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Delhi, Shahbad Dairy murder: Sahil had purchased knife used to murder Sakshi 15 days ago, police also probing if the murder was premeditated

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Delhi, Shahbad Dairy murder: Sahil had purchased knife used to murder Sakshi 15 days ago, police also probing if the murder was premeditated

A day after a 16-year-old girl was stabbed and bludgeoned to death in the Shahbad Dairy area of the national capital, sources in Delhi Police said that the murder could have be premeditated as Sahil, the 20-year-old accused, had purchased the knife used in the murder a fortnight ago. 

“During questioning, Sahil said that he had bought the knife used in the murder about 15 days ago from a weekly market,” police sources said. The accused has not however, disclosed the location from which he bought the knife and police are investigating, the sources said. 

Police are also investigating whether or not the murder was a “crime of passion” or done on a sudden provocation, the sources said. 

Sources that Sahil fled the city after the murder and switched off his phone. He reached Bulandshahr in Uttar Pradesh after changing two buses. Arrested on

Monday from Bulandshahr by Delhi Police, Sahil was today produced before court and sent to police remand for two days. 

According to police sources, after committing the murder, Sahil dumped his weapon in Rithala before fleeing to Bulandshahr. 

A CCTV grab of the incident shows Sahil purportedly stabbing the girl multiple times with a knife. He continued to stab her even when she slumped to the ground. He kicked her and then took a concrete slab lying nearby and bludgeoned her head. All this while the footage showed people watching the events unfold and walking past without intervening. At one point a dog is seen approaching the spot. 

The police reached the crime spot after the local beat officer was informed by the locals about the incident about 10 minutes after the incident. 

An initial police investigation concluded that at the time of the incident, the victim did not have a mobile phone. 

As per the police, the accused was in a relationship with the minor, but they had a quarrel on Sunday night after which he killed her with multiple assaults. 
The police said that it had registered FIR in the matter under section 302 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) at Shahbad Dairy Police Station. 

(This news report is published from a syndicated feed. Except for the headline, the content has not been written or edited by OpIndia staff)

Maharashtra: Irfan, Riyaz, Nadeem, and 150 others attack 6 Hindus with swords and rods in Jorve over a minor issue, charged for attempt to murder

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Maharashtra: Irfan, Riyaz, Nadeem, and 150 others attack 6 Hindus with swords and rods in Jorve over a minor issue, charged for attempt to murder

On Monday, massive tensions continued in the Sangamner region of the Ahmednagar district of Maharashtra after a mob of around 100 to 150 people attacked 6 Hindu persons with swords and sharp iron rods, resulting in severe injuries. The victims have been identified as Gokul Dighe, Ravindra Gadekar, Babasaheb Thorat, Jitendra Shinde, Ajay Thorat, and Ganesh Kakad and they have been shifted to a private hospital for treatment.

According to the reports, the incident is said to have taken place in the Jorve village of Sangamner city on Sunday. The saga began when 4 individuals from Jorve village traveled to Sangamner for some work in a pickup van. During their return to the village in the evening, they got stuck in heavy traffic. They then tried to get out of the traffic by honking their vehicle’s horn.

Some of the people in the area belonging to the specific community objected to the usual honking and thrashed the boys in the traffic. The boys then reached the village and narrated the matter to the other people of the village. They said that they were beaten by people from other community with swords and other sharp objects.

Taking cognizance of the incident that happened in the Jorve Naka area, former Dy Sarpanch of Jorve village Gokul Dighe along with Ravindra Gadekar, Babasaheb Thorat, Jitendra Shinde, Ajay Thorat, and Ganesh Kakad submitted a complaint at the Sangamner Police Station.

While these 6 persons were on their way back to the village, around 100 to 150 people including Irfan, Riyaz, Nadeem, and others from the specific community again attacked them and they could be heard saying, “These are the same people who have filed a police complaint. We’ll not spare them. They won’t go home alive.” The mob attacked the Hindus with sharp weapons including knives, iron rods, bamboo sticks, and swords.

After the incident, one of the victims, Ravindra Gadekar approached the police station and complained that he, along with 5 other Hindu persons, was attacked by people from a specific community. He also said that earlier 4 Hindus were attacked in the traffic by the people from the specific community.

As per the FIR copy obtained by OpIndia, 8 Hindu persons, identified as Sumeet Thorat, Tanmay Dighe, Pundalik Dighe (17), Vijay Thorat, Ajay Thorat, Jitendra Dighe, Ravindra Gadekar, and Babasaheb Thorat have recieved severe injuries and have been admitted to a private hospital.

Based on the complaint filed by Gadekar, the Police filed an FIR in the case against 150 unidentified individuals and charged them with an attempt to murder. The Police however have identified some of the individuals in the case- Babu Tapriwala, Imran Wadewala, Nadeem Hussain, Imran (son of Yusuf Painter), Riyaz Zaheer Sheikh Rickshawala, Safiq Chahwala, Irfan, Safiq, Aqeel Tapriwala, Tahir Nazeer Pathan, Shahid Sandwala, Musif Sheikh, Mujju, Fayyum Fiter, Ffukhan Wadewala, Arfat Rafiq Sheikh and Irfan Wadewala.

The FIR in the case has been filed under sections 307, 324, 143, 147, 148, and 149 of the Indian Penal Code and also under the relevant sections of the Arms Act.

FIR copy obtained by OpIndia.

The victims have been shifted to a private hospital and are undergoing treatment there. Reports mention that after the incident, several members of the Hindu organization from Jorve village reached the Sangamner Police Station and demanded strict action against the accused. The Police have however made no arrests in the case yet.

Sub-inspector Nivant Jadhav said that the police are identifying the accused and have assured that strict action will be taken against them. “No one will be spared. Action will be taken against the accused,” he said. Reportedly, at present the police force has been deployed at the Jorve village and people have been asked to stay away from the rumours.

It is important to note that the three kilometers patch between Jorve and Sangamner houses many small shops and businesses. All these businesses have been illegally established on the land which belongs to the government. This is the only reason why massive traffic jams have started to appear there. Taking cognisance of the event, the Sangamner administration, after the incident, launched an anti-encroachment drive to raze down all the illegal businesses.

However, the drive was opposed by people supposedly belonging to a specific community. The people forced the administration to stop the drive. Later, on Monday, one of the chicken shops and a bike repair shop were vandalized and some of its assets were also set ablaze. The police force has been deployed in the area. Further investigations are underway.

Muslim mob assault Hindu man for giving a lift to Muslim classmate only a day after 3 cases of Hindu women being brutalised, brainwashed were reported

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Muslim mob assault Hindu man for giving a lift to Muslim classmate only a day after 3 cases of Hindu women being brutalised, brainwashed were reported

Another disconcerting case of anti-Hindu violence by rabid Islamists has been reported from the Bhadravathi area in Shivamogga, Karnataka. According to Hindustan Times, on Sunday, May 28, a Hindu man was viscously attacked by a frenzied mob of Islamists for dropping his Muslim classmate home.

The victim Vinay Kumar, a resident of Visvesvaraya Nagar in Bhadravati and the Muslim girl hailing from Qalandar Nagar in Bhadravathi studied together at the Paramedical College. On Sunday, the girl student asked Vinay Kumar for a lift back home as her sister met with an accident on Saturday.

When the 20-year-old Hindu boy was returning after dropping the girl, a group of frenzied Islamists accosted Vinay Kumar near Zhandakatte. They asked him his name and his motive behind giving the Muslim girl a lift. Suddenly, the Muslim mob launched an attack on the Hindu boy.

“The mob asked what is your name, and while he was saying his name, they suddenly attacked him saying why he dropped the woman and assaulted him,” a police official said.

When his two friends, Abhi and Yeshwanth, arrived at the scene after hearing about the assault, the mob attacked them as well. The locals who were present at the scene drove him away. According to reports, the crowd also threatened the locals, causing a commotion.

When the police learn about the incident a case was registered under IPC Sections 506 (threatening with life), 504 (intentional insult), 143 (unlawful assembly), 147 (guilty of rioting), 149 (offence committed by unlawful assembly) and 323 (assault) against the accused.

“We have arrested four individuals who assaulted Vinay Kumar, Abhi and Yeshwanth. Another accused is absconding and the search is on to trace him,” Shivamogga SP GK Mithun Kumar told the media.

The fictitious ‘Bhagwa love trap’ threat is posing a serious threat to society. This well-planned and organised crime has recently been spreading its tentacles in every nook and cranny of the country. Several hundred videos have emerged on social media showing an Islamist mob harassing, abusing, and attacking Hindu-Muslim couples under the guise of battling the ‘Bhagwa Love trap.’

A couple of months ago, Islamists began peddling a baseless theory dubbed ‘Bhagwa Love Trap’ to counter 100s of documented cases of impersonation, identity fraud, and forced conversions to Islam (popularly known as Love Jihad). It is based on a baseless theory about Hindu outfits, supposedly training Hindu youth to lure, and entrap Muslim women and turn them into non-Muslims. 

The conspiracy theory soon took the form of a social media hashtag, which Islamists used to share videos of random hijab-wearing Muslim women and their male Hindu friends/ acquaintances and partners without their consent.

OpIndia has documented innumerable such incidents that happened in recent days, in which Hindu males and Muslim women were harassed by the latter’s rabid co-religionists for something as trivial and insignificant as sharing snacks or giving a lift.

Interestingly, while Hindu men are being attacked by rabid Islamists over a conspiracy theory called Bhagwa Love Trap, there are several cases that come to the fore every day where Hindu women are being brutalised, forced to convert to Islam and murdered/raped. Sajjad Nomani, a prominent Islamic scholar and cleric, has been at the forefront of the misleading campaign spreading ‘Bhagwa Love Trap’ tropes. His speeches and provocative remarks have added enough fuel to the fire of Islamism so much so that they have now translated into real-life incidents of attacks.

In one of his videos, he was heard saying, “8 lakh Muslim women have turned infidel and left Islam after meeting their Hindu partners. RSS has created a team of Hindu youths who are trained in Islamic teachings and Urdu…They are then instructed to lure Muslim women into a love trap.”

Sajjad Nomani claimed that such Hindu men are then rewarded with ₹2.5 lakhs, a house and a job, which is supposedly serving as an ‘incentive’ for the Hindu community at a time of high unemployment.

“Several Hindu youths are fixated on this mission but we are sleeping…Billions of funds have been allocated to take away our Faith,” he alleged. The AIMPLB member urged his fanatic followers to ‘wake up from their deep slumber and take action’.

While elements like Nomani spread such tropes with no proof, painting a target on Hindu men, Muslim men have been rampantly targeting Hindu women. While in this particular case a Muslim mob attacked a Hindu man, only yesterday (May 29), OpIndia reported three such incidents where Hindu women were mercilessly assaulted, in two cases brutally killed, by Muslim youths for literally no fault of theirs.

The heinous Delhi’s Shahbad stabbing case

On Monday (May 29), the country woke up to the shocking news of the brutal murder of a minor girl identified as Sakshi by her ‘friend’ Sahil in the Shahbad dairy area of Delhi. In the murder, which has been caught on CCTV camera, Sakshi was stabbed over 20 times and then her head was crushed using a boulder by Sahil.

Sakshi and Sahil were reportedly in a relationship and had an ugly fight a day before the murder. The victim was on her way to attend a birthday party of her friend’s son when Sahil stopped her and started attacking her with a knife. In the brutal attack, Sahil kept stabbing the victim repeatedly and later picked up a concrete block to crush her head.

“My daughter was stabbed many times, her intestines bulged out and her head was also broken into four pieces,” the inconsolable father of the deceased teenager told the media after learning about the heinous crime.

Love Jihad in UP

Another distressing incident involving love jihad had come to the fore from the Shahjahanpur area in Uttar Pradesh. A 23-year-old Dalit woman, identified as Seema Gautam, was trapped in a love affair, raped, forcefully converted to Islam and later poisoned to death. Two accused, namely Mohd Naved and Farhan Khan were taken into custody. The police are on the lookout for the third accused, Mustaquim.

According to reports, the Dalit woman was three months pregnant when she was poisoned to death by her partner Naved after she refused to convert to Islam. Naved had presented himself as a Hindu to befriend the woman, raped her and started forcing her to convert to Islam using her objectionable pictures. She became pregnant. Later, when she refused to convert to Islam, Naved with the help of his aides, killed her by giving her poison.

Love Jihad in Odisha

Similarly, we reported yesterday how a group of youths held a protest in Bhubaneswar against love jihad in the state of Odisha after a case came to light in the state capital. This protest was carried out after a recent case of love jihad in the state involving a 27 years old Hindu girl. The girl recently lodged a complaint with the Khordha Model Police station saying that a youth brainwashed her into converting to Islam with the false promise of marriage. The girl was apparently in a relationship for 8 years with the boy.

In her complaint, the girl said that the youth developed a relationship with her while hiding his real identity. He developed physical relations with her and later threatened to make her nude videos viral and continued to maintain physical relations with her.

As per the girl’s complaint, the accused has similar relations with many girls and is now even set to marry one of them. He has been arrested by the police following the girl’s complaint.

The girl has also said that there is a threat to her life as the accused has connections with the local politicians.

These incidents we chose to mention as it was reported yesterday. Apart from these, several other incidents continue to emerge every other day from every nook and corner of the country where susceptible and vulnerable Hindu women are being targeted and exploited in the name of ‘love’.

Last year, OpIndia reported as many as 153 daunting incidents of Love Jihad or Grooming Jihad as we like to call it because, evidently, there is no ‘Love’ in these crimes. In fact, there is no denying that it is a form of ‘Jihad’ in which Hindu girls are being trapped by Muslim men who later either forcefully convert them to Islam, push them into terrorism, groom them or murder and rape them. 

South Africa grants diplomatic immunity to Russia President Vladamir Putin, other officials for BRICS-related event, snubs International Criminal Court diktat

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South Africa grants diplomatic immunity to Russia President Vladamir Putin, other officials for BRICS-related event, snubs International Criminal Court diktat

South African government has granted diplomatic immunity to all international participants, including Russia President Vladamir Putin and other Russian officials, at BRICS-related events to be held in the country, local media reported. 

The immunities and privileges in terms of the United Nations Convention grant immunity from personal arrest or detention. A gazetted notice was issued by the International Relations and Cooperation Minister Naledi Pandor for the Diplomatic Immunity and Privileges Act to be granted to all international officials at BRICS-related events in the country, according to the Daily Maverick, a South African-based publication. 

The notice, signed on May 19 and gazetted on Monday, states that Putin and his international counterparts will be granted immunities and privileges provided in terms of Section 6(1)(a) of the act. 

A spokesperson for Pandor said the notice was “routine”, and such notices were issued every time there was a similar international meeting in South Africa. 

The act states that this immunity is granted to officials and experts of the United Nations, any specialised agency or organisation, and representatives of any state participating in an international conference or meeting convened in South Africa. 

Section 6(1)(a) of the act sets out that immunities “are specifically provided for in the Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the United Nations, 1946, or the Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the specialised agencies, 1947, as the case may be, in respect of the participation in conferences and meetings”. 

“Immunity from personal arrest or detention and from seizure of their personal baggage, and, in respect of words spoken or written and all acts done by them in their capacity as representatives, immunity from legal process of every kind,” the document reads. 

A warrant for Putin’s arrest was issued by the International Criminal Court in The Hague in March, and since South Africa is a member of the formation, it is obliged to arrest Putin when he is in the country. 

Despite this, South Africa, as the current chair of the BRICS alliance, has officially invited Putin to the summit in August. 

The International Relations Department is also seeking a legal opinion on how to deal with the ICC’s arrest warrant. Putin’s possible attendance at BRICS has been a bone of contention since the warrant was issued. 

It has now been confirmed that Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov will take part in the BRICS foreign ministers meeting in Cape Town on Thursday and Friday. 

Meanwhile, Opposition leader John Steenhuisen filed an application seeking an urgent order to the government to arrest Putin if the ICC requests South Africa to arrest him if he sets foot in the country, the Daily Maverick reported. 

Steenhuisen, has requested a three-part order, which seeks to confirm that the other respondents to his application are obliged to ensure that Putin is arrested if he enters South Africa. 

Steenhuisen seeks an order confirming that the director-general of justice, on receipt of a request from the ICC to arrest and surrender Putin, must forward the arrest warrant to a magistrate. 

The other respondents are the President, the minister and the director-general of Justice and Constitutional Development, the minister and director-general of

International Relations and Cooperation, the minister and the national commissioner of police and the Deputy President. 

The South African government had indicated that it is seeking a legal loophole that would allow it to host Putin without violating the ICC Rome Statute. This loophole would be found in Article 98 of the Rome Statute. 

While Article 27 of the Rome Statute stipulates that even sitting heads of state are not immune from prosecution by the ICC, Article 98 appears to provide an exception to this general rule. 

Article 98(1) states, “The Court may not proceed with a request for surrender or assistance which would require the requested State [in this case South Africa] to act inconsistently with its obligations under international law with respect to the State or diplomatic immunity of a person … of a third State, [in this case

Putin and Russia] unless the Court can first obtain the cooperation of that third State for the waiver of the immunity.” On the face of it, this article appears to suggest that the ICC could not ask Pretoria to arrest and hand over Putin unless Russia agreed to waive Putin’s immunity from prosecution – which Moscow would obviously not give. 

South Africa tried to invoke Article 98 when the ICC asked it to arrest and surrender then-Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir. But the ICC ruled then that because the UN Security Council had referred the Sudan situation to the ICC, Article 98 did not apply. 

However, the Ukraine situation under which the ICC issued a warrant of arrest for Putin, was not referred to the ICC by the UN Security Council. It was taken up by the ICC prosecutor. 

South Africa might face an even greater obstacle in its own ICC Implementation Act which is also explicit that sitting heads of state do not enjoy immunity from prosecution – but without any qualification like Article 98, the Daily Maverick reported.

(This news report is published from a syndicated feed. Except for the headline, the content has not been written or edited by OpIndia staff)

Delhi HC dismisses AAP’s Manish Sisodia’s bail plea in corruption case, says he might try influencing witnesses if let out: What happened in court

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Delhi HC dismisses AAP’s Manish Sisodia’s bail plea in corruption case, says he might try influencing witnesses if let out: What happened in court

The Delhi High Court on Tuesday dismissed the bail plea of Manish Sisodia, the former Deputy Chief Minister of Delhi, in a CBI case related to alleged corruption in the implementation of the previous liquor policy in the national capital. 

The bench of Justice Dinesh Kumar Sharma denied bail to Sisodia and said that the applicant (Sisodia) being a powerful person, there is the possibility of him influencing the witnesses. During arguments, the CBI had opposed the bail plea moved by Manish Sisodia and stated, “The applicant (Sisodia) enjoys close nexus with the executive, offices and bureaucrats and his influence and clout is evident. His party colleagues holding high ranks continue to make factually wrong claims in order to influence the investigation and also claiming the applicant to be a victim of a political vendetta.” 

A perusal of the said statements by this political leader (s) during the press conferences would reveal how the entire efforts of not only the Applicant but his party colleagues as a whole are to shield the accused, stated CBI in its reply opposing bail plea of Sisodia, CBI said. 

The statements also undermine the authority of the Special Judge (CBI), having already taken cognizance of the offences, and are being made to adversely impact the investigation by levelling unwarranted and unsubstantiated allegations against the CBI, thereby influencing and deterring the witnesses of the case said the CBI. 

CBI in its reply filed in Delhi High Court stated that any release of the Applicant on bail shall gravely prejudice the investigation herein, more specifically when the Applicant fails to meet the ‘triple test’ for bail. While personal liberty is paramount, the same is not absolute but subject to reasonable restrictions, including the interest of the state and the public. 

During the arguments earlier, Manish Sisodia through Senior Advocate Dayan Krishnan submitted that the Central Bureau of Investigation has no evidence to show his involvement in the alleged irregularities in the framing and implementation of the excise policy of the Government. 

The lawyer submitted that every accused in the CBI case has been released on bail except Sisodia. Sisodia was arrested on February 26, 2023, more than 6 months after the Registration of FIR in the matter. And during the entirety of said investigation of 6 months before the arrest of the applicant, there was not a single that Applicant extended any threat to any witness. 

Sisodia in his bail stated that the possibility of a threat to witness cannot be said to arise without there being any material or antecedents of the Applicant. The witnesses in this case against the applicant are primarily civil servants, over whom the Applicant exercises no control, especially now since he has resigned from his official post. 

Earlier the Delhi HC had issued notice to CBI on a bail plea moved by Manish Sisodia challenging a trial court order denying bail to him in a CBI case related to Excise. 

Sisodia was arrested by the CBI on February 26, 2023, and is presently in Judicial custody. His bail plea was on March 31, 2023, by the trial Court in the case. 
The trial Court while dismissing Sisodia’s bail plea said, “The court is not inclined to release him on bail at this stage of investigation of the case as his release may adversely affect the ongoing investigation and will also seriously hamper the progress” 

According to the CBI, Sisodia had played the most important and vital role in the criminal conspiracy and he had been deeply involved in the formulation as well as the implementation of the said policy to ensure the achievement of the objectives of the said conspiracy. 

“The payment of advance kickbacks of around Rs. 90-100 crores was meant for him and his other colleagues in the GNCTD and Rs. 20-30 crores out of the above are found to have been routed through the co-accused Vijay Nair, Abhishek Boinpally and approver Dinesh Arora and in turn, certain provisions of the excise policy were permitted to be tweaked and manipulated by the applicant to protect and preserve the interests of South liquor lobby and to ensure repayment of the kickbacks to the said lobby,” stated CBI. 

Sisodia was arrested by CBI and ED in an ongoing investigation of a case related to alleged irregularities in the framing and implementation of the excise policy of the Government of the National Capital Territory of Delhi. 

Earlier, the trial court noted that the accused had joined the investigation of this case on two earlier occasions, but he had failed to provide satisfactory answers to most of the questions put to him during his examination and interrogation, thus, failing to legitimately explain the incriminating evidence which allegedly surfaced against him during the investigation.

(This news report is published from a syndicated feed. Except for the headline, the content has not been written or edited by OpIndia staff)

FIR against Children’s Home by MP police: Hindu kids forced to chant Christian prayers on Hindu festivals despite objection, were denied medicines, reveals NCPCR

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FIR against Children’s Home by MP police: Hindu kids forced to chant Christian prayers on Hindu festivals despite objection, were denied medicines, reveals NCPCR

On May 29, an FIR was registered by Madhya Pradesh Police against a Children’s Home and others over a complaint filed by the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) under the Juvenile Justice Act and Madhya Pradesh Freedom of Religion Act. The FIR has been registered at Madhav Nagar Police Station.

As per reports, the matter came to light in the Jhinjhari area of district Katni in Madhya Pradesh after children complained that they were forced to recite Christian prayers at school. The Hindu children, who belonged to SC/ST community were allegedly pressurised by the school administration to offer Christian prayers. Based on their complaint, NCPCR swung into action and called for an investigation. It has been revealed that some officers were allegedly involved in the matter and they leaked the information of NCPCR’s visit to the institute. NCPCR chief Priyank Kanoongo said in a tweet that action will be taken against such officers.

On May 29, Kanoongo himself reached Katni to take stock of the situation. He said in a statement that the children were being forced to offer Christian prayers despite their objection to it. They were not being given medicines and kept away from sports activities. Furthermore, the children were forced to offer Christian prayers at Hindu festivals like Diwali. He added it was a clear case of forced conversion thus an FIR has been filed against the institute. Kanoongo said it was found that the NGO was also receiving foreign funding. Kanoongo added that the NGO officials allegedly altered the documents of the children as well.

NCPCR chief told news agency ANI that the Special Juvenile Police Department has recorded the statements of the children. “The role of an officer of the District Child Protection Unit is also suspicious in this matter. The activities of the Child Welfare Committee have also been found suspicious, and we will conduct an inquiry into that. Today, we have received statements from four children and one adult,” he said.

Jharkhand: ED conducts raids at the premises of Congress MLA Pradeep Yadav and his associates in a Money Laundering case

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Jharkhand: ED conducts raids at the premises of Congress MLA Pradeep Yadav and his associates in a Money Laundering case

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Tuesday conducted raids at the premises of Congress MLA Pradeep Yadav and his associates in connection with a money laundering case across Jharkhand. 

According to sources, the ED conducted raids at 12 locations across Jharkhand, including four in Ranchi and eight in Deoghar and surrounding areas. “The case is related to Income Tax actions on Pradeep Yadav and others. Income Tax department conducted raids a few months ago,” informed sources. 

ED is investigating the case under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA). 

Further details are awaited.

(This news report is published from a syndicated feed. Except for the headline, the content has not been written or edited by OpIndia staff)

Bihar: Nishant Raza poses as Brahmin, possesses fake IDs and character certificates, blackmails two Hindu women, arrested

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Bihar: Nishant Raza poses as Brahmin, possesses fake IDs and character certificates, blackmails two Hindu women, arrested

On Monday, the Bihar Police arrested a man identified as Nishant Raza for posing as a Hindu individual and blackmailing two Hindu women after sexual harassment. The Police recovered two identity cards from the accused, one of which was that of a Hindu person and the other one was of a Muslim person. The accused posed as Nishant Raj and trapped two Hindu women in the Champaran district of Bihar.

According to the reports, the incident is said to have happened in the Motihari region of East Champaran district. The accused man who runs a YouTube channel named ‘Tarang media’ approached the two women and asked if he could stay in their premises on rent. He said that he was a Brahmin and that his name was Nishant Raj.

Later, the accused shot derogatory videos of the women and began blackmailing them over the videos. The Police filed an FIR based on the complaint of one of the women who confirmed that he had posed as a Brahmin and had said that he was a media person.

The Police launched an investigation into the case and discovered that the accused belonged to another community and his name is Nishant Raza. The police also recovered two identity cards from him, one in the name of Nishant Raj and the other one as Nishant Raza. The Police said that the accused had also made fake character certificates from the SP office.

The Police confirmed that the accused had blackmailed several women in the past and that his phone (now recovered by the Police) carried many derogatory videos of several Hindu women. In the current case, the woman who filed a police complaint against the accused is the mother of late army personnel and she said that the accused also harassed her daughter-in-law along with her.

Notably, the girlfriend of the accused arrived at the Chhatauni Police Station to seek the release of the accused. But after knowing the facts of the case, she cried and returned. SP Kantesh Mishra said that the accused had made two different character certificates in two different names so a separate FIR will be filed against him.

Media, Rana Ayyub spread propaganda against Hindus: How Imran hitting Hindu LPG delivery man with chappal was turned into a case of ‘Islamophobia’

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Media, Rana Ayyub spread propaganda against Hindus: How Imran hitting Hindu LPG delivery man with chappal was turned into a case of ‘Islamophobia’

On May 30, financial fraud-accused, alleged journalist Rana Ayyub shared a video by The News Minute in which it was claimed that Hindus lynched a Muslim man’s family while chanting ‘Jai Shri Ram’. Ayyub wrote in capital letters “EVERY DAY NORMAL”.

Several news portals including The News Minute, The Quint and others have published a report accusing Hindu organisations and a Bharatiya Janata Party Councillor from Telangana of beating a Muslim man. some of the reports also claimed that when a Muslim man’s mother and pregnant sister came to his rescue, Hindus attacked and manhandled them.

Source: YouTube

Propaganda handles like HindutvaWatch published the viral video of the incident. They wrote, “Location: Narsapur, Telangana. A Hindu far-right mob chanting “Jai Shri Ram” slogans brutally assaulted a Muslim hotel owner after he argued with a man over the delivery of a gas cylinder. During the assault, when his pregnant sister tried to intervene, she was also assaulted, resulting in miscarriage.”

Several social media handles cried Islamophobia over the incident.

Source: Twitter

It is pertinent to note that The New Minute shared the clip with the description of a Hindu ‘mob’ beating a Muslim man amidst chants of Jai Shree Ram, however, in their tweet text, did not bother to mention what led to it, giving the impression that the scuffle was a result of unilateral hate against Muslims, not the fact that it was

Imran beat up a Hindu LPG delivery man with Chappal

The incident whose video went viral on social media took place on May 7. However, it was picked by propaganda portals and social media handles on May 25. As per reports, on May 7, an LPG delivery man named Gurrala Lingam ‘Swami’, who was on Hanuman Mala (Deeksha), went to a Kalyani Biryani Point owner Imran’s house to deliver a cylinder. Imran was agitated as Lingam got a little late in delivering the cylinder. When Lingam asked for the empty cylinder, Imran’s mother refused to give it as there was a little bit of gas left in the old one and asked him to come after two days to pick it up.

Lingam informed them that as per the regulations, he must pick up the empty cylinder immediately after delivering the refilled one. He expressed his inability to delay the pickup. An altercation broke into Imran and Lingam following which Imran took a chappal (slipper) and hit Lingam with it. He allegedly abused him and used derogatory language against Hanuman Mala.

Aggrieved by the incident, Lingam informed his fellow Hanuman Mala devotees about the incident. Hindu organisations including RSS, Hindu Vahini and others learned about the incident and gathered outside Imran’s place. BJP councillor Rajendra Yadav was also present at the scene.

A scuffle between Imran and Hindu devotees broke during which Imran was beaten up. A complaint was filed by both sides at the Narsapur Police Station. In his complaint, Lingam said, “He attacked me with a slipper though I was wearing a Hanuman mala (chain). He even tried to attack me with an iron rod.” On the other hand, Imran claimed in his complaint that Lingam attacked him when he asked to pick empty cylinder after two days.

Based on Lingam’s complaint, the Narasapur police registered an FIR against Imran under Sections 504 (intentional insult), 324 (voluntarily hurt a person), and 295-A (outrage religious feelings) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC). Imran was arrested by the police and later let go on bail after three days.

The propaganda portals and social media handles claimed that Imran’s sister suffered a miscarriage due to manhandling by the Hindus. However, Narasapur has refuted the claims.

As per reports, Imran’s sister Ayesha Anjum gave birth to a child 13 days after the incident. The child died after three days due to respiratory problems at Niloufer Hospital. No complaint was filed by Imran’s family in this context.

Hanuman Mala

Ahead of the pilgrimage, Hindus wear the Hanuman Mala. During this period, they have to wear saffron clothes and refrain from indulging in any ‘sinful’ activities. Those who are observing the ritual are called “Swami”.

Libya: 23 Jihadis sentenced to death, 14 to life imprisonment for their participation in an ISIS attack

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Libya: 23 Jihadis sentenced to death, 14 to life imprisonment for their participation in an ISIS attack

A Libyan court has sentenced 23 people to death and 14 others to life imprisonment for their participation in a fatal ISIL (ISIS) campaign that included killing a group of Egyptians and capturing the city of Sirte in 2015, Al Jazeera reported. 

One other person was sentenced to a 12-year prison, six were sentenced to 10 years, one received a five-year term, and six others received three-year sentences, according to a statement released by the attorney general’s office on Monday. The statement added that three persons passed away before trial and three others were acquitted. One of ISIL’s alleged bases outside of Iraq and Syria was Libya, and the organisation profited from the ensuing instability and fighting in the North African nation after a NATO-backed rebellion in 2011, according to Al Jazeera. 

The armed organisation attacked the opulent Corinthia Hotel in Tripoli in 2015, leaving nine people dead. Subsequently, the group kidnapped and beheaded scores of Egyptian Christians, whose killings were depicted in gory propaganda videos, Al Jazeera reported. 

The organisation took control of eastern Libya’s Benghazi, Derna, and Ajdabiya before seizing the key coastal city of Sirte and keeping it until late 2016 as it imposed a strict code of public morals supported by harsh penalties, Al Jazeera reported further. 

According to attorney Lotfi Mohaychem, the court condemned three youngsters to ten years in prison each. 

Mohaychem said, “As lawyers for the victims’ families, we see the verdict of the court as very satisfying and very just.” 

“The court sentenced those guilt was demonstrated and acquitted those against whom there was insufficient evidence,” he added. 

ISIL and other organisations took advantage of the anarchy that overtook Libya, following the 2011 uprising that ousted and ultimately murdered longtime leader Muammar Gaddafi. 

In the end, soldiers supporting the former Government of National Accord, which was backed by the United Nations, drove the group out of Sirte in December 2016. Two years later, Khalifa Haftar’s forces in the east reclaimed Derna. 

In Libyan jails, there are still hundreds of purported ex-ISIL combatants detained, many of whom are still awaiting trial, Al Jazeera reported.

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