Home Blog Page 3046

Aaditya Thackeray says Mumbai Metro’s Aarey car shed not needed as cars undergo maintenance once in 3-4 months: Here is how it is a lie

OpIndia Staff
-
0
Aaditya Thackeray says Mumbai Metro’s Aarey car shed not needed as cars undergo maintenance once in 3-4 months: Here is how it is a lie

After the Uddhav Thackeray led Shiv Sena-Congress-NCP alliance govt had come to power in 2019, the first decision the govt took was to cancel the metro car shed project at Aarey Milk Colony in Mumbai for the Mumbai Metro’s line 3. Therefore, it was fitting that when the Eknath Shinde became the CM with support of BJP, the first decision his govt took was to restore the much important project at the original location of Aarey colony.

However, the out of power Uddhav Thackeray section of Shiv Sena has against started to protest against the project, alleging harm to the environment. The former CM’s son Aaditya Thackeray has taken the lead in the protests this time, which has been joined by Bollywood stars who travel in fuel guzzling SUVs and work in much bigger Film City in the same Aarey colony.

Today Aaditya Thackeray dialled up his propaganda against the metro project by resorting to lies, by claiming that the metro car shed is not even needed to run the metro network. Joining yet another protest at Aarey, the former minister said that cars go for maintenance once in 3-4 months, therefore it is not a required part of Mumbai metro.

According to ANI, the Shiv Sena leader said, “Cars go for maintenance once every 3-4 months, not every night.” He also said that the protest against the metro project “is a fight for Mumbai, fight for life”. He also said that his govt had proposed to turn the construction of the car shed at Aarey to a veterinary hospital.

However, the claim that that metro cars go for maintenance once every 3-4 months, not every night is a blatant lie, and Aaditya Thackeray is deliberately using falsehood to spread propaganda against the vital infrastructure project.

First, it must be made clear that the ‘car’ in ‘car shed’ does not mean four-wheeled motor vehicles, they actually mean the coached of the metro trains. Generally, the word coach is used for trains of Indian Railways, but for some reason, the word car has been used for metro rail systems in India.

The metro car sheds are not some automobile garages that people visit when then vehicles break down or for periodic maintenance, as Aaditya Thackeray is claiming. The car shed is home of the metro trains when they are not working. Which means, they are parking spaces for the trainsets in the night, apart from the location of regular and periodic maintenances and overhauls.

While explaining the need for the car shed at Aarey, the Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation had published a FAQ, which shows how vital a car shed is for a metro system. The MMRC website says, “Car Depot is mandatory & essential facility for smooth operation of any Metro system where all Metro trains will rest during non-working hours. It is in the Car Depot that the trains can be washed, cleaned, repaired and maintained. It is the starting point for train operation every day. A Car Depot serves Metro trains akin to a “home” for any human being.”

MMRC specifically says that car shed or depot is mandatory and essential facility, not a facility used once in three-four months.

Metro rakes are not parked at station at the night after the metro services are over for the day, and that’s why a car shed is essential to park them. And they are not just parked for the night there, they also undergo various types of cleaning and maintenances as per norms.

A report on Operations and Maintenance Systems by the Ministry of Urban Affairs cites the maintenance schedule of Delhi Metro, and it shows that it is a daily affair, not once in 3-4 months as claimed by Aaditya Thackeray.

According to this scheduled, a check of the train rakes is done every day, and the interior and exterior of the trains are also cleaned every day, along with washing of the windows. Apart from this, various levels of checks are done every 15 days, 45 days, 90 days, 180 days, 360 days, 720 days, while various levels of overhauls are done at every 3.5 years, 7 years, 10.5 years and 15 years.

Apart from the daily cleaning, the metro trainsets also undergo light cleaning, heavy cleaning on weekly and monthly basis.

Maintenance schedule of Delhi Metro

While all trains are cleaned every day, other activities are done weekly, monthly, or longer intervals. And as they are major cleaning or maintenance activities, and require dedicated bays, only a limited number of trainsets are taken up for this works every day. Therefore, every day there will be trainsets scheduled for major maintenance or overhauls, and the car shed remain busy on all days of the year.

Therefore, from the Delhi metro maintenance schedule it is clear that all the trains are cleaned every day, and while other maintenance activities have longer intervals, as the trains are taken up for such activities on a rotation basis, every day there will be few trainsets requiring such periodic maintenance.

It is completely wrong to say that metro cars will go for maintenance only once in 3-4 months. In fact, they need the shed to rest on every single night, and also need it for daily and other regular activities.

It is shocking that Aaditya Thackeray is making such false claims that car shed is not essential since it is needed only once in 3-4 months. If that was the case, the line 3 of Mumbai Metro should have been completed when his govt was in power.

Aaditya Thackeray was a senior minister in the MVA govt, and his govt was trying hard to set up the car shed at Kanjurmarg. They could not do that because the land they wanted to use for the project is under litigation. If a car shed is not needed, there was no need for trying for an alternate site.

And if they had proposed to build a veterinary hospital at the Aarey site, they could have started work on it. But the fact that it was never done shows that they also knew that eventually the project will return to Aarey only.

The Mumbai Metro have already made it clear that a car shed is ‘mandatory and essential’ to run metro services, and various authorities and courts upto the Supreme Court of India have decided that the Aarey Milk Colony site is the best site for the project. But still the celebrity activists and Shiv Sena is opposing the project only for political purpose.

It is notable that the trees that needed to be cut for the car shed at Aarey has already been cut, and no more trees are needed to be cut. Moreover, against around 2150 trees that have been cut, around 24000 trees were already planted.

Why can’t PM Modi’s critics stop wishing for India to burn?

Abhishek Banerjee
-
0
Why can’t PM Modi’s critics stop wishing for India to burn?

“What is left for a virus to kill in a morally corrupt nation?” she muttered on Twitter in March 2020. At the time, the pandemic was only beginning. The terrible news from China could no longer be suppressed. The devastation in Europe was unfolding. There was no denying this any more. We have heard about the world wars. We have watched sci-fi movies about the end of the world. Now something terrible was about to happen to humanity during our lifetimes. For real.

America was already in the grip of the virus. India trembled. Soon it would be our turn.

What did you think about at that time? Perhaps you thought about your family and your livelihood. If you have faith, you might have turned to god. You might have reflected on our place in the universe. Or the meaning of life, family, community, nation and all of humanity. Were we going to be wiped out?

But not everyone felt this kind of anguish that makes us think about our existence. Rather they spoke as if uttering a curse on India. What is there for the virus to kill in a morally corrupt nation, they asked.

In their eyes, India had committed a sin by voting out their patrons. By doing so, the nation had become “morally corrupt.” And for this sin, India must pay. India must burn.

As our neighbor Sri Lanka collapses, as their prime minister flees and protesters take over the presidential palace, our liberals watch hungrily. Why is India not facing such a situation? You can feel it in their tweets. They crave the total destruction of India. The “morally corrupt nation” must pay.

This is a relatively new sense, something that has been around only since 2019. Why 2019? Because until then, they were willing to believe that 2014 was an exception. That the Congress would soon come back to power. Their privileges would be restored. In 2019, they were willing to burn India down to bring the Congress back to power. Now they realize that it is no longer really possible. Now they just want India to burn.

So each morning they wake up and wish for something bad to happen to India. War, pandemic, terrorist attack, assassination, anything. Whenever they can, they try to stop something somewhere in India. It could simply be a metro line in Mumbai. It must be stopped. Nothing is too small that it can be ignored. Is there a way to reopen Khalistani wounds and make India bleed again? They will go for it. Nothing is too big that they will worry about touching it. Anything to make the “morally corrupt” nation pay.

Did a mob storm the Red Fort in Delhi and plant their own flag? Yeah, that was a great day for them. A way to show the morally corrupt nation its place. Is there another foreign newspaper that called India “fascist” today? They live for these moments such as these. It does not heal their wounds, but it gives them short sighs of relief.

Is the President of the United States visiting India? What if there were huge columns of smoke rising from the Indian capital that day? Would it make India cower with shame before the whole world? Yes, it would. The thought of that makes them happy.

And when the pandemic came, it gladdened their hearts like never before. Like ghouls, they danced around our crematoriums. They flew drones to get a better look at our burning flesh, to strip it off one last bit of dignity that they could seize and sell to the West for money.

The vaccines made them angry. No, India couldn’t possibly manufacture and administer so many vaccines, they said. Every time India set a new vaccination record, they screamed like their hearts had been torn out. How many dead, they asked endlessly? It can’t be just 4 lakh. That is not nearly enough to satisfy their thirst for revenge on the “morally corrupt” nation. They wanted to hear 4 million, if possible 4 crore or even 40 crore.

They knew the vaccines would catch up sooner or later. But first they wanted India to stand with hat in hand, begging the West for vaccines. Go to China and beg, some of them said. Their desire to see India humiliated was insatiable.

But India held. We did not go under. And it drives them crazy. They cheer each other up with promises that the final destruction of India is not far away now. Each morning you can find them on social media, coiled like serpents around some random talking point, and hissing. Hunger index, happiness index, press freedom index, anything to assure them that it is all over for India. It is called confirmation bias. Then there are the reports from “think tanks.” A report from a European country that calls India “authoritarian” can sustain a liberal for an entire week.

They pester visiting foreign diplomats with questions: tell us something India did wrong. Tell us why you hate India. Give us something we can put in a headline. But no matter what they get, whether big or small, from America or from Turkey, they are always burning on the inside.

When they have a half an opportunity to humiliate India, they pounce on it with unholy relish. Did India have to say no to wheat exports after making an earlier pronouncement about feeding the world? Such U-turns are not uncommon in an uncertain world, ravaged by war and pandemic, where America is scrambling to get food for their babies. But still, India having to blush just a little on this issue made them squeal madly with delight.

Is there war in Ukraine? Look, India is neutral. That means they must be standing with the aggressor. India is fascist, and “morally corrupt.” We told you so, they say to their friends around the world.

But because the real India refuses to go under, the reality frustrates and unnerves them. That is where the wild fantasies come in. Political instability in Britain? Prime Minister ousted by his own ministers? Modi will meet the same fate one day, they say. Or he won’t, because India is under fascist rule. Did protesters in Sri Lanka take over the presidential palace and burn down the prime minister’s house? Modi will meet the same fate one day. Or he wont, because India is “morally corrupt.”

Like conspiracy theories, the wild fantasies can live on very little, or nothing at all. Did Biden just dodge a hug from Modi in that frame? That should be enough to sustain the ecosystem for a day. Oh no, Biden just walked up to PM Modi from behind, sought him out and exchanged greetings. Never mind. Did you see that capture where PM Modi seems to be bending before some Sultan? Told you the Arabs are going to deny oil to India, and finally crush our country. Yeah, the same Sultan who came to confer his country’s highest civilian honor on our prime minister.

There is a difference between hating the prime minister and wishing for evil on the country. If you want to understand this difference, check with BJP supporters when their favorite party was in opposition for decades. Go find out how many of them raised slogans of “Hows the Jaish” after a terrorist attack on our soldiers. Indeed, in all the decades of India being under ruinous Nehruvian socialist rule, it is the BJP supporters who often foolishly spoke of a coming dawn that would make India a superpower. The BJP supporters always dreamed of great things for India, not ruin.

There are many states in India where BJP is in the opposition. But you won’t see a BJP supporter standing with a Maoist, or a jihadi terrorist, just to spite the government. Not now, not before, not ever. Eight years have passed since Modi came to power. Not everything has gone right, nor could it have. But despite war and pandemic, India has made it to the position of 5th largest economy in 2022. With a little bit of luck, we will go past even Germany by 2024. A bit of luck I said, which every liberal in this country wishes we never have.

Liberalism in this country is not dead. Because, after two back to back defeats, liberalism in India has become the ideology of the “un-dead.” Its followers prowl the streets and the airwaves, looking for shreds of human misery to feast on. Whatever they eat, whether it is too much or too little, only makes them more hungry. The fire in their heart never dies down. It burns brighter each day that this “morally corrupt” nation is still alive.

Breaking: Jaipur-Secunderabad Express stopped at Itarsi station after reports of a bomb in the train, police on the spot

OpIndia Staff
-
0
Breaking: Jaipur-Secunderabad Express stopped at Itarsi station after reports of a bomb in the train, police on the spot

Jaipur-Secunderabad Express 19713 has been halted at the Itarsi station in Madhya Pradesh after police got the information that there is a bomb suspected to be on the train. All the passengers traveling in coach B-3 and B-4 were asked to get off the train with their luggage as police started searching the train for the explosives.

As per reports, a letter was found on the train which mentioned that there is a bomb on the train. Once the train halted at the Itarsi junction, railway police started searching for the bomb and asked all the passengers to deboard the train.

So far, police haven’t been able to find any explosives on the train. However, the search is going on with the assistance of the canine unit of the police to sniff out the explosives.

Meanwhile, several confused passengers shared their experience online wondering what is going on and why they have been asked to get down from the train.

Local SP Gurkaran Singh has reached the spot to oversee the operation. A bomb disposal squad has also been called in as the search for explosives continues

‘We will keep men out of women’s sports’ – Trump calls for removing ‘trans’ athletes from women’s sports

OpIndia Staff
-
0
‘We will keep men out of women’s sports’ – Trump calls for removing ‘trans’ athletes from women’s sports

On July 9, former President of the United States of America (USA) Donald Trump once again pushed for keeping biological men out of women’s sports. Trump was speaking at Anchorage in Alaska to support Governor Mike Dunleavy, Kelly Tshibaka, candidate for US senate, and Sarah Palin, candidate for US Congress from Alaska. During his address to the people present at the rally, he said, “We would also keep men out of women’s sports.”

Donald Trump highlighted a swimming event where a “person with a man’s body” competed and won the women’s competition comfortably. He also joked how the female athlete competing in the same competition got injured when the ‘contestant with male body’ swam by her. He also talked about weightlifting where a similar thing happened, and a contestant with a ‘male body’ broke records in a women’s competition.

Trump added, “It is actually demeaning to women, and it should not be allowed. People do not like to talk about it. People think it is politically incorrect, I don’t. Somebody has to do it.”

This is not the first time Trump has been critical of the woke agenda. On June 26, he had said during a rally in Mendon, Illinois, “We will get critical race theory out of our schools, out of our military, and out of every part of our federal, state, and local governments. They say it is politically incorrect but let’s say it anyway. We will also keep men out of women’s sports. Is that okay?”

In February 2022, during his Texas Rally, he promised to keep men out of women’s sports if he got reelected. Calling it ridiculous, he said, “We will ban men from participating in women’s sports.”

FINA banned transgender athletes from competing in women’s competitions

Recently, on June 19, Swimming’s world governing body, FINA, banned transgender athletes from competing in elite women’s competitions and formed a working group to establish an open category for them.

The decision was made during a general congress meeting after members of the body heard a report from a transgender task force.

Reports suggest that according to the new eligibility policy of FINA, male-to-female transgender athletes would be allowed to compete only if “they can establish to FINA’s comfortable satisfaction that they have not experienced any part of male puberty beyond Tanner Stage 2 (of puberty) or before age 12, whichever is later”.

Female athletes felt uncomfortable sharing locker room with ‘biologically male’ trans athlete

Earlier, in January 2022, it was reported that the female swimmers of the University of Pennsylvania slammed the school for allowing transgender swimmer Lia Thomas to swim against women swimmers. The teammates had also complained that they felt uncomfortable sharing the locker room space with Lia. The female swimmers were forced to share the changing room, and locker room with 22-year-old Lia Thomas, who is biologically a male.

18 camels smuggled to Karnataka for slaughtering on Eid al-Adha rescued and sent back to Rajasthan

OpIndia Staff
-
0
18 camels smuggled to Karnataka for slaughtering on Eid al-Adha rescued and sent back to Rajasthan

As many as 18 camels were rescued from the Karnataka-Tamilnadu border area on 1st July 2022. The camels were illegally brought for slaughtering on Eid al-Adha or Bakr Eid which is being celebrated today. The animals were rescued near Hosur of Karnataka and sent back to Rajasthan by the local animal activists.

It is notable that camel slaughtering is banned in Karnataka state. In spite of this, the illegal transportation of the desert ride continues through some animal mafia by crossing different check posts. Out of many camels brought in Karnataka for slaughtering on Bakr Eid, the animal activists saved 18 and returned them to Rajasthan after keeping them in a shelter home for a brief period of 10 days.

The Tamil Nadu government was recently ordered to make sure that cows, camels, and other animals are not transported or slaughtered in violation of the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act. These orders were given by Justices CJ Munishwar Nath Bhandari and M Mala of the Madras High Court.

According to a report by The New Indian Express, inputs were taken from the local animal activists, and Animal Husbandry commissioner A Gnanasekaran. Based on these inputs and the court order, the Tamilnadu government sent a letter to the Superintendent of Police Krishnagiri District saying that hundreds of camels have entered Karnataka, and over two dozen are stocked in Hosur close to Bengaluru and asked them to check.

An animal activist Sunil Dugar from Prani Daya Sangha said, “Camels are banned from slaughtering and also from transport outside of their habitats. The mafia operating in the area entered Maharashtra and then slipped into Belagavi. From there, the animals were brought to Tumakuru and reached Attibele on the outskirts of Bengaluru. It was then brought to Hosur to avoid getting caught and was supposed to be brought back to Bengaluru on Bakrid for slaughtering.”

He further said, “The officials at every check post have failed to crack down on illegal animal transport. When we informed some senior officials in Tamil Nadu, they said that these animals might have been brought for joy rides or for grazing. The animals were rescued 10 days ago and after a few days of sheltering, they were transported back to their original habitat. The police had to be informed that transportation of such animals is a crime”

Meanwhile, two accused who were operating this illegal network are absconding and a case is filed in Tamil Nadu.

43-year-old Uttar Pradesh resident Jang Bahadur killed by Pakistani co-worker in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; was planning to return on Janmashtami

OpIndia Staff
-
0
43-year-old Uttar Pradesh resident Jang Bahadur killed by Pakistani co-worker in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; was planning to return on Janmashtami

Jang Bahadur, a driver from the Amethi district in Uttar Pradesh, who had been employed in Riyadh since 2017, was reportedly murdered by a Pakistani colleague over a work-related issue in Saudi Arabia. Following the murder, a young man staying with him shared this news with his family members.

The 43-year-old Jang Bahadur’s elderly father has written to Union Minister Smriti Irani, seeking that his son’s remains are recovered and the incident is probed. Vinod Yadav, Jang Bahadur’s younger brother, lives and works in Kuwait. On the night of July 6, Arvind, an Indian who lived with Jang Bahadur, contacted Vinod and informed him of Jang Bahadur’s death.

Arvind informed Vinod that Jang Bahadur was murdered by a Pakistani man who worked as a driver along with him. Vinod immediately informed his family members about his brother’s murder. After learning of Jang Bahadur’s murder, there spread despair in the family. Jang Bahadur’s father, Rajnarayan, wrote to Smriti Irani on Friday, detailing the situation and demanding that his son’s remains be returned.

Jang Bahadur, who left for Saudi Arabia on October 19, 2017, hoped to return home in 2020. However, because of the outbreak of Covid, he canceled his plans to return. Jang Bahadur discussed returning home on Janmashtami with his father Raj Narayan in the morning and his son Saurabh in the afternoon on July 6. 

As soon as the knowledge about the incident became public, SHO Arun Kumar Dwivedi, together with SDM Savita Yadav and CO Arpit Kapoor, went to the victim’s residence and gathered information about the incident whilst also counseling family members.

Jang Bahadur’s family consists of his elderly father Raj Narayan and mother Ramavati, his wife Manju Devi, his 19-year-old son Saurabh who is studying for his graduation, his 17-year-old daughter Anjali who is studying for her intermediate, and his 12-year-old son Gaurav who is studying in class 7. The family was stricken with grief as soon as they learned of Jang Bahadur’s death. 

Invocation of Agnipath scheme in the assassination of Shinzo Abe is misleading. Here is why

Dibakar Dutta
-
0
Invocation of Agnipath scheme in the assassination of Shinzo Abe is misleading. Here is why

Hours after former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was assassinated, the Opposition parties in India, especially the Congress, began casting aspersions on the newly launched Agnipath scheme using the tragic incident.

National Media Panelist of the Congress Party, Surendra Rajput, claimed the murder of Shinzo Abe was committed by a former member of the Japanese Self Defence Forces (SDF), and compared the SDF with the Agnipath scheme. He claimed that the SDF does not have a pension, thereby insinuating that those soldiers enrolled under the Agnipath scheme will be same as the soldiers working in the SDF.

Screengrab of the tweet by Surendra Rajput

Similar claims were made by the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) in West Bengal through its mouthpiece ‘Jaago Bangla’ (Wake up Bengal). The newspaper carried an article titled, ‘Shinzo er khune Agnipath er chaya (Shadow of Agnipath in Shinzo Abe’s murder).’

What is the Truth?

The assassin of ex-Japanese Shinzo Abe has been identified as 41-year-old Tetsuya Yamagami. It is indeed true that Yamagami served in the Maritime Self-Defense Forces (MSDF) for a short period of 2 years and 9 months.

Having said that, his brief stint with the Navy was not recent and ended 15 years ago. The Opposition parties tried to suggest that the military training received by Yamagami, coupled with lack of work and pension benefits, made the assailant to take such a drastic step.

It must be pointed out that the same parties had earlier floated conspiracy theories about the ‘potential’ of Agniveers to turn into terrorists. They had claimed that a lack of job opportunities, post-retirement from the armed forces, will force the soldiers to indulge in anti-social activities.

While a similar aspersion was cast about the assassination of Shinzo Abe, it has come to light that his assassin Tetsuya Yamagami was not ‘jobless.’ He started working in the fall of 2020 at a manufacturing firm in the Kansai region on the Honshu island of Japan.

The assassin quit his job only in May this year, citing poor health. As per a report in CNN, the motive of the crime was not political and certainly nothing to do with his early retirement from the Navy. In fact, the probe has found that the motive of the murder was religious and the crime has nothing to do with his past association with SDF.

He harboured hatred toward a religious group and believed that former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was linked to it.

Screengrab of the news report by South China Morning Post

“The man who fatally shot former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe told police that he initially planned to attack a leader of a religious group that he believed caused his mother to become bankrupted through donations, investigative sources said on Saturday,” read a report in South China Morning Post.

The assassin was under the impression that Abe promoted the group in Japan and therefore wanted to eliminate him. Yamagami dismissed claims of killing the former Prime Minister over ‘political beliefs.’

As such, it becomes clear that attempts to draw parallels to the Agnipath scheme and insinuate that lack of job opportunities, financial security and training in the use of weaponry contributed to the assassination of Shinzo Abe are dubious. Even though the SDF, which is the national military of Japan, does not have pension, it has nothing to do with the assassination.

The benefits of the Agnipath scheme

One of the grievances of the armed force aspirants is that only 25% of the Agniveers, recruited under the new scheme, will get the opportunity to continue for a full term. Many have also cried foul over the lack of pensionary benefits.

The early exit option for Agniveers will leave them with a SevaNidhi fund of ₹11.71 lakh and the ability to start a new career, and get priority selection in police services, government agencies, and PSUs.

Apart from that, Agniveers will also get a non-contributory Life Insurance Cover of Rs 48 lakh for the duration of their engagement period in the Indian Armed Forces. During the period of service, the recruits will learn various military skills, including discipline, physical fitness, leadership qualities, courage and patriotism.

Although around 25% of the recruited Agniveers will be enrolled in Armed Forces as regular cadres post the four-year service, all candidates can apply on a volunteer basis to enrol in the regular cadre. 

In association with IGNOU, the Armed Forces will provide graduation degrees to Agniveers that will help them if they want to go for higher studies after completion of four years of service.

Rajasthan: Danish and Taufiq fabricate a social media post to send Vishal Khatik to jail for hurting religious sentiments, Vishal now facing death threats

OpIndia Staff
-
0
Rajasthan: Danish and Taufiq fabricate a social media post to send Vishal Khatik to jail for hurting religious sentiments, Vishal now facing death threats

In Bhilwara, Rajasthan, two friends reportedly fabricated a communal post on a 23-year-old Hindu man’s social media account in order to have him arrested on false charges of fostering communal unrest. The 23-year-old was arrested by the police following the complaints received after his post. He was released after a week after it was discovered that he was not responsible for the post.

Danish and Taufiq had old animosity with Vishal Khatik, a 23-year-old Hindu man. The two friends grabbed a screenshot of Vishal’s social media account, manipulated it, and made it viral by adding communally offensive statements.

Vishal was then criminally charged at the Jahazpur police station in Bhilwara. He was subsequently arrested and sent to jail by the police. When he was released from jail, he notified the police about the entire matter. An inquiry by the police revealed that the youngster was totally innocent and had to go to jail because of a fabricated social media post. Following this, the police registered another case against the two and arrested them.

Danish and Taufiq implicated Vishal in the false case in Bhilwara

According to Chanchal Mishra, SP Shahpura, the police have detained Danish of Jahazpur’s Deshwali Mohalla and Taufiq alias Guddu alias Lala of Jahazpur’s Gol Hathai Mohalla. He said that they both took a screenshot of Vishal Khatik’s social media account, edited it, and then posted insulting comments that quickly went viral in the area.

पुलिस ने मामले में दो युवकों को गिरफ्तार किया है।
The two were arrested.

These two young people sought to punish Vishal over their enmity. They developed a strategy to blame Vishal for this after seeing how strict the police are about communal offenses. Vishal was detained as a result of Abdul Sattar of the Anjuman Committee filing a case against him due to the post getting viral in his name.

Death threats to Vishal

Vishal was arrested on June 20 and was sent to jail on orders of the court. Vishal was released after seven days following which, he filed a complaint against Danish and Taufiq. Vishal has been receiving endless death threats over call and otherwise. Upon his release from jail, he said, “I’ve been locked up. It cannot be erased. After spending seven days in jail for a crime I did not commit, I have returned. How the seven days in jail went down is a secret only I know. I’m currently receiving threatening calls. I am convincing people on the phone that I didn’t do it. Now I have to explain to every new contact I make that I have not done anything wrong.”

The police have now provided Vishal with security after he received death threats. Vishal has been provided two gunmen for his protection, he will be protected by these gunmen for eight hours a day.

When lettuce burqa clad PETA ‘activists’ were assaulted for promoting vegetarianism and booked under blasphemy laws ahead of Bakri Eid

OpIndia Staff
-
0
When lettuce burqa clad PETA ‘activists’ were assaulted for promoting vegetarianism and booked under blasphemy laws ahead of Bakri Eid

On July 10, Muslims around the world celebrate Eid-Al-Adha, also known as Bakri Eid, because of the ceremonial sacrifice of an animal, mainly a goat. To this day, the animal rights activism of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) often gets toned down. So much so that if we compare their aggression against the practice of sacrificing animals on Bakri Eid to the noise they make at Hindu festivals, it would look as if they become ostriches on this day.

In 2014, PETA’s India chapter “dared” to stand against animal sacrifice on Bakri Eid in Bhopal. A female activist of the organization wore a burqa made of lettuce leaves and vegetables and went for a “peaceful awareness campaign” near Taj-Ul Masjid in the old city along with other ‘activists’. The “attack” on the practice was not “welcomed” by the community, and a mob allegedly assaulted the activists, including the woman in lettuce-burqa.

The PETA activists were outnumbered, and the Police had to intervene to save them. They were taken to the nearby Police station. Then-Inspector General of Police Yogesh Choudhary had said that a case was filed against PETA activists for hurting religious sentiments under Section 295A of the Indian Penal Code.

Shocked by the attack, PETA India’s then-CEO Poorva Joshipura had said, “PETA organises peaceful animal protection awareness programs for Christmas, Easter, Diwali, Janmashtami and other holidays, as well as Eid. It is shameful that in working to stop violence, our volunteers were made to suffer violence.”

The activists of the organization seemed to have gotten scared by the attack, and since then, there have been virtually no reports of them taking on the streets to protest against animal sacrifice on Eid. They may post something online and subtly tell their followers not to sacrifice animals, but they never dare to repeat it again. On the contrary, when it comes to Hindu festivals, they gather all the courage they have hidden somewhere under the carpets and oppose even 100% vegetarian Hindu festivals, including Diwali, Janmashtami, Rakshabandhan, and more.

Uttar Pradesh: Plot made to target Hindu girl student in Bareilly, victim forced to stay in Mazaar for days, raped in Uttarakhand’s Kaliyar Sharif

OpIndia Staff
-
0
Uttar Pradesh: Plot made to target Hindu girl student in Bareilly, victim forced to stay in Mazaar for days, raped in Uttarakhand’s Kaliyar Sharif

In the Bareilly district of Uttar Pradesh, a case of forced religious conversion has come to light. As per reports, planning and scheming for this spanned from Bareilly in Uttar Pradesh to Kaliyar Sharif (Uttarakhand) to target a Hindu girl student. During the two-year plot, every effort was made to brainwash the girl as per reports.

On June 23, one Muslim man took a girl from Bareilly to Kaliyar and forcibly taught her how to pray in the Islamic manner while she was forced to stay at a Mazaar. The Muslim man also put pressure on her to convert and marry says the report.

As per the report, a Hindu girl student studying in a nearby town became friends with a Muslim boy. The Muslim boy informed his acquaintances about it. The boy failed class IX and began working as a driver in Kichha, Uttarakhand, but he maintained contact with the girl in Bareilly over the mobile phone. He used to talk about his future plans with her and kept urging her to marry him.

He reassured the girl that she could continue to be a Hindu and pray in the house and that he had no objections to this. However, on the afternoon of June 23, he arrived in her town and invited the girl to the market, where she was kidnapped. Following this, the boy’s aides suggested him to take the girl to Kaliyar Sharif in Uttarakhand.

To alter the girl’s thinking and convert her, she was forced to spend five days in the Mazaar from sunrise to dusk. She was also forced to learn Islamic devotional practises. All of this was done violently as the girl’s psyche began to disintegrate. She was also coerced to convert to Islam and marry the Muslim boy.

The girl was raped in Kaliyar

Reports also mention that the girl was raped by the Muslim boy in Kaliyar. His aides also shot several videos and kept circulating in between them. On the evening of June 30, the boy tried to take her to some other place but he was caught by the police at Haridwar railway station.

After giving her statement and professing to have been misled and betrayed, the girl was returned to her parents. She was brought before the Child Welfare Committee, which, after evaluating the girl’s situation, handed her to her parents.

1...3,0453,0463,047...7,604Page 3,046 of 7,604