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Uttar Pradesh: Rampur Police shoots Nazil, accused of abducting, raping and killing a 6-year-old girl

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Uttar Pradesh: Rampur Police shoots Nazil, accused of abducting, raping and killing a 6-year-old girl

The Rampur police, in an encounter, shot a person named Nazil, who was accused of abducting, raping and subsequently killing a 6-year-old minor girl on May 7 in Rampur district, Uttar Pradesh. As per reports when Nazil was trying to escape, he shot at the Police officials and in retaliatory firing by Rampur Police, he was injured.

The police have also recovered the dead body of the minor victim on Saturday, confirmed the Superintendent of police, Rampur, Uttar Pradesh.


Talking to media the Rampur police confirmed that the civil line Rampur police got engaged in an encounter with Nazil, who was absconding after executing the crime. The accused was arrested after he injured both his legs in the encounter. The police admitted him to a local hospital where is recovering, confirmed the police.

Disturbingly, such incidents of sexual abuse against children have become rampant in India. Today, we had reported how a man named Tausif Imran Khan (19) in Vadodara had repeatedly raped a 14-year-old class X girl and recorded her on his mobile phone. Allegedly the man had also attempted to brainwash her to convert to Islam by taking her to various religious places.

In yet another horrific incident, a teen boy was allegedly raped by four men of his village in the Puwaya area in Shahjahanpur. The incident took place on June 17th evening when the four accused forcibly took the 13-year-old boy to an orchard and allegedly raped him, said the police.

On June 9, a man named Shahnawaj was caught red-handed after he raped a 9-year old Dalit girl. Shahnawaj, a native of the town, had called the victim to his place on the pretext of giving her some clothes. As soon as the victim reached his place, he took her inside a room and allegedly raped her.

Similarly, on June 14, a 55-year-old man, Kalam Ansari was caught raping a 10-year-old girl Meera (name changed) on June 10.

In a similar deplorable incident at Aligarh, one Zahid had brutally choked a minor girl, Tina Sharma (name changed) to death over an argument with her family regarding a small loan amount. The brutal incident had shocked the conscience of the nation.

Zahid had brutally choked Tina with a dupatta (scarf) and hid the body in his house in a straw bag. After three days when the corpse started emitting a foul smell, Zahid threw Tina in a pile of trash. Tina’s body was completely decomposed with her eyes gouged out.

Note: The report has been updated with more recent information which has come to fore.

Air India Regional Director suspended on the allegation of shoplifting a wallet from a duty-free shop at Sydney airport

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Air India Regional Director suspended on the allegation of shoplifting a wallet from a duty-free shop at Sydney airport

In a major embarrassment to Air India, the national carrier’s Regional Director for East, Captain Rohit Bhasin was suspended after a complaint was filed against him by Australian Regional Manager about shoplifting. Bhasin, who is also a pilot of Air India, was caught shoplifting a wallet from a duty-free shop at Sydney airport.


According to an Air India spokesperson, an inquiry has been initiated by the airline into the incident that took place yesterday.


The incident reportedly happened before Captain Bhasin was to operate the flight AI301 from the Sydney airport. Swift action was taken by the concerned authorities and he was suspended. Apart from suspension, he has also been barred from entering the premises of Air India without written permission of the management and he was also asked to surrender his company identity card and not to take employment anywhere else.

“It has been reported by Reginal Manager Australia that you allegedly committed an act of shoplifting from a duty-free shop at Sydney airport before the departure of flight AI301 on 22nd June 2019 from Sydney airport for which you were restored as one of the Commanders. Without prejudice to any disciplinary action to be initiated against you and pending inquiry, you are hereby placed under suspension with immediate effect”, the suspension order issued by Air India stated.

The Air India spokesperson said that the airline laid the highest stress on the proper conduct of its staff and had a zero-tolerance policy towards acts of impropriety.

Rohit Bhasin’s family is a pilot’s family, and they are known as the flying family, as his wife, and their two children, son and daughter, are also pilots. Bhasin’s father was one of the 7 pilots in the country to become a commander in 1954.

Union Minister Smriti Irani to build a house at Amethi to be more accessible, does what Rahul Gandhi could not do in last 15 years

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Union Minister Smriti Irani to build a house at Amethi to be more accessible, does what Rahul Gandhi could not do in last 15 years

After her resounding victory against Gandhi scion Rahul Gandhi at his own bastion –  Amethi, Union Minister and Amethi MP Smriti Irani has decided to make Amethi her home by announcing that she will build her own house in the constituency to be more accessible to the people.

According to the reports, Smriti Irani has already identified a plot for the same in the Gauriganj locality of Amethi. The announcement was made in the presence of UP deputy CM and PWD minister Keshav Prasad Maurya at the inauguration of a Rs 30-crore road project. At the end of the programme, keys of houses under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojan were distributed among residents of Amethi.

Interestingly, Rahul Gandhi who had won three times from Amethi in 2004, 2009 and 2014, and Sonia Gandhi had won from the seat in 1999. Before that, Sanjay Gandhi had represented Amethi once and Rajiv Gandhi had won three times, 1984, 1989 and in 1991 post his assassination. Despite having such a long association with the place, the Gandhi family do not even have a house there. Instead, they stay at a guest house during their visits to Amethi.

Smriti Irani visiting her constituency for the first time after her victory against Rahul Gandhi assured the people that having a home in the parliamentary constituency will make her more accessible to them.

Meanwhile, the Union Minister also promised that those who voted for Rahul Gandhi will not be deprived of her welfare scheme. “I understand that there are some four lakh people who voted the Congress. They must not worry about benefiting from welfare schemes like Ujjwala, PMAY, and toilets under Swachh Bharat.”

Smriti Irani has time and again demonstrated her commitment towards the people of the Amethi. Despite losing to Rahul Gandhi in 2014, Smriti Irani chose to stay and work in the Gandhi bastion while vowing to return back to power by defeating Rahul Gandhi at Amethi. She had rented a house in Gauriganj in Amethi and stayed there.

Recently, Smriti Irani had even given her shoulder to the funeral procession of BJP worker Surendra Singh, who was shot dead immediately after the general election, resolving to bring the killers under the law.

Pakistan had kept one of its most advanced submarines hidden after Balakot strikes, Indian Navy detected it after a 21-day search

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Pakistan had kept one of its most advanced submarines hidden after Balakot strikes, Indian Navy detected it after a 21-day search

In the aftermath of the cowardly Pulwama terror attack in which 40 CRPF personnel were martyred, India pulled out its Navy from an exercise and deployed its fleet including nuclear and conventional submarines, close to Pakistani territorial waters, reports ANI.

The report mentions that Pakistan was worried about the Indian Navy’s aggressive deployment near Pakistani territorial waters, and it had thought that New Delhi will deploy its Navy to retaliate against the Pulwama attack s by Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM). However, India surprised Pakistan by carrying out a ‘non-military pre-emptive strike’ – Operation Bandar – on Jaish-e-Mohammed terror camps in Pakistan’s Balakot in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.

Meanwhile, India also kept a check on Pakistan’s military movement near the Line of Control. However, a senior government source said that after Balakot airstrike Pakistan’s Agosta-class submarines – PNS Saad, vanished from the Pakistani waters.

As PNS Saad – one of the most technologically advanced submarines of the Pakistan Navy disappeared, the Indian Navy was put on high-alert to track the submarine, which has an air-independent propulsion system that gives the submarine an ability to remain submerged for a longer period of time compared to other subs in its class.

“The location near Karachi, Pakistan, from where the PNS Saad vanished, it could reach the Gujarat coast in three days and the headquarters of the western fleet in Mumbai within five days and was seen as a major threat to the security of the country,” said a source close to ANI.

Immediately after receiving this report, the Navy deployed its anti-submarine warfare specialist warships and aircraft to track and the hunt for the missing Pakistani submarine.

“All the areas where it could have gone in the given timeframe, extensive searches were carried out by the Indian Navy. P-8Is were pressed into service to locate the submarine along with the coastal areas of Gujarat followed by Maharashtra and other states,” ANI quoted the sources as saying.

The Indian Navy took all the precautionary measures so as to ensure that the submarine had not entered Indian waters. The plan was to track the submarine and then force it to the surface once it was located and if need be then take stern action against it.

India had also deployed nuclear submarine INS Chakra near the Pakistani waters with clear instructions to keep looking for the missing Pakistani submarine and apart from this newly inducted Scorpene-class submarine INS Kalvari was also deployed.

With each passing day, the Indian Navy kept expanding its area of search for the Pakistani submarine while also using reconnaissance satellites to help the ground fleet posted about any movements in India’s territorial waters.

Eventually, after 21 days of an extensive search operation, PNS Saad was located on the western side of Pakistan to protect it from any attack if hostilities between the nuclear-armed neighbours escalated. It was sent there for hiding in order to ensure a covert capability in case of extension in hostilities in the aftermath of the Balakot airstrikes.

Indian Navy spokesperson Captain DK Sharma had said that Indian Navy’s overwhelming superiority forced the Pakistan Navy to not venture out in the open ocean. The Navy is maintaining complete surveillance of the Arabian Sea, especially Pakistani waters, and is aware of Pakistan’s naval activities in the area.

As per the sources, the Navy had deployed around 60 warships, including the aircraft carrier INS Vikramaditya and its battle group in the North Arabian Sea.

“The overwhelming superiority of the Indian Navy in all three dimensions forced the Pakistan Navy to remain deployed close to the Makran coast and not venture out in the open ocean,” a statement by Indian Navy spokesperson Captain DK Sharma had said at that time.

Scuffle broke out at Vijayawada Municipal Corporation meeting after portraits of NTR and Naidu replaced with that of Jaganmohan Reddy

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Scuffle broke out at Vijayawada Municipal Corporation meeting after portraits of NTR and Naidu replaced with that of Jaganmohan Reddy

A scuffle broke out at a council meeting of the Vijayawada Municipal Corporation yesterday after portraits of Telugu Desam Party (TDP) leaders N T Rama Rao and N Chandrababu Naidu were replaced with that of Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister and Chief of YSR Congress Party Y S Jaganmohan Reddy at the council hall.


The portraits of NTR and Naidu were removed from the council hall by the corporation officials ahead of a meeting. When this was noticed by Vijayawada Mayor Koneru Sridhur, he ordered the portraits to be restored, especially that of NTR.

This was met with protests by YSRCP councillors who demanded that if NTR’s portrait was to remain at the council wall permanently then a portrait of former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhar Reddy should also be permanently placed there.

The newly elected Andhra government had taken possession of the Conference Hall next to the residence of former CM Chandrasekhar Naidu yesterday only. Also, all the belongings of Naidu were reportedly thrown out by the Andhra Pradesh Capital Development Authority (APCRDA) and the premises were locked.

Taking political dynastic succession forward, BSP chief Mayawati gives two important party positions to brother and nephew

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Taking political dynastic succession forward, BSP chief Mayawati gives two important party positions to brother and nephew

BSP supremo Mayawati has appointed two of her relatives in key posts in the party. Today she gave away the two most important party positions of the national vice-president and national coordinator to her brother, Anand Kumar and nephew, Akash Anand respectively.

Along with her 24-year-old nephew Akash Anand, former party VP Ramji Gautam was also chosen as BSP’s national coordinator. Moreover, the JD(s) turncoat, Danish Ali was elected as leader of Bahujan Samaj Party in Lok Sabha.


Akash made his first public appearance in 2016 when he accompanied Mayawati to Saharanpur. The 24-year-old nephew also shared the stage with her during a rally in Meerut in February 2017. According to sources, Akash’s induction to the party was a part of Mayawati’s bigger strategy of attracting young voters towards the BSP.

Mayawati’s nephew’s elevation is being considered crucial as it is speculated that he would eventually be the front-runner to take over the party reigns after the BSP chief. In January 2019, unfazed by the criticism Mayawati had inducted her nephew Akash Anand, an undergraduate from a university in London, into the party.

In April 2019, during the last day of campaigning for the second phase of the Lok Sabha polls, Akash had replaced the BSP chief in an election rally. Mayawati didn’t attend the Agra rally due to a ban by EC and instead, she had sent him as her representative to the rally with her message. She asked her followers to give her nephew due to honour as they would have given her.

Basically, being a shrewd politician that she is, she used the EC ban as a blessing in disguise, for formally launching her nephew Akash Anand into politics.

In India, dynastic succession in political parties is the key to keep the fibres of patronage intact, Congress party being the utmost examples of this approach.

In a similar development, taking the tradition forward, Andhra Pradesh CM Jagan Reddy had appointed his uncle Y V Subba Reddy as the Chairman of Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanam Trust Board.

Moreover, a similar strategy was also followed by West Bengal CM, Mamata Banerjee who had appointed her nephew Abhishek Banerjee as the head of her party’s youth wing in 2012.

Tausif Imran Khan repeatedly raped class X girl in Vadodara, took her to religious places to brainwash and convert her

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Tausif Imran Khan repeatedly raped class X girl in Vadodara, took her to religious places to brainwash and convert her

In Vadodara, a Muslim man repeatedly rapes a 14-year-old class X girl and recorded her on his mobile phone, reports Times of India. Allegedly the man had also attempted to brainwash her to convert to Islam by taking her to various religious places.

19-year-old Tausif Imran Khan, a class XII student who lived in Manjalpur, has been booked under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act for sexually exploiting a minor. Police say that he used to take the girl to Lalbaug garden and also near the ONGC campus on Pratapnag to sexually harass her. Her parents have claimed that Khan used to force her to commit sexual acts while being recorded.

The police investigation has revealed that Khan used to share pictures and videos of the girl on Tik Tok. He didn’t share any obscene content of the girl. However, he threatened to use them when the girl’s parents confronted him.

The parents discovered the girl’s exploitation when on June 20th they decided to follow her. They found out that Khan took her to Lalbaug garden and then to Hazira tomb on Pratapnagar Road. They complained that the girl was taken to various religious places in an attempt to brainwash her to convert to Islam. On being promised of marriage the girl had also started to fast for Ramzan.

According to the police, Khan had met the girl at an examination centre for the Gujarat board exams. He made repeatedly following the girl, contacting her and promised her of marriage. He had also been previously booked under POSCO for molesting a minor in 2017. He has been picked up from home but yet to be formally arrested.

There have been several incidents of the rape of minors in the past few months. In Kanpur, a Maulvi had raped a minor in a Madarasa. In another shocking case, 2 Muslim men have been arrested for raping a 12-year-old girl. In another rape of a minor in a Madarasa, the victim’s family are traumatized after Islamist trolls demanded to marry her off to her rapist.

Another case against rape accused BSP MLA, this time for proving false information in his 2019 Lok Sabha election affidavit

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Another case against rape accused BSP MLA, this time for proving false information in his 2019 Lok Sabha election affidavit

Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) MLA from Ghosi constituency in Uttar Pradesh, Atul Rai who recently surrendered in court for a rape case he is accused in might be fresh trouble with a case being registered against him for providing false information in his 2019 Lok Sabha election affidavit.

The FIR was registered by Assistant District Election Officer Shabbir Ahmad after it was found that he had mentioned 13 cases against him in his election affidavit but had a total of 24 cases against him.

The FIR was lodged under different sections of IPC including 177 (furnishing false information), 420 (forgery) besides others.

BJP candidate Harinarain Rajbhar had made the complaint in this regard with the administration.

Atul Rai is also a rape accused who recently surrendered to the court. At the commencement of the first sitting of the 17th Lok Sabha, there was uncertainty whether Rai would turn up for the oath but he didn’t, possibly fearing arrest by the police in the rape case. Rai had absconded since his name first emerged in the kidnapping and rape case. He had not surrendered even when his anticipatory bail pleas were rejected by the courts. The Varanasi court has sentenced him to 14-days judicial custody after he surrendered.

Dainik Bhaskar publishes exaggerated amounts as extra cost to air travellers due to closure of Pakistani airspace

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Dainik Bhaskar publishes exaggerated amounts as extra cost to air travellers due to closure of Pakistani airspace

Today the Hindi newspaper Dainik Bhaskar published an article regarding increased cost the airlines are having to bear due to the continued closure of international airspace over Pakistan. In the headline, the article says that daily 70000 travellers are paying upto 5 times more airfare due to this. Although it is correct that Airlines are having to spend more due to the longer route they are having to take bypassing Pakistan, the numbers mentioned in the report are highly exaggerated and defy logic.

The report by Dainik Bhaskar mentions that daily around 233 flights to and from India are affected due to the closure of Pakistani airspace, which carries around 70 thousand passengers. According to the report, passengers travelling to Europe and the US are paying 4 to 5 times more in ticket price due to this. But this is clearly an exaggeration, as airfare has not gone up by that much. A simple search on online ticketing portals show that the cost of flight tickets to European and American destinations remain the same as usual price, they have not gone up by any significant amount.

Moreover, the flight time has gone up by 1-2 hours for most airlines due to avoiding Pakistani airspace, which would be around 20% increase for a 10-hour flight. So, there is no reason why the ticket price will go up by 5 times for that increase.

The article also mentions that Air India is spending Rs 6 crore extra for its flights to Europe and the US due to the change in route. The flight time has increased, and the non-stop flights to New York are having to halt for refuelling. This has added extra fuel and airport ground handling charges for the already loss-making airlines. But an earlier article in Business Standard has mentioned that Air India was losing Rs 3 crore daily due to this reason. So, this means the amount has doubled to Rs 6 crore in the Dainik Bhaskar report.

Flight tracking map showing the flight path of a Delhi-Rome flight bypassing Pakistan. source: flightradar24.com

The report also used this Air India’s increased amount to calculate the total additional cost of all 233 flights. But that is incorrect as not all flights are having to stop for refuelling due to the route change. Only the non-stop flights to the US are having to do that. For flights to Europe, the Middle East and central Asia, only flight time has increased by around 1-2 hours. Hence the amount of additional cost will be less for such flights as planes burn less fuel while cruising at 30,000 feet, compared to fuel used for extra landing and taking off for refuelling, and there are no extra ground handling charges for such flights.

Moreover, flights connecting Delhi are most impacted by the changed route. Flights connecting Mumbai and other airports in Southern India anyway fly over the Arabian sea for travelling to Europe and the US, therefore the impact of the closure of Pakistani airspace is limited to only a few fights. Therefore, it is wrong to claim that the entire daily 70 thousand passengers are paying 5 times extra due to the closure of airspace over Pakistan, as claimed by the article.

Pakistan had completely closed its airspace and grounded its airlines after the airstrike on a terror camp in Balakot by Indian Air Force in February this year. Later the airspace was opened up for domestic airlines and international flights connecting Pakistan. But flying over the country by international flights remains banned by the country. This has forced all planes that earlier flew over Pakistan to now go southward and fly over Arabian Sea. Recently it was reported that Pakistan will re-open the airspace only if India promises to not conduct Balakot like strikes in future.

Mirchi baba files a complaint after he receives 3000 calls about his promise to do ‘Jal Samadhi’ if Digvijaya Singh loses

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Mirchi baba files a complaint after he receives 3000 calls about his promise to do ‘Jal Samadhi’ if Digvijaya Singh loses

A self-proclaimed godman Swami Vairagyanand Giri, otherwise known as Mirchi Baba, who had promised to take Jal Samadhi if Bhopal Congress Digvijaya Singh lost, has now lodged a complaint with police after receiving more than 3000 calls on his mobile regarding ‘Jal Samadhi’.

Reportedly, controversial Mirchi baba had performed a Yagna by burning 5 quintals of red chilly ahead of the Lok Sabha elections to help senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh win from Bhopal. During this Yagna, he had vowed to take ‘Jal Samadhi’ if Singh loses. Congress leader Digvijaya Singh lost the Bhopal Lok Sabha elections to BJP candidate Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur.

After Digvijaya Singh’s defeat to Sadhvi Pragya, a social media campaign was launched to search for the godman. Later on 25 May a symbolic Jal Samadhi was also performed by the BJP supporters. Around the same time, the godman was quoted as calling his statement a political gimmick.

Subsequently, he decided to change track and requested to perform Jal Samadhi at 2.11 PM on 16 June which is reportedly the auspicious time of Anuradha Nakshatra, Chaturdashi. However, the district administration denied any such permission.

The controversial baba has now lodged a complaint with police after receiving such many messages as his ‘Jal Samadhi’ promise turned out to be just a political gimmick. Based on his complaint, a case under section 507 (criminal intimidation by an anonymous communication) of Indian Penal Code (IPC) has been registered against Narendra Giri and others at Ayodhya Nagar police station.

Investigation officer in the case, sub-inspector Yashwant Singh Parihar said, “A case has been registered against Narendra Giri and others and we have started an investigation. The call details are being looked into, and further course of action will be decided after the investigation”.

“In more than 100 pages we have submitted the details of around 3000 mobile phone numbers from which calls and threats were received. We have informed the police that Narendra Giri and people close to him had made these calls and threatened Swami Vairagyanand Giri,” said Syed Majid Ali, the advocate of the Swami Vairagyanand Giri.

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