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Aurangabad: Eyewitnesses refute allegations of Muslim man who alleged that he was made to chant ‘Jai Shree Ram’

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Aurangabad: Eyewitnesses refute allegations of Muslim man who alleged that he was made to chant ‘Jai Shree Ram’

Imran Ismail Patel, a hotel employee in Aurangabad had yesterday filed a complaint against a group of 10 people alleging that a mob intercepted him while he was returning to his house and forced him to chant ‘Jai Shri Ram’ following which he was thrashed by them. However, according to the police, the preliminary investigation revealed that the incident is being unnecessarily communalised and the evidence suggests that the scuffle occurred because of personal enmity.

The incident happened around Hudco corner on Thursday night. On his way home from work, he was stopped at Hudco Corner area by eight to ten youths. One of them took the keys to Imran’s motorcycle and asked where he lives. According to Imran, the gang whistled and forced him to chant ‘Jai Shri Ram’ to speak. When Imran raised reservations about chanting ‘Jai Shri Ram’, he was allegedly intimidated and threatened of dire consequences by the mob. Petrified by this, Imran claims he shouted ‘Jai Shri Ram’ thrice in front of them.

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However, as per Imran, the mob proceeded to beat him, despite complying to their demands. Meanwhile, disturbed by the ongoing brawl, Ganesh and his wife who lived nearby came out and rescued Imran. After this, Imran went to the Begumpura police station and filed a complaint against the mob.

The police commissioner Chiranjiv Prasad has said that the case has been registered and a probe is launched into the incident. He also added that some people are giving the incident a communal flair but evidence don’t lead in that direction. The eye-witnesses who came to Imran’s rescue have put paid to the claims made by Imran that he was forced to chant ‘Jai Shri Ram’. Instead, they have asserted that the incident was a result of a personal feud.

When OpIndia contacted Aurangabad Police, they stated that they have registered a complaint against 10 assailants filed by the alleged victim Imran. The police said that the investigation is underway and in the light of the recent claims made by the eye-witnesses, it cannot be claimed with certainty that Imran was forced to chant ‘Jai Shri Ram’ by the assaulters.

The case appears similar to that of Unnao madarsa case where Muslim students were injured in a fight over cricket but it was deviously used to claim that they were beaten up for not chanting ‘Jai Shri Ram’. It is now increasingly becoming a pattern to attach chanting of ‘Jai Shri Ram’ to seemingly unrelated incidents of violence where Muslims are victims to give it a communal angle and exculpate the victims from any wrongdoing that may have triggered the incident.

Thou shalt smite? Karnataka CM Kumaraswamy calls himself God, says BJP will face ‘judgement day’

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Thou shalt smite? Karnataka CM Kumaraswamy calls himself God, says BJP will face ‘judgement day’

Facing imminent defeat in the trust vote that the Congress-JD(S) government is delaying in Karnataka, chief minister HD Kumaraswamy invoked the Bible and compared himself with God. During the debate on the trust vote in the assembly, on Friday the CM warned the BJP of apocalypse for trying to topple his government. He said that his government was formed by God and God will punish BJP if they try to bring it down.

Driving home the allegation that BJP was poaching his MLAs, Kumaraswamy invoked Bible and said, “The only consolation is that there is coming a day when everyone will give an account of their lives as they stand before Almighty God on Judgment Day — with no lawyer, no lies, no façade — just them and true record of their life.”

Reiterating that he became CM due to circumstances, Kumaraswamy credited God for his fortune, saying the post of CM is a gift of God to him. He added that only God can take it way whenever he wants. “I am just a pawn in the game of fate”, he added.

The Judgement Day is a concept found in Abrahamic religions, which says it is the final and eternal judgment by God of every person or society. On this day, Jesus, the Son of God will judge “the living and the dead” before destroying the old heaven and earth, which are corrupted of sin, according to the Bible.

Responding to allegations that his brother and PWD minister HD Revanna was doing black magic to save the government, the CM said that his brother does not start his day without visiting the gods. “Don’t BJP MLAs go to temples where the priests give you the same prasada? I have no qualms in stating that my family and I are God-fearing,” he said.

Azam Khan says Muslims are paying the price of not joining Pakistan after the partition

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Azam Khan says Muslims are paying the price of not joining Pakistan after the partition

Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan, who recently won the Rampur Lok Sabha seat, has stated that the ‘mob lynching’ incidents are the ‘punishment Muslims are getting for 1947’. Speaking to ANI, the Rampur MP stated, “Muslims will face it whatever it maybe”.

Khan had reportedly made this statement after the incident in Bihar where 3 cattle thieves were beaten to death by villagers yesterday. The thieves had allegedly entered the village of Baniyapur in the dead of night with a pick-up van and had already stolen some goats. They were spotted by villagers when they were trying to steal a buffalo. One of the cattles thieves was a Muslim man named Naushad Qureshi while two others were Hindus.

He further added, “Why did not our ancestors go to Pakistan? Ask this to Nehru, Maulana Azad, Sardar Patel and Bapu. They had made promises to Muslims”.


Azam Khan, in his statement, has claimed that the ‘mob lynching’ incidents are Muslims getting punished for not going to Pakistan in 1947. Khan, however, did not mention anything about scores of Hindus who have been killed by Muslim mobs in the country. He also did not mention the fake claims of being made to chant ‘Jai Shri Ram’ that have been made by many Muslims in recent days.

It is notable here that Azam Khan is currently facing trouble as the Uttar Pradesh government is contemplating to declare him a land mafia after as many as 13 cases of land grabbing were reported against him.

Khan has allegedly grabbed lands from farmers using forged documents for the construction of the Mohammad Ali Jauhar University in Rampur. The multi-million university is run by  Azam Khan’s trust.

26 farmers in the area had also alleged that they were forcefully detained and pressurised by Khan to sign forged deals selling thousands of hectares of land for Khan’s trust. When they declined, Khan allegedly used force to grab the lands from them unlawfully.

The Mohammad Ali Jauhar University was established in 2006 under the SP government where Khan was a minister. Even a Congress leader Faisal Khan had alleged that Azam Khan calls himself a Muslim but he had forcefully grabbed the lands of Muslim farmers. The university itself was allegedly constructed by using government funds worth Rs 3000 crores.

It may be noted that in March this year the UP government had also demolished the Urdu Gate built by Azam Khan in the Jauhar Ali University road in Rampur. No permission was taken to build the gate, and it was causing a diversion of traffic in the area.

Khan has always managed to remain in the news by his controversial remarks. He had used misogynist and sexually targetted remarks against his political opponent Jaya Prada during the Lok Sabha elections. He had made objectionable statements against Ambedkar too, in the past.

Delhi police bust Taliban controlled heroin racket, Afghan-Pakistani cartel worth 5000 crores discovered

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Delhi police bust Taliban controlled heroin racket, Afghan-Pakistani cartel worth 5000 crores discovered

In what is being stated at the biggest ever contraband haul in India, Delhi Police have busted an international heroin racket controlled by a Taliban leader yesterday in the capital city. As per reports, the police had discovered a consignment of heroin belonging to the cartel that is estimated to push heroin worth 5000 crores in India.

As per reports, a Delhi police special cell had carried out a 120-days long operation to track the cartel that involves a Taliban leader in Afghanistan and his Pakistani partner. After the long operation, Delhi police finally managed to seize a cargo of about 150kgs of heroin that was loaded in a convoy of six cars. The seized drugs are said to be worth Rs 600 crores.

The cars were plying in various routes around Delhi and Amritsar. The cartel reportedly hid the drug in jute strings. The strings were then woven into bags and the bags were filled with spices and dry fruits that were being exported to India.

DCP Manishi Chandra of the Delhi police special cell has informed News 18 that the cartel uses a sophisticated method that involves soaking jute strings in a specially prepared heroin solution. The drug is soaked into the strings and made into bags where each bag, when carefully extracted, yields a kg of heroin.

After the cargo of spices and condiments is emptied, the bags are sent to the labs to extract the drug. The extracted heroin is then processed and made into top quality Afghan heroin and packed into kilogram size bags for further transportation.

The Delhi police operation has also busted a secret laboratory in Zakir Nagar area in Delhi, where the drug was being extracted from the carefully made bags.

As per the police, the heroin sewn jute bags were being prepared in several locations of Afghanistan like Khyogani and Jalalabad. The cartel’s business is estimated at Rs 5000 crores. The Delhi police special cell cracked the module after the cars carrying the contraband were tracked down and seized.

Five of the cars had the contraband in them while the sixth car was being driven by a kingpin who worked as a spotter for the cartel. Five smugglers, including two chemical experts of Afghan origin, were also arrested by the police. A sixth person was reportedly nabbed yesterday.

The police special cell is currently on the lookout for the Indian receiver of the cartel. He is a UP-based businessman who is currently absconding. He is believed to be the sole receiver of the drug sewn jute bags in India.

The operation has revealed the extent and level of sophistication that is being employed by terrorist elements in Pakistan and Afghanistan to peddle drugs in India. The presence of Afghan chemical expert in the cartel also shows how advanced the entire operation was.

The secret lab at Zakir Nagar is located at a densely populated region where the drug was being extracted and processed in a very industrial and sophisticated setup. The suspicions were first raised when the ‘convoy like’ movement of sedans was noticed in a relatively poor neighbourhood, often carrying ‘foreign-looking’ persons.

Following the alarm, a deep operation was launched by Delhi police 4 months ago with inspector Sunil Ranjan, Ravinder Joshi and Vindo Badola. Finally, the police team got to know that a large consignment was being delivered at Lajpat Nagar on July 17.

The contraband carrying cars and the arrested individuals eventually led the police to the Zakir Nagar lab where more amounts of the drug and weapons were discovered.

The arrested individuals are named Shinwari Rehmat Gul and Akhtar Mohammad Shinwari from Afghanistan. The Indian nationals are named Vakeel Ahmed from Batla House, Dheeraj from Faridabad and Raees Khan from Maharani Bagh in Delhi.

Earlier in March, the police had busted another Afghan cartel that was using capsules of heroin that were swallowed by carriers to pass through airport security. In April, the police had bust another cartel that was using Afghan and Nigerian nationals to smuggle heroin. That operation had seized heroin worth Rs 125 crores.

‘India cannot be refugee capital of the world’, central govt tells SC while seeking extension for final NRC publication

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‘India cannot be refugee capital of the world’, central govt tells SC while seeking extension for final NRC publication

Appearing for the Central government and the government of Assam in the National Register of Citizens (NRC) case today, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta informed the Supreme Court (SC) that India cannot be the refugee capital of the world. The Central and the Assam government had moved the apex court seeking an extension of the July 31 deadline for the finalisation of the NRC.

“Illegal migrants have no place in the country. India cannot be the refugee capital of the world”, Mehta told a bench comprising CJI Ranjan Gogoi and Justice R F Nariman. The Central and the State governments had also sought sample verification of the citizens included in the NRC. The governments cited that lakhs of people have been wrongly included in the final draft of the NRC in areas bordering Bangladesh due to the involvement of local officers.

“Please extend the deadline for publication of final Assam NRC from July 31 to a future date. There is a growing perception that many exclusions and many more inclusions have been made wrongly,” Mehta requested.

An affidavit was filed by the Centre seeking a direction for 20% re-verification of the final draft of the NRC in the districts bordering Bangladesh and 10% in the rest of Assam. The Supreme Court has postponed the hearing on NRC sample re-verification plea to July 23.

The first draft of the NRC for Assam was published on the intervening night of December 31, 2017, and the second draft was published on January 1, 2018, in line with SC’s direction. Names of 1.9 crore people out of the 3.29 crore applicants were included at that point in time.

Crucial files vanish from Punjab govt ministry which was headed by Navjot Singh Sidhu before reshuffle in June

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Crucial files vanish from Punjab govt ministry which was headed by Navjot Singh Sidhu before reshuffle in June

Several critical government files, including Rs 1,144-crore Ludhiana City Centre scam related to Punjab Chief Minister (CM) Amarinder Singh, have gone missing from the department previously headed by Cabinet Minister Navjot Singh Sidhu. The other vanished files related to unauthorised construction on agricultural land in Ludhiana belong to the Local Government Department.

Sidhu who earlier headed the Local Government and Tourism and Cultural Affairs portfolios was divested of the ministry by the CM on June 6. He was made responsible for Power and New and Renewable Energy Sources during a Cabinet rejig that took place after the Lok Sabha election results were declared.

Sidhu who did not assume charge of his new department had tendered his resignation to the CM on July 14. His resignation has, however, not yet been accepted by the CM. He had sent his resignation to Congress president Rahul Gandhi one month ago.

In the Ludhiana City Centre scam, the State Vigilance Bureau has already granted a clean chit to the CM and other accused including his son Raninder Singh.

According to the sources, the government is serious about the missing files and efforts are on to recover them. The department has created a list of all such files that remain untraceable. “Efforts are on to trace the files. We are trying to establish contact with Sidhu, who might be aware about them,” a senior official told IANS.

Brahm Mohindra, Local Government Minister has already initiated department inquiry to look into the curious case of the missing files. One such file pertains to granting the clearance to the luxury apartment project in Ludhiana.

Sidhu was divested of the Local Government Ministry by the Punjab CM on claims that his handling of the department was “inept” and inefficient, citing the poor performance by the Congress party in urban areas of the state. Sidhu, on the other hand, defended himself stating that he has always been a “high performer” and is unnecessarily being singled out publicly by the CM.

Devotees and volunteers reconstruct the destroyed Brindavana of Vyasaraja Swami in less than two days

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Devotees and volunteers reconstruct the destroyed Brindavana of Vyasaraja Swami in less than two days

The 16th-century Brindavana of Saint Vyasaraja Swamy, Rajaguru of Vijayanagara Emperor Krishnadevaraya, was reconstructed by local devotees and volunteers just 32 hours after it was found desecrated and vandalised by unidentified miscreants.


Devotees had discovered about the incident after they had visited the site for performing rituals on Thursday morning, a day after the lunar eclipse.

After the Brindavana was reconstructed, due rituals were conducted by the Swamijis of the Madhwa Sect.


Social media users informed that volunteers who took part in the re-construction celebrated after their work was done. More than 5000 volunteers from various places took part in the reconstruction activity under the supervision of several saints and scholars. They worked amidst constant mantra chants at the site.


Yesterday, BJP MP from south Bangalore Tejasvi Surya had also raised the issue in Parliament. He had demanded that miscreants must be arrested immediately. He had also argued for the need to have extra security measures such as the installation of CCTV cameras.


The Brindavana is located at Anegundi near Hampi, which is a UNESCO World Heritage site. It is one among nine Brindavanas at the Nava Brindavana, located on an island in the Tungabhadra River comprises Brindavans of nine Hindu Madhva saints.

This was the second time that a site in Hampi was vandalised. In February 2019, a video had gone viral on social media showing three men wrecking the pillars of 14th century Vishnu temple.

Later, the four accused reportedly admitted their guilt and were subsequently released after they remitted ₹2.8 lakhs in fine and assured to re-erect the pillars in the presence of Archaeological Survey of India officials, the Hampi police inspector, and other officials.

Chhattisgarh: Village tense after cow carcass discovered, case registered against unknown miscreants as villagers demand action

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Chhattisgarh: Village tense after cow carcass discovered, case registered against unknown miscreants as villagers demand action

An incident of bovine slaughter has been reported from Revatipur in Chhattisgarh under Ramchandrapur Police Station. The villagers are anguished and have demanded strict action be taken against the perpetrators. The Police have registered a case against unidentified miscreants in the matter.

Villagers have threatened an agitation if the Police don’t take adequate action over the incident. The Police have initiated an investigation into the matter. The officer in charge of the Police station has stated that remains of the slaughter have been sent to the forensic lab for testing. The post-mortem has confirmed that the slaughtered animal was indeed a cow.

The remains of the cow were discovered by villagers in the outskirts of the village. The Sarpanch of the village said that when he reached the spot after being informed by villagers, he found the spot littered with the horns, the skin and the head of the slaughtered animal. The Sarpanch also summoned people from the Muslim community to make it evident that the cow was slaughtered and the meat was transported for selling and consumption.

The villagers suspect that the crime was committed by people from the Muslim community. The Police have deployed men in large numbers to prevent communal violence in the area.

Hindu boy’s family forced out of village for marrying Muslim girl, police advices boy to convert as villagers threaten to kill

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Hindu boy’s family forced out of village for marrying Muslim girl, police advices boy to convert as villagers threaten to kill

Following the marriage of two lovers belonging to different communities in Saharanpur in Uttar Pradesh, villagers have forced the newly married couple along with their family into exile. A resident of Biharigarh, Amit was in love with a Muslim girl named Aarzu, who got married recently. The girls’ relatives along with the police in charge of the village are accused of pressurising Amit to convert his religion. The girl’s family members have also threatened to kill the couple.


Amit was rounded up by the local police in-charge and brutally thrashed by him. The young man claimed the police in-charge not only assaulted him but also said that either he will have to convert or he will have to leave the girl. Sensing a palpable threat to their lives, the couple approached city SSP for protection.

Talking to media, Aarzu said that her in-laws family has been banished from the village by her family and other villagers. She said that villagers have threatened that the couple will be killed. Aarzu alleged that when they went to the police station seeking protection, the police instead thrashed Amit, advising him to either convert or leave his wife. She confirmed that they want to live together and sought protection.

A couple of days ago, both Amit and Aarzu got secretly married in court. When the villagers learned about their marriage, they clobbered Amit’s family members and banished them from the village and threatened to kill the two. Following this, Aarzu’s family filed a complaint against Amit. The police arrested Amit and brutally thrashed him in jail. After being released from the jail, Amit approached SSP’s office with his wife and requested for security. Amit asserted he and Aarzu have married of their own free will and not under any duress.

Villagers and girl’s relatives are apparently miffed with the fact that Aarzu, a Muslim, had married a Hindu man. Amit’s accusation about the local police in-charge assaulting and intimidated him to convert his religion points out to the police officer being in cahoots with the villagers and girl’s family members.

National Flag on Shashi Tharoor’s desk placed upside down as he extends support to disgraced cop Sanjiv Bhatt

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National Flag on Shashi Tharoor’s desk placed upside down as he extends support to disgraced cop Sanjiv Bhatt

Shashi Tharoor has found himself in a tight spot once again. Earlier today, he met the wife and son of disgraced ex-cop Sanjiv Bhatt and came out in his support. However, in an embarrassment for him, the pictures he posted on Twitter show that the National Flag on his desk is upside down.


People on Twitter requested him to fix the National Flag on his desk.


Some even wanted legal proceedings against the Congress parliamentarian due to his callousness.


Tharoor has earlier been accused of insulting national symbols as well. He was accused of disrespecting the National Anthem after he urged people to sing the anthem by placing their right hand on the left side of the chest, the Western way, instead of the traditional Indian manner by standing in attention. A case was filed against him as well. Ultimately, he was acquitted by the Court citing a lack of criminal intent.

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