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Satyendra Jain moves Delhi court, seeks direction to restrain media from airing CCTV clips of his room inside Tihar Jail

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Satyendra Jain moves Delhi court, seeks direction to restrain media from airing CCTV clips of his room inside Tihar Jail

On Wednesday, Delhi Minister Satyendra Jain who has been lodged in Tihar jain in a money laundering case, moved an application in a special court and sought action against the CCTV footage of his cell inside the Tihar jail. He asked the Court to direct the media to restrain from airing or broadcasting any CCTV video showing him in the Tihar jail.

This is hours after another video from the Tihar jail was published showing Jain eating a lavish meal. Special judge Vikas Dhull in the case said that the Court would take up the matter on Thursday. The court requested a thorough report from Tihar prison officials on Jain’s meals and any nutritional adjustments made. The court also gave Tihar officials time until Monday to provide a comprehensive report on Jain’s medical condition.

Today, a new video from Tihar jail appeared on social media in which Delhi Minister Satyendar Jain could be seen having proper food with many dishes spread before him while lodged inside the jail in a money laundering case. The jail authorities also revealed that Jain had gained 8 kgs of weight since he has been arrested on May 30 this year.

In the CCTV footage, Jain could be seen having full meal lunch while sitting on a comfortable chair. He could also be seen having access to fresh-cut salad and fruits and bottled drinking water. Yesterday, Jain had submitted before the trial court saying that he was not being given any preferential treatment inside the jail and that he has not been getting privileges like proper food and medical check-up. His lawyer even claimed that he had lost 28 kgs of weight in the custody.

Jain’s counsel Senior Advocate Rahul Mehra also cornered the ED on Tuesday and said that the central agency was deliberately leaking sensitive information to the media without permission. Meanwhile, Jain said that he was not even being given proper food in jail. The counsel sought a free and fair trial in the case.

Earlier, it was reported that AAP leader Satyendar Jain, who has been arrested in a money laundering case, was being given preferential treatment in the Tihar jail. He was ‘enjoying’ his stay in jail. This is after a CCTV footage from inside Jain’s cell surfaced on the internet on November 19 showing Jain being treated specially while lodged inside the jail.

According to the video, Jain was being given foot massages and head massages in the jail while he was seen lying down on the bed and reading some documents. He could clearly be seen provided with comfortable facilities to make his stay easier at Tihar jail. Later it was revealed that the man massaging Jain is a rape accused charged under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act.

Also, on November 1, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) informed the Delhi Court that AAP Minister Satyendra Jain was being treated specially in the Tihar jail. The ED further contended that Jain’s cell is being cleaned, mopped, and broomed by an unidentified person under the supervision of co-accused Ankush Jain.

The ED also said that Jain was continuously and easily able to meet co-accused Ankush Jain, Vaibhav Jain, and also his wife, Poonam Jain who visits him often in the cell. The ED alleged that the accused was violating all the norms of the jail and was meeting the jail superintendent every day, which is against the rules.

The ED attached assets worth Rs 4.81 crores linked to Jain and his family in April. The ED launched an investigation in the case based on an FIR which was registered by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) against Jain and others under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code and the Prevention of Corruption Act.

Israel: 1 killed, several hurt in two separate bomb blasts at bus stops in Jerusalem, police call it terror attack

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Israel: 1 killed, several hurt in two separate bomb blasts at bus stops in Jerusalem, police call it terror attack

On Wednesday, two massive explosions occurred at two bus stations in Jerusalem killing a teenage boy and wounding more than a dozen of Israeli citizens. The blasts were classified by police as a terror bombing strike. 

According to the reports, the first explosion happened at around 7 am, during peak commuting hour, near Jerusalem’s main gate in Givat Shaul. The blast injured eighteen persons at the bus stop, two severely and two badly. The victims were transferred to two Jerusalem hospital facilities. The doctors at Shaare Zedek Medical Center later declared one of the victims as dead. The victim has been identified as 16-year-old Aryeh Schupak.

The second explosion happened just after 7:30 am near Ramot crossroads, another gateway to Jerusalem. Five persons were transferred to Hadassah Mount Scopus Medical Center after being mildly injured by shrapnel or suffering from anxiety in the second explosion.

The blast was spotted damaging a bus at the terminal. It wasn’t clear if the casualties were at the station or on the bus. The blasts were likely triggered by near-identical remotely detonated explosive devices put in luggage, according to police. Reports further mentioned that the devices were filled with nails to maximize deaths and injuries.

According to the local reports, the Israel Police Commissioner visited the scene this morning and noted that there might have been two attackers. “This is a framework of attack that we haven’t seen for many years,” he said. He also cautioned the citizens to be alert for suspicious packages and said that the Police were searching for other possible devices.

While there are no immediate claims of responsibility for the attack, the Hamas terror group is said to have hailed the attack. “The action conveyed the message to the occupation by saying that our people will stand firm on their land and cling to the path of resistance. The coming days will be intense and more difficult for the enemy, the time has come for the creation of cells that are spread all over Palestine and are ready for a confrontation,” Mohammad Hamada, spokesperson of Hamas was quoted as.

In 2016, the Hamas terrorist organisation was accused of bombing a bus in Jerusalem, injuring 21 passengers. In 2011, a backpack bomb exploded at a bus stop outside the Jerusalem International Convention Center, killing two people and wounding hundreds more.

The blasts today occurred amid increased tensions following a spate of Palestinian attacks in Israel and the West Bank that have killed 29 people ever since the beginning of the year. Several stabbings and attempted stabbings have occurred in Jerusalem in recent months, especially in the Old City. Last month, a Palestinian gunman killed an Israeli soldier at a checkpoint in Jerusalem. Following the assaults, the military began a large anti-terror offensive in the West Bank in the spring.

In the current case also, the Israeli Police said the explosions were suspected Palestinian attacks. Security forces are scouring the area for suspects in connection with the blasts.  Following the initial bomb, police have also cordoned down Route 1. Further investigations into the case are underway.

PFI leader arrested over ‘Pakistan Zindabad’ slogans after forensic examination of viral video, Alt News and Md Zubair had given him a clean chit

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PFI leader arrested over ‘Pakistan Zindabad’ slogans after forensic examination of viral video, Alt News and Md Zubair had given him a clean chit

A person named Abdul Salam, the former district president of the banned Islamist radical organisation PFI (Popular Front of India), has been arrested by Bhilwara Police for raising pro-Pakistan slogans in a rally. A case in the matter was registered on May 15 this year after a video went viral in which Pakistan Zindabad slogans could be heard. Propaganda website Alt News also did a fact-check and gave a clean chit to the PFI leader.

The Station House Officer of the police station stated that the viral video was sent for forensic analysis following the complaint. As seen in the video, the investigation found that Pakistan Zindabad shouts were raised. Furthermore, it was discovered that the rally was held on February 7, 2021, for Nathulal Rao, who won the election from Ward 57 on a ticket of SDPI, the political wing of the PFI.

The rally was led by Abdul Salam Ansari, former district president of PFI. The people involved in the rally are clearly visible raising slogans in support of Pakistan. It is based on this PFI leader Abdul Salam Ansari was arrested by the police.

In charge of the Subhash Nagar police station, Nandlal Rinwa stated that on May 15, 2022, Nemichand’s son Babulal Khatik, a resident of Sanganer, filed a complaint in this regard, and the video was sent for forensic examination. According to the forensic report, which came on Monday, Pakistan Zindabad shouts were raised during the rally. Rinwa stated that Abdul Salam has been held and is being probed for the details of other persons who were present at the march and that necessary action is being taken.

Alt News and Mohammed Zubair had given clean chit to the PFI rally in which ‘Pakistan Zindabad’ slogans were raised

Notably, days after the complaint was registered and the matter gained currency, the far-left propaganda website Alt News, which is infamous for shielding Islamists, resorted to defending PFI, claiming that no pro-Pak slogans were raised in the rally. It gave a clean chit to PFI leader Abdul Salam and claimed that ‘SDPI Zindabad’ slogans were raised which were being passed off as ‘Pakistan Zindabad’ slogans on social media. The archived version of the report can be found here.

The report by Alt News.

Notably, Alt News also quoted Abdul Salam, the PFI leader who has now been arrested for organizing the rally. “The viral video is from February 7, 2021, after the local election. The video shows a segment of the rally after SDPI’s Nathulal Rao won in Ward 57. The claim that pro-Pakistan slogans were chanted is false,” reported Alt News as the quote by Abdul Salam Ansari.

Report by Alt News.

At the end of the report, Alt News mentioned, “The claim that pro-Pakistan slogans were raised in the video is false.” They stated that the chant is “SDPI Zindabad” and not “Pakistan Zindabad.” The co-founder of the propaganda portal Mohammed Zubair, who has been booked in several cases for fostering enmity between communities and instigating riots, also took to Twitter in May 2022 to support the claim.

Tweet by Mohammed Zubair.

Not only did Alt News mislead its readers into believing that protesters attending the PFI rally chanted ‘SDPI Zindabad’, but it also tried to undermine the allegations against the Islamist organisation by highlighting that the video was from February 2021 and not May 2022, as if chanting slogans in support of Pakistan in February 2021 were acceptable and would not have attracted penal charges.

However, Alt News seems to have mastered this devious practice of highlighting inconsequential discrepancies to prove the attendant claims made along with the viral video are false. The protesters chanted ‘Pakistan Zindabad’ slogans in the rally, but Zubair and Alt News emphasised that the video was more than a year old, from February 2021, and that the protesters were chanting slogans in support of PFI.

Alt News and its devious modus operandi

Alt News has been leaning on dishonest methods as a part of its modus operandi to give a boost to its propaganda of keeping the Muslim victimhood narrative alive. It has mastered several methods to further its narrative while disproving a contrarian worldview. Besides using reverse search images for its propaganda purposes, it has also emphasised nitpicking about petty and irrelevant details of an incident to muddle the readers and sow doubts about the narrative around the incident.

For instance, in 2020, when the videos of Muslim vegetable vendors applying saliva to their produce had gone viral, Alt News tried to water down the act by alleging that the video of a Muslim vegetable vendor spitting on the vegetables was not from April but from February, as if spitting on the vegetables in February was totally in accordance with the prevailing societal norms.

Associated Press fires its reporter James LaPorta over the false ‘Russian missile in Poland’ story

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Associated Press fires its reporter James LaPorta over the false ‘Russian missile in Poland’ story

On November 15, Associated Press published a story that Russian-fired missiles cross into Poland causing an explosion killing two people. However, the newswire was compelled to retract the story after it turned out that the explosion was caused due projectiles fired by Ukraine. Now it has been reported by Confider that AP has fired James LaPorta, its investigative journalist who reported the said story. 

The Associated Press report, which had been extensively circulated on the internet and on cable news, was taken down the next day and replaced with an editor’s note confessing that the single source was incorrect and that “subsequent reporting revealed that the missiles were Russian-made and most likely fired by Ukraine in defence against a Russian attack.”

Associated Press’s retracted ‘Russian missile’ story replaced with an editor’s note.

Despite the AP’s rule that it “routinely seeks and requires more than one source when sourcing is anonymous,” the piece attributed the information to a single “senior U.S. intelligence official.” Notably, John Leicester, who was co-bylined in the report is still working at AP.

According to the AP’s statement of news values and principles, the only exception is when “material comes from an authoritative figure who provides information so detailed that there is no question of its accuracy.”

Although journalist James LaPorta has not yet commented on his departure from Associated Press, he on Tuesday wrote a tweet thanking his fellow journalist for their “words of encouragement and kindness.”

“I’d like to thank the multitude of journalists, editors, and long-time readers that have reached out to me with words of encouragement and kindness. It sincerely means the world,” LaPorta tweeted.

Notably, On November 15, a missile hit Poland and killed two people. in the village of Przewodów, located around 15 KM from the Poland-Ukraine border. 

Subsequently, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Poland issued a statement stating the details about the missile that landed in the Polish village. The Russian Ambassador to Polish Foreign Ministry was summoned and a detailed explanation was demanded. 

It is notable here that Ukrainian government officials and a number of media organisations across the world had declared irresponsibly that the missile was fired by Russia, into Poland, a NATO member. However, cautious voices had asked for restraint and careful assessment of facts.

Even the US President in a statement has said that the possibility of Russia firing a missile into Polish territory is ‘unlikely’ based on its trajectory.

Notably, on November 17, North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) and Poland declared that the missile strike in the farmland in the Polish village was unintentional and that it was fired from the Ukrainian air defence in response to the bombarding by Russia in the region.

At a press conference, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg stated that the blast that killed two people in the Polish village of Przewodów near the Ukrainian border was most likely caused by Ukrainian air defence, but investigations are ongoing.

Stoltenberg went on to say that the Alliance does not blame Ukraine because it has the right to defend itself against a barrage of Russian missile attacks. He also stated that Russia bears “ultimate responsibility” for the missile strike in Poland due to its invasion of Ukraine.

“Ukraine’s defence was launching missiles in various directions, and one of these missiles, unfortunately, fell on Polish territory. There is absolutely nothing to suggest that it was a deliberate attack on Poland,” said Polish President Andrzej Duda. 

Nidhi Gupta murder case: Accused Mohammad Sufiyan was forcing her to convert to Islam, FIR reveals

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Nidhi Gupta murder case: Accused Mohammad Sufiyan was forcing her to convert to Islam, FIR reveals

On November 15, Md Sufiyan pushed Nidhi to death from the fourth floor of an apartment building in the Basant Kunj, Dubagga police station area in Lucknow. The police arrested Sufiyan on November 18 following an encounter. As per reports, in the FIR registered against Md Sufiyan, charges under the new anti-Conversion law have been applied too.

It is notable here that Nidhi’s family had said that Sufiyan was pressuring Nidhi to convert to Islam and marry him. The argument between Nidhi’s family and Sufiyan, on the day of the incident, were because of Sufiyan’s insistence on Nidhi to convert and perform Nikah with him.

Sufiyan booked under the anti-conversion law

As per the FIR, Sufiyan has been booked under Section 307 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), Sections 3 and 25 of the Arms Act. Earlier, he was booked under Section 302 of the IPC and Sections 3 and 5(1) of the Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Act, 2021.

In the FIR, based on the complaint registered by Nidhi’s mother, it was mentioned that Sufiyan was forcing Nidhi to convert to Islam. Nidhi’s mother, Lakshmi said, “Sufiyan was harassing my daughter for a long time. My family complained to his family, but he did not stop. He continued to pressurise my daughter to convert and marry him. On November 15, he followed my daughter into the Dudda colony and pushed her from the fourth floor of an apartment building resulting in the death of my daughter.

Exceprt from FIR based on Nidhi’s mother’s complaint.

Sufiyan was arrested based on the informant’s tip

As per the FIR, police got a tip from an informant about Sufiyan’s location. The police were conducting raids to find Sufiyan in the murder case. The accused had absconded after Nidhi’s death. An informant tipped the police that Sufiyan was hiding behind a water tank next to the powerhouse. When the police reached the spot, the informant pointed to where Sufiyan was hiding.

The police circled the location to ensure Sufiyan could not escape. When police approached Sufiyan, he started firing at them using a country-made pistol and tried to escape. The police opened fire in retaliation in which Sufiyan suffered a bullet injury on the leg. They recovered a country-made pistol, one bullet casing, and a live bullet stuck in the pistol.

The reports mention that when police asked Sufiyan about the pistol, he apologised for his actions and claimed he was scared that Nidhi’s family would kill him. Furthermore, the police were conducting raids to nab him, thus, he arranged a pistol.

Nidhi Gupta Murder Case

On November 18, three days after a 19-year-old girl Nidhi Gupta was reportedly pushed to death from the fourth floor of an apartment by her boyfriend Mohammad Sufiyan, the accused had been arrested. Sufiyan was absconding after the reported incident.

Nidhi had succumbed to injuries after falling from the fourth floor of the apartment where Sufiyan lives with his family. The incident happened in the Basant Kunj, Dubagga police station area in Lucknow earlier this week.

Police had placed a cash reward of Rs 25,000 in the accused Sufiyan’s name for his arrest.

USA: At least 10 people die in mass shooting in a Walmart store in Virginia, shooter found dead

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USA: At least 10 people die in mass shooting in a Walmart store in Virginia, shooter found dead

In yet another mass shooting in the United States, a gunman opened fire in a Walmart in Chesapeake in Virginia, killing at least 10 people and injuring many others. According to local time, the incident occurred on Tuesday night at around 10 pm. The unidentified attacker is believed to be a store manager and was found dead in the store, the police officials informed. The motive of this attack is not clear so far.

Police received information about the shooting at the Walmart store at around 10.15 PM, and when they reached the spot, they found several people with gunshot wounds. The police team searched the entire store in the next 35 to 40 minutes, and found multiple dead bodies as well as injured victims. The shooter was also found dead at the crime scene. Police said that they didn’t fire any shots, but it is not clear if the shooter killed himself. Police believe that there was only one shooter. The police have not revealed the identity of the dead shooter yet, and said that it is unclear if he was an employer of the store.

Leo Kosinski, a spokesman with the Chesapeake Police Department held a brief media interaction to inform about this incident. He said that around 10 people were fatally shot in this firing. “The Police Department responded to a report of a shooting inside the Walmart at about 10:12 pm about 45 minutes before the store was scheduled to close”, he added.

Photos and footage from the scene of the Walmart shooting showed authorities huddled around the building’s entry on Sam’s Circle, with multiple police vehicles parked in the store’s vast lot off Battlefield Boulevard. Outside the shop was a large inflatable Santa Claus. The incident occurred at one of many Walmart chain stores in southern Virginia. Some of the establishments there are a grocery store, a pharmacy, a bank, a bakery, and a deli.

Officers were looking for further casualties inside the Walmart, according to Mr. Kosinski, soon after midnight on Wednesday. The big store, he said, “had a lot of hiding spaces” for customers who may have looked for protection during the shooting. He said, “People could get scared, they could be hiding. We want to make sure that everyone is accounted for.”

This is the second incident of a high-profile mass shooting in the USA in the last three days. The shooting on Tuesday night happened just two days after a shooter in the US state of Colorado opened fire at an LGBT bar, killing five people and injuring 17.

Elon Musk finds #StayWoke T-shirts at Twitter headquarters in San Francisco, shares video

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Elon Musk finds #StayWoke T-shirts at Twitter headquarters in San Francisco, shares video

Twitter CEO Elon Musk on Wednesday revealed that company headquarters located in San Francisco had a closet full of “stay woke” T-shirts. The billionaire entrepreneur who took over Twitter last month took to the microblogging platform to share a video of the cupboard at the Twitter headquarters, showing black and blue T-shirts with “#StayWoke” printed on them.

“Found in closet at Twitter HQ fr,” the Tesla CEO wrote above the clip along with two laughing emojis.

In the 12 second video shared by Musk and viewed by over 6.8 million times in just a few hours, the new Twitter CEO could be heard speaking off camera as he inspects the T-shirts found in the closet.

He said, “He we are at the merch and there is an entire closest full of # woke t-shirts.”

Another unknown man in the video briefly interjects and says, “a secret closet.”

Users call out Twitter’s leftwing prejudice after Musk reveals #StayWoke T-shirts found at HQ

Political analyst James Wood commented on Musk’s video. Lambasting Twitter for being biased, Wood tweeted, “These a-holes destroyed a presidential election by stifling the free speech of half the country. May everyone of them go broke. The very definition of the ‘banality of evil’.”

Another Twitter user quoted the organisation when it rubbished allegations of its alignment with the Left as the figment of right-wing extremist propaganda. “There was no ideological capture at twitter at all. That’s all make believe right wing extremist propaganda,” tweeted the user, highlighting the response made by Twitter against allegations of prejudice before Musk took over.

Aditya Raj Kaul, an Indian journalist, quoted Musk’s tweet and said it is confirmation of Twitter was being used for blatant biased propaganda by wokes.

Massive churn at Twitter after Elon Musk takes over the social media behemoth

The video comes in the wake of massive layoffs and mass resignations at Twitter after Elon Musk took over the company last month. From around 7,500 employees, it is estimated that less that 2,000 Twitter employees remain at the company, especially after employees resigned from the company following Musk’s email asking employees to sign up to work “hardcore”.

Twitter has long been considered a bastion of woke activists, who tend to favour the ‘liberal’ worldview and are supportive of identity politics that resonate with the Democratic Party. Twitter’s prejudice has not been limited to the US alone. Across the world, it was accused of meddling in local politics by amplifying leftwing propaganda and suppressing dissenting views by the non-left. In India, Twitter was accused of arbitrarily dishing out suspensions and shadow bans of accounts that challenged the Left’s hegemony over online discourse and indulged in arbitrarily handing out labels aimed at shoring up leftwing political parties.

Before completing his acquisition of Twitter, Musk had ridiculed the social media behemoth for being partisan in enforcing its rules and regulations that were coloured by the political prejudices of its employees. He had then promised to rid the company of biases and transform it into a free-speech digital town square.

Yunus Pasha blackmails and rapes a minor Hindu girl, forces her to convert to Islam, arrested under anti-conversion law and POCSO

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Yunus Pasha blackmails and rapes a minor Hindu girl, forces her to convert to Islam, arrested under anti-conversion law and POCSO

In Mandya’s Nagamangala town in Karnataka, a married Muslim man has been arrested under Karnataka’s anti-conversion act and POCSO for raping a minor Hindu girl and forcing her to convert to Islam. The 25-year-old accused has been identified as Yunus Pasha, who is a married man. He was arrested after the girl’s father lodged a complaint with the police. Yunus is accused of sexually assaulting the girl, taking her nude photos and using them to blackmail her. He had also said that he will marry her if she converts to Islam.

Accused Yunus Pasha reportedly befriended the 13-year-old Hindu girl in Nagamangala town in Mandya district, and gave her a mobile phone through a boy in her class in the school to keep in touch with her. They started to talk on the phone regularly, and Yunus gradually gained the trust of the victim and convinced her to talk to him over WhatsApp video calls.

As per the victim’s police complaint, the accused gave her an Oppo smartphone and a SIM card and then forced her to connect over video calls. He then started coercing her to show her private parts on the video calls and recorded those videos.

The victim in her complaint alleges that the accused used her nude videos and pictures to blackmail her into having sex with him. Yunus Pasha threatened to spread private videos of the victim on social media if she does not agree to have physical relationship with him.

Recently the girl’s parents had gone out of town and she was living at her grandmother’s place. Taking advantage of this situation, Pasha went to the girl’s grandmother’s house on November 10. He gave her sleeping pills, asking her to mix them with the sambhar that her grandmother would be eating. Then on November 11, Yunus Pasha went to the house and raped her. He also promised to marry the Hindu girl if she converted to Islam.

According to the complaint, the accused threatened to kill the girl and her family if she revealed the truth to anyone.

The victim’s father told the police that after they returned, his daughter looked very stressed on November 12-13. When the parents started to question her, she revealed her ordeal. Following that the parents approached the police and lodged a case.

According to the police, the accused has been arrested and charged under the Karnataka government’s new anti-conversion law and POCSO Act and further action will be taken. 

‘He threatens to kill me, cut me into pieces, throw me away’: Shraddha’s police complaint against Aftab in 2020

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‘He threatens to kill me, cut me into pieces, throw me away’: Shraddha’s police complaint against Aftab in 2020

In yet another crucial development in the Shraddha Walkar murder case, the investigating police officers have come across a complaint that Shraddha had filed against Aftab in November 2020. Shraddha in the complaint had mentioned that Aftab wanted to kill her by strangulation and cut her into pieces.

“He scares and blackmails me that he will kill me, cut me up in pieces and throw me away. His parents are aware that he beats me and that he tried to kill me. They also know about us living together and they visit us on weekends. I lived with him till date as we were supposed to get married anytime soon and had the blessings of his family,” read the complaint letter, hand-written by Walker. The victim approached Tulinj police station on November 23, 2020.

According to the reports, Shraddha also had said that Aftab had been hitting her for the past six months but she could not report the incident as the latter would threaten to kill her. The Delhi police have attained a copy of the complaint letter and are verifying it. The Delhi Police is also investigating if action was taken by the Vasai cops after Shraddha filed a complaint with them.

Complaint letter by Shraddha in November 2020

Notably, the letter written by Shraddha Walkar on November 23, 2020, narrates a similar incident that she had shared with her friends and co-worker over Whatsapp and Instagram chat around the same time. Several chats of her with her friends that took place during the period had gone viral on social media. This is the same time when she shared a picture of herself with bruised face with them.

Aftab left the Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) in Rohini on Tuesday as the Delhi Police began court-ordered polygraph tests to advance the investigation ahead. According to Delhi Police, the polygraph test on Aftab began at the Rohini Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL). “Pre-med sessions and scientific sessions for Aftab’s polygraph test leading up to the polygraph test are underway,” FSL authorities stated on Tuesday.

Shraddha Murder case

On November 14, the Delhi Police solved the six-month-old murder case of Shraddha Walkar and arrested Aftab Poonawala for murdering her, and then chopping her into 35 small pieces. Aftab executed the murder on May 18 and stored her body parts in the refrigerator. He then disposed of the body pieces in Delhi’s Mehrauli forest during the next 18 days.

The accused was arrested based on the complaint filed by Shraddha’s father on November 10. He stated in the complaint that the accused and the deceased had rented an apartment in Delhi and were staying in an unhealthy live-in relationship. He said that he had always opposed their relationship as Aftab used to physically assault Shraddha.

The girl, a resident of Palghar was adamant about continuing her relationship with accused Aftab and shifted to Delhi with him. Three days after they shifted to Delhi, they engaged in a quarrel and Aftab happened to kill Shraddha. He confessed his crime on November 14 and stated that they used to fight a lot. He said that he murdered Shraddha on May 18 as she was forcing him to get married to her. They also fought over who would manage the domestic household expenses.

The accused has been arrested and a case under IPC section 302 (murder) and 201 (causing disappearance of evidence of an offence committed) have been registered. Further investigations into the case are underway.

China: Violent protests erupt at Foxconn’s iPhone plant over COVID regulations, employees clash with security personnel

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China: Violent protests erupt at Foxconn’s iPhone plant over COVID regulations, employees clash with security personnel

Hundreds of employees at Apple’s main iPhone manufacturing factory in China battled with security personnel, as tensions escalated following nearly a month of stringent restrictions imposed to combat a COVID-19 epidemic. According to reports, employees at the Foxconn Technology Group factory flooded out of hostels in the wee hours of Wednesday, shoving and pushing past the white-clad security guards they considerably outnumbered.

Several videos of the incident are making rounds on social media in which several white-suited individuals can be seen thrashing a person laying on the ground with sticks. As hundreds of individuals pressed their way through barricades, supporters screamed “fight, fight!”. At one point, several people approached an occupied police car and started shaking it while yelling incoherently.

Reportedly, the protest began overnight over unpaid salaries and worries about the spread of infection. Several workers were hurt, and anti-riot cops were dispatched on Wednesday to restore the law and order. In one video, enraged employees surrounded a quiet, depressed supervisor in a conference room to air their frustrations and challenge their COVID-19 test results.

“I’m really scared about this place, we all could be COVID-positive now,” one of the male workers was quoted saying. “You are sending us to death,” the other one yelled. The occasional incidents of violence at the facility in Zhengzhou’s central business district show a buildup of tension since the shutdown began in October. Many of the 200,000-strong employees at “iPhone City” have been compelled to live in seclusion, surviving on meager food and scrounging for medication.

An earlier video of the premise had shown workers trying desperately to leave the facility.

Last month, many people evacuated the factory on foot. Foxconn and the local government seemed to have regained control of the situation in recent weeks by offering more compensation and better working conditions to recruit new employees. Demonstrations that happened on Wednesday morning indicate that this is no longer the case.

It shows how Xi Jinping’s zero COVID strategy, which depends on rapid lockdowns to eradicate the illness wherever it appears, is gradually weighing on the economy and causing havoc in the global supply chain. Beijing recently released fresh orders for officials to reduce disruption and apply more targeted COVID-19 regulations, but rising outbreaks in key cities have driven local authorities to revert to stricter controls.

As cases increased and a couple of deaths were reported in the country, the Chinese capital halted schools, parks, shopping centers, and museums this week and advised residents to work from home. The breakouts have alarmed investors, who had been banking on a relaxation of tight COVID regulations. Despite indications this week that China was working toward reopening after March of next year, the new rise in cases and the likelihood of further deaths would hinder those plans.

Occasional violence has occurred in response to COVID-19 regulations across China. Hundreds of workers battled with security agents at Quanta Computer’s Shanghai plant in May after being denied communication with the outside world for months, while demonstrations also erupted in Guangdong, the southern industrial powerhouse. The Foxconn crisis highlights the risks for Apple of depending on a massive manufacturing machine centred in China during a period of unpredictable policies and uncertain trade ties.

Zhengzhou is Apple’s most crucial manufacturing location, producing an estimated four out of every five of its latest gadgets, as well as the vast bulk of the highest-end iPhone 14 Pro units. Apple cautioned this month that shipments of its newest premium iPhones will be fewer than projected, just in anticipation of holiday shopping.

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