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Coronavirus: Police arrests one Imran Shaikh for selling used masks from foreign countries

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Coronavirus: Police arrests one Imran Shaikh for selling used masks from foreign countries

Amidst the growing concerns of novel Coronavirus, a video of thousands of used coronavirus masks dumped at an isolated spot near Kalher pipeline in Bhiwandi sent ripples of panic wave among the people. Imran Shaikh, a godown staffer, was allegedly seen in the video dumping waste masks.


Social Media was abuzz with a video where Shaikh was seen throwing used masks even as the country is grappling from the coronavirus outbreak. After the video went viral, a complaint was filed by revenue officials. It was reported that the plan may have been to wash the masks, repackage them and sell them as new. However, it has not been verified yet. An FIR was lodged at the Narpoli police late on Sunday night against the Bhiwandi godown staffer.

The police have booked Shaikh under Indian Penal Code Section 269 for careless act likely to spread infection of disease, imperilling the lives of others, said senior inspector Maloji Shinde. “A probe is ordered to find out who had bought the masks and if they had been imported from China,” he said.

A police team raided the godown and submitted a report to Thane zonal DCP Rajkumar Shinde, who sent off a letter to the district health administration to look into the matter.

According to Thane collector Rajesh Narvekar, officials from the district health administration, revenue and Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB), along with the police arrived at the site near Kalher pipeline on Sunday morning. The officials of MPCB have impounded the masks and sent them to a lab to verify if any of them had been infected by Covid-19 or any other virus. Following the test results, the MPCB will get rid of the biomedical waste.

The Bhiwandi revenue officer Shashikant Gaikwad asserted that the police has initiated an investigation about the origins from where these masks are imported, adding that the medical report will clarify if they were contaminated or not.

As a precautionary measure, the location was sanitised to avoid any health-related hazards in the locality. However, the revenue officials have cautioned the residents to avoid the area till the lab test report is submitted.

Road rage leads to communal tension in Meerut, UP but police denies media reports of communal flare up

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Road rage leads to communal tension in Meerut, UP but police denies media reports of communal flare up

On Sunday evening, a collision between two motorcycles near the Lisadi Gate area in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh reportedly led to violence between two communities. 12 people were injured in the clash during which bricks were hurled at each other.

Those injured in the confrontation were rushed to the hospital. The cops intervened to diffuse the vulnerable situation. As per reports, both the communities lodged complaints at the Lisari Gate Police Station.

Read: Fake ‘hate crime’ in UP: Chandauli Police denies allegations that Muslim boy was set on fire for not chanting ‘Jai Shri Ram’

SHO Prashant Kapil told The Indian Express that both the factions have lodged complaints and FIRs were filed. He also reportedly said that Police will take action against the two groups. However, speaking to OpIndia, he refuted all claims of “communal flareup.” During the phone conversation, he said, “It was small altercation… It was nothing like a ‘clash’. The matter was solved then and there.”

Delhi riots: AAP MLA Amanatullah Khan’s provocative statement, says as long as Muslims are ‘discriminated against’ riots will be there

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Delhi riots: AAP MLA Amanatullah Khan’s provocative statement, says as long as Muslims are ‘discriminated against’ riots will be there

Aam Aadmi Party MLA Amanatullah Khan is in news for yet another provocative statement on Delhi’s anti-Hindu riots.

In a statement to media, Khan, while defending AAP councillor Tahir Hussain, who is accused of murdering IB official Ankit Sharma, said, “It is as if only Tahir Hussain is responsible for Delhi riots. This is an attempt to save the rioters. Only Muslims are being made responsible for the riots.” He further added, “If there will be discrimination, if you are unfair towards Muslims and send them to jail, call them rioters, then in this country the riots will continue.”

Read: AAP MLA Amanatullah Khan shares video claiming house burnt during Delhi riots, fire department debunks his lie

He further claimed that a conspiracy is being hatched to shield culprits and project Hussain as main perpetrator. Earlier, Khan had taken to micro-blogging site Twitter to say that being a Muslim in India is the biggest crime and that Hussain was being ‘targeted’ as he is a Muslim.

Khan, who is himself accused in myriad cases, most notably for inciting violence in Delhi on December 15, 2019, stoked fear among the Muslim population of the country by claiming that the central government is against the Muslims and the former AAP councillor Tahir Hussain is in jail because he is a Muslim, notwithstanding the enormity of the charges levelled against him.

“Hindu men are jealous of Muslim men so they want to molest Muslim women on Holi” and other Hinduphobic rants on Holi by Islamists

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“Hindu men are jealous of Muslim men so they want to molest Muslim women on Holi” and other Hinduphobic rants on Holi by Islamists

With the festival of colours, Holi, just round the corner, Hinduphobia also seems to be on the rise on social media as tweets likening Holi to ‘rape’ and ‘molestation’ and ‘rape culture’ have started surfacing.

Irena Akbar, ex-Indian Express journalist claiming Hindu men are jealous of Muslim men because some Hindu women marry Muslim men

In her series of tweets, Akbar claimed that Hindu men are jealous of Muslim men because some Hindu women marry Muslim men and hence they want to rape/molest Muslim women. The psychological assessment of Hindu men by Akbar concluded that Hindu men can’t ‘woo’ Muslim women and they aren’t a ‘patch’ on Muslim men.

Read: Holi Against Hindutva: A Hinduphobic initiative launched by lobbying group linked with the Democrat Party in the USA

Then there were others who continued to compare Holi with molestation and groping.


And some more hate.


In Varanasi, at Manikarnika Ghat, the devotees play ‘Bhasma Holi’ where ash from pyre is used to play holi.


And some other rants.


The Islamists and their ideological comrades, having the dubious distinction of maligning Hindu festivals while ignoring over the uncomfortable truths about the festivals of other religions.

Read: The Quint is right – playing Holi is the stepping stone to Hindu Terror

The most bizarre anti-Holi attack has come from an ultra-left group called ‘Baudhkaro’, who claims to be the followers of Dr BR Ambedkar’s teachings. In a song named “Tyohaar – The Anti-Holi song”, two left-wing radicals, out of which one is a PhD student from controversial left-wing university JNU, goes on to make incendiary comments claiming that Holi was a casteist festival which results in upper-caste Hindus sexually harassing women belonging to lower castes.

National Bravery Award winner Zen Sadavarte humiliated by Shiv Sena leaders on Women’s Day for ‘not speaking Marathi’

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National Bravery Award winner Zen Sadavarte humiliated by Shiv Sena leaders on Women’s Day for ‘not speaking Marathi’

On Sunday, 12-year-old Zen Sadavarte, the recipient of National Bravery Award, was interrupted and humiliated at an event in Mumbai, Maharashtra by Shiv Sena leaders. Her speech on the occasion of Women’s day was cut short because she did not know how to speak Marathi.


She recounted, “The panel on the stage consisted of Shiv Sena leaders. Everyone got the message when I spoke in Hindi and English. I don’t know what agitated the party members that they began to attack.”

Zen reiterated, “They started exploiting my right to expression. I have the right to speak in both English and Hindi as both are Union languages. They told me that if I wanted to live in India, then, I must speak Marathi. It is my right to speak the language I wish to speak.”

The 12-year-old was speaking on the issue of mid-day meals not being served to children on Saturdays and Sundays. She also highlighted the need for “horizontal reservation” for transgenders.

The Bravery awardee was shocked to find the representatives of Shiv Sena misleading people. She alleged, “They started lying on stage that they have given reservation and claimed that they knew more about the State as they lived there.”

Last month, Zen Sadavarte had written to the Chief Justice of India (CJI), Sharad Arvind Bobde, seeking directives stopping children from being used in protests. The letter was written on the backdrop of an unfortunate incident where one 2-month-old infant died after the parents took her to Shaheen Bagh for protests and exposed the infant to Delhi’s bitter cold.

When a protestor was asked about the death of the child, the protestor said, “Humne thodi maara hau suko? Allah ki bacchi thi, Allah ne apne paas bula liya. (We didn’t kill her. She was Allah’s child and she has gone back to Allah’)

Coronavirus outbreak: Bengal man who returned from Saudi Arabia dies after developing flu-like symptoms

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Coronavirus outbreak: Bengal man who returned from Saudi Arabia dies after developing flu-like symptoms

India may have its first casualty from the deadly COVID-19 coronavirus as 33-year-old labourer from Murshidabad, West Bengal who had recently returned from Saudi Arabia died on Sunday. He had returned to India on Saturday and was admitted to Murshidabad Medical College as he was suffering from cough, fever and breathlessness. His swab tests were sent to medical college in Kolkata on for tests. The tests are expected on Monday.

The victim died within 8 hours of landing in India. According to his family members, he was a diabetic. When he developed flu-like symptoms in Saudi Arabia, he panicked and rushed back to India as soon as he could. However, Director of Health Services, Ajay Chakraborty, told news agency PTI and the man quite likely died of diabetes as he was highly diabetic and on insulin.

Till now, no one in West Bengal has tested positive for the deadly virus which has claimed lives of thousands of people worldwide, leaving over a lakh people infected. As per reports, a 21-year-old Murshidabad man, who worked as a sweeper in Saudi Arabia and returned from Dubai on Sunday morning was also admitted to a hospital as he showed flu-like symptoms.

Read: Yogi government to turn Aala Hajrat Haj House in Ghaziabad into a 500 bed isolation centre for Coronavirus patients

These cases in West Bengal come days after West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said that the central government is trying to ‘divert attention‘ from Delhi riots by ‘creating coronavirus panic’. While addressing a rally in Buniadpur, South Dinajpur district earlier this month, Banerjee said “that some channels are hyping coronavirus to cover up the Delhi riots. It’s the disease people should not panic, it’s a concern worldwide… those dead in Delhi violence did not die in coronavirus, they were killed by BJP.”

A 3-year-old boy in Kerala was tested positive for coronavirus this morning taking total positive cases in India to 40. As of now, there has been no confirmed case of death due to coronavirus in India.

Uttar Pradesh: Hindu Yuva Vahini leader’s convoy attacked in Azamgarh, stones pelted

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Uttar Pradesh: Hindu Yuva Vahini leader’s convoy attacked in Azamgarh, stones pelted

Hindu Yuva Vahini’s state president Rakesh Rai’s car was attacked and stones were pelted on it on Sunday night. As per reports, Hindu Yuva Vahini leader Rakesh Rai was travelling with some of his associates in a car where some people attacked it in Azamgarh’s Mehnagar area.

Rakesh Rai had a narrow escape in the attack. The vehicle has been damaged and its windows have been broken in by the stone pelters. As per a News 18 report, the police were informed soon after the incident. It is believed that the criminals had prior information of the Hindu Yuva Vahini leader travelling. They had allegedly waited for the car to pass through a particular area and had launched an attack with stones.

Rakesh Rai is the state president of Hindu Yuva Vahini. The Hindu Yuva Vahini was founded by Yogi Adityanath. As per the News 18 report, Rai had come to attend an event in the Senpur village in Jaunpur’s Kekrat area.

Rai’s car was attacked by the criminals when it was passing through the Gaura village in Azamgarh’s Menhnagar. The police are now investigating the incident.

Rai has stated that his convoy was attacked when it was near a canal. 4-5 miscreants had pelted the cars with stones, smashing windows and damaging the vehicles.

SP Triveni Singh has stated that they have found stones and some footwear at a place near the canal where the police believe the miscreants had waited.

Indonesia: Radical Muslims ‘protest’ against Delhi riots by waving ISIS flags and burning Indian flag, role of Pakistan suspected

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Indonesia: Radical Muslims ‘protest’ against Delhi riots by waving ISIS flags and burning Indian flag, role of Pakistan suspected

On Friday, a group of 2000 radical Islamists held a ‘protest’ outside Indian Embassy in Jakarta and Indian Consulate in Medan in Indonesia against the Delhi Anti-Hindu riots that took place under the garb of Anti-CAA protests. The international press along with elements in the Indian press have tried their best to project the anti-Hindu riots as a pogrom against Muslims and now, pro-ISIS elements are furthering the same agenda.

While some Muslim fundamentalists waved ISIS flags, others desecrated the Indian flag. The vicious act was carried out by a group comprising of the Fatwa Guards National Movement, Islamic Defenders Front and the 212 Alumni Brotherhood.

The radical demonstrators threatened to meet Indian ambassador to Indonesia, Pradeep Kumar Rawat, which he refused after they burnt the flags. Rawat was quoted as saying “This extremist groups’ ideas spread fear so that people are afraid and panic. If we are afraid and panic, they win. We will not respond to threats.”

Read: Delhi riots and its lessons on Western Ecosystem’s designs for India: Focus on development alone without addressing anti-Hindu, anti-India agenda will be a disaster

Threats were also issued to an Indian-origin businessman in the name of protests by the Radical Islamists. The role of Pakistan and its Intelligence Agency is being suspected of mobilising the Mulsim fundamentalists. Officials suggest that the Foreign Ministry of Indonesia swung into action swiftly and extended support to the Indian Embassy.

Some banners during the protest demanded that Muslims in India be ‘saved’. These banners were waved along with ISIS banners.

Muslims gather during a rally outside the Indian Embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia (source: Economic Times)

Earlier, the Indian intelligence agencies had picked up cross-country electronic communication where people believed to be Pakistani operatives were reprimanding their sources for failing to organise anti-CAA protests with enough mobs on March 3-4 despite the funding at their disposal.

It is believed that despite the Anti-Hindu riots in Delhi was contained at a significant cost, the Pakistani establishment supported by its sympathisers in India will try and use it as an instrument to radicalize young Muslims in Northern parts of India against the Narendra Modi government through videos and speeches.

Read: Delhi Police nabs Islamic State-linked terrorist couple from Jamia Nagar for motivating Muslims to unite against CAA and carry out terror strikes

Islamabad’s cause is being supported by other Muslim states such as Iran and Turkey as part of their effort to pitch for leadership in the Shia and Sunni world of Islam.

On the day of US President Donald Trump’s visit to India, the national capital had witnessed unprecedented violence. The anti-CAA riots turned communal in Delhi resulting in severe violence on the streets of Delhi.

The anti-Hindu riots were carefully planned by certain anti-India elements within the country, backed by sections of media, to intensify the so-called anti-CAA protests. However, the Muslim mobs, which were at the forefront of these protests, soon gave up the idea of ‘peaceful’ protests and resorted to their usual modus operandi of inflicting massive terror on the citizens of the national capital.

Read: Delhi riots: Ankit Sharma was stabbed over 400 times for four to six hours, ‘never seen such mutilation in our life,’ say forensic doctors

The anti-Hindu riots of Delhi saw several horror stories like IB sleuth Ankit Sharma being tortured and murdered by a Muslim mob to 20-year-old Dilbar Negi’s hands and legs being chopped off before he was burnt alive by a Muslim mob.

Shockingly, the left “liberal-secular” media of the country, chose to work on similar lines to amplify the riots by inciting Muslim population through blatant misinformation campaign. Just like Pakistan, which pushed the false narrative of Muslims being the victim despite being the perpetrator of violence on the streets of the Delhi, the media industry of the country also continued with false reporting to fear-monger and incite Muslims, who further descended on the streets to inflict more terror.

Read: Anti-CAA rioters wanted to internationalize the issue, like Pakistan wants with Kashmir

Ever since the Citizenship Amendment Act was passed by the Indian government, the “liberal-secular” media, both within the country and international media, has been at the forefront of spreading false propaganda. In a way, these media instigated people with false reportage resulting in the anti-Hindu riots.

Later, the left-wing media industry also tried to whitewash the crimes committed by Muslim mobs and instead are blaming Hindus for the anti-Hindu riots.

Delhi riots: Police searching for suspects linked with shooter Shahrukh and Tahir Hussain, illegal weapons link suspected

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Delhi riots: Police searching for suspects linked with shooter Shahrukh and Tahir Hussain, illegal weapons link suspected

The crime branch SIT of Delhi police is searching for suspects who had links with AAP leader Tahir Hussain and shooter Mohammad Shahrukh. As per reports, it is suspected that the shooting incident may have links with the now arrested AAP leader too.

As per a report in Live Hindustan, the SIT is now searching for 9 people linked with Tahir Hussain. Yesterday, 3 key suspects associated with Tahir Hussain, named Liyaqat, Riyasat and Tariq Rizvi have been arrested over links with Delhi riots.


They were produced before the Karkardooma court at 2 pm. It was reported that the arrested Tariq was Tahir Hussain’s manager. Two of them are a father-son duo. It is reported that the trio had a hand in hiding and sheltering Tariq Hussain.

The SIT is also searching for 3 persons linked with Chandbagh shooter Mohammad Shahrukh. One of them is believed to be the supplier of the weapon that was used by the shooter to fire at the police.

Read: Delhi Police nabs Islamic State-linked terrorist couple from Jamia Nagar for motivating Muslims to unite against CAA and carry out terror strikes

It was reported that the gun that was used by Shahrukh was procured from Bihar’s Munger and is of 7.65 bore. Navbharat Times had quoted sources in the Delhi police as saying the weapon was illegally obtained via a person working at the weapons manufacturing factory in Munger. The police believe that a racket involved in illegal arms smuggling out of the Munger factory and their sale can be busted if they arrest the person who sold the gun to Shahrukh.

The police are also searching for a person in Meerut who is also involved in supplying and procurement of illegal weapons. The third person is the man in UP’s Shamli who had sheltered Shahrukh after the Delhi riots.

Media sources have also revealed that the police have so far registered over 700 FIRs and have arrested over 2400 people connected with the Delhi riots. Apart from that over 49 cases of illegal weapons and other charges related to the Arms Act have been registered. The police have also conducted over 283 meetings with local peace committees after the violent riots.

Police investigating far-Left ‘activist’ group Pinjra Tod for instigating chain of events that spiralled into the Delhi riots: Read details

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Police investigating far-Left ‘activist’ group Pinjra Tod for instigating chain of events that spiralled into the Delhi riots: Read details

The Delhi police have now said that while there were sit-in protests in Delhi against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) till the 22nd, a communal riot as the one witnessed by Delhi did not seem imminent and that, the riots could have been triggered by an ‘external force’. According to a report in the Times of India, the Delhi police believes that Pinjra Tod, an ‘activist group’, could have been that ‘external factor’ that ultimately led to the Delhi riots.

Pinjra Tod claims to be an “autonomous collective of women students fighting for a just, accessible, non-discriminatory University and affordable accommodation” and has been involved in numerous protests and campaigns of a far-left nature.

The Delhi police believe that on the intervening night of 22nd and 23rd February, this ‘external force’ essentially convinced the women protesting against CAA, to choke the arterial Jafrabad Metro station road and escalate their protest to full-fledged road blockage.

Read: Delhi Riots: Far-Left ‘women rights group’ Pinjra Tod accused of inciting violence and blocking roads by ‘concerned’ anti-CAA citizens

According to the TOI report, an officer has claimed that Pinjra Tod activists were present in the Seelampur-Jafrabad area on February 22 evening and urged the anti-CAA protesters at the dharna site and other nearby areas to make their anti-CAA protest more impactful by creating a roadblock at the Jafrabad Metro station road. According to the report, it was this event that finally led to a show of strength from the other side and eventually, led to the Delhi riots.

“The assessment is that there may have been two reasons behind getting the anti-CAA women protesters to shift from the small Jafrabad dharna to an arterial road. One, an attempt to create an alternative protest site in the apprehension of the Supreme Court moving to end the dharna at Shaheen Bagh, and second, to create a negative image of India coinciding with the US President’s visit”, said a Delhi police source to TOI.

The police also seem to believe that the Pinjra Tod activists were not only involved in their capacity of expressing solidarity with the protesting women but were instrumental in the escalation of the protests. Police sources have said that even if these activists are given the benefit of doubt, their involvement in an already tense situation is being seen as instigation and is being probed further.

Read: After ‘opening’ Noida-Faridabad road, anti-CAA protestors now block road near Jafrabad metro station

“It’s unbelievable how we, with the little resources we have, can engineer something like this (riots). Yes, we support the anti-CAA protests and our members, who are politically active, were visiting the protests sites to express solidarity with the Muslim women”, claimed a Pinjra Tod activist. They have also denied their involvement in escalating the riots.

While the Delhi police are now probing Pinjra Tod and the activists are refuting allegations of their involvement, on the 23rd of February itself, “Concerned citizens of Seelampur, Jafrabad and Trans-Yamuna” had accused Pinjra Tod of inciting riots in Delhi.

The post published on the social media platform at midnight on the 23rd of February. It said that it was ‘very very irresponsible behaviour’ and the appeal was made on late Saturday night, the day the anti-CAA protesters blocked road No. 66, which connects Seelampur to Maujpur and Yamuna Vihar.

Read” Muslim groups block Jaffrabad Metro station, clashes, stone-pelting between pro-and anti-CAA protesters at Maujpur

The appeal said, “Because of fantasies of elite civil society and group such as Pinjra Tod, we the locals of Seelampur and trans-Yamuna are in great trouble. All localities are worried. There is panic everywhere. They repeatedly incited violence and today they blocked Jafrabad main road.”

The news editor at the Congress mouthpiece National Herald, Ashlin Mathew, had also said that she has been hearing that Pinjra Tod activists ‘goaded’ the women at Jaffrabad to block the road. She also said that the women themselves say it was a collective decision. Furthermore, she said that Pinjra Tod activists were present when violence broke out at Daryaganj in December.

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