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Kamlesh Tiwari murder case: Maulana Kaifi Ali Rizvi who gave refuge to killers gets bail, to be released today

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Kamlesh Tiwari murder case: Maulana Kaifi Ali Rizvi who gave refuge to killers gets bail, to be released today

Maulana Kaifi Ali Rizvi from Bareilly, who was arrested by ATS on 21 October in connection with Kamlesh Tiwari murder case has been granted bail. He may be released today. As per reports, his bail was arranged for by the people from the dargah where he is associated.

Reportedly, the lawyer arguing for Rizvi said that the crimes he was accused of were bailable and hence he should be granted bail. Following this, magistrate Sudesh Kumar granted him a bail on two bonds of Rs 20,000 each.

According to the agencies, the last location of the two suspected killers was traced to Bareilly. It was reported that the killers, namely Ashfaq and Moinuddin, had visited the cleric in Bareilly after they killed Tiwari in Lucknow on October 18.

Tiwari, a former Hindu Mahasabha leader, was assassinated at his Lucknow office by Ashfaq and Moinuddin from Surat. The Uttar Pradesh police and Gujarat ATS sprung into action to blow the lid off a Surat-based Jihadi group that was indoctrinated by one of the accused who planned the murder, Maulana Mohsin Sheikh. Two other conspirators, Rashid Pathan and Faizan Sheikh have been arrested on late Tuesday evening from Surat in Gujarat in connection with the murder.

Read: All you need to know about the Kamlesh Tiwari murder investigation so far: Jihad, a well-hatched plan and plain brutality

While Ashfaq and Moinuddin will be handed over to the UP Police for further investigation, the other three accused have already been sent to UP on transit remand.

Moinuddin, along with Ashfaq, was arrested by Gujarat ATS on October 22 from Gujarat-Rajasthan border after being on the run for four days. While Moinuddin worked as Zomato delivery boy, Ashfaq, second man arrested for the murder of Kamlesh Tiwari, worked as a medical representative in a pharma company. He had forged his colleague’s Aadhaar to pose as Rohit Solanki, a Hindu rights activist, to gain the trust of Tiwari.

Chidambaram gets bail, to walk out after 106 days but can not talk to media

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Chidambaram gets bail, to walk out after 106 days but can not talk to media

The Supreme Court has granted bail to former finance minister P Chidambaram in the INX Media case. As per reports, the scam accused former UPA minister is granted bail in the ED case against him.

The bail has come after over 106 days in custody. As reported by Live Law, the SC has criticised the Delhi HC for making observations on the merits of the case. The SC has noted that despite the triple test being found on Chidambaram’s favour, observations were made on merit. The SC observed that the accused has participated in the investigation.


Chidambaram has been lodged in Tihar jail. He might get released today. Observing that economic offences are also ‘grave’, the SC bench has granted bail to the Congress leader under a bail bond of Rs 2 lakh and 2 sureties.

Other conditions of bail are that Chidambaram can not contact the witness of the cases against him, can not travel without prior permission, can not make press statements over the case and will make himself available for interrogation when summoned.

The judgement was pronounced by a 3-member bench of Justice R Bhanumathi, AS Bopanna and Hrishikesh Roy.

The UPA stalwart and former Union minister was arrested by the CBI after a high-level drama where CBI officials had to scale the walls of his residence on August 21. After 58 days under the CBI custody, the SC had granted him bail in the CBI case.

But the ED had taken the custody of Chidambaram on October 17, before his bail order came for the CBI case. So he had remained lodged in Tihar all this while.

The INX Media case is over the foreign funding received by INX Media, then owned by News X’s Peter and Indrani Muckerjea, allegedly by the violation of FIPB norms by the union finance ministry under Chidambaram. Chidambaram’s son Karti is also accused of lobbying and bribery in the case.

Cases against ‘Dalit activists’ arrested during Bhima Koregaon violence will be dropped: Uddhav Thackeray assures NCP leaders

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Cases against ‘Dalit activists’ arrested during Bhima Koregaon violence will be dropped: Uddhav Thackeray assures NCP leaders

In a decision which could have serious law and order implications, the newly elected Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray on Tuesday has reportedly assured senior NCP leadership that criminal cases filed against the Dalit ‘activists’ in connection with the violence at Bhima-Koregaon will be withdrawn at earliest.

According to a Times of India report, the decision to withdraw cases against these ‘activists’ who had allegedly resorted to violence during the Bhima Koregaon event comes after Maharashtra CM had asked the state home department to immediately withdraw criminal cases filed against the so-called ‘activists’ booked for protesting against the cutting of trees in Aarey Colony and those opposing the Nanar refinery in the Konkan.

“Law-enforcing agencies had initiated criminal proceedings against activists for their alleged involvement in the Bhima-Koregaon violence and the Indu Mill agitation. All of them were falsely implicated, so we requested the CM to withdraw the cases immediately, and he acceded to our request,” said NCP MLA Prakash Gajbhiye, who was also present at the meeting.

Two days back, NCP MLA Jitendra Awhad had demanded the Shiv Sena-NCP-Congress government to drop the charges slapped against Sudhir Dhawale, a prime accused in the Bhima Koregaon case for his involvement in the Elgar Parishad and an alleged ‘Urban Naxal’. NCP leader Dhananjay Munde had also written to Uddhav Thackeray for the same.

On the 200 anniversary of the battle of Bhima-Koregaon on January 1 last year, a large number of people had gathered at the memorial near Pune. While the crowd was dispersing, violence erupted not only in Pune and surrounding areas but across the state. A 28-year-old youth, Rahul Patangale, was killed in the violence. 52 cases were registered and 152 people were arrested for violence and riots in the streets.

The Bhima-Koregaon cases are different from the ones related to the Elgar Parishad rally held the day before the January violence. Cracking down on the Elgar Parishad’s alleged ‘Urban Naxals’ the Maharashtra police and ATS had arrested several alleged Naxal sympathisers and co-conspirators last year.

Read: Elgaar Parishad chargesheet: Arrested Urban Naxals were planning to incite Dalits, overthrow democratic system

Apart from the Elgar Parishad cases, the Pune police had registered 58 cases against 152 people for the violence during the Bhima Koregaon event. Subsequently, on February 9, 2018, the state government appointed Justice JN Patel, a former judge of the Bombay high court, to probe all aspects of the violence under the Commission of Inquiry Act.

In connection with the Elgar Parishad case, ten ‘activists’, who are known to be sympathisers of left-wing terror were nabbed by the Pune police. These ‘activists’ are also accused of plotting to kill Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Initially, the five suspected ‘Urban Naxals’ were arrested by the Pune police on 6 June 2018 over charges of organising the Elgaar Parishad held at Pune’s Shaniwarwada on 31 December 2017, which is believed to have instigated the Bhima-Koregaon violence a day later.

They are Delhi based activist Rona Wilson, advocate Surendra Gadling, professor Shoma Sen and Mahesh Raut from Nagpur and Mumbai’s Sudhir Dhawale.

The Pune police had filed a 5,000-page charge sheet, which had names of 10 persons of the above ‘Urban Naxals’. Addition to these five, absconding underground Maoists Milind Teltumbde, Prakash alias Ritupam Goswami, Prashant Bose alias Kishan da, Manglu and Deepu have also been named in the charge sheet.

Apart from these ten alleged ‘Urban Naxals’, in a nation-wide crackdown, the police had arrested P Varavara Rao in Hyderabad, Gautam Navlakha in Delhi, Vernon Gonzalves and Arun Pereira in Mumbai, Sudha Bhardwaj in Delhi, Anand Teltumbde in Goa and Stan Swamy in Ranchi in relation with Elgar Parishad violence and plot to kill the Prime Minister Modi. Gautam Navlakha is accused of having links with Maoists, Kashmiri separatists, Pakistan’s ISI and banned terror organisation Hizbul.

The withdrawal of cases by a newly elected government against the perpetrators involved in riots and vandalism is not new. As soon as Congress came to power in Madhya Pradesh in 2018, the government had withdrawn the Bharat Bandh cases filed in April 2018 against Dalits after alliance partner BSP had threatened to withdraw their support given to Kamal Nath government.

The Kamal Nath government had also decided to withdraw nearly 50,000 similar cases filed in the last 15 years by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) during its tenure in Madhya Pradesh.

UP: DM appeals for peace, clarifying that junior official who organised Islamic ritual at court premises has not been punished

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UP: DM appeals for peace, clarifying that junior official who organised Islamic ritual at court premises has not been punished

In Uttar Pradesh’s Auraiya, video of Maulanas reciting Quran in the SDM (Sub-Divisional Magistrate) court had gone viral on social media.

Following this, the Indian Express had reported that the junior official who had organised the ‘Quran Khawani’, recital of Quran after the dead, Laeeq Ahmad, has been suspended for having organised Quran recitation without permission. The District Magistrate Abhishek Singh, however, denied that Ahmad was suspended for organising Quran recitation. He told Indian Express that action was taken against Ahmad because of charges of irregularities.

As per reports, the SDM building was shifted after a new building was constructed. Some SDM workers had expressed their discomfort over the new building as it overlooked a Muslim graveyard. There were rumours that whoever stopped by the graveyard for few minutes, would fall ill. Hence, Ahmad, on his own, called Maulanas and organised a Quran recital in SDM premises because people there felt ‘negative energy’ as the building was near a Muslim graveyard.

Ahmad, as per reports, was facing several charges of irregularities. The District Magistrate clarified that his suspension was not due to organisation of Quran recital. Another report in Amar Ujala states that DM Abhishek Singh also met a few Muslims and appealed to them to maintain peace. He clarified to them as well that the junior official’s suspension has nothing to do with Quran recital but on charges of irregularities.

Modi government declassifies all documents related to Netaji Subhash Bose and Azad Hind Fauj

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Modi government declassifies all documents related to Netaji Subhash Bose and Azad Hind Fauj

The Narendra Modi government has kept its promise and has de-classified all records relating to Netaji Bose and Azad Hind Fauj.

According to the reports, the Union government has placed all the records associated with Netaji Bose in the National Archives of India, the Minister of State (MoS) of Culture and Tourism, Prahlad Singh Patel conveyed to Lok Sabha in a written reply.


Accordingly, a total of 304 declassified records and files have been transferred to the National Archives of India from the Prime Minister’s Office, Cabinet Secretariat, Ministry of Home Affairs and Ministry of External Affairs for permanent retention. Out of the 304 files, 303 files are already uploaded on the Netaji web portal, www.netajipapers.gov.in, said Patel.

The National Archives of India is the custodian of declassified files and records of the Government of India. In 1997, the National Archives of India had received 990 declassified files pertaining to the Indian National Army (Azad Hind Fauj) from the Ministry of Defence.

Reportedly, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) had declassified another 1030 files pertaining to the Khosla Commission and Justice Mukherjee Commission of Inquiry in 2012. Out of these, 271 files were released from the Khosla Commission and 759 from Justice Mukherjee Commission of Inquiry.

The 58 files out of the 304 files released recently were from Prime Minister’s Office, 37 from MHA, 200 from Ministry of External Affairs, and 9 from the Cabinet Secretariat. All these files are already available to the public under the Public Records Rules, 1997, said Minister of State of Culture and Tourism, Prahlad Singh Patel in a written reply in the Lok Sabha.

Read: Prime Minister Modi hoists national flag to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Azad Hind Government

In the past, the Narendra Modi government has undertaken various measures to immortalise the legacy of Netaji and the INA. In January this year, PM Modi had inaugurated a museum of  Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose at the Red fort.

PM Modi has also renamed three Island of the Andaman & Nicobar Islands, on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of Bose hoisting the national flag at Port Blair. The Ross Island was renamed to Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose Island, Neil Island to Shahid Dweep and Havelock Island to Swaraj Dweep. A Rs 75 commemorative coin was also released to mark the 75th anniversary.

Following the declassification of documents related to Netaji Bose, Chandra Kumar Bose, the kin of Netaji has expressed his happiness and hailed the NDA government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi for fulfilling his promise by releasing all the files pertaining to Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose.

Chandra Kumar Bose also slammed the Indian National Congress for suppressing the files and also trying to distort history.

See you at your trial: US Senator Kamala Harris tells Donald Trump after he mocks her withdrawal of US President campaign

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See you at your trial: US Senator Kamala Harris tells Donald Trump after he mocks her withdrawal of US President campaign

“I am not a billionaire. I can’t fund my own campaign. And as the campaign has gone on, it’s become harder and harder to raise the money we need to compete,” Kamala Harris, the Indian American woman to run for the White House wrote while bowing out of the US presidency race. In a Medium post Harris wrote to her supporters, she said withdrawing from the campaign is one of the hardest decisions of her life. “My campaign for president simply doesn’t have the financial resources we need to continue,” she wrote.

Talking to her supporters, she said that she also has deep gratitude for the support they have provided. “But I want to be clear with you: I am still very much in this fight. And I will keep fighting every day for what this campaign has been about. Justice for The People. All the people. Our campaign has been about fighting for people whose voices that have not been heard or too often ignored,” she wrote.

She further wrote that while she is not running for president of the United States, she will do whatever is within her power to defeat US President Donald Trump. “And I want to be clear: although I am no longer running for President, I will do everything in my power to defeat Donald Trump and fight for the future of our country and the best of who we are. I know you will too. So let’s do that together,” she wrote.

Following the announcement, US President Donald Trump tweeted ‘too bad, we will miss you Kamala’.


In response to his tweet, Kamala Harris tweeted ‘Don’t worry, Mr. President. I’ll see you at your trial.”


The US Presidential elections are scheduled to be held on 3rd November 2020. These will be the 59th quadrennial elections. US President Donald Trump is currently the 45th President of the United States.

Hyderabad rape and murder case: 22-year-old arrested for making vulgar comments on Facebook about the victim

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Hyderabad rape and murder case: 22-year-old arrested for making vulgar comments on Facebook about the victim

Hyderabad Cyber Crime Police has arrested a 22-year-old man Chavan Sriram for making vulgar comments on the victim Dr Preeti Reddy (name changed) who was brutally raped by four men, murdered and then had her body set on fire.

Hyderabad Police press release (image: BJP IT Cell Convener Vasudhara Reddy on Facebook)

According to a statement released by the Police, on 30th November, a suo moto case was registered by the Police where some unknown persons had uploaded photos of the victim and made vulgar and objectionable comments on her with her Facebook profile.

Read: Filmmaker Daniel Shravan says rape victims should carry condoms and cooperate in rape to avoid their murder afterwards

These posts, which had derogatory, obscene and vulgar comments against women were then being circulated.

In wake of the brutal rape and murder case, Hyderabad Police had issued advisory to women to take precautionary measures while travelling. Amongst other suggestions, police also suggested that women should be ready to dial 100 when needed.

Filmmaker Daniel Shravan says rape victims should carry condoms and cooperate in rape to avoid their murder afterwards

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Filmmaker Daniel Shravan says rape victims should carry condoms and cooperate in rape to avoid their murder afterwards

Amidst the spate of gruesome rape and murder incidents being reported from across the country, filmmaker Daniel Shravan has suggested a shocking measure to tackle the growing menace of sexual assault and murder. Shravan has suggested that instead of calling for police help, women should carry condoms and save themselves from the fate of murder. He suggests that when women are assaulted by rapists, they should cooperate in the act and offer the rapist a condom, so that they are not killed afterwards.


Singer Chinmayi Sripaada has shared the appalling pictures of the posts made by Shravan on his Facebook page. In one of the posts that has now been removed, Shravan has argued that “Rape is not a serious thing but Murder is inexcusable”. Shravan then contends that the Society and Women organisations are “real culprits for engendering the evil thinking of killing the rape victims after raping them”. He argues that if the courts, government and law provide an exemption for rapes, then rapists wouldn’t think of murdering the victims.

In a repugnant attempt to rationalise rape, Shravan claims that legalising “Rapes without violence” is the only way to control the brutal killings of rape victims as the government/judicial decree will dissuade the rapists from murdering the victims. “Murder is a sin and a crime. Rape is a corrective punishment. No justice is going to happen with Nirbhaya Act or Priyanka Act. The agenda of rape is fulfilling the sexual needs of rapists based on that time or mood,” Shravan said in a Facebook post.

He adds that the agenda of rapist is fulfiling sexual needs of the rapists, based on time and mood. And if the society, court and women organisations ignore this crime, they will not be cruel by going to the next level of murdering their victims.


Furthermore, when one of the Facebook users commented on Shravan’s odious post, asking him to consult a psychiatrist for his dangerous mental condition, Shravan brazened it out saying “If these adamant bitches didn’t consent to the proposal made by the rapists, they will have no other way but to rape them”. Shravan also responded in affirmative when the Facebook user asked him if he will have the same advice for women in his family.

Later he deleted all his posts on Facebook, and posted a new message apologising for his comments. He gave an excuse for his comments, saying that he is writing those as dialogues of a villain character in a movie he is going to direct, and it was misunderstood by audience. He said that the statements are not his opinions, and apologised for hurting sentiments.

Recently, the brutal gang-rape and murder of the 27-year-old veterinary doctor Preeti Reddy(name changed) in Hyderabad galvanised the country into seeking a sustainable and long-lasting solution to deal with the rising menace of sexual assault in the country. With solutions ranging from social reengineering to legislating stricter laws are being deliberated, some twisted minds such as Daniel Shravan are of the opinion that rapists should be given a free pass and legislations criminalising rapes should be dropped.

Indian Sikh girl who went missing in Kartarpur in Pakistan traced and sent back, Akali Dal leader Manjinder Sirsa cautions visitors of honeytrap

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Indian Sikh girl who went missing in Kartarpur in Pakistan traced and sent back, Akali Dal leader Manjinder Sirsa cautions visitors of honeytrap

The Sikh girl who went missing three days ago from Kartarpur in Pakistan has been traced and sent back to India, revealed Shiromani Akali Dal leader Manjinder S Sirsa in a video clip on Tuesday, December 3.

Sirsa had taken to Twitter to share a video message, giving details of the incident and cautioning visitors to Kartarpur in Pakistan about honeytrap.


Revealing that the girl, Manjit Kaur, “was in touch with a man from Pakistan through social media, who lured her to visit the Gurudwara Darbar Sahib via Kartarpur Corridor and meet him”, Sirsa noted that many incidents of girls being trapped this way had occurred.

With his video message on Twitter, he also wrote, “Thanking Almighty that the girl from Haryana was sent back to India otherwise her fate would have been same as other Sikh or Hindu girls in Pakistan who are forced to convert to Islam.”

“I want to caution visitors of Sri Kartarpur Sahib in Pak; pls be aware about this honeytrap”, he added.

Manjit Kaur, who belonged to Rohtak, Haryana, had gone missing after she went to visit the Gurdwara Darbar Sahib, Kartarpur in Pakistan with a religious jatha. The police in Pakistan had arrested four men from Lahore and Faisalabad cities in connection with the matter.

The terrorist state of Pakistan which remains a dangerous place for minorities has witnessed numerous cases of kidnappings and forced conversions of Hindu and Sikh girls recently.

In September this year, Sirsa had released a video on Twitter through, which he confirmed that Jagjit Kaur, the Sikh girl who was allegedly kidnapped and forcefully converted to Islam, returned to her family.

The 19-year-old Kaur was forcibly converted to Islam and made to marry a Muslim man. The daughter of a ‘granthi’ (priest) at Gurudwara Tambu Sahib was allegedly converted on gunpoint. Reportedly, the Pakistan man, who forcibly converted and married Sikh girl is affiliated to 2008 Mumbai attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed’s proscribed terror outfit Jama’at-ud-Da’wah (JuD).

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

Recently, a report released by the Members of the European Parliament (MEP) threw light on the plight of religious minorities in Pakistan. The report claims that around 1000 girls from religious minorities are forcibly converted to Islam every year. The numbers might be higher as many cases are not even reported.

Swami Nithyananda sets up private island nation named Kailaasa near Ecuador, request UN to recognise it

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Swami Nithyananda sets up private island nation named Kailaasa near Ecuador, request UN to recognise it

Swami Nithyananda, who fled India on November 20 after a case was registered against him on rape and child abuse charges, owns a private sland in Ecuador in South America, and has filed a requisition to the United Nations demanding his island be recognised as a country.


’Kailaasa’ is the name given to the self-proclaimed country of Nithyananda, described as the “nation without borders created by the dispossessed Hindus from around the world who lost their right to practice Hinduism in their own countries”.

The Nation Profile reads that ‘Kailaasa’ is an abode for 100 million Adi Shaivites and about 2 billion practising Hindus. Languages recognised are English, Sanskrit and Tamil while the official religion of this fantasyland is Sanatana Hindu Dharma. A total of 56 vedic nations in South Asia, as well as a global Hindu diaspora, are the ethnic groups of the population belonging to ‘Kailaasa’.

The imaginative country also has a constitution of its own, based on Sanatan Hindu Dharma, called as Samrajya Lakshmi Pithika. In addition to this, the flag and emblem of the nation have also been already finalised.

Flag of Kailaasa

Even as permission is sought to recognise the private island as a country, the imaginary nation is already governed by a government that is aided by various departments and agencies. The agencies are:-Homeland Security, Defence, Treasury, Commerce, Housing, Education, Technology, Human service and Enlightened Civilisation.

Swami Nithyananda, who is over 40 years old, is a native of Tamil Nadu and his real name is Rajashekharan. He set up his ashram at Bidadi on Bengaluru-Mysore highway almost 20 years ago. Nithyananda, who first hit the national headlines for his alleged video in a compromising position with an actress in early 2010, has been a highly controversial figure. In June last year, a Karnataka court had framed charges against Nithyananda in a rape case. Since then the self-styled godman has been untraceable.

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