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‘After Asif, Anas,’ Dasna Temple’s Yati Narsinghanand alleges boy caught doing recce of temple

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‘After Asif, Anas,’ Dasna Temple’s Yati Narsinghanand alleges boy caught doing recce of temple

On October 10, Yati Narsinghanand Saraswati, Mahant of Dasna Temple, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, caught another Muslim boy in temple premises and handed over him to the Police. Narsinghanand has alleged that the boy, identified as Anas, had come to do recce of Temple for an attack.

In a video published by Narsinghanand on his Twitter account, Police was seen holding the boy. Narsinghanand said, “This is a Muslim boy. He was caught after I got up from Yagya. We have handed him over to the Police. No one has slapped him in the temple premises.”

He added, “However, I would like to tell SP and other Police personnel that this is preparation for an attack. This is preparation for a big attack. Everyone knows what had happened here. Still, he decided to come here. This should not be taken lightly.” Narsinghanand further said it was up to the Police if they trusted him or not.

Narsinghanand also urged Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath to look into the matter. He said, “I would like to send this message to CM Yogi that this is an attempt to kill me. The local Police are strict towards Hindus but see this boy entered in the temple premises. The boys of his age are trained killers here.”

The boy claimed that his family recently shifted to Dasna from Tezpur. He alleged he came to the Temple to find his father.

Statement of Ghaziabad Police

In a statement, Ghaziabad Police said that Anas had come to the CHC Hospital nearby Dasna Temple. As he was new to the area, he did not know about the Temple. Being illiterate, he could not differentiate between the gate of the Temple and the gate of the hospital. When he saw a crowd entering the Temple, he assumed it was the hospital. His statement matched the investigation as his family members were found in the hospital.

The Police did not find any objectionable item in Anas’s possession.

Narsinghanand and controversies around him

Yati Narsinghanand Saraswati is not new to controversies. In March 2021, a Muslim boy named Asif was caught in the Temple by Narsinghanand and his associate. A video of Asif getting thrashed went viral on social media. After the incident, several videos had emerged calling for Narsinghanand’s assassination. In June 2021, two men were caught in the temple premises who allegedly came to kill the priest. Narsinghanand was recently booked for making derogatory comments against women in a viral video.

Pakistani terror handlers conspire with J&K associates to cause extensive terror activities for harming the public, says NIA after raids

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Pakistani terror handlers conspire with J&K associates to cause extensive terror activities for harming the public, says NIA after raids

NIA conducted searches with the help of CRPF and J&K Police across 7 locations including Kulgam, Srinagar & Baramulla districts of J&K on Sunday in connection with an IED recovery case from a Lashker-e-Taiba terrorist in Bathindi Jammu.

According to NIA, the investigations revealed the involvement of Pakistan based handlers of LeT with their associates based in J&K. The investigations also concluded that the Pakistani handlers of LeT conspired with their J&K associates to cause extensive terror activities for harming the general public. The LeT handlers and their J&K counterparts had planned that responsibility for the terrorist acts would be taken by pseudo-acronym TRF.

According to reports, the searches carried out today also led to the arrest of 2 TRF operatives namely Tawseef Ahmed Wani of Bangdara, Baramulla district and Faiz Ahmed Khan of Panzat (Wampora), Anantnag district. NIA said that the arrests were made because of the involvement of the operatives in the conspiracy.

Earlier today, there were reports of several NIA raids carried out in different locations in Jammu and Kashmir in search of the ISIS team running the online magazine called Voice Of Hind (VOH). Three ISIS operatives were arrested in those raids.

Swara Bhasker files police case of ‘stalking, insulting modesty, obscene material’ against YouTuber who objected to her misrepresentation of his tweet

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Swara Bhasker files police case of ‘stalking, insulting modesty, obscene material’ against YouTuber who objected to her misrepresentation of his tweet

Delhi police have lodged an FIR against Twitter user Elvish Yadav on the complaint of activist-actress Swara Bhasker. She had filed a complaint against the social media influencer at the Basant Kunj police station in Delhi on Sunday alleging that he had outraged her modesty, and had circulated some hashtags on social media regarding some movie scene involving her.

According to Delhi police, a criminal case has been registered under IPC Sec 354D (stalking), 509 (Word, gesture or act intended to insult the modesty of a woman) and sec 67 of IT Act (Punishment for publishing or transmitting obscene material in electronic form) against Elvish Yadav based on the complaint by Swara Bhasker.

The matter started on October 1 when Elvish had posted a tweet responding to the actress where he had said, “Excessive m@sturb@tion makes you blind was a myth but swara didi isko sahi prove karri hai. GST word use kiya mene swara?”

He was responding to a tweet by Swara calling him a liar, as he had said that only Hindu temples have to pay taxes in India, whereas the finance ministry had clarified that there is no GST on temple trusts. However, Yadav had retorted by saying he had not used the ‘GST’, and had referred to a scene from the movie Veere Di Wedding staring Kareena Kapoor Khan, Sonam Kapoor Ahuja and Swara Bhaskar.

Although  it is true that there is no GST on Hindu temples, this does not mean that Elvish Yadav was wrong in saying that there are taxes on Hindu temples. Because, the matter relates to not GST, but it is income tax and taxes collected by respective state governments in several states.

Several start governments, mostly south Indian states where the temples are under govt control, collect 23.4% tax on the income of the temples, which includes endowment administration tax (14-15%), audit fee (2-4%) and common good fund (4-10%).

In Tamil Nadu, Hindu temples must pay taxes on their total income if their spending is less than 85% of total income in a year. If a temple trust spends less than 85% of total donations in a given year, income tax at rates applicable to individuals is payable on the difference between amounts spent and the amount received. This provision is only for Hindu temples, it is not applicable for religious institutions of other religions. This means that what Elvish said was right, as he didn’t talk about GST.

After the tweet by Elvish Yadav, several media houses and ‘fact checkers’ had fact-checked him, cleverly using the govt clarification that there is no GST on Hindu temples. But they had deliberately omitted other taxes applicable to Hindu temples to prove him wrong.

Later, Elvish Yadav had posted several tweets with the hashtag #SwaraApniUngliSambhal, which had led to many others to post the same on Twitter. Reacting to the same, Swara Bhasker had tweeted that it was cyber sexual harassment against her.

However, while Swara Bhasker accuses Elvish Yadav of harassing her, she herself have used abusive words for others. On one occasion, she had called a four-year-old child ‘ch**iya’ and ‘kam**a’ on live television.

While she objected to #SwaraApniUngliSambhal by Elvish, she herself had used “Chaddhi on fire” for him, which can be considered equally derogatory.

BSP chief Mayawati questions silence of Congress high command over the lynching of a Dalit youth in Rajasthan

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BSP chief Mayawati questions silence of Congress high command over the lynching of a Dalit youth in Rajasthan

Former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister and Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati on Sunday condemned the killing of Dalit man who was beaten to death at Prempura in Hanumangarh district of Congress ruled Rajasthan.

In a series of tweets, Mayawati questioned as to why the Congress high command is silent over the lynching of a Dalit man. On October 7, Jagdish Meghwal (29) was lynched allegedly over his relationship with a woman. Culprits also filmed the brutal killing and later dumped him outside his residence. In the video, some people are seen holding him tight and others are hitting him with sticks.

“This is sad and condemnable that a Dalit was beaten to death in Rajasthan’s Hanumangarh. But why is the Congress high command silent over it,” she tweeted.

The context of her criticism is quite clear given that Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, Rahul Gandhi and the entire Congress party are busy in Uttar Pradesh and trying to gain political mileage out of the Lakhimpur Kheri incident.

Eight died including four farmers during farmers’ protest in Lakhimpur Kheri. Two Congress chief ministers, Punjab’s Charanjit Singh Channi and Chhattisgarh’s Bhupesh Baghel, announced Rs 50 lakh compensation each for the farmers who died. But the Congress high command maintained silence over the killing of a Dalit in Rajasthan.

“Will the chief ministers of Chhattisgarh and Punjab go there and give Rs 50 lakh each to the family of the victim? BSP wants answers or else, stop shedding crocodile tears in the name of Dalits,” she said.

Mayawati also condemned the brutal targeted killing of Hindu-Sikh minorities in Jammu and Kashmir. She demanded that the Centre should take some strong steps in this regard. 

‘Youth Ki Awaaz’ deletes objectionable content against Bhagwan Ram after Hindu IT Cell threatens legal action

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‘Youth Ki Awaaz’ deletes objectionable content against Bhagwan Ram after Hindu IT Cell threatens legal action

On October 10, Hindu IT Cell (HIC) issued a warning to Youth Ki Awaz, that claims to be a writing platform for students, to delete objectionable content against Bhagwan Ram. The article and social media posts titled “How I Made My Grandfather See The Sexism In Ramayana At The Age Of 80”, written by Mrittika Mallick, had been posted by the platform on the website and social media handles.

In a social media post, HIC had said, “Youth Ki Awaaz, we are giving you the deadline of 5 hours to apologise and remove the objectionable content, or we will take the appropriate and stern legal action against you. Mocking and maligning our culture and deities won’t be tolerated in any manner. Your time starts now.”

Now-deleted post by HIC. They deleted the post once YKA deleted the article. Source: HIC

Within three hours of the tweet by HIC, Youth Ki Awaaz replied to their post and said on Twitter, “Hello, under Section 79 of the IT Act, Youth Ki Awaaz is an intermediary and an open platform where anyone can publish a post. We understand that this post hurts your sentiments. We apologise for the same and have taken the post down from all our social media handles. Thank you.”

YKA claimed that they are only intermediary and anyone can publish a post on their platform. Source: Twitter

As the platform apologised for the mistake, HIC has decided not to take any further action against the platform.

However, it has to be noted that the article they had published was up and running on their platform since October 4. The platform has also deleted one old article from 2017. Titled “Valmiki’s Ramayana Shows Hinduism’s Inherent Misogyny And Sexism”, it was deleted in October 2020. Notably, in both cases, the article was published or deleted close to Diwali that is celebrated as the day when Bhagwan Ram returned to Ayodhya after 14-years of exile.

What was in the latest article on Youth Ki Awaaz?

The archived version of the article is available. The author talks about how she tried to “reverse-parent” her grandparents and “teach” them how Bhagwan Ram misbehaved with Mata Sita. Quoting a book on Ramayana, she claimed that Mata Sita’s feelings were always belittled by Bhagwan Ram.

Now deleted story on Instagram by Youth Ki Awaaz based on the article. Source: Instagram

She further wrote, “If age-old myths like the Ramayana and the Mahabharata have such fatally flawed men, why are they at all worshipped even today and the women still blamed? It was never possible to remove the Islamophobia in my grandparents’ hearts, but narratives like these do arouse questions in their own religion and religious heroes. Unless the strong pillars of a conceited belief in faith bears cracks, no human can possibly welcome new ideas.”

Interestingly, for the author, if alleged “Islamophobia” cannot be removed from the grandparents’ minds, it was okay to plant a narrative that would force them to question their faith in Bhagwan Ram. It was a very clever attempt to drive her grandparents away from the faith that they had in them for decades. And what it seems from the conclusion of the article, she might have succeeded to do so.

Also, this was not the only derogatory article that Youth Ki Awaaz had on Ramayana. One article from August 2020 titled “My Conversation With Lord Ram On His Ayodhya Mandir” showcases the hate its author Lenin Raghuvanshi (ironic that he calls himself Raghuvanshi, the same Vansh to which Bhagwan Ram belongs) has for Hindus and Bhagwan Ram. He tried to put his words in Bhagwan Ram’s mouth in the whole article and presented as if Bhagwan Ram was angry on Hindus for demolishing the disputed structure in Ayodhya.

There are several articles on YKA about Ramayana, Bhagwan Ram or Mata Durga. In another article from 2019 by Anjani Wishu called Mata Durga a prostitute and tried to propagate the infamous and derogatory twisted story of ‘Mahishasur Vadh’.

Meghalaya: Sikh groups oppose cabinet decision to relocate Dalit Sikhs from Punjabi Lane in Shillong, Punjab Dy CM raises the issue

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Meghalaya: Sikh groups oppose cabinet decision to relocate Dalit Sikhs from Punjabi Lane in Shillong, Punjab Dy CM raises the issue

Days after a high-level committee in Meghalaya recommended relocation of evicting Sikhs staying ‘illegally’ at ‘Punjabi Lane’ in Shillong, Sikh groups have started opposing the move. Today Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa said he will take up the matter of alleged eviction of Sikhs in Shillong with the Union Home Minister.

The Harijan Panchayat Committee, representative of Sikhs in Shillong, has also strongly opposed the move, saying it will “fight tooth and nail” to stop the government from carrying out the drive. The HPC secretary Gurjit Singh told PTI, “The HPC, which represents the interests of hundreds of Dalit Sikh families living in Them lew Mawlong area or Punjabi Lane for the past many years, has rejected the report of the high-level committee.”

Singh also said that the 2.5-acre colony, located close to the state’s biggest traditional market, served as lifeline to many families, who had set up shops and other businesses in the area. He further added, “We will die for our land but won’t allow any illegal, unlawful, unethical and unjust action by the Meghalaya government.”

The state govt had taken the decision to relocate the Sikhs from the Them lew Mawlong area of the state capital Shillong, following a recommendation by a high-level committee headed by Deputy Chief Minister Prestone Tynsong. The govt intends to use the area to house govt employees.

On Thursday, Chief Minister Conrad Sangma had tweeted to inform that the cabinet had met to discuss the recommendations of the High-Level Committee on the Sweepers’ Colony issue.

The CM said that the committee had recommended the urban affairs department to find a suitable location for the relocation of people who reside in the area, as those serving with the state government will be relocated to the official quarters of the concerned departments. CM Sangma said, “The Committee also recommended shifting of the permanent municipal employees, who are currently residing in the Colony to the quarters that have been constructed. Further, we will request the other residents residing in the Colony to shift to the designated locations.”

CM Sangma also laid down plans of the Meghalaya government in which he said, “The process of signing the tripartite agreement & taking possession of the land by the Govt in Urban Affairs Dept. from the Syiem of Mylliem has started and the whole process should be completed by next week.”

According to reports, the Meghalaya government has been trying to evict the Dalit Sikh community from the Them lew Mawlong area in Shillong for a long time now. The land laws of Meghalaya on the other hand states that neither the state nor the Shillong Municipal Board have any right over the land that belonged to the Sikhs of the Harijan Colony, also known as Sweepers’ Colony in Shillong. Also, the state government had previously failed in its attempts to remove the Sikhs as the control of the land in question lied with the traditional Khasi chieftain known as Syiem.

To resolve this, the process to transfer the ownership of the land from the local tribal chieftain (syiem) to the state has been started so that the government has been started so that steps to evict Sikhs from the area can be taken. The High-Level Committee was set up in 2018 to settle the land dispute.

Around 350 Sikh families live in the area, where they have been living for over two centuries. They claim that the land was donated by a Khasi tribal chieftain to them before 1863. However, the tribal communities in Meghalaya consider them as outsiders, and want to evict them from the heart of the capital city.

Shashi Tharoor admits Congress downplayed destruction of Hindu Temples, justifies it with ‘nation building’ excuse

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Shashi Tharoor admits Congress downplayed destruction of Hindu Temples, justifies it with ‘nation building’ excuse

Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor admitted during his debate with historian Vikram Sampath on the India Today conclave that the Congress party on purpose downplayed the historical atrocities committed against Hindus by Islamic invaders. He justified the distortion of history by using ‘nation building’ as an excuse.

Vikram Sampath said that the Congress party has been guilty of allowing Marxists to exert a stranglehold over Indian history. He said, “I think the Congress party unwittingly gave away that space of historiography to the stranglehold of Marxist historians. And in a discipline like this, which thrives on multiplicity of views, which thrives on dissent, discussion, debate, differences of opinion, healthy discussions, I think the thralldom with which academic history has been largely controlled by clique of Leftist historians, it has distorted history and created several fault lines.”

Vikram Sampath also lamented the fact that the focus of history in India has been far too concerned with Delhi and even minor dynasties in Delhi have received disproportionate attention while great dynasties from other regions of India such as the Rashtrakutas, Chalukyas, Satavahans and others such Ahoms and Nagas did not receive adequate attention.

He also said that the brutal history of Islamic invasions has been neglected. In response, Shashi Tharoor said, “Partition, split of the nationalist movement didn’t happen over ideology or geography. It happened on one key question – is religion the determinant of our nationhood.”

“In India, history was pressed into the nation-building project. There was a desire to allay over some unpleasant details, the destruction of temples, some of the horrors that happened while stressing on the commonalities that also featured throughout the ages,” added Shashi Tharoor. He further claimed that it was a “laudable” initiative.

What Shashi Tharoor essentially admitted to was the Congress party’s whitewashing the brutality inflicted on the Hindu civilisation to uphold the ideals of Nehruvian Secularism. The real discomforting part of Tharoor’s response was not that his party had engaged in genocide denial of Hindus, it was the fact that he considered it a “laudable” initative.

Genocide denial is not considered acceptable in civil society and here we have a sitting member of the Indian Parliament proudly admitting that Indian historians covered up some “unpleasant details” as part of a nation building project.

The Congress party, of course, went far beyond simply covering up the atrocities committed by Islamic invaders. They have done everything possible in their power to delay the construction of the Ram Mandir in Ayodhya, the construction of which is fortunately firmly underway.

Historians patronized by the Congress party have also denied that Aurangzeb was a tyrannical ruler and other atrocities committed by Mughals. In fact, lionizing the worst Islamic bigots and genocidal maniacs became the cornerstone of Nehruvian Secularism.

Shashi Tharoor did not stop there and went on to claim that today, “We are scratching at wounds that have already healed.” According to the senior Congress leader, it appears that he believes true history should be covered up because it might open up wounds.

His words once again highlight the fact that history, as it has been taught in India, has not been an honest account of facts but carefully constructed propaganda to cloak the actual brutality of the events that transpired. It is interesting to note that Tharoor does not deny the authenticity of Islamic atrocities, he says that it should not be spoken about for the ‘greater good’.

Chunavi Hindu: Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra starts visiting temples ahead of UP elections

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Chunavi Hindu: Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra starts visiting temples ahead of UP elections

As the assembly elections of Uttar Pradesh and four other states are inching close, AICC national secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra has once again started masquerading herself as a devout Hindu by visiting temples.

But among poll-bound states, Uttar Pradesh seems to be her key focus, where after the Lakhimpur Kheri incident she has made desperate attempts to establish herself as the key challenger to the BJP. Amid such political plotting, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra has started “temple run” once again and the PR team of the Congress is ensuring their proper media coverage.

A few days back the media was informed by the Congress that Priyanka Gandhi Vadra is observing fast during Navratri. And on Sunday the Congress informed that she visited the Durgakunda temple in Varanasi ahead of the farmers’ rally. Before that, she also visited the Kashi Vishwanath Temple in Varanasi on Sunday.

The Congress party and its supporters tried her temple visit to have some takeaway points for the media and voters, like she is deeply religious and spiritual.

On Thursday, she had swept the floor of a Valmiki temple in Lucknow. So far in the past one and half months, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra has visited a dozen temples to woo Hindu voters.

In recent times it has been observed that both Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra try to play a soft Hinduism card and build up their image as pious Hindu to catch Hindu votes ahead of elections.

In 2017 when Rahul Gandhi was Vice president of the Congress he had declared himself as a “Janeu Dhari Hindu”, after his ‘temple darshan’ exercise in Gujarat was caught in controversy following reports of Rahul Gandhi declaring himself non-Hindu at Somnath temple erupted.

If the brother-sister duo is taking so much effort, it may be because of the reasons that social media users and common people obliquely hint at their possible catholic origin.

Their temple visit is a move to make Hindu voters believe that the Congress party is not anti-Hindu. The actual game is planned and executed somewhere else. Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and her party may know the addresses of few temples but the party has details of as many as 8432 mosques in Uttar Pradesh that will serve the purpose of the Congress.

The minority cell of UP Congress had decided to distribute its Sankalp Patra among Muslims in front of 8432 mosques in UP on Fridays. Uttar Pradesh Congress Committee’s (UPCC) minority department has started the process of distributing a 16-point manifesto in front of mosques containing promises to be made to the minorities in the upcoming 2022 UP assembly election.

The Congress has promised to open tanneries shut down during the Samajwadi Party rule, a judicial investigation into the riots that happened when Akhilesh Yadav was the Chief Minister and also the setting up of Mathur Commission if anyone is found guilty. This initiative of distributing manifestos outside mosques by the minority department of the Uttar Pradesh Congress Committee is consistent with ‘Muslims first’ policy of the party.

Hence, till assembly elections are over, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and Rahul Gandhi are expected to continue the temple run game.

‘No information about Jai Shri Ram chants’: Police denies communal angle in Indore clash, says claims of hundreds attacking Muslim family are false

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‘No information about Jai Shri Ram chants’: Police denies communal angle in Indore clash, says claims of hundreds attacking Muslim family are false

On October 9, at around 8:30 PM, two groups from different communities clashed at Village Piwday, Kampel Grampanchayat, Indore, Madhya Pradesh. Seven people in total were injured during the clash, out of which five were from the Muslim family while two were from the Hindu family. Two of the injured were women.

Police denied communal angle in Indore clash

The members of the Muslim family have alleged that a mob of Hindus attacked them on Saturday night and beaten them as the Muslim family did not “adhere to their orders to leave the Hindu-dominant village by October 9”. They also alleged that the Hindus were chanting Jai Shri Ram while beating them.

However, contrary to the statement given by the Muslim family, the Police denied any communal angle. OpIndia reached out to Superintendent of Police Mahesh Chandra Jain, who said, “It was a fight between two families over some financial dispute. There was no communal angle to the story. We do not have any information about the allegations of ‘Jai Shri Ram’ chants.”

While talking to news agency PTI, SP Jain said that seven people sustained minor injuries. While the incident is being given a communal colour on social media platforms, the Police refuted the claims. They said it was a dispute between the two families, and there was nothing communal about it. SP Jain said, “Based on counter complaints filed by the two sides, cases were registered against people from both the sides under Indian Penal Code (IPC) Sections 294 (obscene acts or words in public), 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), 506 (criminal intimidation) and 147 (rioting).”

As per reports, the Hindu family had commissioned the Muslim family for some repair work for a tractor-trolley which was not completed even after two months since the payment was made. The Muslim family allegedly failed to refund the amount as well that led to the fight between the two groups.

The Indian Express quoted Sub-inspector Vishwajeet Tomar saying, “The Geyasuddin family was given some money by the other group to build a trolley but neither did they make the trolley nor did they return the money which prima facie appears to have triggered the incident and the two groups have clashed. There has been a cross-complaint registered based on the complaint of Vikas Patel, who lives near the village.”

Tomar further denied the claims that the men belonged to RSS and threatened the Muslim family to leave the village. He said, “This information was not given to us when the FIR was being registered. We are not aware of it. We are investigating the case as there are cross FIRs from both sides, and both parties have sustained injuries.”

He said that there were claims that the Geyasuddin family was attacked by over 100 people, which was false. There were around nine men involved in the attack. The rest of the people were mere spectators who gathered around the house.

Geyasuddin family’s side of the story

Farukh Geyasuddin was one of the injured. His son, Shahrukh Geyasuddin, told Indian Express that the mob allegedly barged into their house and started beating them with rods that were lying nearby. His sister Fauziya was present at the house when the incident took place. She alleged that the men came in a row of cars, and when she tried to record a video of the incident, one of the men snatched the phone and smashed it. The Muslim family rushed to the Police Station. From there, they were sent to Maharaja Yashwantrao Hospital in Indore for a medical test. An FIR was registered based on the Muslim family’s complaint.

Indore clash: What Vikas Patel said

According to the Police, in the counter-complaint, Patel said that he had given money to the Geyasuddin family for some repair work around three months ago. However, the work was not completed even after three months. Geyasuddins did not return the money as well. It led to a clash between the two groups.

NIA raids several locations in Kashmir to bust ISIS team behind online Jihadi magazine Voice Of Hind, three arrested

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NIA raids several locations in Kashmir to bust ISIS team behind online Jihadi magazine Voice Of Hind, three arrested

NIA carried out several raids in different locations in Jammu and Kashmir in the pursuit of the ISIS team running the online magazine called Voice Of Hind (VOH), and also in the IED recovery case in Bathindi. The anti-terror agency conducted simultaneous searches in various districts in the Union Territory with the assistance of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and Jammu and Kashmir Police.

According to reports, 16 locations were searched in the operation and three ISIS members were captured from Achabal and Anantnag. Umar Nisar, Tanveer Ahmed Bhat and Rameez Lone were the three people held in NIA custody.

Reports said that ISIS was publishing an online monthly magazine ‘Voice Of Hind’ (VOH) from February 2020. VOH was circulated through a complex network consisting of fake online entities and hiding the real identities through VPN. Investigations established links between Indian mobile numbers and those online fake accounts. NIA said that it seized a large number of digital devices such as mobile phones, hard disks, SD cards etc used in the running of the magazine.

As per sources, Umar Nisar had connections with Afghanistan based ISIS operatives and acted as a link between ISIS terrorists in India and ISIS handlers operating in the Afghan-Pak region. Nisar regularly contacted Aijaz Ahangar, an old operative of Pakistan’s ISI who hailed from Srinagar.

Umar Nisar was also responsible for motivating terrorist activities across the Jammu Kashmir region and recruiting terrorists for the ISIS/ISJK. Militants Burhan Musaib, Esa Fazli, Mugess Mir took part in Bayah which is supposedly an ‘oath of allegiance to ISIS’ event held in the jungles of Pulwama in September 2017. Nisar also had had various IDs through which he controlled the content creation and distribution of VOH.

According to reports, 70 youths were detained in Srinagar while 570 individuals were detained across the valley in the last 2-3 days. The crackdown of security forces began after the terrorist attacked civilians last week.

The raids conducted by the NIA was also a part of the probe dealing with The Resistance Front (TRF) case involving terror outfits like Lashkar-e-Taiba, Hizbul Mujahideen and Jaish-e-Mohammed.

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