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In Dadri, BJP legislator Sangeet Som warns: ‘Befitting reply if innocents framed’
06-Oct-2015
Written by Abhishek Angad , Aditi Vatsa | Dadri | Updated: October 5, 2015 12:03 pm Controversial BJP MLA Sangeet Som, accused of making inflammatory speeches during the 2013 Muzaffarnagar communal riots, threatened in Bisara on Sunday that they were capable of giving a “befitting reply” if “innocents were framed” for lynching of a man…
Dadri: Killing a cow is a crime, such people should be punished, says BJP worker
06-Oct-2015
Sanjay Rana Local BJP worker Sanjay Rana said police have framed his son. Written by Aditi Vatsa , Abhishek Angad Dadri Updated: Oct 6, 2015, 7:02 Local BJP worker Sanjay Rana, whose son has been arrested as a prime accused in the lynching of 50-year-old Mohammed Akhlaq in Dadri’s Bisara village, demanded a CBI inquiry…
Continuing scandal Statistics confirm that the criminal justice system is inefficient, and prejudiced against minorities and poor.
06-Oct-2015
05OCT2015 By: Express News Service | Published:October 5, 2015 12:02 am The National Crime Records Bureau figures for 2014 point to a problem that is still with us: almost 68 per cent of the inmates of India’s overflowing prisons are undertrials, and 70 per cent of those convicted are illiterate. Affluent states like Goa, Punjab,…
2002 post-Godhra riots: SC directs Gujarat govt not to take action against retired DGP R B Sreekumar
06-Oct-2015
The inquiry was initiated against Sreekumar by the Gujarat government for maintianing a ‘semi official’ diary, audio recording conversations with government officials and producing secret documents related to the 2002 communal riots. By: Express New Service | Ahmedabad | Published:October 5, 2015 8:14 pm The Supreme Court of India on Monday directed the Gujarat government…
How WhatsApp stoked tension in Dadri In past few months, police say they averted a few communal incidents by keeping a tab on social media activities
06-Oct-2015
Azaan Javaid @AzaanJavaid Dadri (Gautam Buddha Nagar, UP): The Uttar Pradesh Police in the last two months had diffused nearly five incidents of communal tension in various villages of Dadri. Authorities here had received intelligence inputs from multiple sources about village youth, who as the police believe, were having ‘conversations’ which might have disturbed the…
Woman sets self, her 2 girls ablaze
06-Oct-2015
Surat She Was Harassed For Not Bearing Son Unable to bear taunts of her mother-in-law for giving birth to two girls, a 34-year-old woman set her two daughters and self ablaze at Dandi village of Navsari district on Sunday .Pratibha Patel, a resident of Azad Faliya in Dandi, sprinkled kerosene on five-year-old Hetvi, nine-month-old Disha…
I am a proud RSS man: J&K Speaker after beef ban protest inside Assembly
06-Oct-2015
The National Conference members raised slogans against the beef ban and what they termed as “interference in religious matters”. Written by Bashaarat Masood | Srinagar | Updated: October 6, 2015 7:54 am While adjourning the House amid slogans against him and the RSS, Jammu and Kashmir Assembly Speaker Kavinder Gupta said on Monday that he…
How a tech error by NIA led to acquittal of Goa blast accused
05-Oct-2015
NEW DELHI: A technical error committed by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in its charge sheet against six members of Sanatan Sanstha in the Goa blast case considerably weakened their trial, HT has learnt. “In order to file charges under the Explosive Substance Act of 1908, a sanction is required from the district magistrate. Rather…
Muslims lagged behind because they kept women enslaved: AMU V-C
05-Oct-2015
AMU Vice-Chancellor Zameer Uddin Shah also lashed out Muslims for not working during the month of Ramazan. Written by Mohd Faisal Fareed | Lucknow | Updated: October 5, 2015 9:04 am Lt Gen (retd) Zameer Uddin Shah, Vice-Chancellor of Aligarh Muslim University, said Muslims lagged behind in the development race because they kept their women…
Teacher held for ‘thrashing’ Dalit boy
05-Oct-2015
“After investigation, he was found to be guilty and was arrested on Saturday night,” said Narendra Choudhary, Circle Officer of Osian. By: Express News Service | Jaipur | Published:October 5, 2015 2:54 am A teacher, who allegedly beat up a 12-year-old Dalit student for taking a plate from a stack reserved for non-Dalits at a…