Evening NEWS DIGEST
08 Oct. 2016: 06 Muharram 1438: Vol:8, No:05
Law Commission seeks public
opinion on Uniform Code
New Delhi: Law Commission
on Friday sought public opinion on the exercise of revising and reforming
family laws of all religions in the context of Article 44 of the Constitution,
which talks of a Uniform Civil Code (UCC) for all citizens. The Commission has
appealed to members of religious, minority and social groups, non-govt organisations, political parties and govt agencies, to present their views through a
questionnaire on a range of issues, including the practice of triple talaq and
the right to property for a woman citizen.“The objective behind this endeavour
is to address discrimination against vulnerable groups and harmonise the
various cultural practices. The panel invites suggestions on all possible
models and templates of a common civil code,” said the Commission in its
appeal. The responses can be sent within 45 days, either through post or
email.“Commission hopes to begin a healthy conversation about the viability of
a UCC and will focus on family laws of all religions and the diversity of
customary practices, to address social injustice rather than the plurality of
laws…the Commission will consider the opinions of all stakeholders and the
general public for ensuring that the norms of no one class, group of community
dominate the tone or tenor of family law reforms,” it said.In its
questionnaire, the panel has sought public opinion on issues like these: whether
UCC should include all of some of the subjects, including marriage, divorce,
adoption, guardianship and child custody, maintenance, successions and
inheritance; whether the existing personal laws and customary practices need
codification; whether codification can ensure gender equality; and whether UCC
should be optional. Views on issues pertaining to the denial of maintenance or
insufficient maintenance, compulsory registration of marriages, protection of
couples who enter into inter-religion and inter-caste marriages, and the legal
validity of UCC vis-Ã -vis the individual right to freedom of religion, have
been asked.Responses on whether polygamy, polyandry and other customary
practices like ‘ maitri-karaar ’ (friendship deed) should be banned or
regulated, and whether the practice of triple talaq should be abolished in
toto, retained, or retained with suitable amendments, have also been invited.
the hindu
Law panel seeks public
views on uniform code, talaq, polygamy, maintenance: PTI
Will take people vote on
uniform code: Law panel head
The Law Commission is
asking the people of India to give their opinion on the implementation of a
Uniform Civil Code in the country. The Commission plans to release a
questionnaire that anybody can fill out and send back within 45 days. The
referendum of sorts could ruffle the feathers of many religious groups.Law
Commission Chairman Justice Balbir Singh Chauhan talks to News18.com’s Debayan
Roy on application of personal law in India and other issues surrounding the
judiciary. Responding to question on Civil Code and Muslim personal, he said,
"No, we have not taken the Portuguese Civil Code in consideration in
particular. We are just studying it and we have collected vast material. Muslim
personal law needs special attention. We are studying what triple talaq is,
what the law governing inheritance is among other issues. Even in Pakistan and
Bangladesh, they do not permit more than one wife. Hence, we are at a very
preliminary stage.Now, we have to make a questionnaire and put it up on our
website. Whoever wants to reply can do so. The questionnaire will take into
consideration all the complaints and suggestions received by us. It will be
translated into regional languages. Many people have approached us on this
issue. I keep getting postcards every day stating that it is a bad idea and
must be scrapped. The questionnaire will give us a perspective on how people
react. Replying to a question that do you think Muslim women have most of their
fundamental rights violated on the pretext of the application of the personal
law?, he said, "The court has held that it does not. After the Shah Bano
judgment, The Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Divorce) Act 1986 came into
force. Then it was stated that the Act does not violate any fundamental right.
But now, I see a change with so many educated women coming forth. Hence, we are
basing our future course of action on the response to the questionnaire. Many
mullahs have come to us and discussed these issues as well. They have expressed
their objections and we have heard them out. We are even discussing their
apprehensions with our legal experts." news 18
Abolish triple talaq and
polygamy, Centre tells SC: ET
New Delhi: Centre told the
Supreme Court on Friday to abolish `triple talaq' and polygamy, calling them
unconstitutional customs hurting gender equality and women's dignity. However,
the Centre refrained from linking its stand to the demand for uniform civil
code. Responding to the SC's notice on several petitions challenging the
validity of triple talaq, additional secretary in the legislative department
Mukulita Vijayawargiya said,"Gender equality and dignity of women are
non-negotiable overarching constitutional values and can brook no
compromise." Invoking secular practices, Centre said one section of women
in society could never be worse off than the other, and gave the example of
several Islamic nations-Pakistan, Bangladesh, Afghanistan, Morocco, Tunisia,
Turkey, Indonesia, Egypt and Iran which had reformed their laws to give women
equal rights in matrimony. "Fact that Muslim countries where Islam is the
state religion have undergone extensive reform goes to show that the practices
in question cannot be regarded as integral to the practice of Islam or essential
religious practices," Centre said. Contrary to the estimate of many that
it might use the op position from Muslim women to triple talaq to revive its
advocacy for the contentious UCC, BJP-led govt located its stand in the
non-controversial themes of gender justice and equality before law. "In
considering the issue of validity of triple talaq, nikah halala and polygamy
which mainly concern the issue of gender justice and overriding principle of
nondiscrimination, dignity and equality, any plea pertaining to uniform civil
code is not relevant," the Centre said. However, Modi govt did take a
veiled dig at its predecessors for not moving to reform Muslim personal law.
Centre opposes triple
talaq, polygamy in SC; calls gender equality non-negotiable
Triple talaq, polygamy not
integral to Islamic practices, Centre tells SC : IANS
Triple Talaq: ‘Secular’
India can’t let women suffer under a derogatory system, says Modi govt
Muslim women in Islamic
countries enjoy more equality than in India: Maneka Gandhi
Muslim women in Islamic
countries enjoy more equality than in India, union Minister Maneka Gandhi said
reacting to the Centre's reply in Supreme Court on triple talaq where it
favoured a relook on the law on constitutional grounds. "Centre's stand on
triple talaq is right.We should be thinking about rights of women.Practice is
not prevalent in other Muslim countries where they have more equality,"she
said.PTI
Not in favour of uniform
civil code, want codification of Muslim Personal Law: Noor Jahan, petitioner
against unilateral & arbitrary Talaq
Strengthen existing law
says Bharatiya Muslim Mahila Andolan on Uniform Civil Code: PTI
Women's group fighting
triple talaq welcomes govt
Raza Academy condemns
Centre's take on triple talaq, says will defend the 'faith' if challenged: indiatoday
Mumbai: Raza Academy, a
muslim NGO, called meeting of Ulemas on Saturday to condemn affidavit filed by
Centre in the Supreme Court saying polygamy and triple talaq are not
acceptable. In the gathering organised to discuss the future action the cleric
came down heavily against the govt's attempt to introduce Uniform Civil Code
(UCC)."Dr Ambedkar was told that Muslims would never accept a common civil
code.He [Ambedkar] knew that only a mad man would introduce UCC. He therefore
clarified that it is not mandatory." Those who are enemies of the country
will impose a UCC," said Maulan Mohammed Raza of Raza Academy.Asserting
that Muslims will come to defend the "faith" if it is challenged,
another cleric, said that any move to interfere in Muslim personal laws will
not be tolerated. Slogans of Jaan Denge, Maal Denge were raised at the gathering,
"We will give every effort to stop UCC which impinges of our personal
rights," said Maulana Khaleelureham.
Hindu son can divorce wife
if she tries to separate him from parents: SC
New Delhi: A Hindu son can
divorce his wife for the cruelty of trying to pry him away from his “pious
obligation” to live with his aged parents and provide shelter to them, the
Supreme Court has held.A woman becomes a part of the husband’s family and
cannot seek to separate him from his parents for the sole reason that she wants
to entirely enjoy his income, a Bench of Justices Anil R. Dave and L.
Nageshwara Rao observed in a judgment. Insisting her husband to live separately
from his parents is a western thought alien to our culture and ethos, Justice
Dave, who wrote the judgment, said.“It is not a common practice or desirable
culture for a Hindu son in India to get separated from his parents on getting
married at the instance of the wife, especially when the son is the only
earning member in the family. A son, brought up and given education by his
parents, has a moral and legal obligation to take care and maintain the
parents, when they become old and when they have either no income or have a
meagre income,”Justice Dave wrote.the hindu
KASHMIR
ISSUE & SUOTH ASIA
Chidambaram interview
dropped as NDTV censors news that ‘compromises national security’: the wire
Indian soldiers who
attacked terror targets in PoK may have returned home without any fatalities on
their side but there is one casualty that the surgical strike did cause on our
side of the border: Indian journalism has been left grievously injured. Marching
right behind the special forces who crossed the LoC to deliver “5 slaps” on
Pakistan – to use defence minister Manohar Parrikar’s phrase – most news
channels have crossed the line that separates journalism from PR and worse. If
one channel is trying to get its anchors to end their bulletins with a ‘Jai
Hind’ sign-off, another has created a ‘war room’ for its staff to play soldier – complete with
an anchor wearing an imitation ‘flak jacket’ to shield him from enemy fire as
he plans his own surgical strikes on Pakistan.Even before the army operation, NewsX
declared via its editor-in-chief that the channel would no longer be referring
to Pakistan as ‘Pakistan’ on its prime time show but as ‘Terror State of
Pakistan’. On its part, Times Now has led the charge against the presence of
Pakistani artistes in India and has even demanded that diplomatic relations
with Islamabad be downgraded.It’s too early to tell what this surge of
nationalist reporting has done for the ratings of these channels but the
aggressive manner in which they have led the charge against analysts and
opposition politicians who suggested the govt provide more information on the
surgical strikes has drawn praise from Amit Shah, president of the BJP.BJP’s
position is that it was the army which decided to go public with the news about
the strikes and that asking for more information would lower the morale of the
army and undermine national security. As a news organisation that always kept
its head when others around them lost theirs, NDTV was one of few channels
willing to discuss the strikes rationally –with several of its studio guests
making a case for the govt to release more information. But in a dramatic
turnaround which suggests the channel has bought into the BJP’s arguments about
the danger of asking questions, NDTV has now declared that it would no longer
air “any remarks that risk security for political advantage.”On Oct.6, channel
decided not to telecast an interview with Congress leader P. Chidambaram – because
he was critical of the Modi govt’s political handling of the surgical strikes
the Indian army had conducted across the LoC in Kashmir last week.The full
interview, which Chidambaram had recorded with NDTV’s star anchor Barkha Dutt,would
be broadcast in the evening, viewers were told.Except that it wasn’t.Dropping
Chidambaram’s interview wasn’t the only act of censorship at the channel that
day.Editors were instructed that Rahul Gandhi’s statement in UP about Modi
trading in the blood of Indian soldiers was not to be run on the channel
either.In an email on Oct.6 to all of the channel’s journalists across the
country, NDTV’s editorial director Sonia Singh explained the new editorial
policy.
PM Modi hiding behind the
blood of soldiers, doing ‘dalali’ of their sacrifices: Rahul Gandhi
New Delhi: Days after Sanjay
Nirupam called fake the surgical strikes by Indian Army in the PoK, Congress
vice president Rahul Gandhi has accused PM Narendra Modi of pandering blood of
jawans. Gandhi’s comment may trigger a major controversy as his party has
supported the govt over surgical strikes.“Our jawans who sacrificed their
lives, who did surgical strikes, you are hiding behind them. Pandering their
blood,” said Gandhi. “Indian army has done its job for the country, you do
yours,” the Congress Vice President said, attacking Modi. “Indian army has done its job for the
country, you do yours,” Gandhi said, attacking Modi.He also accused Modi of
making false promises to the people of the country. indian Express
Who created
Jaish-e-Mohammed? BJP did: Kapil Sibal
New Delhi: Senior Congress
leader Kapil Sibal launched a scathing attack on the govt for “politicising”
the Army’s surgical strikes along the LoC. “Those who have murder cases against
them, have been to jail, are in no position to question Rahul Gandhi,” said
Sibal in a reference to BJP president Amit Shah, who had earlier criticised the
Congress for associating itself with the disappointment of Pakistan. Upping the
offensive further, the Congress leader said the relations between India and
Pakistan wouldn’t have been so strained if the BJP during its time in the govt hadn’t
released the JeM chief Masood Azhar. “Who created JeM? BJP did,” he said.
indian express
Amit Shah has criminal
history, should not issue certificate of patriotism: AAP
New Delhi: War of words
over the surgical strikes intensified on Friday with AAP hitting back at BJP
chief Amit Shah, saying a man whose “criminal history is known to the entire
country” is now issuing “certificates of patriotism”. AAP also said the BJP
President is “not capable” of standing beside Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal on the
issue of nationalism. Indianexpress
Muslim organisations hail
surgical strikes, urge political parties to unite
New Delhi: India's
political parties may be divided on the question of the surgical strikes
conducted on Sept.29, there is however, a near unanimity of views amongst the
parties and organisations from within the minority community. Parties like the
Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind, All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB), All India
Muslim Mashewarat, and All India Milli Council and organisations like the
Mumbai-based Raza Academy. All India Ulama Board has not just condemned the Uri
attack but also lauded the Army's counter strike." There should be no
politics and no two opinions on this issue. Our motherland comes first. We
wholeheartedly support whatever action the govt has taken for protecting the country,"
said Kamal Farooqui, member AIMPLB.Prominent amongst the organisations that
have called on political parties to stop the bickering around the surgical
strikes are Jamiat, AIMMM, All India Milli Council and Jamiat Ahle Hadees. indiatoday
J-K witnesses biggest
crackdown in 2 decades, over 446 arrested in a week
Srinagar: According to
official figures of the state govt, a total of 446 people have been arrested
across J&K in a week. Even as the
state govt struggles to contain the protests in the Valley even after 90 days
of lock down, the longest in Kashmir’s history, it has launched the biggest
crackdown in more than two decades, conducting nocturnal raids across Kashmir.
Since the killing of Burhan Wani, J-K police have arrested close to 7000 people
in the valley while more than 450 people have been booked under the PSA, the
highest number-ever in the Valley. J-K police sources say that in addition to
these figures, 1500 others are under detention in different police stations
across Kashmir without any charges and their detention doesn’t reflect in the
official records. Official figures show that in the four districts of south
Kashmir – Anantnag, Kulgam, Shopian and Pulwama – the epicenter of current
protests, more than 1821 civilians have been arrested and more than 500
detained under preventive detention. In central Kashmir – Srinagar, Budgam and
Ganderbal districts – police have arrested close to 1700 persons and put more
than 350 people under preventive detention. The number of arrests and
preventive detentions in north Kashmir’s three districts – Baramulla, Kupwara
and Bandipore – is 1130 and 178 respectively. The highest number of arrests
have been made in Srinagar where more than a thousand people have been arrested
and 129 put under preventive detention. indianexpress
Hurriyat seeks UN
intervention on Kashmir issue
Srinagar: Separatist
Hurriyat Conference on Friday asked the United Nations to intervene on the
Kashmir issue by prevailing upon India to “shun violence” and initiate process
for granting right to self determination to the people of J&K.“Since we
believe and understand that Kashmir dispute remains at the centre of the
regional conflict, we appeal you to challenge the behaviour of Indian State in J&K
and urge it to stop this reign of
terror,” they said.“In the interests of regional peace and global justice we
once again implore you to intervene and prevail upon the Indian state to shun
violence and initiate processes for granting universally recognised Right to
Self Determination to the people of J&K ,” the separatists said in a
memorandum addressed to the UN.PTI
J&K: 12-year-old boy
succumbs to pellet injuries, death toll rises to 89
Srinagar: A 12-year-old boy
who was hit by pellets fired by security forces in Eidgah area of Srinagar on
Friday afternoon succumbed to his injuries at a Srinagar hospital in the early
hours of Saturday morning. Junaid Ahmad, a resident of Saidapora area of Eidgah
Srinagar went into coma after being hit by pellets in the head and chest.The
boy was declared dead by doctors at SKIMS on Saturday. Latest civilian killing
of the schoolboy has sparked fresh protests in Srinagar. Valley has witnessed
continuous protests for the past three months during which 89 civilians have
been killed. A senior doctor at SKIMS, who did no wish to be named, said Junaid
had suffered subdural haematoma – a deadly head injury – and was declared dead
during the night.“He had multiple pellets in brain leading to multiple
contusions,” he said.J-K govt imposed curfew in several areas of Srinagar
following his death.Normal life remained affected for the 92nd consecutive day.
indianexpress
Curfew in parts of Srinagar
after boy’s death in pellet-firing
World can’t remain
indifferent to Kashmir issue: NATO
Chairman Military Committee
NATO, General Peter Pavel has said the world cannot remain indifferent to
Kashmir issue. In a meeting here, General Pavel told Pakistan PM Nawaz Sharif,
“I have listened to your yesterday’s speech in the Parliament where you
eloquently expressed the issue of Kashmir. Kashmir issue has to be addressed as
two nuclear powers are party to it and the world cannot remain indifferent and
must be concerned. World and UN have to be consistent on principles and rules.”
PM said that India was creating problems and has resorted to double standards
on the issue of Kashmir. PM said that India unfairly blamed Pakistan for Uri
attack without investigating into the incident.Greater Kashmir
Pak Senate panel recommends
targeting 'Modi and his RSS ideology of Hindutva,' an Express Tribune report
says
New Delhi: A panel of the
Pakistan Senate has recommended policy guidelines such as targeting PM Narendra
Modi "and his RSS ideology of Hindutva," and raking up
"alienated" religious and caste groups, and Naxalite insurgencies,
the Pakistani newspaper Express Tribune reported on Saturday.According to the
report, Raja Zafarul Haq - the panel chairman's and also the Leader of the
House - presented a 7-page report containing 22 policy guidelines to the Senate
yesterday. TOI
China again defends
blocking UN ban on Masood Azhar
Beijing: China defended on
Saturday its second technical hold to prevent a UN ban on Pakistan-based JeM
chief Masood Azhar saying there were “different views” on India’s application
and that Beijing’s move will allow more time for the “relevant parties” to have
consultations. Reacting to India’s criticism that its second hold on attempts
to ban Azhar sends a dangerous message, the Chinese foreign ministry said that
the listing application member states submitted to the 1267 Committee of UN
“must comply” with specific requirements of relevant resolutions of UN Security
Council (UNSC).PTI
‘Different views’: China’s
excuse for blocking ban on terrorist Masood Azhar
Sri Lanka insists it did
not pull out of SAARC summit
Colombo: Sri Lanka did not
pull out of the SAARC summit, the country only expressed regret that the
prevailing environment in the region was not conducive to hold the event, Sri
Lanka’s Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera told the parliament on Friday.His
response comes in the wake of media reports interpreting Sri Lanka’s statement
as a decision to “pull out” of the summit or “boycott it.” thehindu
Shut up on Balochistan or
we raise Maoist, NE unrest: Pak envoys in US
Washington: 2 Pakistani
special envoys tasked with drumming up support for its position on the Kashmir
issue in the US continued to play hardball on India amid sharp questioning in
Washington DC about the country's unceasing support for terror groups, its
provocative nuclear posture, and its general failure as a nation-state.After
threatening to decamp+ to a purported "China-Russia-Iran" axis if the
US did not intervene in the Kashmir issue, the duo on Thursday made peace in
Afghanistan hostage to resolution of the Kashmir issue, implicitly warning that
Pakistan can undermine US and Indian efforts to stabilize Afghanistan, a
country that by many accounts has been ravaged by Pakistani depredations.TOI
OTHERS
Muslim families leave
Dadri's Bishahra amid tension
Bishahra: At the same spot
in the village where they had lynched Akhlaque a year ago, thousands of
residents of Bishahra in Dadri, sat on a dharna on Thursday, demanding
immediate release of all the 17 accused who are in jail on charges of killing
him over rumours about beef. Villagers were protesting after Ravi Sisodia, one
of 18 residents of Bishahra arrested on charges of killing Akhlaque, died of
respiratory and renal failure in LNJP hospital in judicial custody on Tuesday. The
casket carrying his body was draped in the national flag and he was hailed as a
“martyr” by the villagers, who alleged that he was killed by the jail staff. Messages
being circulated on social media platforms and WhatsApp, hailed him as “veer
sher (brave lion) of Bishahra.”His family members maintained that he had been
“in perfect health”, a claim contradicted by their application submitted in the
court on Ravi’s behalf on September 30 that he was suffering from chikungunya
and that he be transferred to Gautam Buddh Nagar district hospital for better
treatment.The protesters who were also demanding Rs. 1 crore compensation to
his family, refused to accept the State govt’s offer of Rs. 10 lakh. Village continued
to be extremely tense with the UP police
allowing several Hindutva groups and VHP leaders from outside Dadri. thehindu
Dadri accused body cremated
after family,govt strike deal
Bisara: 3 days after Ravin
Sisodia died in a Delhi hospital due to “multi-organ failure of kidney and
lungs”, his family and residents of Dadri’s Bisara village cremated his body on
Friday evening after arriving at a compromise with the local administration on
their demands. One of the 18 accused in the killing of Akhlaq on suspicion of
consuming beef in Bisara last year, Sisodia’s body had been kept in a
deep-freezer casket draped with Tricolour.His family members and residents had
blocked cremation, demanding Rs 1 crore as compensation, a CBI probe into the
death, a job for a family member, action against jail officials and an inquiry
against Akhlaq’s brother Jaan Mohammad on charges of cow slaughter. Indianexpress
Dadri lynching accused
cremated, UP govt hikes compensation to Rs 20 lakh
Songeet Som, Mahesh Sharma
try to pacify Bisara villagers, as speakers on same dais engage in hate speech
In Dadri, a man accused of
murder, martyred by a fever, is revered like a soldier: Anjali Mody
From Beef Vigilantism to
Flag Nationalism, Indian Politics Hits a New Low: SIDHARTH BHATIA
Bisada witnesses the misuse
of Indian flag and communal politics: HT
20 injured, after clashes
in Muzaffarnagar over children 'studying in a mosque': Viju Cherian,
Muzaffarnagar: 20 people
were injured in a clash between two groups of the same community caused by a
dispute over children studying in a mosque at Khatoli town here, police said on
Saturday.A case has has been registered against 22 people, seven of whom have
been arrested, SP (crime) Pradeep Gupta said.The incident occurred when some
people had allegedly raised objections over children studying in a local
mosque. In the clash that followed, stones were pelted between 2 groups of
people, leaving 20 injured.PTI
Muslim woman accuses MP
cops of forcing her into having 'unnatural sex' with her son
In a horrific tell-all, a
Muslim woman in MP CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan’s home district Sehore has alleged
that Siddiqganj police in Ashta forced her son to molest her and made them
drink each other’s urine in the custody. Woman Shabnam (name changed) in an
affidavit alleged that police detained her, her husband, son and 4 other minor
children and brutally thrashed them and made all of them to drink each other’s
urine in a bid to force them to confess to the ‘murder’ of their missing
daughter-in-law.She also alleged that police also forced them to perform
unnatural sex on each other, says a report in DB Post. Shabnam, 40, also said
that Siddiqganj police station in-charge Rakesh Sharma is threatening the
family with serious consequences and false case if she pursued the case
further. Shabnam, a resident of Singerchauri, said that her daughter-in-law
went missing from home and the girl’s brother filed a habeas corpus and a missing
complaint was filed in Siddiqganj police. Shabnam’s family was detained by
police for 15 days following the complaint and were allegedly tortured by the
cops at the police station. Her lawyer Virendra Parmar said that his client’s
son confessed to the murder under duress and led them to local graveyard.“ Police
exhumed 3 bodies at the graveyard but none of them were of the identified as
the missing daughter-in-law’s body,” Parmar said.Pradesh18
Woman accuses MP cops of
forcing her into fornicating with her son
Cops forced me, family to
drink each other’s urine: woman
I am a Dalit and my son was
a Dalit, asserts Rohith Vemula’s mother in Lucknow
Lucknow: Radhika, mother of
Hyderabad university research scholar Rohith Vemula, rejected the conclusions
of the inquiry conducted by the one-man judicial commission set up by the HRD
Ministry on Jan. 28 this year, 11 days after Vemula killed himself in his
hostel room. Radhika who was in Lucknow said, “I am a Dalit and my son was a
Dalit.” indianexpress
SC stays HC order allowing
women in Haji Ali
New Delhi: Supreme Court on
Friday stayed the high court order after the Haji Ali dargah management said
that it will come out with a progressive stand in two weeks."Dargah needs
to do some secular introspection and come out with a progressive stand on
women's entry into Haji Ali," SC bench said. "Be it Islam or
Hinduism, we need to look progressively at customs," the SC observed,
adding that similar problem, a ban on entry of women in inner sanctorum of the
temple, exists in Sabarimala in Kerala too.On Oct. 4, Haji Ali Dargah Trust
moved SC challenging the Bombay high court order lifting the ban on women from
entering the sanctum sanctorum of the renowned Muslim shrine in south Bombay. timesofindia
Removed by LG, Waqf head,
AAP MLA Amanatullah says ‘will go to court if necessary’
New Delhi: As soon as he
took over as chairman of the Delhi Waqf Board, Okhla MLA Amanatullah Khan had
said that recovering Waqf properties, which had been taken over by encroachers,
would be his top priority. He then named DDA as “the biggest encroacher” of
Waqf properties in the capital. “We have nearly 2,000 properties in Delhi. Of
that, 70% are in our possession and as much as 30% have been encroached by govt
agencies, primarily the DDA,” Khan told
in April. Prior to his appointment, the Board didn’t have a chairperson for
over a year. Refuting all allegations of illegalities — as mentioned in a
statement issued by the LG Friday — Khan lashed out at Jung, saying “he is
functioning as if there is no elected govt in the city. We have all the
requisite approvals from the govt concerning all appointments.” AAP MLA said,
“If need be, we will go to court against the decision,” but added, “It will be
difficult for the Board to defend itself, with its offices sealed and in the
lack of any documents or paperwork.” Indian express
L-G dissolves Waqf Board,
Khan to challenge order in court: PTI
LG Jung vs AAP continues: Delhi
Waqf Board superseded, CBI probe ordered
Dalit beheaded in
Uttarakhand for using flour mill, accused of being ‘impure’
Dehradun: A 35-year-old
Dalit man was beheaded allegedly by a primary school teacher who accused him of
rendering “impure” a flour mill by using it before the upper caste villagers in
Uttarakhand’s Bageshwar district, a senior police officer said . Sohan Ram died
when he was assaulted with a sickle by Lalit Karnatak after he protested an
insulting remark against his caste, Bageshwar SP Sukhbir Singh told PTI on
phone.The accused was arrested yesterday and sent to Almora jail this morning,
the SP said. Incident occurred on Tuesday evening in Kadaria village of
Bageshwar bordering Pithoragarh. PTI
Mangaluru: Saffron goons
thrashed youth for sharing bus seat with a Hindu girl
Mangaluru: A group of
miscreants belonging to a Hindtuva fringe group attacked a Muslim youth for
sharing a seat with a girl belonging to Hindu community.The incident took place
on Monday night at KSRTC bus stand in Madikeri.It so happened when Mohammed
Anees, the victim and the girl, belonging to same locality but didn’t know each
other shared seat on board a Bengaluru-bound KSRTC bus, reports CD network.siasat
Forced Out Of Ramlila Show,
Nawazuddin Siddiqui Says 'Childhood Dream' Crushed
Budhana (UP): In a video he
posted, actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui tosses out animated, high-pitched dialogue
while rehearsing a scene from the Ramlila. He is also seen in full costume.The
actor, however, did not make it to the stage in his hometown Budhana in UP. He
was getting ready in the green room when local activists, allegedly of the Shiv
Sena, stormed in and started shouting.The actor quietly left. Ndtv
Hindu man files plaint
against VHP for sprinkling cow urine at garba venues to keep away Muslims
After Marathas, Muslims hit
the streets in Maha for quota
Mumbai: In the wake of more
than 18 silent rallies organised by the Maratha community across the State,
Muslim community on Friday took out peaceful rallies in Mumbra and Malegaon in
Nashik district to demand a 5% reservation in education and jobs.Organised with
the backing of the Muslim Kranti Morcha, a committee formed last week to
spearhead the agitation, rally from Darul Falah Masjid in Mumbra to Mumbra
railway station saw a turnout of over 5,000 people. thehindu
Muslim stage silent protest
in Mumbra for quota
QED president Afzal Ansari
meets Mulayam, announces joint rally
ARRESTING,
MEDIA & TERROR CASES
Kerala HC sets woman 'IS
suicide bomber' free
Kochi: The Kerala high
court has set at liberty a woman who was allegedly converted and recruited to
become a suicide bomber for Islamic State in Syria. The court issued the order
after police informed that she doesn't possess a passport and there is nothing
to indicate that she is likely to be taken to Syria.A division bench of the
court issued the order on September 27th after the father of the 23-year-old
woman from Vaikom alleged in a petition (WP-Crl 297/2016) that she has been
recruited for IS activities in Syria. On August 18th, the court had directed
police to prevent her from flying abroad.While the court allowed the woman to
stay at a place of her choice, she has informed the court that she doesn't want
to go to her own home and live with her parents as they are not willing to
accept her as a Muslim. She has instead chosen to go and live with a woman at
Malappuram. Further, she alleged that the petition to the high court was filed
by her father at the instance of his lawyer.It was while doing a BHMS course at
a homeopathic medical college at Salem in Tamil Nadu that the woman converted
to Islam. She had two 'fanatic' Muslim sisters as her roommates and she was
allegedly converted by them. From Salem, the woman went to an institution named
'Sathyasarani', which is allegedly operated by a Muslim organization named PFI,
and is kept under illegal detention there, the father had alleged in the petition.The
father had also alleged in the petition that his daughter disclosed that she is
planning to go to Syria for sheep rearing while talking over phone on July
11th. Taking new converts to Syria for terrorist training and for joining the
IS to make them suicide bombers is a well-known tactic of Islamic extremist
organizations of Kerala, the petition had stated. Kerala high court has set at
liberty a woman who was allegedly converted and recruited to become a suicide
bomber for Islamic State in Syria. timesofindia
Kerala High court
'liberates' woman IS sympathizer
IS links: 4 picked up for
questioning in Coimbatore
Coimbatore: 4 persons with
suspected links to Daesh have been picked up by NIA and are being questioned to
probe their alleged association with another suspect arrested from Kannur in
the south Indian Kerala state.They were picked up by NIA late on Friday night
after their names were found in the contact list of Abu Basheer, one of the six
arrested from Kannur recently, police said.Basheer, hailing from Tamil Nadu,
was among the six held for being part of Daesh inspired module who allegedly
conspired to carry out terrorist acts.NIA has so far questioned 11 persons from
the city, who were in the Facebook and telephone contact list of Basheer and
seized laptops, mobile phones and some electronic gadgets from them.All of them
were later let off.PTI
Chargesheet filed against
five IS suspects: TOI
Aurangabad: Maharashtra ATS
on Friday filed a 3,632-page chargesheet against five suspects of the IS module
that was busted in Parbhani in July.Those named in the chargesheet include four
arrested accused and their handler, who has been shown as absconding. A senior
ATS officer said the handler in this case is suspected to be Shafi Armar.In a
discreet operation lasting about 3 months, the state ATS officials first nabbed
31-year-old Naser alias Qadir Bin Abu-bakr Yafai Chaush from Parbhani district,
about 187km from here on July 14, for his alleged IS connection.The arrest
turned out to be major. It was followed by the arrest of three more suspects,
including a zilla parishad teacher working with a Hingoli-based school. The
other three arrested accused include Iqbal Ahmed Kabir Ahmed, Mohammed
Raisuddin and Shahed Khan.
Maharashtra ATS files
chargesheet in Parbhani ISIS case
TN youth who had returned
after fighting for ISIS is now helping Indian agencies: report
A Tamil Nadu youth who was
recently arrested after he returned from his stint with the Islamic State in Iraq
is now helping Indian agencies in investigation.31-year-old Subahani Haja
Moideen is coordinating with NIA in helping them understand everything about
Islamic State, ranging from their training methods and religious courses to
funding, reports TOI.Moideen, who is originally from Kerala, was arrested from
Tirunelveli (Tamil Nadu) a few days back. He had fought with the IS between
April and Sept.in 2015. However, he couldn't tolerate the violence committed by
the IS fighters. He later suffered a serious knee injury and after serving a
40-day imprisonment,was allowed to return to India. scoopwhoop
Back from fighting for
ISIS, Tamil Nadu man sings: TOI
Bihar police probe Dhaka
attack's Munger connection
Case against Kochi school
for teaching 'exhorting students to give lives for Islam': PTI
Thiruvananthapuram: A case
has been registered against a school in Kochi for allegedly teaching students
objectionable content and exhorting them to lay down their lives for Islam,
with police suspecting that the curriculum has been drafted with persons close
to Zakir Naik. Peace International School at Thammanam in Ernakulam is run by a
trust headed by some “influential local businessmen”.Police have registered a
case under Sect 153A and 34 IPC against the school principal, administrator and
three trustees, police sources told PTI. The case was registered on the basis
of a report filed by the Ernakulam District Education Officer, stating that
“what was being taught was not secular”.“The case was registered for teaching
students objectionable content in the syllabus… what was not secular. Islamic
curriculum was being followed and students were being exhorted to lay down
their lives for Islam”, the sources said. The school has classes from the LKG
to eighth standard.“We suspect that this school’s curriculum has been drafted
with persons close to Zakir Naik, of Mumbai based Islamic International
School,” the sources said.
Kerala school exhorting
students to give lives for Islam
World
Muslims must unite in
defense of Aleppo: Al-Qaradawi
Istanbul: Muslims around
the world should come to the aid of their brothers and sisters in the besieged
Syrian city of Aleppo, Sheikh Yusuf al- Qaradawi, head of the Qatar-based
International Union of Muslim Scholars, told Anadolu Agency in an exclusive
interview.Al-Qaradawi spoke to Anadolu Agency during his recent visit to the
Turkish city of Istanbul, where he participated in 26th session of the European
Council for Fatwa and Research. He called on Muslims worldwide to "close
ranks with a view to defending Aleppo" from what he described as the
"ferocity" of the Syrian regime and its allies."Ummah [the
worldwide Muslim community] cannot be broken up," he said. "As
Muslims, we all share the same fate.""Aleppo, which is suffering and
will continue to suffer, is the most important cause of our times," he
added. "It is being targeted from all sides by Islam’s
enemies."Muslims, the scholar went on to stress, "do not like
violence and bloodshed, and refrain from showing hostility except to those who
attack them".Anadolu
Syria's war: John Kerry
wants war crimes probe
Syrian govt troops are
advancing gradually against opposition fighters inside Aleppo, even as the US
secretary of state calls for Russia and Syria to face a war-crimes
investigation for alleged attacks on Syrian civilians.2-week assault by Syrian
President Bashar al-Assad's forces has led to a global outcry after air strikes
on hospitals and a UN aid convoy.The assault on rebel-held districts of Aleppo
has elicited a warning from Staffan de Mistura, the UN envoy, that eastern
Aleppo could be "totally destroyed" by the year's end.For their part,
rebels in Aleppo said on Friday that they had killed at least 23 pro-govt fighters, injured dozens and captured at least
6 Iraqi Shia militia members deployed on behalf of the Assad govt. Thousands of
Iraqi Shia militia members and members of Lebanon's Hezbollah are fighting
alongside govt forces in Aleppo against
primarily Sunni rebel forces.More than 1,000 Iraqi Shia fighters have travelled
to Aleppo from Iraq since early September, joining the ranks of another 4,000 already
on the ground in the area, militia leaders and Syrian rebels told the Wall
Street Journal earlier this week.Al Jazeera
UN envoy warns east Aleppo
faces 'total destruction'
Rebels in Aleppo reject UN
envoy’s call to leave the city
Germany: Syrian children
attacked by right-wing youths
3 Syrian refugee children
have been hit and threatened with a knife by a gang of right-wing youths in
eastern Germany, according to police. Boys, aged 5, 8 and 11, were getting out
of a bus in the town of Sebnitz, around 40km east of Dresden, when they came
under attack, police said on Friday. aljazeera
Horrors left by Hurricane become
clear in Haiti; toll 900
Full scale of devastation
in rural parts of storm-hit Haiti became clear as death toll soared to nearly
900 3-day after Hurricane Matthew levelled huge swaths of the country's south. aljazeera
Piece of carved wood
suggests Persian taught maths in Japan 1,000 years ago: independent
Archaeologists have
unearthed a piece of wood revealing ancient Japan was a “cosmopolitan” nation
“where foreigners were treated equally”, including details of one Persian man
teaching maths more than a millennium ago.Scientists analysed carvings on wood
using infrared imaging technology, which appeared to name a Persian lecturer
who worked at a facility where govt ministers were trained in ex-Japanese capital
of Nara.Previous discoveries have revealed Japan had direct trade links with
Persia as early as 600AD, but this is the first time it has been suggested a
Middle Eastern official may have been employed in the country at that time. Akirhiro
Watanabe of Nara National Research Institute for Cultural Properties, who led
the survey, suggested the man was likely to have taught mathematics due to
Persia’s renowned expertise in subject.“Although earlier studies have suggested
there were exchanges with Persia as early as the 7th century, this is the first
time a person as far away as Persia was known to have worked in Japan,” he said.
Throughout 17th century,
thousands of Persian merchants were known to travel to the city of Nagasaki for
the purposes of trade, but it is now believed the ties between the 2 countries
date back far earlier.
Muslim leaders warn
Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa 'is in danger'
Istanbul: More than 500
Muslim leaders and clerics from 30 countries met in Istanbul on Friday to warn
that Al-Aqsa Mosque, Islam's third holiest site that is located in Jerusalem,
was in danger. The religious and political leaders, representing at least 50
civil society organizations and political parties in their countries assembled
at the 8th Islamic Countries’ Opinion Leaders Forum, titled "Al-Aqsa is in
Danger" in Istanbul, organized by Arab-Turkish Relations Center. Anadolu
EU calls on Israel to halt
settlement expansion in W. Bank
Muslim and Christian make
new Quran translation to show the two religions' similarities: Independent UK
A Muslim and a
Christian have made a new translation of the Quran to underline the
similarities between their two religions. Authors, who are also friends, said
they hoped the text would provide “a tool of reconciliation” between Christians
and Muslims. Some 3,000 parallels between the Bible and Quran are demonstrated
in the book, which has a split-page format. Safi Kaskas, the Muslim co-author
of the new book, said in a statement: “Most of the tension that exists in the
West in the post-9/11 era is because Christians fear Muslims and their book,
the Quran."This new translation was designed to be a tool of
reconciliation between Muslims and the followers of other Abrahamic religions
[Christianity and Judaism].
Britain's view of its
history 'dangerous', ex-museum head
Banhladesh Jamaat Islami
getting crushed in the ‘Battle of Begums’: Syed Nooruzzaman for Tehelka.com
Ruling Morocco's Islamic
PJD party wins par. polls
Rabat:Morocco's Islamic
Justice and Development Party (PJD) has emerged as the winner after the country
voted for its 10th parliament since independence in 1956, according to official
results. PJD, which has been running a coalition govt since 2011, won 125 seats, while opposition PAM
came second, with 102 seats, the interior ministry said on Saturday after all
ballots were counted. aljazeera
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