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South Sudan President pees himself in the pants, arrests journalist for circulating embarrassing video

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South Sudan President pees himself in the pants, arrests journalist for circulating embarrassing video

In an embarrassing moment for South Sudan, the 71-year-old President of the North African country, Salva Kiir Mayardit, was caught peeing his pants on live camera.

The incident dates back to December 13 last year when he had gone to commission a newly constructed road. During the national anthem, he was seen urinating in his pants.

A video of the incident has now gone viral on social media. It must be mentioned that Salva Kiir Mayardit has been the President of South Sudan ever since it gained independence in July 2011.

On Tuesday (January 3), the security agents arrested 6 journalists, who are associated with the state broadcaster ‘South Sudan Broadcasting Corporation’. The scribes were accused of circulating the embarrassing footage of the South Sudanese President.

This was despite the fact that the video was never aired. They were identified as Victor Lado (Camera Technician), Joval Tombe (Control Room Director), Cherbek Ruben (Control Room Technician) and camera operators Mustafa Osman, Joseph Oliver, and Jacob Benjamin.

Meanwhile, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has called for the unconditional release of the journalists. Muthoki Mumo, the sub-Saharan Africa representative of CPJ, stated that South Sudan has a history of detaining journalists arbitrarily whenever the news coverage appears unfavourable to the ruling political dispensation.

“Authorities should unconditionally release these six SSBC employees and ensure that they can work without further intimidation or threat of arrest,” Mumo said. South Sudan has witnessed political turmoil, hunger, natural disasters and brutal conflict over the years.

The North African country is yet again in the news for all the wrong reasons.

Punjab: AAP-led state government’s second minister resigns after audio of extortion went viral

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Punjab: AAP-led state government’s second minister resigns after audio of extortion went viral

On January 7, the Aam Aadmi Party-led Punjab government’s cabinet minister Fauja Singh Sarari resigned from his post after alleged audio of extortion went viral on social media. He was the Minister of Food and Horticulture. Sarari is the second minister in Bhagwant Mann’s cabinet to resign since AAP came to power in the state ten months ago. Earlier, Vijay Singla was sacked over corruption charges. On the day Sarari resigned, Dr Balbir Singh took oath as a cabinet minister in the presence of Bhagwant Mann at Raj Bhawan, where the Governor of Punjab administered the oath.

At the time of his resignation, Sarari said he would remain a loyal soldier of AAP. His audio went viral in September 2022 when CM Mann was on a foreign tour. In the audio, it was claimed that Sarari was planning extortion from the contractors. When the audio was leaked, the opposition raised questions about the government and a show cause notice was issued by the Mann-led state government to Fauja Singh. It is unclear whether he has replied to the show cause notice.

When the audio went viral, Sarari claimed that the allegations against him were baseless. He also filed a complaint against the leaked audio and claimed it was a conspiracy against him. Though it is being said that he resigned in the aftermath of the leaked audio, Sarari claimed to have resigned for personal reasons.

Earlier, then-Health Minister of the AAP-led Punjab government Vijay Singla was sacked following allegations of corruption. He was accused of taking a commission to issue a tender by the department. He was sent to jail as well. Notably, Singla was only sacked from the cabinet but not from the party. AAP leaders are also facing corruption charges in Delhi. Delhi Government’s minister Satyendra Jain has been behind bars for several months in a money laundering case. The party has not accepted his resignation so far. There have been allegations of taking money for a ticket against AAP on several occasions. Furthermore, the Deputy Chief Minister of Delhi, Manish Sisodia is also facing allegations of corruption in the Delhi Liquor Scam.

Congress supporters dance shirtless in the biting cold in Bharat Jodo Yatra after Rahul Gandhi was hailed as PM candidate for wearing just a t-shirt

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Congress supporters dance shirtless in the biting cold in Bharat Jodo Yatra after Rahul Gandhi was hailed as PM candidate for wearing just a t-shirt

On January 8, Congress supporters danced shirtless in the biting cold in Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra (BJY) after the Congress leader was hailed as Prime Minister candidate for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections for wearing just a t-shirt. A video of BJY was shared by news agency ANI on Sunday in which Congress supporters standing on top of the bus wearing just pink-coloured Pagdi and trousers danced to the band tunes.

Congress leader hailed for wearing just a t-shirt in cold weather

Earlier, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi was hailed on several occasions for wearing just a t-shirt and no warmers despite a cold wave in North India during BJY. Intellectuals, Congress leaders, left-liberal media and others jumped to praise Gandhi for the showcase of “unimaginable” strength and will as he walked in dense fog in a white t-shirt. Long-time Congress loyalist Salman Khurshid was so impressed by Rahul Gandhi’s act of wearing a t-shirt that he called Rahul Gandhi superhuman for wearing one during Delhi winters. He even went ahead and compared Gandhi to Bhagwan Ram.

Khurshid was not the only congress worker to sing praises of Rahul Gandhi for wearing a t-shirt, Chairperson of Social Media and Digital Platforms for Congress in Maharajganj, Supriya Shrinate, also sang Rahul Gandhi’s praises for wearing a t-shirt and compared him to a ‘tapasvi’. When asked about his not-so-needed adventure during a press conference, Gandhi said that people wear sweaters because they are scared of the cold. “I do not wear a sweater because I am not scared of cold. You wear one because you are scared.”

Netizens react to shirt-less Congress supporters

Netizens took to Twitter to speak their mind after the viral video. Twitter user Amit said, “No one feels the cold. Everyone is a PM candidate.”

Shraddha Shah said, “If nothing, at least they are providing entertainment”.

Unholy Bull said speculated if someone dies of cold during Bharat Jodo Yatra, they would blame BJP.

Twitter user WhyteKing said, “They have become a parody of a political party”.

It is unclear if the Congress supporters were supporting Congress leader Rahul Gandhi by going shirtless or they were hoping to become candidate for the PM post as they went a step ahead of Gandhi by going shirtless.

Pro-Hindu group Sri Ram Sene leader shot at in Karnataka, read details

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Pro-Hindu group Sri Ram Sene leader shot at in Karnataka, read details

Sri Ram Sena district president and his driver escaped with injuries in a firing incident at Hindalaga village area, the police said on Sunday. 

Officials said that Ravi Kokitakera, District president of Sri Ram Sene escaped with injuries on the chin after an unknown person shot him. The firing incident happened near Hindalaga village at Belagavi. 

The bullets were fired by unidentified persons, and his driver was also injured in the incident, officials said. 

Both have been taken to a nearby hospital and admitted there. They are out of danger. 

A case has been registered in Belagavi rural police station and a probe has been initiated to identify and nab the accused, the police said. 

(This news report is published from a syndicated feed. Except for the headline, the content has not been written or edited by OpIndia staff)

Serial killer on the prowl in UP’s Barabanki, targets older women, three murdered till now

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Serial killer on the prowl in UP’s Barabanki, targets older women, three murdered till now

Residents of Uttar Pradesh’s Barabanki district are in panic mode as a serial killer is on the prowl, targetting older women. 

Six police teams are engaged in the search for the killer. He has been accused of targeting older women and killing them, officials with Barabanki police said. At the same time, police posted a picture of the accused on Social media, and appealed to people to provide information on him. 

The killer has committed three murders so far, they said. 

The police officer investigating the case has now been removed and the SP has appointed another officer in his place. 

The first incident was reported in Ayodhya district on 5 December 2022. The 60-year-old victim from Khusheti village of Mawai area left home for some work. 

When she did not return till evening, the family members lodged a missing complaint at the police station following which a search was launched. 

Later on December 6, the body was found at a secluded place. 

The police said that there was no cloth on the dead body. The woman had injury marks on her face and head. The post-mortem report revealed that the woman was raped and strangulated to death, they said. 

In the second incident, the body of a 62-year-old woman was recovered from a field in Barabanki district. She was also found murdered in the same manner, the police said. 

There was no cloth on the body and the post-mortem report revealed that she was raped and then strangulated to death, the police said. 

Similarly, on December 30, the body of a 55-year-old woman was found in Thatharha village, 3 km away from Ramsnehighat Kotwali. The pattern of murder was similar, officials said. 

Police have already made the photo of the accused go viral on the internet. Barabanki and nearby police stations have been put on high alert.

(This news report is published from a syndicated feed. Except for the headline, the content has not been written or edited by OpIndia staff)

Kerala human sacrifice case: First chargesheet filed 89 days after first arrest made, Md Shafi, 2 others named accused

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Kerala human sacrifice case: First chargesheet filed 89 days after first arrest made, Md Shafi, 2 others named accused

Kerala Police on Saturday submitted the first charge sheet in connection to the Kerala human sacrifice case. 

Police submitted the charge sheet before the First Class Judicial Magistrate Court at Ernakulam regarding the murder of Padma, who was a Tamil Nadu native, officials said. She was brutally killed in the name of human sacrifice. The chargesheet in the murder of Roslin, another victim is yet to be filed. 

“Three persons, identified as Muhammed Shafi, Bhagaval Singh, and Laila Bhagaval Singh, have been named as accused in the case,” said officials. 

The chargesheet was submitted on the 89th day since the arrests were made. 

Murder, conspiracy, and abduction have been included as offence, while 150 witnesses were named in the chargesheet, said officials. 

The three accused were arrested by the Kochi city police on October 11, last year, for murdering two women in a brutal manner in the name of human sacrifice in black magic rituals. 

The incident took place on June 6 and September 26. 

The remains of the two deceased women- identified as Padma and Roslin, were exhumed later from pits near the residence of Singh and Laila in the Pathanamthitta district. 

According to the Police remand report, on September 26, Shafi approached the 52-year-old Padma, who used to sell lottery tickets and lured her by offering Rs 15000. 

She had agreed and went with Shafi to the home of Bhagaval Singh and Laila, the report added. 

“There the accused strangulated her neck with a plastic chord and slit her throat. Shafi mutilated Padma’s private parts with a knife. After that, they chopped off her body into 56 parts and stored them into buckets and buried them in a pit,” the report detailed. 

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Dholpur Gang Rape Case: Accused not arrested even after booking a case, minor victim pressurized to compromise

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Dholpur Gang Rape Case: Accused not arrested even after booking a case, minor victim pressurized to compromise

In Dholpur, the gang rape victim is striving for justice. She has accused the police of colluding with the accused. The minor victim has threatened to commit suicide if she does not get justice.

Even after the FIR of gang rape was lodged in Dholpur, the accused are roaming freely. The minor victim has made serious allegations against the police. The accused are threatening the minor to compromise. For the sake of justice, the minor victim is forced to visit the CO office. The incident is from the Kotwali police station area.

The minor victim was drugged and gang-raped

The 16-year-old girl has accused her brother-in-law of crossing all limits. The brother-in-law committed the rape by drugging her. In the heinous incident, the brother-in-law’s younger brother, son, as well as friends were also involved. The victim has also made serious allegations against her brother-in-law for forcing her into prostitution. The accused brother-in-law allegedly sold the minor in the red light area of Kolkata.

The victim has lodged a case of gang rape against her brother-in-law, his younger brother, and his son along with friends at the women’s police station. The report states that in the year 2020, the father of the minor was jailed. The minor victim girl was left alone. The brother-in-law took the responsibility of providing for the minor’s maintenance and education and brought her home. After this, the brother-in-law’s intentions changed.

According to the report lodged by the victim minor, one day the brother-in-law drugged the victim. After she went unconscious, the brother-in-law, his younger brother, and the brother-in-law’s son raped her. A few days later, all the accused went to Kolkata. In Kolkata too, a friend along with the accused brother-in-law, his younger brother, and his son raped the victim. When she protested, the minor victim was beaten up and threatened. According to the report, the brother-in-law left the sister-in-law for prostitution in the red light area of Kolkata.

The victim narrated the incident to her father

After being released from jail, the father, came home, searching for the minor daughter. The elder daughter was contacted. The minor victim also somehow got information about the father’s release from jail. After reaching Dholpur from Kolkata, the victim narrated the incident to her father.

The father was shocked to know that the minor girl was being raped everywhere. He has lodged a case of gang rape against her brother-in-law, his younger brother, and his son along with friends at the women’s police station. The police have registered a case and started an investigation.

‘Won’t arrest the accused unless the crime is proved’: Police

Deputy Superintendent of Police Suresh Sankhla said, “A case of gang rape has been registered at the Women’s Police Station on the complaint of the minor. 376D has also been added to various sections of the POCSO Act. The incident is being investigated. The crime against the accused has not been proven yet. The accused will be arrested only if the crime is proved.”

The 16-year-old minor victim has leveled serious allegations against the police. She says that her brother-in-law and his brother are influential and that police officers are busy rescuing both of them. The victim alleged that the police are engaged in compromising the case at the behest of her brother-in-law. She said, my brother-in-law wants to compromise on the strength of money and the police are not arresting the accused for the lure of a few rupees. The victim has threatened to commit suicide if she does not get justice. “Anyway, the accused are threatening to kill us”, she said.

Haryana: Man booked for assaulting a woman who refused a bike ride, NCW demands probe

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Haryana: Man booked for assaulting a woman who refused a bike ride, NCW demands probe

The Haryana Police has lodged a First Information Report (FIR) against a man, who in an inebriated state allegedly attacked a woman with his helmet after she refused to sit with him on his bike.

The National Commission for Women (NCW) on Saturday took cognisance of the incident seeking a time-bound investigation into the matter.

According to the police, the woman, who was returning from her office on Thursday (January 5) night around 11 pm, received several injuries after her neighbour, Kamal, beat her up with his helmet for allegedly refusing to sit on his bike in Baldev Nagar of Gurugram.

“A man named Kamal beat up a woman living in the neighbourhood with the helmet after she refused to ride with him on his bike. The woman was severely injured and was rushed to a hospital. The FIR has been filed under various sections of the Indian Penal Code,” Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Manoj K, Gurugram said adding that a probe into the matter is underway.

He said that Kamal also hit an auto driver who came to rescue the woman. The entire incident was recorded on the nearby CCTV camera.

“A case has been registered against the accused Kamal under sections 323, 506, 354, 509 and 379 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC),” he added.

Meanwhile, the woman’s landlady alleged: “All the police officials we contacted via 112 were also drunken and misbehaved as I called them after first aid treatment to the girl.”

She has been thrashed brutally in a way that she is not even able to walk, talk, and breathe, the lady added highlighting that the accused Kamal had done the same previously as well.

Meanwhile, the NCW has taken cognizance of the matter and wrote to the Director General of Police, Haryana to ensure that the victim is provided free of cost medical treatment. It has also sought a time bound-investigation in the matter.

(This news report is published from a syndicated feed. Except for the headline, the content has not been written or edited by OpIndia staff)

Assam: Former BPF MLA Hitesh Basumatary arrested for keeping illegal weapons, was allegedly attempting to float a new terror group

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Assam: Former BPF MLA Hitesh Basumatary arrested for keeping illegal weapons, was allegedly attempting to float a new terror group

On Saturday, 7th January 2023, Assam police arrested former MLA Hitesh Basumatary and his two accomplices for allegedly attempting to float a terrorist group. When the police searched the former MLA Hitesh Basumatary’s home in the Kokrajhar district, they found two rifles – an AK-47 and an M16 – along with more than 100 live bullets.

The other two arrested are identified as Daorao Deshreb Narzary, Executive president of Bodoland Jatiya Saruksh Manch, and Vikram Daimary, president of Bodoland Kontark association.

Kokrajhar Superintendent of Police Pushpraj Singh said, “The police arrested the ex-MLA of the Chapaguri assembly constituency. Police also recovered one AK series rifle with magazine, 126 rounds of AK ammunition, one M-16 rifle with magazine, and 9 rounds ammunition.”

He further said, “They were conspiring to form a new terror organization. Based on that, they were arrested. We produced Hitesh Basumatary and two others in a local court and it sent them to five-day police remand.”

When asked if they were trying to float the organization in the Bodoland Territorial Region (BTR), he said that the police will make all the details public after questioning the three men.

The police have registered a case against them under sections 120 (B), 121, 121(A), 122, 124(A) of the IPC, sections 16, 17, 18, 18(A), 18(B), 19, 20, 21 of the UAPA and section 66 of the IT Act.

Hitesh Basumatary, a Bodoland People’s Front leader, triumphed in the 2011 Assembly elections from the Chapaguri constituency. Additionally, he held the position of Executive Member of the Bodoland Territorial Council.

Hitesh Basumatary is a leader of the Bodoland People’s Front (BPF) led by Hagrama Mohilary, a former militant leader. Mohilary was the chief of the Bodo militant group Bodo Liberation Tigers (BLT), but later he surrendered and formed BPF in 2005. A large number of former militants joined the party after returning to the mainstream. BPF was part of NDA and was part of the Sarbananda Sonowal led BJPgovrnment in the state. But it joined UPA ahead of the 2021 Assam assembly elections after BJP decided to dump it to form an alliance with UPPL, BPF’s rival party in the Bodo region.

Following the signing of a trilateral agreement in January 2020 by representatives of the Centre, the Assam government, and the Bodo people, including all factions of the terrorist group National Democratic Front of Bodoland, violence has decreased in the BTR.

Kolkata: Two men including a mechanical engineering student arrested for suspected links with ISIS, were allegedly radicalising youths

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Kolkata: Two men including a mechanical engineering student arrested for suspected links with ISIS, were allegedly radicalising youths

On 7th January 2023, the Special Task Force of the Kolkata police arrested two men with suspected ISIS links. The arrests took place at the eastern slope of Vidyasagar Sethu, Kolkata. The arrested two are identified as Mohammad Saddam and Syed Ahmed.

The two were travelling on a bike when the Special Task Force officers chased and arrested them. They were passing from the second Hooghly bridge connecting Kolkata with Howrah. Police recovered one laptop and two mobile phones from the arrested suspects.

Reportedly, the two were under the watch of security agencies for some time as it was found that they were circulating jihadi propaganda materials for organisations like ISIS. After getting information that they were going to attend a meeting, the STF team tracked them and caught them at the Vidyasagar Sethu.

Following the arrests, the police conducted searches at several places in Kolkata. Mohammad Saddam’s house at Aftabuddin Lane in Howrah and Syed Ahmed’s house located in the Golam Hossain Lane area of ​​Shibpur Thana were also searched by the police. During this search, a laptop, debit cards, a few mobile phones and documents were seized. Moreover, incriminatory content was found on the laptop.

A police officer said, “We had got a tip-off that Saddam and Ahmed were going to attend a secret meeting in the Khidirpur area. After arresting the duo, the police also conducted search operations at their residences and recovered some debit cards and electronic evidence from there. Some jihadi contents were also recovered from the laptop seized from them.”

He continued by saying that preliminary inquiry had shown that their major activities were brainwashing young people into joining the terrorist organization ISIS and securing funding to expand their network throughout the state. Ahmed and Saddam both live in the Howrah district.

“On social media, these two were promoting anti-national activities and radicalism. Their aim was to brainwash people, particularly young people in order to entice them to participate in jihadi activities. They used to disseminate footage of explosions and killings in order to stir anti-national sentiment among young people,” the police officer said. He also said that several youths seem to have fallen into their trap.

According to police, Md. Saddam is a mechanical engineering student at Aliah University in New Town. He along with Syed Ahmed used social media to brainwash youths to join militant organizations and incite them to engage in anti-national activities. They were using propaganda videos for this purpose. Security agencies suspect that some handler in the middle east is behind them. It is suspected that Saddam was in contact with IS operatives in Pakistan and West Asia.

The arrested individuals were presented at the Bankshall court in Kolkata. The court remanded these suspects to STF custody till January 19. Kolkata’s police commissioner Vineet Goyal confirmed the arrests and told that further investigation, in this case, is going on.

Apart from the interrogation of the two in custody, their electronic records are also being examined by the police to learn more about their network.

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