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‘Activist’ forces ailing Padma Shri awardee Kamala Pujari to dance in Govt hospital ICU in Odisha, was admitted to treat kidney ailment: Watch viral video

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‘Activist’ forces ailing Padma Shri awardee Kamala Pujari to dance in Govt hospital ICU in Odisha, was admitted to treat kidney ailment: Watch viral video

70-year-old Kamala Pujari, who received the prestigious Padma Shri in 2019 for promoting organic farming and preserving over 100 varieties of indigenous seeds, was reportedly made to dance inside the ICU of a hospital in Cuttack, Odisha, she was admitted to treat a kidney ailment. The purported video of the incident has gone viral on social media.

In the video, one Mamata Behera, who identifies herself as a social worker, was also seen dancing with Pujari before she was discharged from the hospital on Monday.

The unwell 70-year-old Padma Shri awardee has alleged that the female activist forced her to dance against her will.

“I do not know the social activist personally. I was forced to dance by her while coming out of the hospital after treatment. Despite saying no, she forced me to dance with her and recorded the video,” Pujari said.

“I repeatedly denied it, but she (Behera) did not listen. I was sick and got tired. This has further deteriorated my health,” Pujari told the media in the Koraput district from where she hails.

The incident came to light after the video of the same went viral.

The video and thereafter Pujari’s statement has now left Odisha’s Paraja tribal community, to which the Padma Shri awardee belongs, enraged. The people of the community have sought action against the social worker for making Pujari dance in the intensive care unit, or ICU, of the government hospital.

Speaking about the incident, the tribal community association chief Harish Muduli said they will protest on the streets if the state government did not act against the social worker.

According to reports, Pujari was admitted to the SCB Medical College and Hospital in Cuttack with kidney issues. The event occurred prior to her hospital discharge on Monday. According to medical officials, Pujari was admitted to a special cabin rather than the ICU. “The woman who reportedly made Pujari dance used to visit her at the private cabin,” explained Dr Abinash Rout, the hospital’s registrar (administration). Rajeeb Hial, Pujari’s attendant, said she didn’t know Behera, who had also taken multiple photographs with the Padma Sri awardee.

Meanwhile, the social worker justified her actions by claiming that she was merely trying to “shun Pujari’s laziness”.

Uttar Pradesh: Md Rahees issues ‘sar tan se juda’ threat to the family of a Hindu girl saying ‘send her to me or get beheaded’, arrested

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Uttar Pradesh: Md Rahees issues ‘sar tan se juda’ threat to the family of a Hindu girl saying ‘send her to me or get beheaded’, arrested

The Khekra police in Baghpat, Uttar Pradesh, on Friday (September 2) arrested one Mohammad Rahees, following a complaint by a Hindu family on August 31, accusing him of threatening them with death. The family, in their complaint, said that the accused issued ‘sar tan se juda‘ threats and also threatened to make their daughter’s objectionable images viral on social media if they ‘do not send her to him’.

Prior to this, in the month of May, the family had submitted another complaint against the same person, accusing him of kidnapping their daughter.

Based on the first complaint, the police had booked Md Rahees under IPC section 366 (kidnapping a woman and compelling her for marriage or to cause her defilement). Later the police registered another FIR against the accused under IPC sections 506 (criminal intimidation) and Section 67 of the Information Technology Act, 2000 (Publishing or transmitting obscene material in electronic form).

According to the second complaint filed with the Khekra PS, the girl’s father alleged that Md Rahees had been pressuring them to ‘send their daughter to him’ or face dire repercussions. The father further said that the accused had threatened to behead his entire family if they did not agree to his demands.

The accused, as per the girl’s father, had put up an objectionable picture of his daughter as his Whatsapp status on August 23, 2022 and further threatened to leak her obscene pictures on social media when the family did not concede to his demand.

The girl’s father confirmed that Md Rahees was a resident of Ghaziabad. He recalled how on July 18, the accused accosted him and his wife when they were on their way to Delhi on their bike. He added that Rahees threatened his wife by saying, “Send your daughter to me, or I will chop off your head and your husband’s body.” His family has been terrified since then, said the father.

The girl’s father said that seeing the commotion, when the passers-by started gathering near his bike, Md Rahees fled. However, he has been relentlessly pressuring his family to send the girl ever since.

According to a report by Hindi daily Dainik Bhaskar, the victim’s father stated that his daughter used to teach in a school. Meanwhile, that boy used to put up a stall in the Friday weekly market held near the school. On May 30, his daughter suddenly went missing. She left without informing her parents. The distraught parents approached various Hindu organisations for help. They filed a complaint regarding the same at the Khekra PS.

Following the outcry from Hindu organisations, the police recovered their daughter after a month and returned her to the family.

The police confirmed that in her statement before the magistrate, the girl stated that she had that she was in a love affair with the youth and had left with him on her own free will.

However, ever since she was recovered and send back home by the police, Md Rahees had been hounding and harassing the Hindu family. He has been issuing ‘sar tan se jida’ threats and warned of serious repurcussions if they do not send back the girl back to him.

Punjab: AAP MLA Baljinder Kaur’s husband slaps her during argument, video caught on CCTV goes viral

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Punjab: AAP MLA Baljinder Kaur’s husband slaps her during argument, video caught on CCTV goes viral

On Thursday, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in Punjab came under the spotlight once again after a video went viral showing party MLA Baljinder Kaur being slapped by her husband after an argument. The video captured on CCTV camera outside her house in Talwandi Sabo, has been doing rounds on social media platforms since Thursday.

According to reports, the incident is said to have happened on July 10 but no official complaint has been filed in the case. The cops indicated they have no idea who released the footage or what triggered this episode.

In the video that has gone viral over social media, Baljinder Kaur, a two-time AAP MLA from Talwandi Sabo, can be seen approaching her husband, Sukhraj Singh amid an argument. In a flash of wrath, her husband gets up from his seat and slaps her on the face. The other individuals standing nearby meanwhile can be seen interfering and trying to push Singh away.

The incident attracted many eyeballs including those of Manisha Gulati who is the Chairperson of the Punjab State Women Commission. She stated that the commission will take suo motu cognizance of the episode. “It is upsetting that a woman who raises public issues faces harassment at home”, she was quoted.

Meanwhile, Former Union Minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal of the Akali Dal also called for action against the MLA’s husband. “Totally condemn the despicable violence by the husband of T.Sabo MLA Baljinder Kaur. We must call out such weaklings who feel superior using violence on women. Baljinder’s husband must issue a public apology and mend his ways or strict action as per law should be taken against him”, she tweeted.

Reports mention that the couple got married in February this year. Singh was reportedly the AAP’s youth wing convener for Majha region. Baljinder Kaur completed her M Phil in 2009 from Punjab University, Patiala. Kaur worked as an English lecturer at Mata Gujri College in Fatehgarh Sahib before entering politics.

Kavita Krishnan calls the Modi government ‘fascist’ after her party showed there is no tolerance for differences of opinion and harsher truths

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Kavita Krishnan calls the Modi government ‘fascist’ after her party showed there is no tolerance for differences of opinion and harsher truths

CPI(ML) Liberation’s Kavita Krishnan continued to attack the Modi government after being relieved from the posts and responsibilities in the party over differences in opinion and speaking about the harsh reality of brutal socialist regimes. She had tweeted on the Ukraine-Russia conflict recently, stating that socialist regimes were autocratic regimes far worse than parliamentary democracies.

However, Krishnan’s comments did not seem to have gone down well with the leadership of CPI (ML), a party that arguably owes its existence to socialist regimes in the world and allegedly draws inspiration from tyrannical communist parties such as the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). She was removed from leadership positions and responsibilities for speaking uncomfortable truths—a phenomenon uncharacteristic and incredibly rare for a CPI (ML) member. 

And soon after her removal, Kavita Krishnan continued to rant against the Modi government, trying to cover up the embarrassment she suffered for being booted out of the leadership of the party she had dutifully served for over two decades.

Kavita Krishnan manipulates Mohandas Pai’s comment to cover up the ignominy of her ouster from CPIML leadership

Manipulating a statement made by Mohandas Pai, Kavita Krishnan tried to salvage herself saying that she had requested to be relieved of posts and responsibilities in CPIML. Krishnan offered intricately long and convoluted reasons to justify why she had requested the party leadership to discharge her from her party obligation, possibly a ruse to cover up the ignominy of her removal and mount an attack against the Modi government. 

“Oh @TVMohandasPai for the first time you honestly agreed with my “honest statement” that the Modi regime is fascist & growing into a totalitarian one? (See 1 & 3 in the statement below). That’s a huge tho belated realisation, congratulations,” Krishnan replied to a tweet by Mohandas Pai who said the CPIML member may have spoken the truth for the first time when she criticised social regimes for raining atrocities against their subjects. 

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Tweeting how CPIML treated Krishnan for speaking out truth, Pai tweeted, “Kavita Krishnan ‘relieved’ from CPI(ML) leadership – The Hindu. For the first time possibly @kavita_krishnan made an honest statement and was kicked out of her extremist leftist party! The truth always prevails! Dharma will always win!”

But Krishnan distorted the statement and used it to label the Modi government as fascist—an exercise that the leftists have routinely resorted to in their desperate bid to discredit the Modi government—and raising a bugbear of “the country’s irreversible slide to autocracy” among the minds of people.

Speaking to The Hindu, Kavita Krishnan said that she had requested the party to relieve her of her posts since she felt an urgent need to defend parliamentary democracies, not just in India but across the world. While she would remain a primary member of the party, she said that there was a need to recognise that socialist regimes, past and present, have been authoritarian, far worse than Capitalist parliamentary democracies. 

Kavita Krishnan said that she needed to explore these political questions and it was not possible to do so while holding posts and responsibilities with the Communist party. “The party Central Committee has agreed to my request,” she said. “It was not possible to write on these questions remaining in the leadership. It is not a resignation, it is a mutually agreed to step aside from the responsibilities. There is no quarrelling with the party,” she said. 

“The conviction that for our fight for democracy against fascism and growing totalitarianism in India to be consistent, we must acknowledge the entitlement to the same democratic rights and civil liberties for all people across the world, including subjects of socialist totalitarian regimes past and present,” she added.

Interestingly, while Kavita Krishnan wanted to remain a primary member of the party, the Communist party, that has been talking about dissent and freedom of expression, decided to remove her from primary membership.

Kavita Krishnan’s problematic antecedents

While Kavita Krishnan had her political career in the soup for iterating basic facts about socialist regimes, her other utterances that had been far more problematic and wicked were glossed over by the party that long claims to be the voice of the people.

In the past, Kavita Krishnan has compared Hindutva to the Taliban and the Ku Klux Klan and denied the existence of “Love Jihad” (Grooming Jihad) which has claimed the lives of several Hindu women. Over the last few years, Kavita Krishnan has been caught several times for peddling fake news, however, she continues to do so with impunity.

Besides expressing solidarity with anti-national elements, Kavita Krishnan has a history of backing radical Islamists, fake news peddlers, and pro-Pakistan propagandists. Last year, she was exposed for standing in support of a notorious fake news peddler Mohammad Asif Khan, who has a history of propagating communally sensitive fake news.

Jharkhand HC directs CBI to take over probe in Rupesh Pandey murder case, the 17-year-old was lynched by an Islamist mob during Saraswati Puja

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Jharkhand HC directs CBI to take over probe in Rupesh Pandey murder case, the 17-year-old was lynched by an Islamist mob during Saraswati Puja

On Friday, the Jharkhand High Court directed the CBI to take over the investigation in the murder case of Rupesh Pandey. Justice SK Dwivedi was hearing the criminal writ petition filed by Urmila Pandey, mother of the deceased, and stated that further investigation into the case would be conducted by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).

According to the reports, the mother of now-deceased Rupesh Pandey had demanded a CBI inquiry in the case and had said that she was dissatisfied with the Police investigation. She had demanded strict action against the culprits who murdered Rupesh during the Saraswati Puja Visarjan procession in Jharkhand.

Rupesh Pandey was lynched by a mob of Islamists in the middle of a ruckus that emerged when a Saraswati Visarjan procession was passing from Lakhna Dulmaha Imambada of the Nai Taand village in Hazaribagh on February 6. The 17-year-old son of Sikandar Pandey who was part of the religious procession was badly beaten amid the ruckus. He was declared dead when taken to the hospital.

OpIndia had accessed the copy of Rupesh’s post-mortem report which had revealed gruesome details. According to Dr Gaurav Sharma, blood clots had developed and internal organs had failed as a result of the damage inflicted upon him. Injury marks were found all over the body, including the eyes, ears, chest, belly, and legs. Strong and heavy items were used in the attack. A sharp weapon has been used against him. Strangulation attempts were made. The ear, neck, and lower sections of the chest all had wounds.

Earlier, Rupesh’s mother Urmila had sought strict action against the culprits and had demanded that the culprits be hanged to death. She also alleged that the police had taken no concrete action in the case. Also, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) of India had taken cognizance of the brutal murder of Rupesh Pandey and had sought an action report from the Police in the case.

The criminal complaint against 27 accused Islamists and 100 other unknowns have been registered in Rupesh Pandey’s murder case. The Central Bureau of Investigation will now probe into the case as directed by the Jharkhand High Court.

Assam govt sends high-level committee to Tamil Nadu to bring back the elephant Joymala after video of her brutal torture went viral

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Assam govt sends high-level committee to Tamil Nadu to bring back the elephant Joymala after video of her brutal torture went viral

Assam govt has formed a four-member high-level committee to bring back Joymala, an elephant originally from Assam, from Tamil Nadu, after a video emerged showing horrific tortures of the elephant in a temple. The committee was formed in a meeting attended by Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma and Environment and Forest Minister Chandra Mohan Patowary, after the video of created massive outrage in the state.

The meeting decided to send the four-member team to Tamil Nadu and inspect the condition of Joymala, discuss the matter with the Tamil Nadu government, and pave the way for the return of the elephant to Assam. The team consists of Additional Principal Chief Conservator of Forests Hirdesh Mishra as team leader, Assam Agriculture University professor Dr. Kushal Kumar Sarma, Morigaon SP Aparna Natarajan and Tinsukia District Veterinary and Animal Husbandry Officer Dr. Rupjyoti Kakoti. The team is visiting Tamil Nadu today, 2nd September 2022.

Informing about the decision last night, CM Himanta Biswa Sarma said, “We are against any form of cruelty to animals. Hence, reports of ill-treatment to Joymala, an elephant from Assam, in Tamil Nadu have pained us.” He informed that the decision to send the 4-member team to Tamil Nadu was taken in a meeting with Forest Department Officials in presence of Environment and Forest Minister Chandra Mohan Patowary.

The matter came to light last week after PETA India raised the issue. The video showing the horrific torture of Joymala, known as Jeymalyatha in Tamil Nadu, was published by Tamil Channel ABP Nadu on June 12 this year, but it went unnoticed at that time. It went viral in the last week of August after PETA India and several netizens started to post it on social media.

On August 26, PETA India shared the video on Twitter, saying that it shows a new mahout using pliers to twist the skin of the illegally held elephant. The video showed the mahout repeatedly beating the elephant with sticks, and stabbing her legs, while the animal screams in pain. It is also alleged that the mahout often hits her eyes with sticks, and her skin is torn with pliers.

The elephant is kept captive at the sanctum sanctorum of the Krishnan Kovil temple in Tamil Nadu, and the video shows that she is chained to the floor of the temple. The elephant is being subject to torture for a long time by different mahouts, and the latest mahouts also continued with that.

A PETA team visited the temple and found that the elephant’s feet had developed infections as she is kept on the concrete floor most of the time. They submitted a veterinary inspection report to the Forest Department Officials in Tamil Nadu and Assam. Joymala was originally kept in Srivilliputhur Nachiyar Thirukovil temple for over a decade and was shifted to nearby Krishnan Kovil temple recently.

Another video of torture of the elephant emerged in 2021 also, which showed Joymala being beaten at a rejuvenation camp. The elephant was in the custody of Andal Temple in Srivilliputhur at that time.

After that incident last year, the mahout and his assistant were suspended by Tamil Nadu’s Hindu Religious & Charitable Endowments Department and they were arrested by the police. But even after their arrest, subsequent mahouts continued the torture of the elephant for some reason.

After the recent video of torture emerged and visiting the temple, PETA India filed a complaint, after which the Animal Welfare Board of India intervened in the matter and an FIR was filed under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code and the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act. Moreover, a wildlife offence report under the Wild Life (Protection) Act (WPA), 1972, along with the Tamil Nadu Captive Elephant (Management and Maintenance) Rules, 2011, was reportedly registered by the Srivilliputhur Forest Range in July.

The matter triggered massive outrage in Assam after journalist Nandan Pratim Sharma Bordoloi posted the ABP Nadu video on August 28, and then posted several tweets requesting Assam govt to rescue the elephant from Tamil Nadu.

A photo of the pachyderm showed large red-purple patches on the entire body, a clear sign of brutal torture.

The elephant was taken to Tamil Nadu from Kakopathar in Assam 13 years ago in 2008, and photos at that time show she was completely healthy and fit. She was owned by one Girin Mohan, and she was leased by a temple in Tamil Nadu for six months after completing the necessary formalities. However, Joymala was never returned to Assam as per the agreement, and she started receiving brutal torture from her handlers.

The original owners in Kakopathar in Assam broke down after seeing the videos of the elephant. A woman in the household said that she could recognise the elephant in the visuals, and demanded that she should be brought back.

She said that the elephant was borrowed by a temple from them in 2008, but she was never returned.

Notice of appointments of 9 corporation chairpersons in Punjab signed by Arvind Kejiwal emerges, boosts allegations of remote controlled govt

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Notice of appointments of 9 corporation chairpersons in Punjab signed by Arvind Kejiwal emerges, boosts allegations of remote controlled govt

Ever since AAP leader Bhagwant Mann became the chief minister of Punjab, opposition parties have been alleging that the government is remote controlled by Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal. Now, the Congress party has alleged that appointment letters in Punjab are being signed by the AAP supremo.

Congress leader Sukhjinder Randhawa made the allegations by sharing a Facebook post by AAP worker Ankit Saxena, who had posted an appointment letter with Arvind Kejriwal’s signature. On September 2 morning, Ankit Saxena, who is a social media manager with AAP, posted a notice showing the appointment of chairmen of nine boards/corporations in Punjab, and the notice was signed by Arvind Kejriwal.

The notice announced the appointments of new heads of Punjab State Farmer Commission, Markfed, Pungrain, Punjab Agri Export Corporation Itd., Punjab Youth Development Board, Punjab Agro Food Grain Corporation Ltd., Punjab Agro Industry Corporation, Punjab Small Scale Industries Corporataion, and Forest Development Corporation.

Screenshot of Ankit Saxena’s FB post

The notice was printed on Aam Aadmi Party letterhead and signed by party chief Arvind Kejriwal, implying that the appointments have been announced by the Delhi CM, instead of the elected CM of Punjab. Sharing the notice, Ankit Saxena wrote in his Facebook post, “Many many congratulations with the hope of carrying out the new responsibilities with integrity … Best wishes..”

Sharing the Facebook post during an interaction with media, Randhawa questioned,  “What more proof is needed that the Punjab government is being run from Delhi?”. Punjab Congress president Amarinder Singh Raja Warring said that the worry of people of Punjab that the state govt was being run from Delhi has started to prove true.

“A social media manager with the AAP is sharing the letter signed by Kejriwal; unless the AAP says the signature is fake,” Warring said. Another Congress leader Partap Bajwa said that the appointment of chairpersons by Delhi CM, Punjab liquor policy copied from Delhi or other policy decisions have proven that Delhi is controlling the Punjab government.

While Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal is signing notices for appointment of chairmen in Punjab, last week the Delhi Lieutenant Governor had returned 47 files because they were not signed by the CM. The LG had said that the files were signed by the staff of the chief minister’s office instead of the chief minister himself, and therefore they were returned to the CMO.

According to officials, all files sent to the L-G through the CMO have to be duly signed by the CM as these files are related to important and sensitive matters.

On August 22, LG Vinai Kumar Saxena had written to the CM to sign all files personally before sending it to him for consideration and approval. But even after that letter, the CM and CMO continued to send files to the LG without the signature of the CM, after which the LG’s office returned 47 files.

‘You’re genociding our race, you’re an invader’: Viral video shows a white man harassing and attacking an Indian man in Poland

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‘You’re genociding our race, you’re an invader’: Viral video shows a white man harassing and attacking an Indian man in Poland

A new video of a white man racially harassing and attacking an Indian man in a European nation is going viral on the internet. The video was reportedly recorded in Warsaw, Poland’s capital. According to social media users, the undated video that is currently going popular on social media was perhaps filmed outside Warsaw’s Atrium Reduta Shopping Centre.

The white man filming the video takes an imposing attitude and rushes toward the Indian man who appears to be strolling on the sidewalk in the four-minute video. The man then begins to verbally abuse the Indian and videotape him without his consent. He then harasses him with a series of racially driven offensive questions.

The white man can be heard saying, “Why are you in Poland? In America, there are too many of you guys (there). Do you think you can invade Poland? Do you think you can invade Poland? Why don’t you return to your own country?”

“Europeans want to know why you think you have the right to invade our country. Why are your people invading our homelands? You have India! Why are you coming to the white man’s land?,” the English man keeps yelling at the Indian man. The person then claims that Indians residing abroad are profiting from the hard labour of the white man and that Indians should stay in their own homeland.

The white man shouts, “You’re genociding our race. You’re an invader. Go home, invader. We don’t want you in Europe. Poland for Polish. You’re not Polish, why are you here?”

In one instance, the person begins shouting profanities at the Indian, who did not resist or even reply to the racial comments hurled at him. He also states that he does not want “tech support.” People from all around the world have called for the man’s arrest since the racist video went viral.

Notably, many videos have gone viral on social media in recent days depicting how Indians residing in English and European nations endure racism and hate crimes. A Mexican-American lady recently racially attacked and assaulted a group of four Indian ladies in a Texas parking lot. Esmi Armendarez Upton was identified as the accused. The footage of the vicious altercation went viral on social media, prompting her arrest on August 25.

“I hate you f*cking Indians…You come to our country and want everything free. I am Mexican-American. I was born here. Were you born here? Everywhere I go, you fucking Indians are there,” Esmi was heard as saying.

She also tried to pull out a gun from her purse and threatened to shoot the Indian group. In a longer version of the video, the woman was heard referring to the Indians as ‘curry ass bitches.’

After realising that the victims were calling the cops, Esmi turned ‘apologetic’ and claimed that she overstepped her boundaries. According to her Linkedin profile (which now stands deleted), the Mexican American woman is a realtor for California Federal Bank and parishioner at Prince of Peace Catholic Church in Plano.

One Abdul rapes an Indian medical student in Bangladesh and threatens to make her video public. Here is what she told Opindia

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One Abdul rapes an Indian medical student in Bangladesh and threatens to make her video public. Here is what she told Opindia

On August 18 this year, an Indian medical student studying at the Dhaka National Medical College in Bangladesh took to Facebook to narrate how she was raped by one Abdul Wakil in a hotel room for 3 days.

A resident of Sherpur, Abdul studies nursing at the Dr Halima Khatun Nursing Institute. The girl informed that the accused tortured and raped her, besides stealing her mobile phone and cash. Abdul also threatened to kill her.

“Name Abdul Wakil raped and tortured me from August 8 to August 11, 2022, in hotel galaxy room 501 of Cox Bazar. He stole my cash and mobile and also threatened my parents to kill me. Please give me justice. He is a student of Dr Halima Khatun Nursing Institute, Mymensingh,” her Facebook post read.

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“As a foreign student, it’s a huge threat to our safety. Please raise your voice,” she added. The Indian student informed that Abdul Wakil had threatened to make their intimate videos viral.

While sharing screenshots of the disturbing conversations, she wrote, “Abdul Wakil is now making my videos viral. His friends along with some journalists are now trying to extort money from me. Please, do something about it.”

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The victim has also accused a Muslim woman named Jakiya of being an accomplice to Abdul. “He took advantage of me because I was all alone in that country,” she remarked.

In another Facebook post, the Indian student lamented her decision of pursuing medical science in the Islamic Republic of Bangladesh. “Do not inhabit a country, where you are not respected, cannot earn your livelihood, have no friends or cannot acquire knowledge,” she wrote.

Victim speaks exclusively to Opindia

While speaking to Opindia over messaging app, she said, “He (Abdul) pretended to love me for the previous 5-6 months. Took advantage of the fact that I was all alone in Bangladesh.”

“I reached the hotel by bus. He said that he would not behave wrongly. We were going on a trip. He had different plans and one thing led to another. I never consented to the (sexual) acts. He threatened to kill me if I didn’t comply. He seized my belongings including money so I couldn’t run away,” she recounted.

On being asked about the images, the victim informed, “He was sleeping and that was the only chance I had to keep some evidence. He didn’t let me click any other photos. That’s why he stole my phone and hacked my Google accounts to delete his past pictures with me…He has a previous record of such rape incidents in his village.”

“My parents have disowned me. I can’t enter my house. I am currently staying at relatives’ place,” the Indian student lamented.

Hindu woman gang raped, disrobed and killed in Bangladesh

On July 29 this year, the dead body of a Hindu woman was discovered in a paddy field in the Kumar para area in the Bhervedi Union in the Dinajpur district of Bangladesh.

As per reports, the deceased woman was identified as Apo Rani Roy. She was returning to her husband’s home from her paternal house. Later, her disrobed body was found in a paddy field. A 10-year-old girl named Bipasha Rani Roy was also found in an unconscious state near the victim’s body.

On finding Apo Rani Rani in a lifeless state, the passersby called for help and informed the police. The cops reached the spot and recovered her body. The minor girl was then admitted to the Sub-Divisional Health complex.

According to the victim’s family, Alo Rani Roy has been gang-raped by unidentified criminals. They claimed that the victim was murdered to prevent her from identifying the accused men.

In a video shared by ISKCON spokesperson Radharamn Das, the 10-year-old could be heard saying, “My mother held my hand tightly. She begged the perpetrators to let me go. She kept on asking them: What have we done to you? They grabbed me by my neck and hit me on the head. I fainted but they believed that I was dead.”

“I don’t know what happened to my mother after that.” Later in the video, the minor girl was seen bursting into tears and asking, “What have we done to deserve this?” Apo Rani Roy is now survived by her husband and daughter.

Aamir Khan Productions accused of plagiarism over the ‘Micchami Dukkadam’ video, had earlier drawn criticism for typos and errors

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Aamir Khan Productions accused of plagiarism over the ‘Micchami Dukkadam’ video, had earlier drawn criticism for typos and errors

Hours after Aamir Khan Productions tweeted a video on seeking forgiveness on Samvatsari, the last day of the Jain holy event Paryushan, for having hurt anyone intentionally or unintentionally, allegations have emerged that the video may have been plagiarised and copied from elsewhere. 

A Twitter user shared a YouTube link of the same video posted by one Heena Jain in September 2021, alleging that one of the top Bollywood production houses had resorted to plagiarism by sharing a copied video.

However, the same video could be found on a YouTube channel hosted by a user named Heena Jain, who had posted the video on 12 September 2021, close to 12 months before the Laal Singh Chaddha actor’s production house shared it on Twitter. Moreover, it’s also likely that the video could be much older and copyrighted to someone else.

Even so, the video had already drawn backlash online on the virtue of its poor quality and spelling errors by a production house that touted itself to be one of the leading film-makers in the country and owned by a man regarded as a “perfectionist” by his sycophantic industry peers.

At around four seconds when the voiceover says ‘hum sab insaan hai’ (we are all humans), the text reads ‘hum sab insane hai’ meaning, we all are insane (crazy). There are awkward emojis which make the apology, which is supposed to be heartfelt appear way too trivial. Even towards the end where the voiceover is supposed to seek ‘kshama’ (forgiveness), it asks for ‘shama’ (??). 

Aamir Khan Productions posted the video earlier yesterday but deleted it later. After some time, they posted the video again. However, the video still had some errors like “Kshama” which means ‘forgiveness’ is still referred to as “Shama”. 

Aamir Khan Productions shares a video seeking forgiveness, actor had recently faced box office failure for ‘Laal Singh Chaddha’

Though the video seeking apology came on the occasion of Samsavtsari, the day when Jains around the world forgive and seek forgiveness from all the living beings for hurting them unknowingly or knowingly through their words, actions or deeds. A yearly, elaborate penitential retreat called “samvatsari pratikramana” is performed on this day by Jains to expiate the sins committed in the past year. 

However, the apology video also coincided with the disastrous failure of Laal Singh Chaddha at the Indian Box office as the audience chose to give a pass to the Aamir Khan flick over the latter’s controversial statements and stances. Ahead of its release, Laal Singh Chaddha faced a massive boycott campaign on social media, with users vowing that they would not watch the movie because Aamir Khan had insulted Hindu Gods in his movie PK, his other controversial stands, among other things. Consequently, Laal Singh Chaddha became Aamir Khan’s lowest opener in 13 years, with theatre owners cancelling shows because of low occupancy.

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