Month: June 2021

It has emerged from Muzaffarnagar, Uttar Pradesh, that a Sikh woman (24) has retracted her allegations against two Muslim brothers who had been booked under the anti-conversion law based on her complaint. The woman had earlier alleged that she was forced by a man from her neighborhood to marry him and revert towards his religion, although she retracted the claims on Tuesday. According to a report in the Indian Express, while recording her statement before a magistrate, the woman denied all of the allegations. She also claimed that she had filed the complaint after coming under pressure from some Hindu organisations. The two muslim men were booked for rape and fraud. They were charged under the state's anti-conversion law on the basis of the complaint by her. The woman had ac...

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court after hearing a Special Leave Petition (SLP) filed by filmmaker Kavitha Lankesh issued a notice to Karnataka Government and others. In the SLP, Kavitha has challenged a judgement of the Karnataka High Court quashing charges under Karnataka Control of Organized Crimes Act (KCOCA) against one of the accused, Mohan Nayak, in the Gauri Lankesh murder case, the news agency ANI reported. Justice AM Khanwilkar headed a three-judge bench of the Apex Court. Justices Dinesh Maheshwari and Aniruddha Bose were the other two judges. The bench issued a notice to the government of Karnataka, on hearing the deceased journalist Gauri Lankesh's sister's SLP. Gauri Lankesh, the renowned journalist was shot dead outside her house on September 05, 2017 in Bengaluru. Hufeza A...

A Muslim youth has been booked under the National Security Act by the UP Police in connection with the video of an elderly man, Abdul Samad, in which he claimed he was attacked and forced to chant Jai Shri Ram. The Police claimed that Idris had been arrested for allegedly spreading communal hatred after he appeared in an FB live with Abdul Samad after the brutal attack against Samad. The police had claimed there was no communal angle to the assault. According to Ghaziabad police officers, the procedural report to invoke the NSA against Idris has been given due approval by the Home Department. The police have invoked section 3 (power to detain persons) of the National Security Act, 1980 against the accused. Apart from Idris, the Uttar Pradesh police have filed a case against Twi...

At a time when a section of the Sikh community is up in arms alleging ‘abduction’ of women from its community in Kashmir capital Srinagar, a Muslim family from central Kashmir’s Pakharpora in a complaint to police has claimed that a non-local JCB driver from Sikh community has eloped their 20-year-old daughter. Some non-local Sikh leaders who arrived in Kashmir yesterday used the words like ‘forced conversion’, ‘abduction’ of Sikh women in Kashmir. Majinder Singh Sisa president Delhi Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee yesterday claimed that at least 3 women from the Sikh community have been forcibly ‘converted’ after their ‘abduction.’ He even questioned the conviction and rectitude of the Judiciary accusing a Judge of ‘bias’ and ‘favoritism’. He reminded Kashmiri Muslims of the help prov...