On Tuesday (29 August), Congress supporter Anam Ali issued a public appeal to the Chhattisgarh CM Bhupesh Baghel. In her appeal, she claimed that the lives of her family members are under threat. She shared a video message in which she urged the state Chief Minister to provide security for her family. She claimed that they have been receiving life-threatening warnings from local Congress leaders.
Taking to X, she conveyed that they are not feeling safe in Chhattisgarh and their life is under threat. In her post, she also attached a video link in which she made several allegations against Congress and state police officials.
छत्तीसगढ़: हमें जान का खतरा है | Anam Ali Prayer@bhupeshbaghel
In her video message, Anam Ali directly accused TI Akash Shukla, who is posted at Kabir Nagar Police Station in Raipur, of threatening her and her family.
Continuing in the video, she narrated the chronology of an alleged illegal encroachment by Congress leaders. As a consequence of exposing it, she claimed that she has been subjected to harassment and is currently facing danger to her life.
She claimed that on 9 August, Congress president Simod Ratre and former Counsellor Sandeep Sahu got along with a ‘criminal’ named Bittu Singh and his accomplices. They then unloaded a large cart in front of her house. But her family protested against this decision and asked the Congress leaders to take the cart away.
Anam Ali added that the Congress leaders and their supporters kept indulging in hooliganism and unloaded another cart. Subsequently, they started a permanent construction and brought tiles.
She asserted that when all of this had started, her family submitted a complaint against it but the Kabir Nagar police sided with the Congress leaders and their ‘criminal’ friends. She added that Bittu and his hooligans are constantly spending time near her house and making lewd gestures. She also accused the local police of not taking her complaints seriously and discontinuing patrolling in her area.
Anam Ali stated that four years back they had filed a complaint against Bittu Singh and his other accomplices. She added that back then, the then ASP took action and Bittu’s activities saw a reduction for some time. She added that she has ‘evidence’ of bribery against one SI.
However, she added that when they took the evidence to TI Akash Shukla on 22 August, the Police official shouted at them and started hurling abuses.
She accused the police officials of forcefully snatching her phone which had their private and sensitive information including bank and other essential credentials along with the said evidence against SI Chetan. She further alleged that police may potentially misuse or tamper with the evidence.
She emphasised that her claims could be validated by the CCTV footage of Kabir nagar Police Station. She demanded that the footage should be made public without tampering with evidence.
She added that local cart vendors have told her that MLA Vikas Upadhyay is the one who asks people to install these allegedly illegal carts in this area. According to her claims, MLA Vikas maintains that Congress ward President Simod Ratre is his right hand.
‘Rahul Gandhi should focus on crime against women in Congress-ruled states‘, says Congress supporter Anam Ali
After highlighting the alleged criminality of local Congress leaders, Anam Ali leveled serious charges against senior Congress leaders including Rahul Gandhi. She claimed that when she tried meeting with Congress leaders, she got no response from them and nobody paid heed to their grievance. Contrarily, she added that some BJP leaders tried helping them but it could not bear fruit.
In sharp criticism, Anam Ali stated that Rahul Gandhi always avoids speaking or reacting to serious issues that take place in Congress-ruled states. She added that though he talks about Manipur, he looks away from the issues of crime against women and their safety concerns in states like Chhattisgarh. Subsequently, she advised Rahul Gandhi to contemplate this.
After highlighting alleged threats against her life, she urged CM Bhupesh Baghel to grant security to her family and order the police officials to return her phone. She also demanded that strict action should be taken in this case.
She lamented by saying that the CM shouldn’t wait for a time when someone would kill her. She reiterated that they all are feeling unsafe and threatened.
She added that this is the sorry state of affairs in Chhattisgarh that authorities are siding with the ‘accused’ and playing hand in glove with them and destroying/tampering evidence.
Anam Ali had shot to fame on social media after her rap song on Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra.
A Pakistan court on Tuesday directed authorities to release Imran Khan on bail after it suspended the conviction and jail term of the country’s former Prime Minister in a case involving state gifts.
The Islamabad High Court (IHC) has suspended the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chairman’s conviction and three-year jail sentence in the Toshakhana case, Dawn news reported today.
The bench comprising Chief Justice Aamer Farooq and Justice Tariq Mehmood Jahangiri on the former prime minister’s appeal against his prison term announced the much-anticipated order, that comes months ahead of the national elections in the country.
According to Dawn News, the trial court in Islamabad had convicted the PTI chief in the case filed by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) that involved concealing details of state gifts and jailed him for three years. The verdict meant he was disqualified from contesting general elections for five years.
Imran had subsequently filed an appeal in the high court against his conviction. He had also approached the Supreme Court (SC) against the IHC’s decision to remand the case back to the trial court judge who had convicted him.
Pakistan district and sessions court on August 5, sentenced Imran Khan to three years in prison in the Toshakhana case i.e. for illegally selling state gifts and disqualified him from politics for a period of five years, local media reported. He was lodged in Attock Jail in Punjab province in the country.
The PTI Chairman was arrested from his Zaman Park residence in Lahore soon after being convicted in the Toshakhana case. The court also imposed a fine of Pakistani Rupees (PKR) 100,000 on Imran Khan, Geo News reported.
Khan, who has expressed his disappointment over being in jail and said that he doesn’t want to stay there, Pakistan-based Geo News reported.
The PTI Chairman Imran Khan had also stated that he remains holed up inside his prison cell in “distressing” conditions, as per the sources.
(This news report is published from a syndicated feed. Except for the headline, the content has not been written or edited by OpIndia staff)
In West Bengal’s Nadia district, three class 10 students kidnapped and later strangulated their ‘friend’ to death when the latter’s family could not fulfil their ransom demand of Rs 3 lakhs. The victim was 14 years old and studied in the same class as the accused.
According to reports, the children wanted to buy computers to play video games with the ransom money. However, when their demand was not fulfilled they killed their own friend. The teenage kidnappers reportedly served Rasgullas (an authentic Bengali sweet) and cold drinks to their friend to fulfil his last wish before killing him.
The incident came to the fore when the victim’s family filed a missing complaint at the Krishnanagar police station on Friday, August 25.
The family of the victim said in the complaint that he left his home on Friday, on a bicycle, to meet his friends, but did not return home after that.
Based on the complaint, the police launched an investigation and arrested the three accused.
During interrogation, the trio reportedly confessed to killing their friend. They said that they had demanded a ransom of Rs 3 lakh from the boy’s family to purchase a gaming laptop. However, when the family failed to meet their demands, they strangled their friend.
They also asked the student about his last wish and served him rasgulla and soft drinks to fulfil it. According to the police, the accused later packed the child’s body in a bag and abandoned it in a remote location. The police recovered the body from a pond in the Hijuli district situated on the outskirts of Krishnanagar on Saturday, August 26.
The police sent the deceased body for post-mortem and booked the accused under relevant sections of the Juvenile Act.
The police said that the accused were afraid that if they let go of their friend, he would go to the police. As a result, they killed him.
According to reports, the father of the deceased had died a few years ago. He lived with his mother in his maternal uncle’s house at Ghurni in Krishnanagar.
The security deployment in Muslim-dominated Nuh on 31st July for the Hindu religious Brajmandal Jalabhishek Shobha Yatra was clearly inadequate. By the time the police arrived, significant damage to Hindus and their property was already done and Muslim mobs were on an all-out rampage. Two home guards died and many policemen were injured too while on duty.
The scenario was very different this time in more than one way. Surveillance drones were deployed, more than 1,900 police personnel were stationed, section 144 was implemented, anti-riot vehicles were stationed, mobile internet and bulk SMS services were suspended, and multiple layers of barricades were put up along with security at inter-state and inter-district borders.
These extensive security arrangements were put in place rather immediately by the state after the VHP announced that it would resume and complete the yatra on 28th August, the last Somvar (Monday) of the Holy Shravan month. The measures were taken, naturally, to avoid a repeat of the 31st July Muslim violence in Nuh against Hindu devotees. Only this time, the optics have worked exactly how the Islamist ecosystem wanted them to.
A well-oiled machinery manufactured and packaged their lies so strategically and repeatedly enough that the case of Hindus appeared broken despite crying out loud that they were butchered at the hands of Muslims on 31st July. Amid the din created by the left-liberal Islamist ecosystem, no one seems to have heard the dying declaration of the Hindus killed in Nuh, not even the state.
To silence Hindus has been a dirty tradition of the Islamist ecosystem unsurprisingly. In a single spate of violence, one can possibly understand why the Muslim mob and their own narrative prevail over all else. The final nail in the coffin is when the State surrenders to the Muslim street-veto. While we Hindus trend hashtags and write articles to boycott brands when an ad insulting their faith is published, Muslims take to the streets demanding the ‘blasphemes’ head on a platter.
When Kamlesh Tiwari insulted the ‘Prophet’, Muslims took out marches on the roads screaming at the top of their lungs – ‘Gustakh-e-rasool ki saza, sar tan se juda’. Now, one could say that both Hindus and Muslims are only screaming into the empty, gaping hole without any tangible effect on the ground or on the brotherhood between Hindus and Muslims. However, while Hindus failed to cancel the individuals insulting their faith, the Muslim radicals beheaded Tiwari and sent a chilling message to the Hindus. This was even after Tiwari had served his punishment and years after he made the remarks against the Islamic Prophet.
It is a function of this street veto that no law seems to control the menace of Islamism. The worldview of significant sections of the Muslim community makes it quite difficult, and in certain cases impossible, to implement law and order in ghettos where they are the overwhelming majority. There is significant resistance towards the implementation of law and order in these areas and a lot of these places are ‘no-go zones’ even for the Police.
In such a scenario, the police also focus on arresting the ‘blaspheme’ rather than those threatening to behead a man for something as fundamental as uttering mildly uncomfortable truth.
Unfortunately, in a democracy, a mob is identified not by its objective but its religious affiliation, thanks to the decades of Islamo-leftist influence on India’s polity. Politicians are perpetually driven by their desire to appease groups and build themselves a vote bank than support the pursuit of justice. Given these constraints which government would want to antagonise an innately violent community after they have beheaded a man? Would it not be simply to arrest the one who offends the barbarian than to tame to barbarian himself? It is a cowardly cop-out, but one that States take to deal with an unnamable Asura that no law, no civilisation has been able to contain.
Similarly, the result of this Muslim street veto is seen in Nuh when a procession was announced and organised on 28th August, for the completion of the yatra which was attacked halfway by Muslims on 31st July, it was met with State-ordered censorship.
On 22nd August, the Nuh district administration denied permission to the Vishwa Hindu Parishad to resume the yatra. The authorities in the Nuh district of Haryana rejected the application submitted by the VHP seeking permission to take out the Yatra on 28th August to conclude the interrupted procession.
Nuh District Commissioner Dhirendra Khadgata reportedly refused permission citing various reasons including the G20 meeting scheduled to be held from 3rd September in Taoru. The DC reportedly said that the dates of the G20 meeting and the Jalabhishek Yatra collided. Moreover, the permission has been denied in the wake of the prevailing situation in the Nuh district.
Again on 27th August, Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar urged people to visit temples instead of conducting the yatra. Moreover, on 28th August as the VHP began the low-key procession amid tight security, the international head of the Vishwa Hindu Takht, Viresh Shandilya was put under house arrest. This despite the leader having announced on 27th August that he will only be performing Jalabhishek (offering Holy water).
As if this were not enough, two seers from Ayodhya who had come to partake in the yatra were stopped at the border from entering Nuh. Jagadguru Paramhans Acharya Maharaj sat on an indefinite hunger strike at the Sohna toll plaza after he was stopped by the police. The Acharya said, “I have come here from Ayodhya…The administration has stopped us here, they are not allowing us to move ahead nor they are allowing us to go back. So I am doing fast until death. If they (the administration) will shift me somewhere else, I will do fast until death there also.”
#WATCH | Nuh, Haryana: Seer Jagadguru Paramhans Acharya Maharaj from Ayodhya stopped at the Sohna toll plaza by the administration.
"I have come here from Ayodhya…The administration has stopped us here, they are not allowing us to move ahead nor they are allowing us to go… pic.twitter.com/m1Dv76xkna
It is the poisonous result of the Muslim street veto that the ban imposed on the entry of outsiders into Nuh on 28th August has affected only Hindus and the Hindu faith. Should the ban and other security measures listed above not have been implemented, as was the case on 31st July, even then we would possibly have seen a repeat of the tyranny that unfolded on that fateful day, again displaying the corrupt power of Muslim street-veto.
The Hindu community is a victim of this Islamist power on the one hand, and the state is held to ransom by this Islamist power on the other. Of course, the media too has held the Hindus hostage only to feed us to the wolves. The security arrangements in Nuh for 28th August have been reported by the mainstream media to paint a distorted picture of the Hindu community.
Take this report for example. The ABP News anchor’s question to the reporter on the ground casts doubt on the Hindu groups, who were the victims of the 31st July violence. “…Now because there is such surveillance, the police is maintaining strictness, section 144 has been imposed…are the Hindu organisations adamant even now that they want to take out the Shobha yatra or are they abiding by the administration’s orders?”
It is heartbreaking, to say the least that a peaceful Hindu religious yatra, which was meant as a continuation of the 31st July yatra that was interrupted by attacks from Muslim mobs, has rather been used by the media to project Hindus as the cause of the violence even when the yatra was barely held.
The state machinery has abetted this narrative too. The images and videos doing rounds on mainstream media’s social media handles, and TV channels, the statements being given by the police administration ensuring accountability only on the part of Hindus, who had nothing to do with the 31st July violence, have all worked to show Hindus in bad light. The mainstream media of course got to work the very day violence broke out in Nuh last month and left no stone unturned in shielding Islamists.
This headline from the Indian Express suggests that there is a link between security and Hindu processions. As if the former is needed because of the latter. The truth is that security is needed to safeguard Hindu groups from the Muslim mob in the Muslim-majority region. The subheading includes a statement by the Chief Minister which only seems to substantiate the narrative. The headline and the subheading immediately after it can mislead any reader into believing that the anti-Hindu violence on 31st July was because of the yatra by Hindus themselves.
Another headline by Live Mint reads, “VHP continues Yatra despite the denial of permission, internet suspended, sec 144 imposed,” putting the Hindu religious procession in a bad light. Believe it or not, this is the kind of language that tells law-abiding Hindus to accept being silenced, to not speak up, not question, and to live with the fear that’s been showered on them through Muslim street veto. Such writing essentially says, “How dare Hindus (and representative bodies) continue Yatra despite the denial of permission?”
The demographic challenge in Nuh
These are only some of the reasons why Hindus must introspect and act accordingly until thy kingdom comes. The points stated above are only a fraction of the problem; the main dilemma facing the Hindus is that of demographic imbalance against them that led to the Islamist violence in Nuh and the entire Mewat region and the subsequent narrative that has come to be on 28th August. A report by the Centre for Policy Studies (CPS) India titled “A region that is turning almost exclusively Muslim at the core” details the staggering rise in the Muslim population in the Mewat region which includes parts of Haryana and Rajasthan. Here is an excerpt from the report:
“Mewat—comprising the newly created Mewat district of Haryana, the adjoining Hathin tahsil of Palwal and several contiguous tahsils of Alwar and Bharatpur districts of Rajasthan—is the homeland of Meo Muslims. They form nearly 50 percent of the population of this region; their presence is above 70 percent in several tahsils and reaches 85 percent in a couple of them. Their growth in all of these tahsils has been very high during the last four decades for which we have compiled the data. Thus, in the five tahsils of the region that fall in Haryana, and which together accommodate more than a million Muslims in 2011, their share in the population has risen from 62 percent in 1971 to 75 percent now. In Pahari tahsil of Bharatpur, their proportion has grown even faster, rising from 63 percent in 1991 to 73 percent in 2011. Every tahsil in the region has experienced a similarly high growth in the presence of Muslims in this period.
Unlike the Muslims of Malerkotla in Punjab, who had the protection of the Sikhs around them, the Meos of Mewat had been in active conflict with the Hindus in the decades leading to the Partition, largely because of the spread of the fundamentalist Tablighi movement among them since the last decades of the nineteenth century. There was much disturbance in the region during the Partition and many were displaced from their homes. However, most of them returned after the unrest subsided. They thus retained their dominance in the region. But, in the period before Independence and Partition, they perhaps never had the kind of numerical dominance that they have achieved now, with core part of the region becoming almost exclusively Muslim.”
The report highlights a dangerous trend which is the result of the cascading effect of the growing Muslim population. The report states that as per data “it seems that wherever Muslims have an intense presence, it tends to get more and more intense. The gap in growth of Muslims and other communities is higher in areas where Muslims are in dominant numbers whereas the gap is lower where Muslims are less in numbers.
If this does not caution Hindus then we will continue to lose the war for truth, justice, and the resulting narrative to the Islamist ecosystem which is constantly on standby to launch an attack on Hindus using double-edged swords. So long as they are allowed to dwell at the cost of the Hindu existence, Islamists will use everything – right from a stone by the road to the state, administration, demography, data, media, narrative, art, and even social ills like poverty – to drive their jihad. And the ecosystem will nurture them against Hindus, even if Hindus are without security or with it. Allowing Islamists to dwell at the cost of Hindu lives is allowing the narrative to work against Hindus either way.
Around August 27, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), or Islamist State, released the 28th issue of its propaganda magazine titled Voice of Khurasan. The magazine is published by the ISIS publication front al-Azaim Foundation. In the latest issue, ISIS spewed venom against Hindus, specifically in the backdrop of Nuh violence unleashed on the Hindus during the shobha yatra. They called for killing Hindus, burning their homes, shops and crops, and destroying idols of Hindu Gods in the name of Islam.
Furthermore, they also threatened Haryana Home Minister Anil Vij as the administration demolished illegal structures following Nuh violence. ISIS appeared to be fuming over the arrest of over 500 Islamists suspected to be involved in the anti-Hindu violence in Nuh. They also blamed Monu Manesar and Bittu Bajrangi for inciting violence despite the fact that police have already said they did not cause the violence.
Source: ISIS Magazine
OpIndia examined the latest issue of the magazine. In one of the chapters titled “Bring Back The Golden Ages of Crashing Idols”, ISIS called Hindus cowards and claimed they were not able to get rid of Muslim invaders, and it was only after the arrival of the British in the country that Muslim rule faded away. The article read, “The humiliation is the ultimate fate of the polytheists,” asserting those who worship multiple Gods deserve to be humiliated. Gloating over what happened to Somnath Temple and other Hindu temples at the hands of invaders, the article claimed Britishers managed to suppress Islamic rule only “because of the treachery of some imposters in the ranks of the Muslims”.
The article accused India and Hindus of oppressing and persecuting “innocent” Muslims. The propagandist author of the magazine targeted Hindus for fighting a legal battle to get the disputed structure at Gyanvapi back. Pointing out how the process of taking over the disputed structure at Ayodhya started, the article noted that the “Hindu polytheistic snakes are now gaining courage and raising their heads in India and all over the world against Islam and Muslims”.
As the Supreme Court of India allowed an archaeological survey of the disputed structure, they called the apex court “The Supreme Court of the Hindu Tawagheet”. According to Islam, Tawagheet is something that is worshipped for its own sake.
The article also called for “Jihad” against Hindus. It read, “There is way no out from this predicament and humiliation for the Muslims in India unless they respond to the call of jihad against these cowardly cow-worshipping Hindu filths.”
ISIS called for burning Hindus alive
In the next chapter, titled “Ibadaah of Bloodshed: the Ultimate Treatment of Hindus in This Worldy Life”, ISIS targetted Haryana Home Minister Anil Vij and accused him of allowing Hindu procession “armed with swords, knives and guns” through “Muslim majority areas” in Nuh. They also accused Monu Manesar and Bittu Bajrangi of inciting violence via videos on social media a few days before the procession. Notably, Police have categorically said both of them have no role in inciting violence.
Accusing Hindus of killing an Imam and demolishing 500 houses of Muslims, ISIS called Police personnel “dogs” for entering the houses of Muslims and arresting them. They accused police officials of “misbehaving” with Muslim women and girls. They also accused the Supreme Court of India of not taking any action to stop Hindu Yatras from passing through so-called Muslim areas.
Calling Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) and Bajrang Dal activists “pigs”, ISIS threatened to kill Hindus. The article read, “We will avenge In Sha Allah each and every act of your injustice and oppression, and very soon we will let you taste your medicine as a lesson for your generations to come.”
Calling for revenge against Hindus, ISIS asked the Indian Islamists to “burn Hindus alive, burn their homes, markets, and crops” to ashes. They further asked to “kill them in their street, crush them using vehicles, mix poison in their water tanks and throw snakes in their processions.”
Source: ISIS magazine
ISIS quoted Meer Faisal
The fake news paddler Meer Faisal got a new feather in his cap as ISIS quoted him in the magazine. All three posts from Meer Faisal were shared on 30th July, which appeared to be the date ISIS “scrolled” through social media to create the magazine. The three posts quoted by ISIS were this, this and this. Their archived versions can be found here, here and here.
Source: ISIS Magazine
Who is Meer Faisal?
Meer Faisal is a propagandist and serial fake news peddler. OpIndia has extensively covered his lies over the years. In March 2023, he published a long thread claiming Hindus indulged in violence. There were a total of 24 tweets in the thread, with a total of 30 videos, from which the 21st tweet has been deleted now. OpIndia busted all the lies in the remaining tweets of the thread, which can be checked here.
In June 2022, OpIndia did a profile of Meer Faisal after he tweeted that “All non-Muslims are the same, that is Kaafir”, which can be checked here.
On 4th April 2022, Delhi Police booked Faisal and the news portal Article 14 for disseminating false information using the social media platform Twitter (now X). The false information was shared regarding The Hindu Mahapanchayat event organised by the Save India Foundation at the Burari ground in Delhi on April 3. He had claimed that five Muslim journalists, including him, were ‘assaulted’ at an event by a “Hindu” mob. News portal Article 14 had also tweeted, “5 journalists, 4 of them Muslim,1 on assignment for @Article14live, have been taken by police to the Mukherji Nagar police station in Delhi after a mob at #Hindu#dharamsansad (for which the police had declined permission) discovered their religion, attacked them & deleted videos”.
On 3rd June 2022, he claimed that a “Hindu mob” pelted stones when poor Muslims were merely shutting shops to protest against “blasphemous” statements by Nupur Sharma. To put things into perspective, a report has revealed that after Friday prayers, the Muslim mob began forcing Hindus in the Beconganj district to close their shops. When they objected, the enraged mob began throwing stones at Hindus. The Islamists insisted on knowing the names of the people, and those who were Hindus were attacked.
On 10th April 2022, he claimed that Hindus target Muslims during Hindu festivals and such festivals had become a ‘nightmare’festivalslims. He said, “Hindu festival have become a nightmare for the Muslims of India. Hindus can’t even celebrate their festivals without targeting Muslims. Laanat hai!”
In December 2021, Faisal took to Twitter to post a host of videos about a Bajrang Dal rally in Mewat to fearmonger about Hindu outfits trying to create a “communal divide between Hindus and Muslims of the area.
Meer Faisal stated in his Twitter thread that on the 12th of December, Bajrang Dal member Jeet Vashisht took to Facebook to post videos of a saffron rally in Nuh, the Muslim-majority area in Mewat. He said that Jai Shri Ram slogans were raised in front of Muslim households and that the rally was carried out with over 500 cars filled with “Hindutva supporters” who had entered the area to “saffronise” Mewat.
On the contrary, the police confirmed that the rally was peaceful and no untoward incident was reported. Interestingly, the rally had happened with due permission of the Police, which Faisal ignored.
Nuh Shobhayatra Attack
On 31st July, a mob of hundreds of Muslim rioters attacked Hindu devotees participating in the Brijmandal Jalabhishek Yatra in Nuh, Mewat of Haryana. At least six people were killed as a result of the riots.
Furthermore, a cyber crime police station was attacked in Nuh. Police officials were injured. Home guards were killed. The rioters first shot one of the Bajrang Dal activists Abhishek, then his throat was slit and his head was crushed leading to his death.
During the investigation into the riots, OpIndia accessed over 25 FIRs and complaints that provided a clearer picture of what happened during the violence. Based on information available via FIRs, complaints and witnesses, it appeared that the attack was planned. OpIndia came across several videos posted two days before the Jalabhishek Yatra that were instigating Muslims against Hindus.
OpIndia’s complete coverage of the Mewat Shobha Yatra Attack can be checked here.
Social media is rife with disinformation surrounding the Muzaffarnagar school case, where a student was slapped by his classmates on the instructions of the teacher.
Despite the denial of any ‘communal angle’ by the victim, his cousin, his father and even the police, the disturbing case of corporal punishment was presented as a case of a ‘Muslim student being beaten by Hindu students for the virtue of his Faith.’
While the left-Islamist ecosystem has been fixated on this one case and falsely trying to give it a communal spin, there are at least 7 cases where Hindu students were assaulted, harassed and even expelled from schools for displaying their ‘Hinduness.’
Jammu: Principal Hafiz, lecturer Farooq thrash Hindu student for writing ‘Jai Shri Ram’
On Friday (August 25), a minor Hindu student studying in a government school in Kautha city of Jammu and Kashmir was mercilessly beaten for writing ‘Jai Shri Ram’ on the blackboard. He was later admitted to a hospital.
The accused were identified as Mohammed Hafiz (principal) and Farooq Ahmed (lecturer). The duo was booked under Sections 323 (punishment for voluntarily causing hurt), 342 (wrongful confinement), 504 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of peace), and 506 (criminal intimidation) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).
Additionally, they have charged the accused under Section 75 (punishment, if any person having control of child, assaults, abandons, abuses or willfully neglects the child) of the Juvenile Justice Act.
A student was mercilessly beaten by a teacher of a govt school in Kathua, Jammu & Kashmir for writing Jai Shri Ram on board.He is in hospital right now.
Students along with loclas have come out & are demanding action against the teacher. pic.twitter.com/OPKuOwGnp0
Subsequently, the Jammu and Kashmir government formed a three-member high-level committee, comprising the Sub-divisional Magistrate (SDM), the Deputy Chief Education Officer Kathua region and the principal of the government school, HSS Kharote.
Jharkhand: Hindu student commits suicide after being slapped, expelled for wearing bindi to convent school
On July 10 this year, a Hindu student studying in Std 10 committed suicide after she was slapped, humiliated and expelled from St. Xavier’s School for sporting a bindi. The incident took place in the Teltulmari neighbourhood in the Dhanbad city of Jharkhand.
The 17-year-old reportedly went to the convent school, wearing a bindi on her forehead. She was humiliated by a teacher during the school assembly. She was also slapped twice in full public display.
This was even though the student removed the bindi as soon as she saw the teacher. The underage girl was taken to the office of the principal, who expelled her from the school.
The victim’s mother said, “My daughter removed the bindi as soon as she saw the teacher. But the teacher slapped her twice in front of the assembly. I explained everything to the principal, but he did not listen and expelled my daughter.”
Blurred image of the deceased 17-year-old
“Embarrassed by being slapped by the teacher in public during assembly, my daughter committed suicide after returning from school by hanging from the ceiling in her room,” she added.
Thereafter, the girl returned home and committed suicide by hanging herself from the ceiling of her room on July 10 at 11 a.m. She also left a suicide note in her school uniform, holding the teacher and school principal responsible for her death.
A First Information Report (FIR) was lodged at the Tetulmari Police Station based on the complaint of the family members. The accused teacher was arrested by the police and a probe was initiated into the matter.
The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) and the National Commission for Women (NCW) also took cognisance of the matter.
Jharkhand: Teacher beats student for wearing sacred thread on wrist
On July 18 this year, a teacher at the government-aided missionary school called Carmel High School thrashed a class 9 student for sporting a sacred thread (Kalawa) on his wrist to school. The incident occurred in Bokaro Thermal Town in the Bokaro district of Jharkhand.
When the student reached school wearing a Kalawa on his wrist, the monitor of his class complained about this to a teacher named Amit Lakda. He told the student that wearing the sacred thread was forbidden in school and ordered him to remove it immediately.
The student, however, refused to remove the Kalawa, saying that it was a matter of his faith. Infuriated, the teacher started beating and humiliating him in front of the class.
बोकारो: शिक्षक पर लगा कलावा पहन कर आए छात्र को पीटने का आरोप, कार्मेल स्कूल में नौवीं क्लास के छात्र के साथ ये घटना हुई है। pic.twitter.com/FZFDwAWhJc
He put the student under such mental pressure that he began to cry and reluctantly cut the Kalawa tied to his wrist with a blade. The teacher reprimanded the student and asked him to get his father to school the next day.
After learning about the matter, several members of Hindu organisations such as the Bajrang Dal and Vishwa Hindu Parishad reached the school premises and protested against the incident.
Rajasthan: Hindu student assaulted by Muslim classmates for sporting tilak
On July 27, 2023, a Hindu student was assaulted by his Muslim classmates and their family members for sporting a tilak at the Government Higher Secondary School in Chauma village in the Alwar district of Rajasthan.
The victim was intimidated by his classmates, who also tried to remove the tilak from his forehead. He was thereafter assaulted 7-8 people, including the relative of an accused who was identified as Yusuf Mev.
The Hindu boy later revealed that he and his family were coerced to convert to Islam. Following the incident, the victim’s family filed a complaint with the Ramgarh police.
The cops booked 6 people in connection to the case under sections 143, 323, 341, 506, and 295(a) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).
Tamil Nadu: Teacher boasts about cutting Kalawas of Hindu students with scissors
On August 24 this year, a school teacher from Tamil Nadu named Udaya Lakshmi shared a Facebook post (now deleted) wherein she boasted about forcefully removing the sacred thread (Kalawas) from the wrists of Hindu students.
As per her Facebook post, Lakshmi lined up Hindu students and forcefully removed their Kalawas. She also boasted about brainwashing the minor students and claimed to have instilled the belief that they should not adorn Hindu symbols like Kalawa.
Facebook post by Udaya Lakshmi, later deleted after outrage
She also vowed to put the students under constant surveillance. “I finished important work today in class. I made all the students who were tying sacred threads in their hands stand in a line and cut the sacred threads with scissors. I explained why not to tie the sacred thread,” the teacher wrote in her Facebook post.
“On the order of the Chief Minister, he came from the police station for three consecutive days and spoke about social justice and equality in the school morning meeting. But cutting the sacred threads of students can be a starting point for discussion and understanding,”she further added.
Madhya Pradesh: Student beaten for wearing kada to school, forced to dump the bracelet in drain
On Saturday (August 26), a Hindu student was assaulted by two teachers for wearing a kada (sacred bracelet) at the Ujra Government School in the Chhatarpur district of Madhya Pradesh.
The accused teachers were identified as Bhupendra Verma and Shafiq Khan. The victim, identified as a student of Class 11, came to school wearing the sacred bracelet. After learning about the matter, Khan and Verma ordered him to remove the kada.
The boy pointed out that it was his religious symbol and that he could not take it off. On hearing that, the duo thrashed the victim and forced him to dump the sacred bracelet in the drain. They also allegedly made him stand on the desk as punishment and threatened to fail him in the exams.
The school principal has been accused of siding with the two teachers and turning a deaf ear to the complaints made by the relatives of the victim. Forced by circumstance, the family members of the boy filed a complaint with the police.
The cops took cognisance of the matter and began a probe into the case. In the meantime, members of the Hindu organisation ‘Bajrang Dal’ reached the school premises and protested against the incident. They also demanded strict action against the accused teachers.
They also claimed that in the past, students were prevented from wearing tilak and other religious symbols in that particular school.
Madhya Pradesh: Student harassed for writing ‘Jai Shri Ram’ on blackboard
On Sunday (August 27), a Hindu student was harassed by his class teacher for writing the sacred chant of ‘Jai Shri Ram’ on the blackboard at a community school in the Ujjain district of Madhya Pradesh.
On learning about the matter, members of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) reached the school and demanded strict action against the accused teacher. They also recited the ‘Hanuman Chalisa’ and held demonstrations against the management of the school.
Following assurance of strict action by the local police, they ended their protest.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday said that UP has moved from a BIMARU state to the path of a developed state and that in the coming years, it will become the “growth engine” of the country.
Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath was addressing the FICCI’s National Executive Committee Meeting (NECM) in Lucknow.
Noting that FICCI is holding its National Executive Committee Meeting in the state’s capital after 38 years, CM Yogi Adityanath said today Uttar Pradesh is a state with big achievements.
“After 1985-86 Uttar Pradesh saw a long period of darkness in terms of development…The perception of the nation and world about Uttar Pradesh became very different…There was an identity crisis before the youth, businessmen and citizens here…Today under the guidance and leadership of Prime Minsiter Narendra Modi, Uttar Pradesh has managed to emerge from the darkness and from being a BIMARU state (category) towards becoming a developed state,” Yogi Adityanath said.
He said that the state would not be the sixth-largest economy, but the second-largest economy of the country very soon and that the next five years will be important.
“In the coming years, UP will become the leading economy of the country and will undertake its role as the Growth Engine of the country,” CM Yogi said. “UP reached second rank from 14th position in ease of doing business,” he added.
Speaking on the occasion, FICCI Secretary General, Shailesh Pathak said, “Under the leadership of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, UP is embarking on a one trillion economy plan.”
“I’m confident that the state’s evolution from ‘Uttar Pradesh’ to ‘Uttam Pradesh’ and ultimately to ‘Sarvottam Pradesh’ will continue without interruption,” he said.
The National Executive Committee of FICCI comprises top industrialists of the country, chief executives of multinational corporations, heads of public sector enterprises, financial institutions, banks and management experts. The Executive Committee meets from time to time in different regions and deliberates on national and region-specific issues.
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Last week a gruesome case of sexual assault and murder was reported from the Matigara locality in the Siliguri subdivision of West Bengal. A youth named Mohammad Abbas had brutally bludgeoned a minor Hindu Gorkha girl to death. The Matigara police and the Special Operations Group (SOG) launched a manhunt and arrested Mohammed Abbas from his hideout in the Lenin Colony of Siliguri.
The tragedy instilled a great amount of rage among the locals. North Bengal was completely overrun by protests. Members of the VHP called for a bandh in Siliguri whereas another one was observed across the hills of North Bengal.
Though the police arrested Mohammad Abbas, the heinous crime threw the spotlight on the increasing crime rate in Siliguri’s Lenin Colony better known as ‘Chhota (mini) Pakistan’.
Lenin Colony is the name of a grim hamlet of roughly 300 huts and shanties on the western banks of the Balasan River, which runs through the western portion of Siliguri, the largest city in North Bengal. No reward for figuring out that the former Marxist rulers of Bengal gave it that name. However, the area is now more popularly known as “Chhota Pakistan.”
This region is called ‘Chhota (mini) Pakistan’ as it has over the years, risen to become a safe haven for criminals. Here, incidents like theft, burglary, chain-snatching, railway wagon breaking, rape, murder, drug peddling, human trafficking and various other anti-social activities are carried out with impunity. Moreover, it has become a hub of illegal immigrants from Bangladesh and Rohingyas. Despite the fact that the police have apprehended numerous offenders from this neighbourhood in recent years, criminal activity remains unrelenting here.
Panoramic view of Lenin Colony, popularly known as Chhota Pakistan (Source: Swarajya)
Chhota Pakistan is a haven for criminals, drug dealers, human traffickers and all sorts of lawbreakers
Several local residents spoke to Swarajya about the security threat posed to them by the influx of illegal Bangladeshi immigrants and Rohingya in the Lenin Colony and nearby neighbourhood. Bimal Nag, a resident of Paul Para was quoted by Swarajya as saying, “This settlement grew by leaps and bounds over the last eight to ten years. It was all a barren land adjoining a tea estate. We started noticing some Muslim families, all illegal immigrants from Bangladesh, settling down there sometime around 2008 or 2009. And over the past eight to nine years, more and more Muslim families started settling down there.”
Paul Para is on the northern side of National Highway 10 and at a stone’s throw away distance from ‘Chhota Pakistan’.
“It (Chhota Pakistan) is a haven for criminals, infested with drug dealers, human traffickers and all sorts of lawbreakers. We can make out from their dialect that they are all Bangladeshis. But all of them have rational cards and Aadhar cards and enjoy the protection of ruling party politicians and the police,” said Archana Banik, a housewife who stays near Kali Mandir on Nivedita Sarani which is also across the highway from ‘Chhota Pakistan’.
Gobinda Pal, owner of a shop selling pots and planters on NH 10, a little distance away from ‘Chhota Pakistan’ was also quoted as saying, “Even police don’t enter the area if they are not sufficient in numbers and armed. The criminals there are said to possess illegal arms and are quite ferocious.”
Road leading to Chhota Pakistan in Siliguri, West Bengal (Source: Swarajya)
Muslims speak in a distinctive Bangladeshi dialect
According to the online news portal Swarajya, it is readily apparent from their dialect that the majority of local Muslims living in Siliguri’s Lenin Colony are either Rohingyas or illegal immigrants from Bangladesh.
It reads that almost 300 families of ‘Chhota Pakistan’ speak in a distinctive Bangladeshi dialect, while the Rohingyas speak in their distinct dialect that bears a close resemblance to Chatgaiya, the dialect of Chittagong, a province in northeastern Bangladesh that is next to the Rakhine state of Myanmar.
Although they attempt to speak ‘proper’ Bengali—the dialect of Nadia is regarded as shudh or pure Bengali—they commonly revert to Bangladeshi dialects, particularly the Rangpuri and Rajshahi dialects.
This is due to the fact that the majority of illegal Bangladeshi immigrants who have landed in North Bengal come from the northwest Bangladeshi divisions of Rangpur and Rajshahi, which border North Bengal.
‘Earlier documents lost due to floods’: Common excuse given by most such illegal immigrants
According to the Swarajya report, a few “Chhota Pakistan” inhabitants reportedly consented to answer their journalist’s questions. They all acknowledged that the hamlet was recently established and that they had moved to the area only a few years ago. They, however, firmly denied being illegal immigrants from Bangladesh.
Our farmland and homestead land in Malda was washed away and we had nowhere to go. So we came and settled down here,” Manowara Bibi (35), a shanty dweller who operates a small store selling goods like tea, cigarettes, gutka, and other products was quoted by the news portal as saying.
“People label us as Bangladeshis, but we are all Indians,” she lambasted as she showed an Aadhar card issued in 2020.
Manowara Bibi, a mother of six, casually responds when asked why she only filed for and received her Aadhar card three years ago: “All our documents and possessions got washed away during the floods in Malda in 2018.”
All people of “Chhota Pakistan” frequently recite this refrain about losing earlier documents as a result of floods. They all assert to be displaced due to the climate from the districts of Malda and North and South Dinajpur.
But if you question them about the towns or villages in those districts from which they originated, they, somehow,l immediately become hostile.
Nurul Azzam, a 30-year-old assistant who works at a small vehicle repair workshop close to Bagdogra Airport, when asked the same question, claimed that because of memory loss, he was unable to recall the name of his original village in Dinajpur.
When questioned about the dialect he uses, the Rohingya/Chittagong native claimed that one of his neighbours in the Dinajpur area where he grew up immigrated from Chittagong sometime in the 1940s, from whom he picked it up.
The report further reads that when he was further prodded he turned quite aggressive and combative.
I have cards,” Azzam, who has two wives and seven children from them, said. But when he was asked to show the ‘cards’ (by which he meant Aadhaar, ration and voter ID), he shouted, “Go away. I have work to do.”
“I voted two years ago (in the Assembly elections) and will vote again next year,” Azzam added mockingly.
The Swarajya journalist again attempted to quiz him by asking, “What are next year’s elections about?” This riled up Azzam who reportedly murmured some expletives in Chatgaiya (the dialect of Chittagong that’s very close to the dialect of Rohingyas) and turned away.
Illegal immigrants radicalised by TMC-backed clerics
According to Swarajya, there are two makeshift mosques in Lenin Colony and the clerics there are reportedly illegal Bangladeshi immigrants. It is known that these preachers indoctrinate immigrants with a conservative and radical version of Islam.
The clerics, who have complete authority over the neighbourhood, are apparently now close to some Trinamool Congress leaders there. They were previously patronized by the CPI(M).
These clerics are in charge of ensuring that all residents of “Chhota Pakistan” vote for the ruling party in each and every election. In return, they receive tons of favours and gifts. One such cleric reportedly lives in a two-story house, owns a motorcycle, and manages a convenience store close to Shiv Mandir More in Siliguri.
The ‘poverty’ of his fellow Muslims in ‘Chhota Pakistan’ stands in stark contrast to his ‘prosperity’.
The local Muslims here are engaged in minimal jobs like daily labourers, rickshaw pullers, helpers in bicycle and tire repair shops, rag pickers, etc. that provide them with just enough money to sustain themselves.
The desperation to earn more clubbed with the police and the political favouritism they receive encourage them to turn to crime.
‘Chhota Pakistan’ is widely known to be a hub of drug peddlers. The police have raided the area many times and seized drugs like marijuana, but the peddling continues nonetheless.
Moreover, there are claims that some of the locals participate in human trafficking. Many criminals who operate in other parts of the city and even the neighbourhood can find refuge in “Chhota Pakistan.”
Given the notoriety that “Chhota Pakistan” has acquired, the BJP is now demanding that there should be a thorough background check of members of all 300 or so families living in the area and the ones who are found to be illegal immigrants should be deported.
However, the ruling Trinamool Congress party led by Mamata Banerjee has vehemently objected to the moniker given to Lenin Colony. It also has been categorically rejecting the demands being raised by the BJP party. “There are no illegal immigrants in Lenin Colony. All of them are Indians,” asserted Siliguri Mayor Gautam Deb.
‘Chhota Pakistan’ will continue to be protected because of the support of the ruling party, and it will only attract more illegal immigrants, who represent a critical vote base for the Trinamool Congress. The report suggests that the area has been growing, and an ‘annexe’ of the colony has started coming up on the opposite bank (the right or eastern bank) of the Balasun River adjoining the Matigara tea estate. And as a result, the city’s crime graph will inevitably shift to the north. However, the politicians in power don’t care about that much because their sole priority is winning the upcoming elections.
Chhota Pakistan’s Mohammad Abbas rapes and bludgeon minor to death
On Monday (August 11), the police arrested a 22 year-old-man named Mohammed Abbas in connection to the gruesome murder of a minor girl. The incident took place in Matigara in the Siliguri subdivision of West Bengal.
As per reports, the victim (name withheld) was attacked by Abbas while she was returning home from school. The accused took the underage girl inside an abandoned house at Rabindrapally and allegedly attempted to rape her.
When she resisted, he smashed her face with a brick. The locals heard her screams and found the victim, lying in a pool of blood, wearing the school uniform. She breathed her last soon after.
BJP demands CBI inquiry
Condemning the incident that took place last week, Darjeeling Lok Sabha MP Raju Bista had demanded a CBI enquiry into the heinous crime. He lambasted the Mamata Banerjee government in West Bengal saying that such crimes by residents of ‘Chhota Pakistan’ are the direct result of the “shelter and support provided to illegal immigrants and criminal elements in North Bengal by the state government”.
“Our children and our womenfolk are not safe anymore because of the threat posed by illegal immigrants who are provided shelter and support by the ruling party for its narrow political ends,” said Bista.
“Mamata Banerjee says she won’t allow an exercise to update the NRC to be conducted in Bengal. That encourages more illegal immigration from Bangladesh and also gives immunity to criminal elements among these immigrants,” Bista added.
Demographic change in North Bengal
Notably, due to a significant influx of illegal immigrants from Bangladesh over the past few decades, the city’s demographics, as well as those of most of North Bengal, have altered.
Nearly 10% of the people in the city are Muslims, the bulk of whom are illegal immigrants or the children of illegal immigrants from Bangladesh, and who are the majority in several parts of the area.
Muslims made up only approximately 3% of Siliguri’s population until a few decades ago. In recent decades, a large number of districts in North Bengal, notably those near important defence facilities, have shifted to a predominantly Muslim population.
The Vadodara police identified a network of local Muslim men who used to harass Muslim girls constantly in the city if they were seen with Hindu boys. The accused would make videos of the girls, and blackmail their families by showing the videos. The three accused persons have been identified as Mustakin, Najumian, and Sahil Sheikh and have been taken into custody by the police in this case.
According to the reports, one of the videos grabbed police attention after which the latter began an investigation into the case. The police found that the accused boys would deliberately target the Muslim girls and Hindu boys and later blackmail their families.
Police confirmed that these accused persons operated a WhatsApp group in which they used to monitor Muslim girls. They used to keep a watch on them and confront them if found or even saw a Hindu boy around them. They used to harass Muslim girls and videotape them with their male Hindu friends and would later use the same tape to blackmail the girls’ respective families.
Reports mention that a similar video from Vadodara had gone viral two months ago in which a Hindu boy and a Muslim girl were seen sitting at an ice cream parlor near Akota Bridge in the city. Some youngsters then reached the spot, created a ruckus, and also grabbed the young man’s collar before thrashing him.
DCP Abhay Soni commented on the issue and told the media that the incident came to the fore as he was keeping a watch on the social media platforms to ensure that no communal incident takes place amid the festive season. “A viral video was seen on Twitter, in which two men and women of different religions were walking around, and some people surrounded them and misbehaved. On examination of the video, it was found that WhatsApp groups have been created, targeting people in where the girl and the boy were from different religions,” he said.
DCP Soni also added that this particular network has spread all over the city and it seems that many youths from specific communities have joined the said social media group.
According to him, these youths used to keep a constant watch and if any Muslim girl was seen with a Hindu youth, they would reach there immediately and start a ruckus. “Their modus operandi was to keep a group active for three to four months and then delete it and create a new one. Police found one such group called ‘Army of Mehndi’, whose three administrators have been arrested. They have been identified as Mustakin Imtiaz Sheikh, Buranwala Najumian Syed, and Sahil Shahbuddin Sheikh,” Soni said.
The police meanwhile also informed that the accused persons were planning to carry out incidents like mob lynching in the city. A case has been registered against the trio under sections 153A, 201, and 505 of the IPC. Their phones have been seized and will be sent for further investigation.
Earlier on August 16, OpIndia had reported a similar incident in which it was exposed how Islamists are actively using WhatsApp to radicalize and provoke their co-religionists to identify and harass inter-faith couples.
2023 witnessed the rising menace of targeted attacks by Islamists against inter-faith couples in different parts of India. Opindia had documented over 50 cases of real-life attacks on Hindu men and their female Muslim partners/ friends by these extremists over the past several months in the name of combating the ‘Bhagwa Love Trap’.
OpIndia also exposed how these extremists coordinate to carry out vigilante surveillance and spot checks in complete violation of the constitutional rights of the victims. The exclusive report can be read here.
Indian women are achieving new milestones by leaving their mark on society with roles and responsibilities that were often given only to men. Geetika Srivastava has reportedly been appointed the chargé d’affaires in the Indian high commission in Islamabad, the first woman diplomat to hold the position. Srivastava is currently Joint Secretary (Indo-Pacific) in the Ministry of External Affairs.
Srivastava is likely to take up her assignment in Islamabad shortly opposite her Pakistani counterpart Saad Warraich who will be the Islamic country’s new chargé d’affaires in New Delhi. India’s current mission head in Pakistan, Suresh Kumar is expected to return to the capital soon.
Srivastava hails from the 2005 batch of the Indian Foreign Service. She served in the Indian embassy in China during 2007-09. She also worked at the Regional Passport Office in Kolkata and as director of the Indian Ocean Region division in MEA.
Ever since Pakistan decided to downgrade diplomatic relations with India, missions of both countries in New Delhi and Islamabad have not been headed by high commissions since August 2019. Pakistan had recently called back Salman Sharif, the previous Pakistani chargé d’affaires to Islamabad.
Meanwhile, Kaziranga National Park in Assam is set to get its first woman field director starting in September. Dr Sonali Ghosh is currently the chief conservator of forests. The appointment was issued by the Assam government. She will be the first woman field director in the 118-year-old history of the Kaziranga National Park and Tiger Reserve.
Kaziranga National Park of Assam to get its first woman director. Sonali Ghosh would become the first woman to hold charge as the head of the 118-year-old Kaziranga National Park and Tiger Reserve. She would take over from incumbent Jatindra Sarma on September 1. pic.twitter.com/dJ3mBCtxcH
— Nandan Pratim Sharma Bordoloi (@NANDANPRATIM) August 27, 2023
Ghosh will take charge of the park from field officer Jatindra Sarma who will retire on 31st August. Ghosh is presently working as chief conservator of forests for research education and working plan division at the office of the principal chief conservator of forests and head of the forest force in Guwahati. Ghosh is reportedly a top performer from the 2000-2003 IFS batch.
