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JNU sedition case: Patiala House Court pulls up Kejriwal government over case delay, fixes next hearing for 28th February

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JNU sedition case: Patiala House Court pulls up Kejriwal government over case delay, fixes next hearing for 28th February

The Patiala House Court in Delhi today fixed the next hearing in the JNU sedition case for 28th February. The Court asked the Delhi Police to get Arvind Kejriwal-led Delhi Government to expedite the matter and provide sanction for the JNU sedition case charge sheet. The court said that they (the government) cannot stop the file.

Earlier, the Delhi government had issued show cause notice to the bureaucrat who had cleared JNU sedition case file. The Delhi government had received the charge sheet on January 14 but no action was taken on it. In fact, extending their support to the ‘tukde tukde gang’ Congress had invited Kanhaiya Kumar, one of the accused in sedition case, for an event remembering Mahatma Gandhi.

The 1200 page charge sheet prepared by the Delhi police with painful efforts over 3 years was rejected by the Patiala House Court on January 19 when it was presented before it. The court had asked the Delhi police to get the charge sheet sanctioned by the Delhi government. The Delhi police had revealed before the court that the AAP-led Delhi government did not respond to the charge sheet after it was received by the government.

The charge sheet contains the names of former JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar, Umar Khalid, Anirban Bhattacharya, Umar Gul, Basharat Ali, Raes Rasool and Khalid Bhat along with Shehla Rashid and the CPI national secretary D Raja’s daughter Aparajita Raja for allegedly shouting anti-national slogans at the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in New Delhi in 2016.

The first request seeking the permission to commence prosecution in the JNU sedition case was submitted by the Delhi police in 2016. And the second request was submitted on January 21. The unexplained delay by the Delhi government in giving the sanction to the charge sheet is casting a shadow on the intention of the government.

Madhya Pradesh: 3 persons charged under NSA for cow slaughter, first instance under Congress rule

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Madhya Pradesh: 3 persons charged under NSA for cow slaughter, first instance under Congress rule

In what is reportedly a first, the Congress government in Madhya Pradesh has invoked the stringent National Security Act (NSA) on three persons arrested for cow slaughter in the state.

As per reports, three days ago, the police in Khandwa received information that some people have slaughtered cows in the Moghat area on January 31. Upon reaching the spot, a police team found evidence f the slaughter and began an investigation. A day later, two of the suspects, Nadeem and Shakil were arrested from the Kharkali village nearby.

On 3rd February, the third suspect, Azam was arrested too. Later, the police reportedly found that Nadeem was a repeat offender and he has been arrested on charges of cow slaughter earlier too.

As per reports, the cows slaughtered by the three culprits were obtained through smuggling.

Though the three accused were initially booked under the sections 4,6 and 9 of the Prohibition of Cow Slaughter Act, upon the recommendation of the SP, the district collector has sanctioned charges under the NSA. It is alleged that the locality where the slaughter was performed is a communally sensitive area and the act of cow slaughter could have threatened communal harmony there.

As per a report in The Times of India, the last time NSA was invoked for cow slaughter, it was under the BJP government when Anwar Mev, the vice-president of the BJP’s minority cell was found guilty of cow slaughter and was booked under NSA with nine others. He was also expelled from the party.

Earlier, the Yogi Adityanath government had also ordered to invoke the NSA and the Gangster Act on persons guilty of cattle smuggling, illegal transportation of smuggled cattle and slaughter in all the districts of the state.

It is notable here that the BJP government under Shivraj Chouhan had brought amendments to the Prohibition of Cow Slaughter Act in 2010 adding provisions for stricter punishment and making it more stringent. It had become law in Madhya Pradesh in 2012 after approval from the president.

Robert Vadra appears on posters outside Congress headquarters the day he is summoned by ED in money laundering case

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Robert Vadra appears on posters outside Congress headquarters the day he is summoned by ED in money laundering case

Days after Robert Vadra, Congress President Rahul Gandhi’s brother-in-law, got interim protection from arrest till 16th February, he appeared on posters put up outside Congress headquarters welcoming his wife and Rahul Gandhi’s sister Priyanka Gandhi formally in the party.


Vadra is summoned by the Enforcement Directorate today in connection to the money laundering case and dubious land deal cases. He had applied for anticipatory bail in the court earlier this month in a money laundering case after fresh money laundering case was filed by he Enforcement Directorate (ED) under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) against Skylight Hospitality firm owned by Vadra. The case is in relation to alleged financial irregularities in land deals in Gurgaon, Haryana in 2008.

Later, Republic TV reported that the posters were removed from AICC headquarters.

UN Refugee card holder Rohingyas among six arrested for theft on Noida metro tracks

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UN Refugee card holder Rohingyas among six arrested for theft on Noida metro tracks

At least four UN Refugee card holder Rohingyas were among the six nabbed by the Police for allegedly stealing copper wires from the metro stations and metro tracks in Noida and Delhi. According to reports, the accused would steal copper wires by climbing over the station’s wall and have multiple cases of theft lodged against them.

Copper wires, a Maruti Swift car and a scooty has been recovered from them by Police. The copper wire recovered from them are worth approximately Rs 10 lakh. 16 pieces of copper measuring around 400 square metre, a cable cutter, three axes meant for cutting iron, a rope, a country-made pistol with two cartridges and two knives.

Aslam, Asif, Manjur Alam, Nazir and Ali Hasan are residents in Delhi while Zubair Malik is from Mawana, Meerut. Zubair is believed to be the gang leader. Of these, at least four have United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) issued refugee cards, valid till November 2020.

Parliamentary Panel summons Twitter India officials to explain allegations of anti right wing bias

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Parliamentary Panel summons Twitter India officials to explain allegations of anti right wing bias

Parliamentary Committee on Information Technology headed by BJP’s Anurag Thakur has summoned Twitter India officials on 11th February where Twitter India and Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MEITY) will present their views on the issue of ‘safeguarding citizens’ rights on social/online news media platforms.


The panel has 21 Lok Sabha members and 10 Rajya Sabha members. Thakur has also sought views and suggestions from general public which could be emailed on [email protected].

On Sunday, several Twitter users led a silent protest in Delhi against Twitter’s left-wing bias and deliberate silencing of opposite ideology.

The curious case of Twitter censoring social media users for disagreeing to left-wing and ultra wing ideology at the time of crucial general elections has upset several social media users. With opposition parties and Lutyens media ecosystem backed by the Congress party indulging in false narratives and propaganda, right-wing users have expressed fear that more fake news may emerge in the social media platforms.

It is also accused that several prominent right-wing accounts are shadow-banned by Twitter. This means while the account is not blocked or suspended, the Tweets posted by that account do not appear on the timeline of the followers of that accounts. Tweets from such ‘shadow-banned’ accounts do not appear in search results also, effectively meaning that tweets of such persons remain invisible to users, unless they visit the Twitter account page of such persons.

This is not the first time that right-wing accounts, fact-checking accounts and other social media users who disagree with the left-wing accounts have faced bans and scrutiny from the Twitter. Recently, tweets from Scientist Anand Ranganathan, a free speech warrior and filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri were withheld by the Twitter ‘in response to a legal demand’.

Twitter is fast becoming a platform where ideological battles are fought, at times, by stifling the voice of those they disagree with and Twitter’s ‘hateful conduct’ policy reveals a definite left-wing bias. Facing accusations of discriminating against conservatives on the social media platform, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey in an interview to CNN had admitted that most of the employees of Twitter have a left-leaning bias.

Recently Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey had created a furore in India by posing with a placard that declared ‘Smash Brahminical Patriarchy’, an extremist Leftist trope of demonising an entire community. Later Twitter India’s legal head had apologised profusely to everyone for hurting their sentiments. A local court in Jodhpur, Rajasthan has also admitted a plea against Dorsey over the anti-Brahmin placard.

Kolkata drama comes to an end as Mamata Banerjee ends her dharna

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Kolkata drama comes to an end as Mamata Banerjee ends her dharna

After three days of electrifying drama, West Bengal chief minister, Mamata Banerjee called off her dharna politics, a three-day sit-in protest against the centre, which she referred to as ‘Save the Constitution’ which saw a host of opposition leaders extending support to the Trinamool Congress chief.

“This dharna is a victory for the Constitution and democracy, so, let us end it today,” she told her supporters at the protest site in the heart of the Bengal capital. Andhra Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu stood next to her, so did Tejashwi Yadav of Bihar’s Rashtriya Janata Dal. Both had flown to Kolkata to extend their support; other opposition leaders had phoned in their support.

The Central Bureau of Investigation, whose move to barge into the house of the Kolkata police chief and question him, after sending over 20 notices to the Kolkata police commissioner in the Ponzi probe, triggered the mega row, went to the Supreme Court, which heard the evidence against Rajeev Kumar today.

The CBI has accused Rajeev Kumar of being a “potential accused” in the Saradha and Rose Valley Ponzi schemes, the cases he investigated, and said it was possible that he might have tried to destroy evidence. Although the top court has given the verdict that Rajeev Kumar cannot be arrested, his questioning will be done in Shillong.

Calling the SC judgement a ‘moral victory’ Mamata decided to end her theatrics today.

While addressing the media, Mamata Banerjee lambasted at the BJP and Modi saying that “one man, one party rule is going on in India”. She accused the centre of controlling all agencies, including the state agencies as well and asked the PM to resign and go back to Gujarat.


She further blamed the central government of interfering with the state affairs and said that the centre was not providing adequate funds to the state. She further accused the Modi-led government of harassing media, bureaucrats and officers, film industry, government officials, industrialists, farmers etc.

The Bengal CM, who is the so-called self-made or self-proclaimed ocean of talent, amongst various other allegations said that Modi was jealous because of her ‘talent’. The fact that she can write and paint and that her books have been ‘best sellers’ have made the PM jealous.

While DMK leader Kanimozhi, who was acquitted in the 2G spectrum case in December 2017 and fodder scam convict Lalu Yadav‘s son Tejashwi Yadav, who himself is accused in IRCTC scam and the Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu, who has been an accused in the cash-for-votes scam was seen rubbing shoulder’s with Mamata Banerjee,  the out on bail Congress President Rahul Gandhi, who seemed to have forgotten its party’s own stand on Mamata and the Chit Fund scam from a couple of years back, extended his support saying, Congress is ‘shoulder to shoulder’ with Mamata chose to stay away from Kolkata.

Meanwhile, hitting out at Mamata, Union Minister Smriti Irani, called her an ‘anarchist’ and expressed shock over her assertion of ‘moral victory’. Irani claimed that the fact that the Supreme Court instructed the Kolkata Police chief to meet CBI at a neutral venue is an implicit recognition of the lawlessness in West Bengal. Irani further alleged that the decision by the Supreme Court should spell concern for Mamata Banerjee, not a moment for celebration.

Unprecedented scenes have unfolded in Kolkata since Sunday evening when Kolkata Police detained five CBI officials who had reached Kolkata top cop’s residence in connection with Saradha Chit Fund scam probe. The West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has since then been sitting on a ‘Dharna’ against the central government.

Days after tragic crash of HAL’s upgraded Mirage 2000, HAL built army chopper makes an emergency landing due to hydraulic failure

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Days after tragic crash of HAL’s upgraded Mirage 2000, HAL built army chopper makes an emergency landing due to hydraulic failure

An Army chopper, ALH ‘Rudra’ MK IV, developed by Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL), reportedly made an emergency landing at a field in Kanakapura taluk near Bengaluru, initial reports said.


This is the second incident in the last one week. Earlier, in yet another tragic incident, HAL upgraded Mirage 2000 aircraft, which was on an acceptance trial, had crashed at the Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) airport at Bengaluru, leaving the two pilots dead.

However, as per reports the helicopter, ALH ‘Rudra’ MK IV, had to make the emergency landing due to a possible hydraulic failure. Both pilots onboard are reported to be safe.

Sources said that the army version of capabilities, developed and manufactured by HAL had taken off from the HAL airport in the city and made an emergency landing due to a technical snag.

‘Rudra’ is the army variant of ALH developed by HAL and had taken off on a routine air sortie from the HAL airport. Army, police and technical support teams reached the spot immediately.

The spokesman for Hindustan Aeronautics Limited, which developed the Rudra and is building some more copters for the Army and the Air Force, said that HAL had flown a technical team to the site to give support. “According to our information it was a precautionary landing,” he said.

HAL was contracted to deliver about 76 Rudra ALH MK IV helicopters for the Indian Army and the Indian Air Force. The Indian Army plans to equip its Army Aviation Corps with 60 helicopters, forming six squadrons. HAL handed over the first Rudra helicopter to the Indian Army in February 2013.

Earlier, in May last year, the Rudra chopper was involved in a mishap during night flying in Jodhpur. However, then it was involved in a hard landing incident due to a brown-out.


The state-run Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL) makes and upgrades aircraft for training and combat operations of the IAF as the country’s sole defence giant. It also maintains and operates the military airport in Bengaluru.

Recently there have been various issues revolving around the efficiency and sincerity of HAL relating to the production and delaying in its delivery schedules.

OpIndia Evening Dispatch: Tuesday, 5th February, 2019

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OpIndia Evening Dispatch: Tuesday, 5th February, 2019

Today’s news wrap-up of the day.

1. Agra: Communal violence erupts between two communities, Akram, Yusuf and others accused of attacking Dalit houses

Communal tension erupted in Teela Nandram of Mantola area in Agra on Sunday night after violent clashes took place between the Dalit and the Muslim communities. The fight led to stone pelting and around half a dozen rounds of firing which resulted in many people getting injured. Heavy security was deployed to ward off further violence as communal tension continued till Monday.

2. Major setback to Mamata: CJI directs Kolkata Police chief to appear before the CBI and cooperate in the investigation

The Central Bureau of India (CBI) today filed an affidavit in the Supreme Court alleging that there are several incriminating material and correspondence collected during the investigation by the CBI against the senior police officials as well as senior politicians. The affidavit further states that while the SIT was carrying out the investigation, crucial evidence such as laptops and mobile phones were handed over to the main accused in Saradha scam case, Sudipto Sen, by the investigating officer of West Bengal Police working under direct supervision of Police Commissioner Rajeev Kumar.

3. West Bengal: Congress state unit plans massive protests even as Rahul Gandhi extends support to Mamata

Congress President Rahul Gandhi was quick to lend his support to the Trinamool supremo, making a remarkable U-Turn from his earlier stand on the matter where he had accused her of protecting the accused. Now, it appears, while the Congress party at the national level is supporting Trinamool, their state unit is planning to organize massive protests against their supposed ally for their alleged involvement in chit fund scams.

4. Uttar Pradesh: SP-BSP members create ruckus, throw paper planes, paper balls in the Vidhan Sabha

Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party MLAs today protested against the state government in the state assembly today by throwing paper planes and paper balls towards the governor Ram Naik. They also held banners likening the CBI to a caged parrot and raised slogans as Governor Ram Naik addressed a joint session of Uttar Pradesh Legislature in Lucknow on Tuesday.

5. Weeks after she was asked to resign, Arvind Kejriwal ‘unfollows’ Alka Lamba on Twitter, removes her from WhatsApp groups

On Monday, AAP MLA Alka Lamba claimed that the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal unfollowed her on Twitter. She further claimed that she has also been removed from the official WhatsApp group.

Mamata Banerjee justifies the crores her paintings fetched by claiming she is an artist, asks whether Modi is jealous of her ‘talent’

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Mamata Banerjee justifies the crores her paintings fetched by claiming she is an artist, asks whether Modi is jealous of her ‘talent’

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s legendary paintings which fetched crores have been in the centre of Saradha chit fund controversy. Last week, the CBI had summoned Derek O’Brien and grilled Mamata Banerjee’s close aide, Manik Majumdar, over the sale of her paintings to chit fund companies. The CBI has reportedly questioned Majumdar over how the proceeds of the CM’s paintings were utilised.

One of the paintings by Mamata Banerjee

While addressing the media earlier today after the Supreme Court verdict which directed the Kolkata Police chief to cooperate with the CBI in the investigation, Mamata said she is a self-taught artist as well as a best-selling author. She asked Modi whether it is because of her many talents that PM Modi is jealous of her.

In the above video, from 18:17, Mamata says questions are being raised about her creativity being used to raise money, part of which goes to the CM relief fund, and hence, she wants electoral reforms.

Another one of Mamata’s paintings.

In the video, Mamata says, “I made paintings. I have written so many books. I have written 87 books. They are best sellers. I can write. Even I can play the songs also. Modi is jealous of this also? I have made paintings. I am an artist. It is not that I have taken a lesson from anywhere. But I can do something. Ask any artist about my paintings. See, 200-300 paintings of mine were sold in the market in an exhibition. Before that, I made it clear in a press conference. This is not my party amount. I will not peg them more than the market value. We will not let anyone take advantage of my creativity. This move should have been welcomed. This is why we want electoral reforms.

Two exhibitions took place. 200-250 paintings were sold and even from that Rs 1 crore was given to chief minister relief fund. Rs 20 lakh were given to governor relief fund. After that CBI sends notice to municipal corporation whether we paid rental fees for the exhibition. Is this CBI’s job?”

If BJP comes to power, TMC goons will hang placards from their neck seeking forgiveness for their crimes like in UP: Yogi in Purulia

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If BJP comes to power, TMC goons will hang placards from their neck seeking forgiveness for their crimes like in UP: Yogi in Purulia

Though the West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee pulled every trick up her sleeve to stop Yogi Adityanath from entering West Bengal, all her attempts went in vain as the UP CM dodged all the impediments and finally arrived at Purulia, West Bengal on road from Bokaro to address a rally. Attacking Mamata Banerjee, Yogi Adityanath said that nothing can be more shameful for a democracy than a Chief minister staging a ‘Dharna’.


Speaking to a sea of a crowd gathered to listen to the UP CM, Yogi Adityanath asserted that the TMC regime in West Bengal is undemocratic and corrupt. In an apparent dig at CM Mamata, Yogi asserted that Mamata Banerjee, who was trying to save a ‘corrupt officer’, took a U-turn soon after the SC verdict. Calling Mamata an ‘anarchist’, Yogi alleged that she has no right to remain in power in West Bengal. He highlighted the pervasive violence in West Bengal and urged the people to vote TMC out and bring in BJP, citing the peaceful atmosphere after BJP’s ascension to power in UP.


Talking about the violence inflicted by TMC goons, Yogi Adityanath declared that once BJP forms its government in West Bengal, all the ‘TMC goons’ will voluntarily come out on streets holding placards reading that they were criminals just like the criminals of SP and BSP have been reduced to in the state of Uttar Pradesh. He also warned that there are ‘several skeletons’ in the TMC’s cupboard and once the BJP assumes power in West Bengal, all of them will start tumbling out.

Yogi further contended that Mamata Banerjee-led TMC government has allowed Muharram processions but permissions for conducting Durga Puja were not granted. The High court had to intervene and take the WB government to task for providing one festival precedence over the other.

Extolling West Bengal for contributing to India’s freedom struggle and providing India’s National Anthem and National Song, Yogi exhorted the people of the state to vote for the BJP. Hailing West Bengal as Shyama Prasad Mukherjee’s home-state, he called upon the people to elect BJP and boot out the TMC which is brazenly trampling upon the rich tradition of Bengal.

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