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Punjab Police asks people to voluntarily remove content glorifying weapons from social media within the next 72 hours

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Punjab Police asks people to voluntarily remove content glorifying weapons from social media within the next 72 hours

On Saturday, November 26, after an FIR was recently filed against four people, including a 10-year-old boy, for ‘glorifying’ gun culture in Amritsar, Punjab DGP Gaurav Yadav gave the public 72 hours to remove any social media posts promoting gun culture and violence.

DGP Yadav stated that no FIRs would be filed in relation to such posts for 72 hours, after which the drive to remove such posts would begin and offenders will be booked.

“Appeal to Everyone to voluntarily remove any objectionable content from their Social Media handles in the next 72 hours.  CM Punjab has directed that no FIRs for glorifying weapons will be registered for the next 3 days in Punjab to allow people to remove content on their own,” the Punjab Police DGP tweeted.

Notably, on November 23, Amritsar Rural Police arrested four people, including a 10-year-old boy and his father, for “glorifying” gun culture, but the FIR was later dropped after it was revealed that the firearm in question was a “toy gun.” The case was filed at the Kathunangal Police Station.

The boy’s father had uploaded a picture of his son on his Facebook profile, showing him standing with a gun and a bandolier on his shoulder.

The case was filed under Section 188 of the IPC, which deals with disobeying an order issued by a public servant.

The state government has prohibited the public display of firearms as well as songs promoting gun culture, including those shared on social media.

Notably, Punjab has been at the centre of gun violence and gang wars. After Punjabi singer Sidhu Moosewala was shot dead in broad daylight, the gun culture and its glorification through music videos and other means became a topic of discussion across the country. Recently, even veteran Punjabi singer Babbu Mann received a death threat over a phone call, after which security at his Mohali residence was tightened.

US bans import and sale of communication equipment from Chinese firms Huawei and ZTE over data security concerns

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US bans import and sale of communication equipment from Chinese firms Huawei and ZTE over data security concerns

The Biden administration Friday prohibited the sale or import of new telecommunications equipment from China’s Huawei Technologies and ZTE, citing “an unacceptable risk” to US national security. Huawei, the Chinese telecommunications company, has often been accused of spying on the behest of the Chinese government. 

The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced on Friday that it had adopted the final rules, which also prohibit the sale or import of surveillance equipment manufactured by China’s Dahua Technology, video surveillance firm Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology, and telecoms firm Hytera Communications.

“This is the latest step by the FCC to protect our nation’s communications networks. Recently, the Commission, Congress, and the Executive Branch have taken multiple actions to build a more secure and resilient supply chain for communications equipment and services within the US,” FCC Tweeted while informing about the decision.

“These new rules are an important part of our ongoing actions to protect the American people from national security threats involving telecommunications,” FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel also said in a statement.

She added that on March 12, 2021, the USA, published the first-ever list of communications and services that pose an unacceptable threat to national security, as required by the Secure and Trusted Communications Networks Act. This original Covered List featured products from Chinese manufacturers Huawei, ZTE, Hytera, Hikvision, and Dahua.

Copy of FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel’s statement (Source: FCC)

According to reports, the five-member Federal Communications Commission voted unanimously Friday to establish new regulations prohibiting the import or sale of certain technology items that pose security risks to vital infrastructure in the United States.

This move is the latest in a years-long buildup of US restrictions on Chinese technology, which began with President Donald Trump and has continued under President Joe Biden.

FBI probe reveals Huawei can disrupt US defence and nuclear communications

Notably, in July 2022, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) found that cell towers equipped with Huawei equipment can capture restricted communications of the US Defense Department. As per an exclusive report by CNN, the presence of Huawei equipment atop cell towers near military installations posed a serious threat to US Strategic Command, responsible for overseeing the nuclear arsenal of the country.

Citing sources, the American news outlet stated that the Huawei equipment can not only intercept commercial call traffic but also critical communications made by the US Strategic Command via restricted airwaves.

FCC designates Chinese firms Huawei, ZTE as national security threats

In July 2020, the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) designated Huawei Technologies Co. and ZTE Corp. as national security threats, in a move to drive out the Chinese manufacturers from the US market.

The US telecommunications regulator issued the declaration and proposed requiring rural carriers to remove and replace equipment from the two Chinese companies from existing US networks.

US says equipment from Huawei and ZTE can be used for spying

The FCC had kept an eye on the Chinese tech companies while the tensions mounted between China and the US over trade, the coronavirus pandemic and security issues. The FCC is considering banning these two Chinese telephone companies along with China Mobile Ltd, which was banned last year from entering the US market.

The United States contends that Huawei’s equipment could be used by China for spying. However, the company has repeatedly rejected that it poses any security risk and insists that it is independent of the Beijing government.

US administration had cut Huawei off from global chip suppliers

In May 2020, the US administration issued an order barring Huawei and its suppliers from using American technology and software.

The US administration had decided to block shipments of semiconductors to Huawei Technologies from major global chipmakers. The US Commerce Department had stated it was amending an export rule to “strategically target Huawei’s acquisition of semiconductors that are the direct product of certain US software and technology.”

Propaganda outlet Alt News claims Tablighi Jamaat converted people to Hinduism to target Swarajya journalist; silently updates its report after being called out

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Propaganda outlet Alt News claims Tablighi Jamaat converted people to Hinduism to target Swarajya journalist; silently updates its report after being called out

Ever ready to shield Islamists and downplay crimes committed by Muslim youth, propaganda outlet Alt News recently came up with a ‘fact check’ that made a ludicrous claim that the Islamic missionary movement Tablighi Jamaat is involved in converting people to Hinduism while attacking Swati Goel Sharma, a Swarajya Magazine journalist who is at the forefront in covering hate crimes committed against Hindus.

The matter pertains to a shocking assertion made by a man who identified himself as Rashid Khan, who had justified Shraddha’s murder by Aftab, suggesting that in a fit of rage, a man can cut up 36 pieces instead of 35. Alt News published a ‘fact check’ claiming that the man in question is Vikas Kumar, even though he insisted on being referred to as Rashid Khan.

The propaganda outlet even quoted Swarajya journalist Swati Goel Sharma, who had tweeted that given her familiarity with Dawah activities, Khan appeared to be a recent convert to Islam.

“Given my experience with covering Dawah activities, I feel he is a recent convert. I am saying this irrespective of what he said, of which I have little idea. A very likely Tablighi connection,” Swati had tweeted.

However, perhaps because of low comprehension skills and an eager zeal to discredit Swati, who has been a thorn in Alt News and other fundamentalist organisation’s side with exposing Islamists, the propaganda portal alleged that Vikas had recently converted to Hinduism and very likely had a Tablighi connection. 

Source: Alt News

Essentially, Alt News interpreted Swati’s tweet to allege that Tablighi Jamaat converted to Hinduism, drawing ridicule from the Swarajya Magazine journalist, who took a swipe at the leftist propaganda outlet and its founders.

“Always knew those running @AltNews-, @free_thinker, @zoo_bear and gang – are not very bright. But claiming Tablighi converts Muslims to Hindu?”

Soon thereafter, Alt News updated the article and added a corrigendum that said: “In an inadvertent error, it was mentioned in the article that a journalist had claimed that Vikas Kumar had recently converted to Hinduism. The article has been updated. The error is sincerely regretted.“

Alt News Tablighi Jamaat
Source: Alt News

After Alt News issued a corrigendum, Swati took a dig at the portal for making more “inadvertent errors” than fact checks.

A man who identifies himself as Rashid Khan justifies the murder of Shraddha Walkar

While the police claimed that the man who justified the murder of Shraddha Walkar is Vikas Kumar, he has been consistently referring to himself as Rashid Khan and insisting others call him Rashid. The controversy erupted after he justified the murder of Shraddha Walkar, alleging that in a fit of rage of, a man can cut up a woman in 36 pieces instead of 35.

On November 14, the Delhi Police solved the six-month-old murder case of Shraddha Walkar and arrested Aftab Poonawala for murdering her, and then chopping her into 35 small pieces. Aftab executed the murder on May 18 and stored her body parts in the refrigerator. He then disposed of the body pieces in Delhi’s Mehrauli forest during the next 18 days.

The accused was arrested based on the complaint filed by Shraddha’s father on November 10. He stated in the complaint that the accused and the deceased had rented an apartment in Delhi and were staying in an unhealthy live-in relationship. He said that he had always opposed their relationship as Aftab used to physically assault Shraddha.

The girl, a resident of Palghar was adamant about continuing her relationship with accused Aftab and shifted to Delhi with him. Three days after they shifted to Delhi, they engaged in a quarrel and Aftab happened to kill Shraddha. He confessed his crime on November 14 and stated that they used to fight a lot. He said that he murdered Shraddha on May 18 as she was forcing him to get married to her. They also fought over who would manage the domestic household expenses.

Revisiting 26/11 media coverage: When Barkha Dutt shut down blogger Chaitanya Kunte for highlighting media’s role in helping the terrorists

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Revisiting 26/11 media coverage: When Barkha Dutt shut down blogger Chaitanya Kunte for highlighting media’s role in helping the terrorists

Today, on the 26th of November 2022, India remembers the 14th anniversary of the deadly terrorist attack in Mumbai, carried out by Pakistan-backed Lashkar-e-Taiba when 10 Pakistani terrorists wreaked havoc on India’s financial capital. 175 people (including 9 terrorists) died in the terror attack and over 300 people were left injured.

The terror attack, which lasted 3 days, was being shown live on our TV screens by the Indian news channels. We could get live updates on the hostage situation that was developing during the course of this terror attack. Later on, we learned that it wasn’t just us watching the minute-by-minute update of the hostage situation, but the handlers of terrorists sitting in Pakistan as well.

In fact, the Supreme Court, in its judgement in Md. Ajmal Md. Amir Kasab vs the State Of Maharashtra on 29 August 2012, had dedicated an entire section and several pages to the conduct of the media and how it endangered operations during the 26/11 terror attack. The highest court in India pulled no punches while describing how the media aided terrorists during the course of this terror attack.

One of the journalists covering this terror attack from the location was NDTV’s Barkha Dutt. While several people criticised media in general, and quite a few criticised Ms. Dutt’s coverage specifically, one post from a blogger by the name of Chaitanya Kunte really attracted the wrath of Dutt.

In a blog post titled ‘Shoddy Journalism’, Kunte criticised Barkha Dutt’s reporting during the 26/11 terror attack. Kunte had given two specific incidents accusing Dutt of being insensitive and irresponsible. In one incident he claimed that Dutt had caught hold of a man who had just ran out of the hotel and interviewed him live. In the interview, she apparently made the man disclose where his wife was hiding in the hotel, which arguably made her vulnerable to being located by the terrorists.

In another incident, a security officer is supposed to have told Dutt that the Oberoi Trident was free of hostages but Dutt had apparently called up a top manager at the Oberoi who contradicted the security officer.

While this blog post by Kunte went viral, even during the time when social media wasn’t as much of a part of everyone’s daily life as it is now, it was suddenly deleted in January 2009. Instead, Kunte tendered an unconditional apology to Dutt. The wording of the apology seemed to convey that Kunte had received a legal notice of defamation from Dutt and NDTV.

The Supreme Court judgement years later vindicated Kunte and what he had written about the media coverage, but by then, the post, the blog, and even Kunte were nowhere to be found online. The threat of the court case seemed to have made him say goodbye to the internet forever, at least with his real name.

Later on, in an interview with Newslaundry’s Madhu Trehan, Barkha Dutt did acknowledge that she had sent a legal notice to Kunte and she didn’t regret it. During the interview, Barkha admitted that perhaps in hindsight journalists made mistakes during the Mumbai siege. However, she did add quickly that when they ‘realised’, from the second day they started deferring visuals of live coverage of the attacks by 15 minutes. She upped her defence by saying that the media wasn’t aware that the handlers of the terrorists were monitoring news channels.

Bareilly: Akleem Qureshi rapes Hindu girl at gunpoint while sisters record the act, accused then blackmails victim to eat beef and accept Islam, 6 booked

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Bareilly: Akleem Qureshi rapes Hindu girl at gunpoint while sisters record the act, accused then blackmails victim to eat beef and accept Islam, 6 booked

The Uttar Pradesh’s Bareilly police have registered a case against one youth named Akleem alias Babu Qureshi. The case was registered based on a complaint lodged by a Hindu girl living in Uttar Pradesh’s Bareilly district who said that Akleem Qureshi and her brothers of raping her and forcing her to convert to Islam.

Bareilly police took to Twitter to inform that based on her complaint, the Shahi police have booked six people, including three women under relevant sections of the law and launched a probe into the allegations. The people booked have been identified as Akleem Qureshi, Shadal, Visal, Tarannum, Shabana and Gazala.

According to the Hindi daily Amarujala, the girl said in her complaint, that Akleem Qureshi raped her at gunpoint while his two sisters Tarannum and Shabana drugged her and made a video of the act. The accused thereafter used the video to blackmail her into eating beef forcefully against her will and convert to Islam. Qureshi forcefully took her to places like Allahabad, Banaras, Akbarpur, Ajmer and Bihar from where she was brought to Agra. In Agra, the girl alleged, that Akleem and his two brothers Shadal and Visal took turns and raped her.

According to the officials, the girl, who lived in the Shahi police station area, used to run a beauty parlour in her home, which Tarannum and her friend Gazala frequented. The victim and Tarannum gradually became friends, and one-day Tarannum persuaded her to come to her house, to which the victim agreed. Tarannum brought the victim to her house and imprisoned her in a room where Akleem Qureshi had previously been hiding. The offender then raped the woman while holding a gun to her head. Tarannum and Shabana, Qureshi’s two sisters, filmed the act. The recording was then used to pressurise the victim into eating meat against her will, converting to Islam, and marrying Akleem Qureshi.

The victim said that she fell for Akleem and his sister’s charming talk and left her house with a large sum of money and jewellery, which the accused stole from her after injecting her with sedatives.

The woman said she somehow escaped from Akleem’s captivity in November and approached the police. Bareilly SSP Akhilesh Kumar Chaurasia confirmed that based on the complaint lodged by the victim, a case was registered against the six accused.

‘India is where my family, home and culture blend together’: British PM Rishi Sunak’s daughter Anoushka Sunak

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‘India is where my family, home and culture blend together’: British PM Rishi Sunak’s daughter Anoushka Sunak

In an exclusive byte given to India Today, the daughter of British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, Anoushka Sunak stated that India is a place where “family, home and culture” blend together. “India is the country where I come from. It is a place where family, home and culture blend together. I love going there every year,” Anoushka said.

Rishi Sunak’s daughter made these remarks at the Kuchipudi Dance festival ‘Rang 2022’ held in London. When questioned about her passion for dance, Anoushka told India Today that she enjoys Kuchipudi and dancing since it takes away all of her cares and stresses.

“I love Kuchipudi and dancing because when you are dancing all your worries and stresses go away and you are in the moment dancing with your all your friends beside you. I love to be on stage,” Anoushka Sunak stated.

Rishi Sunak withe his wife Akshata Murthy, and daughters Krishna and Anoushka.

Anoushka’s mother, Akshata Murthy, her grandparents, and her educators were among the many people who came to watch her dance at the festival. “It is quite nerve wrecking that our teachers from our school are going to be there,” Anoushka remarked.

Rishi Sunak on October 24 succeeded Liz Truss as the new Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He is UK’s first Indian-origin Prime Minister. Sunak stated on October 25 that he was hired in part to correct the mistakes done by his predecessor, Liz Truss and that the country may have to adopt tough decisions to overcome a deep economic crisis.

The 42-year-old investment banker, now a politician hails from a Punjabi Khatri family, and his paternal ancestor left Gujranwala for Africa before India achieved independence. Gujranwala is currently part of Pakistan’s Punjab province. Sunak’s father afterwards relocated to the United Kingdom.

Sunak was appointed as Prime Minister by default after his competitors, former Prime Minister Boris Johnson and House of Commons Leader Penny Mordaunt, stepped away following the resignation by Liz Truss.

Mizoram approves temporary shelters for Kuki-Chin-Mizo refugees from Bangladesh who entered India: Here is why they fled

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Mizoram approves temporary shelters for Kuki-Chin-Mizo refugees from Bangladesh who entered India: Here is why they fled

The Mizoram Cabinet recently approved the establishment of temporary shelters and other facilities for several illegal Bangladeshi migrants who sought refuge in the northeastern state following an alleged military exercise by Bangladeshi forces. Reportedly Bangladeshi security forces conducted the operation against the Kuki-Chin National Army (KNA), an armed insurgent group active in Bangladesh’s Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT).

According to a PTI report quoted by The Indian Express, a meeting of the Mizoram Cabinet chaired by Chief Minister Zoramthanga on Tuesday (November 22) expressed sympathy for the migrants, who are from the Chin-Kuki-Mizo communities, and decided to provide “temporary shelter, food, and other relief as per the convenience of the state government.”

According to a senior government source reported by The Hindu, the displaced people approached a Border Security Force (BSF) patrol base on the Bangladesh-Mizoram border in the wee hours of November 20 and were permitted to cross. “They were without any belongings and were allowed to enter India on humanitarian grounds,” the official explained. The group of people included children without guardians.

The Bangladeshi nationals are currently staying in villages near the border. As the villagers in those villages belong to the same community as the refugees, the villagers provided them with accommodation in their villages. Humanitarian aides are being provided to them by NGOs, village committees and civil societies, while the BSF is ensuring their safety and security. Young Mizo Association (YMA), the largest civil society organisation in Mizoram has also promised humanitarian assistance to the ethnic Kuki-Chin refugees from Bangladesh.

At least 274 people from Bangladesh, including 137 children, have been accommodated at Parva village in south Mizoram’s Lawngtlai district, bordering Bangladesh and Myanmar, a senior official in the state home department said. They fled from their villagers along the border after Bangladesh Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) launched an operation against Kuki-Chin National Army (KNA), in which civilians are also getting hurt.

KNA is the armed wing of the Kuki-Chin National Front (KNF), a political party formed by the ethnic Kuki-Chin-Mizo community in Bangladesh. KNF is demanding a separate state and security the minoryt community in the country.

The Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) Christian community in Bangladesh has significant ethnic relations with Mizoram. The CHT is a poor mountainous, wooded territory that spans more than 13,000 square kilometres of southeastern Bangladesh’s Khagrachari, Rangamati, and Bandarban districts, bordering Mizoram to the east, Tripura to the north, and Myanmar to the southeast and south. Chittagong Hills Tracts is home to around 350000 Kuki-Chin-Mizo people.

As per reports, the migrants are referred to as “officially displaced persons” in the official records. According to a top Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) official, the subject is being reviewed with the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA).

The Kuki-Chin people in Bangladesh are originally from Mizoram and many of them have relatives in the Indian state.

Starting roughly July-August 2021, Mizoram has been hosting approximately 30,000 migrants escaping conflict in Myanmar’s Chin state. Since the military coup in February 2021, a pro-democracy civilian resistance group known as the Chin Defence Force, supported and trained by the Chin National Army (CNA), an ethnic armed organisation operating in Myanmar, has been battling the junta’s soldiers.

The Zo Reunification Organization, established in Mizoram and working to bring the Chin-Kuki-Mizo tribes of Bangladesh and India back together, has denounced the reported atrocities committed by the Bangladeshi army against locals. According to the organization’s vice president, Lalmuanpuia Punte, they have pleaded with the people of Mizoram to provide humanitarian aid to Chin-Kuki migrants from Bangladesh, with whom the Mizos share ethnic links.

Another CCTV footage emerges showing suspended Tihar Jail superintendent interacting with Satyendar Jain, amenities like TV visible in cell

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Another CCTV footage emerges showing suspended Tihar Jail superintendent interacting with Satyendar Jain, amenities like TV visible in cell

On Saturday, November 26, a new CCTV footage of jailed Delhi minister Satyendar Jain emerged from Tihar Jail wherein the Aam Aadmi Party leader is seen interacting with the now-suspended Tihar jail superintendent Ajit Kumar.

In the video posted by ANI, Jain is seen lying on his bed and Ajit Kumar is seated on a nearby chair while having a conversation. 

Before Kumar enters the cell, Jain was seen interacting with some unidentified persons. It can be seen that Jain in his cell has access to various amenities like a television set. Earlier it was reported that Jain was being provided fresh-cut fruit salad, special food, mineral water much more. 

Notably, on November 14, Kumar was suspended as Tihar Jail Superintendent over providing special treatment to the AAP minister.

BJP national spokesperson Shehzad Poonawalla slammed the Aam Aadmi Party over the ‘Satyendar ka Darbaar’ and questioned Delhi CM Kejriwal if he will sack Satyendar Jain. 

“Yet another video of Tihar put out by the media! This time Satyendra ka Darbaar has Jail Superintendent who has now been suspended! After maalish by child rapist & Nawabi meal now this! This is corruption therapy of AAP but Kejriwal ji defends this! Will he sack SJ now?,” Poonawala tweeted.

“I’m assuming Satyendar Jain is a lucky mascot for Kejriwal, Maybe that’s why he converted a jail into a 5-star vacation resort! #SackSatyendarJain,” Nighat tweeted. 

Earlier, after Jain submitted before the trial court saying that he was not being provided with any sort of special treatment and had lost 28 kgs of weight, new footage from Tihar jail emerged on social media on November 23, in which the minister can be seen having a proper meal. The jail authorities also revealed that ever since his arrest on May 30, Jain has gained 8 kgs.

On November 19, a video went viral on social media showing VIP treatment being meted out to Jain. Jain was seen receiving foot and head massages. In a bizarre defence of Jain getting a foot massage, Manish Sisodia claimed that Jain was taking physiotherapy for a ‘spine injury.’ 

“Only the BJP can make cruel jokes by leaking CCTV footage of a patient’s treatment… “Satyendar Jain’s spine was damaged, and that’s on record,” Sisodia told the media.

Later on, it was revealed that the masseur of jailed Delhi Minister Satyendra Jain whose videos of getting massages went viral has been identified as one rape accused named Rinku, and not a physiotherapist. The masseur providing massage to Satyendar Jain is a prisoner Rinku. He’s a prisoner in a rape case, charged under Section 6 of the POCSO Act & 376, 506 & 509 of IPC.

On November 1, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) informed the Delhi Court that AAP Minister Satyendar Jain, who has been charged in a money laundering case, was being treated specially in the Tihar jail. The ED submitted the CCTV footage of the Tihar jail which allegedly showed Jain getting preferential treatment inside Tihar Jail.

The ED also said that Jain was continuously and easily able to meet co-accused Ankush Jain, Vaibhav Jain, and also his wife, Poonam Jain who visits him often in the cell. The ED alleged that the accused was violating all the norms of the jail and was meeting the jail superintendent every day, which is against the rules. 

Notably, the ED attached assets worth Rs 4.81 crores linked to Jain and his family in April. The ED launched an investigation in the case based on an FIR which was registered by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) against Jain and others under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code and the Prevention of Corruption Act.

‘Manish Sisodia chased by the protesting crowd in a public meeting’, says BJP posting a video: Here are the questions he could not answer

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‘Manish Sisodia chased by the protesting crowd in a public meeting’, says BJP posting a video: Here are the questions he could not answer

On Friday, the Deputy Chief Minister of Delhi and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Manish Sisodia had to face embarrassment after he failed to answer the crowd’s questions in a public meeting attended by Sisodia.

The Delhi unit of the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) shared a video on Twitter where a person is seen asking Sisodia questions, which he reluctantly agreed to hear out. The person asking the question wondered if AAP was engaging in caste politics by giving a ticket to AAP’s councillor from Sangam Vihar (ward 83S) Jitendra Kumar’s wife for the Delhi Municipal Corporation (MCD) elections. In his second question, as seen in the video, he expresses concern about the water situation in Sangam Vihar, alleging that illegal recovery is taking place, resulting in clashes. Sisodia left the meeting without responding to the questions.

“Manish Sisodia was chased by the public… Sisodia, who had gone to hold a meeting in Delhi, left the meeting in the middle and run away because of public protest,” Delhi BJP tweeted in Hindi.

Notably, the BJP recently released two sting recordings alleging that the AAP sells tickets for MCD elections.

Bindu Sriram, a former AAP worker, allegedly filmed the clips and asserted she was asked to pay 80 lakh rupees for a ticket. AAP leader Sriram, who filmed the sting, was also present at the press conference, along with BJP national spokesman Sambit Patra and Rohini MLA Vijender Gupta.

Other than this, on November 16, Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) arrested Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Model Town MLA Akhilesh Pati Tripathi’s brother-in-law Om Singh, Tripathi’s Personal Assistant (PA) Shiv Shankar Pandey alias Vishal Pandey, and Prince Raghuvanshi for allegedly taking bribe for tickets of Municipal Elections in Delhi.

They were arrested for violating relevant sections of the Corruption Act and election bribery. According to reports, they had cash worth Rs 33 lakh in their possession.

Complainant Gopal Khari had claimed in his complaint to the Additional CP that on November 9, he went to Akhilesh Tripathi’s office to obtain a ticket for his wife. He was told that the ticket would cost Rs 90 lakh.

Congress leader Gopal Keshawat’s daughter’s kidnapping case: Girl found staying in Ahmedabad with friend Waseem Akram, refuses to go back to father

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Congress leader Gopal Keshawat’s daughter’s kidnapping case: Girl found staying in Ahmedabad with friend Waseem Akram, refuses to go back to father

The Jaipur police Friday brought back Rajasthan Congress leader Gopal Keshawat’s daughter to Jaipur from Ahmedabad. The police confirmed that the 22-year-old was not kidnapped but went to Ahmedabad on her own accord with her friend Waseem Akram.

Notably, on November 22 it was reported that the Rajasthan Congress leader had filed a kidnapping report with the Pratap Nagar PS in Jaipur wherein he alleged that his daughter was abducted in broad daylight while she was purchasing vegetables. On Wednesday, two days after she went missing, the former Congress minister had also staged a dharna outside the police station.

When the police brought Abhilasha Keshawat back to Jaipur and produced her before the magistrate’s court, she reportedly admitted before the judge that she went on her own will. She stated that she was an adult and refused to live with her father. Abhilasha told the magistrate that she intended to pursue her education alone in Delhi.

DCP (East) Karan Sharma said, “She said that she does not wish to go to her parent’s house. As per her Aadhaar card, her age is 22.”

Sharma added that she repeated the same statement before the court. A student at Delhi University (DU), she had allegedly lied to her parents over the phone that she was being abducted.

Sharma stated that the police investigated CCTV footage and found her scooter near Airport Road. Other CCTVs were inspected and it was discovered that Abhilasha had gone to Ajmer Road and then taken a private bus to Ahmedabad. The police then analysed technical evidence and discovered that she was communicating with a friend in Ahmedabad.

A police squad was subsequently dispatched to Ahmedabad, where she was found on Thursday. She was subsequently taken to Jaipur, where she stated her desire to not return to her parent’s home. According to the police, because she is not a minor, she is free to make her own decisions.

Rajasthan Congress leader’s daughter goes missing

It may be recalled that the Rajasthan Congress former minister had told the police that he had received a phone call from his daughter moments after she was abducted. She reportedly told him that some hooligans were stalking and pursuing her. She requested that he come to her aid as soon as possible.

The former minister further said in his complaint that when he arrived at the location he was unable to find his daughter. Her cell phone is also turned off. Gopal Keshawat in his complaint filed at Pratap Nagar police station named Jai Singh, Vijendra, Devendra, and Radha as those suspected in connection with the kidnapping of his daughter.

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