
In a 2012 interview with the Times of India, Rahul Bhatt levelled several startling accusations about his father, Mahesh Bhatt. In this interview, he stated that Mahesh never thought of him as his son and intended to name him ‘Mohammad.’
Many people did not believe him when he said that, but it was true, according to him. It was his neighbours who requested his Anglo-Indian mother not to let Mahesh name him Mohammad as Mahesh would have several chances to show his secularism.
Rahul claimed back then that if he was named Mohammad, no one would even know who his father was. He believed when his name appeared in the 26/11 case if he had named Mohammad, he would have been thrown in Tihar with no scope of coming out.
He blamed his father for not considering or treating him as his son. Rahul said it was his behaviour that allowed to him come in contact with Headley. If he had been a better father, the situation would have been a lot different.
Those times and circumstances were challenging for him. He had no one to show the right path. He said though he knows he should not say, but Mahesh treated him like an illegitimate child.
Headley reconnoitred terror targets in Mumbai before the attacks
According to a 2013 US Justice Department press release, David Headley was sentenced to 35 years in prison for his role in terror attacks in Mumbai and Denmark.
Headley received instructions in 2005 from his masters in Islamic terrorist outfit Lashkar e Tayyiba to change his name before conducting reconnaissance of the target sites in India in 2006.
Headley, who was a US citizen of Pakistan descent changed his name in Philadelphia “to facilitate his activities on behalf of Lashkar by portraying himself in India as an American who was neither Muslim nor Pakistani.”
Dawood Gilani, aka David Headley, visited Mumbai five times: in September 2006, February and September 2007, and April and July 2008. He used to take videos and pictures of the potential targets and give them to Lashkar terrorists during his visit to Pakistan.
Moreover, Headley and his accomplices in Pakistan discussed potential landing sites in Mumbai for a team of attackers who would arrive by sea. It is worth mentioning that Pakistani-origin Canadian terrorist Tahawwur Rana committed fraud against the Indian government through the creation and submission of forged documents.
Tahawwur Rana was convicted in Chicago for providing support for the Pakistani terror group, Lashkar-e-Taiba – the main conspirator of the Mumbai attacks and also on charges of supporting a possible terror attack against a Danish newspaper that printed cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad in 2005.
A shocking case of murder has come to light in Kashipur of Udham Singh Nagar district in Uttarakhand where a Muslim occultist named Ali Hassan alias Sooraj who works as a mason brutally murdered his two daughters as an act of sacrifice. The authorities apprehended the father after the bodies were discovered. The victims have been identified as 19-year-old Fareen and 11-year-old Yasmeen.
The alarming news sent shockwaves in Ward Number 12 of Khalik Colony, Laxmipur Patti where the dead bodies of the two girls were found on the bed in the house. The body of the younger daughter is reported to be three to four days old while the older one was killed on the night of 24 November. On receiving the information about the crime, the police took possession of the bodies and their post-mortem was conducted by a panel of doctors.
The father who is allegedly into black magic is being interrogated in police custody. Bloodstains were spotted in the home’s veranda and the remains of a sacrificed chicken and some magic items were located at the door of the residence. The family members tried to mislead the cops and complained that the paranormal factors were responsible for the incident during the questioning.
The police inquiry revealed that the shocking development was brought on by their faith in black magic and occultism. The two girls died from beatings and strangulations. Fareen used to work in a beauty parlour for the last one and a half years. It was found that the younger girl Yasmeen was severely abused, her ankles were scorched by fire which caused blisters. She died on 23 November night due to continuous torture and the elder sister also went through the same torment.
Shaheen, one of the elder siblings of the victims who stays in Rehar after marriage, was suspicious that something unusual was happening at her parent’s house when she visited it recently. When she went back to her in-law’s house, she kept worrying about it and called her aunt (wife of the brother of her father) Mehtab who lives in Sugar Colony urging her to visit the house of her parents to inquire about the situation there.
Mehtab reached the house on Saturday, but Hassan’s wife Husn Jahan and their daughter Hina, who were present in the house, didn’t open the door. Mehtab called the police, after which they forcefully opened the door, and they witnessed the dead sisters lying side by side on the cots in the room near the beds of Husna Jahan and Hina.
When asked, the two tried to lie and trick the people by telling the story of paranormal elements and claimed that the father and the sons had gone to bring shrouds for the deceased. The bodies were sent for autopsy after that. Superintendent of Police (SP) Abhay Singh, Circle Officer (CO) Vandana Verma, Officer Manoj Raturi, Special Sub-Inspector of Police (SSI) Pradeep Mishra, Sub-Inspector Deepak Joshi and Special Operations Group (SOG) Kuldeep Singh reached the scene with police force after being notified about the matter.
They took information from Husna Jahan and Farmaan, the mother and brother of the deceased. They stated that Ali Hassan and Husna Jahan have four daughters Hina, Shaheen, Fareen and Yasmeen and three sons Armaan, Farmaan and Rizwaan. Hina and Shaheen are married and live with their respective in-laws. When they were asked about Ali Hassan, Armaan and Rizwaan, they answered that the three had gone to visit the shrine of Baba Bhullanshah in Katoratal since last night.
During the course of interviewing locals, the cops learned that the home had been the source of a lot of screaming for the past four to five days. The family had no social connections to anyone in the neighbourhood, hence, nobody used to visit them. The family members told the police on 23 November that the two sisters were under the influence of supernatural forces. The police responded by making them understand the situation and recommended that they seek medical attention from qualified physicians. Police personnel were similarly taken aback upon learning of the deaths early on 25 November.
SP Abhay Singh proclaimed that the case was suspicious. “The preliminary inquiry into these killings seems to point to the involvement of occultism at first glance. The probe has so far shown that the father beat the girls to death because of the family’s faith in the supernatural, but the authorities are looking into all possible angles.” He added that butchered chicken, some rupees and traces of blood were also observed in an empty plot near the house.
The police have taken the parents, one sister and three brothers into custody on the morning of 25 November. The police officer remarked that the exact cause of death of the two sisters would be known after the post-mortem report and police investigation.
According to him, Rudrapur’s dog squad and forensic team were called in to look into the occurrence. Members of the team including Head Constable Bhupendra Singh, Yashpal Arya and Constable Hemendra Tamta along with Head Constable Dog Squad, Dog Katty arrived at the area for initial inquiry. They collected blood samples and some odd items.
