On the 2nd of August, Former Rajasthan Minister Rajendra Gudha held a press conference and shared some specifics from the ‘Red Diary’ that reportedly contains details of Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot’s financial transactions and other corrupt dealings.
During the press conference, Gudha read out three pages from the diary and also shared specifics with the media. He stated that the corruption details and financial transactions of the Rajasthan Cricket Association (RCA) are clearly mentioned on these pages.
In these purported pages, there is an alleged conversation between Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot’s OSD Saubhag Singh and Tourism Development Corporation Chairman Dharmendra Rathore. The alleged conversation is regarding the settlement and dealings in the election of RCA. It is worth noting that CM’s son Vaibhav Gehlot is currently the president of RCA.
Gudha has claimed that in these pages Rathore, a close aide of the CM, has mentioned transactions with the CM’s son and RCA secretary Bhavani Samota, among others.
According to Gudha, the handwriting on these purported pages is of Dharmendra Rathore and to hold these leaders accountable for the illicit transactions, he wanted to table the Red Diary in the Vidhansabha. With this, he stated that all the facts would have come out officially, however, he stated that he was prevented from doing so in the assembly and Congress MLAs pushed him.
He alleged that following his disclosure, action should have been taken against Congress MLAs who manhandled him, instead of that he was suspended from the assembly session for speaking against the Congress government’s misgovernance, corruption, and failure on the law-and-order front.
He asserted that he will keep making revelations on the pages from the Red diary and even if he is sent to jail, his trusted person will keep sharing these pages with the media. However, he cleared that some pages of the diary are missing but assured the media that he will share all the pages that are intact. He also added that he is not blackmailing the government instead it is the complete opposite and Congress leader Randhawa had been pressurizing him to apologize for doing all these disclosures.
The content of these three pages
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Vaibhav Ji (CM Ashok Gehlot’s son) and I both discussed the RCA election expenses, and how Bhavani Samota is not giving people’s money despite earlier agreements. Rajeev Khanna and Bhavani Samota came to the house and did financial transactions for the RCA election. Bhavani Samota did not fulfill the promise he had made to most of the people. I said it is not right. If you complete it, Bhavani Samota said that I will apprise CP sir about this and will let you know by January 31.
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Bhavani Samota is former RAS officer and is currently the secretary of RCA. It is claimed that he is close to Rajasthan assembly speaker Dr. CP Joshi. Earlier, Samota has also been Personal Secretary to CP Joshi.
Gudha had mentioned Lal Diary earlier as well. He claimed how much money was given to which national leader of Congress, all these things are also written in this Red diary. He stressed that this money was paid to those leaders on a monthly basis and it was done so that these leaders keep lobbying for CM Ashok Gehlot. He alleged that Gehlot’s chair was saved by lobbying in front of Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi.
How the issue has brought Congress government’s corruption issue to the forefront
The controversy surrounding the ‘Red Diary’ started on 24 July when MLA from Udaipurwati assembly seat Rajendra Gudha waved it in the house after he was sacked as a state Minister for highlighting the failure of the state government in protecting women. He went in front of the assembly speaker with the diary. Following the incident, he was suspended from the House for the entire session.
Last month while addressing a public meeting in Jhunjhunu, Rajendra Gudha made a sensational claim and launched an attack on CM Ashok Gehlot. During the public rally, he said, ‘ED and Income Tax had raided the house of Dharmendra Rathore. On the orders of CM Gehlot, I took out the red diary from the house where the raid was going on. If I had not taken out the red diary, CM Gehlot would have been in jail. In this red diary, there is a complete account of what all was given to the MLAs to keep them in his fold.”
In his Sikar rally on 27 July, PM Modi made a reference to the ‘Red Diary’ and took a jibe at the Ashok Gehlot-led Congress government. He stated that it is said that the Congress party’s black deeds seem to be listed in this red diary.
On 31st July, an Islamic mob in Nuh of Mewat, Haryana, attacked thousands of Hindu devotees attending the Jalabhishek Yatra on Shravan Somvar. OpIndia accessed several FIRs registered in the case. As per the FIR registered on the complaint of Assistant Sub Inspector Dharmendra, the complainant mentioned that the rioters raised slogans of Allah-Hu-Akbar and Pakistan Zindabad while attacking the devotees at the temple.
Details of the FIR
FIR was registered on the complaint of Assistant Sub Inspector Dharmendra under Sections 148, 149, 295A, 332, 353, 186, 188, 427, 435, 307 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), Section 25 or Arms Act and Section 4 of Prevention of Damage to Public Property Act. FIR was registered against Lukman, Sahil Wajid Hussain, Jaakar, Mushtaq and 800-900 others.
Source: Haryana Police
ASI Dharmendra, ASI Arun Singh, Head Constable Jitendra, home guard Bir Singh, home guard Trilok, home guard Aijaz, SPO Narendra and other police officials, along with driver Mohammed Bilal were stationed at the temple during the Jalabhishek Yatra.
In his complaint, ASI Dharmendra said he was posted at Nalhad temple for duty during Mewat Jalabhishek Yatra. Around 800-900 unknown people of specific communities started moving towards Shiv Mandir to cause trouble during the religious program in a planned manner. They were raising slogans of Allah-Hu-Akbar and had batons, sticks, stones and illegal weapons in their hands.
My associates and I tried to alleviate the situation. We attempted to stop them, but they started pelting stones and opened fire to kill the devotees present for Jalabhishek and police personnel while raising Allah-Hu-Akbar slogans. During the attack, home guards Bir Singh and Trilok got injured.
They tried to argue with them and stop them from attacking. Still, the members of the Muslim community started walking towards the temple while raising Allah-Hu-Akbar and Pakistan Zindabad slogans. ASI fired three shots in the air to disperse the crowd, but instead of running away, the Islamist mob started damaging vehicles parked on the road leading to the temple. They threw petrol on the vehicles and used petrol-filled bottles to burn down the vehicles while raising Pakistan Zindabad and Allah-Hu-Akbar slogans.
OpIndia’s complete coverage of Mewat Shobha Yatra Attack can be checked here.
Ismail, also known as Ismail Yusuf Hajat, was found guilty and convicted by Additional Sessions Judge Shankuntala Solanki on Monday for the abduction, rape, and murder of a 20-month-old child. The judge sentenced him to the death penalty for committing the heinous crime.
The charges against him were based on sections 302 (murder) and 376AB (rape of a girl under 12 years of age) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and various sections of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act.
Confirming the court’s decision, Nayan Sukhadwala, the district government pleader, stated that Ismail also received a life imprisonment sentence for sections 364 (kidnapping with intent to murder) and 366 (kidnapping with intent to rape) of the IPC. In addition to these harsh sentences, he was ordered to pay a fine of ₹1,000.
Considering the devastated state of the victim’s family, the court went further, instructing Ismail to pay ₹10 lacks to the grieving relatives. The brutality of the crime became apparent when it was revealed that the young girl’s body had suffered severe injuries, including bite marks on her abdominal area.
The prosecution’s case was built on substantial evidence, revealing that Ismail, who was acquainted with the girl’s father, cunningly deceived the innocent child by promising to buy her snacks on February 27. However, Ismail never returned with the child, causing great distress to the family, who promptly alerted the police. Tragically, several hours later, the lifeless body of the girl was discovered near a lake, hidden behind an abandoned building in Kapletha village. At this point, Ismail had already disappeared.
Despite the setbacks, the police launched an exhaustive search operation and eventually tracked Ismail down to a village near Surat. On February 28, they apprehended him, and he was subsequently charged with the appalling crimes of rape and murder.
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has now arrested a total of 12 people in connection with the car explosion that occurred last year in the vicinity of the Sangameswarar temple in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu.
Jameesha Mubin (29), from HMPR Street at Kottaimedu, the organizer of the attack was close friends with the 25-year-old Mohammed Idris of GM Nagar near Ukkadam in Coimbatore. The former drove a car filled with explosives in steel drums and LPG cylinders and was killed after the car bomb went off in front of the Hindu religious place at Kottaimedu on 23 October 2022, around 4 am.
According to sources, Mohammed Idris was involved in the criminal scheme that caused the automobile blast. His participation was identified by the investigators after looking at his call detail records along with the statements of other accused.
They further stated that he was called to the NIA’s temporary headquarters here on 31 July. Moreover, he was told to show up early morning the next day. The agency apprehended him and transported him to Chennai after the second round of questioning. The former is anticipated to present him to the NIA special court at Poonamalle in Chennai on 2nd August.
The organization submitted a chargesheet against six offenders in the case on 20 April including Mohammed Azharudheen, Muhammad Thalha, Firoz Ismail, Muhammed Riyas, Nawaz Ismail, and Afsar Khan. Umar Farooq, Firoz Khan, Mohammed Thoufiq, Sheikh Hidayathullah and Sanofar Ali were the subjects of a supplemental chargesheet that was filed by the agency on 2 June.
The main accused, according to the NIA, was motivated by Zahran Hashim, the perpetrator of the 2019 Easter bombings in Sri Lanka, to operate an Islamic State (IS) module. Jameesha Mubin intended to plan an attack resembling the bombs on Easter Sunday. NIA officials unearthed over 75 kg of potassium nitrate, aluminium powder, sulphur and charcoal during a search at his rented house on the second floor of a building.
The opposition parties including the All India Anna Dravidian Progressive Federation (AIADMK) and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) termed the blast as a failure of the state government.
2019 Sri Lanka Easter bombings
Three churches in Sri Lanka and three upscale hotels in the country’s commercial city, Colombo, were the targets of a coordinated ISIS-related terrorist suicide bombing attack on 21 April 2019 on Easter Sunday. A total of 269 individuals died, including eight suicide bombers, three police officers, and at least 45 foreign nationals. 500 more people suffered injuries.
The church bombings were carried out during Easter services in Negombo, Batticaloa and Colombo and the hotels bombed included the Shangri-La, Cinnamon Grand, Kingsbury, and Tropical Inn. A second round of strikes, according to the State Intelligence Service, was planned but was thwarted by government raids.
All eight of the suicide bombers involved in the attacks, according to Sri Lankan government sources, were Sri Lankan residents affiliated with the National Thowheeth Jama’ath (NTJ), an Islamic terrorist group with possible foreign connections that has a history of attacking Buddhists in Sri Lanka.
Actor Akshay Kumar’s controversial film OMG 2 has received certification from the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) as the film is set for its theatrical release on August 11. The Amit Rai directorial has got an ‘Adults Only’ that is an ‘A’ certificate. OMG 2 has been passed for release with around 27 modifications.
Alongside Akshay Kumar the also has actress Yami Gautam and actor Pankaj Tripathi in lead roles. It is notable that the songs and teaser of the film OMG 2 are already out, the trailer of the film was not released yet since the censor board has cleared it. In an Instagram post, actor Akshay Kumar informed that the trailer of the controversial film will be released on August 2nd.
The censor board has asked the makers of the film to make certain changes to Akshay Kumar’s character in the film including his portrayal of Lord Shiva in the film. Now the character played by Akshay Kumar has been altered from Lord Shiva to a messenger and a devotee of the Hindu God. In addition, scenes depicting frontal nudity in scenes involving Naga Sadhus have also been modified and have been replaced with side shots. A condom advertisement has also been removed.
The film board also asked for alterations to a dialogue that goes like this: “Nandi mere bhakt… Jo agya prabhu.” Additionally, the CBFC has removed the Temple announcement that refers to women as “Bhagwan ko bhakti…mahilayein nahi dekh sakti” to “O laal shirt wale bhaiya..baba ka dhayan karte rahe.”
The dialogue “High court maza aayega” has also been cut out since it is vulgar and disparaging to the body in question. The word “Rat” was also deleted from the label of the bottle containing the rat poison on the board’s changed visuals.
It is worth noting that the CBFC modified the visuals and dialogues – “Kya hove hai…till. aap ashleel keh rahi” by removing words “Shivji ke ling, ashleelta, Shri Bhagwad Gita, reference to Upanishad, atharved, Draupadi, Pandav, Krishna, gopiyaan, rasleela.
A dialogue from the now-modified character played by Akshay Kumar, the messenger of God, “Main… taang kyun adhaoon,” has been cut and appropriately replaced by the censor board. In addition, the board edited and replaced the scene of the Messenger of God bathing and meditating with appropriate replacement visuals. Additionally, the dialogue and visual parts of the scene where Kanti confronts a sex worker with sculptures of unnatural sex have been changed to more suitable ones.
The vulgar gestures made by the court orderly during the dialogue “Stree ki yoni…hawan kund hai” at two points and other notable alterations to the dialogue in OMG 2 are among them. The board also replaced the word ‘Haram’ with ‘Paap’.
The censor board noted that since the story is a work of fiction and place agonistic, it has changed the mentioned location to a fictional location and eliminated any overt references to any specific real-world location where it takes place.
The CBFC additionally modified the word “Ling” so that it is no longer used in isolation but rather as Shivling or Shiv, only when appropriate. The visuals of the youngster performing a sexual act have been toned down and appropriately changed in accordance with NCPCR guidelines.
With around 27 cuts and modifications and the ongoing controversy around the film’s subject as well as OMG 2’s box office clash with Sunny Deol and Ameesha Patel’s much-hyped Gadar 2, it will be interesting to see how the audience receives the Akshay Kumar starrer.
On 2nd August, Gurugram’s Assistant Commissioner of Police Varun Dahiya assured Muslim community members that the police would ensure their safety and security. In his statement, ACP Dahiya urged the public not to believe in rumours and assured everything was under control in the district. He also urged all communities to maintain peace and live in harmony. Five FIRs were registered in Sohna Sub Division in relation to the violence in Gurugram in response to the violence in Nuh.
"I appeal to all to not pay heed to rumours on social media. If anyone wants to report any information, they can reach helpline number '112'": Gurugram ACP, Varun Kumar Dahiya #GurugramPolice#Gurugrampic.twitter.com/Ma697ELkf8
Replying to media queries, ACP Dahiya said 30 people were put under preventive custody. Eight people have been arrested so far. When asked about the protests announced by Bajrang Dal and Vishwa Hindu Parishad, he said the police were extensively monitoring all the locations. 110 police personnel were deployed exclusively to monitor the situation around communal violence. Furthermore, a total of 2,850 police personnel are deployed across Gurugram to maintain law and order.
The ACP mentioned that Section 144 had been imposed across the district, and special arrangements were made at the sensitive locations. Speaking about the educational institutes, ACP Dahiya said they were shut as a precaution for one day. All institutes were opened on 2nd August as the situation came under control. When asked about the number of deaths and injured in Gurugram, he said only one death and one injured were reported in Anjuman disputed structure (under construction masjid) case.
He said, “Following the incidents in Nuh, incidents of violence were reported in Gurugram on 31st July and 1st August. A total of 15 FIRs have been registered so far against 200 people. Eight accused have been arrested. 30 people were put under preventive custody. One of the FIRs was registered in the Anjuman Masjid case. Two people were injured, out of which one succumbed to injuries. Ankit, Ravinder, Rahul and Rakesh have been arrested in the matter.”
He added Mohammed Saad, who died in the incident, was stabbed while his associate, who is getting treated for his injuries, was shot in the leg. He said, “We have identified the person who opened fire. He will be arrested soon.”
A reporter claimed that police were already present when the incident happened at Anjuman masjid, but ACP Dahiya said police reached there after receiving calls. By then, the accused had escaped. They were identified using CCTV and eyewitness statements. He urged the public not to believe in the rumours that the companies have been asked to opt for Work From Home or that there were any restrictions. He added the traffic flow was smooth and normal.
ACP Dahiya said Hindus were roaming in small groups to target Muslims. He said, “On 1st August, we had inputs about possible attacks. Those boys [Hindus] are roaming in small groups to target Muslim community members. Police have been deployed for their [Muslims] safety. The four incidents of arson that were reported are under investigation.”
He added, “It has come to notice in the last two days that the Muslim community was targeted, especially on social media. Gurugram police condemn the rumours that are being spread. I want to assure Muslim community members that if they feel unsafe, they can dial 112 and inform the police. We received some calls, and I assured them they were safe. They do not have to leave their houses and shops. If someone feels unsafe, Gurugram police will ensure their safety and security.”
He urged members of Muslim and Hindu communities not to leave Gurugram in fear. He said, “I would like to request everyone via media not to believe any rumours spreading, especially using social media. Gurugram police are here to help you.” He added as Gurugram Police companies were sent to Nuh to help the local police, additional companies of Rapid Action Force (RAF) has been deployed in the city. Ś
He also assured strict action would be taken against Monu Manesar.
Check OpIndia’s complete coverage of the Mewat Shobha Yatra Attack here.
Two Karnataka government officials were suspended for not inviting State Rural Development and Panchayat Raj (RDPR) Minister Priyank Kharge to an event in Mangalore on 31st July, Monday. The officials, Moodbidri Taluk Panchayat Executive Officer Dayavathi and Iruvail Gram Panchayat Panchayat Development Officer Kanthappa were suspended for violation of protocol.
The event was the inauguration of Iruvail panchayat’s new building. Kharge’s name was allegedly not printed on the invitation cards for the inauguration. BJP MLA for Moodbidri Umanath Kotian hit out at the Congress government saying that the officials had followed the protocol guidelines issued by the Deputy Commissioner’s (DC) office.
Kotian issued a warning saying that if the orders are not withdrawn, a protest will be held outside the office of Dakshina Kannada Zilla Panchayat office Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Anand K. He alleged that the event itself was cancelled.
The CEO reportedly said, “The revocation proposal will be sent to the government by today or tomorrow. If the government considers it positively, they will take a decision on suspension revocation.”
Kotian called out the move before Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah at a public meeting. “As per instructions from the DC office, the invitation cards were printed and guest names were mentioned which included the Assembly Speaker UT Khader’s name.” he said.
CEO Anand K reportedly told the media that “It’s not about the minister attending the event. When an invitation card is printed, a protocol has to be followed. Not only printing, but the minister also needs to be personally invited after printing names on the card.”
Kotian said that the invitation did not exclude any names. “Fearing disciplinary action both the EO and PDO postponed the programme. Yet they both were placed under suspension”, he said. Kotian also questioned the rule requiring a minister to be invited to gram panchayat events.
Taking a jibe at the government, Kotain said, “Is it possible for the minister to attend every programme? Isn’t the district-in-charge minister enough for local-level Panchayat programmes?”
Priyank Kharge, son of Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, has consistently managed to make headlines ever since becoming a minister. Earlier in June, Congress MLA Priyank Kharge publicly displayed his camaraderie with Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair by referring to the latter as ‘chief.’
Kharge heads the same IT and biotechnology Departments, which were entrusted to set up the ‘fact-checking unit comprising Alt News, Boom Live, E Din, Logical(ly), etc.
On Monday, July 31, 2023, Islamists went on a rampage in the Nuh region in Haryana’s Mewat, area, famously called ‘mini-Pakistan’. The violence took place during the Jalabhishek Yatra taken out by members of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad on the auspicious Monday of the Shravan month.
Whatever the Liberals and Islamists may do to defend the Muslim mob that attacked Hindus in Nuh, Haryana, the first-hand accounts from the innocent Hindus who fell victim to this planned Islamist onslaught have a different tale to tell.
Reports suggest that two home guards and a sweetmaker named Shakti Saini were killed along with Bajrang Dal member Abhishek Rajput in the July 31 violence. Another Hindu who fell prey to this barbarity unleashed by the bloodthirsty Muslims was a Bajrang Dal activist named Pradeep Kumar.
Pradeep Kumar, as per an eyewitness account, was rescued safely from the Nalhar temple, where several Hindus were hiding to save themselves from the Islamist mob, and brought to the Nuh police lines. The Islamists, however, ruthlessly killed him on Tuesday, August 1, while he was returning from the police station.
Kapil Tyagi, another Bajrang Dal activist who was accompanying Pradeep Kumar when he was attacked and killed, spoke to Opindia. Recalling how the murderous Islamist mob launched a vicious attack on their car while they were returning from Nuh police lines in the early hours of Tuesday, Kapil Tyagi said that it appeared as if these Islamists were waiting in ambush the entire night. “When they saw our car, they launched a murderous attack on us. Pradeep Kumar, who could not defend himself due to being badly injured, died.” Kapil Tyagi also suffered a lot of injuries in this attack and is undergoing treatment.
According to Kapil Tyagi, he and Pradeep were taken to the Nuh police station after being rescued by the police from the Nalhar temple. After keeping them at the police station for a few hours, at around 2 am on Tuesday (August 1), the police asked them to go back to their respective homes. They told Kapil and Pradeep that a police van would escort them to Gurugram.
Kapil Tyagi further recalled how Pradeep Kumar offered to drive back. They sat in Kapil Tyagi’s Swift Dzire. Three women Bajrang Dal activists, who were also brought to the police station along with Pradeep and Kapil, sat in the back seat of the car. Pradeep volunteered to drop them home first.
Furthering narrating the horror that befell them on Tuesday night, Kapil Tyagi said that when they left the police station their colleagues followed them in another Ertiga car while a police van escorted them. After covering a short distance, the police asked the Bajrang Dal members to proceed on their own. They assured them that the police officers stationed in the Sohna area had done all required security checks and the route was clear. Kapil said that even though he urged the police to follow them further, the latter insisted that they proceed on their own. The police suggested they take the route along the border area.
According to Kapil Tyagi, the route they took was mostly deserted. They had only travelled a short distance without the police when an unfamiliar speeding Scorpio car started following them. Their car must have travelled only a kilometre or two, when, suddenly the Scorpio car intercepted them. Within seconds, from nowhere, a mob of around 300-400 Islamists, including children and aged, came and started pelting stones at their car, said Kapil, adding that the stones went and hit the women passengers sitting in the back seat of his car. Kapil asked the ladies to quickly get out of the car and run and hide somewhere to save their lives.
Meanwhile, one stone pierced through the windscreen of the car and hit Pradeep Kumar, who was sitting in the driver seat, on his head. Pradeep immediately fell unconscious.
Kapil, who sounded horrified recalling what unfolded on that dreadful night, stated that he hurriedly jumped out of the car and attempted to confront the mob. The mob, however, dragged him and started assaulting him. Some people in the mob opened the car door, dragged Pradeep Kumar out, and started to beat him as well. The women most likely hid nearby, he said.
The Bajrang Dal activist said that he kept trying to escape the clutches of the Islamists but every time he tried to do that they caught hold of him and thrashed him even more fiercely. The mob also rained stones at the Ertiga car, which was following their car, but his colleagues somehow managed to escape.
Kapil said that his fellow Bajrang members travelling in the Ertiga car rushed ahead and alerted the police officers stationed at the nearby junction about the attack that was taking place. The police rushed to the spot as soon as they got the information. Seeing the police vans, the mob started fleeing, said Kapil, adding that he faintly remembers that the police rescued him and the women who were hiding nearby and took them to a hospital nearby.
Kapil added that he, himself was injured so badly that he does not remember how Pradeep was saved by the police and when was he taken to the hospital. He added that while he was recuperating in the hospital he learnt that Pradeep Kumar succumbed to his injuries while undergoing treatment at Safdarjung Hospital in Delhi.
While narrating what transpired, Kapil Tyagi told us that he continues to be perplexed by how the Muslim mob was able to obtain such accurate information about the exact time they left the police station and the route they were taking to return home.
Pradeep Kumar, a resident of the Baghpat district of Uttar Pradesh, was an office bearer of the Bajrang Dal unit in Gurugram. Being the sole breadwinner of his family, he used to do odd jobs to support them. People associated with the Gurugram unit of Bajrang Dal said that the police will be sending the deceased’s body directly to his native village Baghpat after the autopsy is done and other legal formalities are completed.
As the religious procession came under attack in Nuh, Haryana on July 31, 2023, Hindu devotees revealed to OpIndia and several other platforms that stones were pelted at them from the rooftops, young Muslim boys and men had taken to the mountainous area and were shooting at them from the peaks, acid bottles were thrown at them and several women were harassed. During the violence, several women and children (ranging anywhere between 2000-2500) had taken shelter at the Temple and were rescued only hours later by the police.
OpIndia reported how another Bajrang Dal activist named Abhishek Rajput was shot dead in the violence that the mob unleashed against thousands of Hindu devotees who were participating in the VHP Shobha Yatra on Monday. After shooting Abhishek Rajput, Islamists slit his throat with a sharp weapon and crushed his head with stones, the extent of brutality which is normally associated with terror outfits like the Taliban.
Notably, it has been revealed about Nuh violence that its preparations were being done for 6 months. During the attack, AK-47 was fired on the people surrounding the temple premises. A 14-year-old boy was also shooting.
While Islamists and their supporters had widely used social media platforms to mobile rioters, a report published by Hindustan Times sheds light on the extent the assailants went in the nefarious designs to attack Hindu processions in Haryana’s Muslim-majority region of Nuh.
As early as July 21, roughly ten days before the Jalabhishek Yatra was to take place, Islamists had been scheming to attack the devotees, laying elaborate plans on how to go about with their evil ploy.
Those arrested by the police over the violence that erupted in Nuh earlier this week have revealed in their interrogation that meetings were held and WhatsApp groups were created, and responsibilities were assigned to group leaders to collect stones and bottles to attack Hindu processions between July 21 to July 23, yet another corroboration of the preplanned nature of the violence that has engulfed the region since July 31.
Collecting stones and glass bottles was an easy task, the report quoted one of the local residents from Nuh who attended one such meeting as saying. Requesting anonymity for fear of retaliation from the rioters, the resident said local shops chiefly sold glass cold drink bottles, which made the task of arranging them easy. Additionally, the villagers in the region had been instructed beforehand to store stones for the purpose as well.
Another resident, who also requested to maintain anonymity, said that they had participated in arranging motorbikes to marshal the mob. He added that they had managed to gather over 200 bikes and took precautions by painting their registration plates with black paint to avoid police detection. Additionally, they managed to arrange around 3,000 glass bottles, with the majority intended to be used as projectiles. Some of the bottles were filled with petrol for more damaging effects. These prepared items were then distributed to different groups assigned to target the procession.
How the cover of ‘Monu Manesar attending the rally’ was used to perpetuate violence against Hindu procession
The report also highlighted how instigators rallied Islamists to attack the Hindu processions by fearmongering over Monu Manesar even though the police were yet to pinpoint his alleged role in the killing of Junaid and Nasir—who were abducted and subsequently killed on suspicion of cow smuggling.
Police officers from Haryana quoted in the Hindustan Times report have said that Monu Manesar has been on the run ever since the Rajasthan Police booked him in the abduction and murder of two Muslim cattle traders. His whereabouts, they claimed, were unknown and they were not aware of the location and time where he filmed the videos or the source from which he uploaded them.
The police officers hinted that Monu Manesar could have just been a scapegoat used by the rioters to rally the mob and indulge in violence against the participants of the procession. A senior officer from Haryana police said their numerous attempts to locate Monu Manesar at his residence or other potential hideouts have been in vain. The officer further stated that despite the challenges, their teams are persistently making efforts to track him down.
Mewat Shobha Yatra attack
On Monday, violence broke out in Haryana’s Nuh district during the ‘Brij Mandal Jalabhishek Yatra,’ which was organized by Vishwa Hindu Parishad and Bajrang Dal. The death toll from the clashes has now reached 5, including two personnel from the Haryana home guard. The deputy commissioner urged people to stay indoors, venture outside only for essential tasks, and disregard any circulating rumours.
Vehicles were burnt and stones pelted at the Vishwa Hindu Parishad’s Jalabhishek Yatra as clashes erupted between two communities in the Muslim-majority region of Mewat in Haryana.
“Religious Brajmandal Yatra” organized annually by Bajrang Dal, Islamic Jihadis pelted heavy stones, violence, arson and direct bullets from the hills on the pilgrims on the ancient “Religious Yatra” of Nallahad Shiv Temple, the centre of faith and reverence of Hindus in Nuh, Mewat. In which hundreds of vehicles were damaged and burnt to ashes,” said a statement shared by Bajrang Dal on Twitter.
Earlier, VHP leaders had asserted that the violence was preplanned and that the conspiracy to attack their procession had been hatched well in advance. Speaking to OpIndia, the VHP leader present in Nuh when the violence erupted shared details about the attack on the religious yatra. He alleged that it was a planned attack and the mob had collected stones two days prior to the Shobha Yatra. He added that the mob had a clear intention of attacking Hindus during the religious procession.
The Islamist mob also attacked and desecrated several Hindu temples in the region, the VHP leader added.
Another VHP leader who narrowly escaped death at the hands of Islamists said, “It was indeed preplanned. From their preparations, it did not appear like the spur-of-the-moment eruption of violence but a carefully planned, well-thought-out conspiracy to trap Hindus and kill them. 15-year-old boys were sitting on their knees and firing at us.”
In the midst of the massive violence in Nuh in Haryana which erupted after the Muslim mob attacked the Jalabhishek procession organized by Hindus in Mewat region, several media reports are making attempts to shield or defend the community who pelted stones in the first place at a Mahadev temple and the participants of the procession.
In one such attempt media channels like the Times of India and the ABP news have highlighted that two members from a Hindu family and a female police officer were protected and escorted by a Muslim family from the violent mob amid the clashes in Nuh. The reports indicated that Muslims were of help to Hindus amid the ruckus further trying to play down the fact that the violence was erupted by the Islamists in the city.
Residents of Sohna, Karan Singh and his son Vivek were in Nuh for some work after which they decided to visit the temple and be a part of the Jalabhishek Yatra. However, as the Islamists attacked the yatra, the father-so duo were dragged out of their car and thrashed by the violent mob. After this, the duo ran for their lives and found shelter in a Muslim joint family of around 15 members.
Image source- ABP news
Later a female cop also arrived at the spot to save her life from the violent attacking mob. The Muslim family provided the three with food, shelter and also protected them from the attacking crowd. Later they were escorted after the situation turned calm after a few hours.
Interestingly, the reports stated that the Muslim family provided the Hindus also with some Muslim-looking clothes. The woman cop was given a burqa and the father-son duo were provided with some T-shirts which had Muslim symbols imprinted on them. As per the reports, this was to save the three from the attackers who were indicatively Islamists. The Muslim family probably speculated that the attackers might spare the father-son duo and the woman cop after seeing them in Muslim clothes.
While the gesture by the family towards the victims is appreciative and worth lauding, it is important to note that the violence erupted in the city only after the Islamists attacked the Jalabhishedk procession. Further, while the reports clearly mention that the family helping the Hindus belonged to the Muslim community, they fail to highlight that the attacking men in the Nuh region also belonged to the Muslim community, slightly trying to shield the attackers.
Singh and Vivek after being sent safe by the Muslim family went to fetch their car but saw it torched. Their phones and other important documents were also set ablaze by the violent crowd who earlier had thrashed the duo. The police then escorted the two back to their home in Sohna.
What happened in Nuh that day?
It was reported earlier that several devotees were stuck at various locations including Nuh temples, chowk, and near the police station after the mob raising slogans of “Allahu Akbar” attacked the Yatra in a planned manner. Following the violence, VHP president Alok Kumar had urged the police and administration to quickly rescue the devotees stressing that the yatra is an annual affair and this year it was targeted in a planned and organised manner.
The VHP members also highlighted that the mob had targeted the procession in an organised manner as a result of this many devotees had turned hostage finding shelter to protect themselves from stone pelting and gunshots. According to media reports, around 2500 people had taken shelter in a temple near Gurugram.
However, the Nuh Police informed to OpIndia that all the Hindus who were trapped in the temple were rescued and that they had been sent home safely. A total of 5 people, including 2 Home Guard personnel, were killed in this violence. The others who have been brutally killed have been identified as Bajrang Dal activist Abhishek Rajput and sweet seller Shakti Saini.
Abhishek and Saini brutally killed by Islamists in Nuh
The Islamists dragged the sweet seller from his shop, murdered him and then threw him away. In case of Abhishek Rajput, the brutality escalated as the Islamists first shot him dead, slit his throat with a sharp weapon and then crushed his head with stones. The rescued Hindu devotees also narrated the eye-witnessed incident and stated that the attackers used AK-47 to fire at the devotees. “14-year-olds were using weapons. They had planned the attack for over six months.” The victims also said the bullets brushed several injured people’s stomachs, legs and thighs.
The brutality of the murderous attack at Nuh by the Islamists can’t even be imagined but what the media reports like the BBC, NDTV chose to report is all about the Mosque set ablaze in Gurugram. A ‘mosque’ was allegedly set ablaze on Monday (July 31) night in Sushant Lok Phase-III in Sector 59 of Gurugram claimed a life as verified from the FIR copy that has been obtained by OpIndia.
However, it is important to note that the mosque identified as the Anjuman Imam Masjid was a disputed structure built on ‘government-allocated land’ in the New Gurugram area. The construction of the mosqe was also stopped by the courts on several occasions.
BBC, NDTV shielding Islamists?
While reporting about the matter, the NDTV played down the violence in Nuh and claimed that the procession organized by Hindus sparked off the violence. “Organised by Vishwa Hindu Parishad, the Brij Mandal Jalabhishek Yatra sparked off a communal clash that has claimed five lives and left at least 70 injured. The dead include two security personnel and two civilians, a mosque’s cleric among them,” it reported. However, no mentions of other Hindus deceased in Nuh could be found.
Report by NDTV
Also, the BBC which is known for its anti-India bias, claimed that the violence in Nuh erupted after the Hindus took out the procession. Mentioning clearly about the mosque in Gurugram and the death aligned, BBC reported, “A mosque was set on fire and a Muslim cleric killed during religious clashes that broke out after a procession by Hindu nationalist groups in the northern Indian state of Haryana. Violence broke out on Monday afternoon during a procession taken out by the Bajrang Dal and Vishwa Hindu Parishad.”
The BBC also attempted to hold Bajrang Dal’s Monu Manesar responsible for the violence as it said, “Manesar is a well-known cow vigilante who regularly uploads videos of himself questioning cattle transporters. In recent years, cattle traders – many of them Muslim – have been assaulted by Hindu vigilante groups as the animal is venerated in the religion.”
The report also stated that a temple and several cars in Nuh were attacked by the mob but forgot to mention that the mob belonged to the Muslim community, again clearly shielding the attackers.
Muslims were highlighted as ‘saviours’ during 2020 DJ Halli riots
Notably, this is not the first time when the media has attempted to downplay an anti-Hindu violence by specifically reporting that Muslims had helped the Hindus during the ruckus. Earlier in the year 2020 when the DJ Halli riots happened, several media reports had noted that Muslim youths had formed a human chain to guard a temple during the violence that erupted in Bengaluru. The reports claimed that the Muslims ensured that the temple stays protected from the riots that broke out after protests erupted over a social media post allegedly insulting Prophet Muhammad. “We live as brothers, sisters,” the Muslims were quoted as saying by the Print.
As reported earlier, the violence claimed the lives of three persons and left several more injured. After the incident, the enraged crowd also attempted to set the police station on fire.
The Muslim mob, carrying petrol bombs and other weapons barged into the nearby police quarters and attacked the premises. The Muslim mob was also seen raising Islamic slogans like ‘Allah-hu-Akbar’ and ‘Nara-e-Taqbeer’ outside the police station. Around 9 FIRs were registered in the case. However, in September 2020 the case was taken over by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) for further investigation.
Rioting Muslim mob in Bengaluru
Media was exposed claiming ‘Muslims helped install new idols at the temple’ in Delhi in 2019
Also, in the year 2019 after the Muslims caused deliberate damage to a Hindu temple in Delhi, one photo of Muslims serving food to the Hindus had taken the media by storm. In the event organized by VHP for the ‘Praan Pratishtha’ of the idols, the photograph of 2-3 Muslim men serving food to the Hindus in the Hauz Qazi was highlighted by the media.
Image that had gone viral in 2019
CNN News 18 reported that the Muslims of Hauz Qazi were distributing food during the consecrated ceremony in a show of communal harmony. Hindustan Times further reported claiming “Muslims helped install new idols at the temple”.
Later it was revealed that the Pran Pratishtha event was organized by the VHP and the Muslims of Hauz Qazi had not paid any amount towards the event. Hence, the reports that Muslims ‘helped install new idols’ in the Durga Temple were proved as outright lies.
Naeem helped 7-8 Hindus during Delhi riots
In 2020, a media report by India Times reported how Naeem Ali Pradhan, 34, from Shiv Vihar, helped at least 7-8 Hindus on the night of February 24 when the anti-CAA violence was at its peak escape to safer locations.
“I saw them. They were Hindus who were trying to escape a mob looking to target them. They had lost their way inside the streets of our colony. I along with other Muslim men escorted them to the nearby Hindu locality,” Naeem, who was also a member of the Aman Committee constituted by the Delhi police was quoted as saying.
On the 24th and 25th of February 2020, India’s national capital Delhi saw large-scale anti-Hindu riots which marked the culmination of the hostility, hatred, and anger spread by the anti-CAA protests by the Islamists in Shaheen Bagh and other areas. Shahdara, Maujpur, Bhajanpura, Brahmapuri, and other parts of northeast Delhi witnessed violence perpetrated by the Islamists. 53 people died in these riots while more than 200 people were left injured.
While many people wish to look at the Delhi Riots 2020 in isolation, the sequence of events starting right from the 1st of December 2019 proves otherwise. It proves that the violence was a concerted effort to push India toward anarchy. It proves that the Delhi Riots was no anti-Muslim pogrom, it was indeed, a well-oiled plan against Hindus.
OpIndia had extensively covered the anti-Hindu riots, which were falsely presented by the mainstream media as an anti-Muslim pogrom, and established facts documenting tragic cries of Hindus which would otherwise have gone unheard.
Conclusion
The Indian mainstream media seems to have always performed its ‘bias’ to sympathize the minority communities under the guise of being ethical, liberal and unbiased. Media have allegedly humanized terrorists, criminals in the past and published copies of their family member’s emotions supressing the crimes of these accused persons ‘unknowingly’.
According to the ‘liberal’ media who at times ‘fails’ to speak the truth, only seasoned criminals who fight against India’s interests, murder Hindus, and Jihadis who actively pursue ‘teaching Kafirs a lesson’ are granted the distinction of being portrayed as saints. But when a Hindu is brutally murdered by these very persons, they not only proceed to humanise the murderer but dehumanise the Hindu victim. And this trend has remained unchallenged for years now.
