On Friday, June 02, a headless body of an unidentified woman was found in a suitcase near Uttan Beach in the Mira-Bhayandar area of Maharashtra. The dead body was first noticed by a morning walker today at around 8:00 am who informed the police about the headless dead body. Following this, the police arrived at the spot and initiated a probe.
Reportedly, the dead body was slashed into two halves and the head is missing. The dead body appeared to be of a 25 to 35-year-old woman. There was a tattoo of Trishul and Damru along with the Aum (ॐ) symbol on the hand of the deceased woman. Along with it, a sacred thread was also tied on her right hand, while the left hand had a white bracelet. From these, it has been presumed that the victim woman was a Hindu. The victim was wearing a red T-shirt and green leggings. Reportedly, the legs of the victim were tied. The torso was stuffed into an Alfa-branded bag.
As soon as the information about the body was received, the Uttan Sagari police reached the spot and started the investigation. The police have sent the body for postmortem. Meanwhile, an FIR has also been registered under 302 and 201 of the Indian Penal Code. An investigation has been launched the police are trying to identify the woman. Police are trying to find out if the bag was carried to the beach by water or if it was thrown there.
According to the police, a man out for a morning walk found a big suitcase at Uttan Beach at around 8 AM and he found a dead body inside it. Due to absence of the head, police have not been identify the victim yet.
In another recent case, a headless dead body was found near Washim in a sack. The police had arrested the deceased victim’s father Mukhtar Khan who during the questioning admitted to having killed his daughter Raeesa as he was fed up with her mental illness. Initially, Mukhtar Khan tried to mislead the questioning, however, later confessed his crime when police questioned him strictly.
Maharashtra’s Nasik police Thursday, June 1, arrested a youth named Raees Sayyed on charges of harassment, threat and abduction. He is accused of stalking, threatening and forcing an 18-year-old Hindu girl named Nikita into marriage and abducting her when she did not accede to his demands. The case came to the fore after Nikita’s family filed a missing complaint with the Niphad police station in Nasik.
Based on a complaint filed by the victim’s family, the Niphad police registered an FIR against Raees under sections 363, 366, 354(D), 506 IPC, Section 3(2)(v), 3(2)(VA), Section 12 and POCSO Act.
According to the police, accused Raees Sayyed is not only married but also a father of a child. He ran a grocery shop in the same area where the victim lived. Sayyed had reportedly been forcing the victim to marry him. He use to hound Nikita to marry him saying he liked her and threatened her by saying that he would “spoil her life” if she rejected his advances, police said.
The accused made numerous phone calls and send threatening messages to the victim’s mother also. However, not seeing things going his way, Sayyed abducted Nikita when she was on her way to her computer class on May 27. He first took her to a ‘Dargah’ in Ajmer from where he took her to Taragarh in Rajasthan, Nashik SP Umap Shah said.
From Tatagarh, the accused took a train to Mumbai. He reached Thane and went to his sister’s house with Nikita, where the cops were waiting for him. He was arrested by the police from the Ambaernath locality based on inputs received from the Nashik Police. Nikita, meanwhile, was taken into custody and handed over to the family.
Another Khap Panchayat began in Haryana’s Kurukshetra on Friday after Soram Sarv Khap panchayat on Thursday reserved its say following the meeting in Muzaffarnagar on the ongoing wrestlers’ protest. A unanimous decision was supposed to be taken at today’s meeting of the Khap panchayat but the members attending the meeting engaged in a short scuffle resulting in chaos.
Representatives of various khaps and farmers’ outfits from various states including Haryana, Punjab, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh attended the meeting Jat Dharamshala. The meeting was held to deliberate on the next steps to be taken in the agitation by the wrestlers against outgoing WFI chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh over allegations of sexual harassment. However, a scuffle took place during the meeting.
The video of the scuffle went viral over the internet in which the members of the Khap Panchayat could be seen snatching mics and pushing the members on the dias. In the video, several men in white kurta pyjamas could be seen involved in a heated argument and pushing each other. However, the reason of this fight has not been revealed.
#WATCH | Scuffle breaks out between the members of Khap panchayat during their meeting in support of wrestlers' protest in Kurukshetra, Haryana pic.twitter.com/Nj15aQgxZ9
Meanwhile, Rakesh Tikait, a farmer leader, stated that the culprits should be brought to justice and that the government has seven to ten days to do so.
“A big message from Haryana (to the government) should be conveyed from here (Khap Panchayat in Kurukshetra). Let them have 7-10 days time (to take action). They cancelled the June 5 meeting (Brij Bhushan’s ‘maha rally’ in Ayodhya) after coming under pressure from the Khap Panchayat,” Tikait was quoted saying on wrestlers’ protest.
VIDEO | "A big message from Haryana (to the government) should be conveyed from here (Khap Panchayat in Kurukshetra). Let them have 7-10 days' time (to take action). They cancelled the June 5 meeting (Brij Bhushan's ‘maha rally’ in Ayodhya) after coming under pressure from the… pic.twitter.com/kEYkokQfYX
This is after Jan Chetna Rally being organized by BJP MP Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh and the saints of Ayodhya on June 5 was postponed. Reports mention that the BJP MP did not seek permission from the Ayodhya administration for the rally. A senior official also stated that the rally could not be allowed since Section 144 was already in place in Ayodhya.
The decisions of the Khap Panchayat held in Muzaffarnagar were reserved for discussion in the Khap panchayat in Kurukshetra. On Thursday, it was resolved during the Khap Mahapanchayat meeting that a team would meet President Droupadi Murmu to demand justice for wrestlers accusing BJP MP and WFI chairman Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh of allegedly sexually assaulting female grapplers.
Naresh Tikait, a leader of the Bhartiya Kisan Union, also convened the maha panchayat on Wednesday after he and other farmer leaders successfully stopped some of India’s best wrestlers from tossing their medals into the Ganga river in protest at what they claimed was police inactivity against the WFI chairman.
The Balyan Khap is led by Naresh Tikait. Khap chiefs from Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan, and Delhi all attended the mahapanchayat. Rakesh Tikait said at the maha panchayat that the khaps would meet again on Friday in Kurukshetra to make further choices.
Olympic medalists Sakshi Malik and Bajrang Punia, as well as the gold medalist from the Asian Games, travelled to Har Ki Pauri in Haridwar on Tuesday with their fans to toss their medals into the Ganga. However, they gave in when Khap and farmer representatives requested an additional five days to resolve their complaints.
Two FIRs have been filed by the Delhi Police against the BJP MP Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh. The second FIR was filed in response to outraging modesty, while the first FIR was filed in response to claims made by a young wrestler under the POCSO Act. Singh, who has categorically rejected all allegations against him, declared on Wednesday that he would hang himself if even one accusation were to be proven.
It is to be noted that several derogatory slogans have been raised amid the wrestler’s protests at Jantar Mantar which has been ongoing for months now. It was reported that slogans like ‘Modi Teri Kabar Khudegi’ and also anti-India ‘Azadi’ slogans were raised during the protests.
Notably, similar slogans were raised by protesters in many protests in the past. Anti-CAA protests, Shaheen Bagh protests, farmers’ protests led and supported by Rakesh Tikait, and various other protests in JNU are known for these Azadi slogans. Now, these sloganeers have also joined the wrestlers’ protests.
The Delhi High Court on Friday issued notice to Delhi Police on a plea moved by Sharjeel Imam challenging trial court proceedings against him in two cases for one speech delivered in Jamia Milia Islamia on December 13, 2019.
An FIR was registered against Sharjeel Imam under sections related to ‘sedition’ and ‘promoting enmity between groups’ under IPC at Police Station New Friends Colony in 2019. Now he has challenged the first supplementary charge sheet in the matter. Sharjeel Imam has sought quashing of the charge sheet filed on April 16, 2020, against him as he is being prosecuted by the special court for the same speech.
Justice Rajnish Bhatnagar issued a notice and sought a status report from Delhi Police. The matter has been listed on October 18, 2023, for further hearing. Special public prosecutor (SPP) Amit Prasad appeared and accepted notice for Delhi Police. Sharjeel Imam was represented by advocate Ahmad Ibrahim, Talib Mustafa and Ayesha Zaidi. The counsel for Imam has said that the speech of December 13, 2019, in FIR no. 242/2019 is already the subject matter of another FIR (22/2020).
It is argued that there cannot be multiple proceedings for one speech as the charges have already been framed by the special court in the second FIR, under Section 124A and 153A IPC.
Imam’s counsel also argued that the charge sheet filed in sections related to the offences of sedition and promoting enmity, Police have not yet taken sanction for prosecution. Consequently, no cognizance has yet been taken by the court of these two offences.
It is stated that based on an incident of rioting/violence that took place at Jamia University and Mata Mandir Marg on 15.12.2019, FIR No. 242 of 2019 was registered at P.S. New Friends Colony under Sections 143/ 147/ 148/ 149/ 186/ 323/ 353/ 332/ 308/ 427/ 435/ 323/ 341/ 120-B and 34 of IPC & Section 3 and 4 of PDPP Act, 1984.
The investigation of the case was later handed over to the Crime Branch of Delhi police. After that, based on the disclosure statement of the co-accused Mohd. Furkan recorded during the investigation wherein he says that he was instigated to commit the offences after hearing the speech delivered by the Petitioner on 13.12.2019 at Jamia University, the Petitioner was formally arrested in the present FIR on 17.02.2021, and the petition was submitted.
The petitioner also said that in the meanwhile, on 25.01.2020, a separate FIR had already been registered by the Crime Branch bearing FIR No. 22/2020, against him for having delivered two speeches during the Anti-CAA protests including the one at Jamia University on 13.12.2019.
The same was registered for the offences punishable under Sections 124A/153A/153B/505 of the IPC. A Charge sheet was later filed in the matter after obtaining the sanction Under Section 196 of CrPC from the appropriate government, and charges were framed against the Petitioner on 15.03.2022 by the Special Court, Karkardooma Court, Delhi.
The case is presently at the stage of prosecution evidence. It is also stated that during the investigation of FIR No. 242 of 2019, the Investigating Officer collected a copy of the transcript and the video of the speech in question (Jamia Speech) in a CD by the IO of FIR No. 22/2020 and also recorded his statement under Section 161 of CrPC.
Consequently, filed a supplementary charge sheet under all the offences as invoked in the FIR, the plea said.
The Jamia speech which was already investigated by the same investigating agency in FIR No. 22/20 was also made subject matter of the present FIR (242/2019) and a charge sheet was additionally filed U/s 124A and 153A against the Petitioner in complete disregard and defiance of the law laid down by the
Supreme Court in T.T. Antony Vs State of Kerala & Ors, the petition said.
The same is in complete defiance of the fundamental right of the Petitioner to fair and speedy trial guaranteed under Article 21 of the Constitution of India, the plea added.
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After the appeal made by Union Home Minister Amit Shah during his recent visit to Manipur, the State police on Friday said that a total of 140 weapons have been surrendered at different places across the State.
Among the surrendered weapons include SLR 29, Carbine, AK, INSAS Rifle, INSAS LMG, .303 Rifle, 9mm pistol, .32 pistol, M16 rifle, smoke gun and tear gas, local made pistol, stun gun, modified rifle, JVP and a grenade launcher, the Manipur Police said.
Police said that situation is “normal” in most districts and curfew has been relaxed for 12 hours (between 5 am and 5 pm) in Imphal West, Imphal East and Bishnupur; eight hours (between 8 am and 4 pm) in Jiribam; seven hours (between 5 am and 12 pm) in Thoubal and Kakching; 10 hours (between 5 am and 3 pm) in Churachandpur and Chandel; eight hours (from 6 am to 2 pm) in Tengnoupal; 11 hours (from 6 am to 5 pm) in Kangpokpi; and 12 hours (from 6 am to 6 pm) in Pherzawl.
“There is no curfew in Tamenglong, Noney, Senapati, Ukhrul and Kamjong,” the police added.
The positive development came after the Home Minister, on the last day of his four-day visit to the State addressed a press conference in Imphal appealing to all sections in violence-hit Manipur to maintain peace, hold discussions and promote harmony as well as surrender their weapons to the police.
Shah had warned that strict action would be taken against those found possessing weapons during the combing operation by the police.
He had also appealed to the people of Manipur to not to pay heed to rumours and to maintain peace. On behalf of Prime Minister Narendra Modi Government, the Home Minister had also expressed deep condolences to the families of those killed in Manipur violence.
“The violence between two groups started in Manipur on April 29 after a decision given by the court. For the last six years, Manipur has been free from bandh, blockade, curfew and violence and under the leadership of Prime Minister Modi and Chief Minister N Biren Singh, the double-engine government of Manipur has achieved unprecedented progress in all parameters of development in the state,” he said.
He added that over the past six years are the years of development and peace in the history of Manipur.
“A number of initiatives have been taken including opening central institutions in the region, strengthening the infrastructure, bringing industrial investment, making Manipur education and sports hub of the Northeast by smoothly running the educational institutions,” Shah had said on Thursday.
He had also said that a judicial commission would be set up under the chairmanship of the retired Chief Justice of the High Court to investigate the Manipur violence and that a peace committee would also be constituted under the chairmanship of the Governor of Manipur, in which representatives of all sections would be included.
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Days after the National Investigation Agency (NIA) busted an ISIS-linked terror module in Jabalpur district of Madhya Pradesh, it has been revealed that the NIA recovered several anti-India and anti-Hindu materials from the arrested terror terrorists Syed Mamoor Khan, Mohammad Adil Khan and Mohammad Shahid. The material contains information about a mission to turn India into an Islamic nation by the year 2050.
In a press release, the NIA stated that arrested terrorist Adil Khan who was on the agency’s radar since August 2022 and his aides were promoting ISIS propaganda through social media and on-ground ‘Dawah’ programmes to carry out terrorist activities at the behest of ISIS. The NIA had stated the arrested terrorists were receiving funding for carrying out Dawah programmes and disseminating ISIS propaganda. Sharp weapons, ammunition (including prohibited bore), incriminating documents, and digital devices were recovered by the NIA’s raiding teams.
Reportedly, NIA has said that the arrested terrorists were working on the agenda of converting India into an Islamic nation by 2050.
According to the NIA investigation, the three accused were “highly radicalised and determined to carry out violent jihad. They were collecting funds, disseminating ISIS propaganda material, motivating and recruiting youth, and trying to acquire arms and ammunition with the intent of carrying out terrorist acts,” the NIA press release stated.
According to a Dainik Bhaskar report, arrested terrorists Mohammad Adil ran a YouTube channel wherein they found a ‘Dawah To Hindus’ document. The report also claimed to have found the website linked with the YouTube channel which is working on the ‘Dawah’ programme meant to convert non-muslims to Islam. The said website carries out propaganda to destroy religions other than Islam. It is through this website, Adil received funding and there were links related to payments made to him by the ISIS terrorists.
Dawah To Hindus
It is pertinent to note that Dawah in Islam means to call proselytise or call upon non-Muslims to convert to Islam. The DainikBhaskar report stated that Adil’s YouTube channel had over 92,000 subscribers adding that all the videos posted on the channel have been deleted. However, the report claims to have seen some of the videos before deletion and found out from the comments on the videos that around 60 to 70 percent of the subscribers of the channel were foreigners. Moreover, the cover picture of Adil’s YouTube channel read, “Religion of Truth (Islam) to prevail over all religion”.
Screengrab of Mohammad Adil’s YouTube channel (Image credit: Bhaskar)
Terrorist Adil’s mother told Dainik Bhaskar that her son had told her that he runs a YouTube channel wherein he uploads videos of other Islamic scholars and this led to a copyright strike on his channel. After the strike was revoked, he used to make his own videos. She claimed that it was a normal religious YouTube channel adding that she does not know anything else about it.
Adil’s YouTube channel has ten links, including a Twitter account, an Instagram account, an English Quran app, a Quran online link, a Salah translation PDF document, a Hukm Allah PDF document, a Man Made Law PDF document, a Beneficial Knowledge link, and a PDF document titled “Dawah to Hindus.” This document reportedly claims that the process is underway to turn India into an Islamic nation by 2050.
Dawah To Hindus and 20 chapters filled with lies, distortion and hatred for Hindus
The introduction of this document mentions how Hindus are not practising their own religion appropriately and also describes the ‘similarities’ between Hinduism and Islam.
The ‘Dawah To Hindus’ document consists of twenty chapters, according to the Bhaskar report which includes chapters disparaging Hinduism. There are chapters on Hindu gods like Lord Rama, Lord Krishna, Lord Shiva and Lord Brahma wherein extremely derogatory language has been used for the gods and the Hindu scriptures have been misquoted and distorted beyond imagination.
The first chapter of the document asserts that everyone should accept Mohammad as the prophet and a true teacher. It also mentions Lord Shiva, Indra and Raja Bhoj.
The second chapter mentions Hindu scriptures and their known categories like Shruti and Smriti, the four Vedas are mentioned under the category of Shruti (what is heard) and Manusmriti as well as epics like Ramayan, Mahabharat are categorised as Smriti.
The third chapter mentions about the formless nature of God in Hinduism, it misquotes Hindu scriptures out of context to insinuate that idol worship is wrong and that there is only one god who is unborn. It mentions shlokas from Vedas and Upanishads out of context to assert that there is no image of god.
The fourth chapter discusses ‘scientific mistakes’ in Hindu scriptures. According to the Dawah To Hindus document, the distance from Earth to the Sun, as well as the diameters of the Sun and Moon, are incorrect in Hindu scriptures.
The fifth chapter again distorts Hindu scriptures such as the Garud Purana and Brahmsutras of Adi Shankaracharya to justify non-vegetarianism. It also mentions verses from the Valmiki Ramayana.
Slide from Dawah To Hindus document (Image credit: Bhaskar)
The sixth chapter discusses Hindu rulers having several wives whereas women were only meant to have one husband, implying that women face inequality in Hinduism.
Reference to the Valmiki Ramayana in the contentious document (Image credit: Bhaskar)
The seventh misinterprets Hindu scriptures and ISKCON founder Sri La Prabhupada’s preachings to claim that beating wives is justified in Hinduism.
Chapters eight and nine assert that women in Hinduism are inauspicious and that Hindu men indulged in some imaginary ‘Hindu Jihad’.
Chapter ten of the document claims that Hindu deities oppress women and children.
There are highly outrageous chapters in the document such as chapter eleven on prostitution, chapter twenty on Lord Shiva and chapter twenty-four on Shiva and Lingam. These chapters contain obscene images of Hindu deities and extremely derogatory language is used to describe the Shivling.
According to chapter eighteen, ‘Child Marriage’ of the aforementioned document, child marriage is justified in Hindu scriptures. Misquoting the Puranas, it is claimed that men in Hinduism are required to marry girls who are one-third younger than them.
The next chapter titled ‘Incest’ asserts that women are attracted to any good-looking man.
Chapters twenty-one and twenty-two malign the character of Lord Krishna and Lord Brahma respectively. Distorting the puranic shlokas it is claimed that Lord Krishna used to have ‘Rasleela’ with eighteen lakh Gopis. While Lord Brahma’s wife and daughter have been mentioned in an extremely slanderous manner.
Similarly, the twenty-third chapter contains slanderous content regarding Lord Rama and Goddess Sita. It further asserts that if Maa Sita had worn a Hijab, nothing ‘bad’ would have occurred to her.
UK-operated website taking forward the ‘Dawah Mission’
The Bhaskar report further claims to have found a link to a UK-operated website which has collected funds for continuing its operation for the next five years. The website featured an appeal to raise funds for ‘The Quran Project’, ‘Pamphlet Project’ and ‘Live Updates Syria’ organisations. The website is also raising funds for one ‘Cageprisoners Project. The website is reported to have featured an appeal from Iqbal Madani, a terrorist caught in Pakistan.
The website has listed several books for varied age groups including books on ‘dress code’ for women. There are audio and video lectures on the website to propagate the mission of Dawah. Moreover, links to several YouTube channels like One Islam Productions, One Path Network, and Ilmfeed are also featured on the said website. These channels are operated from the UK, Australia and the United States. These channels and their websites contain information on Islamic history.
On his YouTube channel, Mohammad Adil also justified sexual intercourse in public places as he quoted one verse from the Quran in one of his YouTube Community.
On Friday, in the Damoh hijab case where Hindu and Jain girls were seen wearing Hijab on the posters of meritorious students from a private school, along with in several photos on Facebook, the school administrator Haji Mohammad Idris claimed that the students were wearing scarves and not hijabs.
In a letter written to the Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister, administrator Haji Mohammad Idris of Ganga Jamuna School in Damoh indicated that a scarf is part of the school uniform, though it is not mandatory for the girls to wear it. ‘School girls wear it as a scarf or some even wear it as a dupatta. The girls are not forced to wear those scarves as they are not mandatory. They wear it on their own will,’ the letter read.
The letter was shared by NCPCR chairperson Priyank Kanoongo who said that the school administrator was speaking lie and that the girls were donned in hijab. “It was hijab, not scarf. Stop spreading lies Haji Mohammad Idris. The investigations are underway. Do not mislead the media by spreading lies,” the chairperson said.
स्कार्फ़ नहीं था हिजाब था,झूठ मत फैलाओ हाजी इदरीस ! जाँच चल रही है आज राज्य बाल आयोग की टीम दमोह पहुँचेगी जो कहना है वहीं कहना मीडिया को प्रभावित कर जनभावनाएँ भड़का कर सहानुभूति हासिल करने का ड्रामा चलने वाला नहीं है।#DamohUpdatepic.twitter.com/Ktq3qjtJkr
— प्रियंक कानूनगो Priyank Kanoongo (@KanoongoPriyank) June 2, 2023
It was reported that on May 31, posters featuring meritorious youngsters from a private school began to circulate online. The surprising aspect of these posters was that every single female student was seen wearing the hijab, which is mandated in Islam. The fact that some of these female students were Hindus and Jains caused controversy.
The DM, however, dismissed the assertions after a probe, claiming that they were simply rumours and that there was nothing untoward discovered during the first inquiries. Taking cognizance of the matter, NCPCR’s Priyank Kanoongo issued a notice on May 31 to the District Magistrate (DM) demanding an action report in a week.
According to the notice, the principal areas that are to be looked into are whether the school had the authorisation to permit hijabs as a dress code, the videos of students reciting religious prayers found by the commission, the violation of Article 28(3) of the Indian Constitution by the school administration and the monetary support obtained by the institution.
मध्यप्रदेश के दमोह ज़िले में एक स्कूल द्वारा हिंदू और अन्य ग़ैर मुस्लिम बच्चियों को स्कूल यूनीफ़ॉर्म के नाम पर जबरन बुर्का व हिजाब पहनाये जाने की शिकायत प्राप्त हुई है। इसका संज्ञान लिया जा रहा है एवं आवश्यक कार्यवाही हेतु @CollectorDamoh व पुलिस अधीक्षक दमोह को निर्देश प्रेषित…
— प्रियंक कानूनगो Priyank Kanoongo (@KanoongoPriyank) May 30, 2023
Notably, Hindu organisations have been protesting against the school administration since 2021. They claimed that the pupils were taught as if the school was a Madrasa. Hindu girls were made to wear hijab and boys were instructed how to recite namaz. The school administration has not yet been subject to any legal action.
Several school photos of students uploaded by teachers on Facebook and Instagram also reveal that the females are donning the hijab on sports day and not all of them doing so belong to the Muslim community.
The students can be seen singing Muhammad Iqbal also known as Allama Iqbal’s poems like Sare Jahan Se Accha and Lab Pe Aai Hai Dua in footages. The girls are wearing hijabs and they start their recitation with an Islamic greeting.
Damoh, Madhya Pradesh: Poster's of Hindu girls wearing Hijab installed outside a pvt school are circulating widely on the internet since morning.
Meanwhile, Hindu groups protested outside the district collector’s office, proclaiming that the school compels Hindu female pupils to wear the hijab. They submitted a memorandum demanding the cancellation of the school’s registration. However, the allegations have been refuted by the school’s owner, Mustaq Khan, who insisted that the headscarf was part of the dress code and that no one was forced to wear it.
It is important to note that Hindu activists have already expressed their displeasure with the school and its imposed religious practices. The DM received a memorandum from VHP members back in September 2021.
They reported that students at Ganga Jamna School are coerced into receiving an education along Madarsa lines. The school mandated the girls to cover up with the hijab and ordered the boys to offer namaz. Verses from the Quran were written in Arabic within the classroom. The document highlighted numerous similar problems, but as of now, nothing has been done against the school administration.
In the given, case the school immediately removed the controversial poster after the NCPCR took cognizance of the event. The incident is making rounds on social media and investigations in the care are underway.
On the intervening night of May 30-31, Priyank Kanungo, chairman of the National Child Rights Protection Commission (NCPCR) identified some child traffickers on a train and got them arrested. It happened on a train running from Katni station in Madhya Pradesh to Delhi.
The NCPCR chief had taken to Twitter on May 31 to share the details of the incident. He wrote in Hindi that he and his colleagues were travelling on train number 12549 from Katni to Delhi when they came upon two men, a woman, and a young girl. He informed that they were travelling in coach A-2 of the train using fake identification cards and tickets issued in other people’s names.
Police and Railway officials were informed in Sagar, Madhya Pradesh and the girl child was rescued, said Kanaango.
ट्रेन नम्बर 12549 से मैं और मेरे साथ @NCPCR_ की टीम कटनी से दिल्ली की यात्रा कर रहे हैं,ट्रेन में A-2 कोच में दो आदमी व एक महिला एक बच्ची के साथ ग़लत पहचान पत्र और दूसरे के नाम के टिकट पर यात्रा करते हुए मिले हैं। सागर मध्यप्रदेश में पुलिस व रेल्वे के अधिकारियों को सूचना दी…
— प्रियंक कानूनगो Priyank Kanoongo (@KanoongoPriyank) May 30, 2023
The NCPCR chairman, who was aboard the train, first questioned a couple after developing a vague suspicion, and following its validation, turned over both of them to the police. Interestingly, the entire instance was captured on camera.
The head of NCPCR told Firstpost, “I suspected a couple who were with a girl, approximately 15 or 16 years of age. They did not seem like her parents and their behaviour towards her was unusual. Upon checking their identity documents, our suspicion was confirmed. We found they were not the girl’s parents.”
He further mentioned, “I called the police and the CWC (Child Welfare Committee) at the next station which was Sagar. The girl was handed over to CWC and the duo were taken into police custody.”
“The Sagar CWC is conducting the girl’s counselling upon which her statement will be recorded. We have also directed a person to prepare a social report of her home in Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh,” Priyank Kanungo added.
The National Commission for Child Protection conducts a social report, which is a type of research to evaluate the circumstances of the victim’s residence that led to his or her falling prey to the traffickers. The report is used to decide whether or not it is safe to send the affected children back to their homes. They are not returned back to their households if it appears that they could fall into the clutches of traffickers again.
After a highly controversial UK tour, Rahul Gandhi is currently on a tour of the USA, and he has already made several controversial, anti-India remarks in his speeches there. Speaking in California, Rahul Gandhi on 31 May claimed that minorities like Muslims and Sikhs are under attack in India.
Answering a question from the ‘Bay Area Muslim community’ over alleged ‘threats to Muslims’ in India after his speech in Santa Clara in California, Rahul Gandhi said that Muslims and other minorities are feeling attacked in India. He said that it is “felt most strongly by the Muslim community because it is done most directly to them. But in fact, it is being done to all minorities.”
He then added, ‘The way Muslims are feeling attacked, I can guarantee Sikhs, Christians, Dalits and Tribals are feeling the same. What is happening to Muslims in India today happened to Dalits in the 1980s’.
However, the comments of Rahul Gandhi didn’t go well with Asaduddin Owaisi, the President of the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen, who is a self-appointed guardian of Muslim rights in India. He slammed Rahul Gandhi by saying that several anti-Muslim and anti-Minority riots took place under Congress regimes at the centre and at various states.
Reacting to Rahul Gandhi’s comments, Owaisi said that Rahul Gandhi’s answer to the question was completely meaningless and out of context. He said that it is like saying that the disqualification of Rahul Gandhi from parliament is not correct, but if it happens with someone else, that will be correct. Elaborating this, he said, ‘You were asked a question about Muslims in India, and you answered that Dalits and Sikhs also faced the same in 1980s. Rahul Gandhi does not know that in 1980s, when the UP govt was theirs, Hashimpura, Maliana massacres took place.’
On May 22, 1987, UP Police had picked up 50 Muslim men from Hashimpura, near Meerut in Uttar Pradesh, after days of communal riots in the town. The Uttar Pradesh Provincial Armed Constabulary (UP-PAC) took them to the Upper Ganga Canal in a truck, and there they shot them, killing 42 of them. The bodies were tossed into the water. At that time, Congress leader Rajiv Gandhi was the prime minister, and UP was also ruled by Congress under CM Vir Bahadur Singh.
He then went on to list how ‘Congress government was in power in 1980s when Delhi massacre happened, 400 Muslims were killed in police firing in Moradabad under Congress govt, his party was in power when anti-Sikh pogrom took place in 1980s.’
The Moradabad incident took place on 13 August 1980, when Muslims were celebrating Eid. The police and Provincial Armed Constabulary opened fire on the Moradabad Eidgah where around 40,000 Muslims had gathered to offer prayers. Over 300 people were killed in the firing. Congress was in power in the state with VP Singh as the CM, while Indira Gandhi was the PM. Notably, Congress was able to plant fake news in the media claiming that it was a retaliatory action after Muslims attacked security forces, which was found to be false.
Owaisi said, ‘you should say what is happening to Muslims, not what happened in 1980s’. He then slammed Rahul Gandhi over several cases where Muslims were victims of crimes that took place in Congress-ruled states. He said that Congress is ruling Rajasthan where Junaid & Naseer were killed, and till now several accused are not nabbed. Owaisi added that Congress-sponsored dharm sansads are also being organised in Chhattisgarh.
Two shocking cases of atrocities by Muslim males on Hindu women have come to light in Uttarakhand and Chhattisgarh respectively.
In the first incident, Noor Hasan killed a Hindu woman by slitting her throat with a shaving blade in Udham Singh Nagar district of Uttarakhand. Her naked corpse was discovered in a sugarcane field on Monday, May 29.
There was a bite mark on the neck of the deceased victim. It is suspected that the victim was raped before being murdered. The deceased woman’s husband has accused contractor Noor Hasan, whom the deceased had previously worked with, of the murder.
Noor Hasan was questioned in custody by the police investigating the case based on the charges made against him. The accused repeatedly denied the charges throughout the initial interrogation but confessed after police exercised strong measures.
Abhay Pratap Singh, superintendent of police, revealed that the former was indeed responsible for the woman’s murder. The victim used to work as a labourer at his place and both were in a relationship for the last eight years.
Noor Hasan has admitted to the police that he and the woman had a disagreement during which he shoved the latter. As a result, she suffered a brain injury and died. He then used a razor blade to sever her throat in an attempt to give a new angle to the murder before throwing her body into the sugarcane field.
Love Jihad in Chhattisgarh
The second is a case of purported love jihad that has surfaced in Chhattisgarh’s Raigarh district. Here a married Muslim man named Danish Khan trapped a girl from the Scheduled Tribe community in his ‘love’ trap. Both of them began living together.
When she became pregnant he gave her drugs to induce abortion. She miscarried as a consequence and her health also deteriorated. She was afterwards taken to a hospital for medical treatment where she passed away.
According to reports, the woman had died three months ago. Her confession video, however, emerged recently. In the video, she can be heard accusing her partner of beating and torturing her. The video was reportedly recorded in three parts. In the one which went viral on social media, the victim is heard saying that Danish used to assault her with his belt. She further said that Danish never disclose to her that he was previously married. The victim, who looked visibly petrified, further said that he never married her.
She wanted to leave him, but he was not letting her go. He constantly harassed her. She also revealed that she had previously had a child with Danish, who had left the hospital two days after the baby was born. Since then, the kid has gone missing.
The deceased’s brother contended that Danish befriended and formed a relationship with his sister by concealing his identity. He also used to pressurise her to convert to Islam and then physically retaliated against her for refusing to do so. He further accused Danish Khan of either selling or killing the first child he had with his sister.
He pleaded for justice and urged that a murder case be filed against the perpetrator as well as a Special Investigation Team (SIT) headed by a High Court judge be formed to conduct the probe.
Based on the complaint, the police on May 29, registered a case against Danish Khan under Section 304 (culpable homicide) of the IPC at Chakradhar Nagar police station in Raigarh, Chhattisgarh. After this, on May 30, the police arrested Danish and presented him in court, which sent him to judicial custody.
