On Wednesday, May 11, a 22-year-old youth identified as Mithun Thakur succumbed to his injuries in the Ahmedabad Civil Hospital in Gujarat. He had been admitted to the hospital on Monday (May 9) after being brutally assaulted by the brother of his Muslim girlfriend, who was disapproving of their interfaith relationship.
On hearing the news of Thakur’s death on Wednesday, the 18-year-old girl, Sumaiyya Kadivaar, also tried to commit suicide by slashing her wrist. She was, however, rushed to the hospital where she survived. The entire matter came to the fore after the girl was admitted to the hospital.
According to reports, Mithun Thakur, a native of Bihar, who was working in a local factory in Rajkot, Gujarat, was romantically involved with the 18-year-old Sumaiyya Kadivaar for the past few months. They stayed in the same neighbourhood in Radha Krishna Society on Jungleshwar main road.
On Monday, May 9, at around 10 am, Mithun Thakur called Sumiyya on her mobile phone, but her brother Saakir answered the call instead. The duo got into a heated argument over the phone. Saakir threatened Thakur with dire consequences and advised him to stay away from his sister.
On Wednesday, May 11, Saakir, along with his three unnamed, went to Thakur’s house and brutally beat him up. One of his neighbours noticed Mithun Thakur lying unconscious at his home after which he rushed him to Rajkot Civil Hospital. Due to critical injuries and brain haemorrhage, the doctors at the civil hospital referred him to Ahmedabad. Thakur was taken to Ahmedabad Civil Hospital where he succumbed to his injuries on Wednesday.
Sumaiyya’s parents are divorced, and her mother also works as a labourer at a private company. Mithun Thakur and his father Bipin were manufacturing workers in Rajkot.
Speaking about the case, Bhaktinagar police inspector LL Chawra said, “We have taken the complaint of the victim’s father and rounded up Saakir and one of his accomplices”.
This is one of the many such incidents of hate crimes where Hindus have been assaulted and killed by the family members of their Muslim lover/wife. Only recently, a young man named Billapuram Nagaraju was stabbed to death in full public view by the family of his Muslim wife outside the Saroornagar Tehsildar’s office in Hyderabad. The video of the brutal act had gone viral on social media platforms.
Prior to this, a 24-year-old man from Gujarat’s Sarkhej was beaten up by three of his wife’s family members, who also kidnapped his wife after they objected to the interfaith marriage.
In 2020, OpIndia chronicled 20 other similar incidents of Muslim families assaulting, killing or causing the death of Hindu men who dared to fall in love with Muslim women.
Islamist-sympathiser CJ Werleman, who has a notorious history of peddling fake news on social media platforms, yet again took to Twitter to put out an undated video to claim that a Muslim man was assaulted by a mob of Hindu extremists in the national capital Delhi on Wednesday.
Sharing an edited video of a Muslim man being thrashed by the public, serial fake news peddler Werleman claimed that a mob of Hindu extremists in Delhi assaulted a Muslim man.
The carefully edited video was shared by Islamist sympathiser Werleman to put out a false narrative that Muslims are being attacked in India by Hindus.
However, it is not true.
The video shared by Werleman pertains to an incident that occurred last week in Delhi. The full clip of the incident with the audio was shared by a social media user named Nitin Singh. Werleman had removed the audio from the video so that people don’t know the facts behind it.
In the original video shared by Nitin Singh, it can be seen that the mob was thrashing a Muslim man, for eve-teasing and allegedly molesting a 14-year-old girl for over five days. The girl finally confronted the 45-year-old Muslim man and informed the locals.
The locals caught the culprit, who thrashed him for his unruly behaviour with the minor girl. The incident was reported in Nathu Colony in Delhi.
दिल्ली शाहदरा स्थित नत्थू कॉलोनी चौक पर मुसलमान समुदाय का व्यक्ति 40 से 45 उम्र का व्यक्ति मात्र 14 साल की उम्र के बच्ची से कर रहा था 5 दिन से छेड़छाड़ आज उसे रंगे हाथों पकड़ा गया नत्थू कॉलोनी चौक पर बच्ची के मां-बाप और उसके परिवार वालों के द्वारा pic.twitter.com/X5bVFq2d69
The audio clearly shows that the locals are beating him for molesting a minor girl. However, CJ Werleman used this incident to edit the video carefully, removed the audio, and circulated it across social media platforms to propagate lies against Hindus and incite Muslims in the country.
Well, this is not the first time that the Islamist-sympathiser who was profiled by Shekhar Gupta’s ThePrint has resorted to peddling fake news against Hindus. Just last week, he had spread a similar fake news by claiming that a Dalit was killed by Hindus for marrying a Muslim girl, when the fact is that the man was killed by the Muslim family members of the girl. CJ Werleman had said in a now delated tweet, “A Dalit was lynched to death to death by Hindu extremist mob for marrying a Muslim woman.”
In the tweet, he had included a photograph of Billapuram Nagaraju and his wife Syed Ashrin Sultana from Hyderabad. Sultana’s family was opposed to this inter-faith marriage, and her own brother had killed Nagaraju on May 4th. Sultana herself has identified her brother Syed Mobin Ahmed as one of the killers of her husband, and Ahmed along with his accomplish Mohammed Masood Ahmed have already been arrested by police within a day of the murder. But still serial fake news peddler CJ Werleman had claimed that Nagaraju was killed by “Hindu extremist mob”.
He keeps sharing such fake news on a regular basis, and surprisingly, he tweets are not labelled as fake by Twitter.
Last year, he shared an undated video on his Twitter profile to claim that a group of Hindu men desecrated and destroyed a Muslim Graveyard in Nathan, India. In a tweet, he wrote, “Hindutva radicals desecrate and destroy a Muslim graveyard in Nathan, India.”
However, the local administration had called out the lie peddled by the radical Islamist sympathiser.
Similarly, he had made false allegations that the Indian government is suppressing Muslims on several other occasions. In August 2018, he took to Twitter to wrongly claim that the BJP had banned the slaughter of livestock during Eid. Werlemen also contended that the Police Officer was forcing an Imam to declare “Qurbani is a punishable crime” to his followers in the video that he had attached. In the same year, he posted a video claiming ‘Hindutva fanatics’ destroying 25 Muslim owned businesses and properties in Aurangabad on 25th March.
CJ Werlemen appears to have a particular grudge against Uttar Pradesh, probably because a saffron-clad monk is the Chief Minister of the state. In several tweets, he had mentioned Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath as a ‘Hindutva terrorist’.
In 2018, Kasganj Police had to refute his allegations after Werlemen accused them of teaming up with ‘Hindu extremists’ to target Muslims. In a separate instance, this time not involving Uttar Pradesh, Werlemen used a video depicting the violence during the Bhima-Koregaon clashes in Maharashtra and claimed that it, in fact, showed Hindus destroying Muslim property.
On Wednesday, the Federal Court prosecutor in the United States accused a 28-year-old Vermont man of killing his grandfather and mother to obtain trust fund money. The authority stated that the accused Nathan Carman, killed his mother while they were at sea for a purported fishing trip to access millions of dollars in inheritance. Carman will face life in prison if convicted.
The case dates back to the year 2016 when Carman was rescued from a raft off the coast of New England after his boat sank in Rhode Island. He had taken his mother Linda on a fishing trip and she was later reported missing. The US prosecutor alleged that Carman lied to Coast Guard officials and other law enforcement officials about his mother’s disappearance and that he purposefully sank the boat off Rhode Island leading to his mother’s death.
The prosecutor said that Carman also killed his grandfather John Chakalos (87) by shooting him twice while he slept in his home in Connecticut’s Windsor. “Both killings were part of a scheme to obtain money and property from the estate of John Chakalos and related family trusts,” the prosecutor alleged.
According to the reports, the defender representing Nathan Carman did not immediately respond to a request for comment. He said that Carman had nothing to do with his mother’s disappearance or his grandfather’s death and that he had not killed the duo. The accused has also been consistently denying the allegations.
Explaining the case, the prosecutor said that Chakalos had named his four daughters including Linda Carman in his will. He wanted his daughters to look after his USD 42 million estate after his death. Chakalos also amassed USD 10 million by building and renting nursing homes. Grandson Nathan who spent significant time with Chakalos in 2012 and 2013 came to know about the will and persuaded his mother Linda to designate him as a beneficiary of her inheritance.
“Chakalos deposited USD 550,000 into Nathan’s bank account as he learned about his grandson’s request to mother Linda. On November 11, 2013, Carman then purchased a rifle using the same money and murdered grandfather John Chakalos in December”, the prosecutor stated on May 11.
The prosecutor also alleged that Carman, after killing his grandfather destroyed his computer hard drive and the GPS unit as a part to cover up his involvement in the crime. Carman stayed unemployed for many years and felt the pinch of lowering funds. He moved from a New Hampshire home built by Chakalos to an apartment in Bloomfield, Connecticut, Vermont, in 2014.
In September 2016, he planned to go on a fishing trip with his mother Linda on his boat named ‘Chicken Pox’. “Nathan Carman planned to kill his mother on the trip. He also planned how he would report the sinking of the ‘Chicken Pox’ and his mother’s disappearance at sea as accidents. Before the trip, Carman removed two forward bulkheads. He killed his mother and eventually sank the Chicken Pox,” the indictment read.
The Federal prosecutor further demanded Carman’s arrest saying that he poses a flight risk and is a danger to the community. He said to the court that the accused was being treated for mental health issues since his childhood and had been avoiding medication since he was 17. “For an individual who would kill his own family members, nothing is off the table,” prosecutors wrote.
If convicted, Carman will face life imprisonment in the case. The Federal Court is scheduled to hear the case on Monday, May 16, 2022.
On May 12, three cow smugglers identified as Zeeshan, Saddam and Qasim were apprehended by Ghaziabad Police after a fierce encounter. As per reports, they were running away after stealing a cow in a Scorpio vehicle. The Police chased them, during which their vehicle collided with a tree. The Police asked them to surrender, but the smugglers opened fire. A constable reportedly got injured. In retaliation, the Police opened fire, and all three cow smugglers were wounded. The cow has been rescued safely.
गाजियाबाद में स्कॉर्पियो में गाय चुराकर ले जा रहे 3 गोतस्कर जीशान, सद्दाम और कासिम एनकाउंटर में पुलिस गोली का शिकार हुए हैं। फिलहाल अस्पताल में भर्ती हैं। #Ghaziabad#Uppic.twitter.com/ou53y3qIwJ
— Sachin Gupta | सचिन गुप्ता (@sachingupta787) May 12, 2022
Nipun Aggarwal, Superintendent of Police City (First), said in a statement that at around 4:30 AM, the team was checking vehicles in the Jal Nigam Police Outpost area of Vijayanagar police station. When they tried to stop the silver-coloured Scorpio, it did not stop and sped away. The Police chased the vehicle, during which the Scorpio collided with a tree.
Cow saved by Ghaziabad Police. Source: Dainik Bhaskar
SP said, “When Police asked the cow smugglers to surrender, they started firing. Constable Deepak Kumar of Vijaynagar Police Station sustained injury due to a bullet. The Police opened fire in retaliation. All three smugglers were shot during the encounter.”
The three accused, Zeeshan of Falavada, Meerut, Saddam and Qasim of Muradnagar Ghaziabad, were arrested by the Police. They recovered three pistols, cartridges, Scorpio, a stolen cow, animal sedatives, rope and butchering tools from the accused. As per the Police, there are 23 cases registered against the three accused in different Police Stations.
On May 11, the Human Rights Commission of Balochistan released its annual report for the year 2021. In the report, HRC said there was an increase in fake encounters, enforced disappearances, extra-judicial killings, target killings, torture, collective punishment, and the killing of women for honour in the family.
As per the report, 47 fake encounters were committed by the Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) of the Police. 442 people went missing, and a total of 366 people were killed in 2021 alone. The report suggested that students remained the prime target of the military and its shadow organizations not only in Balochistan but also in other parts of Pakistan.
Enforced disappearances on the rise
In the case of enforced disappearances, HRC of Balochistan received information of 442 people. 170 of them were reportedly released after torture, but the whereabouts of 272 people remained unknown. Under the pretext of national security, in some cases, entire villages were bulldozed in military operations. Children and women were detained and shited to army camps where they allegedly received inhumane torture. Political activists and their family members remained on the hit-list of the military as well as state-sponsored death squads. Many families from rural areas disappeared without leaving any trace.
New laws were introduced to restrain the movement of villagers
As per the law, all-male members above the age of 12 are required to appear in a nearby army camp at least once a month. The Army has restricted entry and exit to the villages. Even for small purchases like food or travel, the locals need to get permission from the Army.
Rampant honour killings
Honour killing of 57 women was reported in 2021. They were killed on the charge of alleged adultery. Those who killed the women got a free hand from the government as not a single arrest was made, the report stated.
Families of victims targetted
The Senate Standing Committee on Interior has proposed amendments to the law that would put the families of the victims of enforced disappearances in jeopardy. As per the proposed amendments, if the family fails to prove the state’s involvement in the disappearance, they would face charges that could lead to up to 5 years in prison and a fine of PKR 100,000. As per the report, members of civil society, NGOs, human rights commission etc. were not part of the standing committee, making it impossible for the victims’ families to have a stand.
Students were targetted
A total of 38 students were on the list of enforced disappearances. Eighteen were released, while 20 are still missing. The report suggested all the victims were subjected to inhuman torture during interrogation.
Extra-Judicial killings
As er reports, Frontier Corps, a para-military force, allegedly killed 50 people, 47 people were allegedly killed by Police CTD in a fake encounter, Baloch Militants were responsible for 44 killings, and 57 women were killed in the name of honour.
Fake charges on locals
HRC suggested people were framed for crimes that they had not committed. For example, Siraj Ahmed, a mentally unstable person, was framed by Counter-Terrorism Department in a terror attack. His family was threatened to bring Siraj to Army Camp to submit statements. Disobeying the orders would have meant facing military action. When Siraj was brought to the camp along with another accused by their respective families, he was tortured by the military personnel. Siraj, a 15-year-old boy, was later sent to Khuzdar, and the military told the family that it would take at least six months for him to come back.
Bibi Muskan Zainab Khan, who rose to fame during the hijab protests in Karnataka, has now become part of another controversy. According to the latest reports, Muskan Khan has left for Saudi Arabia along with her family without intimating the local police officials.
According to the reports, Muskan Khan has left for Saudi Arabia on a religious trip with her family on April 25. The controversial hijab protestor and her family are scheduled to visit Mecca on May 18. Apparently, Muskan Khan has failed to notify her visit to Saudi Arabia to the local police.
The local police had verbally asked Muskan Khan to inform them about her whereabouts and travel plans to the police regularly to keep track of her whereabouts for her safety. However, she has reportedly left for Saudi Arabia without informing the police officials, giving them a scare.
Muskan Khan, a student of PES College of Arts, Science and Commerce in Mandya, had come to the limelight after yelling Islamic slogans “Allahu Akbar” at Hindu students in Mandya, Karnataka, during the hijab protests.
Her visit to Saudi Arabia comes just a month after Muskan Khan had received high praise and support from Ayman al-Zawahiri, the leader of terror outfit Al-Qaeda. The chief of Islamic terror organisation Al-Qaeda had extended his support to the burqa-clad protestor Bibi Muskan Zainab Khan and had praised her for chanting provocative Islamic slogans at Hindu students.
In a nine-minute video released by Al-Qaeda’s official Shabab media, Ayman al-Zawahiri, the leader of terror outfit Al-Qaeda, praised Muskan Khan and said he was impressed by her chanting Islamic slogans near her college.
In the video titled “The Noble Woman of India”, which carried an infographic depicting Muskan Zainab Khan, Zawahiri recited and dedicated a poem he had composed to praise Khan.
Seems Ayman al-Zawahiri is alive after all. The al-Qaeda leader has appeared in a ‘proof of life’ video commenting on a February 2022 incident where a college student in India protested he right to wear a hijab pic.twitter.com/JCNuXbYqsD
The jihadi terrorist had said he learned about Muskan Khan from videos and social media. Referring to Muskan Khan as ‘sister’, the Al-Qaeda chief said he was so moved by her act, especially the raising of “cries of Takbeer”.
A month later, Muskan Khan has purportedly gone on an ‘Umrah’ to Saudi Arabia suspiciously without informing the local police.
Meanwhile, the Hindu activist groups have been demanding a probe against Muskan Khan, especially after the Al-Qaeda chief supported her actions. The Hindu groups had also asked for detailed inquiries on the gifts and money Muskan Khan received after her theatrics inside the PES College campus in Mandya.
It is important to note that Muskan Zainab was also hailed as another “shero” by the left-liberal media establishment. It was later revealed that Muskan Zainab has links to the radical Islamic organisation PFI through her father. Bibi Muskan Zainab is the daughter of PFI leader Abdul Sukoor.
Following the media coverage of what appeared to be a carefully timed and orchestrated video, Muskan Khan became a household name amongst Muslims, who showered praise and gifts on her. Maharashtra Congress MLA (Bandra) Zeeshan Siddique had also paid a visit to her residence in Mandya and handed Khan an iPhone and a smartwatch for her ‘courageous act’. Islamic outfit Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind had also announced a cash reward of Rs. 5 lakh to Muskan Khan.
Not just that, the Mayor of Malegaon Municipal Corporation (MMC), Tahera Shaikh Rasheed, had also announced that the ‘Urdu Ghar’ in the city would be named after Muskan Khan.
North Korea has declared a “severe national emergency” in the country after it confirmed its first-ever case of Covid-19.
According to the reports, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has ordered all cities to be put under lockdown after the nuclear-armed nation reported Covid-19 cases for the first time in the last two years ever since the pandemic began.
“A serious situation has been created due to the introduction of a stealth omicron mutant virus into our precincts. At a party meeting Thursday attended by Kim, authorities elevated the country’s national quarantine measures to a maximum emergency,” Korean Central News Agency added.
Reportedly, a few people in Pyongyang have contracted the Omicron variant. However, there are no details pertaining to the numbers or possible sources of infection.
Kim Jong Un has held a crisis politburo meeting to discuss the outbreak and announced they would implement a “maximum emergency” virus control system. The North Korean leader has also vowed to “eliminate” the virus within the shortest period of time, the state media said on Thursday.
“He assured us that because of the people’s high political awareness… we will surely overcome the emergency and win the emergency quarantine project,” the state media said.
Kim has also called for tighter border controls and lockdown measures, telling citizens “to completely block the spread of the malicious virus by thoroughly blocking their areas in all cities and counties across the country”.
All business and production activities will be organised, so each work unit is “isolated” to prevent the spread of disease, KCNA added.
Meanwhile, North Korea has turned down vaccination offers from the World Health Organization, China and Russia.
The Arabic term ‘Ummah’ refers to ‘nation’ which basically is the whole of Muslim world or the community of ‘believers’. The one which unites all Muslims. In what appears like an example of ‘Ummah’, Mohammed Zubair, co-founder of ‘fact-checking’ website AltNews, on Thursday ‘fact-checked’ a viral video where a Muslim man can be seen beating up a woman. The video had gone viral with claims that the family was based out of America and that the Muslim girl was being beaten up by her family members for dating a non-Muslim man.
On seeing allegations put on an alleged American Muslim family, Zubair took it upon himself to ‘fact-check’ the claims in the viral video.
Zubair ‘fact-checking’ viral video
Mohammed Zubair, AltNews cofounder, claimed that the video is not from America but from Russia. he claimed that since he was tagged by many people on social media to verify this viral video with claims that a Muslim girl was being beaten up by her family members, he took it upon himself to verify.
Zubair then described an elaborate procedure on how he ‘fact-checked’ the viral claim. Zubair, it seems almost instinctively, carried out a reverse image search on Yandex, a search engine for Russian language often pegged as ‘Google’ for Russian. Zubair, it seems, didn’t look anywhere else but went directly on Yandex.
So, Zubair went on Yandex, found some article from 2021 which had embedded an Instagram video, he reached out to the Instagram user who was the girl’s friend and informed that the girl as well as the guy she was in love with (because of whom she was beaten up) were both Muslims. Girl’s family from Russia while guy’s from Ukraine and the families had a long time feud going on, he claimed. Almost like a Bollywood potboiler.
Mohammed Zubair’s conclusion
At the end of his thread explaining how it was just some people of Muslim family beating up the girl for falling in love with another Muslim man the family was enemies with. The claim in the video is false, he added. What claim? That the girl was in love with a non-Muslim. And perhaps that the family was Russian and not American. OpIndia cannot independently verify these claims by Zubair. But the fact that a Muslim girl was indeed being beaten up by her own family members for falling in love with a man they did not approve of was true.
But see how the ‘fact-check’ was selective? This is also how AltNews has regularly ‘fact-checked’ irrelevant videos in middle of violence against Hindus as ‘old’ and tried to create a narrative that even the current videos are ‘fake’. During the Delhi anti-Hindu riots, the ‘factcheckers’ launched a staunch defence of Tahir Hussain, the AAP Councillor, who played a prominent part in the violence in North East Delhi and is an accused in the murder case of Ankit Sharma. Few days back, while framing charges of conspiracy, arson, rioting against Hussain, a Delhi Court observed that he ‘instigated a mob to teach kafirs a lesson’.
You can read how AltNews doubles up as Islamic propaganda website in detail here.
While a petition has been filed demanding to open locked 22 doors of Taj Mahal in Agra, Diya Kumari, a member of the Royal Family of Jaipur and an MP from the Bharatiya Janata Party, has claimed that the land where the Taj Mahal is located belonged to the Royal Family. The BJP MP says that the Royal Family had a palace at the Taj Mahal site.
Diya Kumari, while praising the petition filed for opening the closed doors of the Taj Mahal, said that the truth will come out of it. Along with this, she has also claimed that she has documents, which prove that the Taj Mahal was the palace of the old royal family of Jaipur. It was occupied by the Mughal invaders, but during that time the royal family could not oppose it due to the Mughal rule, she said.
Diya Kumari said, “I won’t say that the Taj Mahal should be demolished. But the closed rooms of the Taj Mahal should be opened. Some parts of it have been sealed for a long time, which should be checked. Their rooms should be opened so that the truth can be found out what was there and what wasn’t. When it is checked properly, all the facts will be better established.”
She further said, “Even today, if a government acquires land, it gives compensation in return for it. I heard that he (Shah Jahan) gave some compensation in return, but at that time there was no law that could appeal against him or do anything against him. Now it is good that someone has raised his voice and filed a petition in the court.”
Diya Kumari said, “I am not saying that the land is ours. I am not aware of what the circumstances were then, but if the court asks us to provide anything or any documents available to us, we will provide them from Pothikhana (record room at the palace). In the documents we have, it is clear that Shah Jahan liked the palace at that time and then he acquired it. I haven’t seen all the documents yet, but that property belonged to our family.”
In 2017, BJP leader Subramanian Swamy has also made a similar statement. Swamy had said, “We have reached out to the documents of the Taj Mahal. There is evidence that Shah Jahan had forcibly asked the kings and maharajas of Jaipur to sell the land where the Taj Mahal is built. Shah Jahan had given 40 villages as compensation which were nothing compared to the price of the Taj Mahal land.”
It is notable that in the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court, Dr. Rajneesh had filed a petition regarding the opening of the closed sections of the Taj Mahal. Rajneesh is the media in charge of the BJP in the Ayodhya district. He said that it is believed that idols of Hindu gods and scriptures are present in the locked rooms.
In India, it may not be surprising for young women to have children, but in reality, it is a matter of concern in terms of women’s health. When a young girl conceives, it is not only her body affected, but she also has to go through a mental struggle. This has changed in today’s time compared to before. With the improved level of education, women have become aware of their rights. But in many places, things are still the same.
A report by the National Family Health Survey (NFHS-5) shows that the rate of women who gave birth to their first child by conceiving at the age of 15-19 years decreased by 1 percent in 2019-2021 as compared to 2015-16. That is, the rate which was 8% in 2015-16 is now 7%. Obviously, amidst the concern of the growing population of the country, the change of this 1% in these figures must have come due to education. Where women have moved towards becoming more educated, these figures would have come down and where this would not have happened, the situation would be the same as before.
Lack of education directly linked to early pregnancy
From the report, it is seen that even today, rural women are ahead of urban women in giving birth to children at a young age. One of the biggest reasons for this is the lack of education. According to the NFHS report, 18 percent of girls between the ages of 15-19 who never went to a school conceived at this age, and gave birth to a child, while only 4 percent of the girls in the list had studied (girls who had an education up to 12 years) and became pregnant for the first time at an early age and gave birth to a child.
Apart from education, the prosperity of the family also decreases the chances of girls getting pregnant at a young age. This is also revealed by this report. According to the data, only 2 percent of young women in families whose condition was well had a child born at a young age, while in low-income households, the rate reached 10 percent.
The pregnancy rate of Muslim women is more than others
A deeper view of the report reveals that the women from the Scheduled Tribes registered 9% more pregnancies than the women from the Other Backward Castes. When it comes to becoming pregnant in this age group (15 to 19), Muslim women surpassed all other women. At the age of 15-19, the rate of conception was 8.4 percent among Muslim women. After this, the next number was seen to be 6.8% among Christians, 6.5% among Hindus, 3.7% in Buddhists, and 2.8% among Sikhs.
States-wise percentages of teenage pregnancies
Looking at teenage pregnancy statistics in a state-wise manner, it shows that women who get pregnant in teenage are the highest in Tripura at 22%. This is followed by West Bengal at 16%, Andhra Pradesh at 13%, Assam at 12%, Bihar at 11%, and Jharkhand at 10%.
The figures for being pregnant at an early age are the lowest in the Union Territory of Chandigarh (0.8%). Slightly above this are Jammu and Kashmir (1.0%), and Lakshadweep (1.1%). Talking about the state, Uttarakhand is the only state where the rate of pregnancy of girls in the age group of 15-19 years is 3%.
Muslim women register the highest rates of fertility and pregnancies among teenagers and desire to have more kids
Earlier, we had informed our readers about the reduced fertility rate of women by quoting the same survey report, in which the data had concluded that even today Muslim women are ahead of women of other religions in giving birth to children (despite the lowered fertility rate among the women of the community than before). Now, this report also gives information that the girls who get pregnant at a young age are more in the Muslim community. Similarly, the survey also revealed how many women did not want more children, with the lowest percentage which is 64% of them coming from Muslim women; while 72% of Sikh women and 71% of Hindu women said they don’t want extra children anymore.
Bathing during menstruation
Apart from these, the hygiene of women was also questioned in the survey. Women were asked how much attention they paid to bathing during menstruation. According to the report, 96 percent of urban women and 91 percent of rural women bathe during menstruation and bathe in the same bathroom in which other people in the household bathe. Statistics show that educated women take more care of their hygiene during this time. While 94% of non-school goers take baths, the percentage of bathing during menstruation is 97% among the school goers.
99% of Hindu women bathe during menstruation. This is followed by Jains (98%) and finally Muslim women with 88% of them. Further reports suggest that 97% of women in a well-off family home take a bath during this period, while the number drops to 85% in less affluent families. In terms of states, 90% of the women of most of the states and union territories take baths during this period. While in Ladakh, the figure is 37%, in Jammu and Kashmir it is 43%.
NFHS – 5
It is worth mentioning that the work of the National Family Health Survey was carried out in two phases in India. The first phase from June 2019 to 2020 covered 17 states and 5 Union Territories. Then the next phase ran from January 2020 to April 2021 covering 11 states and 3 Union Territories. The survey is based on feedback given by 6.3 lakh families. 7.2 lakh women and 1.01 men participated. Before this, such a report was released in 2016. The report for 2019-2021 was released by Union Minister Dr. Mansukh Mandaviya a few days ago.
