Almost three months after the Article 370 was abolished which had granted special status to Jammu and Kashmir, the government has abolished Jammu and Kashmir State Human Rights Commission, and six other commissions functioning in the state. The decision comes ahead of 31st October when the states will be converted into two union territories, Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh.
Apart from the independent state human rights commission, State Information Commission (SIC), State Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (SCDRC), State Electricity Regulatory Commission (SERC), State Commission for Protection of Women and Child Rights (SCPWCR), State Commission for Persons with Disabilities (SCPwD), and State Accountability Commission (SAC) will cease to exist from 31st October. After that, the jurisdiction of the respective national bodies will extend to the two union territories.
An order issued by the General administrative Department of Jammu and Kashmir said, “Consequent upon repeal of the acts related to these commissions by the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act, 2019, sanction is hereby accorded to the winding up of these commissions, with effect from October 31, 2019,”
Terms of chairpersons, presidents and members of the commissions will end on October 31st. And the employees of the commissions will report to respective administrative departments after October 31.
The order issued by the GAD said that the vehicles belonging to the commissions will be handed over to the state motor garages department. The office buildings and other assets will have to be handed over to the director of the estates department. The order states that the records of state human commission will be transferred to the Department of Law, Justice Parliamentary Affairs.
These 7 commissions are being abolished as the laws that brought them into existence will be abolished from Jammu and Kashmir after the state is split into two union territories. The union government had announced that 108 central laws will apply in the two UTs, replacing the independent laws that Jammu & Kashmir had in the respective areas.
The Enforcement Directorate on Friday filed a review petition in the Supreme Court challenging Delhi High Court’s order granting bail to Karnataka Congress leader DK Shivakumar in a money laundering case being probed by the agency.
In a special leave petition, the investigating agency said that if the seven-time Congress party MLA from Karnataka was allowed to remain outside the jail, he could also influence witnesses. The agency urged the court to cancel the bail granted to Karnataka Congress leader and MLA DK Shivakumar. The agency argued that since he was an influential politician, he could tamper with the evidence in the on-going investigation in a money laundering case.
The Congress troubleshooter was granted bail by the Delhi High Court on October 23. It had said that there was no material on record to show that he was a flight risk and there was no chance of tampering of evidence as all files are already under the custody of the agency.
However, Delhi High Court had ordered that DK Shivakumar cannot leave India without the court’s permission. The Delhi HC also asked him to assist the investigative agencies in their probe. He was asked to furnish a bail bond of Rs 25 lakh plus two sureties to obtain the bail.
The order was passed by a Single Judge Bench of Justice Suresh Kumar Kait.
DK Shivakumar had moved the High Court for bail last month after his bail was rejected by a special CBI Court. DK Shivakumar was sent to 14-days of judicial custody on September 17. Later, his custody was then further extended till October 25.
Earlier in the day when HC granted bail to the MLA, Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi had visited the accused DK Shivakumar in the Tihar Jail. Reportedly, Sonia Gandhi assured DK Shivakumar that the party is with him and will stand in his support. Sonia Gandhi told him this is a case of “political vendetta” and other Congress leaders are also being targeted by the BJP government at the centre.
Congress leader DK Shivakumar was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on September 3 after undergoing four days of interrogation in relation to the case. The ED had cited Shivakumar’s non-cooperation during the questioning as the reason for his arrest.
A judge in Texas, USA has ruled in favour of a father fighting to stop the transition of his son into a girl. Judge Kim Cooks also issued a gag order on the father. Jeff Younger has been battling ex-wife Anne Georgulas in a Dallas family court as part of a bitter custody fight over whether their seven-year-old boy James has gender dysphoria.
The judge ruled that James and his twin brother Jude would remain under a joint managing conservatorship under their parents which means that the father will have a say in the future medical treatment of the children that includes the use of chemicals for a ‘medical transition’.
The decision came a week after a jury gave the managing guardianship of James and twin brother Jude to their mother. As per reports, the mother believes that the boy is a girl and is of the opinion that his gender should be socially affirmed by having him wear dresses, being treated as a girl and being called “Luna”.
The case caused a huge uproar on social media as numerous people saw it as child abuse. A video has now surfaced where the child can be seen saying that his mother told him that he is a girl. The boy also said that his mother made him wear dresses and painted his nails.
This is HEARTBREAKING.
New video of 7yo “transgender” kid James Younger admitting his mom abuses him… He said the mom dresses him in dresses, paints his nails, & told him he’s a girl.pic.twitter.com/iClj53611w
The case generated enough outrage on social media for politicians to respond to the matter. People were shocked by the fact that such an atrocity was being perpetrated with the full consent of the judiciary.
I can’t get over this case in Texas. A mother decided that her 7 year old boy is really a girl because he liked the movie Frozen. The husband insisted that he’s a boy. Courts got involved. Jury just ruled that, yes, the boy is a girl and he will now be “transitioned” into one.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott said that the matter was being looked into “by the Texas Attorney General’s Office and the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services.”
FYI the matter of 7 year old James Younger is being looked into by the Texas Attorney General’s Office and the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services. #JamesYounger
Matt Krause, a representative in the Texas Legislature, announced that he will introduce legislation to prevent the use of puberty blockers for children under 18. Both, the statement made by the Texan Governor and Krause, received much applause from people on social media.
Absent a special session between now & the the 87th Session, I will introduce legislation that prohibits the use of puberty blockers in these situations for children under 18. We missed our opportunity to do so in the 86th Session. We won’t miss the next one. #savejamesyoungerhttps://t.co/BpbGDPwujZ
Ahead of the verdict, Jeff Younger told the Daily Mail, ‘I’m not anticipating a good result for my son. I think I’m not going to be able to stop the social transition of my son, which will probably lead to his medical transition.’
He said, ‘I want you to imagine having electronic communication with you son on FaceTime, and imagine that your ex-wife has dressed him as a drag queen to talk to you. He has false eyelashes and makeup. His hair has got glitter in it. He’s wearing a dress.’
He added, ‘Now imagine how you would feel seeing what I believe is actual sexual abuse – I believe this is not just emotional abuse but is the very, most fundamental form of sexual abuse, tampering with the sexual identity of a vulnerable boy. Every. Single. Day.’
‘You have to see your son sexually abused, and you have to maintain your calm… because the courts are not going to be fair to you. And the only way you can survive this and get your son through this alive is to calmly allow your son to be tortured right before your eyes and outlast the opposition. That’s what it’s like,’ he stated.
Jeff Younger also said that the little boy does not consider himself a girl and violently refuses to be put into dresses in his house. Furthermore, he has accused the child’s mother of locking James in a bedroom and telling him that ‘monsters only eat boys’. He has also claimed that the mother started manipulating the child’s understanding of his gender when he was as young as three years old.
After the BJP emerged as the single largest party in the Haryana Assembly with 40 seats, The lone winner from Haryana Lokhit Party MLA Gopal Kanda is at the heart of a massive controversy. A politician with an extremely shady past, Kanda had pledged unconditional support to the party and on Thursday, boarded a flight to Delhi to meet BJP President and Home Minister Amit Shah.
Gobind Kanda, brother of Gopal Kanda, told ANI, “2009 has repeated itself in 2019. Instead of Congress, it is BJP today, with victory on 40 seats. Gopal Kanda has left for Delhi with 6 MLAs. They will form BJP’s govt.”
Gobind Kanda, brother of Independent MLA Gopal Kanda:
2009 has repeated itself in 2019. Instead of Congress it is BJP today, with victory on 40 seats. Gopal Kanda has left for Delhi with 6 MLAs. They will form BJP’s govt. #HaryanaAssemblyPollspic.twitter.com/RGqlEkpzuV
Gopal Kanda was elected to the Haryana Assembly in 2009 as Haryana Lokhit Party candidate from the Sirsa constituency. He served for a time as a Minister in the Congress-led government before resigning in the wake of criminal cases filed against him. Subsequently, he founded the Haryana Lokhit Party but lost in the 2014 Assembly ELections.
Kanda was arrested in 2012 in the Geetika Sharma suicide case. The airline hostess had committed suicide and accused him of harassment in her suicide note and “misusing her”. She was employed at Gopal Kanda’s now-defunct MDLR Airlines. She had accused Kanda of being a “fraud” and a “shameless” man with “bad intentions” towards girls and said that he has “no shame and no guilt”. She said she had trusted Kanda and his aides but that was “costing” her “life”.
Geetika Sharma
In his pursuit of Geetika Sharma, Gopal Kanda gave her out-of-turn promotions and took her on out-station trips. He pursued her till the point she quit her job and moved to Dubai. But even after that, he allegedly used pressure tactics to force her to return to rejoin MDLR and by sending out slanderous emails to various Dubai officials.
Six months after Geetika Sharma’s death, her mother had committed suicide by hanging herself in the same room as her daughter. Gopal Kanda, meanwhile, was charged with rape, abetment to suicide and ‘unnatural sex’. The rape charges were later dropped. He remained in jail for a year and a half and was granted bail in 2014 after the charges of rape were dropped. He continues to face trial in the case which is now at the evidence stage.
Kanda has a litany of allegations against him apart from his alleged involvement in Geetika Sharma’s death. In 2010, a car owned by him was allegedly used in a rape committed by men associated with him. Next year, his security men were accused of beating up national-level cricketer Atul Wassan for overtaking the minister’s convoy.
Furthermore, Gopal Kanda and his wife face charges of tax evasion to the tune of Rs. 40 crore. Kanda’s supporters and employees were also accused of attacking income tax sleuths during a raid. In September 2018, he was booked by the Economic Offences Wing of Delhi Police in a cheating case involving one of the companies he is associated with. Gopal Kanda also faces fives cases pertaining to bouncing of cheques.
People on social media have strongly objected to the BJP entertaining the possibility of taking Gopal Kanda’s support to form the government.
If BJP takes Gopal Kanda in…I cannot support BJP anymore, this is indefensible. I will probably not support any party, but I cannot support BJP if people like Kanda are accepted. I hope @BJP4India rejects Kanda’s support. https://t.co/KgIzuZj64O
I am disappointed with non chalance people are shrugging off Gopal Kanda he caused death of a innocent girl, let’s not, in desperation of power, become the monster we set out to slay.
Former Union Minister Uma Bharti, too, has spoken out against Gopal Kanda and urged the BJP to shun his support. She said, “If Kanda is the same person who led to the suicide of a girl and her mother, and faces trial… whether he is innocent or guilty, the law will decide. But his winning an election does not absolve him. Several factors are involved in a poll victory.”
Reports indicate that Kanda will not be included in the BJP government in Haryana. BJP will be able to form the government in Haryana even without Gopal Kanda’s support, as they have the support of enough independent candidates. Under such circumstances, it remains to be seen what the leadership of the BJP decides on the matter.
The media had recently outraged rather loudly claiming that the sale of Parle-G biscuits has gone down because of demonetisation and GST. A lot many things are blamed on demonetisation and GST. Media has been sounding a lot like local fortune-tellers who keep predicting doom and gloom every week. The massive ‘economic slowdown’ that is supposed to make Indians poor and dejected somehow never manages to stop people from spending like crazy on festival sales.
Now, after the imaginary biscuit crisis, the media has found another crisis. It is called the great Indian underwear crisis. Indians, according to Shekhar Gupta led The Print, have become so, so poor that they have stopped buying chaddis and banians.
Via Twitter
The said article in The Print claims that Indians have become so poor that they are not buying underwear anymore. As a result, underwear store owners have become so poor after demonetisation and GST that they are unable to make payments.
The article even cites the MDs of Rupa, Lux and Dollar brands to claim that sales have come down. In the body, it is cleverly mentioned that while sales are still showing growth, they are just not as high as expected.
The article itself is terribly confusing. At one point it says the sales of innerwear has come down. But it quotes KB Agarwal later, who says that the festive season sales saw ‘only 10% growth, compared to the usual 20% growth’.
Even the major retailers cited in the article are said to have seen the growth of 2-7%, as opposed to 3-9% that they apparently saw earlier.
While the data and the sale of individual brands need further analysis, we were perplexed at the idea of common Indians withholding the purchase of vests and knickers for financial worries.
Who do we blame the slow sale of Lux Cozy on? Middle-class men, who keep wearing the same pair of underwear for years? Do people buy bras, panties, vests and chaddis for the entire family in bulk when they shop for Diwali or when they get a pay raise? Do people stop wearing underwear when the growth is 5% and start wearing than when it reaches 7%? When an article says that the growth has reached 9%, are their riots everywhere with men falling over each other to buy underwear that they have denied themselves when the growth rate of the economy was lesser?
The hero of 70s and 80s movies always, always bought shawls for his Maa and Babuji when he got a ‘Naukri’. Will millennials kids order Jockey and Lux Cozy combo packs for their parents when they get jobs now?
We are so perplexed that we are unable to fathom how exactly the sale or purchase of underwear depends upon the ‘state of the economy’. Do people usually go “Yay, I got Diwali bonus, let me buy 2 dozen chaddis first!” Do they exclaim, “Damn, that phone was expensive, I will not wear chaddis under my pants for the whole year to save money.”
We are also thinking of some probable reasons why people have apparently stopped buying underwear, as claimed in the Print’s article. When automobile sales go down, will people be saving more for bras and chaddis? Is the advent of smartphones making the populace so obsessed with expensive phones that they are ignoring wearing underwear to fund their phone purchases? Remember the huge, huge traffic jam when Ikea opened its store in Hyderabad? Just imagine how many of those people would have gone ‘bra-less’ or ‘Chaddi-less’ for days, even months.
Amazon and Flipkart had recently reported that they sold 19,000 crores worth of products in just 6 days during the Dussehra sale. They also said they are expecting sales worth 39,000 crores in October alone. Maybe Amazon and Flipkart are secretly encouraging customers to stop wearing underwear and divert their annual underwear budget into buying TVs and speakers.
When Amazon and Flipkart launch those incessant ads before each festival sale, have you ever seen them promoting underwear? No. They just promote TVs, phones, clothes, and shoes. It is probably a big corporate conspiracy by Modi government and crony capitalists to make Indians shun underwear and buy TVs and fridges only.
Applying The Print’s logic, the richest Indians will be the ones who own the maximum underwear. There lies another answer to the ‘job crisis’. Unemployed youth in hostels are often known to share each other’s undergarments. Sad state of affairs. Maybe that is the reason middle-class families never truly discard their old and torn underwear, they just turn them into ‘pochhas’, to clean scooters, floor and furniture.
As we reel under the imaginary underwear crisis, please encourage your neighbourhood people to keep buying underwear. ‘Liberals’ should also launch hashtags and placard campaigns for the chaddi banian industry.
The controversial Canadian lawmaker Jagmeet Singh is under the radar of Indian Intelligence agencies for not only sheltering pro-Khalistani sympathisers in Canada but also for leading an anti-Indian movement more vociferously in the Americas, especially after the abrogation of Article 370, reports Outlook.
According to the latest dossier prepared by the Indian intelligence officials, Jagmeet Singh, the Leader of Canada’s second-largest party, remains a ”pro-Khalistani and a pro-Pakistani” ringleader in the country despite his deep Punjabi roots.
On a specific report of India’s external intelligence agency Research and Analysis Wing, Singh was denied a visa in 2013 for his anti-Indian stance. The RAW has revealed in one its report that Singh had been funding Khalistani outfits, operating from Pakistan. He is also connected with prominent Khalistani and Kashmiri separatist groups based in different countries of Europe.
Latest reports also suggest that Jagmeet Singh is also trying to bring Khalistani and Kashmiri separatists under one umbrella in Canada. Recently he held a meeting in this connection at his residence in Ontario.
Who is Jagmeet Singh?
Jagmeet Singh, also known as Jimmy Dhaliwal, was born in 1979 to immigrant Indian parents in Canada. A lawyer-turned-politician, Singh is currently serving as leader of the New Democratic Party (NDP) since 2017 and as a Member of Parliament since 2019.
However, Jagdeep Singh is known for his support for Khalistani terrorists and has openly voiced his support for the anti-Indian Khalistanis in Canada, earning him the tag of being ‘Pro-Khalistan’.
In 2014, the Indian government had denied Singh a visa to visit India for criticising human rights record of India. Denying him a visa, the Indian government had accused him of misusing the human rights cause to pursue his “insidious agenda of disturbing the social fabric of India and undermining the peace, harmony and territorial integrity of India”. He also became the first western legislator ever to be denied entry into the country.
In June of 2015, Singh, who was then just an NDP member of the Ontario legislature, appeared on stage at a Khalistan rally in San Francisco which had featured a large poster of Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, the Khalistani terrorist, who led an armed movement against India and had occupied the Golden Temple.
In 2016, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh had participated in a pro-Khalistani seminar and had even endorsed the use of political violence as a “legitimate form of resistance” to achieve an independent Sikh homeland in India.
Shockingly, in his speech, Singh had even accused India of committing “genocide” against Sikhs in the Golden Temple assault. In April 2017, Jagmeet Singh was also responsible for passing a motion recognizing the 1984 Sikh riots in India as a “genocide”.
The anti-India propaganda of Jagmeet Singh does not end just there. Following the abrogation of Article 370 by the Narendra Modi government, Singh had even expressed his support to pro-Pakistan propaganda on Kashmir. He had made public statements against India and accused the country of human rights violations in the region.
“I want the people of Kashmir to know that I stand with you, I stand against the injustices happening, and I denounce what India is doing to the people of Kashmir,” he had told the media.
Reportedly, many Canadians of Indian origin have now begun questioning NDP leader on his proximity to sympathisers of slain terror kingpin Talwinder Singh Parmar, the prime suspect in Kanishka (Air India) bombing. Parmar, the Khalistani terrorist who led the Babbar Khalsa outfit still has many followers in Canada, allegedly having close ties with Singh.
Shockingly, left-liberals in India find these pro-Khalistani sympathisers as a source of inspiration. Just two days earlier, Gurmehar Kaur, the poster girl of Indian liberals who shot to fame during Ramjas violence had created a controversy after she had showered praises on controversial Canadian lawmaker – Jagmeet Singh.
In a significant departure from previous elections in Jammu and Kashmir, especially in the Valley after the abrogation of Article 370, more than 98% voting was recorded in the Block Development Council polls in the state with Srinagar registering a record turnout of 100%.
The Block Development Council elections were the first elections to be held after Jammu and Kashmir were stripped of its special status by the abrogation of Article 370 and bifurcated into Union Territories. The elections were held on Thursday.
Shailender Kumar, the CEO of Jammu and Kashmir Chief Election Commissioner said the elections were held in 280 blocks out of a total of 316 in the state. The candidates in at least 27 blocks won unopposed, Kumar said in a press conference.
“As per the reports, the total voting percentage was 98.3%. Highest voting was done in Srinagar dist – 100%, the lowest was in Pulwama & Shopian – 86% and 85% respectively,” said Shailendra Singh.
Reportedly, the elections were boycotted by the Congress, the National Conference and the People’s Democratic Party. Out of the 128 winning candidates in the Kashmir region, 109 were independents, 18 belonged to the BJP and one from the Congress. In Ladakh, the BJP won 11 seats, while independent candidates securing victory in 20. In Jannu region, BJP won 81 seats.
Block development councils form the second-tier of the Jammu and Kashmir Panchayati raj system. The council chairman are elected by an electoral college formed by panchs and sarpanchs in their respective blocks. These councils were never formed before as the Jammu and Kashmir historically had a weak Panchayati raj system.
The two prime accused in Kamlesh Tiwari murder case, Ashfaq and Moinuddin, was sent to police custody for two days on Thursday evening by Chief Judicial Magistrate Sudesh Kumar in Lucknow.
During the interrogation which lasted over six hours, the two radical Islamists have given away their malicious intention and gory details of the gruesome murder of the former Hindu Mahasabha leader who was assassinated at his Lucknow office on October 18, 2019.
Ashfaq divulged that the two had left for Khurshed Bagh in Lucknow around 10:30 in the morning of October 18. They read Namaz in a Dargah on the way. On reaching Tiwari’s office, they went up and executed the crime in less than two minutes, revealed the killers.
There was no guard present in the office building and Kamlesh’ employee, one Saurashtra, did not stop them as Kamlesh had informed him earlier that he was expecting some people over. The accused revealed that they did not carry their weapons in a sweet box as it was earlier reported, instead hid it in their pants. The sweet box, however, had their names written on it as they did not intend to hide their identities, said the killers. They also confessed that they wanted to record the entire incident but could not since they were in a hurry to flee, fearing arrest.
The two brazenly said that they purposely left behind traces of evidence, their names and in fact also wanted to record the act to instill fear in anyone who insulted Islam.
The horrific details of Kamlesh Tiwari’s murder have revealed that the Hindu leader Kamlesh Tiwari was stabbed 15 times and was also shot once. The Islamists had stabbed him in the upper part of the body from jaws to the chest. The wounds were inflicted within 10 cm of each another. The post-mortem report suggested that there were two deep cut marks on the neck which points to attempt to slit his throat.
Reportedly, the attackers had also shot him once to make sure that he does not survive the attack. The bullet was fired in his face. The doctors conducting a post-mortem on Kamlesh Tiwari’s body found a point 32 bullet on the backside of the skull.
On 18th October 2019, Hindu Samaj Party leader Kamlesh Tiwari was brutally murdered for his comments in 2015 where he had allegedly called Prophet Muhammad gay. The Uttar Pradesh police and Gujarat ATS sprung into action to blow the lid off a Surat-based Jihadi group that was indoctrinated by one of the accused who planned the murder, Maulana Mohsin Sheikh.
In a major breakthrough, the Gujarat ATS had nabbed Ashfaq, a medical representative in a pharma company and Moinuddin, who worked as a food delivery boy, on October 22 from Gujarat-Rajasthan border. Ashfaq had forged his colleague’s Aadhaar to pose as Rohit Solanki, a Hindu rights activist, to gain the trust of Tiwari. The duo was caught after they approached their family members after they ran out of the money they had.
The radical Islamists, Ashfaq and Moinuddin had checked into a Lucknow hotel from where the Police had recovered Bhagwa clothes that were worn by them. While one CCTV footage of Ashfaq and Moinuddin checking into the Lucknow hotel had emerged, another CCTV footage also emerged, in which one could see that Moinuddin and Ashfaq have changed into their Bhagwa clothes and are leaving the hotel to commit the brutal murder of Kamlesh Tiwari.
Two other conspirators, Rashid Pathan and Faizan Sheikh have been arrested on late Tuesday evening from Surat in Gujarat in connection with the murder. Today, Gujarat ATS arrested one maulana named Sayyed Kaifi Ali of Bareilly on charges of helping the killers of Tiwari which took the total number of arrests to six.
A special court in West Tripura has yesterday issued a non-bailable arrest warrant against Yashpal Singh, former State Chief Secretary on Thursday in the multi-crore rupees PWD scam. Furthermore, Judge Gobinda Das gave permission to the Police to conduct searches at Singh’s residence at Gurugram, Haryana.
Public prosecutor Ratan Dutta had moved an application seeking a non-bailable arrest warrant against Singh and permission for a search operation at his home, both of which was granted by the district and session court. As per reports, the DSP of the crime branch of Tripura Police is proceeding to Delhi to conduct the search operation with the help of the Delhi Police.
On Monday night, CPI(M) central committee member Badal Choudhury was arrested for his alleged involvement in the Rs 630 crore scam that allegedly occurred during his tenure as PWD Minister. Choudhury was admitted to a hospital where he was said to be in critical condition. The Police said that he would be taken into custody after he recovers.
Earlier, Yashpal Singh and former engineer-in-chief of PWD Sunil Bhowmik were charged with corruption, cheating, criminal breach of trust, causing the disappearance of evidence and others under various sections of the Prevention of Corruption Act. Sunil Bowmik too has been arrested.
Law and Education Minister in the state, Ratan Lal Nath, has claimed that the PWD under the previous Left Front government in 2008-09 clubbed 13 projects, five bridges, five buildings and three road projects, and implemented them at a cost of Rs 638 crore on a cost-plus basis (limited up to a maximum of 10 per cent of the esteemed cost). Nath asserted that a total of Rs 228 crore had been siphoned off and called it the “biggest scam in the history of Tripura”.
Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb said in the Assembly, “Nearly Rs. 225 crores were spent in addition to the amount approved by the state cabinet on different infrastructure development schemes in the 2008-09 financial year. The then cabinet note on the said subject and note of the then Principal Secretary don’t match. We have started a vigilance investigation after these irregularities came to our notice”.
Meanwhile, on Thursday, lawyers representing Badal Choudhury sought an ‘urgent hearing’ for bail considering his ‘fragile health’ but the Court declined their request and fixed October 30 as the next date of the hearing.
A maulana named Sayyed Kaifi Ali of Bareilly, who was detained for questioning in the Kamlesh Tiwari murder case by the Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) earlier this week has now been arrested by the police on charges of helping the killers of Hindu Samaj Party leader, Kamlesh Tiwari.
According to a report by Zee News, the maulana was arrested after a long interrogation under Section 216 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC). It is being said that the killers, namely Ashfaq and Moinuddin, had visited the cleric in Bareilly after they killed Tiwari in Lucknow on October 18.
In a major breakthrough in the gruesome murder case, Gujurat ATS had nabbed the two prime accused, Sheikh Ashfaq Hussain and Pathan Moinudddin Ahmed from Gujarat-Rajasthan border on October 22. Sources in the police said that Ashfaq and Moinudddin had spoken to the maulana immediately after the murder of Tiwari.
According to the agencies, the last location of the two suspected killers was traced to Bareilly. The ATS picked up another youth from Pilibhit along with the maulana after agencies found that he had spoken with Syed Asim Ali, who was arrested from Nagpur for his alleged role in the murder conspiracy. On Tuesday, Asim Ali was brought to Lucknow from Nagpur by Lucknow police.
Until now, the Gujarat police as nabbed six people in connection with the case.
Moinuddin, along with Ashfaq, was arrested by Gujarat ATS on October 22 from Gujarat-Rajasthan border after being on the run for four days. While Moinuddin worked as Zomato delivery boy, Ashfaq, second man arrested for the murder of Kamlesh Tiwari, worked as a medical representative in a pharma company. He had forged his colleague’s Aadhaar to pose as Rohit Solanki, a Hindu rights activist, to gain the trust of Tiwari.
Tiwari, a former Hindu Mahasabha leader, was assassinated at his Lucknow office by Ashfaq and Moinuddin from Surat. The Uttar Pradesh police and Gujarat ATS sprung into action to blow the lid off a Surat-based Jihadi group that was indoctrinated by one of the accused who planned the murder, Maulana Mohsin Sheikh. Two other conspirators, Rashid Pathan and Faizan Sheikh have been arrested on late Tuesday evening from Surat in Gujarat in connection with the murder.
While Ashfaq and Moinuddin will be handed over to the UP Police for further investigation, the other three accused have already been sent to UP on transit remand.
