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Uddhav Thackeray announces 1 crore for Ram Mandir construction in Ayodhya, says he left only BJP, but remains committed to Hindutva

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Uddhav Thackeray announces 1 crore for Ram Mandir construction in Ayodhya, says he left only BJP, but remains committed to Hindutva

Maharashtra Chief Minister and Shiv Sena Uddhav Thackeray today announced that his government in Maharashtra will be donating Rs 1 crore to help in the construction of the Ram Mandir Uttar Pradesh’s Ayodhya. Thackeray also announced that his govt will build a Maharashtra Bhawan in Ayodhya.

Shiv Sena is in alliance with ideological rivals Congress, who raised aspersions over the existence of Lord Ram, and never supported the Ram Mandir movement.

Thackeray was in the temple town since the first time after presiding over the helm of affairs at Maharashtra, following a bitter row with the erstwhile alliance partner-BJP, over the chief ministerial position.

Indicating that he will march to his own beat, Uddhav claimed that though he may have parted ways with the BJP and joined hands with ideological rivals, he has not eschewed the cause of Hindutva. “I may have broken ranks with the BJP but Hindutva is a different thing and I have not parted ways with it,” he told a gathering in Ayodhya, where he was scheduled to perform an aarti, but called it off due to growing concerns over the coronavirus. He affirmed that BJP and Hindutva are different things, and Shiv Sena has distanced only from BJP, not Hindutva.

Speaking about his visit to the Ayodhya, Uddhav asserted that he has come to Ram Lalla’s city to seek his blessings. “I have come here to seek Ram Lalla’s blessings. I have been here thrice in the last 1.5 years and today I am here with several members of ‘Bhagwa’ family. I will also offer prayers today,” Thackeray said.

It is noteworthy to mention that Shiv Sena severed its alliance with the BJP and formed an opportunistic coalition government with political opponents NCP and Congress in December 2019. With its eyes firmly fixed on the Chief Ministerial berth, Shiv Sena had no qualms in teaming up with the Congress party who had once questioned the existence of Lord Ram in the Supreme Court.

The three parties hashed out a Common Minimum Program (CMP) which interestingly vowed to uphold ‘secular’ values of the constitution. The Preamble of the CMP said that the alliance of Shiv Sena, Congress and NCP are committed to upholding the “secular values” of the Constitution. It also says that on contentious issues that affect either the “secular fabric of the nation”, the three parties will take a “joint view” after holding consultations.

It was widely argued then that Shiv Sena relinquished the cause of Hindutva and acquiesced to the NCP, Congress demand of including ‘secular’ in the Preamble in its quest to plant Uddhav Thackeray as the CM in Maharashtra. However, the recent announcement by the Maharashtra government of bankrolling the construction of Ram Temple in Ayodhya evinces that Thackeray is in no mood to cede his Hindutva battleground to the BJP and a reinvigorated MNS who is jockeying for regaining its relevance in Maharashtra politics.

Lawyers of Nirbhaya’s rapists have been using the loopholes in the law to defeat the purpose of law. Read How

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Lawyers of Nirbhaya’s rapists have been using the loopholes in the law to defeat the purpose of law. Read How

The 23-year-old physiotherapy intern, who is known as “Nirbhaya” was gang-raped and savagely assaulted by six men (5 adult and one juvenile) on the night of December 16, 2012 in a moving bus in South Delhi. She succumbed to her injuries and died a fortnight later in a Singapore hospital.  While the trial court gave the death penalty to all the five adults, the juvenile was sent to probation home for 3 years. One of them committed suicide in the jail, rest preferred appeal in the High court and subsequently to the Supreme Court. The court rejected the appeal and upheld the death penalty stating that it falls under the category of “rarest of rare” case. Till date, the execution of the convict has been postponed three times. Following are the ways through which the convicts are making attempts to escape the noose.

Review Petition

Review Petition as provided in Art. 137 of Constitution of India allows the Supreme Court itself to review or revisit its own decision or judgment given earlier in any case. This is available after the remedy of appeal is exhausted. It is a discretionary power but the scope of exercise of the discretion is restrictive. In July 2018, the Supreme Court rejected the review petition of three convicts. In December 2019, Akshay(the fourth convict) moves the supreme court for review, which the court dismissed within a week. This remedy is over for all four of them.

Curative Petition

A curative petition is nowhere written in the constitution. The concept evolved in 2002 in the case of Rupa Hurra v Ashok Hurra. Its scope is very narrow and the court has to be satisfied that there would be a grave injustice if the verdict is implemented. So far, the curative petition has been made by Vinay, Mukesh and Akshay and the same have been rejected by the court. The only person who had not yet filed a curative petition was Pawan. He was supposed to be hanged with the other three on 3rd March but the hanging had to be postponed until further orders after he filed a curative petition in the Supreme Court.

Mercy Petition

Under Article 72 and 161 of the Constitution of India, the President and the governor respectively have the power to “grant pardons, reprieves, respites or remissions” of punishment awarded by the courts. However, the power to grant pardon in case of death can only be given by the president. In Epuru Sudhakar & Anr. v. Govt. of A.P. & Ors.,2006SCthe court held that Judicial review of the order of the President or the Governor under Article 72 or Article 161, as the case may be, is available and their orders can be impugned on the following grounds-(a) that the order has been passed without application of mind; (b) that the order is mala fide; (c) that the order has been passed on extraneous or wholly irrelevant considerations; (d) that relevant materials have been kept out of consideration;(e) that the order suffers from arbitrariness”. Taking advantage of this, defence lawyer AP Singh has challenged the mercy petition on the ground that it was based on extraneous consideration as also malafide, arbitrary and without material. Mercy petitions of Mukesh, Pawan an Vinay have been made and rejected. Akshay’s petition is still pending. The option of Review of mercy petition is still left with Vinay, Pawan and Akshay. This give convicts another chance to procrastinate the process.

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Since convicts were yet to exhaust all their legal remedies, the trial court postponed execution of death warrant until further orders. On Feb 1, 2020 Centre moved High Court against the trial court, which the high court dismissed stating that all the accused to be hanged together. According to conventions and guidelines laid by the Supreme Court in Harbans Singh,1982 all convicts must be hanged together if they are convicted in same case and crime. It directed all the accused to pursue all remedy within 7 days, failing which action will be taken in accordance with law. The court called it a ‘delay tactics’ adopted by the convicts. The High court observed, “all the authorities concerned were sleeping and waited till December 2019 for reasons best known to them to seek issuance of death warrant”, and hinted the inefficiency of the Delhi Government. The court said that The Delhi Government moved the trial court for issuance of death warrant two years after the Supreme Court in 2017 had dismissed the review petition against death penalty.

The tihar jail authorities filed a status report on March 3,2020 before trial court stating that no legal option was preferred by any convict in last seven days period granted by the Delhi High Court. Finally, On 4thMarch, 2020 President rejected the mercy petition of Pawan Gupta, the last convict to file mercy petition. This comes after the trial court on Monday stayed for the third time the death sentence of four convicts. On 5thMarch,2020 Delhi court issued fresh death warrants for execution of the four convicts for March 20.

In a 2014 Judgement the constitutional bench of the supreme court laid down the guidelines including that the death row prisoner must be given a minimum of 14 days’ notice to prepare himself mentally for the hanging, after rejection of mercy petition.

These four convicts have another case pending against them (robbery/dacoity). Unless the appeals of the convicts are not decided by the Delhi High Court, they can’t be hanged to death. In August 2015, the trial court had held the death row convicts guilty of robbery of one carpenter named Ram Aadhar.

The Physical and mental health of the death row prisoner must also be taken into consideration before the execution and the convict should be hanged only if prison officials are satisfied that they are healthy. Delhi Court however has dismissed convict Vinay Sharma’s plea for medical treatment. The counsel is making attempts to prove that the convict is not in a fit state and therefore cannot be hanged. The court however took note of the medical reports filed by the medical officers at Tihar Jail, including the Psychiatrist, who said that “no objective sighs of psychological distress was observed.”

In another landmark judgement Supreme Court in 2014 ruled that unexplained delay in execution can be a ground to commute death penalty. Inordinate delays in deciding mercy petition can also be a ground for courts to commute the sentence. The execution has been delayed for months already. The attempt of the defence lawyer is to use this delay the process and use this 2014 case as a shield against death penalty. Further he is relying heavily upon the earlier supreme court precedents where court, despite having a rarest of rare case, not granted death penalty.

Role of the defence lawyer

Additional Sessions Judge Dharmendra rana told defence lawyer AP Singh,” You are playing with fire. You should be conscious. One wrong move by anybody, and you know the consequences.” The defence lawyer has been infamous for his misogynistic remarks that he made in 2012 when he said “ If my daughter or sister engaged in premarital sex and disgraced herself and allowed herself to lose face and character by doing such things, I would most certainly take this sort of sister or daughter to my farmhouse, and in front of my entire family, I would put petrol on her and set her on fire,”. In 2013, the BCI chairman had issued a show cause notice to AP Singh for his statements after having reportedly received a complaint of professional misconduct under the Advocates act, however nothing is known about the progress of the show cause notice yet. It is no doubt AP Singh’s constitutional obligation to make sure that convicts are able to avail all the legal remedies available to them. He is at full liberty to decide whom to fight for.

But what he is not expected to do is to use loopholes in the law to defeat the purpose of law. The guilt of the convicts has been proven beyond reasonable doubt; the counsel knows what his clients have done. Despite all this, he is deliberately procrastinating the process by taking advantage of the procedural inadequacies. In the garb of protecting the rights of his clients, he is manipulating both law and fact, blaming victim for getting out of her home at odd hours and going against the ‘societal norms’, questioning the intentions of the judge, reagitate the juvenility issue once the same has been decided by the court. He cannot, as a responsible citizen and a member of legal fraternity cannot play hide and seek with court despite several communications sent to him on the behalf of court. Lawyers like AK Singh shake societal conscience, they create wrong precedents for the criminals and empower them to commit crime. There is no deterrence, there is no regret in the minds of criminals. It only epitomizes the maxim- ‘Justice delayed is justice denied.’

Pune police nab Bangladeshi national living illegally for more than a decade, had procured Aadhaar and PAN card

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Pune police nab Bangladeshi national living illegally for more than a decade, had procured Aadhaar and PAN card

A Bangladeshi national named Jamal alias Shaikh Soloman Mulla was nabbed by The Foreigners Registration Office (FRO) of Pune City Police on Friday for illegally residing in the Budhwar Peth area of Pune.

According to police, the investigation revealed that he came to India more than a decade ago by illegally crossing the India-Bangladesh border. While he didn’t have any valid passport and visa, he had an Aadhar card and a PAN card in his possession. These documents were obtained by submitting forged documents. He owns a paan shop in Budhwar Peth area, police said.

Police revealed that Jamal got married to a woman who is also a Bangladeshi national, and the couple was involved in flesh trade in the Budhwar Peth area.

Special Branch Senior Police Inspector Milind Gaikwad said that an FIR has been lodged against Jamal at Faraskhana police station under sections of the Foreigners Act 1946 and Passport (entry to India) Rules 1950.

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The Special branch of the Pune City Police led by Inspector Pankaj Pawar along with a team of FRO nabbed Mulla in Budhwar Peth around 2 am. Police said that the accused had failed to produce his passport and Visa so he was brought to the FRO office.

To produce documents proving his Bangladeshi nationality Mulla contacted a friend named Kamrul in Bangladesh. His friend Kamrul sent Mulla’s birth certificate online that suggested that the accused was born in 1987 and is a native of Shyamnagar in Jessore district of Bangladesh.

There are sections of the world outside the media: MEA Jaishankar responds to international criticism over CAA and Delhi riots

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There are sections of the world outside the media: MEA Jaishankar responds to international criticism over CAA and Delhi riots

At the Global Business Summit held in Delhi on Saturday, Diplomat turned Union Minister for External Affairs, S Jaishankar, said that every country including the United States has unique citizenship criteria based on “context” and social “criteria”.


Responding to misguided concerns internationally, he reiterated, “There are sections of the world outside the media. I engage governments. I was in a room with 27 foreign ministers in Brussels whom I was talking to… The point we make on CAA is that it can’t be anybody’s case that a government and parliament doesn’t have the right to set terms of citizenship.”

The Union Foreign Minister also added, “We have tried to reduce a large number of stateless people we have in this country. Everybody, when they look at citizenship, has a context.”

Referring to the unprecedented move by the Commissioner of the UN Human Rights Commission (UNHRC), Michelle Bachelet, to move the Supreme Court of India on March 2, he said, “They (UN) carefully skirt around the problem of cross-border terrorism in the region as if it has nothing to do with Kashmir.”


On being asked whether India was losing friends abroad, following the Delhi riots, S Jaishankar stated, “Maybe we are getting to know who our friends really are.”

He was also asked about the criticism of the Indian Government by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei of Iran and the US Democratic leaders. The former diplomat highlighted how India adopted a strategy of “managing the world but kind of staying away” owing to its limited capabilities in the past.

Emphasising on India’s growing economy and the changing landscape of geopolitics in the world, he added that the old strategy cannot be adopted anymore.

On March 3, the MEA spokesperson, Raveesh Kumar, reiterated that CAA is an internal affair of India and that no foreign party has any locus standi on issues related to India’s sovereignty. Kumar added, “India is a democratic country governed by the rule of law. We all have the utmost respect for and full trust in our independent judiciary. We are confident that our sound and legally sustainable position will be vindicated by the Supreme Court.”

Congress ruled Madhya Pradesh: Pakistan occupied Kashmir called ‘Azad Kashmir’ in State Board’s 10th standard questions paper

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Congress ruled Madhya Pradesh: Pakistan occupied Kashmir called ‘Azad Kashmir’ in State Board’s 10th standard questions paper

In a shocking development, Madhya Pradesh State Board has called ‘Pakistan occupied Kashmir’ (PoK) as ‘Azad Kashmir’ in its social science examination paper prepared for the 10th standard board exams.


In the social science paper meant for the 10th standard students, question number four, presented in both Hindi and English languages, is a match the following type question, where the students are given five words and their related answers in a jumbled form. The students are required to match the question with its correct option.

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The option on the left column has its correct and matching option on the right-hand column. As one can see on the left-side column, option number ‘c’ of question number ‘4’ is ‘India-Pakistan war’ and its related option given in the paper is ‘Azad Kashmir’.

Screen Shot of the social science paper prepared by MP State Board

This blunder made by the Congress-ruled Madhya Pradesh’s State Board may trigger a political storm as on several occasions, New Delhi has reiterated that entire Jammu and Kashmir, including PoK, is an integral part of India.

The term “Azad Kashmir” is often used by Pakistan to regard part of Kashmir under its occupation. India, however, calls the region Pakistan-occupied Kashmir.

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Pakistan Occupied Kashmir is an area that is an extension of Jammu and Kashmir and has been under the illegal occupation of Pakistan. India’s stand has always been that PoK is an integral part of India and is under illegal occupation of Pakistan.

That stand has not changed despite the change in government over the decades. Every government, be it Congress or BJP has maintained that stand.

PM Modi talks to Jan Aushadhi Yojana beneficiaries, gets emotional when beneficiary woman breaks down saying she sees God in him

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PM Modi talks to Jan Aushadhi Yojana beneficiaries, gets emotional when beneficiary woman breaks down saying she sees God in him

On the second Jan Aushadhi Diwas, Prime Minister Narendra Modi interacted with Pradhan Mantri Bharatiya Jan Aushadhi Yojana beneficiaries and those who have set up the Jan Aushadhi Kendras in order to provide cheaper generic medicines to the poor.

The Prime Minister started his address with greetings of Holi to the people of India. He said that the government of India aims to relieve each and every person of India from diseases. For that, they’re working on four dots, one, How each and every person of this country can avoid disease; Two, if by chance he is affected by diseases, then how he can get cheaper medication; three, is the availability of doctors and sources are enough; Four, we have to work on a mission mode to understand the source of disease.

PM Modi asserted that more than 6000 Jan Aushadhi Kendras are functional around the country which provide cheaper medicines to more than One Crore families every month throughout the country. The Pradhan Mantri Bharatiya Janaushadhi Pariyojana (PMBJP) provides a 50-90% discount on medicines from the market rate. Appreciating the staff of Jan Aushadhi Kendras and those who are working further to create awareness about the availability of cheaper medicines to curb out diseases, making a healthy society, PM Modi said that his government is thinking to propose an award in the field of Medicine and Social Work for those who are working for the benefit for not only for themselves but also for others.


Starting the conversation with the people there on Video conferencing, PM Modi started with Assam’s Guwahati, where a man named Anubhav Mahanta, who runs a Jan Aushadhi Kendra, told PM that he was physically handicapped three years ago but through Jan Aushadhi Kendra he generated employment as well as a cure for diseases for himself and other too. Another Man from Guwahati told Prime Minister that the Jan Aushadhi Kendras are commonly known as Modi Ji ki Dukaan locally.

PM Modi was visibly emotional when a woman named Deepa Sharma from Dehradun told him about the circumstances and how she fought with her diseases with the help of the medicines from Jan Aushadhi Kendras and said that she never saw a God but she assumes Modi as a figure of God. PM Modi, replying to the women said that her valour to fight the deadly disease is God. The prime minister also asked the woman to speak while sitting as he observed that she was having trouble standing. The woman said that she had paralysis 11 months ago, and was unable to speak. Deepa broke down while saying that she sees God in Modi, making the PM emotional.

Read- How Modi govt’s strategic plan helped open 5,000 Jan Aushadhi Kendras and deliver 1,000 medicines at less than half the market price

Regarding the rumours circulating through social media regarding coronavirus, PM Modi listed out minor efforts like washing hands and maintaining social distance, listening to doctors and not to rumours eventually bashing the rumours, who concentrate on food choices, etc.

PM Modi also said that the name of generic medicines is maligned in the market because of their cheaper rates. People create certain aspersions that maybe it will be containing something harmful that it is so cheaper. He assured that Generic medicines are no lesser than the ones which are available in markets at an expensive price. Modi asserted that his government has told the doctors to prescribe generic medicines only so that the poor will be able to buy medicines. Modi said that like Jan Aushadhi kendras, Health and Wellness centers including AIIMS and other hospitals are being set up across the country that will expand the reach to the people in the villages and will boost the undergraduate seats in the medical field.

Concluding to the interaction, PM Modi said, India in the 21st century wants the efforts and productivity of Divyangs towards the society to be an example. The Jan Aushadhi Kendras are turning into Jan Shakti as it is expanding and making and disease less society.

NDTV’s Sreenivasan Jain invents a ‘landlord’ to target to Kapil Mishra, Sanjay Gupta turns out to be an imposter: Here are the details

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NDTV’s Sreenivasan Jain invents a ‘landlord’ to target to Kapil Mishra, Sanjay Gupta turns out to be an imposter: Here are the details

On Friday, left-wing fake news factory NDTV and it’s propagandist-in-chief Sreenivasan Jain published a video to peddle another lie to target and falsely implicate BJP leader Kapil Mishra for the anti-Hindu riots.

In the video, NDTV had spoken to one man named Sanjay Gupta, to whom the NDTV claimed as Mishra’s landlord. Gupta had blamed Kapil Mishra for the anti-Hindu riots by stating that violence in Delhi only started after Kapil Mishra made the speech on the eve of the riots.


However, the false propaganda by NDTV to implicate Kapil Mishra has turned out to be another blatant case of fake news. Sanjay Gupta, who was referred to by Sreenivasan Jain as Mishra’s landlord has turned out to be an imposter. In a hurry to implicate Kapil Mishra, NDTV had created a bogus ‘landlord’.

According to NDTV’s own confession, Sanjay Gupta who acted as Mishra’s landlord has now been identified as a ‘broker’ and a witness in Mishra’s land dealings. It has been declared that Gupta was not the landlord as claimed by NDTV.


In the below image, posted by NDTV with a clarification, it can be clearly seen that the stamp paper concerning property dealing of Kapil Mishra has the signature of Sanjay Gupta as a ‘witness’ and not as a ‘property owner’ or a ‘landlord’. The property documents indicate that Gupta was a witness to dealing that had occurred in 2015, at a time when Mishra was still a member of Aam Aadmi Party.

In fact, in Indian legal procedures, a lessor/landlord or lessee/tenant cannot be a part of the witness to the events during such property dealings. Only a third party can bear witness to such dealings. Hence, it can be clearly stated that Sanjay Gupta was never a ‘landlord’ to Kapil Mishra as stated by NDTV in its earlier report.

NDTV clarification post showing Sanjay Gupta as a witness and not as a landlord

Earlier, BJP leader Kapil Mishra had himself reiterated that Sanjay Gupta was not his landlord after NDTV had run fake news to target the BJP leader in an effort to pin the blame of Hindus for the anti-Hindu riots to further their usual antics of whitewashing the crimes committed by Muslim mobs in the national capital.


Kapil Mishra had categorically stated that Sanjay Gupta is not his landlord. Speaking to OpIndia, BJP leader Kapil Mishra said that Sanjay Gupta was never been his landlord ever. He had claimed that NDTV picked up some random person from the streets and claimed that he was Mishra’s landlord.

In fact, OpIndia had reported that during the video too, Sanjay Gupta seems to have not claimed that he was the ‘landlord’ of Mishra. The manner in which Gupta is speaking seems to suggest that he might have been a property broker and not a landlord.

However, NDTV’s anchor Sreenivasan Jain – known for its hatred towards the BJP, published the fake news without even due diligence to facts. With evidence suggesting that Gupta was not a landlord but an imposter, the false propaganda of the left-wing rag NDTV has once again exposed.

Read: He has never been my landlord: NDTV tries another stunt to implicate Kapil Mishra in the Delhi riots, gets called out

There has been a concerted campaign across “liberal-secular” media to create a dangerous narrative out of the anti-Hindu riots in Delhi. Earlier too, the NDTV – which is at the forefront of peddling false propaganda to absolve the actual perpetrators of Delhi terror, was caught for changing the identity of the rioters who had unleashed violence on the streets of Delhi.

On February 26, Ravish Kumar in his show falsely identified Mohammad Shahrukh, the shooter who had shot 8 bullets in the air during the anti-Hindu riots, as a Hindu named ‘Anurag Mishra’. By indulging in false propaganda, Ravish Kumar had claimed that police had said the shooter’s name was Shahrukh but if someone had seen on social media, the shooter was called Anurag Mishra, Ravish had said.

The absolving of crimes by NDTV’s Ravish Kumar, especially crimes in which Muslims are perpetrators was not surprising anyway but Ravish Kumar went a step ahead to claim that shooter was a Hindu “Anurag Mishra”.

The left-wing channel NDTV was also caught for whitewashing crimes committed by Muslims by cropping images of mosques which had strategically stored stones to attack Hindus during the anti-Hindu riots in Delhi. NDTV had resorted to cropping images of the mosque to mislead the people on the real nature of the anti-Hindu riots and tried to hide the images where it can be clearly seen that the local mosques had stored stones to attack the Hindus during the communal riots.

Tahir Hussain is innocent: Radical Islamist outfit Jamat-e-Islami backs murder accused AAP leader, alleges he is being ‘framed’

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Tahir Hussain is innocent: Radical Islamist outfit Jamat-e-Islami backs murder accused AAP leader, alleges he is being ‘framed’

The radical Islamist outfit Jamat-E-Islami has come out to back AAP councillor Tahir Hussain, arrested in connection with the murder of Intelligence Bureau sleuth Ankit Sharma in the recent wave of violence in the National Capital.

The Muslim body has said that Tahir Hussain is “innocent’ and that he has been “framed”. They argued that since the AAP councillor “himself surrendered”, he is guilt-free. They furthered that Tahir Hussain had not instigated violence, instead, he was only defending himself, which is indeed his constitutional right.


For the uninitiated, on February 28, the Government of India banned the Kashmir division of the Jamaat-e-Islami following the ghastly terror attack in Pulwama and sealed its offices in the valley. Jamaat-e-Islami is suspected of funding the terror organisation Hizbul Mujahideen.

Read: Delhi anti-Hindu riots: Tahir Hussain made more than 150 phone calls the day Islamists attacked Hindus from his house

According to reports, in March last year, 350 leaders of the organization had been detained by the government, 70-Srinagar based bank accounts were seized, and assets worth Rs 52 crore were confiscated. The action was initiated under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act. The government crackdown had also affected the separatist organization’s 400 schools, 350 mosques and 1000 seminaries across Jammu and Kashmir.

Meanwhile, the murder accused AAP leader, Tahir Hussain, who was absconding after being charged for the brutal murder of the IB sleuth Ankit Sharma was arrested by the Delhi Police on Thursday and sent to 7-day judicial custody on Friday. At least 4 criminal cases are filed against the expelled AAP councillor.

The role of Aam Aadmi Party leader Tahir Hussain in the brutal murder of Intelligence Bureau (IB) employee Ankit Sharma and also inciting riots in the Delhi has been under scanner.

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

It may be noted that Tahir Hussain’s surrender plea was rejected because he had approached the wrong court for the same. He should have approached Karkardooma Court as per jurisdiction rules, but he approached that Rouse Avenue Court.

Suspended AAP Councillor Tahir Hussain rose to fame after a video of his house from where Muslim mob indiscriminately hurled bricks and Molotovs went viral. Several other videos and eyewitnesses account corroborated that Hussain’s bungalow was used by a riotous mob to unleash their carnage during the recent spate of violence in North East Delhi.

Eyewitnesses also claimed that the Intelligence Bureau sleuth Ankit Sharma was dragged by a murderous mob housed inside Tahir’s bungalow. Sharma’s badly battered body was later found abandoned in a ditch in Chand bagh. Tahir Hussain is considered as a prime suspect in the murder of IB staffer Ankit Sharma.

Karnataka: Sessions Court finds nothing seditious in the anti-CAA play at Bidar school, grants anticipatory bail to the accused in the Sedition Case

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Karnataka: Sessions Court finds nothing seditious in the anti-CAA play at Bidar school, grants anticipatory bail to the accused in the Sedition Case

The Principal District and Sessions Court in Bidar while granting anticipatory bail to accused Abdul Qadeer in the infamous Bidar Sedition Case observed that the play enacted by students at Shaheen Urdu Medium School on January 21 did not constitute sedition under Section 124A of the Indian Penal Code.

Abdul Qadeer is the founder of Shaheen Group of Institutions. The headmistress of the school, Fareeda Begum was arrested by the police along with a person named Nazbunnisa, the mother of a Class V student on January 30.

The arrest was made on the complaint of an ABVP activist named Nilesh Rakshyal who alleged that the play stirred “anti-national sentiments.” He had added that the children spoke of hitting Prime Minister Narendra Modi with slippers. Sedition charges were thus pressed against the duo who are now out on conditional bail.

The Judge of Sessions Court, Managoli Premavati, observed that the “extracted portion” of the play which was held as “offensive”, if read as a whole, did not amount to sedition against the government.

Judge Premavati stated, “What the children have expressed is that they will have to leave the country if they don’t produce certain documents and except that, there is nothing to show that the student committed the offence of sedition. The dialogue, in my considered opinion, does not go to bring hatred, contempt or excite dissatisfaction towards the government.”

The Court observed that “as a citizen, everybody has the right to express disapprobation of the measures of the government with a view to obtaining their alteration by lawful means.” The Judge added that the play did not cause any “disharmony in society.”

The Court remarked, “All that the artists have said is that Muslims will have to leave the country if they do not produce the documents as required under the proposed CAA, NRC Acts.” It observed that there was no “reference to any other community in the play” and hence was not an offence under Section 153A of IPC (promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion, race, place of birth, language).

Commenting on the development, Bidar Superintendent of Police Nagesh D L said the judge’s observations were in respect of the order granting anticipatory bail. It will not be part of the ongoing trial against the staff, the parent and the management members of Shaheen Urdu Medium School, he asserted.

Last month, the police had detained ex-Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and three other Congress leaders (Dinesh Gundu Rao, Rizwan Arshad, and K Suresh) in Bengaluru during their march against the Bidar Sedition case. The Congress leaders were trying to take out a protest march from the Gandhi Statue in Race Cross Road to the Chief Minister’s office.

3 dead bodies recovered from different places in Shaheen Bagh, neighbourhood occupied by Islamists: Here are the details

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3 dead bodies recovered from different places in Shaheen Bagh, neighbourhood occupied by Islamists: Here are the details

The police have retrieved 3 dead bodies from 3 different places in Shaheen Bagh, the neighbourhood where demonstrations erupted and continued for over two months following the passage of the Citizenship Amendment Act in both the houses of the Indian Parliament.

The dead bodies were recovered on Friday and sent for the postmortem. Investigations are underway in all three cases. Informing about the recovery of 3 dead bodies from Shaheen Bagh, District Deputy Commissioner of Police R.P. Meena said that prima facie there is no suspicious thing involved in the three cases.

Meena added that the first body was found floating on the banks of the river Yamuna at around 12.45 pm. The deceased’s age is around 35 years. After investigation, the body was identified as Ashok Madan Thapa, a resident of Ashok Nagar Delhi. The body has been sent for autopsy.

It has also come to notice that a missing person report of Madan Thapa was lodged at Hari Nagar police station on 3 February 2020. The dead body of Madan Thapa bore no signs of injuries.

The second body was found at around 3:30 pm from the F block near the drain behind Mother Dairy at Shaheen Bagh area. The age of the deceased is about 40 years. The body was not identified until late Friday. The body has been kept safe in the postmortem house for identification and then postmortem.

The third body was also found along the railway line in the same area. The Railway police have launched an investigation into this third body.

Since December 15, 2019, Shaheen Bagh had become a hub of Islamic supremacists and rabid anti-CAA demonstrators who harboured hatred against those who did not conform to their worldview about the new citizenship law. These protesters gathered at Shaheen Bagh and blocked one of the arterial roads in Delhi against the Citizenship Amendment Act, causing grave inconvenience to the daily commuters. The protest site was accused of being an independent enclave where participation of people was regulated based on their political inclinations and past predispositions. It also witnessed anti-India and pro-Azaadi slogans being chanted by the demonstrators.

Recently, fanatical anti-CAA protesters presided over grisly anti-Hindu riots in the National Capital where Hindus, their settlements and their religious places were subjected to violent attacks by the murderous mob. In Gokulpuri, Nitin, just 15 years old, was brutally hacked to death. Another Hindu, Alok Tiwari, who had just gone out of his house for a leisurely stroll, was mortally wounded by the mob and abandoned to die. Another victim, Dilbar Singh Negi, suffered the most horrifying fate. On the 24th of February, when the violence erupted in Delhi, the same evening, a 20-year-old Dilbar Singh Negi was set ablaze by a mob of rioters after having his limbs severed by a sword. Another Hindu Naresh Saini, who volunteered at an ungodly hour to protect Hindu temple in his neighbourhood was shot at from a mob of 400-500 enraged youth.

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