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Intelligence report says terrorists and anti-social elements planning attacks in Delhi, CRPF steps up security in the national capital

A fresh intelligence alert has been issued warning a possible attack on the units of Central Reserve Police Force in Delhi. The Communication issued by the intelligence agencies revealed, “Terrorists of the various groups as well as anti-social elements might be planning terror attacks in Delhi.”

Following the alert, the CRPF has asked all the units in the capital to tighten the security cover of all installations and place more personnel at such locations.

The Unit heads have been alerted to keep round-the-clock security of their camps and send additional details to the headquarters.

An official stated, “As CRPF troops deployed at all places, including static guards/vital installation/camp security duties, therefore all the troops be briefed about the security drill, conduct/behavior, role/importance of the static guard, response in a contingency scenario by keeping necessary coordination with all stakeholders etc.”

The CRPF has ordered to deploy extra personnel immediately at all vulnerable points. A CRPF official while briefing about the fresh procedures stated, “All units Control Room/Signal center should be manned suitably” and sufficient jawans should be deployed to guard installations.”

The piece of information also says that “a close liaison has to be maintained with intelligence agencies and civil police in the areas of responsibility besides activating own sources for timely receipt of inputs and proactive appropriate precautionary and preventive measures.”

The alert said, “Brief your troops to remain extra alert and vigilant on duties outside and inside the camp area to avoid any untoward incident. All outside and inside the camp should also be put under constant watch to avoid any untoward incident.”

This alert came days after the security forces averted a terror attack after an attempt was made by terrorists to carry out a blast using a vehicle-borne IED. The Pulwama Police received information that a terrorist was moving in a car laden with explosives. Eventually, the suspected vehicle arrived at night and a few rounds of bullets were fired at it. The driver abandoned the vehicle a bit further down the road and managed to escape in the darkness. On inspection, the car was found to be carrying explosives in a drum. The attempted terror attack has a great resemblance to the one in Pulwama where a vehicle-borne IED was used in a suicide attack.

The fake equivalence communists are trying to manufacture between Blacks of America and Muslims of India

The United States is reeling under the huge waves of violent, after the disastrous brush with the COVID Pandemic which emanated out of Wuhan in China, leaving a Hundred Thousand dead in the Land of the Free. The unfortunate part is that the United States, far away from the core of the communism, and for decades, being locked away behind the Iron Curtain, had little understanding of the Leftist evil which India has been struggling with since Independence, while the west pontificated in ignorance. In a speech by the writer of Indian Constitution, Dr B. R. Ambedkar, made on 25th of November, 1949, barely one year into India’s independence; had he spoken of the danger posed by the Leftists to a democracy ironically under the garb of defence of democracy. Vested interests in Indian politics, the Congress which aligned with the Left to a point where it no longer is distinguishable from the other, have worked overtime to keep these important insights of one of the greatest thinker of Independent India hidden from the people as they tried to weaponise the anger of Hindu Dalits. Ambedkar had said,

The condemnation of the Constitution largely comes from two quarters, the Communist Party and the Socialist Party. Why do they condemn the Constitution? Is it because it is really a bad Constitution? I venture to say ‘no’. The Communist Party want a Constitution based upon the principle of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat. They condemn the Constitution because it is based upon parliamentary democracy. The Socialists want two things. The first thing they want is that if they come in power, the Constitution must give them the freedom to nationalize or socialize all private property without payment of compensation. The second thing that the Socialists want is that the Fundamental Rights mentioned in the Constitution must be absolute and without any limitations so that if their Party fails to come into power, they would have the unfettered freedom not merely to criticize, but also to overthrow the State.”

It takes someone of Ambedkar’s insight and intellect to call out the lies of the Communists. American Blacks are similar to Hindu Dalits for the Communists, who look at them as expendable foot soldiers, meant to help them as Ambedkar mentions having unfettered freedom to overthrow the State, if they fail to come to power (in India as in the US),. The Islamists in India and presumably too have jumped into it. Their goals are identical- to overthrow the democratic government. There is nothing common between the leftists and the Islamists except a cruel fanaticism centred on their ideology. The alignment between the two is built on the scheme of mutual conspiracy and bilateral distrust. We have seen this out in open during the anti-CAA protests.  Communism offers a secular political cover to the fanatic religious designs of the Islamists, and Islamist provide an unending source of expendable and unyielding foot soldiers which hate everyone except only those of their own religion who are equally orthodox, anachronistic and supremacist. 

The glee of India-haters who want to spread the violence borrowed from the US in India, which happens to be another large democracy, exposes the fallacy of their design. They try to invent some sort of equivalence between the Blacks who have been kept out of power all along (almost till as late as 1968) with the Muslims who have at least Fifty nations (Refer Pew Research Center report) across the world which is totally run as per Islamic religious rules, where the Non-Muslims are pushed to irrelevant and inconsequential existence of second-grade citizens. Is it not amusing that this effort to eat into the historical pain of the blacks of the US comes from Muslims who run at least 50 nations globally as per their religious laws, and who represent the second-largest religion in the world (next only to 2.3 billion under Christianity with 1.9 Billion Muslims). So disingenuous that the religion which overwhelms the Earth and is known for unorthodox views of governance whenever in power, raises claims of victimhood, through the connivance of articulate communication devices and propaganda machinery of the Communist powers.          

The Communism of 21stcentury is headquartered in China. It is Chinese communism and their ambition to become Global centre of unipolar politics which is at display in the US during these recent riots. Democrats in the US, Labor in the UK and the Congress in India- are the different faces of the same animal, which is deceptive, greedy and over-ambitious supremacist, but which poses as liberal. Like a witch, it rides whichever broom it finds next to it. There are propaganda schemes of the Communists like Thousand Talent scheme in the US run by China which ensures that dishonest intellectuals are hired at one end to burn the light of intellectual nonsense so bright that the ugly darkness of violence at the other end is no longer visible to a neutral observer. The country with the unhealthy ambition of becoming Global superpower like China is unlikely to not have such resources planted in the territory of their nearest competitor.

In India, what is termed now as Urban Naxals were arrested and many are now narrating the academic excellence of those arrested as a proof of their innocence and also to prove to the world that India is undemocratic to have allowed the law pursue these violence-baiters? These Naxal sympathisers will keep it hidden from India that US Scientist from Harvard University, Charles M Lieber (also tipped to be in the running for a Nobel) was arrested by FBI from the campus in Handcuffs (imagine someone getting arrested from a JNU) couple of months back. Administration of Harvard, instead of organizing open letters, placed Dr Lieber on indefinite Administrative Leave. The witch in the US rides the broom of black discontent and those who fooled themselves believing in the leftist dream of Anarchy did not know when the fire grew too close. The fire is blind and the Mob is mad.  

We in India, have seen Gene Sharp’s theory at work ever since the Narendra Modi government came to power. The opposition realizing the difficulty in being back at power started working on these international theories, diligently and cynically. If fake news of the removal of reservation policies and raising insecurities on Land Acquisition Bill was a preliminary test of creating a cycle of violence using propaganda, CAA protest starting and ending with mass, multi-city riots was the high point of this agenda. The Blacks in America are the same foot soldiers for the Leftists as the Muslims and Dalits in India are, who feel much and know little. The only catch is that Muslims of India are in no way identifiable with the Blacks in the US in terms of History and influence. As explained earlier, in Global terms, the second largest religion cannot claim to be a victim on a broad global level. This tendency to hook on to the legitimate fears and insecurity of the American Blacks in a dishonest attempt to ride the wave of genuine discontent to establish religious supremacy.

While CAA Protests, with a mix of Violence and Non-violent protests, were a text-book case of Gene Sharp theory; its failure came with the Delhi Riots when it culminated in such sad display of violence, equally resisted by the Hindus (much like Punjab and Bihar response to Direct Action Day in 1946) that the nation turned away from it in disgust. 

Looking at the plight of blacks who did not arrive waving swords in the US like the Muslims in India. Rather the first slaves arrived in the US in 1619, shackled in chains like domestic animals. A law passed in 1662 by Virginia State notified that all children of Black mothers, irrespective of the race of the father, will remain slaves. A law passed in 1669 ensured that Slaves who converted to Christianity remained slaves. Carolina passed 57 statutes to keep the Slaves under discipline and order. Slaves were routinely lynched and the cruel act was even legal. The term ‘Lynching’ used so loosely by Indian leftists and Islamist supremacist to create waves in the western world actually came from America. The term supposedly came from Virginia’s Charles Lynch who authorized extra-judicial killing of Negroes under Lynch’s Law of 1782. Between 1881 and 1968, in the US, 4,743 people were lynched, 3,446 of them being blacks. To internationalize stray incidents, Islamist intellectuals have been attempting to draw an equivalence between India Muslims and Blacks in America. 

When the Negroes in America were facing all the atrocities mentioned about in 17th centuries, what were Indian Muslims doing? It was the period of Aurangzeb’s rule. In 1679, he imposed Jaziya on Hindus of India, which rendered all Hindus to the state of second class citizens, where they had to pay special taxes to be allowed to pursue their faith. Businesses were too segregated with Hindus having to pay twice the duty on imports than Muslim businessmen. Restrictions were imposed on Hindu festivals. All Hindus, except Rajputs, were not allowed to travel in a carriage (unlike the Muslims). The court which ran as per Persian rules even after centuries of Mughal rule in India had little room for Hindus. If anyone should be asking for reparations, it should be the Hindus after centuries of oppression and disenfranchisement.  

When the Courts turned English, both Hindus and Muslims were suddenly disadvantaged, still, the room to learn English ways were open to both. It is only a matter of irrationally snobbish arrogance that only one of the two community decided to avail of the opportunities available to it under the British. This obstinacy to keep themselves isolated from the society around them, in spite of having better resources and options to assimilate in the mainstream than the Hindus, do not make Muslims equal to the Blacks in the US. As Indians, it is important to call out these attempts to ride on the American riots to create violence back home with pumped-up fake equivalence. There is something utterly mendacious about attempts to manufacture a history of oppression by the oppressors only to once again subjugate the race freed after centuries of oppression. The Communists want to implement Communist code and the Islamist, Shariah- And both want to use the freedom offered under democracy to circumvent democracy. 

It is strange that those who constituted almost 95% of the royal Mughal courts at the time when the Blacks of America were pushed into an animal-like existence with zero citizen rights, want to superimpose the sad history of American blacks on their fake victimhood, to push back a secular and tolerant faith in the land of its origin. Never have they faced the injustice of being treated as three-Fifth of the individuals belonging to other faiths. If at all anyone faced the fate similar to the Negroes of America, it was only the Hindus under the Islamic rule. This mischievous leftist plan to establish the supremacy of one religion which has always been advantaged is being attempted under the garb of secularism and democracy. No one has explained this better than Dr Ambedkar whom I have quoted at the start of this article. It is pertinent that we, in India, while remaining in solidarity with the coloured people of America, remain vigilant to the nefarious designs of left-loonies and Islamist supremacists.     

Adesh Kumar Gupta replaces Manoj Tiwari as Delhi BJP president

The Bharatiya Janata Party has made major changes at the state level in some states on Tuesday. The position of Delhi BJP Chief which was being handled by Manoj Tiwari has been handed over to Adesh Kumar Gupta. He was appointed as Delhi BJP president by the national president of BJP JP Nadda.

The official statement from the BJP said, “BJP President JP Nadda has appointed Adesh Kumar Gupta as the Delhi BJP chief. The appointment will come into effect immediately.” The new state chief was announced as Manoj Tiwari’s term as already over.

Taking to Twitter, former BJP Chief of BJP Delhi wrote, “I am thankful to all the activists, officials and residents of Delhi for the love and support received during my 3.6 long tenure as Delhi BJP Chief. Please forgive me for any inadvertant mistakes I might have made.”

Adesh Kumar Gupta stated that he will concentrate on expanding the political party at the state level. He said he will work with everyone and avoid indulging in partisan behavior within the party. He said that he will check the party’s performance in the MCD elections.

The new Delhi BJP party chief slammed Arvind Kejriwal for failing to handle the ‘coronavirus situation’ in the national capital territory moments after his appointment.

Manoj Tiwari, who is a Lok Sabha MP from North East Delhi constituency, was appointed as Delhi BJP president in 2016. Under his leadership, the party had marginally improved its performance in Delhi assembly elections this where, where BJP won 8 seats in total 70, against 3 seats won in the previous election. Manoj Tiwari had offered to resign after the party’s poor performance in the state elections.

Adesh Kumar Gupta has been at the position of Mayor of North-Delhi. Apart from that, BJP President JP Nadda also appointed former Union Minister Vishnu Deo Sai as the President of BJP in Chattisgarh state, and Professor Tikendra Singh as BJP Chief in Manipur.

Sadanand Dhume and Omar Abdullah like a disparaging tweet to Republic TV from Pakistani lawyer who had earlier glorified terrorists attacking India

For some individuals, the momentous occasion of Narendra Modi ascension to the Prime Ministerial post severely and irredeemably impaired their understanding of patriotism and loyalty towards one’s nation. The hatred harboured by these individuals for PM Modi only intensified as the time went by. The animosity reached such epic proportions that hating Modi and by extension, anyone who espoused his ideology, became more important than standing by national interest.

Besides the Modi government, the Republic TV and its Editor-in-chief Arnab Goswami, who has unabashedly stood on the side of national interest, have been the latest object of their ire for vigorously promoting nationalism and unsparingly calling out those who incite anarchy and pander to the anti-national forces.

Recently, two of such individuals who are still smarting PM Modi’s reelection in 2019 and Arnab Goswami’s growing prominence in the Indian media landscape, WSJ journalist Sadanand Dhume and former Chief Minister of erstwhile state of Jammu & Kashmir, Omar Abdullah, ‘liked’ a disparaging tweet by a Pakistani barrister to Republic TV after the latter invited him on its show to debate on “Rift between India and Pakistan on the Spy issue as Two Pakistani officials from the embassy in Delhi expelled by India over spying”.

The Pakistani lawyer, Asad Rahim Khan, turned down the invitation offered by Republic TV and wished evil upon them to maintain peace between the two countries. “Thank you for your invitation. If I wanted to hear a fascist lunatic scream for war for an hour, I would listen to Joseph Goebbels’ old speeches. For the sake of peace between our countries, may your channel die a quick death,” Khan responded in an email to Republic TV.

Both, the invitation by the Republic TV and his scathing riposte was shared by Khan on his official Twitter account. The tweet was liked by WSJ journalist Dhume and politician Omar Abdullah, both of whom have a predilection for Pakistanis, along with many other Indians who held fervid ill-feeling for PM Modi and Arnab Goswami.

Asad Rahim Khan’s tweet (image courtesy: KnowTheNation)

For starters, it is profoundly ironical that a Pakistani is preaching sanctimonious sermons about peace between India and Pakistan to an Indian news channel, on a day when two Pakistani diplomats were caught red-handed indulging in espionage activities against India. Any reputable man from any other reputable country would have felt a modicum of embarrassment even responding to a news channel of a country against whom his fellow countrymen were caught spying, but Asad Rahim Khan, being a Pakistani, whose figurehead Prime Minister continues to whip up an anti-India frenzy on social media websites periodically, used the opportunity to seek grandstanding by laying claims to lofty ideals of envisioning peace between the two countries.

Secondly, Asad Rahim Khan is no proponent of peace and good-will as he would have us believe. Khan has glorified terrorism in Kashmir on more occasion than one. He had recently attempted to humanise the Hizbul Mujahideen terrorist Riyaz Naikoo by characterising him as a ‘resister’, thereby lending legitimacy to the terror activities and violence he was involved in. Besides, Khan also described the Modi regime as ‘Fourth Reich’— a futuristic Nazi regime that had employed coronavirus to brutalise Kashmiris.

“Just as the Nazis exploited typhus, the Fourth Reich uses corona to brutalise Kashmiris, ravage healthcare and execute resisters like #RiyazNaikoo. The UN’s unprecedented OHCHR report seeks a Commission, its highest-level probe for global crises,” Khan tweeted in a post uploaded on May 7, 2020.

Khan’s tweet, courtesy: @knowthenation on Twitter

It appears that Khan was just recently stuck with the epiphany of having peace between India and Pakistan. Until May 7, 2020, Khan believed in ratcheting up the rhetoric against India and accusing it to be a modern-day Nazi regime that was bent on using coronavirus as a tool of repression against Kashmiris. It is pertinent to note that Khan Asad Khan drew on Pakistan PM Imran Khan’s allegations of fascism against India, notwithstanding Pakistan’s troubled history of having witnessed far more years of dictator rule than the rule of democracy.

In another tweet from 2019, Asad could not stop his inner Islamist from coming out in open. The day when the Supreme Court of India ended the protracted wrangling over the Ram Temple in Ayodhya and handed over the vexed land to Hindus for building a magnificent Ram Temple, Asad posted a tweet criticising PM Modi, India and the Indian judiciary that he claimed upheld ‘Kar sevak militancy’.

“A PM that compares anti-Muslim massacres to killing puppies, a parliament that passes bills to cleanse Kashmir, and now a judiciary that upholds kar sevak militancy…Each branch of the Indian state is a tribute to Hindutva, and a vindication of Jinnah,” the tweet by Asad read.

Khan’s tweet (image courtesy: @knowthenation on Twitter)

However, the hostility for PM Modi among scores of Indians such as Sadanand Dhume and Omar Abdullah is so deep-rooted that they have no qualms in disregarding the contemptuous and outrageous allegations made by Pakistanis against India. On the contrary, Dhume and Abdullah appeared to have revelled the denigratory remarks the Islamist Asad Khan made against the Indian News Channel. It didn’t matter to them that by expressing their approval with Asad’s response to the Republic TV, they were also supporting the Pakistani’s lawyer’s glorification of terrorists who are perpetually at war with India and threaten to disrupt the peace and sovereignty of the nation. Their hatred for PM Modi has blinded their responsibility towards the nation and caused them to take leave of their senses. It is time that they gain some semblance of sanity, and determine which side of the border do they truly belong!

Advocate sends a legal notice against media outlet ‘Dabang Dunia’ for claiming Kunti committed adultery and hurting religious sentiments

Media outlet ‘Dabang Dunia News Service’ has been served with a legal notice for a news article in which it claimed that Kunti from Hindu epic of Mahabharata had involved in an illegitimate affair which caused the birth of her 3 sons with Pandu.

The legal notice was issued by advocate Ashutosh Dubey alleging that the media outlet had grievously hurt the sentiments of Hindus by accusing the Hindu epic character- Kunti of committing adultery. Kunti was the mother of three of the five Pandavas, Yudhishthir, Bhim and Arjun, and Lord Krishna was her nephew. Dubey, in his notice, has alleged that the media outlet has portrayed Kunti in a bad light and accused them of spreading unrealistic and fake news.

Citing Mahabharata, Dainik Dabang Duniya had claimed in their article that one of the central character of Mahabharata—Kunti, had separate relationship before and after marriage. The article goes on to claim that she established a love affair with men to give birth to Yudhisthira, Bhima and Arjuna. It also adds that Nakul and Sahadeva were born when Pandu’s second wife-Madri, had established relationship with a separate man to give birth to them.

News article on Kunti by Dabangduniya News Service

“By spreading such misinformation you are insulting the Mahabharata where nowhere such things are mentioned in the epic,” the legal notice reads.

The legal notice then goes on to mention the actual incident when Durvasha Rishi endowed Kunti with a divine mantra that had the power of bestowing Kunti with sons. According to the epic, whichever Gods Kunti desires to have a child with, she had to simply invoke God and recite the mantra. Kunti invoked Yamaraj, Vayu and Indra to give birth to Yudhisthira, Bhima and Arjuna. Kunti had invoked Sun God before marriage to check the potency of mantra and she had received Karna as her son from Sun God. Kunti taught the mantra to Madri and after its usage, Madri was awarded with two sons-Nakula and Sahadeva.

“By describing Kunti as someone who had had illicit relationships in her life, you have not only insulted Mahabharata but you have hurt the religious sentiments of crores of Hindus living in India,” the legal notice says.

Advocate Dubey has alleged that the news agency-Dainik Dabang News had committed crime under Sector 298, 295 and 295A of the Indian Penal Code for “deliberate and malicious act via newspaper about Kunti with the intention of outraging the religious feelings of Hindus. The notice further asserts that Dainik Dabang News is further liable for misleading news which gets amplified when picked up by gratuitous sections of mass media.

Besides, the advocate has also called for registering an offence against the news organisation under Section 501(b) of the Indian Penal Code for spreading false and mischievous content that results in ‘fear and alarm to public’.

‘The failure to act upon this legal notice within the stipulated time period will attract legal action under various sections of the Indian Penal Code 1860,” the petition says.

Union govt unveils three schemes worth Rs 50,000 crore to make India self-reliant in electronics manufacturing

To give a fillip to the electronics manufacturing sector in the country, the Modi government on Tuesday urged the firms to apply for schemes to promote electronic manufacturing in India to help them become global champions.

The Ministry of Electronics & IT government had announced three schemes in April – Production linked Incentive (PLI), component manufacturing schemes (SPECS) and cluster schemes (EMC 2.0) in an aim to increase electronics manufacturing rapidly by 2025 and create additional 1.5-2 million new jobs in the short term.

Reiterating the same, the Union IT minister Ravi Shankar Prasad released detailed guidelines about the three new initiatives of the government and asked companies to start applying for the schemes to avail the benefit.

The total value announced today stands at Rs 50,000 crore with the goal of increasing production to $106 billion from $70 billion in 2018-19. The target for exports of electronic components is $77 billion.

The Union Minister also said the government will pick up “five global champions” who will be permitted to participate under the PLI scheme. Five Indian companies will also be added in the scheme.

Three schemes to boost electronics manufacturing in the country

Under the Production linked Incentive scheme, the government will provide an incentive of 4-6 per cent on incremental sales of goods manufactured in the country up to 2025. The PLI scheme takes the largest portion of the benefits, standing at approximately Rs 40,000 crore and is expected to help large scale manufacturing of mobile and other gadgets.

The second scheme – Scheme for Promotion of Manufacturing of Components and Semiconductors (SPECS), is aimed at promoting component manufacturing in India. The scheme intends to reduce imports of electronic components, which the industry currently undertakes to assemble products here. The government will provide a financial incentive of 25% on capital expenditure for a list of electronic goods, which include electronic components, semiconductor/ display fabrication units, Assembly, Test, Marking and Packaging (ATMP) units, specialized sub-assemblies and capital goods for manufacture of these products. 

The scheme will remain open for three years for investors to apply and for five years for investments. The outlay for the scheme amounts to Rs 3,285 crore.

Lastly, the Electronics Manufacturing Cluster Scheme (EMC 2.0) project will provide land for large manufacturing clusters, and other infrastructure requirements. The scheme is a modified version of the earlier EMC scheme. The EMC 2.0 shall provide support for the creation of world-class infrastructure along with common facilities and amenities, including Ready Built Factory (RBF) sheds / Plug and Play facilities for attracting major global electronics manufacturers, along with their supply chains, the ministry statement says.

Focus on mobile manufacturing in India

The Union Minister Prasad also added that electronics manufacturing in the country was valued at Rs 1,90,366 crore in 2014, which has seen a rise to Rs 4,58,000 crore today, while its share in global manufacturing has risen to 3% in 2018 from 1.3% in 2012. The minister also added that th exports grew by 38% year-on-year between 2018 and 2019.

“India is now a second-biggest mobile manufacturing country in the world. From just 2 factories, we now have 200 manufacturing units,” added Prasad, the Union minister for electronics and IT.

The Modi government wants India to be a mobile manufacturing hub and intends to make the country to become the largest exported item from India and domestic value addition of 35-40% to mobile manufacturing by 2025.

The new scheme announced by the Modi government is meant to help mobile manufacturing in a big way. However, the government also want to boost other sectors like automobile electronics, medical electronics, strategic electronics like defence, which will have a bearing from the development of electronics manufacturing in the country.

On Delhi govt’s recommendation, Delhi LG Anil Baijal grants early release to Jessica Lal murderer Manu Sharma

Manu Sharma, who was convicted for the murder of model Jessica Lal in 1999, has been granted release by Lieutenant Governor of Delhi, Anil Baijal. Baijal granted early release on recommendation of Delhi state home minister Satyendra Jain.

Sharma is the son of former Congress leader Venod Sharma. News agency ANI reported that a seven-member Sentence Review Board (SRB) had a meeting last month to decide on the release of 34 convicts who are eligible for early release. The list included the name of Sharma as well.

As per the law, any convict excluding one found guilty of heinous crimes such as rape and murder, murder and robbery, murder in cases of terrorism and murder while out on parole, who has completed 14 years in prison, is eligible for an early release. SRB recommended in their report sent to Baijal that Manu Sharma is eligible for such release.

Amit Sahni, Sharma’s lawyer, filed a petition in Delhi High Court and asked for his release in November 2019. He said that Sharma had spent 23 years in Jail, including remission. He has a record of good conduct in prison, but SRB denied his release four times. The lawyer added that it is unfair and unlawful behaviour. The court asked SRB to consider his case for release in the next meeting on 11th May.

Delhi State home minister, who is the chairman of the board along with director-general of prison, home secretary of state, law secretary of state, a district judge, and chief probationary officer of the government along with a joint commissioner rank officer of Delhi Police were part of the Sentence Review Board.

Jessica Lal murder case

43-year-old Siddharth Vashishta, known by his alias Manu Sharma shot dead model Jessica Lal on 30th April 1999 for refusing a drink at a party. She was tending an unlicensed bar at a private party and refused to serve Sharma a drink past midnight, after which Sharma shot her dead. Haryana politician Venod Sharma is his father and has an influential political background.

In February 2006, Sharma was acquitted by a city court, which had triggered protests all over the country. Delhi high court took up the case and reversed the order. They mentioned in the judgment that the lower court ignored or misread material evidence. Sharma was sentenced to life imprisonment in December 2006. The judgment was challenged in the Supreme Court, but the court upheld the conviction in 2010.

When Sabrina Lal, sister of Jessica, was approached last month after the board’s decision, she said that she had forgiven Sharma. According to the prison officials, Sharma’s work inside the prison supported his case in front of the SRB. He runs a non-government organization by the name Siddhartha Vashishta Charitable Trust that helps in funding the education of children of prison inmates. The NGO started working in Tihar around eight years ago.

Pakistan: 13-year-old Hindu girl kidnapped and raped by armed men in Sindh province

In yet another deplorable act a 13-year-old Hindu girl has been brutally raped by six armed men in Pirbux Jarwar village falling under the jurisdiction of Dilber Khan police station in Mirpurkhas, Sindh province of Pakistan.

As reported by Pakistani Human Rights activist Rahat Austin on Twitter, six armed men entered the 13-year-old Hindu girl Permi Bheel’s house, beat up her family and took her away. The Hindu girl was brutally raped the entire night on gunpoint by these 6 men while her family kept searching for her, crying for help.

Brutalities against minorities in Pakistan

The brutalities against minorities continue unabated in the terrorist state of Pakistan as multiple instances of atrocities, especially against Hindus and Sikhs have been reported recently.

In October 2019, a young Hindu girl had been allegedly abducted and converted to Islam. The Hindu victim was later forcibly married by the abductor.

This horrific news came just a month after the killing of Namrita Chandani, who was found dead in her hostel room in September last year. She was found lying on a cot with a rope tied around her neck while her room was locked from inside. The college administration tried to pass it as suicide. However, her final autopsy report had revealed that she was murdered after being raped in her hostel room in September 2019.

Prior to this, following an allegation of blasphemy against a Hindu school principal, Hindu temples, shops and homes of minority Hindus were ransacked by Muslim rioters. However, later it was revealed that the attack on Hindus was a pre-planned event to cover-up a child abduction incident. The school principal had thwarted the Islamists’ efforts by giving refuge to one of the Hindu girls, who was abducted by associates of radical Islamist leader Mian Mithoo.

Pakistan is notoriously known for its persecution of not only religious minorities but also ethnic minorities within their own country. The forceful conversion programmes have often been unleashed against the minorities especially Christians, Sikhs and Hindus living in Pakistan with utmost brutality.

Earlier, Jagjit Kaur, a Sikh girl was abducted and forcibly converted to Islam in Nankana Sahib which had caused a huge uproar. In another horrific incident, a 13-year-old Pooja Sotahar Kumari, daughter of Fatan Rathore, resident of village Bakhsho Laghari in Hyderabad district’s Hosri Taluka, was kidnapped, forcefully converted and subsequently married off to a man identified as Syed Irshad Shah.

13 staffers at Delhi Lieutenant Governor secretariat test positive for Coronavirus, contacts being traced

Thirteen staffers working at the secretariat of Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal have been tested positive of Wuhan coronavirus.

An official told IANS, ‘Total 13 people have tested positive for the infection. We are tracing the close contacts. The remaining staff members are being scanned for the symptoms. The office is being sanitised as per the government”s guidelines.”

Earlier, four staffers at Raj Niwas were tested positive on May 29. Several coronavirus cases have also been reported from the office of Health minister Satyendra Jain in Delhi Secretariat and the office of District Magistrates as well.

On May 29, two floors of Parliament Annexe building was sealed when a Director level officer attended work on May 28 and was later tested positive of coronavirus along with his family.

Prior to this, a housekeeping staff of parliament who works in the lower house was tested positive with coronavirus. The staffer was posted at the Lok Sabha secretariat at 36 GRG road.

Also, The daughter-in-law of a sanitation worker who works in Rashtrapati Bhawan was found coronavirus positive. Given that effect, 125 families associated with Rashtrapati Bhavan were sent to strict self-isolation.

The Building of Aviation Ministry was also sealed after a staffer of the ministry was tested positive for coronavirus.

Cricketer Yuvraj Singh attacked over casteist remark on Yuzvendra Chahal, netizens demand apology

A couple of month old video clip has emerged on social media where cricketer Yuvraj Singh was seen using a derogatory term for fellow cricketer Yuzvendra Chahal. In the video, that looked like an Instagram Live session, Yuvraj and Rohit were have a friendly conversation during which Yuvraj pointed out that Chahal is posting regular videos on Tik Tok and Instagram and said “In Bha****on ko aur koi to kaam hai nahi. Video dekha tune jo Yuzi ne dala family ke saath” (They have nothing to do. Have you seen the video posted by Yuzi with his family) to which Rohit replied, “maine usko wohi bola yeh apne baap ko nacha raha hai pagal to nahi hai” (I asked him why he was forcing his father to dance).

Yuzvendra Chahal’s active social media life

During the lockdown, Chahal has been active on social media platforms, including Tik Tok and Instagram. He has posted many videos with his family members as well that became famous quickly among the fans.

Outrage over social media

Many people, including fans of Yuvraj, were angry over the derogatory remarks he has used during the conversation. A hashtag promoted by Dilip Mandal #युवराज_सिंह_माफी_मांगो (Yuvraj Singh Apologize) was trending on Twitter and received more than 30,000 tweets quickly.

Many users countered the controversy and said that such terms are common among friends during conversation and there is no need to make a mountain out of a mole. Those who came in support of Yuvraj also faced backlash.

Yuvraj and history of controversies

Yuvraj Singh seems to have become a favourite child of controversies. In a short span, he has found himself in soup for one or the other reason. A few days back, he supported Shahid Afridi’s NGO and asked for donations, and it backfired because as Afridi was seen provoking the people of Kashmir. He had to come forward and apologise for supporting Afridi.