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Chhattisgarh: Village tense after cow carcass discovered, case registered against unknown miscreants as villagers demand action

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Chhattisgarh: Village tense after cow carcass discovered, case registered against unknown miscreants as villagers demand action

An incident of bovine slaughter has been reported from Revatipur in Chhattisgarh under Ramchandrapur Police Station. The villagers are anguished and have demanded strict action be taken against the perpetrators. The Police have registered a case against unidentified miscreants in the matter.

Villagers have threatened an agitation if the Police don’t take adequate action over the incident. The Police have initiated an investigation into the matter. The officer in charge of the Police station has stated that remains of the slaughter have been sent to the forensic lab for testing. The post-mortem has confirmed that the slaughtered animal was indeed a cow.

The remains of the cow were discovered by villagers in the outskirts of the village. The Sarpanch of the village said that when he reached the spot after being informed by villagers, he found the spot littered with the horns, the skin and the head of the slaughtered animal. The Sarpanch also summoned people from the Muslim community to make it evident that the cow was slaughtered and the meat was transported for selling and consumption.

The villagers suspect that the crime was committed by people from the Muslim community. The Police have deployed men in large numbers to prevent communal violence in the area.

Hindu boy’s family forced out of village for marrying Muslim girl, police advices boy to convert as villagers threaten to kill

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Hindu boy’s family forced out of village for marrying Muslim girl, police advices boy to convert as villagers threaten to kill

Following the marriage of two lovers belonging to different communities in Saharanpur in Uttar Pradesh, villagers have forced the newly married couple along with their family into exile. A resident of Biharigarh, Amit was in love with a Muslim girl named Aarzu, who got married recently. The girls’ relatives along with the police in charge of the village are accused of pressurising Amit to convert his religion. The girl’s family members have also threatened to kill the couple.


Amit was rounded up by the local police in-charge and brutally thrashed by him. The young man claimed the police in-charge not only assaulted him but also said that either he will have to convert or he will have to leave the girl. Sensing a palpable threat to their lives, the couple approached city SSP for protection.

Talking to media, Aarzu said that her in-laws family has been banished from the village by her family and other villagers. She said that villagers have threatened that the couple will be killed. Aarzu alleged that when they went to the police station seeking protection, the police instead thrashed Amit, advising him to either convert or leave his wife. She confirmed that they want to live together and sought protection.

A couple of days ago, both Amit and Aarzu got secretly married in court. When the villagers learned about their marriage, they clobbered Amit’s family members and banished them from the village and threatened to kill the two. Following this, Aarzu’s family filed a complaint against Amit. The police arrested Amit and brutally thrashed him in jail. After being released from the jail, Amit approached SSP’s office with his wife and requested for security. Amit asserted he and Aarzu have married of their own free will and not under any duress.

Villagers and girl’s relatives are apparently miffed with the fact that Aarzu, a Muslim, had married a Hindu man. Amit’s accusation about the local police in-charge assaulting and intimidated him to convert his religion points out to the police officer being in cahoots with the villagers and girl’s family members.

National Flag on Shashi Tharoor’s desk placed upside down as he extends support to disgraced cop Sanjiv Bhatt

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National Flag on Shashi Tharoor’s desk placed upside down as he extends support to disgraced cop Sanjiv Bhatt

Shashi Tharoor has found himself in a tight spot once again. Earlier today, he met the wife and son of disgraced ex-cop Sanjiv Bhatt and came out in his support. However, in an embarrassment for him, the pictures he posted on Twitter show that the National Flag on his desk is upside down.


People on Twitter requested him to fix the National Flag on his desk.


Some even wanted legal proceedings against the Congress parliamentarian due to his callousness.


Tharoor has earlier been accused of insulting national symbols as well. He was accused of disrespecting the National Anthem after he urged people to sing the anthem by placing their right hand on the left side of the chest, the Western way, instead of the traditional Indian manner by standing in attention. A case was filed against him as well. Ultimately, he was acquitted by the Court citing a lack of criminal intent.

Congress leader Shashi Tharoor extends support to disgraced cop Sanjiv Bhatt sentenced to life in custodial death case

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Congress leader Shashi Tharoor extends support to disgraced cop Sanjiv Bhatt sentenced to life in custodial death case

Today, Congress leader Shashi Tharoor had extended his support for disgraced cop Sanjiv Bhatt. In a tweet, Tharoor had said that he met with Sanjiv Bhatt’s wife Shweta Bhatt and his son Shantanu. Sanjiv Bhatt is an ex-Gujarat cop who was sentenced for life in a 30-year-old custodial death case.


Last month the Supreme Court had rejected to entertain a plea by Sanjiv Bhatt seeking to examine 11 additional witnesses in a 1989 custodial death case. Senior advocate Maninder Singh, appearing for the Gujarat government, said that final argument is over in the 30-year-old custodial death case and the Jamnagar Sessions Court has reserved its verdict for June 20 or the first week of July.

On June 20, Sanjiv Bhatt sentenced to life imprisonment under Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code.

He was sentenced for the 1989 custodial death case. Prabhudas Vaishnani had died in Gujarat’s Jamnagar while he was in the custody of the police. Bhatt was serving in the district as additional superintendent of police at that time. Besides this Bhatt had also detained more than a hundred persons during a communal riot in Gujarat.

Bhatt had been arrested in September last year by the Gujarat CID over a 1998 case of planting drugs. He was then accused of trying framing a lawyer in a fake narcotics case.

Bhatt is also known for spreading his anti-Modi propaganda. He had accused Prime Minister Modi of being complicit in the murder of Muslims during the 2002 Godhra case. However, the SIT set up by the apex court then had given Modi a clean chit.

The BBC which had reported on Bhatt’s case attempted to whitewash him by saying that a ‘whistleblower’ victim while lying about 59 Karsevaks burnt alive by a Muslim mob

US security aid to Pakistan to remain suspended pending decisive action against terror groups

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US security aid to Pakistan to remain suspended pending decisive action against terror groups

A US Congressional report has said that the security assistance to Pakistan would remain suspended pending “decisive and irreversible” action against terrorist groups. This comes at a time when Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan is all set to visit Washington from 21-23 July at the invitation of the US President Donald Trump.

In its latest report on Pakistan, the independent Congressional Research Service (CRS) said, “Pakistan is a haven for numerous Islamist extremist and terrorist groups, and successive Pakistani governments are widely believed to have tolerated and even supported some of these as proxies in Islamabad’s historical conflicts with its neighbours”.

The CRS publishes reports on issues of interest for lawmakers to make informed decisions. It is an independent and bipartisan research wing of the US Congress. The report is prepared by experts and is not the official view of Congress.

As per reports, Imran Khan is hoping to mend the relationship between the two countries and attract more investment. Pakistan hopes do this in exchange for full cooperation in ending the Afghanistan war fighting militant threats.

Just two days ago, Pakistan had arrested the 26/11 terror attack mastermind and Lashkar-e-Taiba chief Hafiz Saeed. Reports suggest that his arrest would help Pakistan in getting favourable results in its talks with the US President.

The US President had, in fact, applauded Pakistan for the arrest. However, in his tweet, Trump had suggested the Hafiz Saeed had been hiding from the authorities in Pakistan. The US House Foreign Affairs Committee slammed Trump’s tweet by highlighting that Pakistan was not searching for the US proscribed terrorist for the last 10 years as claimed by the President. They had also specified that Hafiz has been living freely in the country and was arrested multiple times only to be released again.

In November last year, at the direction of President Trump, the US had suspended $1.66 billion in security assistance aid to Pakistan. The decision had come days after Trump statements slamming Pakistan of not doing ‘a damn thing’ for the US, alleging that its government had helped Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden hide near its garrison city of Abbottabad.

Pakistan is trying hard to prevent the extradition of Jabir Sadiq, a close aide of Dawood Ibrahim. Pakistan fears that his extradition may expose ISI’s link with Dawood Ibrahim.

ZEE Media files criminal defamation case against TMC MP Mahua Moitra for calling them Chor and paid news

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ZEE Media files criminal defamation case against TMC MP Mahua Moitra for calling them Chor and paid news

Zee Media Corporation Ltd has filed a criminal defamation case against Trinamool Congress leader and Member of Parliament Mahua Moitra for allegedly calling the media house ‘chor’ (thief) and ‘paid news’.

The matter was heard today by the Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Samar Vishal of the Patiala House Court in New Delhi. Advocate Vijay Aggarwal who was appearing on behalf of the complainant played a video of Moitra before the court wherein she was seen calling Zee News as ‘chor’ and ‘paid news’. Aggarwal told the court that Moitra had called the owner of the Zee News a thief and those associated with the channel as ‘uneducated’ and ‘budbak’ (stupid). The next hearing of the matter is scheduled to be held on August 1.

Moitra had filed a criminal defamation case against Zee News journalist Sudhir Chaudhary on July 15. She had alleged that Cahudhary claimed that her maiden speech in the Parliament in which she had listed out seven signs of approaching Fascism in the country, was plagiarised. Moitra had become the darling of the ‘Liberal Left’ after she delivered the speech.

Before that, she had submitted a breach of privilege motion against Chaudhary on July 4 alleging that he had falsely reported that her maiden speech in the Parliament was plagiarised. However, the Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla did not accept the breach of privilege motion submitted by Moitra.

Petition filed in Delhi High Court challenging the prohibition and criminalization of Marijuana, lists medical uses of cannabis

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Petition filed in Delhi High Court challenging the prohibition and criminalization of Marijuana, lists medical uses of cannabis

A petition has been filed in the Delhi High Court seeking the decriminalization of marijuana. The petition by Great Legislation India Movement Trust was filed through advocates Avinash K Sharma and Ashutosh Nagar. The petitioner is being represented by Senior Advocate Arvind Datar and advocate J Sai Deepak.

The petitioner contended that treating cannabis at par with harmful and lethal chemicals is arbitrary, unscientific and unreasonable. The medicinal properties of the ‘herb’ have also been highlighted. It was submitted, “…medicinal use of Cannabis can help to reduce the acute health crisis, which the country is currently facing.. (It) is useful in the prevention of Cancer and brings relief to the patients who are affected with HIV. The level of relief, which this plant can bring, would become evident from the fact that on an average eight lakh people die from cancer every year. Further, about 82,000 cases of HIV infection are reported every year.” The petitioner contended that marijuana is also an effective analgesic and helps with chronic pain.

The petitioner also elaborated upon the industrial uses of cannabis. It was stated, “Industrial hemp (Cannabis) is an agricultural commodity that is cultivated for use in the production of a wide range of products, including fiberboards and furniture, foods and beverages, cosmetics and personal care products, nutritional supplements, fabrics and textiles, yarns and spun fibers, paper, construction and insulation materials, bio-plastics, bio-fuels, graphene technology and other manufactured goods. Had there been no prohibition on the cultivation of industrial cannabis the farmers can immensely benefit from the cultivation of Cannabis.”

The petitioner also contends that the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 was passed without taking into consideration the positive aspects of the herb and the history of its usage in India. “The issues addressed by the members of Parliament were predominantly restricted to the problem of illicit drug trafficking and drug addiction among the youth,” the plea argues. The plea also asserts that it is ‘unfathomable’ that the government is running bhaang-shops in the country while marijuana is banned considering the fact that the content of both is the same.

The petition makes it clear that it does not seek to de-regulate the use of marijuana completely but insists that regulations must comply with requirements of “reasonable restriction”. The matter will be taken up on the 29th of July.

Over the years, the medical, recreational and industrial use of marijuana has become legalized in various western countries including the USA and the Netherlands. In India, marijuana is consumed widely although its officially illegal. Decriminalizing Marijuana might also enable the government with better means to regulate the market more effectively.

BJP doesn’t want Dalits becoming rich: Mayawati plays the caste card after brother’s benami property gets attached

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BJP doesn’t want Dalits becoming rich: Mayawati plays the caste card after brother’s benami property gets attached

BSP supremo Mayawati has again played the caste-card to defend her brother after the Income Tax department attached a ‘benami’ plot worth Rs 400 crores belonging to the brother of BSP supremo Mayawati Anand Kumar and his wife Vichiter Lata.

Mayawati alleged that BJP and its ideological mentor Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) didn’t want ‘people from the backward castes to do better.’ “The BJP cannot tolerate when people of the deprived sections progress, especially in business, and use power and government machinery against them,” she said.

Tightening its noose around benami properties, the IT department had on July 18 seized a ‘benami’ plot worth Rs 400 crores. The plot is reportedly seven-acres in size and is located in Uttar Pradesh’s Noida. It was “beneficially owned” by Mayawati’s brother Anand Kumar and his wife Vichiter Lata.

According to the provisional order, attachment of the land was issued on July 16 by Delhi-based Benami Prohibition Unit of the Income Tax department. The order was issued under section 24(3) of the Prohibition of Benami Property Transactions Act, 1988. It stated that the benami property owned by the couple measured 28,328.07 square meters or about 7 acres.

Mayawati, with an evident intention to defend her brother said the BJP’s “attempt to crush the voice of the deprived people” would not succeed.

“There is no doubt that at present BJP and RSS are the most casteist organisations in the country. They don’t want to see Dalits, tribals and people from the backward class to do better. They are trying various tactics but our party will fight for social, political and financial democracy across the country,” she added.

Interestingly, Mayawati calls BJP and RSS the “casteist organisations”, but ironically it is she, the self-proclaimed custodian of the backward class, who has this special fondness of alluding to such casteist remarks time and again. During the run-up to the Lok Sabha polls on May 10, she had raised a similar issue against PM Narendra Modi alleging that the Prime Minister isn’t an OBC by birth and that he hasn’t suffered from casteism. Then again a month later Mayawati raised apprehensions about PM Modi’s caste origins, saying that he belongs to a fake backward community.

Bengali Newspaper thinks Dustin and Lucas from Stranger Things are French footballers Griezmann and Umtiti in childhood

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Bengali Newspaper thinks Dustin and Lucas from Stranger Things are French footballers Griezmann and Umtiti in childhood

A Bengali newspaper, apparently confused by Antoine Griezmann’s tweet, came to believe that a picture of Dustin and Lucas from the popular Netflix series Stranger Things actually showed footballers Samuel Umtiti and Griezmann in their childhood.

Twitter user Devarsighosh had pointed it out.


In a snapshot of Griezmann’s tweet, the Bengali paper said, “Samuel Umtiti and Antoine Griezmann, the childhood friendship of the two footballers is still intact”.

Griezmann has recently signed for Barcelona, where Umtiti has already been playing from Athletico Madrid. Both of them also play together in the French National team and were part of the squad that won the FIFA World Cup in 2018.

The French forward shared a picture on Twitter comparing him and his teammate with Dustin and Lucas in jest after signing for the Catalan giants.


The defender reciprocated Griezmann’s tweet with a joke of his own.


However, it appears the Bengali newspaper took their Twitter conversation seriously and thought the picture of Dustin and Lucas depicted them in their childhood. Dustin and Lucas are two of the protagonists in the Netflix show Stranger Things. Season 3 of Stranger Things premiered on the 4th of July and has received rave reviews.

Personal Security Officer of Mehbooba Mufti’s cousin shot dead by unidentified assailant in Jammu and Kashmir

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Personal Security Officer of Mehbooba Mufti’s cousin shot dead by unidentified assailant in Jammu and Kashmir

A Personal Security Officer (PSO) of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) leader Sajad Mufti was shot dead today in Bijbehara area of South Kashmir in Anantnag district.


Sajad Mufti is the cousin of PDP Chief and former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti. According to reports, the incident took place when Mufti was offering prayers at a mosque in Baba Mohalla area of Bijbehara. The PSO named Farooq Ahmad was standing outside the mosque in Baba Mohalla area of Bijbehara when an unidentified gunman shot him dead. He was immediately taken to the sub-district hospital Bijbehara. But he was declared dead on arrival. Ahmad was a resident of Dirpora Khiram.

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