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Congress snaps ties with Islamist outfits in Kerala after party worker is allegedly killed by leader of the same outfits

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Congress snaps ties with Islamist outfits in Kerala after party worker is allegedly killed by leader of the same outfits

The Congress party has decided to snap ties with their ideological allies in Kerala – Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI) and its sister organisation PFI, after one of the members of the Islamist organisation PFI was arrested in connection with the murder of Congress worker in Kerala’s Thrissur district, reports Times Now.

According to the reports, the Kerala police have arrested a leader of Popular Front of India (PFI) which is an ally of Congress in the state for the brutal murder of Congress worker P Naushad. In the wake of the arrest, the Congress has announced that it will cut ties with both Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI) and its sister organisation PFI.

Reportedly, Kerala Congress has come heavily down on the notorious Islamist organisation PFI for its involvement in the murder of 40-year-old Congress worker Naushad. Speaking to media, one of the Congress workers said that the Congress party has never believed in communal politics and it has nothing to do with the PFI or SDPI anymore because they are communal organisations.

“We have always been against the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and the Communist Party of India (CPI). We believe that they are two sides of the same coin. We don’t believe in communal politics and don’t want any such parties in the alliance,” said the Congress worker.

Earlier on July 31 this year, 40-year-old Noushad was brutally murdered by stabbing him by bike-borne assailants in Chavakkad in Thrissur district. The Kerala Police then nabbed five other accused in the case.

The prime accused Arakkal Jamaludheen had run away after the incident. However, Jamaludheen, who is the Chavakkad area president of the PFI, was arrested from Tamil Nadu by the investigation officials.

Jamaludheen has been charged under sections 302 (Punishment for murder), 143 (Unlawful assembly), 147 (rioting), 148 (Rioting, armed with deadly weapon), 323 (Punishment for voluntarily causing hurt), 324 (Voluntarily causing hurt by dangerous weapons or means), 120B (criminal conspiracy), 153 (Wantonly giving provocation with intent to cause riot) of the Indian Penal Code and section 27 (Punishment for possessing arms) of the Arms Act.

The Islamist outfit PFI was launched in Kerala in 2006 after merging three fringe Muslim outfits – the National Development Front of Kerala, Karnataka Forum for Dignity and Manitha Neethi Pasari of the Tamil Nadu – to protect “interest of the backward and oppressed people.”

In Kerala, most of its leaders were members of the banned Student Islamic Movement of India. Reportedly, the PFI was allegedly involved in at least 24 political murders in Kerala.

The Islamist outfits Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI) and its sister organisation PFI Popular Front of India have been accused of extreme communalism and has a long history of resorting to violence against their political opponents. The PFI is also accused by the National Investigation Agency for being involved in love-jihad cases in Kerala. Recently, the SDPI members were also arrested in connection with the brutal murder of ABVP worker in Kannur.

Recently, PFI members were accused of killing 42-year-old activist Ramalingam. The activist was brutally murdered for opposing religious conversion. The accused PFI members have been preaching conversion to Islam.

In December, two people, former members of the extremist Islamist organisation, Popular Front of India (PFI) had joined the IS. The police said that K Sajjad and Anwar Poothappara had links with the radical Islamic outfit in the past.

While PFI an SDPI have had a long history of communalism and political murders, Congress continued to remain an ally till one of their own party workers was allegedly killed by one of the leaders of the outfits.

Will consider Yasin Malik a murderer only when courts tell so: John Dayal, in presence of murdered IAF official’s widow

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Will consider Yasin Malik a murderer only when courts tell so: John Dayal, in presence of murdered IAF official’s widow

‘Activist and intellectual’ John Dayal has stated in a debate on Times now that he will consider Yasin Mallik a murderer only after the courts see him as a murderer. He made this statement in the presence of Nirmala Khanna, the wife of late Sqn Ldr Ravi Khanna, who was killed by Mallik on January 25, 1990.


During the discussion, Dayal made a grandstanding that ‘blood will out’ and those who have committed murders will be punished someday. He also slammed the BJP for being in a coalition government with PDP in Jammu and Kashmir for 4 years. When anchor Padmaja Joshi asked Dayal whether he will call Yasin Malik a murderer now, Dayal stated that he will call him a murderer only when the courts find him guilty of murder.

Sqn Ldr Ravi Khanna was one of the four Indian Air Force personnel killed by Yasin Mallik and other JKLF terrorists when they had attacked IAF personnel who were waiting at Sant Nagar Crossing to board their buses on January 25, 1990. 40 personnel, including a female official, were injured at that shootout led by Malik himself.

Later, Malik had admitted in a BBC interview that he was involved in the murders of IAF men. The case, pending for 30 years, has been reopened. Malik, lodged in Tihar, will be produced before a special TADA court in Jammu tomorrow on 11 September.

Squadron Leader Ravi Khanna, only 38-year-old at that time was killed by Yasin Malik. Malik had allegedly fired 26 bullets on Khanna.

Religious persecution: Pakistan’s Sikh ex-lawmaker seeks asylum in India, says Army and ISI dictate Imran Khan

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Religious persecution: Pakistan’s Sikh ex-lawmaker seeks asylum in India, says Army and ISI dictate Imran Khan

A former MLA belonging to Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) is attempting to seek asylum in India over atrocities on minorities in Pakistan, as per reports.


Not only minorities but even Muslims aren’t safe in Pakistan, he said. “We are surviving in Pakistan with a lot of difficulties. I want Modi Sahab do something for them. They are tortured there,” he said on religious persecution of minorities in Pakistan.

According to the reports, 43-year-old Baldev Kumar is a former MLA from Pakistan’s Barikot reserved seat in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. Kumar said he wants political asylum in India as minorities are being persecuted in Pakistan.

Baldev Kumar is presently in India on a three-month visa. A few months before he arrived in India on August 12, Baldev Kumar had sent his wife and their two children to their relatives in Ludhiana’s Khanna. Kumar said that he was forced to move his family out of Pakistan as religious minorities were being persecuted in the country.

Baldev Kumar is currently residing with his family in a two-room rented house in Model Town on Samrala Marg, Khanna in Ludhiana. Baldev Kumar married Bhavna, a resident of Khanna in Punjab, in 2007. He was a councillor in Pakistan at the time of marriage and later became an MLA.

Kumar’s wife Bhavna is still an Indian citizen. However, their two children, 11-year-old daughter and 10-year-old son, are Pakistani nationals. Kumar said he fears going back to Pakistan. He said he will formally seek political asylum in India as he fears for his family’s safety.

Targetting Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan, Baldev Kumar said Imran Khan has failed to protect his people especially the minorities. He also alleged that the Pakistani Army and ISI dictate Imran Khan.

Kumar said a large scale of religious persecutions by state and non-state agencies continues to take place in Pakistan. He added that people had high hopes when Imran Khan came to power in 2018, but he failed. Baldev Kumar added that Imran Khan had promised that he would build a new Pakistan but the promise remains unmet.

“You made certain promises to minorities and gained their votes. Now the time has come to fulfil those promises. Don’t let atrocities happen against Hindus and Sikhs in Pakistan,” said Kumar while targetting Imran Khan.

He said that he realised Pakistan was no longer safe for minorities after the daughter of a Sikh priest was forcibly converted in Nankana Sahib province. “If religious leaders are not being respected, then who would listen to me?” Kumar asked.

Baldev Kumar said that he hoped that Prime Minister Narendra Modi would grant him asylum in India.

Kumar said that the atrocities against minorities in Pakistan have increased after India abrogated Article 370 which increased tensions between India and Pakistan over the changed status of Kashmir.

Reportedly, Baldev Kumar is accused in a 2016 murder case of Soran Singh, another person belonging to the minority community in Pakistan, who was then the MLA of his constituency Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province. Singh, a Sikh activist and the assistant on minorities to the then provincial chief minister, was shot dead by unidentified assailants in 2016.

Soon after Singh’s murder, Baldev Kumar was declared as the MPA-elect Pakistan’s Election Commission. As per Pakistan law, if the MLA dies while being in an office, then the candidate who is second in the same party is made the MLA.

Within 36 hours after he got elected, Baldev Kumar was arrested for Singh’s murder. The police had claimed that Kumar murdered Singh to take his position.

However, Kumar denied allegations and said he was falsely accused in the case. He was kept in a prison for two years while his seat lay vacant till 2018. In 2018, Baldev Kumar was acquitted in the case due to lack of evidence. Surprisingly, he was acquitted in the case two days before the term of the assembly ended.

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

There have been many such cases reported in the recent past. On March 20, two underage Hindu girls were abducted from their home in Pakistan’s Sindh on the eve of Holi. The girls were later forcefully converted and married off to older Muslim men.

In another horrific incident, a 13-year-old Pooja Sotahar Kumari, daughter of Fatan Rathore, resident of village Bakhsho Laghari in Hyderabad district’s Hosri Taluka, was kidnapped, forcefully converted and subsequently married off to a man identified as Syed Irshad Shah.

Recently, a report released by the Members of the European Parliament (MEP) threw light on the plight of religious minorities in Pakistan. The report claims that around 1000 girls from religious minorities are forcibly converted to Islam every year. The numbers might be higher as many cases are not even reported.

Culture Ministry’s mega plan: Rs 27,000 crores for development of ASI monuments, museums, historical sites including Hampi and Rakhigarhi

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Culture Ministry’s mega plan: Rs 27,000 crores for development of ASI monuments, museums, historical sites including Hampi and Rakhigarhi

The Culture Ministry has submitted a 5-year plan to the fifteenth finance commission. As per an exclusive report in the Economic Times, the plan draws a roadmap for a 5-year plan to bring significant developments in revamping of archaeologically important sites, building museums and education centres to train, maintain and propagate Indic culture through art forms and courses.

About a quarter of the Rs 27,000 crores budget has been kept aside for the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), which will increase ASI’s annual budget by 7 times.

The report also mentions that the culture ministry wants to set up 100 museums on the lines of the Acropolis museum in Greece, a National Centre for Performing Arts, and an Indian Institute of Culture to provide training in archaeology, museology, conservation and related fields. A national-level festival called Jashn-e-Kashmir to celebrate the folk art of Jammu and Kashmir is also included in the proposal.

Archeological Survey of India

The ASI’s current resources of about Rs 974.56 crores are set to be increased to Rs 6,769 crores. Massive infrastructure changes and developmental projects have been planned to reduce waiting time for visitors to 42 monuments. 600 sites under the protection of ASI are to be provided with world-class amenities. 50 monuments have been identified for illumination projects and special interpretation centres are to be established. A special Experimental Archeology Museum has bene planned at Vadnagar, PM Modi’s hometown at an ASI site.

Authentic Reconstruction of sites

The ministry is reportedly exploring technological options for ‘authentic reconstruction’ of archaeological sites including Indus Valley sites such as Dholavira and Rakhigarhi. 25 organisations, including IITs, have reportedly submitted proposals for providing technological help, experts on Indus Valley Civilisation are being recruited too. IIT Bombay will reportedly become the nodal agency for the institutions participating in technological work.

Indian Institute of Culture

The ministry plans to merge education and training institutes to establish the IIC. The Institute of Archaeology, National Museum Institute and National Research Laboratory for Conservation of Cultural Property (NRLC) are to be the key centres in the plan. The IIC is to offer graduate, postgraduate and research degrees, apart from diplomas and short-term courses in areas related to Archeology, museology and cultural economy.

Other initiatives

A cultural mapping programme, conceptualised by former culture minister Mahesh Sharma, that aims to bring artists and buyers together in a single authentic platform in the form of an aggregator is also being revised and funded. The project of creation of a dossier of artists across India that was criticised by a parliamentary panel led by TMC’s Derek O’Brien as ‘aimless’ is being revised with additional funding.

Other plans of the ministry’s 5-year project include revamping and infrastructure development of various existing museums and libraries across the country.

Pakistan’s ISI holds high level meet with terror groups to plan nefarious activities against India: Reports

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Pakistan’s ISI holds high level meet with terror groups to plan nefarious activities against India: Reports

Pakistan’s spy agency Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) reportedly held ‘high level’ meeting with terror groups it nurtures on its soil to plan ‘nefarious activities’ against India. Pakistan is hoping to gain international attention by carrying out such attacks.

As per a report by DNA, a high level meeting was held in capital Islamabad between the ISI and terror groups like Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM), Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), Hizbul Mujahideen and others to plan various attacks in Jammu & Kashmir. India Today reports that in the meeting, which was held in a ‘safe house’ of Pakistani Army, the terror groups chalked out details of various terror attacks that could be carried out in India.

As per the report, the closed-door meeting also included Khalistani Zindabad Force (KZF) and other pro-Khalistan outfits were also part of the meeting in Islamabad. The pro-Khalistan outfits are reportedly planning joint protests in the UK and US with Kashmiri separatists. The ISI also met Ranjit Singh Neeta of Khalistan Zindabad Force and asked him to activate his channels in Jammu & Kashmir.

Yesterday it was reported that Pakistan had ‘secretly’ released terrorist Masood Azhar from Pakistani jail and was planning a ‘big action’ in Sialkot-Jammu-Rajasthan region. As per the report, Pakistan had deployed additional force along the border near Rajasthan in response to Indian government’s decision to abrogate Article 370.

After getting snubbed by the international community for choosing not to interfere in India’s internal matter, Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan had earlier threatened “fullest possible response” to India’s moves in Jammu and Kashmir. Pakistani army chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa had also said they were prepared to “go till any extent”. Bajwa added they were ready to “give sacrifices for our Kashmiri brothers, fulfil our duty till the last bullet, last soldiers and last breath”.

Youth Congress shares images from Pakistan to criticise PM Modi and BJP led Khattar government in Haryana

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Youth Congress shares images from Pakistan to criticise PM Modi and BJP led Khattar government in Haryana

The Congress party which is fighting an existential battle against the mighty BJP seems to be trying too hard to influence voters. However, in an attempt to mount a fight against BJP, Youth Congress has now resorted to posting fake images to target them ahead of the state assembly elections.

The Indian Youth Congress, the youth wing of the Indian National Congress party, on Monday tweeted that the BJP-led Haryana government, in its four-year tenure, has provided only 647 jobs in the state while becoming the world’s richest party and “emptying” the coffers of the Reserve Bank of India.

The youth wing of the grand old party shared an infographic on the same, using an image where people can be seen protesting against unemployment.

Image Source: Ankur Singh

However, in a bid to attack the Haryana BJP government, the Indian National Congress social media cell resorted to half-truths by posting images shot at Pakistan to propagate those images as being taken in Haryana.

However, the same photo was first published by Tribune- a Pakistan daily while covering protests in Balochistan over unemployment way back in 2010.

Tribune.pk report from 2010

In the picture used by Tribune.com.pk, it can clearly be seen that the picture is at least from 2010 or before and in the picture, unemployed Pakistanis can be seen protesting and displaying their degrees in Jaffarabad, Balochistan.

After getting caught, the Youth Congress has now deleted the post criticising the Modi government.

In another post, Haryana Youth Congress shared an image stating that the Modi government has failed in providing employment opportunities to the youth of Haryana. In their infographic, the Congress social media cell has shared an image of a protest claiming that the unemployment rate in the state is 8.6%, which is second highest in the country.


However, according to Twitter user Ankur Singh, the image shared by the Congress party was taken at a protest by unemployed youth in 2012 and not against the NDA government contrary to the claims of the Congress party.


In another gaffe, the youth Congress used the images of protests that had erupted against their own Congress government in 2013 to attack the incumbent Manohar Lal Khattar government in Haryana.

Image Source: Ankur Singh

The above image shared by the Congress party to attack the Khattar government was shot at a farmers protest against Biotech giants Monsanto pesticides at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi during the UPA rule in 2013. The Congress social media cell has now deleted the post after facing embarrassment.

A report in The Hindu from 2013 that uses a photo of Farmers protesting against Monsanto pesticides at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi.

There seems to be no end to Congress party’s fake propaganda against the BJP government in Haryana. In another post, now deleted, the Congress social media cell has targeted Haryana government while claiming that there is a shortage of doctors in Jind Hospital.

Image Source: Ankur Singh

In a hurry to target the BJP, the Congress shared a misleading image of patients waiting in a hospital claiming to be it as the Jind hospital, Haryana. However, the image was taken in 2017 at a hospital in Siliguri, West Bengal.

The deliberate propaganda is not just limited to Haryana as even Maharasthra Youth Congress joined the race to propagate half-truths against the incumbent BJP government. In a post, the Maharasthra Youth Congress have a shared an image criticising the Narendra Modi government for alleged unemployment in the country.

However, in doing so, they have tweeted an image of contestants lining up for participating in a reality show Indian Idol in 2012 while passing the image as a protest by the youth against the Narendra Modi government.


This is not the first time that Congress party is using half-truths and whole lies to attack the BJP. Earlier this year, former Congress IT cell head Divya Spandana had spread half-truths about the Vande Bharat Express to discredit the government and insensitively dragged the Pulwama Attack into it in the process.

Senior Congress leader and former Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah was also caught sharing misleading images of present CM Yediyurappa and other senior BJP leaders, accusing them of ‘hypocrisy’ after Siddaramaiah had claimed that they had attended Tippu Jayanti in the past. However, in a hurry to target the CM, senior Congress leader Siddaramaiah had shared images related to events that are no way related to Tippu Jayanti celebrations.

Delhi: Upset over wife going to her mother’s place, man strangulates and then drowns 21-day-old daughter in water tank

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Delhi: Upset over wife going to her mother’s place, man strangulates and then drowns 21-day-old daughter in water tank

In an horrific incident, a 26-year-old man in Delhi allegedly killed his 21-day-old infant daughter by drowning her in a water tank after an argument with his wife. After a fight with his wife, Mukesh reportedly strangulated his daughter and then drowned her in a water tank.

As per reports, his wife, Kiran, was to go to her mother’s home after having delivered the baby on 16th August. However, Mukesh was unhappy about it. So he took the infant in a room and locked it from inside. According to her police complaint, when Mukesh opened the door, their daughter was lying unconscious on the cot. Kiran says Mukesh admitted to strangulating and drowning their daughter.

The police reached the spot and took the child to hospital where she was declared brought dead. As per the post-mortem report, the child was first strangulated and drowned. Mukesh was arrested and booked under relevant sections of the IPC.

Chhattisgarh Congress leader and minister Amarjeet Bhagat blames Modi for Chandrayaan-2 ‘failure’

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Chhattisgarh Congress leader and minister Amarjeet Bhagat blames Modi for Chandrayaan-2 ‘failure’

As India and the world waited with bated breath, in the wee hours of Saturday, Chandrayaan-2’s landing module had gone silent after Vikram the lander, could not establish communication with the control centre in Bengaluru, when it was merely 2.1 KMs from the landing surface of the moon.

While NASA, global media, scientists across the globe and almost all the proud citizens of India hailed ISRO for its exemplary efforts in accomplishing almost 90 to 95 per cent of the Chandrayaan-2 mission, there are few in the opposition squad who could not resist playing politics over the same.

Congress leader and Chhattisgarh Food and Civil Supplies Minister Amarjeet Bhagat in a shocking statement on Monday blamed PM Modi over the probably technical glitch in the Vikram lander. On being questioned about 100 days of Modi government, Congress leader Amarjeet Bhagat allegedly pinned the blame on PM Modi calling the mission a “failure”.

“Abhi tak to Modi ji kewal doosre ke kiye mein feeta kaat’te they, udghaatan karte they, waahwaahi lete they. Pehli baar Chandrayaan-2 launch karne gaye aur woh bhi fail ho gaya (until now Modi ji used to take credit for other people’s works. Now when he went to launch Chandrayaan-2, that also failed),” said the Congress minister.

Ironically, while on one hand, Congress Minister is heard mocking the spirit of ISRO scientists, on the other hand, Congress bigwigs had taken to Twitter to express their solidarity with ISRO after it was learned that contact with the Vikram lander was lost by mission control. However, this statement coming from a Congress leader is not surprising.

The way it is almost customary for Congress to claim credit for every achievement that the citizens of this country strive hard to achieve, it is almost traditional for it to blame Modi for whatever erroneous happens under the deep blue sky.

Amusingly, the similar had happened in the case of Chandrayaan-2. Even before Chandrayaan-2 entered its orbit around the Earth, the Congress party hailed Jawaharlal Nehru for the glorious achievement of the Indian scientists. The party could not stop itself from throwing salutations to Manmohan Singh for sanctioning the space mission in 2008. In reality, however, the Chandrayaan-2 mission was delayed by the Congress party.

Even when India had announced its anti-satellite missile, the Congress party had claimed credit for it despite the fact that it was their own government which hadn’t given clearance for the project. A former DRDO chief, in fact, credited the Modi government for giving them the go-ahead to build the missile.

Moreover, in a bizarre rant, TMC chief Mamata Banerjee had accused ISRO of launching the moon mission ‘Chandrayaan 2’ to ‘divert attention’ from the economic slowdown.

Hours after Kalyan Singh’s immunity ended with completion of term as governor, CBI moves court to summon him in Babri demolition case

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Hours after Kalyan Singh’s immunity ended with completion of term as governor, CBI moves court to summon him in Babri demolition case

The CBI has filed an application in the Special CBI court in Lucknow hearing the Babri structure demolition case to summon former UP Chief Minister Kalyan Singh as an accused in the case. Kalyan Singh’s term as Rajasthan governor ended today, and along with that, the constitutional immunity he had enjoyed also came to end. Now he will be tried along with others accused in the case of demolition of Babri structure in 1992.


Kalyan Singh was the CM of UP when the disputed structure at the Rama Janambhumi was brought down by Karsevaks on December 6 1992. He had resigned from the post of CM on the same taking moral responsibility for the demolition. Along with senior BJP leaders LK Advani, Murli Manohar Joshi, Uma Bharti and others, Kalyan Singh was also charged with criminal conspiracy in the case. In 2001, a CBI court had dropped the criminal conspiracy charges, against the accused, and that verdict was upheld by the Allahabad High Court.

In 2017 the Supreme Court had ordered the restoration of criminal conspiracy charges again, terming the High Court judgement dropping the charges as “erroneous”. In July this year, the apex court had asked the special court to complete the trial in the case within nine months.

Kalyan Singh was appointed as governor of Rajasthan in September 2014, which had given him immunity from prosecution under Article 361 of the constitution. His term ended on 9th September, and he had joined the BJP on the same day. CBI also didn’t delay in taking action against him as the case is to be concluded within the deadline given by the Supreme Court. While ordering the restoration of the case in 2017, the apex court had noted that Kalyan Singh can be tried in the case only after he ceases to be governor.


Talking to media after re-joining BJP, Kalyan Singh had said that Ayodhya is a sacred place, and construction of Ram temple is a matter of devotion of crores of people. He had said that all political parties should make their stand on construction of Ram Mandir clear in front of the people.

Assam: Four Bangladeshi nationals arrested in Silchar for money laundering, fake Saudi riyals worth over Rs 2 lakhs in Indian currency seized

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Assam: Four Bangladeshi nationals arrested in Silchar for money laundering, fake Saudi riyals worth over Rs 2 lakhs in Indian currency seized

Assam Police on Sunday arrested four Bangladeshi nationals for Silchar and seized fake Saudi Arabian Riyals. The Indian face value of the currency is worth over Rs 2 lakhs.

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Six mobile handsets and five Bangladeshi passports have also been seized from them, confirmed police. The four apprehended Bangladeshis have been identified as Md Ripon Khan (32), Md Assad Udjjaman (39), Suman Fakir (30) and Jamal Munshi (35), while one Mohammad Kabir Sardar managed to flee from the spot.

The Sub-Divisional Police Officer (SDPO) Sharma informed, “Their sinister design was to lure residents of this region for Indian currency in exchange of fake Saudi riyals and it was going on for the last month.”

“They had entered India through Tripura with bonafide Bangladesh passports and searched for baits in this region,” said Sharma confirming that all the accused were residents of Gopalganj area, located near Dhaka in Bangladesh. Speaking to Northeast Now, a digital bilingual news portal, the SDPO confirmed: “We have seized several SIM cards, mobile phones and fake Saudi riyals from them.”

The accused were involved in cheating one person last month. On Sunday they tried to cheat another person by exchanging fake Saudi Arabia Riyals with 2 lakhs Indian currency.

One victim confirmed to Northeast Now on conditions of anonymity: “I was approached to give them Rs 2 lakh of Indian currency in exchange for one lakh of Saudi Arabian Riyal which equals more than Rs 19 lakh and very tough to resist.”

Moreover, according to SDPO Sharma, all the accused have been sent to Silchar’s Sadar Police Station where they are being interrogated.

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