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A 30-year-old employee at the Bangalore International Exhibition Centre (BIEC), Faheem Firdous Qureshi, originally from Kashmir, was arrested on Wednesday for allegedly posting pro-Pakistan remarks against India on X (formerly Twitter). Following a complaint from the BIEC, which included evidence of Qureshi's "objectionable" posts, authorities took action. One of Qureshi's posts reportedly stated, “When ‘I’ is replaced by ‘We’ India becomes wendia, meaning we will end India,” among other inflammatory comments. Qureshi faces charges under Sections 505(1)(B) and 153B of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), which address causing public fear or alarm and assertions harmful to national integration, respectively. The police are continuing their investigation. According to the Indian Express,...

Ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Jammu Kashmir, the Congress on Thursday demanded a timeline for the restoration of full statehood to the Union Territory and the holding of assembly elections there. Congress General Secretary Jairam Ramesh questioned why the BJP was reluctant to hold elections in Jammu and Kashmir and why the law and order situation had deteriorated under the prime minister's leadership. "As the ‘one-third’ Pradhan Mantri makes his maiden visit to Jammu and Kashmir since the Lok Sabha elections, six questions he should answer: When will full statehood return to Jammu and Kashmir?" Ramesh asked in a post on X. He emphasized that since 2018, the people of J&K have had no way to express their grievances, describing the region as a “bureaucratic fi...

A Muslim man’s shop in Nahan town, Sirmaur District, Himachal Pradesh, was attacked, looted, and vandalized by a group on Thursday. The incident occurred in the presence of police officers. After the attack, members of the Hindu community gathered outside the Nahan Deputy Commissioner’s office, chanting slogans. https://twitter.com/ItsKhan_Saba/status/1803347001951822296 The incident was reportedly triggered by a WhatsApp status shared by the shop owner, Mohammad Rafiq, depicting an animal sacrifice. Local groups considered the post offensive. Eyewitnesses stated that a large group, carrying flags and chanting slogans, assembled outside Rafiq’s shop in Mandi. Despite the presence of police, the mob broke into the shop, ransacked it, and destroyed its contents. Shelves were o...

Former IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt completed six years in prison on Thursday, marking a significant milestone in a controversial career that saw him entangled in high-profile legal battles. His family issued a video on X (formerly Twitter) stating that Bhatt was being implicated for standing up against injustice in Gujarat state. "It has been 2207 days since the brave officer is behind bars. We appeal to the people to support those who speak up during these trying times when speaking up is criminalized. We will fight for Justice and ensure that he comes back," his wife is heard saying in a video appeal. https://twitter.com/sanjivbhatt/status/1803678056734707931 During the 2002 Gujarat riots, Bhatt, then serving as the deputy commissioner in charge of Internal Security at the State In...

A hospital in Medak, Telangana, which was treating students from Madrasa Minhaj ul Uloom who were injured in an attack, was targeted by a group of 150-200 individuals reportedly affiliated with the BJP and BJYM on Saturday, June 15, 2024. https://twitter.com/NaseerGiyas/status/1802293726553014581?t=QYEwzYA0qv2xCjMNJ_Ziaw&s=08 Dr. Naveen of Orthopaedic Hospital Medak, visibly distressed, shared a video on social media where he described the incident. He expressed concern over the attack on the hospital, which resulted in damage to hospital property and staff vehicles. The unrest began after the management of Madrasa Minhaj ul Uloom purchased cattle for the Bakra Eid celebration, leading to a disturbance among members of right-wing groups. The police intervened to disperse the c...

Seventy members of the newly formed Union Council of Ministers, who were sworn in on June 9, are crorepatis, according to a recent report by the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR). The ADR, along with National Election Watch, revealed on Tuesday that they had analyzed the self-sworn affidavits of 71 out of the 72 new ministers. George Kurien, a BJP leader from Kerala, was not included in the analysis as he did not contest the Lok Sabha elections. The analysis found that out of the 71 ministers reviewed, 70—over 98 per cent- possessed assets worth more than Rs 1 crore. Furthermore, six of these ministers declared assets exceeding Rs 100 crore, highlighting the significant financial assets held by a substantial portion of the new cabinet. Chandra Sekhar Pemmasani of the Telugu...

The Supreme Court has issued a stay on the release of Annu Kapoor’s film “Hamare Baarah,” which was scheduled for June 14, after receiving complaints that the movie is offensive to the Islamic faith and married Muslim women. A vacation bench, including Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta, noted the arguments presented by lawyer Fauzia Shakil, representing petitioner Azhar Basha Tamboli, and urged the Bombay High Court to expedite its decision on the matter. “We reviewed the movie trailer this morning and found that the contentious dialogues persist,” the bench remarked as it halted the film’s release. The Supreme Court’s order suspends the film’s release until the Bombay High Court resolves the petition. Shakil criticized the high court for lifting the initial stay on the film’...

Indian right-wing commentator Anand Ranganathan stirred controversy by advocating for an Israel-like approach to resolving the Kashmir conflict. Watch the full video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=5649&v=0JCwhxIz5sM&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fmuslimmirror.com%2F&source_ve_path=MjM4NTE&feature=emb_title During The Samosa Caucus Podcast hosted by Smita Prakash on Sunday, Anand, joined by co-panelists Abhijit Iyer-Mitra, Sushant, and Tahseen Poonawala, Ranganathan made the provocative statement, suggesting that an Israeli-style solution was necessary. Ranganathan asserted, “You need an Israel-like solution to Kashmir. The fact that Israel has not been able to ‘solve it’ is not because Israel is not acting to solve it, or Israel is not do...

In a string of disturbing incidents, three Islamic clerics have been brutally murdered in Uttar Pradesh over the last four days, raising serious concerns about the region's security. The first victim, 65-year-old Maulana Farooq, who ran a madrasa in Kadipur village, was fatally attacked with an iron rod on June 8th. According to police reports, the assailant, Chandramani Tiwari, allegedly perpetrated the crime over a monetary dispute, a claim disputed by the family of the deceased. Similarly, on morning of June 11, Maulana Akram, the imam of a mosque in Bhensia village, Moradabad District, was shot dead by unidentified assailants. The perpetrators called Akram out of the mosque and shot him at point-blank range. The discovery of his body in his residence sent shockwaves through th...

Unfazed by shots being fired, 21-year-old Saurav Gupta, who was on the bus in Jammu that came under a terror attack, took it upon himself to raise an alarm but was felled by a bullet just then which pierced the back of his neck. Saurav was among the nine pilgrims killed in the Sunday terror attack on a bus in Jammu’s Reasi. His body was brought to Delhi in an ambulance by his father Kuldeep Gupta and other family members. He was cremated near his house in northeast Delhi’s Mandoli area on Tuesday. Saurav had gone to the Vaishno Devi shrine in Jammu with his wife Shivani Gupta to pray for a baby. The couple, which had been married for two years, was scheduled to return home later the same day. “She saw her husband die in front of her eyes. She was inconsolable,” Manoj Gupta, Sau...