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Screening of ‘The Kashmir Files’ cancelled in Jammu theatre, 16-year-old boy assaulted, two girls manhandled: Eyewitness confirms incident to OpIndia

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Screening of ‘The Kashmir Files’ cancelled in Jammu theatre, 16-year-old boy assaulted, two girls manhandled: Eyewitness confirms incident to OpIndia

Amid the rising box office collection of ‘The Kashmir Files’, the makers of the movie are facing a new controversy regarding a few scenes depicting late IAF Squadron Leader Ravi Khanna’s death in the film. On Friday, the screening of the film at the Wave Cinemas in Jammu was cancelled and the people who had bought the tickets were being thrashed and abused by the authorities at the multiplex.

“We are here in Wave Cinemas, Jammu, Just now the authorities here stopped the screening of THE KASHMIR FILES. People are being thrashed and assaulted! Big propaganda is running to Muzzle the voice of truth”, tweeted one of the users who claim to have witnessed the chaos on March 11.

In the video shared by the user, a few people were seen arguing with the authorities of the multiplex asking the reason as to why the screening had been cancelled. One of the boys in the video could also be heard saying that he was hit by the authorities.

Director Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri on Saturday took cognizance of the incident and demanded an explanation from the Wave Cinemas for allegedly initiating the chaos. “Dear Wave Cinemas, please explain on what basis have you done this?”, he tweeted on March 12.

Meanwhile, another user also claimed that he was present at the Wave Cinema when the incident took place. He said that the authorities had stopped screening due to the Court orders. He added that the authorities had assaulted a 16-year-old boy and manhandled the two girls seen in the video. “It was absolute chaos and the authorities were trying to protect the one who assaulted”, he added in his response to Agnihotri’s tweet.

Speaking exclusively to OpIndia, Akash said that people had booked the tickets to the show and were not notified about the cancellation of the screening. “We had booked 12 tickets for the show. We entered the mall and saw a huge commotion going on the second floor. There were around 50 people who were arguing with the staff and a few policemen there. The authorities had not informed us about the cancellation of the show earlier. They said they had court orders and so were not screening the movie. There was a lot of confusion”, he added.

Further, he stated that people were actually unhappy about not being notified about the cancellation of screening. “A lot of them had come from Kathua especially to watch the movie. There was even an incident of a few staff members (3 of them) who had put their hands on a 16-year-old boy. Also, they had pushed two of the women present there. There was a huge argument between the policemen and the people who had come to watch the movie”, he confirmed to OpIndia.

16-year-old boy who was slapped by the authorities at Wave Cinema, Jammu (Image sent by Akash)

It is important to note that a court in Jammu and Kashmir had restrained the promoters of the movie from showing scenes depicting late IAF Squadron Leader Ravi Khanna in the movie the Kashmir Files. This is after Nirmal Khanna, wife of the IAF officer, had approached the court seeking removal or amendment of scenes depicting her husband. She had alleged that the scenes shown in the movie were contrary to facts.

Additional District Judge Jammu, Deepak Sethi had then observed that the order is subject to objections, alterations or modification if any by the other side. According to the reports, the court further had stated that if no relief is granted to the applicant without serving prior notice of the application on the defendants, the suit of the applicant would become infructuous and hence would be defeated by delay.

Earlier today, Director Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri shared the success of the film and said that the movie had made Rs 4.25 crores worldwide on the very first day of its release. “A new beginning. A new revolution. Started with a very small film with the biggest tragedy of the oldest civilization. Gratitude to every Indian”, he tweeted.

The film that was released on March 11 is at present running on more than 1000 screens and is expected to pocket Rs 14-15 crores of the net by the weekend. As reported earlier, the film was released initially on 700 screens but the rising occupancy and the terrific response of the audiences to the trailer, to know the heart-wrenching story of the Kashmiri Pandits has got theatres to play the film on 1000 plus screens at present. The number can rise through the weekend.

The film is inspired by the true stories of Kashmiri Pandits and stars senior actors like Anupam Kher, Mithun Chakraborty and Pallavi Joshi. The other acclaimed names like Darshan Kumar, Bhasha Sumbali, Chinmay Mandlekar, Puneet Issar, Mrinal Kulkarni, Atul Srivastava, and Prithviraj Sarnaik have also played important roles in the movie.

The film takes viewers back to 1989, when due to rising Islamic Jihad, conflict erupted in Kashmir, forcing the great majority of Hindus to flee the valley. According to estimates, roughly 100,000 of the valley’s total 140,000 Kashmiri Pandit inhabitants migrated between February and March 1990. More of them fled in the years that followed until just about 3,000 families remained in the valley by 2011. The movie based on video interviews with first-generation Kashmiri Pandit victims of the Kashmir Genocide was originally slated to be released in theatres on January 26, 2022, but was postponed because of the increasing number of COVID-19 instances. It has now been released and is open to watch in theatres.

Government took every care to protect the interests of employees during disinvestment of Air India: What Madras HC said dismissing plea by Air Corporation Employees Union

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Government took every care to protect the interests of employees during disinvestment of Air India: What Madras HC said dismissing plea by Air Corporation Employees Union

On Friday, the Madras High Court dismissed a plea filed by the Air Corporation Employees Union seeking directions to the Central government to protect their rights and service conditions before the government proceeds with Air India’s disinvestment and privatisation.

According to reports, the Madras High Court has said that it is fully convinced that the centre has protected the Air India employees’ interests while considering the ailing public sector airline.

The High Court also noted there was no enforceable right asking for court’s intervention, and an economic policy decision cannot be subject to judicial audit in a routine manner.

“An economic policy decision in furtherance of larger public interest cannot be subjected to judicial audit habitually or routinely merely on the ground that there was no opportunity of hearing afforded to the employees,” the judgment said.

The Madras High Court was hearing the plea filed by the Air Corporation Employees Union, who had alleged that the Air India disinvestment process was rushed without adopting due consultative process with the workers.

Dismissing the plea that claimed disinvestment was done in a non-transparent manner, the Madras HC bench of Justice V Parthiban observed that the government appeared to have taken every care not to jettison the interests of its employees.

“Considering the fact that Air India Ltd before the disinvestment initiative was a sinking company, a fortuitous transformation has happened for their own good…this Court would have no hesitation to hold that at the end of the day, the Government handed out a fair, reasonable, just and equitable package to the employees,” the court noted.

The court also stressed that the interests of the employees were sufficiently protected by the measures taken by the government, both before and after signing the Share Purchase Agreement (SPA) with Talace Private Limited of the Tata Group.

“Therefore, it is too late in the day to stall the process of disinvestment merely on such a slippery challenge,” it added.

Last year, the employees union approached the court with a petition to restrain the union government from disinvesting Air India without fully protecting the employee service conditions. 

Census 2022: MHA appoints 10 directors for census operations, citizens allowed to self-enumerate

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Census 2022: MHA appoints 10 directors for census operations, citizens allowed to self-enumerate

On Friday 11th March 2022, the union ministry of home affairs appointed ten directors for census operations in the upcoming national census of 2022. These ‘Directors of Census Operations’ are appointed in various states. Sikkim, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Andhra Pradesh, Tamilnadu (Pudducherry), and Gujarat (Daman Diu and Dadra, Nagar Haveli) will now get a Director of Census Operations each. Office of the Registrar (General) and Census Commissioner India (ORGI) will also have a Director of Census Operations as declared by the ministry of home affairs.

In the gazette notification about this appointment, it is said, “The President is pleased to appoint the officers of Indian Administrative Service as Director of Census Operations or Director of Citizen Registration in various Directorates of Census Operations under Office of the Registrar General and Census Commissioner, India on central deputation.” The government has not yet announced the new dates for the launch of the Census and the process is on hold since 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The MHA has published another gazette notification in which it has amended the Census Rule, 1990 to allow the data collection in paper and electronic form during the decennial Census exercise. The amendment says that ‘without prejudice to any other provisions of these rules, a person may fill-up, complete, and submit the census schedule through the self-enumeration’.

So, according to this change, citizens of the country, if they wish, can do online self-enumeration in the upcoming census. This is because the government has revised the census schedule and rules to provide this facility to the citizens. However, the actual door-to-door registration will also continue. The housing list phase of the census and the process of updating the NPR were scheduled to be held across the country from April 1 to September 30, 2020, but were postponed due to the corona outbreak.

As per the earlier schedule, the reference date for the census was March 1, 2021, and in Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, and Uttarakhand it was October 1, 2020. On 10th January 2020, the government of India had released the notification for the census 2021. It contained the details of the 31 questions that will be asked during the exercise. The census work is still pending. As the Directors of Census Operations are being appointed now, the government may soon announce the new schedule.

Read how violence gripped Uttar Pradesh after Akhilesh Yadav won elections in 2012: For 36 hours, SP goons ran amuck

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Read how violence gripped Uttar Pradesh after Akhilesh Yadav won elections in 2012: For 36 hours, SP goons ran amuck

The results of the recently concluded 2022 UP Assembly elections were declared on the 10th of March, and BJP, led by incumbent CM Yogi Adityanath won a 2/3rd majority. BJP defeated its main rival, the Samajwadi Party for the second time in a row as Yogi Adityanath broke several records.

Prior to Yogi Adiyanath becoming Chief Minister, Akhilesh Yadav of the Samajwadi Party was at the helm of affairs from 2012 to 2017. The state was gripped with widespread political violence throughout his tenure as bahubalis ruled the roost. In fact, when Akhilesh Yadav’s win was confirmed in 2012, the state experienced deadly violence for at least 36 hours, primarily at the hands of Samajwadi goons.

According to a 2012 India Today report, in those 36 hours, at least three people were killed and dozens of Dalit homes were set on fire in incidents of violence across the state. Most of these incidents involved Samajwadi Party members and the targets were the supporters of previous CM Mayawati.

The spate of violence started on the day the Samajwadi Party was declared the winner of the elections, as some party workers assaulted and damaged the equipment of journalists in Jhansi.

Some members of the Yadav and Bind communities set fire to Nats’ homes in Makdumpur village in Sant Ravidas Nagar district. The hut of Khushboo, a woman, where Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi had stopped for a while on November 2, 2011, was also set ablaze.

“I was attacked and my house was set on flames last night because I didn’t vote for the SP,” Khushboo had alleged back then.

In Bhambia village in Sitapur district, a dozen Dalit houses were also set on fire. Locals claimed that it was carried out by people celebrating Samajwadi Party’s victory.

Following a clash between BSP and SP workers, a rice mill owned by former minister Ram Achal Rajbhar was also set on fire in Ambedkar Nagar’s Sammanpur area. Sammanpur SHO Neeraj Rai was suspended for failing to perform his duties during this violence.

Two men were killed in Allahabad’s Naini area, while Munna Lal, a BSP-backed village chief, was killed in Agra’s Mansukhpur. The assailants, according to villagers, were SP employees.

The violence, however, did not stop here. In Firozabad, a youth was killed by a bullet during a fight between supporters of a defeated SP candidate and police.

Mulayam Singh Yadav, then chief of the Samajwadi Party, was quick to warn his party members that failure to maintain discipline would tarnish the party’s image. “If you people don’t maintain discipline, you will not be able to make me Prime Minister in future. We had worked very hard to win the assembly elections. So please don’t do anything which maligns the government,” he had reportedly told his supporters in Saifai. Unfortunately for Mulayam, a certain someone rose from Gujarat to become the PM.

Akhilesh Yadav, the party’s state president at the time and the man set to become the next Chief Minister, had then called the incidents of violence a conspiracy by those who had been swept away by his party in the polls, primarily some BSP officials.

“No one from the Samajwadi Party (SP) is involved in these incidents. You can get it verified from your own sources as well, but if anyone from the party is found involved, stern action would be taken against them, however strong they might be,” Akhilesh had maintained.

In fact, it may be recalled that Yogi Aditynath has time and again mentioned that the previous SP government had pushed the state of Uttar Pradesh into violence. During his election campaign in February 2022 in Fatehpur Sikri, BJP’s Yogi Adityanath had held the party responsible for the Muzaffarnagar riots and the “killing” of Lord Ram devotees in the past. He was referring to the firing on “kar sevaks” in 1990, when the Samajwadi Party was in power.

As per the reactions of the people on the ground, this image of Samajwadi Party as the party of goons, and Yogi Adityanath’s image of a law and order guy, has played a major part in these elections. Will Samajwadi Party try to change their image, or are they happy with this goons tag, we will find out in 2024 when UP will once again be the PM deciding state.

Karnataka Congress leader CM Ibrahim resigns, blames poor response from senior leadership: What he said in his letter to Sonia Gandhi

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Karnataka Congress leader CM Ibrahim resigns, blames poor response from senior leadership: What he said in his letter to Sonia Gandhi

Senior Congress leader from Karnataka, and Member of Karnataka Legislative Council, CM Ibrahim has resigned from the party. In a letter addressed to party president Sonia Gandhi, he stated that he is resigning from the primary membership of the party with immediate effect.

The letter reads, “Madam Jee, from the past 12 years in my several letters addressed to you, I had placed before you several grievances of the party and you had indeed replied that you will take necessary remedial measures. But so far, I do not see any changes.”

Complaining about the selection of the opposition leader in the Karnataka legislative council, Ibrahim stated, “…if elections would had been held to select the opposition leader or if an opinion had been taken from all our party MLCs, then I would have been definitely elected since 18 members were supporting me, but the party selected Mr BK Hari Prasad, the most junior member as the opposition leader in the Legislative Council.”

Further adding about no response from the senior leadership, he stated, “Whenever I have raised some basic questions regarding the functioning & development of the party, I have not received proper response.” He also stated that, despite his status as a senior leader, he is unable to communicate with Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi, and that the General Secretaries in charge are unconcerned about conveying his messages.

Thereon he also added that he has submitted his resignation to the Karnataka Legislative council. As per some reports, he is expected to join Janata Dal (Secular). According to Ibrahim, the Congress party would not win power in Karnataka and it would be downgraded to third place.

The performance of Congress has been declining for a long. The party lost poorly in the recent assembly elections of 5 states. Notably, in Uttar Pradesh, the Congress party won only two seats and received only 2.3 percent of the vote. Even worse, the party has forfeited deposits on 97 percent of the seats it ran for in the state.

The Congress Working Committee is scheduled to meet tomorrow at 4 p.m. at the All India Congress Committee (AICC) office in Delhi, the party said on Saturday.

Maharashtra: Former CM Devendra Fadavis issued notice by police in phone tapping case, asked to appear on March 13

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Maharashtra: Former CM Devendra Fadavis issued notice by police in phone tapping case, asked to appear on March 13

Mumbai police have sent a notice to Maharashtra’s opposition leader Devendra Fadnavis asking him to be present at the cyber police station in the Bandra Kurla complex at 11 AM on 13th March 2022. Devendra Fadnavis has informed in a press conference about this and said that he will be there at the cyber police station on the said date and time.

Fadnavis has been issued the notice in the alleged illegal phone taping case and the case of transfer of IPS officers. Last year, a case was registered at the BKC cyber police station in Mumbai against unidentified persons for allegedly illegally tapping phones and leaking confidential documents. Last month, IPS officer Rashmi Shukla as booked in the case, after it was alleged by the Maharashtra govt that she had leaked confidential documents related to the case.

The Maharashtra government had constituted a three-member high-level committee headed by the then Director General of Police (DGP) Sanjay Pandey to investigate the phone tapping cases for the period of five years from 2015 to 2019. The report submitted by the committee says that phone tapping was done during the tenure of then Pune Police Commissioner Rashmi Shukla.

The notice has come three days after the Mumbai Police had detained Maharashtra BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis and other leaders of the party as they had staged protests at the Azad Maidan demanding the resignation of State Minister Nawab Malik who is presently in the judicial custody of Enforcement Directorate for further investigations regarding the PMLA case registered against him. In the press conference on 12th March 2022, Devendra Fadnavis said that the cyber police station of Mumbai police has called him regarding the same.

Fadnavis said, “The Mumbai Police have sent me a notice, asking me to be present at the cyber police station of BKC at 11 am tomorrow. I’m definitely going there tomorrow. I have been given such a notice because of the situation of the state government after I have exposed their conspiracy against the opposition. The state government, the police, or some officials from the police department are no longer able to respond to that. Therefore, they have called me. I will definitely be present at the cyber police station in BKC at 11 am tomorrow.”

He further said, “Today is March 12, we all know that the Mumbai bomb blast took place on March 12, and even after three decades now, its repercussions and wounds remain in our minds. Today, on the one hand, I pay homage to all the Mumbaikars who were martyred in the bomb blast on March 12, 1993, and at the same time, I regret that those who dealt with the accused in the bomb blasts continue to remain in the Maharashtra Cabinet even after going to jail.”

Devendra Fadnavis also informed, “In March 2021, I held a press conference at the BJP office and brought out the Maha Vikas Aghadi government’s mega scam of transfers in the home department. I had all the information about this scam. I went to Delhi the same day and presented all this information to the home secretary of the country. Recognizing its seriousness, the court has since handed over all the investigations in this regard to the CBI. When all this investigation went to the CBI, the state government filed an FIR to suppress its scam. There is an FIR asking how did the information under the Official Secret Act leaked? I was asked for a reply from the police in connection with this FIR. I had given them an answer that I would inform you about it. In fact, it is my prerogative as leader of the opposition in the first place. I can’t be asked where my information came from.”

Fadnavis added, “Secondly, I have given all this information directly to the home secretary of the country. I didn’t let any of that information come out. On the contrary, the information that came out was given to the media by the ministers of the state government that day, the evidence of which I have. However, I will go there myself and whatever inquiry the police make, I am going to give them all the appropriate answers. This is because I have also been the home minister of the state.”

Devendra Fadnavis concluded by saying, “The Supreme Court gave all this information to the CBI, and now due to the court’s decision, the state government had to hand over the official pen drive or all that information, transcripts to the CBI. Therefore, there is no meaning in this case.”

Devendra Fadnavis, on 8th March 2022, had handed over a pen drive containing video proofs of the conspiracies allegedly formulated by the current Maha Vikas Aghadi government of Maharashtra against the leaders of opposition including Devendra Fadnavis and Girish Mahajan of BJP. He has alleged that the Maha Vikas Aghadi government in Maharashtra is unable to digest the truth that Fadnavis has brought out and therefore the state government is opening a file that was kept pending for more than six months.

BJD MLA Prashant Jagdev runs over villagers in an inebriated state, angry mob attacks him: What happened

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BJD MLA Prashant Jagdev runs over villagers in an inebriated state, angry mob attacks him: What happened

Biju Janata Dal and Chilika MLA Prashant Jagdev reportedly mowed down several people near the Banpur block office in Khordha on Saturday. According to the reports, the BJD MLA Prashant Jagdev, who was allegedly in an inebriated state, ran his car over a crowd near Banpur village. At least ten people have sustained severe injuries, and several others picked up minor injuries after Jagdev ploughed his vehicle through the villagers.

The incident occurred on Saturday afternoon when several villagers, reportedly supporters of the BJP, were marching towards the panchayat office for the chairperson election. Prashant Jagdev travelled on the same road to reach the panchayat office. The BJD MLA, who was stuck amidst the crowd, drove his car on them, injuring several BJP supporters.

A video of the incident has also gone viral on the internet. In the video, it was seen that a white SUV rammed into the villagers and mowed down them.

More than ten people, including four women and two police personnel, were injured.

Following the incident, a tense situation occurred in the village after the villagers stopped the MLA’s car and vandalised it. The locals pulled the BJP MLA out of the car and beat him up, leaving him injured. The police rescued Prashant Jagdev from the angry mob and tried to calm down the villagers.

All the critically injured locals and the BJD MLA have been shifted to a local hospital in Banpur. Meanwhile, the BJD MLA will be likely shifted to another hospital for further treatment.

“Around 500 to 600 people were assembled in front of the block office for the chairman election. However, Jagdev rammed his vehicle into the crowd in an inebriated condition and injured many of them. Some of the injured are in critical condition. This kind of hooliganism and irresponsible behaviour is not expected from an MLA,” said a local resident.

The incident has drawn sharp criticism from across Odisha, with the Opposition demanding stern action against the suspended BJD leader.

Yogendra Yadav admits that he and Rakesh Tikait created a ‘conducive pitch’ to defeat BJP by organizing farmer protests but SP ‘did not bowl well’

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Yogendra Yadav admits that he and Rakesh Tikait created a ‘conducive pitch’ to defeat BJP by organizing farmer protests but SP ‘did not bowl well’

On March 10, the day the votes for the 2022 Assembly elections were counted and the results were announced, NDTV journalist Ravish Kumar, like many other media outlets, hosted a programme in which he discussed the Assembly election results with Yogendra Yadav and other rent-a-cause activists. Since then, a snippet from the programme has been widely shared in which the Yogendra Yadav is heard admitting that he and Rakesh Tikait had created a conducive ‘pitch’ to defeat the BJP by organising a farmers’ movement, but the opposition ‘did not bowl well’ to benefit from it.

In the viral video, Yadav is heard telling NDTV’s Ravish Kumar that the farmer’s movement played a vital role in building the foundation for the opposition parties to defeat BJP in UP but the opposition parties did not play well. He said that the entire Samyukt Kisan Morch (SKM) made a strategy prior to the Uttar Pradesh elections and it was decided unanimously that they will ‘punish’ the BJP in the state of Uttar Pradesh in the upcoming elections. “Rakesh Tikait and I toured the entire UP. But remember, we are not the players. Talking about cricket, our work was like that of the ‘pitch roller’, we laid a conducive pitch for the fast bowlers and seamers but bowling is not our job.”

Yadav essentially implied that the Samajwadi Party, the BJP’s main rival in Uttar Pradesh, did not play its role properly despite, they having made all necessary preparations through the farmer’s movement.

Yogendra Yadav, speaking about the political situation in Punjab where the AAP swept the 2022 Assembly polls defeating the incumbent Congress party, stated that the farmer’s movement’s main goal was to completely discredit all of the state’s established political parties, and it acted as a major catalyst in doing so. “I’m not sure who benefited the most from this, but some of our friends ‘got down to the field without pads’ (unprepared). We said it’s not our job to bat or ball; our job is to prepare the pitch… we can tilt (manipulate) the pitch a little, which we did.” At this point, another panellist interjected saying, “Sometimes a baller balls a yorker on the field, but the mistimed delivery results in a full toss…”

In another segment from the same show, Yogendra Yadav admitted that the ‘farmers’ protest was more of a political stunt than an organic protest for farmers’ rights. He said that they are not connected to the people who ball and bat, their work is to solely prepare the pitch, as was the case in West Bengal also.  Yadav went on to say that in Bengal, they went door to door urging people to vote against the BJP. “We laid the groundwork, but that does not take away credit from the Trinamool Congress party, which played brilliantly. We did the same thing in Uttar Pradesh…we can only prepare the pitch, but the players must play”, he said.

In another snippet, Yogendra Yadav inadvertently admited that the farmers’ protest was actually a “Chunavi Andolan” (election protest).

Yogendra Yadav had a meltdown as soon as initial trends started predicting BJP’s clear victory in UP

We had earlier reported how on March 10, while analysing the election results along with Prannoy Roy other rent-a-cause activists, Yogendra Yadav started having a meltdown as soon as the initial trends began to predict the BJP’s clear victory in UP.

While the discussion was on, Yogendra Yadav resigned to fate and made a strange comment, giving us a window into the chaos that must be erupting in his head with Yogi set to come back as the CM.

Reportedly, Yogendra Yadav on NDTV said that “The result of a support for dismantling of the republic with the support of the public”. Essentially, saying that the results prove that the people are helping PM Modi, CM Yogi and BJP to dismantle the “republic” which is India.

The first rule of political, and especially electoral analysis, is to not blame the voters. However, Yogendra Yadav’s frustration seems to have driven him to do exactly that. He blamed the people for voting the way they did, alleging that the voters were against India itself by voting for Yogi Adityanath.

Murder accused Olympian Sushil Kumar allowed to give fitness classes in Tihar Jail, former JNU student Umar Khalid joins as a learner

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Murder accused Olympian Sushil Kumar allowed to give fitness classes in Tihar Jail, former JNU student Umar Khalid joins as a learner

Olympic champion Sushil Kumar has been granted permission to teach fitness and wrestling to inmates at Tihar jail. Sushil Kumar, who is facing trial for his role in the murder of wrestler Sagar Rana is currently lodged in Delhi’s Tihar jail. He has already started teaching wrestling and fitness to inmates at the prison complex.

The Tihar Jail administration stated that they had planned to accommodate Sushil Kumar in sporting activities in the past, but the idea was abandoned because of the third wave of Covid-19 in Delhi. As per ANI, the DG (Prisons) said, “we have allowed Sushil Kumar to give fitness and wrestling coaching to those prisoners who are interested, 6-7 prisoners are receiving coaching from him.”

According to prison officials, at least ten detainees have joined Kumar’s lessons, including former JNU student Umar Khalid, who is currently lodged in Tihar jail facing trial for his role in anti-Hindu riots in Delhi in 2020.

On May 23, 2020, Sushil Kumar was detained by a unit of the Delhi Police Special Cell in connection with the Chhatrasal Stadium incident that resulted in the death of wrestler Sagar Rana. He is accused of murder, kidnapping, and criminal conspiracy in connection with the violent conflict between two factions on May 4 at Delhi’s Chhatrasal wrestling academy. Rana, who was engaged in the fight, died in hospital from his injuries. Ajay Sherawat, a physical education instructor at Chhatrasal Stadium, was also detained with Kumar as an accused. Ajay is the son of Suresh Kumar Sherawat, a Congress councilor from Vikaspuri.

So far, the Delhi Police has apprehended 18 suspects in the case. Sushil Kumar was designated as the primary offender in the initial charge sheet, which was submitted by the police on August 2, last year. According to the charge sheet, Sushil Kumar murdered Rana last year because his ego had been injured by rumors of his declining popularity and he wanted to re-establish his influence among young players.

Abhisar Sharma opening an omelette stall, Ajit Anjum to sell chicken pakoda: Here is what we know about these viral claims

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Abhisar Sharma opening an omelette stall, Ajit Anjum to sell chicken pakoda: Here is what we know about these viral claims

Alleged journalists Abhisar Sharma and Ajit Anjum are viral on social media for the past 2 days over their alleged predictions related to election results in Uttar Pradesh. As per these viral screenshots, Abhisar Sharma had said that he will open an egg omelette stall in Delhi if Yogi Adityanath returns to power, while Ajit Anjum had promised to sell chicken pakoda.

An artist’s imagination of an Abhisar Omelette stall
New chicken pakoda shop in Delhi?

Did Abhisar Sharma vow to open an omelette stall?

While most of the users online wondered when were these two practising journalism for them to quit it, quite a few also took the opportunity to mock the duo. The hashtag #चल_अभिसार_ओमलेट_लगा was trending on Twitter as multiple social media users queued up to taste the omelette from the stall to be launched by Abhisar Sharma.

However, Abhisar, who shot to prominence when he wondered why doesn’t Indian Railways mount a headlight on the trains to warn people about a train’s arrival, has denied posting this tweet. As per a fact-check conducted by Boomlive, the tweet is photoshopped and he did not promise to open an omelette stall. However, that has not stopped netizens from having fun at his expense.

Did Ajit Anjum vow to sell chicken pakoda?

Similarly, the demand for chicken pakodas from Ajit Anjum’s stall was very high on social media.

Disappointingly, much like Abhisar’s omelette, Ajit Anjum’s chicken pakoda stall also doesn’t seem to be in the works. As Opindia covered in February there are no plans for such a shop right now. Apparently, Ajit Anjum will continue to ask about the type of daal being cooked at various protest sites.

If true, journalism’s gain would have been food industry’s loss, however, as the facts stand, that is not happening right now.

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