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‘Go to hotel room’: Telangana temple priest after Adipurush director Om Raut kisses actress Kriti Sanon after visiting Tirupati temple

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‘Go to hotel room’: Telangana temple priest after Adipurush director Om Raut kisses actress Kriti Sanon after visiting Tirupati temple

It appears that the cast and crew of Adipurush are always dogged by controversy. In the latest incident, Om Raut, the director of Adipurush, caused outrage when he kissed actress Kriti Sanon at Lord Venkateswara temple in Tirupati on June 7. The movie’s team attended a pre-release ceremony at Tirupati’s Sri Venkateswara University Stadium after which the duo was spotted at the temple for darshan. He was seen kissing Kriti Sanon goodbye outside the temple premises.

The Chilkur Balaji Temple’s head priest in Telangana called the action condemnable and voiced his opposition to it. “This is a condemnable act. Even a husband and wife do not go there (temple) together. You can go to a hotel room and do it. Your behaviour is like insulting Ramayan, and Goddess Sita,” he stated.

Ramesh Naidu Nagothu, the state secretary of the Bharatiya Janata Party, expressed his disapproval at the public display of affection in a now-deleted tweet.

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“After coming to the temple, I feel extremely amazing. It felt nice. We had a great darshan today morning. Yesterday, we put out the trailer. It’s a mesmerising feeling and I cannot put it into words,” Om Raut said while talking about his temple visit.

Many people opposed before when Kriti Sanon visited the Sita Cave and Kalaram Temple in Panchavati, Nashik. They were of the view that as their film’s release date approaches, Bollywood people start to practise religion. At the same time, several people advocated banning the use of religious places for movie marketing.

Adipurush is a cinematic adaption of the Indian epic Ramayana, which is directed by Om Raut. Kriti Sanon portrays Janaki in the movie, while Prabhas plays Raghav along with Saif Ali Khan as Lankesh. Sunny Singh appears as Lakshmana and Devdatta Nage dons the role of Bajrang. The multi-lingual project is reportedly made at a humungous budget of Rs 500 crore and is co-financed by Retrophiles and Bhushan Kumar’s T-series. It is all set to release in theatres on June 16 in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam.

The movie was earlier in controversy over the look of the characters and perceived poor VFX. When the teaser of the movie was first released in October last year, the Ravana played by Saif Ali Khan resembled an Islamic invader and the look of Hanumana also didn’t resemble the description in Ramayana. Ram and Lakshman were seen wearing leather attire, which went against the description of simple attire during exile.

Kolhapur: Hindu minor threatened and abducted, Police books Imdad Nayakwadi and his aide Salman Pathan

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Kolhapur: Hindu minor threatened and abducted, Police books Imdad Nayakwadi and his aide Salman Pathan

Another case of love jihad has emerged from the city of Kolhapur in Maharashtra which had recently witnessed violence over an objectionable WhatApp status praising Aurangzeb and Islamic tyrant Tipu Sultan. The Police have booked two persons identified as Imdad Nayakwadi and Salman Pathan for issuing death threats to a Hindu minor and then abducting her and also trying to force her into marriage.

The case has been booked under sections 366 (Kidnapping, abducting or inducing woman to compel her marriage), 363 (Abduction), 506 (Punishment for criminal intimidation) and 34 (act furthering criminal conduct) of the Indian Penal Code, 1860.

FIR copy obtained by OpIndia

As per the FIR copy obtained by OpIndia, the case dates back to October 2022, but the complaint in the case was filed only on June 3 this year after the mother of the victim girl established contact with the girl to learn that she was brutally being beaten by the accused, Imdad.

The saga began in October last year when Imdad barged into the home of the victim girl and threatened her mother. “Send your daughter with me otherwise I’ll kill you and your daughters,” he said.

Accused identified in the copy

The victim girl was then abducted by the accused who later happened to force her into marriage. The accused, after a few days of abduction, again returned with his aide Salman Pathan and threatened the girl’s mother to keep quiet about the matter.

As per the complaint filed by the victim girl’s mother, the girl was taken to a specific locality by the accused and was made to reside in a rented apartment. The girl happened to call her mother after 2 to 3 months in which she revealed her location. The mother then immediately reached the spot and rescued the girl.

However, after a week or so, Imdad came home again and took the girl away with him. He also issued threats and warned the mother to keep quiet. After this incident, the mother kept in touch with the girl out of concern but could not trace her in person.

“Recently, she called me and said that Imdad was brutally beating her and that he has kept her hostage. She is not allowed to talk to the neighbours, or go out, or even talk to me on the phone. He has threatened my daughter that he would kill me and her sister if she does not follow his words,” the mother of the girl said in the complaint.

Complaint registered by girl’s mother

In the handwritten complaint, the woman also said that her daughter is in pain and that she wants her daughter back at any cost. The woman also said that earlier, the accused Imdad and Salman had trapped both her daughters and taken them to Panhala region of the city.

“I am mother of two twin daughters. When these two were in school, they were trapped in a relationship by the accused who later took them to Panhala. The boys had taken the girls away when they were returning home from their school. That time I had filed a complaint against the accused and had got my daughters back,” the mother said.

The FIR earlier registered against Imdad and Salman was filed under sections 354 D and 506 of the IPC. Relevant sections from the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 were also invoked.

A local Muslim corporator threatened the mother to withdraw the case

As per the complaint copy, the age of the victim girl is 17. Some of the audio call records between the mother and the victim obtained by OpIndia reveal that the girl is being brutally harassed and beaten by the accused. “He beats me and does not allow me to go out of the house. He also stops me from talking to the neighbours and over the phone,” the girl could be heard speaking in the records. The girl is also being pressurised for marriage.

The mother of the victim girl also said that a local Muslim corporator has also issued threats to their family and has warned them to withdraw the complaint against the two accused. “One Muslim nagarsevak, Riyaz Subedar threatened us to withdraw the case”, the mother of the girl could be heard saying in one of the phone call recordings obtained by OpIndia.

The FIR in the case has been filed under sections 366 (Kidnapping, abducting or inducing woman to compel her marriage), 363 (Abduction), 506 (Punishment for criminal intimidation) and 34 (act furthering criminal conduct) of the Indian Penal Code, 1860. Further investigations into the case are underway.

Wrestler Sakshi Malik, AAP leader Sanjay Singh and others spread fake news, use old photos to claim they show farmers assaulted by police in Haryana

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Wrestler Sakshi Malik, AAP leader Sanjay Singh and others spread fake news, use old photos to claim they show farmers assaulted by police in Haryana

On June 7, protesting wrestler Sakshi Malik and Aam Aadmi Party leader Sanjay Singh shared old photos on social media claiming that these are photos of farmers injured during the agitation demanding MSP for sunflower procurement. In the tweet, Malik wrote, “Farmers only demanded MSP. The cruel administration gave them batons and arrests. We condemn the arrest of Kisan leader Gurnam Singh Chaduni. He should be released at the earliest. The reports of martyr farmers during agitation have brought tears to our eyes.”

AAP leader Sanjay Singh wrote, “These are ‘Annadata’ of India. Their crime was they demanded the right price for their crops. Khattar government said, ‘If you demand a [right] price for the crops, we will kill you’.”

Many others shared these images of retweeted tweets claiming that these are farmers assaulted by police during the protest demanding higher MSP. However, all of them are spreading fake news, as the images they shared are several years old, and not related to the recent protest by farmers.

First, let’s discuss the images attached by Sakshi Malik and Sanjay Singh. The first image in which a Sikh man can be seen bareback with baton barks is from 2019. Twitter user Fabulous Guy shared a screenshot of an old tweet that contained the said photograph.

Upon research, OpIndia found that the particular photograph was from 2019. A Sikh driver got into an altercation with Delhi Police leading to injuries. As per reports of the incident, an argument broke out between the Sikh tempo driver of Gramin Sewa and the Delhi police personnel.

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The Sikh man allegedly charged at the policemen with a sword in his hand. As a result, the Delhi Police personnel retaliated and thrashed him using batons. In the aftermath, the police personnel involved in the incident were suspended. The driver, identified as Sarabjeet Singh, was involved in similar altercations before, but he was let go with a warning.

The second image of a man with a head injury was from 2021. We found a tweet by journalist Mandeep Punia who shared the photograph with the details.

Now coming to the claim that farmer(s) died during the recent altercation between protesting farmers and Haryana Police. There are no reports of any protesting farmer dying during the recent incident. It is unclear where Malik picked the information.

Police cleared NH-44 on court orders

On June 7, Haryana Police used force to clear National Highway 44 (NH-44) at Shahabad in Kurukshetra of protesting farmers following orders from Punjab and Haryana High Court. Under the banner of Bhartiya Kisan Union (Charuni), the farmers had blocked the national highway demanding procurement of sunflowers at minimum support price (MSP).

The court directed the Haryana Government’s officials to ensure that NH-44 be kept open for “free flow and movement of the traffic, without any hindrance, so that the public is not inconvenienced”.

Calling the NH-44 lifeline of the country that connects the length and breadth of India, the court made it clear that the administration should exercise utmost restraint and use force to disperse the mob only as a last resort, which the police did.

Uttarakhand: Gulzar and Aslam arrested for trying to elope with a minor Hindu girl, Hindu groups stage protest

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Uttarakhand: Gulzar and Aslam arrested for trying to elope with a minor Hindu girl, Hindu groups stage protest

Days after protests erupted in the Purola region of Uttarkashi against a love jihad case, several Hindu rights organisations staged a protest on Wednesday, June 7, against another similar case wherein two Muslim youths attempted to elope with a minor Hindu girl in Gauchar town in Chamoli district of Uttarakhand. The Hindu activists protested outside the Gauchar police station demanding action against the Muslim youths.

Reportedly, in Gauchar two Muslim youths who have been identified as Gulzar alias Nitin (26) and Aslam (21) lured a 15-year-old Hindu girl and took her to a hotel on Tuesday, June 6. They told the hotel staff that the girl is the daughter of their maternal aunt. However, the hotel owner grew suspicious and informed the police about it. Meanwhile, one of the accused escaped along with the minor girl. 

The other youth Aslam, a resident of Dharampura Sardhana in the Meerut district of Uttar Pradesh, was caught by the Bajrang Dal activists and locals. Upon questioning Aslam revealed the name of his accomplice Gulzar, who originally hails from Meerut and works as a JCB operator in Rudraprayag. Aslam also said that the girl is a minor and a resident of a village in Rudraprayag. Eventually, both the accused persons were arrested by the Karnprayag police. Accused Gulzar told the police that he got married eight months ago, while he also talked to the minor girl over the phone.

On Wednesday, the minor girl’s father lodged a complaint against Aslam and Gulzar. It has been reported that accused Gulzar had an Instagram account with the name “Nitin Mahakal”. 

Meanwhile, Pramendra Dobhal, superintendent of police (SP) Chamoli said, “Police received information about two men attempting to elope with a minor girl. This sparked outrage among the locals. Both of the men have been arrested. They have been booked under Section 8 of the Pocso Act and Section 363 (kidnapping) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and have been placed in judicial custody. The accused are from Sardhana, Meerut. One of the men had lived in the area for the past 7-8 years, working as a JCB operator in Rudraprayag.”

Uttarkashi Superintendent of Police Arpan Yaduvanshi said that as a measure of precaution, a platoon of the Provincial Armed Constabulary (PAC) was stationed in the town.

The locals were agitated as several similar cases of love jihad have emerged in Uttarakhand. Meanwhile, the police have appealed to people not to pay heed to any sort of rumours.

Speaking to the media, Uttarakhand CM Pushkar Singh Dham addressed the issue of love jihad and said that his government is strict against such cases. He added that the police have been directed to conduct an investigation and take stringent action against the perpetrators. 

56-year-old Mumbai man chops live-in partner’s body with tree cutter, boils it in a pressure cooker before disposing of it, arrested

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56-year-old Mumbai man chops live-in partner’s body with tree cutter, boils it in a pressure cooker before disposing of it, arrested

On Wednesday, June 7, the Maharashtra police arrested a 56-year-old man for allegedly murdering his live-in partner and dismembering her body before disposing of it. The police revealed that the man chopped his partner’s body with a tree cutter and boiled her body parts in a pressure cooker. He later filled them into plastic bags to dispose of them. The victim has been identified as 32-year-old Saraswati Vaidya.

Police suspect that Manoj Sahani, the accused, committed the heinous murder on June 4 (Sunday).

“Police have found a body of a woman who had been cut into pieces, from a society in the Mira Road area. Here a couple was living in a live-in relationship. A preliminary investigation revealed that the woman was hacked to death. Further Investigation underway,” Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) of Mumbai Jayant Bajbale said.

Police are trying to find out the motive behind the murder. Police have taken two suspects into custody Manoj Sahani is also being interrogated.

According to the police, Manoj Sahani, who worked at a small ration shop in Boriwali, had lived with Saraswati Vaidya in flat 704 at the Geeta Akash Deep building in Geeta Nagar Phase 7 for the last three years. The police sprung to action after local residents called the Nayanagar police station around 7 pm on Wednesday and reported a foul smell emanating from the flat.

When the police reached the spot and opened the door of the flat located in the J wing of the Akashdeep building, they found Manoj Sahni sitting inside. He tried to flee upon seeing the cops but was nabbed with the help of the residents. When police entered the flat, they found over 12-13 pieces of the woman’s body at the site. The accused had reportedly disposed of some of the body parts over the past two to three days.

As per the police, a preliminary investigation revealed that the accused had first strangulated the victim to death. After that, he used electric cutters to chop the victim’s body into several pieces. The accused reportedly boiled the dismembered body parts of the victim and then filled them in plastic bags. Some media reports have quoted local residents as alleging that Sahni ground the boiled body parts and flushed them in the toilet. At the same time, some people claimed that after boiling, the pieces were fed to the dogs.

A report in TOI quoted residents as telling the police that Sahani was seen feeding stray dogs in the locality over the past two to three days, something that he had never done in the past.

News 18 quoted sources in the police as saying that when the officers entered the apartment, it was almost impossible for them to stand due to the strong stench. Many air fresheners were kept in the house.

“A tree cutter was kept in the hall and black plastic was spread all over the bed in the bedroom. The victim’s hair was lying in the bedroom. There were also three buckets kept in the kitchen, in which there were small pieces of the body and it was filled with blood,” a source said.

Police said that Sahani showed no sign of remorse. “We are in the process of registering an FIR against him for murder and destruction of evidence,” an officer said on Wednesday evening. A forensic team was called to collect samples and evidence from the apartment.

Police were told by block residents that the couple did not socialise with anyone. Their flat door had no nameplate and was registered in Sonam Builders’ name.

According to reports, Manoj Sahani met Saraswati, a resident of Ahmednagar, around 5 years ago at the ration shop he worked in. They moved in together in a rented apartment in Mumbai’s Mira Road, where the crime was committed. According to the authorities, the accused came up with the plot to murder his live-in partner after learning about the grisly murder of Shraddha Walker last year.

Shraddha Walker was killed by her live-in partner Aftab, who chopped her body into 35 pieces and kept them in a 300-litre fridge for almost three weeks at his house in Delhi before dumping them across the city over several days past midnight. The case came to light only six months later, when Walkar’s father filed a missing person complaint after failing to contact her for months. Aaftab Poonawala was arrested by the Delhi police and charged with murder and destruction of evidence.

Maharashtra: Two men conspiring to revive the Khalistan movement sentenced to five years in jail

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Maharashtra: Two men conspiring to revive the Khalistan movement sentenced to five years in jail

A special National Investigation Agency (NIA) court in Mumbai on Wednesday sentenced two men, Harpal Singh alias Raju (50) and Gurjeet Singh Nijjar (42) for conspiring to revive the Khalistan movement and indulging in illegal acts. The former is a driver from Karnataka and the latter is a labourer from Punjab. They admitted to the allegations against them and were sentenced to five years of incarceration.

The duo were found guilty of many offences, notably terrorism-related charges under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA), according to special judge A M Patil besides relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code and Maharashtra Police Act.

Even though the accused accepted their guilt, the prosecution argued that in light of the facts and circumstances of the case, they should face the worst punishment possible. However, defence attorney H Y Kotwala and the duo maintained that they are the sole wage earners in the household.

The Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad initially reported the case on December 2, 2018, when Harpal Singh was taken into custody. Later, it was turned over to the NIA. On December 22, 2020, Gurjeet Singh Nijjar was placed under arrest. The amount of time they have already served in prison will be reduced from the final sentence.

Sundar Lal Parashar, a retired assistant commissioner of police (ACP) in Delhi, and Moin Khan are the other two individuals currently awaiting trial in the same case. The NIA asserted that the four conspirators planned to revive Sikh militancy with the purpose of establishing a distinct Khalistan state.

The prosecution stated that in an effort to persuade impressionable Sikh youths to join the Khalistan movement, the accused posted videos and messages in support of terrorists Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale and Jagtar Singh Hawara (who was convicted of killing former Punjab chief minister Beant Singh), as well as videos about Operation Blue Star and the outlawed Babbar Khalsa International. The primary conspirator was Gurjeet Singh Nijjar, who had spent a number of years living in Cyprus.

“After understanding the contents of the charge, voluntarily and willingly, the accused pleaded guilty to the charge. Both the accused are fully aware of the consequences of advancing plead guilt,” the judge noted.

‘Regime change operation?’: Rahul Gandhi paid a secret visit to the White House, a report claims. Here is what the speculations are

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‘Regime change operation?’: Rahul Gandhi paid a secret visit to the White House, a report claims. Here is what the speculations are

Rahul Gandhi has been on a 10-day tour to the USA. During his tour, he had several speaking engagements where he certainly stirred the pot, probably to the detriment of his own party and political career. His speech revolved around the usual themes – Hindus bad, Muslims god, Congress peaceful, ‘Hindu BJP’ communal, Muslim League secular, Rahul Gandhi victim, Modi bad. There was, however, a little-known detail about his tour that almost managed to fly under the radar – that Rahul Gandhi paid a secret visit to the White House.

An article in the Economic Times written by one Seema Sirohi, it was claimed that Rahul Gandhi during his visit made a trip to the White House, which both parties involved – the Biden administration and Rahul Gandhi (Congress) chose to keep under the wraps. Seema Sirohi confirmed that the article was accurate and she was standing by it when she responded to a Twitter user dismissing claims that she was a Modi critic.

The article written by Seema Sirohi was one that praised Rahul Gandhi to the moon and back. Seema wrote about how Rahul Gandhi had matured as far as foreign policy was concerned, had valued the USA as a strategic partner, enthused the diaspora and essentially, made his mark during his USA trip. The only slip-up according to Seema Sirohi was calling IUML “secular”. Her reasons for this assertion were hilarious at best and sinister at worst.

She claimed that Rahul Gandhi should not have claimed that IUML was “secular” because it went against the Shah Bano verdict, a protest which Congress yielded to at that time, denying Muslim women their right. While that may be true, the reason why IUML is not secular is because it is a religious organisation which partook in the partition of India, is an offshoot of Jinnah’s Muslim League and has gone on a rampage against Hindus, created violence several times in the past.

Be that as it may, one essential part of the report was tucked away in one sentence, amidst all the glowing praise being showered on Rahul Gandhi. That he made a secret trip to the White House during his US tour.

Article in the Economic Times

For an opposition leader to visit the White House in ‘secret’, without disclosing it to the government of India and the MEA, is a serious breach of protocol and could potentially undermine India’s interests. Given these revelations, several commentators took to Twitter to voice their speculations.

HinduACT, an advocacy organisation, took to Twitter to say, “A strong critic of @PMOIndia and #Hindutva, veteran journalist @seemasirohi admits in this detailed article, that @RahulGandhi‘s embrace of ANTI-INDIA groups, giving them full-control his Washington DC events, points to a problematic trend. Seema however stops short of highlighting the fact that many of these “anti-India” groups are actually #Pakistan proxies, linked to both #Khalistani separatists and #Kashmiri Islamists”.

Sunanda Vashisht, a journalist, writer and commentator also noted that the article does not note who he met at the White House.

Ram, a USA based entrepreneur also noted that one could expect significant meddling in the 2024 General Elections in India given that Rahul Gandhi went to the White House. He speculated that this ‘secret’ visit reeked of a regime change operation.

Notably, Rahul Gandhi had invited severe backlash many times after he sought foreign intervention in India’s political matters during his controversial visits abroad. Rahul Gandhi had urged the US and Europe to intervene to “restore” democracy in India. Rahul claimed that Europe and the US are not doing enough to restore democracy in India as they are getting trade and money from the country.

In a long speech made at Cambridge earlier in 2023, Rahul Gandhi resorted to blatant lies, misinformation and baseless claims to make a case for himself as the ‘ideal leader’ of India. Completely ignoring India’s electoral and democratic process, the Congress prince was seen desperately pleading with Western powers to intervene in India’s politics for a regime change operation against Modi. The speech is explained here.

In 2021 as well, Rahul Gandhi had demanded foreign interference. Rahul Gandhi made the comments during an online interaction with Ambassador Nicholas Burns of the Harvard Kennedy School. The Gandhi scion was invited by the Harvard Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics to talk about challenges and opportunities in India and reflections on politics and public service. Nicholas Burns is a former American ambassador to Greece, and currently a Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Politics at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.

Rahul Gandhi asked for American interference in India towards the end of the program, after host Nicholas Burns had delivered his concluding remarks. After Burns concluded the session, Rahul Gandhi asks if he can make a quick ending comment. He then proceeds to say, “I don’t hear anything from the US establishment about what is happening in India. If you are saying partnership in democracy is, I mean, what’s your view on what is happening here?” Burns was visibly shocked after hearing this open offer from Rahul Gandhi for asking for America to comment on India’s internal matters.

Rahul Gandhi also added, “I fundamentally believe, that America is a profound idea. The idea of freedom, the way it is encapsulated in your constitution is a very powerful idea. But you got to defend that idea. And that’s the real question.” However, Nicholas Burns didn’t respond to this specifically, only saying that when they will hold the next session in two weeks with another guest from India, they will discuss these matters.

There have been several instances where Congress and Rahul Gandhi proved that they are not above compromising India’s interest at the altar of electoral politics. For example, In September 2018, the Gandhi scion visited Kailash Mansarovar and a year later admitted to having secretly met the Chinese ministers during his visit. The word secretly is used here as there were no media reports about his meeting with the Chinese. On a question regarding concerns of automation in job creation, Rahul Gandhi while speaking at a meeting in Odisha said that a couple of Chinese ministers told him during his Kailash visit that China is facing no problem in job creation due to automation. He said “how can China, in a world which is automated, is producing 50,000 new jobs in every 24 hours? Why? Why is it that automation is a problem in Europe, and automation is a problem in India, but automation does not seem to bother the Chinese? When I had gone to Kailash, I met a couple of their ministers, and they said no job creation is not a problem in China at all. We have plenty of jobs.” This pattern was repeated when he met Chinese Ambassadors after the Doklam standoff as well.

With repeated demands for foreign interference by Rahul Gandhi, the fact that he visited the White House in secret during his USA tour has raised concerns and speculations about his intentions, who he met and what the implications for India in the next year would be.

Tilak and Kalava prohibited in the Damoh school where hijab controversy erupted, now NCPCR takes cognisance of distorted Indian map as well

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Tilak and Kalava prohibited in the Damoh school where hijab controversy erupted, now NCPCR takes cognisance of distorted Indian map as well

In the Damoh hijab controversy case, an FIR has been registered by the State against the administrators of the Ganga Jamuna school who has been accused of mandating Islamic prayers and practices on Hindu and Jain students. The FIR has been filed under sections 295 (injuring or defiling a place of worship with intent to insult the religion of any class) and 506 (punishment for criminal intimidation) of the India Penal Code and also under the relevant sections of the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act.

As per the information obtained by OpIndia, the FIR was registered by the state administration after Madhya Pradesh Home Minister Narottam Mishra issued orders to take action against the controversial school. “Preliminary case has been filed by the police against the school. However, more sections are slated to be added in the case,” Rakesh Kumar, SP Damoh confirmed as could be heard in the video.

Reportedly, this comes a day after the chairperson of the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR), Priyank Kanoongo exposed that a distorted map of India was being used by the chairperson of the school. In a tweet on June 7, Kanoongo revealed that the chairperson of the school owns several other enterprises where he has used a distorted map of India in the logo representing his business.

“In Damoh, Madhya Pradesh, the investigation is going on in the case of Hindu children made to wear hijab and given Islamic education amidst attempts to convert, this is its logo, in which half of India has disappeared. Not only this, the same map is being used as a logo in all other business organisations of its owner. This type of tampering with the map of our sovereign nation India by the educational institution will not be tolerated at all. @NCPCR_ has taken it very seriously, and necessary instructions are being sent to the Madhya Pradesh government for FIR,” Kanoongo said as he shared the controversial pictures on Twitter.

The NCPCR head also added that during the investigation, the students confirmed that they were forced to follow Islamic religious practices and wear hijab at the school. Further, the students were being taught the wrong geographical map of India at the school. The Commission said that this is a violation of the National Map Policy, 2005. The commission has summoned the District Magistrate, Collector Damoh, and SP Damoh in the matter and has sought action in the case.

Letter sent by commission to DM, Collector and SP Damoh

Earlier, School Education Minister Inder Singh Parmar had confirmed that Damoh Collector Mayank Agarwal was trying to save the District Education Officer (DEO) SK Mishra who is found guilty as per the prima facie information obtained. The Minister also confirmed that the state government would take action against the DEO and remove him from his post for giving clean chit to the school.

“Prima facie information that is coming out is that the District Education Officer (DEO) has given wrong information, that is why the DEO is guilty. He is supposed to visit the school continuously and inspect it, but that didn’t happen. Later, when the incident came to light through the press and social organizations, even then the DEO tried to give a clean chit,” Parmar was quoted as saying.

Further, slamming Damoh Collector Mayank Agarwal over the issue, the Minister stated that timely action should have been taken by the collector because the matter is not only about the school, it is about spreading malice in society.

The controversy in Damoh, Madhya Pradesh, erupted when Hindu and Jain girls were seen wearing hijabs on the posters of meritorious students from a private school named Ganga Jamuna School. The school administrator Haji Mohammad Idris then tried to mislead the matter calming that the students were wearing scarves and not hijabs. The DM also dismissed the assertions after a probe, claiming that they were simply rumours and that there was nothing untoward discovered during the initial enquiries.

During the investigation, the SCPCR found that Ayats and lessons from the Quran were imprinted on every wall of the school. Every girl student was made to wear a hijab and they had been taught to greet the teachers with ‘Assalam Walikum..’ and not Good Morning.

The students at the school were also asked to recite three Islamic prayers followed by the National Anthem during the assembly every day. The prayer included ‘Lab pe aati hai dua..’ by Allama Muhammad Iqbal who had advocated the formation of a separate nation for Muslims in the form of Pakistan in 1930.

FIR highlighting the allegations (Republic Bharat)

Some of the girl students came forward on this matter and confirmed on record that they were forced to wear hijab and also offer Namaz on Fridays. The girls also said that they were banned from wearing Kalava on their hands and Bindi on their foreheads. It was also reported earlier, that around 3 teachers (2 Hindus and 1 Jain) were converted to Islam post their appointment as school staff.

In the given scenario, an FIR has been filed under sections 295 and 506 of the India Penal Code and also under the relevant sections of the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act. More sections in the case are yet to be invoked. Investigations are underway.

Islamist IAMC, Soros linked HrHR, whose founder was with Rahul Gandhi during US tour, others, ask Prez Joe Biden to cancel State Dinner with PM Modi

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Islamist IAMC, Soros linked HrHR, whose founder was with Rahul Gandhi during US tour, others, ask Prez Joe Biden to cancel State Dinner with PM Modi

On June 7, Indian American Muslim Council (IAMC), which has links to Islamic terror organisations, announced that 17 organisations have written to President Joe Biden to rescind the State Dinner invitation to Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi. In the letter, the Islamist organisations have accused PM Modi of a crackdown on fundamental democratic rights, jailing critics, enforcing anti-minority laws and more.

IAMC undersigned the letter, Jubilee Campaign American Muslim Institution, Hindus for Human Rights (HfHR), Dalit Solidarity Forum, World Without Genocide, International Defenders Council, International Society for Peace and Justice, Dalit Solidarity Forum in the USA, Genocide Watch, Asian Children’s Education Fellowship, Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), Misión Vida para las Naciones, Church in the Republic of Uruguay, Global Christian Relief, American Sikh Council, Human Rights and Grassroots Development Society and International Commission for Dalit Right.

The organisations claimed that India is facing sharp democratic backsliding. The claim was based on April 20, 2023, Financial Times report titled ‘India’s Democratic Backsliding’. In the report, FT claimed the democratic values of India were on backtrack because a Gujarat court denied disqualified Congress MP Rahul Gandhi‘s plea against a 2-year sentence in a defamation case. FT called it bad news not only for India but for the whole world.

However, FT failed to mention that Rahul Gandhi has a habit of making derogatory comments against PM Modi and his supporters. He also apologised in the Supreme Court for one such statement and was warned not to repeat it. There are other cases against Gandhi for such speeches as well. Gandhi was not disqualified for just PM Modi but for a whole community. In fact, there is no reason to blame PM Modi or anyone else for this decision, which was taken by a court of law and upheld even after Gandhi appealed the decision. To call this decision ‘undemocratic’ is basically saying that India as a democracy is not functioning at the whims of the West and the Liberal ecosystem of the world and is, therefore, not a conducive democracy.

The organisations claimed that the Modi Administration routinely jails political critics and opponents. The claim was supported by an Al-Jazeera report from 2021. The information mostly talked about a 33-year-old man identified as Mohammad Irfan, who was acquitted of all charges under UAPA. Interestingly, Irfan spent nine years in jail and was arrested in 2012. Modi Government came to power in 2014, two years after his arrest. IAMC and others seem to have missed the fact that three others involved in the case were convicted and sent to prison for ten years. Acquittals came mostly due to a lack of evidence. The report further mentioned that there were 5,922 arrested under UAPA between 2016 and 2019, out of which 132 were convicted. However, the report did not mention how many cases among them were under trial. Half-baked and half-cooked stories are the expertise of Al-Jazeera, and such reports are often used by dubious organisations like IAMC.

Furthermore, the organisations accused PM Modi-led Indian Government of enforcing anti-minority laws. The claim was based on another Al-Jazeera report from March 2020 on Citizen Amendment (Act), 2019. The report was based on the conspiracy that CAA and NRC were aimed at stripping Indian Muslims of their citizenship. In reality, CAA does not affect Indian Muslims. It was meant for the minorities that are Hindus, Sikhs, Christians, Buddhists and Jains in the neighbouring countries Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan. CAA is aimed to fast-track the process of granting citizenship to these minorities who shifted to India. It has nothing to do with Indian Muslims at all. The propagandist used CAA to target the Modi government by misleading the public, especially Muslims living in the country. Organisations like IAMC are still using it to target India on different platforms.

In the letter, they also cited four other reports linked to CAA and NRC. They included a fact sheet by United States Commission on International Religious Freedom from February 2020. However, the report clearly mentioned that CAA was only meant for minorities in neighbouring Islamic countries. The report does point out Assam NRC controversies, but assuming NRC, whenever it comes, will have the same regulations and guidelines is far-fetched. The government of India has not issued any draft related to NRC to date, and we are talking about a fact sheet from 2020. IAMC and others forgot to check if there was any update on NRC and CAA before using them to discredit the Modi government.

Also, we noticed that the USCIRF report claimed BJP leaders advocated for CAA to protect Hindus excluded from NRC in Assam. The report by Hindustan Times cited by USCIRF nowhere mentioned what was claimed! The US autonomous body cooked up a theory based on non-existing statements in 2020, and IAMC, along with others, used it as a tool against India in 2023. They also used a report from Foreign Policy that talked about fear among Muslims that they have to prove they are Indians if NRC is implemented. None of the reports, NGOs, protesters and so-called experts cared to tell the Muslims in India that NRC’s draft was not out. Even to date, the government of India has not issued it.

The letter tried to draw a parallel between Assam NRC (which was mandated by the Supreme Court) and the proposed NRC by the Government of India (which is not even proposed, per se. There is no draft yet). However, they are completely different. While Assam NRC was for the residents of Assam only, the proposed countrywide NRC will include Assam. The two processes are different and guidelines for the nationwide NRC are yet to be announced. There are some detention centres in Assam for illegal immigrants and some legal battles are underway. Suggesting Assam NRC will have any effect on nationwide NRC is far-fetched and ill-informed.

They also claimed attacks on Muslims in India by citing reports that insinuated allegations against Muslim roti makers that they spit on food were false and fabricated. However, there is documented evidence that proves such incidents happened and keeps happening across the country. The report also talked about a Muslim bangle seller being beaten up. The Muslim man identified as Taslim was beaten up not for being Muslim but for harassing a Hindu minor girl in the guise of selling bangles. Later, during the investigation, it was revealed Taslim had two Aadhar cards. Maybe IAMC and others need to update their facts before calling out Indian Government claiming minorities are under threat in the country.

From citing the banned BBC documentary against PM Modi to citing the dubious report by Reporters Without Borders, the organisations used all tools under their belt to target PM Modi.

A brief history of IAMC

For the uninitiated, Rasheed Ahmed is the executive director of the Indian American Muslim Council (IAMC), a radical Islamist group that has alleged links with banned terror organisations such as the Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) and has a long history of lobbying against India.

The IAMC is a Jamat-e-Islami-backed lobbyist organisation claiming to be a rights advocacy group. In the past, it had reportedly collaborated with and even paid money to various groups in the USA to get India blacklisted by the USCIRF (United States Commission on International Religious Freedom). A detailed report by Disinfo Lab has exposed its links with the terror outfit Jamat-e-Islami.

IAMC founder Shaik Ubaid and member Abdul Malik Mujahid have headed the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA), the US front for Jamaat-e-Islami, Pakistan. According to DisInfo Lab, ICNA has established links with Pakistan-based terror groups like the Lashkar-e-Taiba. Rasheed Ahmed, who heads the IAMC currently, was the former executive director of the Islamic Medical Association of North America (IMANA). IMANA’s Director of Operations is Zahid Mahmood, an ex-Pak Navy official.

Similar reports covered by OpIndia on HfHR and Hamas-linked Islamist group CAIR can be read here and here.

Organisation which sat with Rahul Gandhi during his USA trip also among organisations like IAMC undersigning the letter

Rahul Gandhi is on a 10-day USA tour, where he spoke at the National Press Club, Stanford University and also, to ‘think tanks’, allegedly discussing relations between India and USA. The Hudson Institute tweeted images of Rahul Gandhi in deep conversation with these “think tanks”. Sunita Vishwanath was seated alongside Rahul Gandhi at this event at Hudson Institute. Sunita Vishwanath is the co-founder of HrHR, which has also signed this letter against Narendra Modi alongside IAMC.

Investigating Info-warfare and Psy-war OSINT Disinfo Lab had conducted an investigation revealing that the ‘Hindus for Human Rights (HfHR)’ had been promoting the misleading narrative of ‘Hindu Vs Hindutva’. The same organisation was also seen endorsing the ‘Dismantling Global Hindutva’ event. 

As per Disinfo Lab, HfHR was formed in the year 2019 by two Islamist advocacy groups named Indian American Muslim Council (IAMC) and the Organization for Minorities of India (OFMI). Interestingly, the three organisations had formed another outfit called the Alliance for Justice and Accountability (AJA).

As per an article in The Hindu, the Alliance for Justice and Accountability had been at the forefront of leading demonstrations against the visit of PM Modi to Houston on September 22, 2019. 

“The AJA comprises of Hindu, Muslim, Dalit, Sikh and Christian groups, among others. They include the Hindus for Human Rights (HfHR), a progressive Hindu group that opposes Hindutva; the Indian American Muslim Council (IAMC); and the Organization for Minorities of India (OFMI),” the article read.

According to Disinfo Lab, the co-founder of Hindus for Human Rights, Sunita Vishwanath, also runs an organisation named ‘Women for Afghan Women’, which is funded by the Soros Open Society Foundation. Earlier, OpIndia reported in detail how George Soros had been fuelling a dangerous anti-India narrative through media and ‘civil society.’

Interestingly, Sunita Vishwanath, who was pictured alongside Rahul Gandhi, had tried to create hysteria and panic among Indian Muslims about the National Register of Citizens (NRC). “We are especially appalled by the most recent nightmare of the Kashmiri people, and the situation of 1.9 million people in India who are rendered stateless due to the imposition of the travesty called the National Register of Citizens”, she had said. It is pertinent to note that even during this USA trip, Rahul Gandhi endorsed dangerous lies and propaganda against CAA and NRC, which led to anti-Hindu riots in 2020 in India. 

HfHR’s founding member Raju also heads EKTA. It is an associate organization of IAMC. The sole purpose was to have Hindus on the panel to project that the Hindus, in general, were against Hindutva. Interestingly, HfHR ran Facebook ads to promote previous USCIRF reports.

Interestingly, Sunita Vishwanath, the co-founder of HfHR, is also closely connected to George Soros and Islamist linked IAMC. The in-depth analysis of the web can be read here.

Allahabad HC rejects argument of ‘honey trap’, denies bail to a Muslim man who posed as a Hindu, raped, tried to convert a girl to Islam

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Allahabad HC rejects argument of ‘honey trap’, denies bail to a Muslim man who posed as a Hindu, raped, tried to convert a girl to Islam

In a recent order, the Allahabad High Court refused to grant bail to a Muslim man named Chand Babu who posed as a Hindu named Vishal to trap a Hindu girl, rape her and forcibly convert her to Islam in the Bareilly district of Uttar Pradesh.

The single bench of Justice Saurabh Shyam Shamshery rejected accused Chand Babu’s argument that it was a case of honeytrap and that the victim lured him into having a relationship with him to later falsely implicate him in a rape case.

Notably, the victim had lodged an FIR against Chand Babu on August 25 last year. She had alleged that the accused introduced himself as Vishal over the phone, and the two started talking to each other frequently. The accused later proposed to her. The accused developed a love and sexual relationship with the victim woman and shot compromising videos of her.

He also clicked several private pictures of the woman and later used them to blackmail her. The victim stated that she used to visit Bareilly to meet the accused where he repeatedly raped her.

The victim further said that on August 24, 2022, the accused took her to a hotel where she learnt that Vishal’s real name was Chand Babu and that he was a Muslim.

The victim then confronted the accused, asking why he had pretended to be a Hindu youngster, and the accused began pressuring her to convert to Islam. She was then raped twice at the same hotel by the accused, and it was only by chance that she escaped and lodged the FIR under Sections 376(2)(n), 420, 506 of the IPC, and 3/5 of the UP Prevention of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Act.

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