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Mathura group unleashes violence: SP among 21 killed; dozens injured

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Mathura: At least 21 people, including a Superintendent of Police and an SHO, have been killed and dozens injured in clashes during an operation to clear hundreds of acres of government land from the activists of a so-called religious group, ‘Azad Bharat Vidhik Vaicharik Kranti Satyagrahi’, in Mathura district of Uttar Pradesh.

Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh, who spoke to Yadav, expressed anguish over the loss of lives and assured all necessary help to the state government.

19 people have been killed apart from SP City Mukul Dwivedi and SHO, Farah, Santosh Yadav, Pradeep Bhatnagar, Commissioner, Agra Division, said adding that a magisterial probe has also been ordered.

The violence had erupted when police were trying to evict illegal occupants, believed to be of Azad Bharat Vidhik Vaicharik Kranti Satyagrahi, from Jawahar Bagh yesterday on the directions of the Allahabad High Court.

In Lucknow, Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav ordered a probe by the divisional commissioner of Mathura, an official spokesperson said.

DGP Javed Ahmed and Principal Secretary (Home) Debashish Panda have rushed here.

The Union Home Minister said he has reviewed the situation in Mathura. “I have spoken to the Chief Minister of Uttar Pardesh and reviewed the situation in Mathura. I have assured him of all possible help from the Centre.

“I am anguished over the loss of lives in the incident in Mathura. May God give strength to the bereaved families,” Rajnath Singh said.

Police said some vehicles bearing Madhya Pradesh registration number have been found.

“The wrath of people against encroachers was such that when they were retreating, they were severely beaten by the public,” an official said.

The activists used not only hand grenades but also opened fire from automatic weapons after taking position on tree tops, DM Rajesh Kumar had said.

The area was filled with smoke following explosions from hand grenades and LPG cylinders and several huts caught fire, he said.

Are they not anti-national terrorists?

Over two years back, the activists of splinter group of Baba Jai Gurudeo, claiming themselves to be member of ‘Azad Bharat Vidhik Vaicharik Kranti Satyagrahi’, had occupied hundreds of acres of land of Jawahar Bagh on the pretext of ‘dharna’.

The Allahabad High Court, acting on a PIL, had recently ordered the authorities to get the land vacated.

According to police, members of this outfit and another smaller organisation, Swadheen Bharat Subhash Sena, had been staging demonstrations at Jawahar Bagh over the last two-and-a-half years.

Their demands include the cancellation of elections for President and Prime Minister, replacement of rupee with ‘Azad Hind Fauj’ currency, and sale of 60 litres of diesel and 40 litres of petrol at Re 1 each.

Among the other demands posted on their Facebook page are: “We demand all records relating to the ‘Ruler of the Nation’, law and order, and also the document of citizenship (which shows how we are citizens of the nation) to be made public.”

(Agencies)

 

Prior to mass leave, Karnataka Police Association president arrested

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Bengaluru: President of the Karnataka State Police Association V Shashisdhar was arrested on Thursday for planning to a state-wide strike on June 4 protesting exploitation, low pay and poor working conditions.

Bengaluru Police Commissioner NS Megharikh said that a case had been registered at Yelahanka New Town police station; Shashisdhar had been arrested and presented before local court and was remanded to judicial custody till June 16.

The state government on Tuesday had warned against staging the protest and had invoked the Essential Services Maintenance Act (ESMA) for maintaining public order and safety across the state.

However, it is said that despite the warning, the state’s association comprising of about 60,000 constabulary forces have decided to go ahead with the mass leave on Saturday.

Shashisdhar has alleged that constables were forced to work for irregular and long hours and they did not have a proper leave mechanism and were harassed by senior officers.

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Kerala Blasters: Chiranjeevi, Nagarjuna join Sachin as co-owners

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Thiruvananthapuram: Indian Super League (ISL) franchise Kerala Blasters, co-owned by cricketing legend Sachin Tendulkar, on Wednesday got several financial backers in the form of Indian movie stars.

A consortium of investors including regional megastars Chiranjeevi and Akkineni Nagarjuna, leading film producer Allu Arvind and industrialist and serial entrepreneur Nimmagadda Prasad have joined hands to purchase stakes in Blasters Sports Pvt. Ltd.

Tendulkar arrived here on Wednesday and had a meeting with Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and his cabinet colleagues and later the cricket icon introduced the new owners of the club to the media.

At the press conference, Tendulkar, Chiranjeevi, Nagarjuna, Allu Arvind and Nimmagadda Prasad signed a football, sporting the Kerala Blasters logo.

The third edition of the ISL is scheduled to kick off from October, 2016.

Commenting on the development, Tendulkar said, they are beginning their third season in right earnest and have some of the biggest names coming on board as investors in Kerala Blasters.

“I welcome Chiranjeevi, Nagarjuna, Allu Arvind and Prasad to this exciting experience which is made more special with the faith and unique place that Kerala Blasters holds in the hearts of millions of its followers,” said Tendulkar.

Chiranjeevi said, he is very excited to be part of a popular team co-owned by Tendulkar.

“All of us in Kerala Blasters are committed to expanding the football base in the state and give the potential talent a platform to perform and excel,” said Chiranjeevi.

“I have been supporting sports in the country and I am excited to start with football and a very special football team – the Kerala Blasters. I am keenly looking forward to experience the craze for the game in the state and beyond and wish the team the very best,” said Nagarjuna.

Arvind said, he is very happy to strengthen his special relationship with Kerala by being a part of Kerala Blasters.

Kerala Blasters enjoys the highest television popularity in the country with an average TRP of six with a 100 per cent year-on-year increment in the Kerala market.

It also has one of the largest number of followers in the digital space among the clubs in ISL.

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Hindustan Sufi Movement coming to Bangalore

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A conference to promote Sufism in the city is being organised under the umbrella of Hindustan Sufi Movement.

The event will be held on 04/06/2016 Saturday at Ravindra Kalakshetra at 4.30 PM. A Qawali program is part of the conference.

The keynote address will be delivered by Agni Sridhar.

Cheif guest:

Murugha Rajendra Swamiji
Janab Sufi KSSB Syed Ruknuddin Ahmed Hussaini
Taj Baba
Janab Syed Sageer Ulla ShaRafai Qadri

Speech:

Maulana Mufti Mohammed Ali Qazi
Maulana Mohammed Hassaan Aamiri Noori
Pere Tariqat Hazrath Syed Tanveer Hashmi Saheb

Predided by:

Thontadarya Swamiji.

Sahara properties to be auctioned at Rs 722 cr reserve price

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New Delhi: Tasked by markets regulator Sebi to sell land parcels of Sahara, HDFC Realty will e-auction on July 4 five properties owned by the beleaguered group at a reserve price of Rs 722 crore.

HDFC Realty has been asked to auction a total of 31 land parcels at Rs 2,400 crore, while SBI Cap has been tasked to auction another 30 land properties with an estimated market value of about Rs 4,100 crore.

The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) roped in HDFC Realty and SBI Cap after being asked by the Supreme Court to initiate the process of selling Sahara properties whose titles have been deposited with it by the group.

Following a go-ahead from the Court, the two entities have put in place a mechanism to auction these properties.

In a public notice issued today, HDFC Realty said it will e-auction as many as five land parcels on July 4 between 11 am and 12 pm. These properties will fetch around Rs 722 crore at reserve price.

These properties are located in Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Uttar Pradesh. The assets being sold include agricultural non-agri land.

Interested bidder can inspect these land parcels on June 10.

As per the court directions, these properties cannot be sold at less than 90 per cent of circle rates.

After spending two years in jail, Sahara chief Subrata Roy is currently out on parole. He was sent to jail on the orders of the Supreme Court in a long running dispute with Sebi.

(PTI)

Gulberg Society verdict: Only half justice delivered, says Ehsan Jafri’s wife

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Zakia Jafri

New Delhi: Expressing discontent at the special court verdict in the Gulberg Society case, Zakia Jafri, widow of former Congress MP Ehsan Jafri, who was killed in the massacre, said that her fight wasn’t over as yet.

A special SIT court in Ahmedabad on Thursday convicted 24, including a VHP leader, in the 2002 post-Godhra Gulberg society massacre, which left 69 people including the former Congress MP dead. Thirty six others were acquitted.

Among those acquitted by special court Judge PB Desai was sitting BJP corporator Bipin Patel. The judge also dropped the conspiracy charge (120 B) against all the accused, saying there was no evidence of criminal conspiracy in the case.

Dismissing the verdict, Zakia said that she will appeal in higher courts. “This verdict is half justice to me,” she told Associated Press.

Of the 24 convicted on Thursday, 11 have been charged with murder, while 13 others have been convicted for lesser offences.

The quantum of sentence for those convicted in the case will be delivered on June 6.
The Supreme Court, which has been monitoring the case, had directed the SIT court to give its verdict by May 31.

Of the 66 accused, named by the SIT in the case, nine are already behind bars, while others are out on bail.

During the trial, the lawyer for the riots victims had argued that the massacre was a pre-planned criminal conspiracy hatched by the accused to kill minority community members residing in Gulberg Society.

The defence had refuted the conspiracy theory and claimed that the mob resorted to violence only after slain Congress MP Eshan Jafri fired several rounds at them.

The Gulberg Society massacre took place on February 28, 2002, during the 2002 Gujarat riots, when a mob attacked Gulberg Society, a lower middle-class Muslim neighbourhood in Chamanpura, Ahmedabad, a day after a coach of Sabarmati Express was burnt near Godhra railway station.

The Gulberg Society case is one of the nine cases of the 2002 Gujarat riots being probed by the Supreme Court-appointed SIT.

(Agencies)

Siddaramaiah warns cops of action if they go for June four protest

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Bengaluru: Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah invoked the Essential Services Maintenance Act (ESMA) in the state in a bid to subdue a proposed protest by the constabulary on June 4.

In a circular issued by the Director-General and Inspector-General of Police Om Prakash, strict actions, including dismissal of the staff, will be taken against those who participate in the protest, reported Karnataka Everyday.

According to the report, the Health and Family Welfare Department has issued directions to all government hospitals for not issuing any medical certificates to police personnel on health grounds for 4 June.

Asserting that policemen face human rights violation on a daily basis, around 60,000 cops decided to take mass leave on 4 June. The protest was against meagre salary, overburdened with work and a lack of scholarship or educational facilities for their children.

Interestingly, the policemen are not entitled to go on a strike like other government employees, hence they have decided to apply for leave, en masse, instead.

Though, the protesting policemen have received support from the BJP and APP, with suggestions that the government revise their salaries, the Congress-led state government has taken a stern stance to subdue the protest.

(Agencies)

Petrol price up by Rs 2.58, diesel by Rs 2.26

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New Delhi: Petrol price was on Tuesday hiked by Rs 2.58 a litre and diesel by Rs 2.26 per litre, the second increase in rates this month.

Petrol will cost Rs 65.60 per litre in Delhi after the increase while diesel will cost Rs 53.93/litre.

“The current level of international product prices of petrol and diesel and INR-USD exchange rate warrant increase in price of petrol and diesel, the impact of which is being passed on to the consumers with this price revision,” said Indian Oil Corp (IOC).

The movement of prices in the international oil market and INR-USD exchange rate shall continue to be monitored closely and developing trends of the market will be reflected in future price changes, it added.

(PTI)

False terror charges slapped on innocent Muslims, admits Sadananda Gowda

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Aligarh: For the first time a prominent BJP leader and a senior minister in Narendra Modi-led NDA government at the centre has admitted the fact that innocent Muslims were being framed in terror cases in India.

“Cases of arrest of Muslim youths on false terror charges are a matter of concern,” said DV Sadananda Gowda, the Union Minister for Law and Justice during his Aligarh visit for the ‘Vikas Parv’ celebrations to mark two years of Modi government.

The law minister said this when he was asked about rising instances of false terror charges against Muslim youths and the problems of rehabilitation they face after their acquittal.

Mr Gowda, who was once known for his provocative speeches against Muslims, especially in coastal Karnataka, said that legal reforms were in the pipeline to address such cases.

“The law commission is working on a report in this matter to bring about reforms in criminal procedure, bail, prosecution lapses, etc. A Supreme Court judge is the chairperson of a panel preparing the report, and there are other legal experts who are helping in preparing this report, and it is being worked upon,” he said.

Mr Gowda’s remarks on the thorny subject have come barely a week after home minister Rajnath Singh said that “the government has settled for a calibrated approach to terror investigations, advising police to adopt a more sophisticated approach, including de-radicalisation strategies, rather than necessarily prosecuting all suspects”.

Singh had then gone on to point out how the Delhi Police had recently released seven of the 10 suspects held for their alleged involvement in a Jaish-e-Mohammed terror plot. “You would have seen only three of the lot were arrested. We are working in a balanced manner. Earlier, all would be sent (to jail),” he had then said.

Slapped with untenable terror charges, many Muslim men have lost the prime years of their lives as they languished in jail. After their release they have found it difficult to adjust to a world that has changed in the interim, graduating from buses to metros, banks to ATMs, landlines to smartphones.

Recently, Nisaruddin Ahmad was acquitted in the Babri anniversary blast case after he spent 23 years in a Jaipur jail. There have been others too. Mohd Amir Khan was acquitted in 17 out of the 19 terrors charges he was fending off, but only after being incarcerated for 14 years. He had been charged with setting off 20 low-intensity bombs over 10 months during 1996-1997 in Delhi, Rohtak, Panipat and Ghaziabad. He told reporters on Tuesday: “The government has policies to rehabilitate surrendered terrorists, but nothing for those who are falsely charged.”

In the past, six Muslim men accused of being trained operatives of Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islam (HUJI) were acquitted of the terror charges for lack of evidence by a special court in Lucknow. Five Muslim youths who were arrested in 2006 by the Mumbai police from different parts of the city on charges of terrorism were also acquitted this year. Gulzar Ahmad Bani, an alleged Hizbul Mujahideen operative who had been in jail from 2001 in a blast case in Agra, was set free for want of evidence by a local court.

The problem runs deep. A film based on legal activist Shahid Azmi, who himself faced false charges and after his release fought to defend those accused wrongly in cases of terrorism, poignantly points that out. Mufti Abdul Qayyum, who had spent 11 years in jail and was later acquitted by the Supreme Court in the Akshardham attack case, wrote a book, ‘Gyarah Saal Salakhon Ke Peeche’, narrating the stories of trumped up terror charges.

(Agencies)

UNHCR: 2,500 refugees drowned on way to Europe in 2016

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UN releases figures after deadliest week of the year for refugees as 880 lost their lives in Mediterranean.

Refugees and migrants on a fishing boat pictured before making contact with the Italian navy. (Photo: Italian Coastguard/Massimo Sestini)

Refugees and migrants on a fishing boat pictured before making contact with the Italian navy. (Photo: Italian Coastguard/Massimo Sestini)

by Al Jazeera

At least 2,510 refugees have died while making the perilous journey to Europe so far this year, the UN refugee agency said, with fears rising that many more will suffer the same fate.

According to UNHCR, the figure marks an increase of 25 percent from the same five-month period in 2015, when some 1,855 refugees drowned. In 2015, from January until the end of May, at least 57 people died en route to Europe.

“Thus far 2016 is proving to be particularly deadly,” William Spindler, a UNHCR spokesman, said. “This highlights the importance of rescue operations as part of the response to the movement of refugees and migrants in the Mediterranean, and the need for real, safer alternatives for people needing international protection.”

The announcement follows the deadliest week of 2016 for refugees at sea.

 

Over the past week, a series of shipwrecks off the Libyan and Italian coasts killed at least 880 people. That number was included as part of the UNHCR announcement, and marked an increase on previous estimates of around 700 people.

“According to some, unconfirmed, accounts, the recent increase in numbers is linked to efforts by smugglers to maximise income before the start of the holy month of Ramadan, in the coming week,” Spindler said in a statement.

So far this year, at least 203,981 people have made the journey to Europe, which is a similar number to those who arrived in the continent last year in the same period.

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) put the death toll from January to May at 2,443 people.

Both counts are regularly used by human rights organisations.

The IOM said most of those travelling to Italy were from Nigeria, Gambia, Senegal, Guinea and the Ivory Coast.

None of the deaths in May happened on the eastern Mediterranean route between Turkey and Greece, where arrivals have slowed to a trickle since the EU struck a deal with Ankara to curb the flow.

Analysis by the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor said that during the week of May 23 to May 30, an average of five refugees drowned per hour as they tried to flee to Europe.

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