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Rape and murder of veterinarian: Shadnagar Bar Association, Telangana District and Mahabubnagar Bar Councils refuse to represent murderers

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Rape and murder of veterinarian: Shadnagar Bar Association, Telangana District and Mahabubnagar Bar Councils refuse to represent murderers

The Telangana district bar council has issued a notification saying that its members would not represent the accused involved in the gruesome murder and gang-rape of the veterinary doctor Preeti Reddy (name changed) whose charred remains were found from the Shamshabad in Hyderabad on Thursday.

The notice said, “The Executive Committee of Bar Association Ranga Reddy District court condemns the brutal murder by the accused on 27/11/09 at Thondapalli toll plaza. The committee further requests the members not to represent the accused person in the case.”

The Ranga Reddy district bar council’s Executive Committee also demanded the government of Telangana to establish a separate special court for the Fastrack trial of the case and ensure swift justice. It further mentioned in the notice that the committee will stage a protest on December 2 against the “inhumane attack” against the doctor. The committee is organising a protest on December 2, 2019, at 1:30 pm at the main entrance of the court building to denounce the ghastly attack.

Read: 4 arrested in Shadnagar rape and murder case confess, 2 of them had returned to the site to check if her body was charred completely

Preeti Reddy (name changed) was subjected to a gut-wrenching act of enormity by 4 individuals who are now under arrest. As she was returning home from work a little after 8 pm to pick her vehicle, she noticed a flat tyre. She immediately called her sister, who suggested that she leave her two-wheeler at the toll plaza and take a cab home. Before she could, two men approached her, who offered to take her vehicle for repair.

The woman was allegedly ambushed and dragged into the bushes by the accused barely 50 metres from Tondupally toll plaza behind a line of trucks that was parked near the road. Her charred body was found under an underpass.

Read: Hyderabad: Police confirms veterinarian’s rape and murder was pre-planned, release photo of main accused Md Pasha

According to police, the accused took her body to an under-construction bridge a few kilometres away and set it on fire. The police stated that the victim’s innerwear and some other objects including an alcohol bottle found around 100 metres from the spot led them to believe she was sexually assaulted before being killed.

The Telangana police have also confirmed that Preeti Reddy (name changed) was kidnapped and gang-raped. The police confirmed that a lorry driver named Mohammad Pasha from Narayanpet in Mahababub Nagar district was the main suspect in the Preeti Reddy (name changed) case. The post mortem analysis has confirmed that Preeti was gang-raped before being brutally murdered.

Besides Ranga Reddy District Bar Council on Telangana, the Shadnagar Bar Association of a local court also denied offering legal aid to the gang-rape and murder accused. The Mahabubnagar Bar Council also denied extending legal services to the accused after the state government brought the case at the fast track court of Mahbubnagar.

Watch: Jharkhand Congress candidate brandishes a gun during a fight between his and BJP candidate supporters

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Watch: Jharkhand Congress candidate brandishes a gun during a fight between his and BJP candidate supporters

In the Kosiyara village of Palamu in Jharkhand, Congress candidate KN Tripathi brandished a gun following a clash between the supporters of BJP candidate Alok Chaurasia and his supporters. Tripathi was allegedly stopped by the BJP supporters from going to polling booths. The first phase of polling for the Jharkhand Assembly election begins today.


The Congress candidate KN Tripathi was taken into custody for brandishing a gun but was later released. The Election Commission has ordered a probe into the matter.

Read: Congress leader shares Facebook post worshipping his illegal weapon, gets arrested

Thirteen constituencies in six districts of Jharkhand will go to polls in the first phase of the Jharkhand Assembly election today. The polling that is distributed over five phases, will terminate on December 20 and the result for the same will be announced on December 23. The first phase will witness several constituencies including Naxal-affected areas, like Latehar, Lohardaga, Chatra, Gumla, Manika, Panki and Daltonganj.

The BJP is fighting on the 12 seats in the first round of polling while it is supporting an Independent candidate from Hussainabad. The opposition alliance comprising of JMM, Congress and RJD are contesting on four, six and three constituencies respectively.

Hyderabad gang-rape and murder: Anand Mahindra solicits ideas on Twitter to ensure safety of women and children

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Hyderabad gang-rape and murder: Anand Mahindra solicits ideas on Twitter to ensure safety of women and children

In the wake of the gruesome murder and gang-rape of the veterinary doctor Preeti Reddy (name changed) in Hyderabad, an anguished business conglomerate Anand Mahindra took to Twitter to express his shock and dismay at the sexual depravity and brutality of the incident.


Mahindra reached out to the Twitterverse seeking ideas from the social media users to ensure safety of women and children in the country and increase accountability of every one of us.

Preeti Reddy (name changed) was subjected to gut-wrenching act of enormity by 4 individuals who are now under arrest. As she was returning home from work a little after 8 pm to pick her vehicle, she noticed a flat tyre. She immediately called her sister, who suggested that she leave her two-wheeler at the toll plaza and take a cab home. Before she could, two men approached her, who offered to take her vehicle for repair.

The woman was allegedly ambushed and dragged into the bushes by the accused barely 50 metres from Tondupally toll plaza behind a line of trucks that was parked near the road. Her charred body was found under an underpass today morning.

According to police, the accused took her body to an under-construction bridge a few kilometres away and set it on fire. The police stated that the victim’s innerwear and some other objects including an alcohol bottle found around 100 metres from the spot led them to believe she was sexually assaulted before being killed.

The Telangana police have also confirmed that Preeti Reddy (name changed) was kidnapped and gang-raped. The police confirmed that a lorry driver named Mohammad Pasha from Narayanpet in Mahababub Nagar district was the main suspect in the Preeti Reddy (name changed) case. Media reports are now saying that rape has been confirmed in post mortem analysis.

A prolific Twitter user, Anand Mahindra is known for being vocal on issues of social and economic importance. Recently, Mahindra shared a Whatsapp forward of a cobbler who he said should be teaching Marketing skills at the Indian Institutes of Management.


The photo he tweeted displayed a cobbler surrounded by footwear. The board behind him read the shoe repair shop as a “hospital” for “injured” shoes, mentioning Dr Narseeram as the doctor on duty. The board also mentioned the timing for the OPD where the doctor can be consulted with the injured (torn/broken) shoes as patients.

Anand posted a tweet asking for Twitter users to help him track the whereabouts of the cobbler as he intended to make a small investment in his “start-up”. In less than two weeks, Mahindra’s team tracked the cobbler in Haryana and are currently working in the best possible manner to help him in his business venture.


The cobbler was provided with a new Kiosk by Anand Mahindra’s team. Anand posted a tweet saying that the cobbler instead of asking for money said that he needed a better workspace. Mahindra said that his Design Studio designed a new kiosk for him which was functional and yet aesthetic.

Maharashtra cabinet expansion likely delayed: NCP, Congress disagree on Deputy CM post, no consensus on key portfolios

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Maharashtra cabinet expansion likely delayed: NCP, Congress disagree on Deputy CM post, no consensus on key portfolios

The differences between the newly minted alliance of Shiv Sena, Congress and NCP in Maharashtra are yet to be ironed out as the state’s cabinet expansion is likely to get delayed due to disagreement over the power-sharing arrangement between the parties. A day after Shiv Sena supremo Uddhav Thackeray took oath as the chief minister of the state, the tenuous alliance has been plagued with yet another disagreement concerning the post of deputy chief minister.

According to the sources, the state Congress unit came up with a fresh claim at the post of deputy chief minister which was summarily turned down by the NCP. With the two-state parties unable to resolve the impasse, the national leadership of the two parties have been roped in to end the dispute and arrive at a conclusion.

Read: Sharad Pawar had sent message to PM Modi and Amit Shah with two demands for his support in Maharashtra, they rejected both

Besides the speaker’s post, the three parties have also failed to strike a consensus over sharing of key portfolios such as finance, home, revenues, corporations and urban development. The rising discord between the alliance partners has resulted in the indefinite postponement of the cabinet expansion, which was earlier scheduled right after the floor test. “Once the disagreements are tackled and a common consensus is reached, cabinet expansion can be expected,” said a leader.

After extended meetings between the alliance partners, NCP leader Praful Patel on November 27 stated that the Assembly Speaker’s post was offered to the Congress party while the deputy CM post was granted to the NCP.

Read: Shiv Sena agrees to uphold ‘secular values’, work for ‘minorities’ in Maharashtra: Read details of Common Minimum Program

However, on Friday, Congress indicated it was willing to sacrifice the Assembly Speaker’s post for the deputy CM position. According to a Congress leader, the party members are unwilling to play third fiddle in the new government and therefore they are insisting Uddhav Thackeray to appoint two deputy CMs-one each from NCP and the Congress party. “The CM and deputy CM are the face of any government. Most of our MLAs and leaders believe that the party should not give up on the post,” said a senior Congress leader.

Refusing to give in to Congress’ fresh demand, senior NCP leader Ajit Pawar, who remains one of the frontrunners for the post of deputy CM, said that the formula decided on November 27 was final and binding. This is the prime reason for the Maharashtra cabinet expansion delay. “It has been decided and agreed upon by the alliance partners that NCP will get the deputy CM’s position and Congress will get the Assembly Speaker’s post,” he said.

NIA conducts raids in two locations in Tamil Nadu in ISIS terror module case

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NIA conducts raids in two locations in Tamil Nadu in ISIS terror module case

Continuing with crackdown on ISIS terror modules in south Indian states, the NIA conducted raids in two places in Tamil Nadu. The raids were conducted at the houses of suspected ISIS terrorists in Thanjavur and Tiruchirapalli based on warrants issued by a NIA special court in Ernakulam. The raids were conducted in a case related to ISIS-inspired terror module which was registered in Coimbatore in May this year.


A case was registered against 6 persons for propagating ISIS ideology on internet and social media, as well as trying to recruit youths into ISIS and plotting terror attacks in Kerala and Tamil Nadu. They were also linked with Zahran Hashim, the Sri Lankan Easter bomber. Earlier the houses of all six were searched by NIA and several incriminating materials were recovered. Two arrests were made after those raids.

In today’s operations, the houses of Alavudeen in Thansavur and S Sarfudeen in Tiruchirapalli were raided by the agency. Several digital devices including two laptops, 6 mobile phones, 11 SIM cards, and other devices like pen drives, hard drives, CDs and DVDs along with documents were seized. An axe was also recovered from the suspects.

The seized items and documents will be submitted to the NIA special court, and will be subjected to forensic examination. The two suspects are being interrogated to ascertain their association with other persons already arrested for links with terrorism and also to know their link with ISIS inspired terror activities.

In September last year, a Special Investigation Unit of the Coimbatore police had foiled a plot by seven-members of an IS-inspired Islamic group in Tamil Nadu to murder Sampath, Hindu Munnani leader Mookambikai Mani and Sakthi Sena leader Anbu Mari.

Since then NIA has been working and collecting intelligence in various cities of south India and looking into activities of suspected radical youths.

The NIA officials stated that Tamil Nadu tops the list of Indian states where anti-terror agencies have unearthed modules of Salafi jihadi terrorist organization IS over a period of five years since 2014. The NIA has claimed to have arrested 127 IS sympathisers from across India since 2014 and 33 were from Tamil Nadu.

Lately, Coimbatore has become a hub of Islamic terror as in July the NIA had nabbed the Islamic state module conducting raids on several locations in the city. The arrested terror sympathisers were in touch with Zahran Hashim, the main accused in the Sri Lanka bombings, over Facebook.

A woman’s account locked by Twitter for 7 days for demanding justice for woman who was raped and burnt

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A woman’s account locked by Twitter for 7 days for demanding justice for woman who was raped and burnt

The country has been gripped with horror after the rape and brutal murder of a veterinary doctor from Hyderabad came to the fore. The 27-year-old Preeti Reddy (name changed) was brutally murdered after being raped and her charred body was discovered by the police. 4 arrests have been made in the case so far. The brutal nature of the crime has sent shockwaves in the country and Twitter was no different with Netizens demanding justice. Twitter, however, oblivious to the angst, seems to have locked a woman’s account for 7 days because she demanded justice for the victim.


Suresh Nakhua, the BJP spokesperson of Mumbai, Maharashtra tweeted that the Twitter account of a lady who went by the handle @HittsVora has been locked by Twitter for 7 days. The screenshot posted by Suresh was presumably received by the women @HittsVora from Twitter.

The tweet that is in contention by @HittsVora read, “This beasts should be hanged publicly! Shame on us if we can’t give justice to this victim!”. The lady had then tagged the official handles of CMO Telangana, the CM and also Amit Shah and Narendra Modi.

We have learnt that the tweet @HittsVora was responding to was news about a woman being brutally raped and charred to death in Telangana, Hyderabad.

The police have arrested four accused in the case. According to the reports, the four accused had pre-planned the crime after they had noticed that the victim had parked her two-wheeler at the Tondupally toll plaza. The accused assumed that the lady would come to pick it up later in the evening. The accused then flattened the tyre. The prime accused was one Md Pasha. Other accused are Naveen from Gudigandla, cleaner Kesavulu, and an assistant named Siva.

Read: Hyderabad shocker: Police asked parents if their daughter has eloped, minister says why did she call family and not police

As Preeti Reddy (name changed) was returning home from work a little after 8 pm to pick her vehicle, she noticed a flat tyre. She immediately called her sister, who suggested that she leave her two-wheeler at the toll plaza and take a cab home. Before she could, two men approached her, who offered to take her vehicle for repair.

The woman was allegedly ambushed and dragged into the bushes by the accused barely 50 metres from Tondupally toll plaza behind a line of trucks that was parked near the road. Her charred body was found under an underpass today morning.

Read: Hyderabad: Police confirms veterinarian’s rape and murder was pre-planned, release photo of main accused Md Pasha

According to police, the accused took her body to an under-construction bridge a few kilometres away and set it on fire. The police stated that the victim’s innerwear and some other objects including an alcohol bottle found around 100 metres from the spot led them to believe she was sexually assaulted before being killed.

There is now widespread outrage on Twitter as Netizens see nothing in @HittsVora’s tweet that could or should violate Twitter rules and her account be locked. A woman, outraged by the brutal murder of another was merely demanding justice and Twitter’s insistence that the tweet be deleted by the woman have angered the already horrified Netizens.

Pakistani channel insults Sikhs by showing them dancing like jokers for opening of Kartarpur Corridor

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Pakistani channel insults Sikhs by showing them dancing like jokers for opening of Kartarpur Corridor

Weeks after the Kartapur Sahib Corridor was formally opened by India and Pakistan, a Pakistani channel has created controversy by insulting Sikhs. A skit by Geo News Urdu shows actors dressed as Sikhs celebrating the opening of Kartarpur corridor, but the way it has been executed humiliates the Sikh people and Sikh religion.

The program on the channel begins by the anchor introducing several men and women dressed as Sikhs, one of them trying to mimic Navjot Sing Sidhu. The channel shows Sikhs as jokers dancing Bhangra on the set, which is supposed to be the Kartarpur corridor, to express their happiness on the opening of the corridor. One of the fake Sikhs wearing a red turban has been presented as an eccentric person who attempts to flirt with the female anchor and even tries to hug her. The program presents a caricature of Sikhs which is insulting for the community.

The skit has not gone well with Sikhs who criticised it, asking not to humiliate the community. One person named Rajinder Puri wrote, “Don’t try to present Sikh community as joker please, you won’t find any baptized Sikh dancing like you guys presented in this video. All Sikhs living abroad don’t like this video.” Tarnjit Walia said, “We would not do Bhangra in or near gurudawaras. Aisha we do waheguru jaap.”


Akali Dal MLA from Delhi Manjinder S Sirsa objected to the video, saying Anti-Sikh Propaganda in Pakistan continues. He said that the skit shows Sikhs as cartoons which greatly hurts sentiments of Sikhs. He urged Pakistan PM Imran Khan to order the withdrawal of such skit and take action against such agenda-setters.

Sharad Pawar had sent message to PM Modi and Amit Shah with two demands for his support in Maharashtra, they rejected both

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Sharad Pawar had sent message to PM Modi and Amit Shah with two demands for his support in Maharashtra, they rejected both

Uddhav Thackeray of Shiv Sena has finally been sworn in as the Chief Minister of Maharashtra after Shiv Sena, Congress and NCP alliance formed the government in the state. The development came after Ajit Pawar of NCP had withdrawn support from the BJP government leading to the resignation of Devendra Fadnavis and Ajit Pawar as CM and Deputy CM respectively. It now appears that Sharad Pawar himself was ready to offer support to BJP and had sent communication with two demands to PM Modi and HM Amit Shah, and BJP had rejected them both, leading to the fall of the 3-day old alliance between Ajit Pawar and BJP.

Sharad Pawar, the NCP supremo had written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah with two conditions to support the government formation in Maharashtra. Both these demands were reportedly rejected by the party.

Demand 1: Removal of Devendra Fadnavis

According to IANS, the first demand that NCP supremo Sharad Pawar had placed before PM Modi and Amit Shah was that Devendra Fadnavis should not be Maharashtra’s Chief Minister and that he should be removed.

Read: In 3.5 days as CM, here is what Devendra Fadnavis did: Rs 5,380 crore aid for farmers, relief fund cell for poor patients

It is unclear as to why Pawar was adamant about Devendra Fadnavis being removed as the CM of Maharashtra. Either way, this demand was summarily rejected by BJP. PM Modi and Amit Shah were never in favour of removing Devendra Fadnavis since he had completed his 5-year tenure without any controversy or allegations.

Read: Maharashtra will be the first Trillion Dollar state in the country if the Devendra Fadnavis govt continues the momentum

Devendra Fadnavis was the first Chief Minister to complete his 5-year tenure in 47 years.

Apart from this, the party contested the elections with Fadnavis as the CM face and even the Prime Minister, while addressing the party workers from the BJP headquarters on 24 October, had announced him as the Chief Minister. Hence, it was difficult for the BJP to accept this demand from the NCP supremo.

Demand 2: Agriculture Ministry to Supriya Sule

The second demand that Sharad Pawar posed to PM Modi and Amit Shah was the Agriculture Ministry be given to Supriya Sule.

According to IANS, this demand was rejected as well. BJP thought that if it decided to offer the agriculture ministry to the NCP, the Janata Dal-United (JD-U), its ally from Bihar, will demand the railway ministry. In this situation, despite having the mandate, the BJP would lose two big ministries.

The 40-minute meeting between Sharad Pawar and PM Modi

After NCP supremo Sharad Pawar got no response on these two demands from the BJP, Pawar had met PM Modi and conducted a 40-minute meeting regarding the same. According to IANS, during the 40-minute meeting between Sharad Pawar and PM Modi, the Prime Minister did not agree to the demands posed by Sharad Pawar.

On 22 November, Sharad Pawar’s nephew and senior NCP leader Ajit Pawar offered support to the BJP. It was said that Ajit Pawar had the backing of around 30-35 MLAs who were ready to support the BJP.

Read: Hunger for power is such that Shiv Sena wants to align with Sonia Gandhi: Devendra Fadnavis resigns as Maharashtra Chief Minister

It was also speculated that Sharad Pawar gave his tactical consent to his nephew’s move but afterwards, he took to Twitter to deny the alliance of the NCP with the BJP.

According to speculations, though Sharad Pawar had distanced himself publicly, Ajit Pawar had Sharad Pawar’s tacit support in his alliance. Pawar had hoped that BJP will eventually concede to both demands posed by Sharad Pawar however, that did not happen and thus, Ajit Pawar was asked to retreat and NCP joined hands with Congress and Shiv Sena to form the government.

Read: Shiv Sena agrees to uphold ‘secular values’, work for ‘minorities’ in Maharashtra: Read details of Common Minimum Program

Dilip Deodhar, the RSS ideologue from Nagpur, told IANS, “There was a buzz about Sharad Pawar’s demands in the Sangh, but Modi’s denial was more than that. Since the farmers’ issue is one of the main matters in the state, the agriculture ministry would have been the best bet for the NCP. Sharad Pawar had earlier served as the agriculture minister.

“Secondly, Fadnavis was the choice of Modi so there was no question of replacing him. When Sharad Pawar finally understood that the BJP will not agree to his demands, he decided to ally with the Sena and the Congress.”

4 arrested in Shadnagar rape and murder case confess, 2 of them had returned to the site to check if her body was charred completely

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4 arrested in Shadnagar rape and murder case confess, 2 of them had returned to the site to check if her body was charred completely

The four accused in the gruesome Preeti Reddy (name changed) case, Md Pasha, Naveen from Gudigandla, cleaner Kesavulu, and an assistant named Siva have confessed to their crime, say the police. They had doused the body after raping the doctor and it is now being reported that the accused had come back to the spot to ensure that her body was charred beyond recognition.

According to a report in Telangana Today, after setting the body on fire under the culvert at Chatanpally in Shadnagar between 2 am and 2.30 am, the gang left the crime spot in the truck and on the scooter. However, while Arif and Chennakeshavulu went away, Shiva and Naveen, who were on the scooter, returned to the spot a little later to check if the body was completely burnt.

Read: Hyderabad shocker: Police asked parents if their daughter has eloped, minister says why did she call family and not police

V C Sajjanar, Police Commissioner, Cyberabad said, “They came to the spot to check if the body was burnt beyond recognition. They then rode the scooter and abandoned it at Kothur, about 11 kilometres from the culvert”.

The four accused in the Preeti Reddy (name changed) case, who have confessed to their crime will be produced in court today.

The four accused had pre-planned the crime after they had noticed that the victim had parked her two-wheeler at the Tondupally toll plaza. The accused assumed that the lady would come to pick it up later in the evening. The accused then flattened the tyre.

Read: Hyderabad: Police confirms veterinarian’s rape and murder was pre-planned, release photo of the main accused Md Pasha

As Preeti Reddy was returning home from work a little after 8 pm to pick her vehicle, she noticed a flat tyre. She immediately called her sister, who suggested that she leave her two-wheeler at the toll plaza and take a cab home. Before she could, two men approached her, who offered to take her vehicle for repair.

The woman was then ambushed and dragged into the bushes by the accused barely 50 metres from Tondupally toll plaza behind a line of trucks that was parked near the road. Her charred body was found under an underpass today morning.

Read: Andhra Pradesh Congress says Dr Preeti Reddy was raped and murdered in “Peaceful-M” area, deletes the tweet

According to police, the accused took her body to an under-construction bridge a few kilometres away and set it on fire. The police stated that the victim’s innerwear and some other objects including an alcohol bottle found around 100 metres from the spot led them to believe she was sexually assaulted before being killed. The rape of the victim has been confirmed by the post mortem analysis now.

The police confirmed that a lorry driver named Mohammad Pasha from Narayanpet in Mahababub Nagar district is the main suspect.

London Bridge Jihadi of Pakistan origin was jailed for 8 years for another terror plot where he wanted to unleash 26/11 like carnage in London

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London Bridge Jihadi of Pakistan origin was jailed for 8 years for another terror plot where he wanted to unleash 26/11 like carnage in London

On Friday a man was shot dead by the London Police in what is now being called a terrorist attack. The terrorist, now identified as Usman Khan stabbed multiple people near London Bridge before being tackled to the ground by bystanders. He was wearing a fake suicide vest and was eventually shot dead by the police. He is reported to be of Pakistan origin. He left school with no qualifications after spending part of his late teens in Pakistan, where he lived with his mother when she became ill.

Usman Khan had gone on a stabbing rampage just before 2 PM (1400 GMT) near the London Bridge, an area that had seen a deadly terrorist attack just two years ago.

A video that went viral on social media shows police officers dragging a bystander from atop the terrorist before the police took aim to shoot him dead. The knife-wielding terrorist was tackled to the ground by over a dozen bystanders who showed exemplary courage.

Read: Multiculturalism is a farce and Londonistan is proof

It is now being reported that Anti-terror police have raided a house in Staffordshire area which was linked to Khan. In a shocking twist of events, it is now also being confirmed that the London Bridge Jihadi Usman Khan had a prior terrorism conviction and had been jailed for eight years in 2012. He was released on licence in December 2018 and was still wearing a monitoring tag.

Commissioner Basu confirmed Khan had been attending a seminar in Fishmongers’ Hall run by Cambridge University’s Criminology Department to help offenders reintegrate into society following their release from jail.

Previously, Usman Khan was arrested on December 20th 2010 for wanting to plant bombs in several toilets in the London Stock Exchange. This terror plot was hatched by Usman Khan along with 9 others. His terror group was an “Al Qaeda inspired group” as is being reported by the local media.

Read: London: Pakistan supported Muslim mob displays its hatred on Diwali, drags and stomps on the head of Modi effigy

Police found a handwritten list of targets which included the U.S. Embassy and the homes of London Mayor Boris Johnson, the Dean of St Paul’s Cathedral and two rabbis.

The gang also carried out surveillance of other possible targets including Big Ben, Westminster Abbey, the Palace of Westminster and the London Eye.

The group planned to send five bombs in the post to London synagogues and the Church of Scientology headquarters, as well as spreading panic in Stoke-on-Trent by planting bombs in pub and club toilets. Their plot was foiled after the security services bugging their homes and cars heard discussions of a ‘Mumbai’ atrocity on the streets of Britain. They were referring to the terror attacks of 28th November 2008 where terrorists from Pakistan had laid siege on Mumbai killing over 174 people and injuring well above 300.

Read: Go back to Southall slum: Hijabi woman goes on a racist rant at an Indian co-passenger in an over-crowded London bound bus

The Jihadis had also been funding a proposed Madarsa, which was to be used for firearms training and which would have been attended by Khan. They had planned to launch terror training camps in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (PoK). His aim was to establish Sharia law.

The Prime Minister of Britain, Boris Johnson has said that it is a “mistake” to allow criminals to leave prison early and vowed to increased police presence following the “heartbreaking” attack. “Obviously our thoughts are very much them and their families, their loved ones, everybody affected by the attack,” he told reporters. “My thanks go first of all to the emergency services — the police, for their bravery and their professionalism, and to repeat again and give thanks again to members of the public who put themselves in harm’s way to protect others. I think they represent the best in our country. I thank them on behalf of the rest of our country”, the British PM added.

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