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AMU: FIR against Dr Kafeel Khan for provocative AMU speech on CAA and NRC

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AMU: FIR against Dr Kafeel Khan for provocative AMU speech on CAA and NRC

Dr Kafeel Khan, the Gorakhpur doctor who was suspended from the department of paediatrics after the death of 60 children at the BRD hospital in 2017, has been booked for an alleged provocative speech during a talk at the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) on the Citizenship Amendment Act.

AMU was the site of violent protests on December 15 which had led to clashes with police and the subsequent evacuation of the premises.

The FIR asserts that Kafeel made an attempt to vitiate the peaceful atmosphere and disturb communal harmony. Superintendent of Police (SP) Abhishek, Aligarh stated that the FIR was registered under section 153-A (Promoting enmity between different groups on ground of religion) of IPC on the 13th of December.

Kafeel said during the speech, according to the FIR, “Mota Bhai’ is teaching everyone to become Hindu or Muslim but not a human being. He does not believe in the constitution since the RSS came into existence. The CAB makes Muslims a second category citizen and subsequently, they will be harassed with the implementation of the NRC.”

Kafeel is further alleged to have said, “This is a fight is for our existence. We have to fight”. He also said that students in RSS schools are being taught that those who have beards are terrorists. He reportedly added, “through the CAB, the government has told us that India is not ‘our’ country.”

Read: Jamia ‘shero’ hailed by Barkha Dutt celebrates Moplah massacre, when Muslims massacred thousands of Hindus in 1921 in the name of Islam

Violent protests have erupted across the country. It was reported that AMU students had clashed with the Police on the night of 15th December. DGP Singh informed that 16-17 policemen have received injuries in the violent clashes with students. The police had to fire tear gas shells. Following the spate of violence, the campus was evacuated by the administration.

Kafeel Khan is one of the accused in the BRD Medical College and Hospital children’s death case in Gorakhpur. He had taken to social media to spread false news that he had been given a ‘clean chit’ in the 2017 case in a departmental inquiry. The Uttar Pradesh government had in October initiated a fresh inquiry against him for spreading misinformation in the media and forcibly entering a hospital and trying to treat patients during his suspension period.

Nirbhaya case: SC rejects review petition filed by convict but Delhi HC does not give death warrant, next hearing on 7th January

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Nirbhaya case: SC rejects review petition filed by convict but Delhi HC does not give death warrant, next hearing on 7th January

The top court of the country has rejected the review petition filed by one of the death-row convicts, Akshay Kumar Singh, in the Nirbhaya gang-rape case.

On Tuesday, the CJI SA Bobde had recused himself from hearing the matter and adjourned the matter for Wednesday. Today, the bench headed by Justice R Banumathi and comprising Justices Ashok Bhushan and AS Bopanna took up the matter this morning and dismissed the review petition saying ”We do not find any error on the face of the record.”

Convict Akshay, through his advocate AP Singh, had sought clemency arguing life in Delhi is anyway becoming short due to rising air and water pollution and therefore there was no need to award death penalty to him.

Casting aspersions on the investigations carried out by the law enforcement agencies, Singh alleged that the police had wrongfully incriminated wrong people as they were unable to catch the real culprits.

Singh also alleged that there has been an undue haste for hanging of the convicts in this case and submitted the list of death-row convicts in other cases who were yet to be hanged.

However, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, representing the state, argued that the petitioners were simply trying to delay the inevitable by filing various petitions. In his closing arguments, Mehta said that there are some crimes when humanity cries and this is one of them. Asking the bench to dismiss the review plea, Mehta asserted that death penalty should not be set aside for crimes of such nature.

However, the Delhi High Court, where Nirbhaya’s parents had sought immediate execution to the convicts on death row, has said that the fact that convicts want to file mercy petition does not preclude the court from issuing death warrant. The court ordered Tihar Jail authorities to issue fresh notice for one week to the convicts and scheduled next date of hearing for 7th January. “Have full sympathy with you. We know someone has died but there are their(convicts) rights too. We are here to listen to you but are also bound by the law,” the court told the mother of the victim, who broke down in court.

A 23-year-old paramedic student was brutally gang raped and cruelly assaulted on the intervening night of December 16-17, 2012 inside a moving bus in Delhi by six people before being thrown out on the road. After battling for her life for 13 days, the victim succumbed to her injuries on 29 December 2012.

Six persons were arrested in the case and following their trial, they were sentenced to death penalty by the trial abd High Court. The apex court in its 2017 verdict had upheld the capital punishment awarded to them by the Delhi High Court and the trial court in the case.

Last year on July 9, the Supreme Court had dismissed the review pleas filed by the other three convicts — Mukesh (30), Pawan Gupta (23) and Vinay Sharma (24) — in the case, saying no grounds have been made out by them for review of the 2017 verdict.

Read why “facts” about CAA and NRC shared by Farhan Akhtar are all false or misleading

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Read why “facts” about CAA and NRC shared by Farhan Akhtar are all false or misleading

Bollywood entertainer Farhan Akhtar took to Twitter to urge social media users to join him in a protest on 19th November, 2019 in Mumbai’s Azad Maidan against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and the National Register for Citizens (NRC). While making this appeal, Akhtar, very confidently, shared an infographic saying how these are the facts about the CAA and NRC and how this is why everyone must join him in the protests.


However, he could not be far from truth. Not only the map of India he used gives away parts of Ladakh and Jammu & Kashmir to China and Pakistan respectively, the reasons he gives for protesting are flawed too. A point by point rejoinder is blow:

  1. The non-Muslims who are persecuted because of their religious identities in Islamic countries like Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh, will get citizenship under this act. The Muslims fleeing these countries can also apply for citizenship which may or may not be granted as per the due process set by the government. Hence, it is factually incorrect to say ‘the law excludes Muslim’. Only this particular act does. Moreover, Muslims aren’t persecuted minorities in these countries.
  2. Akhtar says when combined with NRC, the Indian Muslims will be stateless. NRC, when it comes into force, will be applicable to all citizens of India, including non-Muslims. Moreover, the CAA is applicable to non-Muslims from these three countries who have entered India before 31st December, 2014. If they have entered India after the cut-off date, same laws will be applicable. Hence, even non-Muslims will be continued to be treated as illegal immigrants and can be jailed or deported back to the Islamic countries.
  3. Akhtar says “Many people will be inhumanly excluded due to being Muslims, transgender, atheists, adivasis, dalits, women, landless and/or without document. They could be jailed or deported or placed in camps”. This is fear-mongering and confuses NRC (which is not even here yet) with CAA. One has to submit documents of citizenship under NRC. Non-Muslims who come to India after 31st December 2014 don’t automatically become Indian citizens and get all benefits of being an India. They can, however, continue to apply for citizenship under normal procedure. Wonder why is it so hard to understand.
  4. He then speaks about NRC. He says how every person in India needs to prove through documentary evidence that they have a right to live in this country. This is a fair thing. To live in a country, one must be able to provide some evidence.
  5. Except, in next point, he mentions how “ID card and tax slips are not enough”. Please note, the NRC is not yet implemented and there is no official information available on which documents will be considered and which will not be. This is fearmongering. Akhtar then goes on to question how many have their proof of ancestry dating as back as 1971. This date was specifically for Assam as that is the date mentioned in the Assam Accord signed by Congress government. It does not apply to any other place. The NRC in Assam was also monitored by Supreme Court.
  6. He himself mentions it that the date was specific to Assam but then indulges in fear-mongering. The cut-off date the proposed nationwide NRC is yet to be decided by the government of India. Concrete information on the technicalities and procedures of the proposed nationwide NRC is yet to come out.
  7. Next he goes on to create panic about NRC and CAA. He says non-Muslims under the CAA will be automatically granted citizenship without documents and it will leave Indian Muslims without documentation in a lurch. However, that is also untrue. CAA only ‘fast-tracks’ citizenship of non-Muslims from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh. Any Indian Hindu without documents under the NRC will face same procedure as any Muslim under the NRC. Non-Muslims will not be getting any free pass in the proposed NRC exercise.

The Bollywood entertainers like Farhan Akhtar and other intelligentsia in the country, who considers themselves to ‘elite’ should be responsible and spread messages of communal harmony and peace instead of inciting Muslim masses who are already on rampage across the country after a similar disinformation campaign against the Citizenship Amendment Act was pushed by the opposition parties and their media ecosystem.

Amusingly, IPS Sandeep Mittal, who had earlier schooled Akhtar’s father, lyricist Javed Akhtar, also took time off to teach a thing or two about consequences of waging a war against India to Farhan.


PS: In a subsequent tweet, Akhtar apologised for the wrong Indian map used in the infographic but has not apologised for the misinformation he has peddled.

Kerala: SFI goons brutally thrash ABVP workers trying to conduct a seminar on CAA

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Kerala: SFI goons brutally thrash ABVP workers trying to conduct a seminar on CAA

Two Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) workers were brutally attacked by a group of alleged SFI students during a seminar in Kerala Varma College, Thrissur, on Tuesday.

The ABVP workers had reportedly organised a seminar for clarifying the myths surrounding the Citizenship Amendment Act and explaining the details to the college students when they were allegedly thrashed. The two ABVP workers were seriously injured in the attack and taken to a nearby private hospital.

In a video shared by ABVP, it can be seen how a group of people, allegedly belonging to the Students’ Federation of India, which is an Indian student organisation affiliated to the Communist Party, are blowing punches, kicks and brutally thrashing a man, who unavailingly tries to protect himself from the enraged group of assaulters.


The ABVP students, who were heading the seminar said that they were dragged ruthlessly out of the class and assaulted. Later, the teachers came in for the rescue of ABVP workers.

According to reports, the SFI goons who have been protesting against the Citizenship Amendment Act had threatened the ABVP students to not conduct the seminar. SFI had also stopped the Chief Guest TR Ramesh who arrived to attend the seminar. Later with the intervention of the police, the SFI activists were removed from the premises.

The two sides allegedly had a heated argument over the seminar today morning, which concluded in the brutal assault of ABVP workers by SFI goons.

Read: Jamia riots: Delhi Police FIR says students joined hands with miscreants in stone-pelting, 75 tear gas shells fired

Following the enactment of the Citizenship Amendment Act, anti-CAA protests have been turning more and more violent with rioters taking to the street to set buses on fire and damage public property.

Recently, parts of Delhi turned into a war zone as anti-CAA rioters attacked school buses, pelted stones and threw bottles at the Delhi police who tried to take control of the situation. With every passing day, it is getting clearer that what is being referred to as ‘student movement’ is actually a very well planned and coordinated effort to create law and order situation in the country and fan communal violence.

The return of Award Wapsi: One Urdu writer Mujtaba Hussain to return his Padma Shri award as his “conscience is pricking him”

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The return of Award Wapsi: One Urdu writer Mujtaba Hussain to return his Padma Shri award as his “conscience is pricking him”

It’s the season of protests and Urdu writer Mujtaba Hussain has kickstarted the ‘award wapsi’ by announcing that he would return his Padma Shri award as a mark of protest against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA). The 84-year-old was awarded the Padma Shri in 2007.

As per reports, he is pained over the current situation of the country with “those in power targeting the minorities, especially Muslim.” Reportedly, his “conscience is pricking him” and he is “feeling suffocated”. Hussain is the first to return his Padma Shri award over the CAA and NRC.

As per reports, he said that India needs politics that unites and not divides. He said that the CAA and NRC is mockery of our constitution laid down by Baba Saheb Ambedkar.

A native of Hyderabad, Hussain is contemporary of Makhdoom Mohiuddin, a poet who was one of the foremost leaders of Communist Party of India during the Telangana Armed Struggle.

Shiv Sena skips the opposition party delegation to meet President Kovind led by Congress President Sonia Gandhi

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Shiv Sena skips the opposition party delegation to meet President Kovind led by Congress President Sonia Gandhi

Representatives of at least 12 political parties headed by Sonia Gandhi met President Kovind on Tuesday to seek his intervention on the violence in central universities following the passage of Citizenship Amendment Act that has caused a furore in some parts of the country.

The delegation which comprised members of Congress, DMK, CPM, CPI, SP, TMC, RJD, National Conference, IUML, and AIUDF asked the President to urge the government to repeal the law which, they claim, is “unconstitutional and divisive”. BSP MPs from Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha will meet with the President separately on Wednesday.

Sonia Gandhi, who led the delegation, accused the government of “muzzling the dissenting voices and enacting laws that were unacceptable to the people of the country”. It is not clear why she had called a law, that was implimented after being passed from both houses of the parliament, as unconstitutional.

One notable feature of the opposition’s meet with the President was the conspicuous absence of the new Congress ally Shiv Sena. Shiv Sena, who has a new-found bonhomie with the Congress party following the formation of an alliance in Maharashtra did not participate in the delegation to meet the President for demanding rollback of the CAA Bill. After voting in favour of the Bill in Lok Sabha, Shiv Sena abstained itself from voting in the Rajya Sabha.

Shiv Sena spokesman Sanjay Raut said, “We knew that the passage of the bill had a potential to create a riot-like situation in different parts of the country. Chief Minister of Maharashtra. Uddhav Thackeray will decide on the implementation of the CAA in the state.”

Following the legislation of the Citizenship Amendment Act, certain parts of the country, witnessed violent riots by the ‘peaceful protestors’ that involved vandalism, arson and severe damage to public property. In order to prevent the situation from sliding into chaos any further, the police dealt with the rioters with an iron-fist, triggering outrage among opposition parties.

Police investigation reveals accused in Hyderabad veterinarian’s rape and murder may have been serial killers

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Police investigation reveals accused in Hyderabad veterinarian’s rape and murder may have been serial killers

While the Supreme Court has appointed a three-member commission led by retired judge V S Sirpurkar to probe the heinous Hyderabad rape and murder case, the Cyberabad police investigating the case have come up with shocking revelations.

According to Navbharat Times, Telangana Police sources with knowledge of the investigation revealed that two out of the four accused in the recent gang rape and murder of the Hyderabad woman veterinarian, Preeti Reddy (name changed), may have been serial rapist and murderers as they had confessed to nine similar crimes while in police custody.

The two accused Muhammad Ali and Chenna Keshavulu while in police custody confessed to raping, murdering and burning three other victims in Ranga Reddy, Sangareddy and Mahbubnagar Highway in Telangana district while, six other crimes were committed in Karnataka districts bordering Telangana, the sources said.

The investigative team now believes that the duo was involved in at least 15 similar cases. The Cyberabad police have constituted various teams which have been camping in Raichur, Kalaburagi and Koppal districts of Karnataka to investigate the duo’s involvement in these similar crimes as most of the incidents were allegedly executed on the Telangana-Karnataka border areas.

Investigators are trying to corroborate the confession relying on mobile phone tower locations of the two suspects and the areas where those nine rape-murders took place. “The duo claimed that they sexually abused many women, including prostitutes and transgenders, on the highways. But they claimed that in nine offences the women were killed and then burnt like the veterinarian,” the official added.

With forensic reports already in the possession of Cyberabad police, the closure report in Preeti Reddy’s (name changed) rape and murder case is expected to be filed by officials soon.

On December 6, all the four accused involved in the gang rape and murder of the Hyderabad woman veterinarian, Preeti Reddy (name changed) had been killed in a police encounter as they tried to escape. The Telangana police had arrested all the four under charges of gang-rape and murder in less than 24 hours after the crime.

The remand report filed by the police in the shocking case revealed that the accused who had confessed to the crime had brutally gang-raped and murdered the veterinarian doctor under the influence of alcohol.

After committing the gang-rape at Shamshabad near Hyderabad on the night of November 27, the accused had dumped the body and set it afire at Chatanpally near Shadnagar, about 50 km from Hyderabad.

Tamil Nadu: AIADMK MP Mohammed John gets expelled from Jamat Federation for voting in favour of CAB in parliament

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Tamil Nadu: AIADMK MP Mohammed John gets expelled from Jamat Federation for voting in favour of CAB in parliament

AIADMK Rajya Sabha MP A Mohammed John, who had voted in favour of Citizenship (Amendment) Bill in the Parliament has been expelled from the All Jamat Federation, a congregation of Muslim organisations, on Tuesday, ANI reports.

According to the reports, AIADMK MP A Mohammed John, who holds the post of the patron of All Jamaat Federation comprising various Jamats belonging to Ranipet, Wallajah and Arcot regions, has been stripped of his position in the All Jamaat Federation for supporting the Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB) in the Rajya Sabha.

Reportedly, the decision to sack Mohammed John was taken at a meeting of the office-bearers of the All Jamaat Federation held in Ranipet on Monday evening.

“We discussed the issue at the meeting held on Monday evening and unanimously decided to remove Mohammed John MP from the post of Kappalar (patron) of All Jamaat (Federation) for voting in favour of CAB in Rajya Sabha, and thereby committing the offence of insulting Muslims,” said Mohammed Hassan, member of All Jamaat Federation and district president of Tamil Nadu Muslim Munnetra Kazhagam(TMMK).

The AIADMK MP has been holding the post in the Jamaat for about ten years, since 2010.

The TMMK has also announced holding protests at Mohammad John’s residence and they say that they have the support of various regional parties including IUML, VCK and TVK.

Mohammed Hassan said the decision to remove John from the post was taken after Jamaat across the state and the local Muslim community in Ranipet had put pressure following his vote in support of the CAB.

On December 12, the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2019 became an act of law after President Ram Nath Kovind gave his assent to the historic legislation. The Citizenship (Amendment) Bill was passed by Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha last week.

The Citizenship Amendment act seeks to give Indian citizenship to the members of Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Jain, Parsi and Christian communities who have come from three neighbouring Islamic countries – Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Bangladesh after facing religious persecution.

The Act states the refugees of the six communities will be given Indian citizenship after residing in India for five years, instead of earlier requirement of 11 years. The Act also proposes to give immunity to such refugees facing legal cases after being found as illegal migrants. The cut-off date for granting citizenship will be December 31, 2014.

Anti CAA riots: Seelampur rioters halted their rampage after 5.30 pm azaan from nearby mosque, dispersed after namaz call

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Anti CAA riots: Seelampur rioters halted their rampage after 5.30 pm azaan from nearby mosque, dispersed after namaz call

As anti-CAA rioters took to violence in New Delhi’s Seelampur, it was an Azaan, a call for namaz, that led to the rioting crowd to disperse. As per reports, even after police resorted to lathicharge and teargas, the rioting crowd in Delhi’s Seelampur where a school bus was attacked last evening, the rioters were not backing off. However, soon after an azaan (call for namaz, the prayer) was played in nearby mosque, the mob dispersed.

In just few seconds the entire area became quiet. By then even the ‘Aman Committee’ (peace committee) members had also reached the spot. Delhi Police saw an opportunity to control the mob and reached the mosque to appeal for peace to people. Police first talked to the members of peace committee and then the other people present there.

As per reports, imams and heads of madarsas were requested to use the loudspeakers at mosques to issue joint message along with police and community leaders to assure the rioters that no one was detained. A senior officer told Times of India that rumours were being spread that someone was detained to fan the tension. However, soon after the 5:30 PM azaan was played and the crowd began to disperse.

Following the azaan, the stone-pelters who were attacking police calmed down and simply stood in the street. Soon after the azaan, an appeal for peace was also made from the loudspeakers.

Aman Committee Chairman Dr Parvez Miyan reportedly said that the message has reached the government and hence the ‘protestors’ should go back to their homes. Meanwhile, section 144 has been imposed in North-East district of Delhi.

Jamia students joined rioters, former Congress MLA Asif Khan named: Read details of FIR filed in Jamia anti-CAA riot case

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Jamia students joined rioters, former Congress MLA Asif Khan named: Read details of FIR filed in Jamia anti-CAA riot case

The First Information Report filed by the Delhi Police in connection with violent protests by Jamia Millia Islamia incident states that 7 to 8 ‘students’ along with miscreants pelted stones from inside the university gates on Sunday.

Reportedly, the Delhi Police in its FIR stated that a total of 75 tear gas shells were used by police to disperse the mob which went on a rampage on Sunday at the university during their protests against Citizenship Amendment Act.


Further, the FIR also stated that the police had entered inside the campus with a limited force only to identify miscreants and to provide safety for students.

Meanwhile, six people including four local politicians and the former Congress MLA have been named as suspects in the Delhi Police FIR related to Jamia violence on Sunday. The Delhi Police has named former Congress MLA Asif Khan as one of the accused in its FIR.

The other six accused persons have been identified as local politicians Ashu Khan, Mustafa and Haider, Kasim Usmani – a member of the CYSS, the student wing of Delhi’s ruling Aam Aadmi Party, AISA member Chandan Kumar, SIO member  Asif Tanha, a member of the Students Islamic Organisation of India, police said.

On Tuesday, Delhi Police had arrested 10 people with criminal background in connection with the Jamia Nagar riots that took place in the national capital over the weekend. The Delhi court later sent 10 arrested to judicial custody till December 31.

The ten arrested people are identified as – Mohammad Hanif, Danish alias Jafar, Sameer Ahmed, Dilshad, Shareef Ahmed, Mohd Danish, Yunus Khan, Jumman, Anal Hassan, Anwar Kala.

According to the police, the arrested individuals had involvement in violence near JMI University and said that none of them was students.

On Sunday, the controversial university had virtually turned into a battlefield after its ‘students’ joining hands with ‘outsiders’ had gone on a rampage to indulge in severe violence. The police entered the campus and also used force after protestors had burnt four DTC buses, 100 private vehicles and 10 police bikes.

The situation remained tense in the university premises on Tuesday as protesters, including students and local residents, converged outside the varsity holding tricolour and placards to continue their demonstration against CAA and NRC.

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