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Congress presidential elections: When party chief Sitaram Kesri was locked in a room to make way for Sonia Gandhi

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Congress presidential elections: When party chief Sitaram Kesri was locked in a room to make way for Sonia Gandhi

The day was March 14, 1998. Stooges of the Congress party were all set to execute a bloodless coup in favour of their leader, Sonia Gandhi. They had earlier met at the residence of Pranab Mukherjee to chalk out plans to oust the then President of the All India Congress Committee (AICC), Sitaram Kesri.

After all barriers were cleared to make way for Sonia Gandhi, a clueless Kesri was invited to a meeting at 24, Akbar Road in New Delhi. When he reached the party headquarters, it felt different for the first time in his 2 years spell (1996-1998) as the Congress chief.

No party member except for Tariq Anwar bothered to stand up and greet Sitaram Kesri. To add salt to the wound, Pranab Mukherjee thanked him for his service and went on to move a resolution, asking Sonia Gandhi to take over as the new AICC President.

Sitaram Kesri, an OBC leader from Bihar who battled all odds to reach the highest position in the Congress party, realised that the end was near. In a fit of sudden rage, he walked out of the meeting. “It was his emotional way of holding onto something that was soon to become Sonia’s,” wrote Darpan Singh in India Today.

Screengrab of the news report in India Today

Kesri went to his room directly while some loyalists of Sonia Gandhi including Tariq Anwar and Manmohan Singh pretended to persuade him. But the defiant leader from Bihar refused to come back. It was at this point that the room of Sitaram Kesri was locked from outside, thus muzzling the last remaining voice of dissent within the party.

Some accounts suggest that Kesri was locked inside the toilet so as to negate his chances of being a spoilsport. It is hard to imagine what he would have gone behind those closed doors on the fateful day of March 14, 1998.

Sitaram Kesri steered the party through the turbulent period from 1996-1998, only to be locked out by his fellow Congressmen at the end of his career. Nonetheless, the stage was all set for Sonia Gandhi to take over as the new President of the All India Congress Committee.

Amidst jubilant cries and thunderous claps of Indian Youth Congress (IYC) workers, a towering Sonia Gandhi entered the premises of her new office. She was declared the new Congress President.

Sitaram Kesari was eventually released from his captivity. When he was about to board his car, the Congress workers tried to pull down his dhoti. It was too much for a 79-year-old to take. After Kesri left, the party did not waste a moment to tear down his nameplate and replace it with one that read, ‘Sonia Gandhi’.

Interestingly, even two months before his formal ouster, Sitaram Kesri was hailing Gandhi as the saviour of the Congress party. However, the writing on the wall was too evident. During the 12th Lok Sabha elections in February 1998, then party chief Kesri was not allowed to campaign.

Screengrab of the news report by India Today

Instead, Sonia Gandhi became the lead campaigner. She conducted over 130 public meetings and drew crowds in droves. However, the party failed to garner seats. The Congress party lost its bastion in Amethi (Uttar Pradesh) and was reduced to 142 seats.

Despite Gandhi being at the helm of elections, the Congress stooges found a way to blame the poor performance of the party during the 12th Lok Sabha elections on Sitaram Kesri.

“A faction within Congress crowned Kesri for the debacle, though Kesri had not addressed a single public gathering. Logic was: All advantage of Sonia Gandhi leading the charge was lost due to the weak leadership of Kesri,” wrote Siddhartha Rai in First Post.

This eventually led to the unceremonious ouster of Sitaram Kesri from the position of the Party President. Once his Rajya Sabha tenure expired in 2000, the party did not bother to renew it. Kesri died a few months later after being subject to glaring indifference by a party, to which he dedicated his entire life.

While addressing a public rally in Chattisgarh in 2018, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said, “The nation knows. Sitaram Kesri, how someone from the Dalit, oppresed, marginalised community was removed as party president. How he was locked inside a bathroom.”

“How he was removed from the door, picked up and thrown on the footpath. And madam Soniaji was made to sit (as party president). This history India knows well. He became (party chief) out of compulsion, and they could not tolerate him for two years,” he further added.

In June 2019, OpIndia reported that Sitaram Kesri’s name was missing from the list of former presidents on the party website. It was only after our intervention that his name was added to the list of ex-party Presidents. Even after his death, the Congress party did not leave any opportunity to erase the legacy of Sitaram Kesri.

Designed to last six months, India’s Mars Orbiter Mission stops communicating with Earth after 8 long years

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Designed to last six months, India’s Mars Orbiter Mission stops communicating with Earth after 8 long years

Launched in 2013, India’s maiden mars mission Mangalyaan, or the Mars Orbiter Mission, has finally come to end. The orbiter entered Mars orbit in September 2014 and was designed to last six months. Exceeding the expected lifespan by several times, the orbiter reportedly has run out of fuel and battery power, and ISRO is expected to make an official announcement of the end of the mission soon.

Ground control has lost communications with the spacecraft, fuelling speculations about the end of its life. While the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is still trying to figure out whether it has run out of power or it is a communication problem caused by the change of direction of the antenna, multiple sources have said it would not be possible to recover the orbiter and re-establish communication.

The orbiter went into a long eclipse, and after that, there was no communication from it. The satellite had gone into eclipse earlier also and performed automatic manoeuvres to come out of eclipse and re-establish communications. But if there is no fuel left, it would not be able to perform those automated movements. It is also possible that the antenna is pointing somewhere else while changing its direction to try to re-establish communication with earth after the eclipse as per pre-installed software.

According to reports, sources in the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) have said that there is no propellant left in the orbiter. Its batteries have also drained out as the solar panels could not charge them due to prolonged eclipses.

“Recently there were back-to-back eclipses including one that lasted seven-and-half hours. As the satellite battery is designed to handle an eclipse duration of only about one hour and 40 minutes, a longer eclipse would drain the battery beyond the safe limit,” according to the unnamed source.

Earlier the satellite came out of eclipse phases on its own as per autonomous processes without any intervention from the earth.

The Mangalyaan was launched in a Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) on 5 November 2013 and reached Marsh on 24 September 2014. It was ISRO’s first interplanetary mission. At a budget of Rs 450 crore ($74 million), it is one of the most cost-effective space missions. Elaborating on how low-cost the mission was, PM Modi in June 2014 said that the cost of India’s Mars mission was less than Hollywood movie Gravity based on a space mission. The movie had come out in 2013 and its budget was around $100 million.

The Mars mission was designed to last just six months, and the probe has sent a huge volume of data from the red planet in these eight years. The spacecraft carries five scientific instruments, Mars Color Camera (MCC), Thermal Infrared Imaging Spectrometer (TIS), Methane Sensor for Mars (MSM), Mars Exospheric Neutral Composition Analyser (MENCA) and Lyman Alpha Photometer (LAP).

The mission objectives included exploration of the planet, study of Martian atmosphere especially to find the presence of methane and CO₂, and studying the dynamics of the atmosphere. The orbiter has sent photos of Mars and its satellites among other data.

ISRO is planning a Mars Orbiter Mission 2 or Mangalyaan-2 mission, but it is still on the drawing board, and it will be taken up after the Chandrayaan-3 mission.

Hyderabad: Police foil ISI terror attack plan, 3 including Abdul Zahed arrested with grenades, Zahed was earlier released for lack of evidence

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Hyderabad: Police foil ISI terror attack plan, 3 including Abdul Zahed arrested with grenades, Zahed was earlier released for lack of evidence

The Hyderabad police have thwarted a significant plot to carry out terrorist attacks in the city under the direction of Pakistan’s intelligence agency ISI. On Sunday 2nd October 2022, police arrested three accused in this case in Hyderabad. The police also seized four hand grenades, Rs 5,14,800 in cash and a motorcycle from the arrested accused.

The arrested accused are identified as Abdul Zahed (age 39, a resident of Malakpet), Mohammed Sameeuddin alias Abdul Sami (age 39, a resident of Akberbagh Sayeedabad) and Maaz Hasan Farooq alias Maaz (age 29, a resident of Humayunagar in Mehdipatnam). Abdul Zahed recruited the other two in this terrorist activity. All three persons were produced before the court and are being sent to judicial remand. It is notable that Abdul Zahed was earlier arrested for alleged involvement in a suicide bomb case in 2005, but he was released in 2017 for lack of evidence after spending 12 years in jail. The leftist ecosystem and liberal media had branded him as the victim of a false investigation. This time he is arrested with all the evidence including dangerous weapons like grenades.

According to police, Abdul Zahed revived his contacts with his Pakistan ISI conduits after his release from jail and conspired to plot terror attacks in Hyderabad. His plan included blasts and lone wolf attacks to terrorize the common public.

Hyderabad Commissioner of Police, C V Anand said, “Zahed received a consignment of four hand grenades and was going to carry out sensational terror attacks in Hyderabad. On specific information, the raids were conducted and three persons were arrested at Malakpet. He was previously involved in several terror-related cases in the city and was regularly in touch with Pakistani ISI-LeT (Inter-Services Intelligence and Lashkar-e-Taiba) handlers.”

He further said, “Three absconding persons Farhatullah Ghouri alias FG, Siddique Bin Osman alias Rafique alias Abu Hamzala and Abdul Majeed alias Chotu all natives of Hyderabad and wanted in several cases are now settled in Pakistan and working under the aegis of ISI. In past, they recruited local youth and radicalized them, and got executed terror attacks such as a blast near Sai Baba Temple, Dilsukhnagar in 2002, a bus blast at Ghatkopar in Mumbai, and a Task Force office blast at Begumpet in 2005. They also attempted to cause blasts near Ganesh Temple Secunderabad in 2004.”

He added, “Zahed in his confession revealed that Farhatullah Ghori, Abu Hamzala, and Majeed revived their contacts with him and they motivated and financed to carry out the attacks. At the behest of Pakistan-based handlers, Zahed recruited Samuddin and Maaz Hasan. During search operations, four grenades were recovered from the trio. He was planning to hurl a grenade targeting public gatherings through his group members.”

Arvind Kejriwal cites ‘IB report’ to claim that AAP is winning Gujarat elections after his MLA shared 2017 report to claim BJP losing Gujarat

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Arvind Kejriwal cites ‘IB report’ to claim that AAP is winning Gujarat elections after his MLA shared 2017 report to claim BJP losing Gujarat

On October 2, Delhi Chief Minister and national convenor of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Arvind Kejriwal claimed in a press conference that AAP would form government in Gujarat. He cited an ‘Intelligence Bureau’ report to make the claim. He further claimed that his party would win the elections by a small margin if the elections were held ‘today’. He urged the people of Gujarat to give a ‘big push’ so that AAP gets a ‘comfortable majority in the upcoming Gujarat Assembly elections.

The Delhi CM also claimed that BJP is strengthening Congress to split anti-BJP votes, and the job of the Congress party is to cut AAP votes in the state. Kejriwal didn’t say where he found this so-called ‘IB report’ on Gujarat elections.

It is noteworthy that the claim came just a day after AAP’s MLA Naresh Balyan shared a news report from 2017 that Bharatiya Janata Party would lose the election in Gujarat. Furthermore, AAP has a habit of making such claims during elections. They made tall claims in Uttarakhand, UP, Goa and several other states and Lok Sabha elections but failed to mark any notable presence in most of the elections.

During the press conference, Arvind Kejriwal said, “According to sources, an IB report has come. It is written in the report that if elections are held today, then the Aam Aadmi Party will form the government in Gujarat.” He further added, “Although it is written in the report that right now it is with a thin margin. (We) are ahead with very few seats. The people of Gujarat will have to give a big push so that the (AAP) government is formed with a comfortable majority.”

Kejriwal also claimed that BJP and Congress had joined hands in secret since the IB report came. He said, “BJP, especially, is freaking out over the report. Congress has been given the responsibility to garner as many votes for AAP as possible. I want to tell the people of Gujarat – be cautious.”

2017 report shared by AAP leader claiming BJP would lose

On October 1, AAP leader Naresh Balyan shared a Dainik Bhaskar report and claimed BJP has been trying different methods to break AAP voters in the state as the party now ‘sees their defeat in the election’. Interestingly, the report was published in 2017 before the Gujarat elections, where BJP comfortably won and formed government.

Source: Twitter

The tweet by retweeted by Deputy Chief Minister of Delhi Manish Sisodia.

Source: Twitter

Other AAP leaders including AAP Delhi Spokesperson Ghanendra Bhardwaj, AAP MLA Somnath Bharti, AAP Women Wing’s joint secretary Capt Shalini Singh and AAP National SM Team in charge Siddarth followed the suit.

Source: Twitter

Even though Balyan was corrected by several Twitter users, he decided to let the post remain as it was in sync with AAP’s propaganda.

Gujarat: Ancient Hindu temple in Tapi demolished to build a Church, Hindus prohibited from offering prayers

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Gujarat: Ancient Hindu temple in Tapi demolished to build a Church, Hindus prohibited from offering prayers

An ancient Hindu temple in a village in the Songarh taluka of the Tapi district in Gujarat was demolished and a Church named Mariam Mata’s Temple was built by local Christians at that place. On Saturday, 2nd October 2022, some Hindus reached the place and tried to offer prayers but they were prohibited by Christians who reached there at that time.

In the Nana Bandarpada village of the Songarh taluka in the Tapi district of Gujarat, there was a temple of Gidhmadi Aya Dungar Mata where local Hindus used to offer regular prayers. The temple was situated on the hilltop. But over time, due to the rapidly growing Christian population in the area, the movement of people on this hill gradually decreased and after that, the Christian missionaries demolished the temple and established their place of worship in this place and called it Mariam Mata’s Temple.

Church established at Tapi. Image Source: OpIndia

As the festival of Navaratri is going on, the Hindus reached their ancient holy place to worship. At that time, a crowd of Christians also reached there and created a ruckus and the Hindus were not allowed to go to the hill. A police convoy also reached the spot following this ruckus.

The Christian mob carried sticks and stones; the Hindu priest was also slapped

Speaking to OpIndia, local Hindu leader Dineshbhai Gamit said, “We had come to worship as the festival of Mataji was going on, but the local Christians did not allow us to go upstairs and quarrelled saying that you have no place above.” He also said that the Christians had prepared themselves with a large number of sticks, stones, etc.

He further said that during the clash, the Hindu priest who had come for worship was also slapped. Meanwhile, attempts were also made to damage the food plate prepared for offering to the deity. However, the police then reached the spot and controlled the situation.

The village is 98 percent Christian

According to the local Hindus, they had been worshipping at this place for hundreds of years. But due to the increasing conversions in the last few years, Hindus in most of the area around this place had become Christians, due to which the movement on this hill was reduced.

Speaking to OpIndia, a local said that around 98 percent of the people in the village have become Christians and Hindus have been reduced to a minority. Because of this, they could not raise their voice. He also said that for years, posts like sarpanch, etc. in the village have also been dominated by the Christian community.

The resolution was passed to renovate the Hindu temple, but a Church was built

In 2019, the Bandarpada gram panchayat of Songarh taluka in the Tapi district passed a unanimous resolution stating that the temple of ‘Gidhamadi Aya Dungar Mataji’ had been worshiped for many years and there was a need for a renovation around it due to high movement of devotees. There was no mention of a Christian church or any other place of worship.

The resolution was passed by the local gram panchayat. Image Source: OpIndia

Local Hindus have alleged that the panchayat passed a resolution in the name of the temple of Gidhamadi Mataji, received the grant, and used it to build a Christian place. The temple of the goddess was demolished and its broken remains were also found.

Image Source: OpIndia

Outraged Hindus demand the restoration of the temple

Hindu organizations have appealed for the restoration of their place and demanded that the deity be restored. Hindu leaders said they would continue the fight and submit an application to the collector in the coming days.

Samajwadi Party founder Mulayam Singh Yadav’s health critical, admitted to ICU at Gurugram hospital

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Samajwadi Party founder Mulayam Singh Yadav’s health critical, admitted to ICU at Gurugram hospital

Mulayam Singh Yadav, the founder of the Samajwadi Party (SP), has been sent to the ICU ward of Gurugram’s Medanta Hospital following a worsening in his health. The 82-year-old leader was previously hospitalised at Gurugram’s Medanta hospital for a chronic health problem, and his medical condition is stated to be grave at the moment.

According to sources, he was brought to the hospital following a significant health problem, and his medical condition is currently critical. Dr Sushila Kataria, a specialist in Internal Medicine, is now supervising his treatment. Mulayam Singh Yadav has made just a few public appearances in recent years due to his deteriorating health.

Akhilesh Yadav is reported to have left for the national capital following the news, while Shivpal Singh Yadav was also on his way to the hospital. Soon after the news broke, Uttar Pradesh deputy chief minister Keshav Prasad Maurya sent his best wishes for Yadav’s quick recovery.

Former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav was also hospitalised at Medanta Hospital earlier. Mulayam Singh often complains of a stomachache. He has recently been hospitalised to the hospital on multiple occasions. Mulayam Singh was admitted to a Mumbai hospital in December of last year after complaining of stomach pain.

In 1967, Mulayam Singh Yadav won his first election to the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly. Yadav was elected Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh for the first time in 1989.  In 1992, Yadav founded the Samajwadi Party. In order to win in the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections in November 1993, he teamed up with the Bahujan Samaj Party. The Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party’s alliance prevented the Bharatiya Janata Party from seizing control of the state once more in 1993.

Myanmar: Bullet fired from the ground pierces through fuselage of an aircraft at 3500 feet and injures a passenger

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Myanmar: Bullet fired from the ground pierces through fuselage of an aircraft at 3500 feet and injures a passenger

On September 30, a bullet fired from the ground struck a passenger on a Myanmar National Airlines flight while he was inside the plane mid-air and injured him. The aircraft’s fuselage had been broken through by the bullet.

The plane was four miles north of the airport and flying at an altitude of around 3,500 feet on its approach to landing at Loikaw. The man was hit on his right cheek by the bullet. Photos of the incident show a hole on the lower fuselage of the aircraft caused by the bullet, and the injured man holding a tissue on his right cheek, while other blood-soaked tissues are seen in the adjacent seat.

After the aircraft touched down in Loikaw, Myanmar, the passenger was taken urgently to Loikaw People’s Hospital. All flights to the city have been indefinitely cancelled, the Myanmar National Airlines office in Loikaw reported after the incident. The ATR 72 aircraft of the Myanmar National Airlines plane was reportedly carrying 63 passengers.

A statement issued by the authorities said, “A passenger on board was injured on the right cheek because of a gunshot. The injured passenger is now being given treatment at Loikaw People’s Hospital and security forces are performing security process in the area where the attack happened.”

The military government of Myanmar claims that rebel troops in the state of Kayah fired at the aircraft, according to a report by The Mirror. The junta government has blamed the anti-junta militia and the Karenni National Progressive Party for the attack.

Rebel groups, however, denied the accusations. A spokesperson for Myanmar’s ruling military council, Major General Zaw Min Tun, said on state television: “I want to say that this kind of attack on the passenger plane is a war crime. People and organisations who want peace must condemn this issue wholly.”

After the army ousted an Aung San Suu Kyi-led National League of Democracy (NLD) government and seized power last year, the state of Kayah has witnessed fierce conflict between military and rebel groups. 

Peaceful rallies were held in response to the takeover in February of last year, but a violent crackdown on the protesters prompted hundreds of people to organize militia groups as part of a People’s Defense Force to resist the military takeover.

The military government claimed that the People’s Defense Force and the Karenni National Progressive Party, a rebel militia, were responsible for the shooting. However, the Karenni National Progressive Party head Khu Daniel refuted the allegation and insisted that his group had not given orders for its members to fire at civilians or passenger flights.

The claims are nothing but “defamatory propaganda against the revolutionary forces by the Military Council,” according to a spokesperson for the Karenni Nationalities Defense Force, another rebel group. He said that infantry battalions and high-security zones surround the runway and the remainder of the airfield, making it extremely difficult for members of the People’s Defence Force to carry out such a shooting.

The government stated that it had tightened security around the airport.

The military coup in Myanmar

After staging a coup on February 1st, 2021, the Myanmar Army governs the country. The military of Myanmar, which has dominated the nation for more than 50 years, and the civilian government had reportedly been at odds for weeks amid claims that there were irregularities in the 2020 general elections in Myanmar.

Chandigarh University video leak case: Police say prime accused Sanjeev Singh blackmailed multiple women, Singh denies the charges

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Chandigarh University video leak case: Police say prime accused Sanjeev Singh blackmailed multiple women, Singh denies the charges

On September 30, police revealed that Sanjeev Singh, the prime accused in Chandigarh University Video Leak case, has blackmailed multiple women. Earlier, police had said that the mobile number that Sanjeev Singh was using was the one where the accused female student of the university was sending videos of herself and other students.

Using the number, the police managed to retrieve data and found that Sanjeev Singh allegedly blackmailed other women as well. Hindustan Times quoted an official familiar with the matter saying the number Sanjeev was using was found to be flagged as ‘scammer’ in a social media app. They found some comments that the person using the phone number blackmailed them.

The SIT team formed to investigate the matter is waiting for the forensic analysis of the accused’s mobile phone to get further clarity on the matter.

Sanjeev refuted allegations

During interrogation, Sanjeev reportedly refuted the allegations that he blackmailed the female student. He claimed that both of them were in a relationship, following which she herself shared the personal videos.

The ‘friendship’ app where the two accused met

As per an Indian Express report, Sanjeev Singh and the female University student met online on a ‘friendship’ application. They shared numbers and started chatting frequently. The police allegedly found that both of them were exchanging videos frequently.

The report suggested that the police found out that Sanjeev had convinced the female student to send photos and videos of herself. Though other reports suggest that the female student was sending videos of other students as well, the Indian Express report claimed that the police did not find any other students’ videos.

Sanjeev Singh is reportedly married and has a child as well. Indian Express quoted an unnamed official saying, “The online friendship app used to provide the numbers of men and women randomly to its users. The app has since disappeared from Playstore. We believe that Sanjeev Singh got the number of the woman accused and then befriended her through this app. He then convinced her to send her pictures and videos.”

The accused female student’s parents blame her ‘low IQ’ for falling into the trap

As per the IE report, the female student’s parents have claimed that their daughter has a low IQ. The report suggested that some time ago, they got her Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Adults (WAIS) test done and found out that their daughter has a very low Intelligence Quotient or IQ. They have claimed that this might be the reason that she fell into Sanjeev Singh’s trap.

Rankaj withdrew bail application

As per reports, police submitted in the court on Thursday that Rankaj Verma, another accused arrested in the case, had confessed to circulating the videos among his peers. The police argued that if he was granted bail, that would affect the investigation. Later, the bail plea filed by Rankaj was withdrawn from the court. His advocate Harvinder Singh Johal said in a statement that a fresh bail plea would be filed for him. He said, “Rankaj never met any of the co-accused, and police failed to recover any video from his mobile phone. We will file a fresh bail plea on Saturday.”

Rankaj Verma has denied involvement in the matter and said he does not know the others accused in the case.

Judicial custody extended

On October 1, the four accused, including the female student of Chandigarh University, were produced in court. The court sent the three accused, Rankaj Verma, Sunny Mehta and the female student, to judicial custody. The police custody of Sanjeev Singh was extended for three more days.

The Chandigarh University Video Leak case

On September 18, it was reported that objectionable videos of multiple female students of Chandigarh University were being shared on social media. The videos were allegedly recorded by one of the hostellers.

Initially, the Police and University administration claimed the accused student only shared her videos with the accused person from Shimla. However, later the police told the court that they found a video of at least one other student on the phone of the accused. Furthermore, it was assumed that based on the chats with the accused, the accused student was being blackmailed.

An SIT was formed by the Punjab government to investigate the case. There were several rumours floating around on the day when the matter came to light, including the death of a girl student by suicide whose video was allegedly leaked on the internet. However, the police refuted the claims and said no student had committed suicide.

Furore on social media over participation of #MeToo accused Sajid Khan in Bigg Boss, netizens slam show host Salman Khan

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Furore on social media over participation of #MeToo accused Sajid Khan in Bigg Boss, netizens slam show host Salman Khan

Bollywood filmmaker and MeToo accused Sajid Khan, who was sidelined in the industry following sexual harassment charges levelled against him, is making a comeback on the reality show Bigg Boss. Sajid Khan is a participant in Bigg Boss Season 16 this year. The IFTDA (Indian Film & Television Directors’ Association) had forbidden him from directing films following the accusations against him.

Following the announcement of Sajid participating in Bigg Boss, there is a furore all around including on social media. Several social media users shared their remarks regarding Sajid Khan. Twitter user Ankit wrote, “Only a criminal like Salman khan who has been accused in past for beating & abusing women can support someone like Sajid Khan.”

Another user Khushi wrote, “The girls who are defending #SajidKhan need to put themselves in the same place as the women he sexually predated on coz of his position … Imagine your professor or boss doing it to you… Fir bhi aise hi defend karogi #BiggBoss16”

Film critic Sucharita Tyagi took to Twitter and wrote, “in case we’ve forgotten, #SajidKhan took his d*ck out in front of women regularly, actors journalists he didn’t care. just a reminder before we start watching that damn show ‘just for entertainment yaar’. expect better demand better”

“He’s been brought on not because he’s some talented filmmaker but ONLY because of this response his presence will generate among women and make news stories. it’s sick and disgusting do not accept,” she further added.

Twitter user Smruti Pradhan wrote, “It is just horrible to see sexual assaulter and #Metoo convict Sajid Khan is given stage on a popular show in Indian television. #Bigboss and @viacom18 shame on you.Is this the image makeover ur trying to bring in.”

Rachel White, Saloni Chopra, Sherlyn Chopra, Aahana Kumra, and Mandana Karimi, among others, made accusations during the 2018 MeToo movement, which saw women come up about sexual harassment.

Sherlyn Chopra revealed disturbing details about director Sajid Khan, including the fact that she was forced to touch his private parts. “When I had met him in April 2005, a few days after my father’s demise, he had taken his penis out of his pants and had asked me to feel it. I remember having told him that I know what a penis feels like & that the purpose of my meeting with him was not to feel or rate his penis” Sheryln explained.

Bigg Boss is the official Indian adaptation of the Dutch reality show Big Brother, which has been syndicated internationally in several countries. Originally aired on Sony TV in 2006, it moved to Colours TV later. The show is produced by Endemol Shine India.

Delhi: ‘We Killed him, pick up the body’, Aalam, Bilal, and Faizan tell Sunder Nagari locals after killing Manish by stabbing him 60 times

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Delhi: ‘We Killed him, pick up the body’, Aalam, Bilal, and Faizan tell Sunder Nagari locals after killing Manish by stabbing him 60 times

A youth named Manish was stabbed to death by three other youths Aalam, Bilal, and Faizan on Saturday 1st October 2022. The incident took place in the Sunder Nagari area of northeast Delhi and was recorded on a nearby CCTV camera.

25-year-old Manish was killed on Saturday evening at around 7.40 pm by the three Muslims who attacked him with sharp knives and stabbed him back to back multiple times till he was dead. Manish was rushed to a hospital but was declared brought dead. According to reports, Manish was stabbed 60 times by the culprits.

People around were also present on the spot but none of them dared to try to save Manish. After committing the murder, the criminals screamed in the lane and said, “We have killed him. Pick up the dead body. We will kill two more.” The entire incident was caught on a CCTV camera. It showed how the accused were attacking Manish with knives one after another.

According to reports, one year ago, two culprits Mohsin and Qasim snatched Manish’s mobile phone. They stabbed him in the neck and stomach while committing this crime. The two criminals were arrested after Manish filed a complaint at a police station. Reportedly Manish was killed on Saturday because he was testifying in court against these criminals.

It is alleged that Qasim and Mohsin’s close aides were constantly pressuring Manish to withdraw the case. The police claimed that the three accused who committed the murder were constantly pressuring Manish to withdraw the case. When Manish did not withdraw the case, the accused stabbed him to death. The three accused were caught on CCTV after the incident, after which the police traced and arrested them and after interrogation, the entire incident has been exposed.

The close aides of Qasim and Mohsin were continuously threatening Manish’s family members too. Manish had also filed a complaint in court and told how he was being threatened. A hearing of the mobile snatching case was scheduled in the court in September. Before that, the family members of these two accused reached Manish’s house and started threatening him to withdraw the case.

Manish testified in court on September 28. After three days, he was murdered outside his house. The three accused Bilal, Alam and Faizan have been arrested by the police. Police said that those who went to Manish’s house and threatened the family are also being identified and they will also be arrested soon.

Bharatiya Janata Party leader Kapil Mishra tweeted, “Heart-rending incident in the Sundernagari area. Once again, jihadis killed a Dalit youth. I have spoken to police officials, and some criminals have been caught. I appeal to everyone to maintain restraint. Every one of us is angry over this but it is time to stand with the family in this hour of unbearable grief.”

Locals came out on the streets today morning protesting against the murder and demanding speedy justice. Police force has been deployed in the area as a precautionary measure to prevent any escallation of the situation as the victim and the accused are from different communities.

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