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Indian Army launches attack on terrorist camps in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir after attempts to push terrorists into India: Reports

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Indian Army launches attack on terrorist camps in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir after attempts to push terrorists into India: Reports

The Indian Army has launched attacks on terrorist camps situated in Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) on Sunday morning. According to reports, heavy damage was inflicted on the Pakistani side.


The attacks were in retaliation for the cover provided by the Pakistani Army to push terrorists into India. The attacks were carried out opposite the Tangdhar sector, reported ANI.


Shiv Aroor tweeted that there was a major exchange of fire at the LoC after Pakistan committed a ceasefire violation for the umpteenth time. Two Indian Army jawans have lost their lives, he said, in addition to a civilian. He too confirmed that according to the Indian Army, heavy damage was inflicted on the Pakistani side.


There are numerous posts on social media that apparently provide visual evidence of the Indian Army’s statement. For obvious reasons, we cannot confirm or deny the authenticity of the claims made in these posts.


Tensions have been high between the two countries ever since the abrogation of Article 370. Defense Minister Rajnath Singh has made it clear at frequent intervals that India will not tolerate any mischief from Pakistanis, often threatening them with war if they don’t mend their ways. Pakistan, meanwhile, after a remarkable lack of support in the international arena, appears to be resorting to its policy of sending terrorists across the border. The Indian Army, too, is retaliating effectively.

134 counties deported half a million illegal Pakistanis since 2014, Muslim countries Saudi Arabia, UAE, Turkey leading the charge

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134 counties deported half a million illegal Pakistanis since 2014, Muslim countries Saudi Arabia, UAE, Turkey leading the charge

In yet another humiliating news for Pakistan, more than 5 lakh illegal Pakistani immigrants have been deported from 134 countries across the world in the last five years for the charges of forged travel documents and criminal convictions.

According to the recent report from the Pakistan’s Interior Ministry, it was revealed that a total of 519,000 Pakistani nationals have been deported from various countries since 2014.

Interestingly, most of the illegal Pakistani immigrants have been deported from Islamic countries. At the top of the long list of countries are Saudi Arabia, UAE, Oman, and Turkey. The illegal migrants have been deported on multiple charges, including forgery of documents and several criminal convictions.

The interior ministry report also revealed that besides these expulsions, at least 65,000 illegal immigrants are still imprisoned at deportee camps of Turkey and Saudi Arabia.

Read: Saudi Arabia and other Arab countries reject Pakistani postgraduate degree in medicine, sack MS and MD doctors from Pakistan

Saud Arabia remains on top of the list, which expelled over 325,000 Pakistanis since 2014, while UAE is second on the list deporting more than 52,000 Pakistanis during the same period. As many as 47,000 Pakistanis, living illegally in Oman and Turkey returned home during these years.

Similarly, 18,312 Pakistanis were expelled from Malaysia, 15,320 from Britain, 17,534 from Greece, 936 from the US, 275 from China, 445 from Canada, 15,413 from Iran, and 920 from Germany between 2014 and 2019.

In an embarrassment to the parody country Pakistan, a large number of Pakistanis who illegally immigrated to European countries have also been chased out. Italy deported the highest number of Pakistanis, sending back 945.

Meanwhile, France expelled 845, Spain 494, Belgium 375, Norway 301, Austria 270, Sweden 112, Netherlands 145, Romania 165, Switzerland 65, and Bulgaria 175 back to Pakistan.

Reportedly, a large number of these Pakistani deportees have been the victim of human trafficking groups actively working in Pakistan. So far, the Interior Ministry has identified more than 1000 such groups in the country. The traffickers often prey on people who want to go abroad in search of a better life, and more suitable employment opportunities.

Watch: CCTV footage of when Ashfaq and Moinuddin checked into Lucknow hotel and left before murdering Kamlesh Tiwari

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Watch: CCTV footage of when Ashfaq and Moinuddin checked into Lucknow hotel and left before murdering Kamlesh Tiwari

Earlier today, the Bhagwa clothes that were worn by Ashfaq and Moinuddin, the radical Islamists who murdered Hindu leader Kamlesh Tiwari were recovered from a hotel room in Lucknow. The two are still absconding and the Uttar Pradesh police have tracked their location upto Gaziabad and the hunt to nab the culprits is on. Now, CCTV footage of Ashfaq and Moinuddin checking into the Lucknow hotel has emerged.

Read: The Wire demonises Kamlesh Tiwari even in death, lies about him being ‘convicted’ in the blasphemy case against him

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In the CCTV video, one can clearly see the two killers of Kamlesh Tiwari checking into the Lucknow hote from where the blood stained Bhagwa clothes have been recovered today.

When the hotel register was checked by the police, the following names were used to rent the room.

1. Shiekh Ashfaq Hussain (Son of Zakir Hussain)

2. Pathan Moinuddin Ahmed.

They were found to be from Surat, Gujarat by the field unit inspecting the hotel and the room.

Read: Dear DGP OP Singh, people with a violent dogma don’t need a Kamlesh Tiwari to get radicalised

In another CCTV footage that has emerged, one can see that Moinuddin and Ashfaq have changed into their Bhagwa clothes and are leaving the hotel to commit the brutal murder of Kamlesh Tiwari.

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On 18th October 2019, Hindu leader Kamlesh Tiwari was brutally murdered for his 2015 comments where he had allegedly insulted Prophet Muhammad. 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 have been arrested. The Gujarat ATS has declared the names of the murderers as Moinuddin and Ashfaq, though the UP police have not commented on the names of the murderers who are still absconding.

Read: ‘Target for Jihadis’: 2 days before his murder, Kamlesh Tiwari wrote about UP IB speaking to him about the threat to his life

Uttar Pradesh DGP had also confirmed that Maulana Anwar-ul-Haq and Mohammed Mufti Naeem Kazmi have been arrested and are being interrogated for their role in the murder.

The ones arrested have reportedly admitted that they killed Kamlesh Tiwari over his remarks against Prophet Muhammad and the plan was being hatched for the past 2 months.

Tripura: 15-year-old student dies after he is brutally tortured by hostel warden for opposing forceful conversion to Christianity

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Tripura: 15-year-old student dies after he is brutally tortured by hostel warden for opposing forceful conversion to Christianity

A Class IX student of Holy Cross School at Pabiachhara in Kumarghat, Tripura died last week at GBP hospital after being allegedly tortured repeatedly by the hostel warden. The deceased student has been identified as Happy Debbarma.

According to the reports, the death of 15-year-old Debbarma has now forced the Tripura government to launch a judicial enquiry. The student died due to internal injury following a brutal attack on him by the hostel superintendent.

Reportedly, an FIR was lodged against the warden of Holy Cross School at Kumarghat, Bulchung Halam, who reportedly used to torture Happy Debbarma without any reasons. On September 25, the warden entered into Happy’s room and kicked him severely that the victim sustained injuries.

Read: American Indic author says missionaries yelled at her when she questioned them about forced religious conversions in Coimbatore

The police had arrested the fathers of the Christian school and the main accused warden Halam after the victim’s mother filed a complaint. Later, the court released two Christian fathers identified as Joe Paul and Father Alfred on bail. However, Bulchung and Father Lency D’Souza was sent to judicial custody for their alleged direct involvement in the crime.

The officials stated that the deceased Happy Debbaram had been opposing several conversion attempts of poor students by warden Halam. When the warden tried to convert Debbarma, he revolted leaving him angry. In the afternoon, Bulchung summoned Happy Debbarma in an isolated corner outside the hostel, which was not covered under CC camera.

“Bulchung punched Happy severely on his chest accusing him of opposition in conversion. When Happy was fallen, Bulchung stood on him and thrashed him brutally. The torture on Happy was reportedly known to the in-charge of the school Father Lency D’Souza and when he saw Bulchung had gone violent D’Souza along with two other accused rescued him. He was given primary treatment and warned him not to disclose it to others,” the report stated.

Read: ED to probe the finances of the NGO Good News India facing the charges of sexual harassment and religious conversions

The next day, to manage the situation they had forced Happy to write his last exam in the school. Later in the afternoon he was handed over to his mother for vacation. As Happy reached home, he was found suffering from severe chest pain and high fever. Soon his parents took him to a private doctor on September 29 last. Three days passed but there was no improvement in his situation, he was then admitted to a different hospital.

Instead of taking Happy in the district hospital, the parents brought him to Agartala Govt Medical College where doctors attending him found serious internal damage in his respiratory system, heart and lung and his condition deteriorated very fast in the hospital.

At final stage of his life, Happy divulged the gruesome incident perpetrated on him and how others in the school hostel have been tortured by the Fathers and hostel Warden non-academic issues to his mother on the condition if he survived they should not send him to the hostel again, the reported said quoting the victim’s mother.

The victim’s mother Rajmala Debbarma, an ICDS worker stated to police that Happy used to protest against the warden for telling lie to the Father and Principal of the Holy Cross School several times about the students who protested his undue demands and proposals. The suicide of a girl student last year was also due to pressure on her for religious conversion.

Read: ‘Missionaries go back’, Christian prayer meet stopped in Himachal Pradesh after VHP’s protest alleging illegal conversion

“The death of Happy Debbarma raised many questions about the functioning of the private convent schools especially missionary run institutions. Last year, one Lahari Debbarma of Auxiillum School here had committed suicide after she was being ill-treated by the sisters branding her thief as alleged by a shopping mall. The CID investigation was ordered by the state government but nothing has come out yet,” said a senior officer in the state administration.

State Education Minister Ratan Lal Nath said there are series of allegations against private schools and the government is going develop a regulatory mechanism to handle such incidents. The government has taken some stringent measures to ensure the safety and security of the students in the schools, said Minister Nath.

Last year, a teenaged tribal girl student had also committed suicide in the hostel following pressure from the warden and fathers of the school to convert her and the entire family into Christianity. Reportedly, the missionary schools in the tribal-dominated rural areas have been indulging conversion into Christianity in the name of convent style education taking advantage of poverty and the absence of English medium schools.

According to the reports, Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb has taken a serious note of the incident after hearing about the gloomy situations in the school where forceful conversion into Christianity has been a regular phenomenon. Following this, the Tripura government has decided to refer the incident to judicial enquiry.

Ratul Puri spent over $1.1 million in a single night at a pub, including lavish stays in various hotels: ED

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Ratul Puri spent over $1.1 million in a single night at a pub, including lavish stays in various hotels: ED

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) who is investigating a money laundering case against Ratul Puri, nephew of Madhya Pradesh chief minister Kamal Nath, has revealed that the accused led a lavish lifestyle and spent over $1.1 million in a single night at a US nightclub.

According to the reports, the ED which filed a charge sheet on Friday stated that Ratul Puri transacted huge amount of money for lavish stays in various hotels and spent $11,43,980 in a single night at a night club called Provocateur.

“The verification of the transactions was done and it was seen that the same was utilised for lavish stays in various hotels in India and abroad and $11,43,980 was spent in a single night at a night club called Provocateur,” says the ED charge sheet.

According to ED, Ratul Puri has spent a whopping amount to the tune of $4.5 million on personal expenses between November 2011 and October 2016.

Read: Read why a non-bailable warrant has been issued against MP CM Kamal Nath’s nephew Ratul Puri

On Friday, the Enforcement Directorate filed its charge sheet against MP CM Kamal Nath’s nephew Ratul Puri and his company Moser Baer for alleged money laundering and bank fraud. The ED charge sheet states that Puri and his company laundered money and misappropriated funds worth Rs 8000 crore, which is higher than the amount initially stated.

Besides Puri, the charge sheet names his associates and Moser Bear India (Private) Limited (MBIL), where he was the executive director.

The ED also claimed that MBIL used a “complex structure” of companies to siphon off funds taken on loan from banks. The ED highlighted the creation of “shell companies” for laundering of funds. The charge sheet lists out a dozen subsidiaries where funds were diverted.

The ED had arrested Puri on August 20. He was sent into judicial custody by the court till October 17. Apart from ED, the CBI and Income Tax department are also probing Puri and his company Moser Baer.

He is also accused of money laundering in the AugustaWestland VVIP Chopper scam. His anticipatory bail was earlier rejected. The ED has also accused that Ratul Puri is responsible for the murder of a witness in the VVIP chopper scam.

Apart from Ratul Puri, his father Deepak Puri and his mother Nita Puri, who is Kamal Nath’s sister, have also been booked by the ED in a Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) case in connection with a bank fraud case filed by the Central Bank of India. The ED case was based on the August 17 CBI FIR against Puri.

Kamlesh Tiwari murder: Moinuddin and Ashfaq went to a nearby Lucknow hotel after murder, discarded Bhagwa clothes recovered

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Kamlesh Tiwari murder: Moinuddin and Ashfaq went to a nearby Lucknow hotel after murder, discarded Bhagwa clothes recovered

On 18th October 2019, Hindu leader Kamlesh Tiwari was brutally murdered for his 2015 comments where he had allegedly insulted Prophet Muhammad. 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 have been arrested. The Gujarat ATS has declared the names of the murderers as Moinuddin and Ashfaq, though the UP police have not commented on the names of the murderers who are still absconding.

Uttar Pradesh DGP had also confirmed that Maulana Anwar-ul-Haq and Mohammed Mufti Naeem Kazmi have been arrested and are being interrogated for their role in the murder.

The ones arrested have reportedly admitted that they killed Kamlesh Tiwari over his remarks against Prophet Muhammad and the plan was being hatched for the past 2 months.

Now, information has emerged that Uttar Pradesh police has made substantial headway in their hunt for Moinuddin and Ashfaq, the two men who hid their weapons in a Surat sweet box and hacked Kamlesh Tiwari to death.

Read: The Wire demonises Kamlesh Tiwari even in death, lies about him being ‘convicted’ in the blasphemy case against him

The murderers, according to the latest information, went straight to a hotel in West Lucknow in the Kesarbag area. Once they reached Khalsa Hote, they reportedly discarded their ‘bhagwa’ clothes and escaped. The Lucknow police got a tip-off about some ‘bhagwa’ clothes being discarded in the hotel room. As soon as this information was received, the field unit of Lucknow police reached the spot to inspect the room.

Clothes recovered from Lucknow hotel room
Clothes recovered from Lucknow hotel room
Clothes recovered from Lucknow hotel room
Clothes recovered from Lucknow hotel room

It is interesting to note here that the murderers, Moinuddin and Ashfaq wore saffron and red kurtas while committing the murder. Saffron is often associated with Hindutva and hence, it appears that saffron clothes were worn to mislead people into believing that the perpetrators were not Islamic radicals, but people who believed in Hindutva.

When the hotel register was checked by the police, the following names were used to rent the room.

1. Shiekh Ashfaq Hussain (Son of Zakir Hussain)

2. Pathan Moinuddin Ahmed.

They were found to be from Surat, Gujarat by the field unit inspecting the hotel and the room.

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The room number that was inspected was G-103 which is located in the basement. The perpetrators went to the room on 17th October 2019 at around 11:08 PM. On 18th, the police say that the perpetrators left the hotel at around 10:38 AM and returned again at about 1:21 PM and then again, left at 1:37 PM.

From the room, the field unit of Lucknow police found the clothes the perpetrators were wearing stained with blood. Even the towel that was lying open in the room had blood stains on them. Further, the police found shaving kit, glasses, bags and other personal items.

The police is also tracing the location of the murderers. According to information, the murderers left the Lucknow hotel room and then, from Hardoi and Bareilly, they reached Gaziabad. The police have managed to trace their location till Gaziabad and further investigation is on.

Read: Dear DGP OP Singh, people with a violent dogma don’t need a Kamlesh Tiwari to get radicalised

According to Lucknow police, the room G-103 has now been sealed after all the evidence material was collected.

Kamlesh Tiwari was arrested by the then Akhilesh Yadav government for his remarks against Prophet Mohammad’s sexuality in 2015. Muslim groups in Deoband, Saharanpur and West Bengal had launched massive riots and protests demanding Tiwari’s death.

Read: ‘Target for Jihadis’: 2 days before his murder, Kamlesh Tiwari wrote about UP IB speaking to him about the threat to his life

Kamlesh Tiwari had remained in jail or over a year after the National Security Act was slapped on him. In September 2016, the Allahabad HC had finally quashed the NSA  charges against him and he was released later. The arrest and subsequent charges on Kamlesh Tiwari over remarks against Prophet Muhammad had caused an outrage in the nation, especially among Hindu groups.

In Kaliachak, Malda, West Bengal, Muslims had engaged in rampant violence and riots while ‘protesting’ against Tiwari’s remarks. Over 2.5 lakh Muslims had gathered in Kaliachak and had looted shops, burnt buses and had set fire to a police station to express their anger over Tiwari’s remarks. Tiwari’s remarks had come after SP leader Azam Khan’s statement that RSS members are homosexuals.

Pakistan: Another Hindu girl abducted and forcefully converted to Islam and married off in Sindh province

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Pakistan: Another Hindu girl abducted and forcefully converted to Islam and married off in Sindh province

In yet another deplorable act of forced conversion to Islam in the terror state of Pakistan, a young Hindu girl has been allegedly abducted and converted to Islam. The Hindu victim was later forcibly married by the abductor, reports Times Now.

According to reports, a young girl named Chandri Kolhi from Noukot, Mirpurkhas, was allegedly abducted, converted and married to Allah Dino. The family of the girl filed a complaint alleging that she was abducted and forcefully converted to Islam.

The brutalities against minorities continue unabated in the terrorist state of Pakistan as multiple instances of atrocities against minorities especially Hindus and Sikhs have been reported recently.

This horrific news comes just a month after the killing of Namrita Chandani, who was found dead in her hostel room. Even though the local police had said that the girl committed suicide, however, the girl’s kin claimed that she was murdered. The rumours began circulating that it was potentially the case of forced conversion.

Read: Pakistan: Hindu student found dead in hostel room, foulplay suspected even as college admin tries to pass it off as suicide

Earlier last month, following an allegation of blasphemy against a Hindu school principal, Hindu temples, shops and homes of minority Hindus were ransacked by Muslim rioters. However, later it was revealed that the attack on Hindus was a pre-planned event to cover-up a child abduction incident. The school principal had thwarted efforts by giving refuge to one of the Hindu girls, who was abducted by associates of child kidnapper radical Islamist Mian Mithoo.

Pakistan is notoriously known for its persecution of not only religious minorities but also ethnic minorities within their own country. The forceful conversion programmes have often been unleashed against the minorities especially Christians, Sikhs and Hindus living in Pakistan with utmost brutality.

This violence against Hindus in Pakistan’s Ghotki comes months after a series of abductions and forceful conversions of minority Hindu and Sikh girls. In March, two underage Hindu girls Raveena (13) and Reena (15) were abducted from the Ghotki in Pakistan’s Sindh on the eve of Holi. The girls were later forcefully converted and married off to older Muslim men.

Earlier, Jagjit Kaur, a Sikh girl was abducted and forcibly converted to Islam in Nankana Sahib which had caused a huge uproar. In another horrific incident, a 13-year-old Pooja Sotahar Kumari, daughter of Fatan Rathore, resident of village Bakhsho Laghari in Hyderabad district’s Hosri Taluka, was kidnapped, forcefully converted and subsequently married off to a man identified as Syed Irshad Shah.

I would not condemn the killing of Kamlesh Tiwari, he deserved this fate: Political Analyst Abdul Razack Khan

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I would not condemn the killing of Kamlesh Tiwari, he deserved this fate: Political Analyst Abdul Razack Khan

A political analyst named Abdul Razack Khan appearing on the Times Now debate on Saturday said that the slain Hindu leader Kamlesh Tiwari deserved the brutal death and he would not condemn the killing.

Abdul Razack Khan, who identifies himself as a political analyst on Saturday appeared on Times Now debate to discuss the fateful murder of Hindu Mahasabha leader Kamlesh Tiwari. During the debate, Khan said that he will not condemn the killing of Kamlesh Tiwari and asserted that the deceased deserved this fate.


Abdul Razack Khan, who proclaims himself to be a political analyst has been associated with multiple political parties. Reportedly, he was a BSP candidate for the BBMP municipal polls and also performed his role as a JDS spokesperson in the past.

The horrific killing of Hindu Mahasabha leader Kamlesh Tiwari by Islamist has shaken the collective conscience of the society. The killing of Kamlesh Tiwari was even welcomed by some sections of Muslim societies, as they expressed their jubilation over his death on social media.

Read: Shamim, Faizan and Mohsin Sheikh admit they killed Kamlesh Tiwari over his Prophet Muhammad remarks, plot hatched over 2 months

Former Hindu Mahasabha leader Kamlesh Tiwari was assassinated on Friday by two men who entered his house in Lucknow with a gun and a knife concealed in packets of sweets and had brutally murdered him by slashing his throat.

UP DGP OP Singh had informed in a press conference that the three suspects and the two killers were all radicalised and they had planned Tiwari’s murder because of the remarks he had made in 2015, calling Prophet Muhammad gay.

On Saturday, Gujarat ATS arrested three accused- Shamim, Faizan and Mohsin Sheikh from Surat in connection with Tiwari’s murder. According to the sources, they have confessed to the killing of Tiwari citing his remarks on Prophet Muhammad in 2015 as the motive behind the murder.

Reportedly, the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh Yogi Adityanath is scheduled to meet the family of the deceased Kamlesh Tiwari at his official residence in Lucknow at 11 AM on Sunday.

Kamlesh Tiwari case: Woman seen in CCTV footage identified as Shahnaz Bano, police rules out her involvement in murder

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Kamlesh Tiwari case: Woman seen in CCTV footage identified as Shahnaz Bano, police rules out her involvement in murder

As per reports, the woman who was seen in the CCTV footage of Kamlesh Tiwari murder case suspects, is one Shahnaz Bano. The police, upon initial investigation, has reportedly ruled out her involvement in the murder. As per Live Hindustan, Shahnaz Bano is a resident of Mandiya and was in Ganeshganj to campaign for an upcoming bypoll. The two suspects reportedly asked her way to Khurshedbag Colony. The police and STF interrogated her and ruled out her involvement in the brutal murder of Kamlesh Tiwari.

Late night on Friday, hours after Tiwari was assassinated at his office in Lucknow, CCTV footage revealed murder suspects walking toward his office. Two men and a woman, now identified as Shahnaz Bano, wearing orange clothes were seen walking toward Tiwari’s office.

At one point in the video, the man on the left turns back and appears to be speaking to Shahnaz Bano. The family of the woman claims that after the CCTV footage of Kamlesh Tiwari murder suspects went viral, they only approached the police.

Read: Lest we forget: When countless Muslims marched, went on a rampage and rioted demanding the head of Kamlesh Tiwari

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath will meet Tiwari’s kin today at 11 AM. The Gujarat ATS has also arrested three youth Khurshid Pathan, Faizan Pathan and Mohsin Sheikh from Surat who had reportedly confessed to the crime of murdering Kamlesh Tiwari in his residence. On Saturday, UP DGP OP Singh had informed in a press conference that the three suspects and the two killers were all radicalised and they had planned Tiwari’s murder because of the remarks he had made in 2015, calling Prophet Muhammad gay.

Read: UP DGP’s press conference: Confirms Gujarat ATS arrests, says suspects were radicalised and planned Kamlesh Tiwari’s murder

However, casting aspersions on those arrested, Kamlesh’s son Satyam Tiwari said that the video footage of these three accused should be matched with those who entered their house and killed his father. He further said that his family’s demand is to have an NIA probe and they have no trust over the state administration.

The Lucknow divisional commissioner Mukesh Meshram met with the bereaved family members of slain Kamlesh Tiwari, assuring the family of security and financial aid. “We have taken their demands into consideration. A meeting with UP CM Yogi Adityanath has been fixed for the family. We are ensuring their security and recommending a government residence for them,” he added.

He further said that a gun will be provided to the eldest son of Kamlesh Tiwari for self-defence. “A licensed weapon will be provided to the eldest son for self-defence. He’ll also be recommended for a job. They will be helped with monetary assistance. The investigation into Kamlesh Tiwari’s murder is currently underway,’ he said.

Ayodhya case: Hindu parties allege violation of court order as Muslim parties submit ‘moulding of relief’ in sealed cover

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Ayodhya case: Hindu parties allege violation of court order as Muslim parties submit ‘moulding of relief’ in sealed cover

In a new twist in the politically sensitive Ram Janambhoomi-Babri Masjid dispute case, the Muslim parties have received flak from the concerned Hindu parties, for submitting the ‘moulding of relief’ in a sealed envelope before the court.

The objecting Hindu parties have alleged that this is a gross violation of court orders. In a letter to Secretary-General of the Supreme Court, it said the Muslim parties did not take permission to file documents related to relief before the court in a sealed cover.


The letter by the Hindu side said: “The filing of submissions in a sealed cover without service upon the parties appearing in the case is improper and cannot be taken on record, especially when the hearing of the case is concluded and judgement is reserved.”

“The practice of filing written submissions in a sealed is not permissible as it encourages addressing the court in secrecy, keeping the other party in the dark, and it would also prejudice the rights of the other parties”, said the Hindu side.

Ejaz Maqbool, advocate-on-record, for one of the main litigants in the case, filed the submissions in a sealed cover. It is learnt it is a joint submission by all the Muslim parties involved in the matter.

The “moulding of relief” in civil disputes is usually nature of relief parties seek from the court, and it can be resorted to at the time of consideration of final relief in the main suit and not at an interlocutory stage. In simple terms means the kind of other options that the SC can consider incase the verdict does not go in favour of any party.

The Supreme Court on October 16 had reserved its judgement in the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid title dispute case after hearing arguments from all the concerned parties.

The Hindu side has also urged the court to return the sealed cover submissions as defective and that it should not be placed before the five-judge bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi as they questioned as to why the Muslim parties were trying to maintain secrecy and keeping the other parties in the dark.

It is pertinent to note here that while the Muslim parties had made submissions in a sealed envelope the Hindu parties had made the details of its ‘moulding of relief’ public.

Kartick Chopra, the spokesperson for Nirmohi Akhara, said: “Sealed cover submission is not at all accepted. How do we know what is filed? Technically, they should have circulated their submissions among other parties involved in the dispute.”

The marathon hearing in the case concluded after forty days, making the Ayodhya hearing as the second-longest in the history of the Supreme court after the landmark hearing in Keshavananda Bharati case which lasted for 68 days.

Reportedly, the Supreme Court finished hearing all arguments in the Ayodhya case one hour before the set deadline. The Supreme Court has allowed the parties to submit their written notes over the next three days.

On the last day, in a high octane drama, the senior advocate Rajeev Dhavan, representing the Muslim parties in the Ram Janmabhoomi – Babri Masjid land dispute case, suffered a meltdown and tore up a pictorial map showing the exact birthplace of Lord Ram.

Later, Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha (ABHM) filed a complaint with the Bar Council of India (BCI) against Dhavan. BJP leader Abhishek Dubey also filed a police complaint demanding FIR against advocate Rajeev Dhavan.

Moreover, the Supreme Court witnessed another drama on the last day of hearing after the CJI fixed 5 pm as the deadline for concluding arguments in the protracted legal battle. “Enough is enough”, had said the bench, which revised the deadline for the case from October 17 to a day earlier.

The Supreme Court had been hearing a total of fourteen appeals filed against the 2010 judgment of Allahabad High Court which ordered that the 2.77-acre land in Ayodhya be partitioned equally among three parties – the Sunni Waqf Board, the Nirmohi Akhara and Ram Lalla.

A five-judge Constitution Bench headed by Chief Justice of India (CJI) Ranjan Gogoi had earlier asked for parties to conclude their arguments in the land dispute case to be concluded by October 17. The bench also comprises of Justices S A Bobde, D Y Chandrachud, Ashok Bhushan and S Abdul Nazeer, who are hearing appeals against the September 30, 2010, verdict of the Allahabad High Court.

The Supreme Court has been carrying out day-to-day hearing of the case and the arguments were to be concluded by 18th October but then, October 17 was given the last date for arguments. The Supreme Court had earlier warned that the parties will not be given any extra day. It is speculated that the Supreme Court will deliver the judgement on or before November 17, the day CJI Ranjan Gogoi retires.

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