Television actor Sidharth Shukla died of heart attack in Mumbai.
He gained popularity by his role in serials like Balika Vadhu and also emerged as winner in reality show Bigg Boss 13. He also acted in Dil Se Dil Tak and hosted crime drama series Savdhaan India and reality show India’s Got Talent. He made his Bollywood debut in 2014 in the film Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania.
According to reports, last night he took his medicines, but did not wake up in the morning. Shukla was 40 years old
On August 30, the Supreme Court stayed the demolition orders issued by Patna High Court of a proposed Waqf Board ‘Musafirkhana’ building constructed in the close proximity of the newly inaugurated Centenary Building of the High Court.
In its order, the High Court had said that the building was in gross violation of the provisions of The Waqf Act, 1995; Bihar Municipal Act, 2007; and Bihar Building By-Laws, 2014.
Justice UU Lalit was presiding over a three-judge bench that issued notice to the Bihar State Building Construction Corporation (BSBCC) and the State of Bihar based on the petition filed by the Bihar State Sunni Waqf Board and ordered status quo of the building.
In its petition in the Supreme Court, Bihar Waqf Board said that the project was commenced in accordance with the Waqf Act, 1995. The Bihar government’s architect also approved the construction. The petition stated that as per bylaw no. 8(1) (A) of the Bihar Buildings Bylaws, there was no permission required from the Patna Municipal Corporation for carrying out the construction as the plans were signed by the government architect.
It read, “In the present case, the construction plans were approved by the Minority Welfare Department, Government of Bihar, and the Map and Plan of construction was approved by the senior architect of the Bihar State Building Construction Corporation, which is a government company,” the Waqf Board contended. “Therefore, the construction having been carried out by the state department and the plan having been approved by the senior architect of Bihar State Building Construction Corporation, no separate sanction was required from the Patna Municipal Corporation.”
While mentioning the High Court’s judgement where the court said that the construction had violated bylaw no. 21 that stipulates an unexceptionable and absolute embargo upon the construction of any building exceeding 10 meters in height within 200 meters radius of the boundary of important buildings, including the High Court, the Waqf board said, “The state authorities and the Waqf Board had had themselves agreed to demolish the offending portion of the building (i.e. to bring the building within the height of 10 meters)”.
In its August 3 judgement, the Patna High Court had stated that the construction was illegal as per Bihar Building Bylaws, 2014. The court said, “Such construction made without a valid sanction plan must thus be held to be an illegality rather than a mere irregularity.” The court had added that no approvals were taken from the Patna Municipal Corporation.
Three judges, Ashwani Kumar Singh, Justice Vikash Jain and Rajendra Kumar Mishra agreed on the lead judgement by Justice Jain to completely level the construction and deemed it as an illegally constructed building that violates the bylaws. Justice Chakradhari Singh directed the state government in order to set up an inquiry commission. Justice Amanullah, however, was against the demolition and deemed the construction as irregular and not illegal.
Bihar Chief Secretary and other stakeholders had agreed in a meeting to limit the height of the building to 10 meters and presented the proposal in the High Court, but it was rejected. The court said, “It is too late in the day for damage control. The respondents have collectively undermined the statutory provisions with complete abandon and lack of accountability far beyond the limits of mere negligence.”
The matter will be next heard in the Supreme Court on October 18.
Priyanka Chopra in her recent photoshoot with Vogue magazine sported a ‘mangalsutra’ by the designer brand Bvlgari.
This has triggered the so-called feminists who have accused her of wearing a symbol of ‘patriarchal oppression’.
One Twitter user ‘quinboot’ who uses ‘she/her’ pronouns in her bio and identifies herself as 19-year-old marxist-feminist, accused Chopra of ‘exploiting’ feminism for personal economic gains.
Another feminist was also upset that Priyanka Chopra was making a lot of money by partnering with Bvlgari for mangalsutra. She then compared the holy symbol of matrimony to dowry, a social evil and claimed mocked the same.
In fact, not just these, former India Today journalist Aishwarya Subramanyam, too, had an elaborate meltdown over Priyanka Chopra’s photoshoot.
In fact, she even went on to mock other Hindu symbols like the Janeu, ‘that Brahmin thread thingy’ as described by her friend.
More Hindu symbols of matrimony were mocked because Priyanka Chopra wore a mangalsutra.
In fact, not just that, she even held a Clubhouse discussion on the same. Earlier, Subramanyam was found justifying rape culture of the ‘woke liberals’ after a Clubhouse conversation normalising rape culture went viral on social media. She was also part of the Clubhouse discussion where along with other social media influencers, like Kusha Kapila discussed ‘hate sex’ with Sanghis and ‘Sanghis’s were dehumanised.
The Bvlgari mangalsutra Priyanka Chopra wore retails for Rs 3,49,000.
Pro-Pakistan separatist leader Syed Ali Geelani, who spearheaded the separatist movement in Jammu and Kashmir for over three decades, died at his residence in Hyderpora in Srinagar at the age of 92 years.
The hardline separatist leader was buried in Srinagar’s Hyderpora area on Thursday amidst attempts by Pakistan and its sympathisers in Kashmir to stoke tensions in the Union Territory. Geelani was buried at Srinagar’s “Martyrs’ Cemetery”, where most terrorists and separatist leaders have been buried. The police allowed only a limited number of his relatives to attend the funeral.
Here is a brief profile of Syed Ali Shah Geelani and his pro-Pakistan propaganda in Kashmir for over seven decades.
Born on September 29, 1929, at Zurmanz in Bandipore, Syed Ali Shah Geelani became the face of the pro-Pakistan agenda in Jammu and Kashmir. After his early education in his home town, Geelani travelled to Lahore for higher studies. He returned to India after finishing his degree in Islamic theology and worked as a teacher.
Geelani started his political career under Maulana Mohammad Sayeed Masoodi, a senior National Conference (NC) leader. Later, on instigation from Pakistan, Geelani quit NC to join radical Islamic organisation Jamaat-e-Islami. The pro-Pakistan radical Islamic organisation has been implicitly involved in spreading unrest and violence in the valley.
Geelani first contested the Assembly elections in 1972 from the Sopore constituency in the erstwhile Jammu and Kashmir Assembly. He won the elections for two successive terms, first in 1972 and then in 1977. He lost the 1982 poll to NC candidate, however, he won the controversial 1987 polls for his third term. The last term ended abruptly in 1987 after Pakistan-sponsored terrorists created havoc in the valley, which led to the genocide of Kashmiri Pandits.
Geelani, a three-time legislator and the face and voice of Pakistan in Kashmir, was active in the political landscape of Jammu and Kashmir for around seven decades. In the 1990s, with active support from Pakistan, Geelani instigated several Kashmiri Muslim youths to pick up arms against the state. In a way, Geelani was the chief architect of terrorism in the valley.
With active backing from Pakistan, Geelani advocated for an armed struggle to resolve the Kashmir issue and opposed the government of India. Geelani was one of the masterminds of the separatist movement in Kashmir, who founded the Hurriyat Conference in 1993. He was a staunch supporter of Jammu and Kashmir’s accession with Pakistan.
A vocal supporter of Pakistan and its designs in the Kashmir valley, Geelani had made it clear that his agenda is Islamism, packaged and delivered as per Pakistan’s wishes. “Hum Pakistani Hain Aur Pakistan Hamara Hai”, was his famous slogan.
However, internal power struggles and ideological issues led to growing tensions between him and other members of the Hurriyat Conference, leading to a split in 2003. In 2004, Geelani also quit from Jamaat-e-Islami when it distanced itself from terrorism, and formed his own political outfit, Tehreek-e-Hurriyat.
Geelani and his minions were responsible for pushing generations of Kashmiri youth towards bloodshed, violence and hatred. While his own progeny enjoyed a sheltered, lavish life, Geelani spent his life inciting the poor and uneducated people in Kashmir to shun development, education and embrace the hollow ideologies that brought nothing but violence and misery.
The man shall not get the courtesy of being named on my TL. But he who sent young children in jihad’s arms while seeking safe houses for his own children does not even deserve 2 gaz zameen in the land I call home. That is all that shall be said.
— Sunanda Vashisht (@sunandavashisht) September 1, 2021
In March 2019, Syed Ali Shah Geelani was charged with a penalty of over Rs 14 lakh by the Enforcement Directorate under the Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA) for illegally possessing foreign exchange of USD 10,000. A month later, the officials attached the properties belonging to Geelani located at Delhi over tax fraud.
In a massive crackdown on the separatist Hurriyat leaders in the aftermath of the Pulwama terror attack in 2019, the security cover of 18 Hurriyat leaders, including Syed Ali Shah Geelani was withdrawn by the government calling it a wastage of resources.
In 2020, eight months after the Modi government scrapped the controversial special provisions of Article 370 granted to the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir, Geelani resigned as head of the Hurriyat in June 2020.
The separatist leader, who was on the payroll of Pakistan and its intelligence agency ISI, had also written a detailed two-page letter highlighting the reasons behind his resignation from the Hurriyat Conference. Apparently, Geelani had quit the pro-Pakistan separatist unit 27 years’ association after he had founded it, claiming that he was being sidelined by Pakistan and its army intelligence, the ISI.
Last year, the Pakistan government awarded him with Nishan-e-Pakistan, the highest civilian honour of the country.
Geelani’s life was the living narration of how a pro-Pakistan Islamist agenda ruined millions of lives in the Kashmir valley, made the Pandits refugees in their own country and pushed a resource-rich, beautiful region into decades of meaningless violence.
After the Taliban called Pakistan their ‘second home’, Pakistani Minister Sheikh Rashid has now confessed on a TV show that the Imran Khan-led government has indeed been the custodian of the Talibani leaders.
“We are the custodians of Taliban leaders. We have taken care of them for long. They got shelter, education and a home in Pakistan. We have done everything for them,” declared Rashid openly while speaking on Hum News programme ‘Breaking Point with Malick’.
Welcoming the Taliban and snubbing the US, Rashid in another interview last week had also revealed that Pakistan is unwilling to shelter the US troop for a long time. “Their stay in the country is only for a limited period,” remarked the minister.
It is notable here that Rashid is the same person who had once said Pakistan has the technology to develop ‘smart bombs’ that would kill only Hindus in India and spare the Muslims.
The Imran Khan government is gradually shedding its pretence of having nothing to do with the Jihadi organization. In fact, as the Taliban strengthens its position in Afghanistan, Pakistan’s dreams of ‘conquering’ Kashmir with its assistance has come to the fore.
Speaking on a Pakistani news channel, Neelam Irshad Sheikh, a leader of Imran Khan’s Tehreek-e-Insaf party had said that ‘the Taliban are with us’ and that they will help win Kashmir.
The Pakistani Interior Minister’s comments come shortly after Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi asserted that Islamabad would continue to play a constructive role to support Afghanistan.
“It is essential for the world community to stay engaged with Afghanistan to stabilise the situation and help the Afghan people economically and to continue providing humanitarian assistance,” said Qureshi making Afghanistan their new favourite neighbour.
Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan too in a recent interview called the Taliban ‘normal citizens’. He also justified the Jihadi actions by claiming that the Afghan population had broken the ‘chains of slavery’ with the Taliban coming to power.
Taliban spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid during a television interview expressed his love and relation with Pakistan.
“Afghanistan shares its borders with Pakistan. We are traditionally aligned when it comes to religion, the people of both countries mingle with each other. So we are looking forward to further deepening of ties with Pakistan,” said Mujahid adding he would want to establish good relations with India too.
Acting president of Afghanistan Amrullah Saleh has been the strongest critique of Pakistan for giving shelter to the Taliban. Saleh has been incessantly talking about the deep ties between the terror organizations breeding in both countries.
“Every evidence we have in hand shows that IS-K cells have their roots in Talibs and Haqqani network, particularly those operating in Kabul. Talibs denying links with ISIS is identical/similar to the denial of Pakistan on Quetta Shura. Talibs have learned very well from the master,” Saleh reiterated after the bomb blast that killed over a 100 civilians in Kabul last week.
Prior to this, Saleh had accused Pakistan of setting up terrorist factories and camps that provide explosives materials to the Taliban to create chaos in Afghanistan.
The Pioneer Editor and former two-time Rajya Sabha MP from Bhartiya Janta Party Dr Chandan Mitra passed away on Wednesday night. A tweet by his son Kushan Mitra suggested that he had been suffering for a while.
#BreakingNews: The Pioneer Editor and former two time Rajya Sabha BJP MP Dr Chandan Mitra is no more. #ChandanMitra #thepioneer #RIP @DrChandanMitra pic.twitter.com/TOoB3njbJd
— The Pioneer (@TheDailyPioneer) September 2, 2021
Prime Minister Modi condoled his passing.
Mitra’s friends took to Twitter to condole his demise. Current Rajya Sabha BJP MP Swapan Dasgupta Tweeted, “I lost my closest friend—editor of Pioneer & former MP Chandan Mitra—this morning. We were together as students of La Martiniere & went on to St Stephen’s & Oxford. We joined journalism at the same time & shared the excitement of Ayodhya & the saffron wave.”
I lost my closest friend—editor of Pioneer & former MP Chandan Mitra—this morning. We were together as students of La Martiniere & went on to St Stephen’s & Oxford. We joined journalism at the same time & shared the excitement of Ayodhya & the saffron wave. 1/2
— Swapan Dasgupta (@swapan55) September 2, 2021
“I am posting a photograph of Chandan Mitra and me together during a school trip in 1972. Be happy my dear friend wherever you are. Om Shanti,” he continued sharing an old image with his friend.
I am posting a photograph of Chandan Mitra and me together during a school trip in 1972. Be happy my dear friend wherever you are. Om Shanti pic.twitter.com/58vMvU6Wa9
— Swapan Dasgupta (@swapan55) September 2, 2021
Senior Adviser to the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting Kanchan Gupta Tweeting a Shloka from Gita for his friend said, “My dear friend Chandan Mitra, editor of The Pioneer, is no more. May happiness travel with him to the other side. Till we meet again, memories will remain.”
My dear friend Chandan Mitra, editor of The Pioneer, is no more. May happiness travel with him to the other side. Till we meet again, memories will remain.
— Kanchan Gupta ?? (@KanchanGupta) September 2, 2021
नैनं छिन्दन्ति शस्त्राणि नैनं दहति पावकः।
न चैनं क्लेदयन्त्यापो न शोषयति मारुतः॥
ॐ शान्ति शान्ति शान्ति।। ? pic.twitter.com/HBZBholdd1
RSS leader Ram Madhav too Tweeted a condolence message. “Very sorry to hear abt d demise of former MP n senior journalist Sh Chandan Mitra. He was a good friend. Served on d India Foundation Board for many years until his health forced him to withdraw from public activism. Condolences to @kushanmitra n other near and dear. Om Shantih,” reads Madhavs Tweet.
Very sorry to hear abt d demise of former MP n senior journalist Sh Chandan Mitra. He was a good friend. Served on d India Foundation Board for many years until his health forced him to withdraw from public activism. Condolences to @kushanmitra n other near and dear. On Shantih pic.twitter.com/dHvHNjrgt8
— Ram Madhav (@rammadhav_rss) September 2, 2021
Chandan Mitra a former BJP member had switched to the Trinamool Congress in 2018. He worked as the editor of The Pioneer after resigning as printer and publisher of the newspaper in June this year.
Syed Ali Geelani, a hardline pro-Pakistan Hurriyat leader, who spearheaded the separatist movement in Jammu and Kashmir for over three decades, was buried in Srinagar’s Hyderpora area at 4:37 am on Thursday.
Hardline separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani died in Srinagar on Wednesday, September 1, 2021. The former Hurriyat Conference leader died at around 10.35 PM at his residence in Hyderpora in Srinagar at the age of 92 years.
Security arrangements were made for the final rites of Geelani, who was buried at Srinagar’s ‘Martyrs’ Graveyard’, where most terrorists and separatist leaders have been buried. The police allowed only a limited number of his relatives to attend the funeral.
In Valley, @JmuKmrPolice holds its own to facilitate wee-hour burial, at 4:30 am, for Kashmiri separatist Geelani, weeding out all attempts by his aides who tried even in such times to instigate locals with shutdown/protest call
— Rohan Dua (@rohanduaT02) September 2, 2021
Geelani batted for Pak.His team still uses Pak no. pic.twitter.com/BZYM19PVR4
Following Geelani’s death, the security forces have been put on high alert in the region and police and paramilitary forces have been deployed for a possible curfew. Meanwhile, Pakistan has been trying to use Geelani’s death to instigate locals to unleash violence on the streets of Kashmir.
Soon after his death, Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan took to Twitter to condole the death of Geelani and claimed that Pakistan saluted his courageous struggle. He said Pakistan’s flag would fly at half-mast, and the country will observe a day of official mourning.
We in Pakistan salute his courageous struggle & remember his words: “Hum Pakistani hain aur Pakistan Humara hai”. The Pakistan flag will fly at half mast and we will observe a day of official mourning.
— Imran Khan (@ImranKhanPTI) September 1, 2021
Pakistan’s General Qamar Javed Bajwa has called the separatist leader an “icon” and expressed his “deepest grief” on his demise.
The pro-Pakistan separatists had given a call to Kashmiris to hit the streets to attend Geelani’s funeral procession in Srinagar and organise such mass events to mourn his death across Kashmir.
Even as separatist leader Geelani’s acolytes/aides were drumming up support over his death against Indian security forces, Kashmir Police in
— Rohan Dua (@rohanduaT02) September 2, 2021
early hours of Thursday foiled their plan to hold any procession
Thats been the hallmark of joint effort of @JmuKmrPolice, Army & CRPF pic.twitter.com/4kc1CS4bI4
However, anticipating that Pakistan would use Geelani’s death to again stoke instability in the valley, the Jammu and Kashmir Police buried him in the early hours of Thursday.
The security officials have shut down mobile internet in Kashmir valley as a precautionary measure to prevent confusion due to the spreading of rumours and incitement of violence by anti-India elements.
On September 2 (Local Time), Magistrate K Thomson’s Parramatta LC Court 13 ordered the release of Vishal Jood, the Indian student lodged in a jail in Australia, on October 15, 2021. As per reports, in a plea bargain, NSW’s Department of Public Prosecutors dropped eight charges that included the racial hate crime charges against Jood. OpIndia has confirmed with Jood’s lawyer about his release.
Vishal reportedly pleaded guilty to three minor charges of altercations that happened between September 16, 2020, and February 14, 2021. During the final hearing, Vishal’s lawyer presented video evidence to prove that Jood was provoked by a group of Khalistanis that led to the altercation. For the charges he pleaded guilty to, Jood was sentenced to six months in Jail starting from the day of his arrest, April 16, 2021. His sentence would be over on October 15, 2021.
24-year-old Vishal Jood hails from Haryana and currently pursuing higher studies in Australia. He was arrested for his alleged involvement in three crimes in Sydney on April 16. Reports suggest that he was picked by the Australian Police after a group of Indian nationalists clashed with Khalistani elements in Australia. He was charged with damage to property, affray, and assault.
Interestingly, in all three cases, Khalistanis were named as victims. These Khalistani elements are believed to be Indian-origin, however, they do not identify themselves as Indians but prefer being identified with their religious identity and support the idea of Khalistan. OpIndia talking to a few Indian nationalists who said that hostilities between the Indian diaspora and the Khalistani extremists existed for a long time but took a violent turn on August 28, 2020. The fight started after Jassi, a Khalistani, started posting pro-Khalistani and anti-India content on TikTok.
The matter got escalated to the point where both groups gathered at Harris Park and indulged in a gang fight. Jassi, the main culprit in the case, was badly injured. However, Jassi did not back down and continued to threaten Hindus, suggesting he would thrash Haryanvis if he comes across them alone. The tension further escalated between Indians and pro-Khalistani elements once again after the passing of farmer bills in the country and the subsequent protests that began in Punjab in September last year. The protests led by rich farmers and arhatiyas (intermediaries), instigated by Khalistani elements, reached Australia too.
While farmer protests were happening in India, Khalistani elements held similar protests in Australia and used abusive language against Prime Minister Narendra Modi. A few months later, on January 26, the alleged farmers camping at the Delhi border, joining hands with Khalistani elements, had unleashed violence on the streets of New Delhi and desecrated the national flag at Delhi’s Red Fort. The incident sent shockwaves across the world, and the Indian diaspora across the world, including in Australia, condemned the incident.
Reportedly, an Indian flag was also burnt at a Gurudwara in Sydney, but OpIndia could not verify the details. As a retaliation, a Khalistani flag was burnt by Indian students that irked the Khalistanis further. A Tiktok video went viral from a pro-Khalistan account that showed many Khalistanis beating someone up brutally. Soon, they declared they had bashed an individual named Vishal Jood who had ‘insulted their flag’. However, a day later, it came to light that the Khalistanis had ended up beating some random guy, not Vishal.
On February 28 this year, the Khalistanis entered the localities near Sydney’s Harris Park, where Indians live and vandalised cars and properties. On April 16, a few weeks after the alleged crime, Vishal was arrested from his house in Sydney. The Australian police stated that there is an outstanding warrant against him since 2018 for “other crimes”. Family accused Australian police of deliberately delaying to please Khalistanis and alleged that Indian High Commission was not helping them too.
On September 1, Jood’s lawyer came to an agreement with the prosecutors, and Vishal pleaded guilty in two cases that included charges of minor altercation. Rest of the charges were dropped. The Australia Today quoted Vishal’s brother saying, “By the grace of Bajrang Bali Vishal will be with us soon, we are looking forward to his release from Sydney Prison.”
Kashmiri separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani passed away in Srinagar on Wednesday evening. The former Hurriyat Conference leader died at around 10.35 PM at his residence in Hyderpora in Srinagar at the age of 92 years.
Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister and PDP leader Mehbooba Mufti shared the news of death of Syed Ali Shah Geelani on Twitter. “Saddened by the news of Geelani sahab’s passing away. We may not have agreed on most things but I respect him for his steadfastness & standing by his beliefs,” she tweeted.
Born in Sopore Baramulla in North Kashmir in 1929, Geelani had served as the chairman of All Parties Hurriyat Conference, a conglomerate of pro-Pakistan separatist groups in Jammu and Kashmir. In June 2020 he had left the Huriyat. He had founded Tehreek-e-Hurriyat and was previously associated with Jamaat-e-Islami Kashmir. He had won the assembly elections to became MLA from Sopore in 1972, 1977 and in 1987.
Geelani was a key hardliner separatist leader in Kashmir, who had played a major role in the increase in separatist activists in the region. He was slapped with sedition charges in 2010 for his anti-India activities.
Geelani is survived by his two sons and four daughters. At present, it is not confirmed whether the burial will take place at Sopore or Hyderpora. Reportedly, his family is wishing to bury him at Hyderpora.
On September 1, Islamist-sympathiser who was profiled by Shekhar Gupta’s ThePrint, CJ Werleman, shared an undated video on his Twitter profile and claimed that a group of Hindu men desecrated and destroyed a Muslim Graveyard in Nathan, India. He wrote, “Hindutva radicals desecrate and destroy a Muslim graveyard in Nathan, India.”
Several Islamists picked up the video to defame Hindus. Bibi Sajeda wrote, “Are these bhakts agents of urbanism? Which authority has given them this assignment?”
Aidarouss Ahmed Hirsi said,” #HinduvtaTerrorist militias destroy a #Muslim cemetery in Nathan, #India”
Abdul Hameed Lone said, “Hindutva radicals desecrate & destroy a Muslim graveyard in Nathan, India. This is a question mark for the international community as to where India is heading in the South Asian subcontinent & u are all silent.”
Kamaal Khan, who appeared to be associated with Tipu Sultan Party, wrote, “Hindutva radicals desecrate and destroy a Muslim graveyard in Nathan, India.”
News Agency MuslimMirror wrote, “Hindutva radicals desecrate and destroy a Muslim graveyard in presence of police in Nathan village, Naggar Tehsil in Kullu District of Himachal Pradesh, India.”
All the claims made by CJ Werleman in his tweet were wrong. First, the incident is not from Nathan as claimed by him. OpIndia reached out to Kullu Police, under which Nathan village in Naggar Tehsil is located. SHO Ashok Sharma, Kullu Police, said that the video is not from the Kullu district and no such incident took place in the area.
The video is from Nahan, the headquarters of Sirmaur District in Himachal Pradesh, and it does not show a Muslim Graveyard destroyed by ‘Hindutva radicals’ as claimed by Werleman. Actually, the video shows an illegal majar being demolished by some Hindu activists with the cooperation of the administration. If one watches the video carefully, a couple of policemen can be seen present at the spot. This indicates that it was not some vandalism, but had the support of the administration.
Kamal Gautam, the General Secretary of Hindu Jagaran Manch in Himachal Pradesh had already posted the same video yesterday on Twitter. In his tweet, he had informed that the Sirmaur unit of Hindu Jagaran Manch had “uprooted an illegal majar constructed by Islamic jihadis under their land jihad agenda at Nahan.” He added that “Jihadis were trying to encroach this precious prime land near medical college Nahan”.
A report by Punjab Kesari confirms this incident, which says that the municipal board demolished the illegal majar with the cooperation of HJM members. The report states that some unknown people had set up the illegal majar on government land near the Dr Y S Parmar Medical College in Nahan. The organisation had informed the urban body about the illegal construction, after which it was demolished and the construction material stocked at the site were removed.
HJM state secretary Manab Sharma said that some unknown people had gathered construction material to build the illegal majar in the night. After they informed the authorities about the same, the illegal construction was removed in the presence of administration and police officials.
Therefore, the video shows an illegal majar being demolished by Hindu Jagaran Manch with the full cooperation of the administration and police, and it was not a Muslim graveyard destroyed by ‘Hindutva radicals’ as claimed by The Print journalist.
This is not the first time Werleman has published a fake report to claim there is Islamophobia in India. On several occasions, he had made false allegations that the Indian government is suppressing Muslims. In August 2018, he took to Twitter to wrongly claim that the BJP had banned the slaughter of livestock during Eid. Werlemen also claimed 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 of 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.
Note: Earlier this article identified CJ Werleman as columnist with ThePrint. However, it turns out, he was only ‘profiled’ by Shekhar Gupta’s ThePrint and has not written any article for them. We have updated the copy. Error is regretted.
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