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Supreme Court asks UP government to display ‘magnanimity’ in releasing journalist Prashant Kanojia

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Supreme Court asks UP government to display ‘magnanimity’ in releasing journalist Prashant Kanojia

Freelance journalist Prashant Kanojia, who was arrested by the Uttar Pradesh government for posting derogatory tweets about Gods, Goddesses and inflammatory posts on UP CM Yogi Adityanath, has been asked to be released by the apex court. The Supreme Court has asked the UP government to show ‘magnanimity’ in releasing the controversial journalist Prashant Kanojia.


Hearing the habeas corpus petition filed by Kanojia’s wife, Jagisha Arora, seeking his release, the vacation bench of Justice Indira Banerjee and Justice Ajay Rastogi passed the order. The bench observed that the arrest and remand were illegal, violating the principle of ‘Liberty’ enshrined in the constitution.

Representing the prosecution, Additional Solicitor General Vikramjit Banerjee asserted that the arrest was necessary “to send a message” that inflammatory tweets cannot be permitted. However, the bench rejected it, opting for the primacy of an individual’s personal liberty.

Advocate Nitya Ramakrishnan, the counsel for the defendant claimed that the alleged post uploaded by Prashant constitutes no prima facie criminal offence and that his arrest was totally unwarranted and an attack on free speech and right to life.

The Additional Solicitor General appearing for UP Government argued that the arrest was not solely for comments against the CM. The ASG cited several tweets posted by Kanojia in the past which were insulting gods, religious sentiments and people from particular castes and communities. He asserted that his arrest was made for public mischief, and Section 505 IPC was added in the FIR later.

However, the bench remained unconvinced. Justice Banerjee asked, “We do not appreciate his tweets. But can he be put behind the bars simply for that?” The Court also expressed its disbelief at 11 days remand ordered by the Magistrate. Justice Rastogi argued, “Is he accused of murder?”

The ASG responded back claiming that there were SC precedents that remand orders cannot be challenged in habeas corpus petition and that the appropriate remedy was to seek bail from lower courts. ASG mentioned that the remand orders have been passed by the Magistrate and hence Article 32 shouldn’t be entertained. But the court didn’t budge at this technical objection. It mentioned Article 142 of the Constitution that grants SC powers to do “complete justice”.


On Saturday, the UP police officials picked up Prashant Kanojia after a case was registered at Hazratganj police station, Lucknow. The arrest was made after he was accused of spreading rumours on social media. The police officials had confirmed that the accused has confessed to his crime.

A case was registered under IPC section 500 (defamation), 505 (statements conducing to public mischief) and section 67 of the IT act (publishing or transmitting obscene material in electronic form).

The accused Prashant Kanoja is notoriously known in social media circles for spreading fake news, rabid anti-Hindu hate especially against Dalits by making atrocious statements. Prashant Kanoja has a history of making vile comments against Dalits and Hindu saints. He had even referred to Dalits as ‘animals with no brains’.

The Court’s decision comes in stark contrast to the case in which a BJP youth wing leader Priyanka Sharma was arrested for sharing an innocuous meme on West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee and sent on remand for 14 days. The Court had then asked Sharma to tender an apology to the CM Mamata Banerjee for sharing the meme.

Justice Indira Banerjee had then contended that Freedom of Expression is non-negotiable, but it cannot encroach upon another person’s rights. Although the court later dispensed with the requirement of her apology to get bail, she was still asked to tender her apology after her release.

India stands by Israel, rejects request of Palestinian organisation ‘Shahed’ to obtain observer status in the UN

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India stands by Israel, rejects request of Palestinian organisation ‘Shahed’ to obtain observer status in the UN

India stood by Israel and voted against the granting of the status of an observer organisation to the Palestinian-Lebanese terror organization ‘Shahed’. On 6th June, in a resolution initiated by Israel, the Hamas allied group “The Palestinian Association for Human Rights – Witness” was prevented from receiving a special status at the UN.


As per the Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs press release, “Shahed is a Palestinian organisation based in Lebanon that claims to deal with human rights and humanitarian issues, but in practice is an organisation that Israel has declared a terrorist organisation and in fact, operates as an arm of the Hamas terror organisation in Lebanon”.

The Shahed has been registered in Lebanon under the name “Witness” which claims to support the rights of the 450,000 Palestinians living in the 12 UNRWA-run refugee camps across Lebanon.

Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu signed an order declaring “Witness” a terrorist organisation aligned with Hamas in March 2019. “In recent months, Israel’s security establishment has revealed that Witness belongs to the Hamas movement and acts on its behalf against Israel as part of a network of institutions and organisations the terrorist organization operates outside the Gaza Strip,” Israel’s Mission to the UN said in a statement Thursday.

In a February a Committee considered the application of several NGOs to grant them a special status at the UN. 236 NGOs were granted the special status on June 6th, however, the application of “Witness” was turned down after it “failed to present important information when its credentials were being considered during the Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations”.

Among the countries that were in favour were the resolution were countries like Brazil, Canada, Colombia, France, Germany, India, Ireland, Japan, Korea, Ukraine, United Kingdom, and the United States. Notably, the countries that voted against include Egypt, Iran, Morocco, Pakistan, Russia, Saudi Arabia and China.

The Israeli PM has on several occasions called for united action against ‘Radical Islam’ terming it as a ‘challenging our way of life’. Facebook had however temporarily blocked the PMs son for demanding revenge of an Islamic terrorist attack that left two Israeli soldiers dead.

In March, an Indian company, Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) signed a technology collaboration agreement (TCA) with an Israeli firm Elbit Systems Ltd for licensed manufacture of Helmet Mounted Display System to be used by Armed Forces pilots. In the Balakot airstrikes, Israeli made Spice 2000 precision bombs were used, with 80% bombs hitting the target. The IAF is also likely to buy an advanced ‘bunker-buster’ version of the same aircraft.

Action against ‘anti-NDTV’ officer result of various transgressions, cases against NDTV founders to continue

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Action against ‘anti-NDTV’ officer result of various transgressions, cases against NDTV founders to continue

In a major crackdown on corruption, as many as 12 government officials, including the Chief Commissioner, Principal Commissioners and the Commissioner of Income Tax Department have been ordered to retire early under Rule FR 56 (J) of the Central Civil Services (CCS) on Monday. The order was issued by Finance Ministry yesterday.

Finance Ministry sources said, “12 senior officers of ranks of Chief Commissioner, Principal Commissioners and Commissioner of Income Tax Department compulsorily retired under Rule 56 by the Finance Ministry”.

One name in that stood out in the list of 12 officers and created quite the flutter, was SK Srivastava, the man who had been leading the charge against NDTV.

S Gurumurthy, the part-time Director of the RBI and a crusader who has been highlighting NDTV’s shenanigans for a long time took to Twitter to express his concerns about SK Srivastava being sacked and what that would mean for the case against NDTV.

In an 88 page letter written to the CBI chief in April 2018, Srivastava had said that “NDTV Ltd. needs to be investigated over parking of bribe of US $40 million by Maxis and its owner T. Ananda Krishnan (accused in the Aircel-Maxis case) on behalf of P Chidambaram and Karti P. Chidambaram for obtaining FIPB approval in Rs.3500 crores. Aircel-Maxis deal fraudulently claiming the proposal for Rs.180 crores only when gross value of the proposal was to be considered and which has been hushed up by certain IRS officers in lieu of bribe paid by NDTV Ltd.”

Read also: Aircel Maxis: With CBI getting sanction to prosecute P Chidambaram, a relook at NDTV link and the IT officer’s letter to CBI


Interestingly, recently, NDTV had withdrawn a defamation case against activist and academician Madhu Kishwar for publishing an article that had the allegations that were levelled by SK Srivastava on the channel NDTV, its founders and even Abhisar Sharma, an ex-employee of NDTV.

After the 2017 CBI raids on NDTV founder Prannoy Roy’s house, several voices from within the journalist community had started questioning NDTV’s financial wrongdoings. Malini Parthasarathy, a Director in the company publishing the left-leaning newspaper The Hindu who has also served as its Editor earlier, said that she did not subscribe to the view that the case against NDTV was an attack on press freedom. She had also said that NDTV is hiding behind the press-freedom veil to skirt answering questions. After this, Prannoy Roy had blocked Malini on Twitter to avoid the embarrassment of answering her questions.

Meanwhile, BJP MP Subramanian Swamy said that he would be taking up the case of SK Srivastava, the IT Commissioner who was investigating NDTV. He also said that first, he will write to the Prime Minister regarding the issue too.


NDTV had alleged that SK Srivastava had harassed two women colleagues. The names of the 2 lady Income Tax officials are Sumana Sen and Ashima Neb. Sumana Sen’s husband Abhisar Sharma was employed with NDTV as a senior journalist, when Sen is alleged to have favoured NDTV in a Tax case, in exchange for a Rs 1 crore holiday.

After SK Srivastava was sacked by the government yesterday, Abhisar Sharma took to Twitter to celebrate the ‘victory’.


While the conversation around what would happen to the cases against NDTV has been raging on social media, government sources told OpIndia that the cases against SK Srivastava are aplenty because of which, among the 12 officers against whom action was taken, Srivastava was one of them.

He has been accused of two lady IRS officers of Commissioner rank. One of them, was incidentally the wife of Abhisar Sharma as mentioned before. We were informed that SK Srivastava had got tax evasions petition filed through a Member of Parliament stating that the two lady IRS officers of Commissioner rank (who were in vigilance department when SK Srivastava was suspended) had received huge income from corruption and prostitution. He pressurized the assessing officers to pass orders adding the alleged income of bribery and prostitution in their incomes. This was incidentally what Abhisar Sharma had claimed all along. He had asserted that he and his wife were innocent of the charges levied by Srivastava.

According to S Gurumurthy, however, the allegations of sexual harassment against SK Srivastava have been proven to be false.


He also allegedly threatens officers who refuse to cooperate with him with slander. Recently, as an instance, he filed a contempt petition against Former Revenue Secretary and the Establishment Officer in a frivolous case, according to government sources.

He has also allegedly been prolonging conclusion of departmental inquiry cases for the last 10 years by filing as many as 75 petitions in CAT, High Court, and Supreme Court.

In as many as eight cases, High Court and CAT have passed strictures and warning and imposed fines for his scandalous allegations against the lady officers and other higher officers. In one case he has been ordered to undergo civil imprisonment of 15 days for his allegations against the former Chairman and Members of CBDT. He has also filed contempt petitions against former Secretary Revenue.

It is because of these instances that the government took action against Srivastava along with 11 other officers who were accused in various other cases.

People in the know explain that any departmental inquiry doesn’t mean that every deed by that individual gets invalidated. What SK Srivastava would have found against NDTV or its founders, would still be valid regardless of the action against the officers.

Therefore, while NDTV or its founders might celebrate and cite it as proof of their innocence, that would not be legally sound, because departmental action against SK Srivastava doesn’t mean that everyone else has got a clean chit.

Match Preview – Bangladesh v Sri Lanka: Another washout expected

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Match Preview – Bangladesh v Sri Lanka: Another washout expected

A wet Tuesday is expected at Bristol as per the weather forecast, which means the third wash-out of the current tournament is on its way. The Pakistan-Sri Lanka and South Africa-West Indies match already washed out due to rain.

Both Bangladesh and Sri Lanka won one match each, but Sri Lanka has a better run rate. Sri Lankan team is more vigorous in bowling while Bangladesh has a better batting order.

But Bangladesh looks better on paper, and are favourites to win this contest. A win here will make the team one step closer to the top 4 sides of the tournament. Shakib Al Hasan has done everything right so far in three matches, and the team would be hoping him to click again in this game.

Sri Lanka, with already one match washed out, would like to see a full game happening to secure 2 points. Malinga is in fine form, and he can rip apart any batting line up. The weather condition will also favour the veteran pace bowler who is playing his 4th World Cup.

Players to watch out

Tamim Iqbal has not a great tournament so far. If Bangladesh needs to do well in batting, he has to deliver at the top. He can score quickly, which can make the base for a big total for Bangladesh.

Angelo Matthews, one of the best all-rounder in recent years, hasn’t delivered anything good for Lanka in the previous two games. He must be eagerly waiting to go out and prove his critics that he can still win matches for Sri Lanka.

Bangladesh v Sri Lanka in ODIs:

Overall: Matches 45, Bangladesh Won 7, Sri Lanka 36 No Result 2

World Cup: Matches 3, Bangladesh won 0, Sri Lanka won 3

Recent Form (most recent first): Bangladesh L L W W W, Sri Lanka NR W L W NR

ICC Rankings: Bangladesh (7), Sri Lanka (9)

Upcoming Records:

Mahmudullah has scored 491 runs in World Cup and needs nine more to reach the 500 runs milestone in the World Cup.

Shakib has taken 26 wickets in World Cup and needs four more to become the 1st Bangladeshi bowler to reach the 30 wickets milestone in the World Cup

Squads:

Bangladesh: Mashrafe Mortaza (capt), Abu Jayed, Liton Das (wk), Mahmudullah, Mehidy Hasan, Mohammad Mithun (wk), Mohammad Saifuddin, Mosaddek Hossain, Mushfiqur Rahim (wk), Mustafizur Rahman, Rubel Hossain, Sabbir Rahman, Shakib Al Hasan, Soumya Sarkar, Tamim Iqbal.

Sri Lanka: Dimuth Karunaratne (capt), Avishka Fernando, Suranga Lakmal, Lasith Malinga, Angelo Mathews, Jeevan Mendis, Kusal Mendis (wk), Kusal Perera (wk), Thisara Perera, Nuwan Pradeep, Dhananjaya de Silva, Milinda Siriwardana, Lahiru Thirimanne, Isuru Udana, Jeffrey Vandersay.

Kerala police join hands with Interpol to fight online sexual exploitation of children

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Kerala police join hands with Interpol to fight online sexual exploitation of children

Cybercrime involving sexual attacks on children has become rampant over the years. In order to curb this menace, the Cyberdome, a wing of the Kerala Police, which keeps a tab on all sorts of illegal activities in the cyber world, joined hands with the International Criminal Police Organisation (Interpol) on Monday.


In a meeting which took place on Monday between the Additional Director General of Police Manoj Abraham, who heads Cyberdome and the Interpol officials led by Guillermo Galarza, Director, Law Enforcement Training and Technology, International Centre for Missing and Exploited Children; and Jon Rouse, Senior Detective, Queensland Police Service, Australia, the Interpol offered to help by providing expert training to state police officials on ways to tackle these cases more efficiently.

The association would also lead to the transfer and development of the latest artificial intelligence powered cyber tools, to crack down on a wide range of crimes, especially against children.

This artificial intelligence technology would help the Kerala police track missing persons, especially children.

As per reports the Interpol also gave access to their latest cyber investigation tool, named the Internet Crimes Against Children and Child Online Protective Services (ICACCOPS) programme to the Kerala police.

This program, which can track online searches for child abuse content and identify IP addresses to track the location of those who share child pornography, helped the state police to apprehend 32 people in the last one week.

Investigators said the persons, driven by their sexual interest in children, also widely shared videos and pictures of children in their home, school, beach and leisure park environments more than they traded hardcore mainstream porn featuring juveniles.

Moreover, this programme can also be tweaked to conduct surveillance of persons suspected to have terrorist links and also to detect online fraudsters and a variety of other criminal activities.

Recently India also signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the USA to combat online child pornography.

According to the MoU signed between the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) of India and the National Centre for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), USA, the United States will help India check online child pornography and content related to child sexual exploitation.

The MoU will provide access to more than one lakh Tipline reports available with the NCMEC and enable law enforcement agencies in India.

It will pave the way for setting up of an innovative mechanism for sharing information about child pornography and child sexual abuse material and taking legal action against offenders.

Meanwhile, taking a hard stand against Indian porn websites promoting child pornography and selling rape and gang-rape videos of Indian women and children the NDA government had last year had shut down five such websites which were being operated from India.

In 2015, the ministry of communications and IT, the department of telecommunications and the central government had listed over 800 websites and had issued an order to restrain service providers from transmitting them as their contents were found to be pornographic in nature.

Rahul Gandhi’s hypocrisy: Not a word on journalists being gagged in Karnataka, condemns UP CM for the same

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Rahul Gandhi’s hypocrisy: Not a word on journalists being gagged in Karnataka, condemns UP CM for the same

Congress has just suffered a humiliating defeat in the Lok Sabha elections and it was widely publicised that the party leadership is busy ‘introspecting’. However, all the deliberation, thinking and discussions seem to have achieved nothing since the party president, who remains party president despite a long resignation drama continues to be his hypocritical, entitled self.

Taking to Twitter to express his stand over the issue of arrest of some ‘journalists’ in UP, Rahul Gandhi stated that the UP CM is behaving foolishly and needs to release these journalists.


Prashant Kanojia was arrested for spreading rumours and obscene remarks. 2 other persons associated with an unlicensed news channel named Nation Live who had held a panel discussion over the same fake news that Kanojia had shared were arrested too. The said channel allegedly had no permit or license for its operations and was being broadcast illegally.

Kanjojia’s arrest has brought to fore his Twitter account where he is seen consistently and blatantly spreading fake news, Hinduphobia and derogatory tweets. In one tweet, he has compared Dalits to animals. The Supreme Court has however ordered the immediate release of Kanojia.

As expected, left-leaning media portals and India’s pseudo-liberals are up in arms against the UP government over the arrests. However, Congress president Rahul Gandhi condemning the arrests comes from a special level of hypocrisy.

Congress president Rahul Gandhi had not uttered a word over the arrests of journalists in Karnataka, where his party is in power with JDS.

In November 2018, the Congress-JDS government in Karnataka had arrested journalist Santhosh Thammayya for his speech where he had criticised Tipu Sultan for his bigotry and atrocities. Rahul Gandhi did not condemn anyone for their behaviour, foolish or otherwise, at that time.

Recently, an FIR has been filed against journalist Vishweshwar Bhat for publishing a report against CM Kumaraswamy’s son Nikhil Kumaraswamy. Rahul Gandhi did not consider it foolish behaviour either. In August 2018, a man was arrested in Karnataka for trolling CM Kumaraswamy on social media. Rahul Gandhi had not spared a single pearl of wisdom over that issue either.

Rahul Gandhi’s entitlement comes from a legacy whose most noteworthy contribution to India is the imposition of emergency and ordering raids and arrests against journalists who were exposing their corruption. An extensive list of Congress and its leadership’s actions against journalists and publishing houses is maintained by scientist and columnist Anand Ranganathan.


If any party has done the most to suffocate and gag freedom of speech, it is the Congress. As recently as last year, It was Congress which was up against the movie The Accidental Prime Minister, Congress had attempted to stop Netflix’s Sacred Games because it called Rajiv Gandhi ‘Fattu’. When Congress wrokers had tried to disrupt the screening of ‘Indu Sarkar’, not a single word was uttered by Rahul gandhi about their behaviour.

Even if we ignore all the above, Congress manifesto released before the 2019 general elections included a section that said, “Pass regulations to stop the spread of fake news and hate speech and punish those who misuse digital and social media.”  Before issuing advises to the UP government. Rahul Gandhi needs to spend some time actually doing that much publicised ‘introspection’.

As Yuvraj Singh announces his retirement from international cricket, here is a look at his career in numbers

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As Yuvraj Singh announces his retirement from international cricket, here is a look at his career in numbers

The southpaw from Punjab Yuvraj Singh has retired from international cricket after playing for more than 18 years & 402 matches for India. One of the most excellent hitters of a cricket ball and an absolute brilliant fielder was the mainstay of India’s success in World T20 in 2007 and World Cup 2011.

As he announced his retirement on Monday, let’s see his career through the numbers.

Format Mat Runs Avg 100s/50s Wkts Avg ER Cat
Test 40 1900 33.90 3/11 9 60.97 3.52 31
ODI 304 8701 36.55 14/52 111 38.68 5.10 94
T20I 58 1177 28.02 0/8 28 17.82 7.06 12
  • Yuvraj Singh made his International debut against Kenya in the ICC Knock-out tournament (now ICC Champions Trophy) in 2000, he didn’t get a chance to bat, but in his ODI innings in the next game, smashed 80 against Australia. 4th highest score by an Indian in debut ODI innings.
  • 8609 runs scored by Yuvraj Singh in ODIs for India – the seventh most for India in ODI cricket. Only Tendulkar, Ganguly, Kohli, Dravid, Dhoni and Azhar have scored more runs than him.
  • He is the only player to score 300-plus runs and taking 15 or more wickets in a single edition of Cricket World Cup – 363 runs & 15 wickets in the 2011 ICC World Cup.
  • He is the only batsman in T20I to hit 6 SIXES in an over – against Stuart Broad in World T20, 2007
  • Twelve balls, yes that many balls are taken by Yuvraj to score fifty against England in the match mentioned above – the fastest in the history of international cricket across formats and joint fastest in all T20 cricket.
  • He is the only player to win U-19 World Cup (in 2000), World T20 (in 2007) and Cricket World Cup (in 2011).
  • Yuvraj Singh is the only player in history to claim a five haul and also hit a fifty in the same Cricket World Cup match – 5 for 31 and 50* against Ireland in Bangalore, 2011.
  • Yuvraj Singh (2011) and Sachin Tendulkar (2003) are the only Indian players to win the Man of the Tournament in the Cricket World Cup.
  • He won 7 Man of the Series awards for India in ODIs. Second only to Sachin Tendulkar (14) for India and fifth most in ODI cricket alongside Ricky Ponting.
  • 251, the number of sixes Yuvraj Singh smashed in his international cricket career. He is only behind Rohit (355), Dhoni (355) and Tendulkar (264) in the Indian list of most sixes in an International career.
  • Yuvraj Singh played 304 ODI for India but never captained in a match. Only Muralitharan has played more games (350) without leading his team in ODI.
  • Yuvraj Singh (2011) and Kapil Dev (1983) are the only players to hit a hundred and capture a five-fer in World Cup.

Filmmaker Anurag Kashyap, who defended Tarun Tejpal in rape case, spreads misinformation about Aligarh child murder case

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Filmmaker Anurag Kashyap, who defended Tarun Tejpal in rape case, spreads misinformation about Aligarh child murder case

Anurag Kashyap, the newfound cultural hero of the ultra-left wing, is back with his usual propaganda by spreading misinformation regarding the barbaric Aligarh child rape case.

Anurag Kashyap, like his other ‘secular’ comrades, went on to spread misinformation regarding the brutal killing of a three-year-old Tina (name changed) by Zahid and Aslam in Aligarh. Kashyap, who is reluctant to accept the communal nature of the incident as it destructs their ‘Dara Hua Musalman’ narrative went on to proclaim that there was no rape or any other sort of brutality against the child and accused people of creating an atmosphere of riots using the incident.


In a hurry to express his sympathy towards the accused, Anurag Kashyap claims that the dismembering of the body of the child and gouging out of the eyes of the child “did not happen” at all despite the fact that the post-mortem report said that vital parts from the body of the child victim body were missing. The initial post-mortem had also revealed that the right arm of the child was amputated.

Addition to that the post mortem has not yet ruled out the chances of sexual assault on the minor child as they are not able to ascertain the rape as vital parts of the child are missing. The post-mortem report was inconclusive of sexual assault. However, the case has also been filed under the relevant sections of Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act. Therefore, it would be inaccurate to say at this point in time that the child was not raped.

Meanwhile, a ground report by journalist Swati Goel Sharma of Swarajya reveals more bitter truth about the Aligarh case. The report reveals that Aslam, the second accused in the case, has been booked twice under POCSO, of which once was for allegedly raping his own daughter (2014) and second time in 2017 for molesting a minor girl. The local villagers also revealed how Aslam had allegedly assaulted a minor boy for two weeks. The barbarity of the murder was such that the doctor who conducted the post-mortem even said that this was one of the most brutal murders.

Kashyap also deliberately conceals the fact regarding the mutilated body of the three-year-old child being found in the garbage after the child was assaulted repeatedly. The body was found with a fracture in ribs, left leg and critical head injuries. However, Kashyap alone is not to blame since even self-proclaimed fact-checkers have resorted to whitewashing the crime and basing their ‘fact-checks’ on police statements instead of scientific evidence.

In fact, Kashyap has chosen to remain deaf to the allegations of victim’s mother who has now accused Aslam, a co-accused in the case, of previously raping his own daughter after which his wife has taken their daughter away to her parent’s house.

Anurag Kashyap further resorts to misinformation by stating that a riot-like situation has been created in Aligarh following the heinous incident despite the fact that there is not even single incidence of violence or destruction of property has been reported from Aligarh.

Interestingly, Anurag Kashyap who has now found time to outrage against the killing of a three-year-old minor child has in the past defended Tarun Tejpal, who was accused of molesting his junior colleague, declaring that the accusations against Tejpal were untrue.

Anurag Kashyap, a member of ‘liberal-secular’ outrage factory, and regularly likes to make false anti-Modi statements on social media. He had once also revealed a mobile number of a journalist on Twitter, following which she got harassed by trolls. He is also quick to label people he disagrees with on social media as ‘radicals’.

Amitabh Bachchan’s Twitter account hacked by pro-Pak Turkish hackers, hackers tweet anti-India tweets

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Amitabh Bachchan’s Twitter account hacked by pro-Pak Turkish hackers, hackers tweet anti-India tweets

Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan’s Twitter account was hacked on Monday night by pro-Pakistani Turkish hacker group Ayyildiz Tim, reports ANI.

Reportedly, the hacker group replaced Bachchan’s profile picture with a photo of Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan and also changed the bio, adding “Love Pakistan” and an emoji of the Turkish flag. The account has now been recovered.

Image Source: Twitter
Twitter account of Bachchan hacked by a Turkish hacker group.

Ayyildiz Tim also tweeted multiple messages, including an anti-India post, from Amitabh Bachchan’s Twitter account. “This is an important call to the whole world! We do condemn the irrespective behaviours of Iceland republic towards Turkish footballers. We speak softly but carry a big stick and inform you about the big Cyber attack here. As Ayyıldız Tim Turkish Cyber Armny +++”.

The second post read, “The Indian State, who mercilessly attacks the Muslims fasting in the month of Ramadan, is attacking the Ummah Muhammad in this age! Indian Muslims are entrusted to us by Abdulhamid”.

A series of anti-India tweets made by hackers from the Twitter account of Amitabh Bachchan

In another tweeted the hacker posted a messaging saying ‘Love Pakistan’ with an image of Pakistani PM Imran Khan.

Image Source: Twitter

Following the cyber attack, Mumbai Police PRO said, “We have informed our cyber unit and Maharashtra Cyber about the hacked Twitter account of Amitabh Bachchan. They are investigating the matter.”

Amitabh Bachchan’s Twitter account was restored around 12:20 am on Tuesday.

Sushma Swaraj denies reports of being appointed as Andhra Pradesh governor after minister Harsh Vardhan congratulates her for the same

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Sushma Swaraj denies reports of being appointed as Andhra Pradesh governor after minister Harsh Vardhan congratulates her for the same

Senior BJP leader and former External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj has denied rumours that she is being appointed as the governor of Andhra Pradesh. Reacting to the rumour which was being circulated on social media, Swaraj took to Twitter to inform that no such thing is happening.


In a tweet with sarcastic tone, she said that she called on Vice president Venkaiah Naidu on demitting her office, and this was enough for Twitter to appoint her as the Governor of Andhra Pradesh.


In the evening of 10th June Twitter was abuzz with reports that Sushma Swaraj appointed as the governor of Andhra Pradesh. Apart from Twitter users, few Telugu media houses and portals had speculated that she was being considered for the post of Governor of AP.

The rumour was further fuelled when union minister Harsh Vardhan congratulated Swaraj on her appointment. In the Hindi tweet, he had said that people of Andhra Pradesh will be benefited by the appointment of Sushma Swaraj as the governor of the state. Although Vardhan later deleted the tweet, news agency ANI had posted a screenshot of his tweet.


Later ANI posted another tweet informing that Harsh Vardhan has deleted his tweet congratulating Sushma Swaraj.


But all the speculations were put to end very soon by the Tweet of Sushma Swaraj. Before the tweets of Sushma Swaraj, home ministry sources also had denied the reports. The Home Ministry is the nodal authority for affairs related to Governors and Lieutenant Governors of states and Union territories.

Sushma Swaraj didn’t contest the 2019 Lok Sabha election on health grounds as she was recovering from a kidney transplant, and didn’t join the second government of Narendra Modi. It may be noted that her husband Swaraj Kaushal was the governor of Mizoram from 1990 to 1993.

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