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Concerned over SIMI activists' killing: Jamaat-e-Islami Hind
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New Delhi: The Jamaat-e-Islami Hind (JIH) on Tuesday expressed concern over the killing of eight SIMI undertrial activists in an alleged encounter by Madhya Pradesh Police.JIH Secretary General Muhammad Salim Engineer said the killing of eight undertrial prisoners in Bhopal was highly disturbing, adding that several media reports suggested it was a fake encounter. "The entire episode raises several uncomfortable questions. Was it possible for the accused to scale over 30-feet high wall of the most secure jail in Madhya Pradesh? How could they lay hands on weapons? Why are there contradictory statements from officials over whether prisoners had weapons or not?" he said."How did they get new clothes, watches and bands? If they had connections to get weapons, why couldn't they get a vehicle to escape? Why no policeman was injured in the encounter? Why were the CCTVs (in Bhopal Central Jail) not functioning? How all of them moved together rather than dispersing and couldn't go further in eight hours?"Engineer said the organisation demanded a high-level inquiry under Supreme Court supervision to bring out the facts about the alleged jailbreak and the encounter.He said a lawyer for the accused had maintained that the case against his clients was very weak and there was every likelihood of their acquittal soon.IANS
NHRC issues notices to MP’s top bureaucrat, cops for killing prisoners
New Delhi: The country’s human rights watchdog has issued notices to the Madhya Pradesh govt and state police for the shooting of 8 prisoners who had escaped from a Bhopal jail. National Human Rights Commission sent notices the state’s chief secretary, director general of police, DG of prisons & inspector general of prisons for the killing alleged activists of the SIMI.HT
Encounter is
unquestionable, will not be probed by NIA, it will probe only jail break:MP
govt firms but doubts swirl
Bhopal: A police shooting
of 8 Islamist prisoners escaping from a Bhopal jail will not be investigated,
MP home minister Bhupendra Singh said on Tuesday, despite persistent doubts the
killings were staged. Men, members of the SIMI awaiting trial, fled the high
security jail early on Monday after slitting the throat of a prison guard.
Hours later, police tracked down and shot all 8 dead. But 2 videos purportedly
of the ‘encounter’ and a string of unanswered questions have led human rights
activists and opposition parties to doubt the genuineness of the police claims.
“Our police tracked the absconding SIMI men in a short time and neutralized
them bravely. Nothing more needs to be said on it,” Bhupendra Singh, state home
minister, told HT. “Encounter is unquestionable and it will not be probed by
NIA. They will investigate only the jail break and how it happened,” he
said.Police insist there was no breakdown in security at the prison or that
protocols were violated in engaging the fleeing prisoners. But they have
offered little explanations to questions raised over the jailbreak and the
circumstances of the killings. For instance, hours before police gunned down
SIMI men and recovered a sharp weapon they allegedly used to kill the prison
guard, Indian media was already reporting on the exact nature of the “knife”.
Quoting police sources, those reports said the sharp weapon was fashioned out
of spoons and plates. 3 hours later one of the purported videos of the
encounter showed policemen recovering a sharp metallic object from one of the
dead men. So-called weapon fitted the description of the “knife” earlier
reported by TV channels, raising questions over how police knew “knife” had
been made out of kitchen utensils even before recovering it. Neither has police
offered any explanation on why the prisoners chose to scale a stretch of the
perimeter wall that was next to a watch tower manned by two sentries
round-the-clock. Bhopal Central Jail premises are built in 2 concentric circles
with an outer wall 18 feet high and an inner perimeter wall 8 feet high. The
barracks are located inside the inner perimeter, making it nearly impossible to
escape undetected. Jail has 2,900 prisoners and hundreds of guards and watch
towers.Some of the jail surveillance cameras weren’t working either that
night.HT
Encounter unquestionable,
jail break massive lapse: MP home minister
‘Cops murdered my son’:
SIMI suspect’s mother says encounter staged
Bhopal/Khandwa:Mother of
one of 8 SIMI suspects said the police encounter in Acharapura village on
Monday was “staged”. Salma Bi, whose son Zakir Hussein was gunned down by the
police, said: “My son has been killed in a pre-planned encounter.”“Neither did
my son or his fellow jail inmates escape from the prison nor did they fire at
the police before being gunned down in so-called encounter in the Acharapura
village.”“When I met Zakir the last time at the Bhopal central jail on
Eid-ul-Azha in Sept,he had told me that he was not safe and anything could be
done to him, both inside the jail or outside the jail by the police,” Salma
told HT from her home town in Khandwa.“Zakir had asked me to meet him at short
intervals for his safety, which I couldn’t do and the result is for all to
see.” The woman accused the local police of assaulting her when they came to
inquire about Zakir after he escaped and keeping the news of his death from
her.“8 to 10 cops of the Khandwa district police came to our house after the
alleged jail escape on Monday and asked me about my son and his friends. When I
asked why they were troubling us again and again, one of the cops slapped me 4
times and even pushed away my visually challenged sister-in-law Rehana Bi,” she
said. She asked if it could be just a coincidence that the local cops had
visited their house a fortnight ago and had asked them not to leave Khandwa at
any cost. Zakir was the eldest of the 4
children of Salma and her Badru Hussain, who owns a construction material shop
in Aman Nagar-Ganesh Talai locality in Khandwa.Salma expressed fear that the
police might also kill Zakir’s younger brother Altaf, lodged at the Bhopal
central jail in other terror-related cases for last 6 years. “Cops have
murdered one of my sons in pre-planned manner and might do the same with my
second son,” she said.HT
Bhopal encounter: Families
of killed SIMI members demand CBI probe into 'cold-blooded murders'
Families of the 8 men have
demanded an investigation into the police encounter in which they were shot
dead, PTI reported. Referring to the killings as "cold-blooded
murders", the families will approach the Madhya Pradesh High Court seeking
an inquiry by the CBI.Families of 7 of the 8 men have arrived in Bhopal to collect their
bodies for their last rites. sroll.in
Stop habit of questioning
authorities, police: Union Minister Rijiju on killing of SIMI men
New Delhi: Amid the controversy over the killing of 8
SIMI activists, Union Minister Kiren Rijiju today said the ‘habit’ of raising
doubts and questioning the police should stop and no conclusion should be drawn
on the basis of videos only.“It is not good to raise questions on security
forces dealing with terrorists just on the basis of videos,” he said.PTI
Slain men’s lawyer asks why
jail CCTV footage not seized
Over 24 hours after the
‘encounter’ in which the Madhya Pradesh police killed 8 so-called SIMI
activists about 15 kms outside Bhopal, doubts are being expressed over why the
authorities have shied away from seizing footage of CCTV cameras installed in
the city jail.Speaking to The Quint over phone, the lawyer for some of the 8
alleged SIMI cadres, Parvez Alam, said, “I do not buy the police’s explanation
that the CCTV cameras were not functioning the night when a brawl took place
between a jail warder Ramashankar and some of the undertrials. “Bhopal central
jail is an ISO 9001 certified prison, which makes it mandatory to have
well-functioning CCTV cameras. The jail authorities’ and the state
Anti-Terrorist Cell’s activities within the jail must have been captured by the
CCTV cameras.”He demanded release of the CCTV footage.Claiming that the details
of the autopsies performed late last night on the 8 bodies “is being kept a closely guarded secret
and their copies were yet to be given to the next of kin of those killed,” Alam
said the circumstances leading to the “questionable encounter” call for a probe
by the CBI and “not the NIA”.Interestingly, Jaleel, the 18-year-old son of one
of the alleged SIMI activists, Akeel Khilji, was picked up by two ATS men as
early as 6am on 31 October, the day of the so-called encounter. Highly-placed
police sources questioned the necessity to “pick up” Jaleel from Khandwa at
dawn when the encounter is said to have occurred between 10:30am and 11am on 31
October. This suggests that the 8 SIMI
men, including Khilji, were long dead before the police “broke” the news of the
encounter. Javed Chauhan, the Khandwa-based former lawyer of some of the slain
SIMI activists, said that the sequence of events, beginning within the jail
premises and ending at Manikhedi Patthar about 15 kms from Bhopal city,
indicate that the 8 men “did not escape
by scaling the very high walls of the prison but were taken out in a vehicle”
after the warder collapsed and died because of the grievous injuries he
sustained in a fight on the intervening night of 30 and 31 November.This was
seconded by Alam who said that “unhe jail se nikaal ke le jaya gaya tha (they
were taken out of the jail).”“The undertrials could not have covered 15 kms in
a span of a few hours and that too with no vehicle at their disposal.
Conventional wisdom suggests that escaped prisons usually do not bunch together
after a jail break. Each goes his own way,” Chauhan said.Both Alam and Chauhan
pointed to the following grave inconsistencies in the police version of the
events leading up to the encounter which the Madhya Pradesh Congress has
described as “staged” and “fake”. Both lawyers claimed that most of the 46
bullets fired at the 8 men hit either
their heads or their chests.The police made no arrests of the so-called
facilitators in a nearby village who provided the 8 men with three country-made
revolvers or kattas.The undertrials had new clothes, sports shoes and wrist
watches on, besides “being in the possession” of dry fruits and three
country-made revolvers. If these were provided by facilitators from outside the
jail, why was a getaway vehicle not arranged as well? 5 of the 8 men were seen
on a grassy knoll at Manikhedi Patthar from where they waved at the police.
Alam said no opportunity was given to the five to surrender even though the
place had been surrounded by heavily armed ATS personnel. Scaling the
30-feet-high perimeter wall would have been impossible with a few bedsheets.
Besides, what did the SIMI activists tie the bedsheets on to the other end to
secure sufficient traction to climb up and then descend the wall?Using pieces
of wood and toothbrush as keys to unlock the cell gate is impossible, if not
laughable.“Intentional” delay caused to thwart the relatives of the slain men
from reaching Bhopal from Khandwa. thequint
Encounter seems fake, SC
should step in: Opposition
New Delhi: Suggesting that
the elimination of 8 SIMI activists by
the police at the same place on the outskirts of Bhopal appeared to be faked,
the Congress party on Tuesday urged the Supreme Court to assign a retired judge
to probe the matter. Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge
told ANI, “I saw the photographs on television and they do bring suspicion.
They make us think that was that encounter fake? Because it seems quite
difficult to imagine that 8 people at a
time were killed by the police at the same place together. This matter should
be investigated and the Supreme Court should assign this matter to a retired
Supreme Court judge to probe the matter and clear all doubts.”Accusing the MP govt
of using police for fulfilling the RSS
agenda, BSP supremo Mayawati today demanded a judicial probe into the encounter
of 8 prisoners associated with banned
organisation SIMI.She also charged that police is misused for political and
communal motives in BJP-ruled states.ANI
Bhopal encounter: Another
video shows SIMI terrorists attempting to surrender before police shot them
(Watch)
SIMI activists used wood,
toothbrush to make keys to escape: MP Police
SIMI jailbreak &
encounter in MP: Is this in heart of India or middle of Caliphate? Ajay Singh
Mayawati demands judicial
probe into the killing
SIMI may use killings to
instigate Muslims against BJP govt: Intelligence agencies
Why Do Only Muslims Break
Out of Jail and Not Hindus: Digvijaya Singh
Watch: Third video of
Bhopal alleged fake encounter raises more questions
http://www.siasat.com/news/watch-third-video-bhopal-alleged-fake-encounter-raises-questions-1055204/
SIMI activists’ encouner:
It’s become fashionable to sympathise with terrorists:Venkaiah Naidu
'The bogey of SIMI': Bhopal
killings must not be allowed to fall into a legal blackhole: JTSA
How Did SIMI Suspects Get
Guns? MP Cops Must Answer Many Queries
SIMI activists encounter in
Bhopal: Madhya Pradesh police version is full of contradictions: TS Sudhir
SC recipe for 'fake
encounters' is harsh, ranges from probe to death penalty for cops
Like Aler encounter, Bhopal
encounter reeks of injustice, false claims and damning lies: Amit Kumar
Over 55% of undertrials
Muslim, Dalit or tribal: NCRB
New Delhi: Over 55 % of
undertrials across the country are either Muslims, Dalits or tribals, according
to NCRB’s prison data for 2015. According to NCRB, over 2-thirds of all jail
inmates are undertrials. Data also shows that more than 70% of undertrials have
not passed Class 10.Muslims, Dalits and tribals together account for 39% of
India’s population, thus their share among undertrials is disproportionate to
their population. According to 2011 Census, Muslims make up 14.2%, Scheduled
Castes 16.6% and Scheduled Tribes 8.6% of India’s population.Besides, 3
communities have a lower representation among convicts as compared to
undertrials. Together, they account for 50.4% of all convicts.Among Muslims,
the community’s share of convicts is 15.8% , slightly above their
representation in population, but their share among undertrials — at 20.9 % — is far higher.SCs account for 21.6% of undertrials and 20.9% of convicts, while
STs make up 12.4% of undertrials and
13.7% of convicts.Out of 2,82,076 undertrials lodged in various jails in the
country, a total of 80,528 undertrials are illiterate (28.5% ) and 1,19,082 have
education levels below Class 10 (42.2 % ).The data also shows that most of the
undertrials have to spend over three months in jail before they can secure bail
— close to 65 % spend between three
months and five years. indian express
OTHERS
Law panel’s Uniform Code
survey draws 10,000 responses
New Delhi:Law Commission of
India has received nearly 10,000 responses from the public since it initiated a
debate on uniform civil code (UCC) a fortnight ago. "We have received a
healthy response from citizens cutting across religious lines," law commission
chairman Justice B S Chauhan told TOI. "The responses are varied. Some
criticise the commission for taking up an issue which has been kept dead for
decades. Some say it is a ploy to divide country further. But many have
welcomed the start of a debate on the crucial issue which had not been touched
by successive govt s for various reasons," a law panel official said. A
young woman's response impressed Justice Chauhan. She said a woman suffered a
lot during divorce. She had to fight a divorce case, then follow it up with
another case to get maintenance from her former husband, and then face another
legal battle to get the custody of her children, the woman said. Why could the
judiciary not club all the three proceedings into one and give a composite
ruling, she asked. Justice Chauhan saw the logic behind the woman's response,
and has asked the research team in the law commission to work on the aspect of
composite court proceedings encompassing divorce, maintenance and children's
custody . "It is important for us to understand the views of political
parties. The commission has requested them to send their responses to the
questions by Nov.20," Justice Chauhan said. After receiving their
responses, the commission plans to sit across the table with the
representatives of each political party and discuss the intricacies involved in
the formulation of a uni form civil code (UCC), he said. ET/TOI
AIMPLB Bengal convention to
formulate action on Uniform Civil Code and triple talaq
Kolkata: Amid a raging
debate over Uniform Civil Code and triple talaq, All India Muslim Personal Law
Board said they will deliberate on the line of action to be taken over the
issues, in its upcoming convention in the city. Describing the twin issues as
an “infringement of the personal law and fundamental rights of Muslims”, AIMPLB
said it would give a call for formation of a “secular platform” to counter BJP
and RSS’s “evil designs”.“BJP-RSS is trying to infringe into the personal and
fundamental rights of Muslims. This will never be tolerated. The upcoming
convention will deal with the issues,” TMC MP and chairman of AIMPLB organising
committee, Sultan Ahmed said. According to him, AIMPLB usually sticks to only
Muslim personal laws which broadly cover marriage, talaq, succession and
adoption-related issues, but this time it will step beyond its periphery and
speak up against religious intolerance in the country. Ahmed will formally meet
the state administration this week to finalise the venue for the 3-day Kolkata
convention starting Nov.18. “We will sit with the state administration and
police authorities and finalise the details this week. We have two venues in
mind--Park Circus Maidan and Mohammedan Sporting Club for the public meeting,”
he said.PTI
Goa Muslims want Personal
Law to replace Portuguese Code
Panaji:Muslim community in
Goa has come forward to demand that the Portuguese Civil Code be replaced by
the Muslim Personal Law in Goa.The demand came at a meeting held in Margao on
Sunday to oppose changes in the Shariat law at the national level.The public
meeting held at Housing Board Football ground at Rumdamoll by AIMPLB was
attended by large number of Muslims.The meeting was presided over by Maulana
Khalid Saifulla and other dignitaries. They fear that the BJP govt would bring
in the Hindu Personal Law in the name of Uniform Civil Code. But, they have
also opposed Goa’s Portuguese Civil Code. “Constitution guarantees all the
religious communities in the country to practice their own religions as per their
religious scriptures. We should thus get the right to practice our own Personal
Law”, stated Shaikh Shakeel while presenting the resolution.Goa news
HC dismisses plea by Muslim
woman against divorce based on ‘forged’ papers
Chennai: Making it clear
that a court dealing with writ petitions can only decide on questions of law
and not questions of facts, the Madras High Court dismissed a plea moved by a
Muslim woman seeking to set aside a ‘Khulanama’(document expressing consent for
divorce) allegedly obtained by her husband in a fraudulent manner. According to
S. Basheria, a mother of three, her husband TCA Mohamed Yusuf had obtained
divorce through an authoritative verdict (fatwa) from the Govt Chief Kazi, by showing a fake ‘Khulanama’
dated June 9, 2006, allegedly written by her.He subsequently married another
woman.In 2007, when Ms.Basheria approached the HC seeking to call for records
from the Govt Chief Kazi in connection
with the divorce granted based on the ‘Khulanama’ and to pay a compensation of
Rs. 7 lakh, a single judge of the court dismissed the plea pointing out that a
case of forgery was pending before a trial court. Hence, the court was not
inclined to entertain the writ petition. “The rights of the petitioner are
relegated to be renewed after the conclusion of the criminal trial. At this
stage, the writ petition is premature and no relief can be given to the
petitioner,” the single judge said.Assailing the order, Ms.Basheria moved the
present appeal. Appellant contended that the single judge had failed to take
note of the life of the appellants, who had been stranded by the act of her
husband. She argued that the ‘Khulanama’ was a forged document and by virtue of
the divorce certificate issued by Govt Chief Kazi, the appellant and her
children were deprived of their rights. Denying her allegations, the Special Govt
Pleader submitted that as per Muslim law, ‘Khulanama’ was valid if it contained
a proposal and acceptance from the wife and the husband respectively.He added
that the Govt Chief Kazi was not a
competent person to declare Khulanama valid or forged.Pointing out that
allegations made by the appellants were disputed questions of fact, a Division
Bench of said: “It is well settled law that the disputed questions of fact
cannot be gone into by this court under Article 226 of the Constitution.” the
hindu
HC dismisses Muslim woman’s
appeal against divorce
Khazis are powerless when
it comes to dissolution of marriage
Govt set to cancel foreign
funding licence of Zakir Naik’s foundation
New Delhi: Zakir Naik’s
Mumbai-based outfit IRF will no longer be allowed to receive foreign funding.
“We have initiated the process of cancellation of foreign funding licence of
the IRF,” said a senior home ministry official. MHA issues foreign funding
license for all NGOs under FCRA.Earlier the MHA had put Naik’s organisation in
prior-permission category under FCRA, which meant all foreign funding of the
NGO was to be vetted by the govt before
it went into IRF’s bank account.MHA is also putting another outfit of Naik’s --
IRF Educational Trust --in the prior permission category. “We are issuing a
notice to the trust for putting it under the prior permission category. We want
to vet all foreign funding of the trust before it is deposited in outfit’s bank
account,” said the official. Besides, the govt is almost ready with a cabinet
note on the IRF to declare it ‘unlawful’ under section 3 of UAPA. Final vetting
is being done. The declaration will mean no person can be a member of the
foundation, hold meetings or collect funds for it. The existing assets of the
outfit declared ‘unlawful’ can be taken over by the govt by appointing a receiver for them.HT
Home Ministry issues notice
to Zakir Naik's NGO IRF
No more foreign funds for
Zakir Naik’s NGO: MHA
MHA notice to IRF not
related to terrorism: Naik’s counsel
After MHA issued a
showcause notice to IRF, run by Zakir Naik, Naik’s counsel, said the notice did
not contain violations relating to terrorism or any terrorist activity alleged
against the preacher. “There are certain violations which are mentioned. We are
still studying the notice, will give reply to it within a stipulated period,”
Naik’s counsel Mubin Solkar said. ANI
Prevent spread of
‘Saudi-style Islam’ by curbing foreign funding: MP Rajeev Chandrasekar to
Rajnath
New Delhi: Independent
Rajya Sabha MP Rajeev Chandrasekar has urged Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh
to undertake a crackdown on Salafist organizations that he alleged have
"created dangerous pockets of radicalism and fundamentalism" using
foreign financial contributions made by dubious organizations.In a letter to
the Home Minister, Rajeev called for audits and investigations into the use of
foreign funds by radical Salafist organizations, some of which he claimed posed
a threat to nation through their propounding of 'Saudi-style Islam'. He has
also called for an overhaul of FCRA, which regulates the receipt of foreign
funding by Indian organizations. He also claimed that the rise of 'puritanical,
Saudi-style Islam' in India has been among the factors behind the ongoing
unrest in Kashmir.He said Rs 134 crore had been received by Salafist NGOs from
Islamic countries over the past three years, which were supposed to be used for
the construction and expansion of buildings such as schools, orphanages and
madrassas. "However, of the funds received by organisations in India for
such expansion, many are run on core Salafist beliefs, which are against Sufi
Islam as practiced in the Indian subcontinent," Rajeev said in his letter.TOI
Arnab Goswami resigns as
Editor-in Chief of Times Now, planning his own news venture
New Delhi:Senior journalist
Arnab Goswami has resigned as the Editor-in Chief of Times Now. Goswami was not
seen on his prime time show The Newshour in the past couple of days. Sources
said that he announced his resignation at an editorial meeting. Goswami
resigned from the post as he wanted to start something on his own, said
sources. Channel, however, is still showing teasers of Newshours with Arnab. Goswami
was recently given “Y category” security cover from the govt . He joined Times
Now as its Editor-in-Chief in 2006. Powered by Goswami’s high-volume NewsHour
on primetime, Times Now has been able to sideline a lot of the older players in
the English new space. This success had led to Arnab Goswami being promoted as
President, News, of Times Now and ET Now. Arnab is planning his own news
venture, reports suggested. TheQuint.com reported that during his hour-long
farewell speech he kept repeating that the “game has just begun”. Goswami made
the announcement at the Times Now newsroom in Mumbai, with journalists from
other centres joining in via video conference. indian express
Arnab quits Times Now, likely
to begin new venture
Arnab resigns from Times
Now, will remain in channel
Missing JNU student:
Kejriwal assures family of all help
New Delhi: Delhi govt will provide all help and assistance to trace
Najeeb Ahmad, CM Arvind Kejriwal assured
the missing JNU student's family on Monday."I am with you and will do
whatever is required to help trace him. It's a very serious matter and the govt
will not let you down and use all its resources available to help you
out," Kejriwal told Najeeb's mother, Fatima Nafees, who met him at his residence."I
would leave no stone unturned in helping find Najeeb," Kejriwal was quoted
as saying in a statement issued here. A delegation of JNUSU, headed by its General
Secretary Satarupa Chakraborty, also accompanied Najeeb's family to the Cheif
Minister's office and submitted a memorandum.IANS
A dark trade: Rape videos
for sale in India:Al Jazeera
UP:In this industrial
northern state, you can buy footage of a woman being raped for the price of a
cheap meal. Al Jazeera found several videos that appeared to depict rape for
sale across the state. They cost from Rs 20 to Rs 200 and are transmitted to a
customer's mobile phone in a matter of seconds. Faces of the women are visible
in these films. Their voices are clear. The attacks on them are brutal.In
Meerut, a city in western UP, an area mostly known for the manufacturing of
sporting goods, local contacts indicated that the movie files, marketed as
"rape videos", were available in nearby villages. With shopkeepers
cautious about selling them to non-locals, one local man in the village of
Incholi - roughly 15km from Meerut - agreed to buy one and show it to Al
Jazeera. Shahnawaz, who declined to use
his real name, said that the videos are not generally made with the intention
of being sold on the open market. Still, he's heard a lot about them.
"They make it to blackmail the victims [of rape] ... so that they don't go
and file a complaint in the nearest police station," Shawnawaz
explained.Sometimes, he said, videos are stolen from the perpetrator's phone
when he takes his device to a shop for repairs. The stolen footage is them sold
to anyone who asks for it.Most shopkeepers are careful to sell the videos only
to locals, and generally deny any knowledge of them. Some, however, agreed to
share explicit videos, including rape clips, with Al Jazeera.While customers
seem to be savvy to the availability of the latest rape video, local police
appear to be oblivious. When Al Jazeera contacted the District Inspector
General of Police for Saharanpur Range, A K Shahi, he said he did not know what
a rape video was."Rape video ... ye kya hota hai (Rape video, what is
this)?" he asked.Al Jazeera was able to buy several of the videos with
relative ease from different locations.Videos Al Jazeera saw were deeply
disturbing, and included what appeared to be a minor. One woman begged her
rapists to stop, saying that her only recourse would be suicide. Another begged
her assailants to at least stop recording the attack. Al Jazeera
India-Palestine Techno Park
to be set up in Ramallah
New Delhi: After last
year’s indication that New Delhi will lean towards Tel Aviv more, India is back
to its balancing act between Israel and Palestine. Ahead of the Minister of
State for External Affairs MJ Akbar’s visit to Palestine, India inked an
agreement to establish a Techno Park in Ramallah with $12 million grant.The
decision to establish the Park was announced during President Pranab
Mukherjee’s visit to Palestine last year. According to the Ministry of External
Affairs, India will be giving a grant of $12 million for setting up the
Palestine-India Techno Park with $3million being provided every six months.
2 Muslims dead in communal
violence in Aligarh
Agra: Two people were
killed and one other injured in communal violence in Kodiya Ganj area of
Aligarh on Diwali night. The dead were identified as Bundu Khan (42) and his
17-year-old son Mohhabbat Khan. According to police there are conflicting
versions to the happenings that led to the clash, which took a communal turn
with members of the two communities joining in and taking sides. Police have
registered counter-cases on the basis of the two versions and arrested three
people, including Dinesh Kashyap's father and brother, Dhani Ram and Narendra
respectively and their associate Sunahri Halwai. TOI
Communal clashes erupt in
Bijnor, 11 injured
Bijnor: Less than 2 months
after communal clashes broke out in Bijnor's Peda village, an incident of
molestation in Nehtaur's Kareempur Mubarak village led to communal clashes
here, in which 11 persons including SHO, 3 constables and 2 children, were
injured. Police, however, denied any molestation incident and said the clashes
began due to an old enemity between two groups. Heavy police has been deployed
in the village and the situation is said to be under control.According to
villagers, the tension began when 2 young girls were harassed by a shopkeeper
who belonged to another community on Sunday. Later, the girls' relatives
confronted the man which led to stone-pelting between two groups.TOI
RSS targeting minorities by
inciting communal violence'
Malappuram: Noted Marathi
writer and social activist Suresh Khairnar said Hidutva forces led by RSS are
targeting minorities and trying their best to establish their hold in Kerala
and West Bengal by inciting communal violence. He was addressing the
valedictory session of the two-day national seminar on Islamophobia, organized
by Platform for Innovative Thought Social Activity (PITSA) here on Sunday .TOI
BJP leader slams Muslim
minister’s visit to Sabarimala
China sticks to stance of
not backing India's case for NSG
World
Turkey's case against cleric
Gulen has merit: US official
A senior State Department
official said Monday that Turkey's contention that a Pennsylvania-based Muslim
cleric and his followers were involved in the failed coup attempt may have some
merit, even as the Obama administration says Turkey has provided little
evidence to support their claim.Ankara is accusing Fethullah Gulen of
orchestrating attempted military coup in July, which left more than 270 people
dead, and is asking the US to extradite him. Official said there are
"reasonable grounds" to take the Turkish govt's accusations against
Gulen seriously. Official held a briefing for reporters but insisted on
anonymity because he wasn't authorized to discuss the matter publicly.State Dept.
official said that charity and educational organizations run by Gulen have
suspicious structure and financing and look "a lot like the ways in which
organized crime sets itself up of folks who are trying to hide money for money
laundering" rather than a "benign religious movement."The briefing
comes several days after Turkey's justice minister met with Attorney General
Loretta Lynch to press the extradition request. Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag
compared Gulen to Osama Bin Laden and warned that Washington's failure to hand
Gulen over could seriously hurt bilateral ties. Washington views Turkey, a NATO
member, as an important ally in the region in fighting terrorism. State Dept.official
said US govt is examining Turkey's evidence against Gulen, but added that the
evidence so far concerns alleged crimes committed by Gulen prior to the coup.AP
Turkey-Russia sign landmark
deal on new map of Syria
High-level govt sources
told Yeni Şafak daily that a new map will be drawn including Aleppo, Idlib,
Latakia, Raqqa, Al-Hasakah and Dery ez-Zor provinces of the country. Essence of
the deal will reportedly allow Turkey-backed forces to enter Aleppo and Assad
forces will withdraw from the city. Prewar demographic structure would be taken
as the base of this project.Turkey and Russia will not accept the PYD / PKK
terror corridor in northern Syria that aimed to include al-Hasakah, Tal Abyad,
Ayn al Arab, Jarabulus, Al Rai, Azez, Marea and Afrin under the name of
'federation', 'canton' or 'autonomous region'. Both countries will fight
jointly against the PYD / PKK terrorist group under Turkish military launched
operation Euphrates Shield, according to the new deal.World Bulletin
UN wants independent probe
into latest Myanmar violence
Yangon: UN and rights
groups are pressuring Myanmar govt to
conduct an independent probe into allegations that soldiers are killing, raping
and torturing Muslim villagers in western Rakhine State.Aid delivery and access
to information in the area have been tightly restricted as Maungdaw and
Buthidaung townships near the Bangladesh border have been under a military
lockdown since Oct. 9, when armed individuals killed nine police officers and
stole dozens of weapons and thousands of rounds of ammunition.The ongoing
military operation in the area, which is predominantly occupied by the
country's stateless Muslim Rohingya population, has generated reports of
widespread abuses against civilians. HRW said on Monday that satellite imagery
shows evidence of fire-related destruction in the villages of Kyetyoepyin, Ngar
Sar Kyu and Warpaik in Maungdaw Township on Oct. 22.Anadolu
Exclusive: Rohingya women
say Myanmar soldiers raped them amid crackdown on militants
OIC head resigns after
mocking Al-Sisi
The world’s largest
pan-Islamic body, the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, has announced that
its secretary general resigned on Monday after mocked Egypt’s President Abdel
Fattah Al-Sisi during a meeting with Tunisia’s Beji Caid Essebsi. The OIC cited
health reasons for the resignation of the Saudi-born Iyad Madani, two days
after Cairo condemned the comment that provoked anger in Egypt. Ex-Saudi
minister apparently mocked Al-Sisi by referring to his comments last week which
were ridiculed widely on social media. In an attempt to inspire Egyptian
citizens, Al-Sisi had claimed that for 10 years he had “nothing but water in
his fridge.” Instead of being inspirational, his comments were mocked.During
his meeting with President Essebsi, the OIC official mixed up Sisi’s name with
that of his Tunisian host. “President Beji Caid Al-Sisi, Essebsi sorry.This is
a big mistake. I’m sure your fridge has more than water, your Excellency.” middleeastmonitor
UN envoy unveils details of
Yemen peace plan
Sanaa: UN Special Envoy for
Yemen on Monday released details of a proposed “roadmap” to resolve the 2-year
conflictIn a briefing by Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed before a UN Security Council
meeting, the envoy said the peace plan envisaged a new vice-president for Yemen
and a national unity govt.
Israel razes Muslim graves
in East Jerusalem cemetery
Israeli authorities on
Tuesday demolished several graves in occupied East Jerusalem's historical Bab
al-Rahmeh cemetery east of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, according to a Palestinian
official. "Personnel from the so-called ‘Israeli Nature Authority’ --
backed by large numbers of Israeli forces -- stormed the historical Bab
al-Rahmeh cemetery and knocked down 8 graves," Mustafa Abu Zahra, head of the
committee for the preservation of Islamic cemeteries in Jerusalem, said.
"Israel wants to transform the cemetery into a national park for Israeli
Jews," he said. Bab al-Rahmeh is a Muslim cemetery that dates back more
than 1,400 years. WorldBulletin
Iran’s borders extend to Red
Sea & Mediterranean: official
Iran does not recognise
borders when tracking down opponents, the deputy commander of Iran’s
Revolutionary Guards Corps said on Monday. “You have witnessed how our borders
have expanded beyond the Iranian border to reach the Red Sea and the east of
the Mediterranean,” Hossein Salami told a crowd made up of paramilitaries. middleeastmonitor
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