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Feb102022 by News DeskNo Comments

Srinagar Court Asks Tyagi Previously Waseem Rizvi To Appear Before It

INDIA, REGIONAL

A local court here has summoned Jitendra Narayan Tyagi alias Waseem Rizvi for his alleged statement against Islam and Holy Quran. “Prima facie case for issuance of process for the offences punishable under sections 153A, 295A, 505 of Indian Penal Code is made out against the accused (Tyagi). As such, in the first instance let a summons be issued to the accused calling upon him to appear before this Court and answer the allegations leveled against him in the instant complaint,” Second Additional Munsiff, Judicial Magistrate 1st Class Srinagar, Shahber Ayaz, said in an order and put up the complaint for further proceedings on 25 March 2022. Former UP Shia Waqf Board chairman, Tyagi last year converted to Hinduism. The complainant–Danish Hassan Dar, a resident of Srinagar, through his ...

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Supreme Court refuses to hear matter on Hijab row in Karnataka

INDIA

The Supreme Court on Thursday refused to give a date for hearing a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) seeking transfer of the cases over the hijab row from the Karnataka High Court to itself. A three-judge Bench headed by Chief Justice N.V. Ramana said: “Let the High Court decide first, then we may see it." The Chief Justice, however, said: “Please wait. Let the Karnataka High Court decide the matter first as they are hearing the matter today.” Sibal said schools and colleges were closed in Karnataka and girls were being stoned. And so the Supreme Court must hear the case. Senior lawyer Kapil Sibal mentioned the matter and requested the apex court to list the matter urgently and said that what is happening in Karnataka was spreading in the entire country. UNI

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‘We do not murder people over religion’- Kerala CM tweets post Yogi’s Kashmir and Kerala reference

INDIA

After Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath's warning of Uttar Pradesh turning into Kerala, West Bengal, and Kashmir, if Bharatiya Janata Party fails to retain the power in the state, Opposition leaders scripted the benefits of occurrence. Congress MP Shashi Tharoor said that UP would be "so lucky" if it gets Kashmir's beauty, Bengali's culture, and Kerala's education. Following the same, the Chief Minister of Kerala Pinarayi Vijayan stated that the country's most populous state will have a harmonious society with the best education, health care, and social welfare, and that "people won't be murdered in the name of religion or caste." Yogi Adityanath, the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, has warned voters that if they "make a mistake" in the assembly elections, the state will become like...

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Hijab ban- RSS Muslim wing supports Karnataka girl

INDIA

As Muslim students in Karnataka and Madhya Pradesh were barred from entering into colleges and schools with hijab, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) has come out in support of the Karnataka student who was recently harassed by a group of Hindutva members who also chanted ‘Jai Shri Ram’ to mock her hijab in the college campus. The student was heckled by the mob wearing saffron shawls.buy viagra soft online https://www.conci.com/wp-content/themes/twentyfifteen/inc/new/viagra-soft.html no prescription However, the student kept shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’ before the college staff came to her rescue. The incident took place in Mandya, Karnataka. The RSS Muslim wing (Muslim Rashtriya Manch) has backed Bibi Muskan’s plea to wear a hijab and condemned the saffron frenzy surrounding her. ...

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BJP Minister’s son gets bail in Hit and Lakhimpur Kheri Run case

INDIA

The Lucknow bench of Allahabad HC on Thursday granted bail to Ashish Mishra, the prime accused in the Lakhimpur Kheri hit and run case. A vehicle had crushed down farmers who were protesting against the farm laws on October 3 last year. Local farmers had blamed Union Minister of State for Home Affairs Ajay Mishra 'Teni' and his son Ashish Mishra for the violence that left eight dead, including four farmers, a local journalist, and three others. They were mowed down allegedly by a vehicle that was part of the convoy of the Minister in Lakhimpur Kheri in north-central Uttar Pradesh. An SIT probing the Lakhimpur Kheri violence had filed a charge sheet against four people in connection with the lynching of two BJP workers and a car driver. Two FIRs were registered after the inci...

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Pakistan summons Indian Charge d’Affaires over hijab controversy

INDIA, INTERNATIONAL

Pakistan has summoned India's Charge d’Affaires here to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and conveyed the government’s grave concern on the ban on Muslim girl students from wearing hijab in Karnataka. The Foreign Office said in a statement late on Wednesday that the Indian diplomat was conveyed Pakistan’s deep concern over alleged religious intolerance, negative stereotyping, stigmatisation and discrimination against Muslims in India. It was emphasised that the Indian government must hold the perpetrators of harassment against women in Karnataka to account and take adequate measures to ensure the safety, security and well-being of Muslim women, the statement said. The Foreign Office statement came after Pakistan's senior ministers waded into the ongoing hijab row in Karnataka on We...

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Karnataka Hijab ‘Ban’: Teacher attacked, Muslim student beaten as Karnataka BJP MLA watches

INDIA

Shocking details are emerging from the widespread incidents of violence from across Karnataka on Tuesday in the backdrop of hijab row. The miscreants have attacked a teacher with iron rods causing severe head injuries to him in Bagalkot district. BJP MLA Haratalu Halappa stood as a mute spectator even as a student was beaten up by a mob in Shivamogga district. Manjunath Naik (30), a school teacher has been attacked with iron rods by miscreants in Banahatti town of Bagalkot district after the violence erupted following students protest. “I was crossing the road when a group of people attacked me with iron rods on my head. I couldn’t realize what was happening,” a bleeding Manjunath Naik explained to media persons. He was taken to hospital by the police later. The situation is still te...

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‘655 police encounter killings in the last five years’: Union Home Ministry

INDIA

A total of 655 police “encounter” killings have taken place in the country in the last five years with Chhattisgarh reporting the highest number of such cases with 191 cases, Union minister of state for home Nityanand Rai has said. According to the Union home ministry, in the period between January 1, 2017 and January 31, 2022, 117 such incidents were reported from Uttar Pradesh, followed by 50 in Assam, 49 in Jharkhand, 36 in Odisha, 35 in Jammu and Kashmir, and 26 in Maharashtra. Rai was responding to BJP MP Varun Gandhi’s question in the Lok Sabha on the number of such killings in the country. Among other states, Bihar accounts for 22 cases; Haryana 15; Tamil Nadu 14; Telangana, Madhya Pradesh and Arunachal Pradesh 13 each; Andhra Pradesh and Meghalaya 9 each; and Rajasthan and...

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Government criticizes RSF on Press Freedom report- Says ‘No registered body by the name Kashmir Press Club’

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The centre told the Lok Sabha that there is no registered body by the name of 'Kashmir Press Club' and the government does not subscribe to the view that there is a lack of press freedom in the country. "Presently, there is no registered body by the name of 'Kashmir Press Club' or its elected managing body since Kashmir Press Club, as a registered body, has ceased to exist and has failed to register itself under the Societies Registration Act, 1860," Minister of State for Home Nityanand Rai told the Lok Sabha. The Estates Department took over the government press club building in January in the presence of the executive magistrate of Srinagar, the ministry said. Responding to India's decreasing rank on World Press Freedom Index, the ministry said, "This is published by a foreign n...

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In Karnataka College, Muslim girl heckled with ‘Jai Shri’ Ram slogans; Government shuts educational institutes for 3 days

INDIA

The Government of Karnataka has ordered the shutdown of all schools and colleges in the South Indian state amid an intense Hijab row. Chief Minister Basavaraj S Bommai tweeted he has ordered all high schools and colleges to remain shut "to maintain peace and harmony". At a college in Mandya, a Muslim girl who entered the college was heckled with slogans of "Jai Shri Ram" by a group of saffron-clad students, but she who stood her and shouted back at them: "Allah hu Akbar!" College rules allow students to wear the hijab in class but not during lessons, according to officials. https://twitter.com/zoo_bear/status/1490955070934233089 The Karnataka High Court is hearing petitions filed by five women from a government college in Udupi, questioning hijab restrictions, NDTV reported....