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Indian expat duped by recruitment agency, killed by coworker in Saudi Arabia

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by  Irfan Mohammed, Arab News

Jeddah:  An Indian expat was killed by a fellow worker in the Northern Borders region in a dispute over the grazing of sheep.

According to the victim’s family, Naushad Fakaria came to work as a driver but discovered that he would have to work as a shepherd in the arid desert near the regional capital, Arar.

They allege he was duped into doing the job of a shepherd and was later murdered.

Northern Borders Police spokesman Col. Awayed Bin Mahdi Al Enzi has confirmed the killing. “Police investigations have revealed that an Indian shepherd was murdered by another shepherd of Arab origin 50 km from Arar,” Al Enzi said. He added that initially the Syrian accused said he had found a person dead in the middle of the road probably due to a road accident. However, he later confessed to the murder.

Naushad Fakaria

Naushad Fakaria

Naushad hailed from Moradabad in Uttar Pradesh and is a father of three children aged 3 to 7. He was recruited by a manpower agency in Jaipur, Rajasthan. According to a police report, Naushad was murdered on Aug. 29.

He had brought a mobile phone from India but it was confiscated by the employer. He was also barred from calling home, family sources said.

However, he was able to make a call to India apparently using the Syrian’s mobile and had informed his family that he had been assigned to graze sheep instead of working as a car driver. He had also told them of the nonpayment of salary and that he was desperate to return home, sources added.

“Since then, Naushad’s wife had tried almost everyday to call her husband back on the Syrian shepherd’s number but was unable to get through,” they said.

According to a family friend, Riad Ali, Naushad had been trying to return home but suddenly the family heard news of his death. “We have been approaching the Indian Embassy but are unable to get any information. Later, I flew to Arar myself to find out about the circumstances related to the incident,” Ali who is based in Jeddah said.

Quoting a medical report issued by the Arar Central Hospital, Ali said: “Naushad was brutally murdered with multiple injuries to his neck, shoulder, back, chest and ears.” He added that the deceased had also had his arms broken.

Ali said the police in Arar are being very helpful in completing the legal procedures. “They also informed us that the murderer has been arrested and is in jail,” he said.

Modi won’t visit any flood-hit area in Kashmir

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In this October 18, 2014 photo, protestors hold placards at Lal Chowk in Srinagar demanding Prime Minister Naredndra Modi's intervention for rehabilitation of the Kashmir flood victims. Photo: PTI

In this October 18, 2014 photo, protestors hold placards at Lal Chowk in Srinagar demanding Prime Minister Naredndra Modi’s intervention for rehabilitation of the Kashmir flood victims. Photo: PTI

Srinagar: Though Narendra Modi had said he would spend his time in Srinagar; ““sit and sip tea” in a relief camp as a gesture of solidarity with the flood victims on the occasion of Diwali” as reported earlier, however, according to details provided by local BJP leaders, the Prime Minister would hold indoor interaction only with some delegations.

“Modi Ji will interact with delegations of almost all political parties apart from civil society, traders, hoteliers and flood-affected people either at Raj Bhawan or SKICC. He is not scheduled to visit any flood-hit area in Srinagar,” BJP’s Valley-based leader Fayaz Ahmad Bhat told Kashmir Reader on Wednesday.

Modi arrived on Thursday afternoon in summer capital Srinagar after visiting troops at the Siachen glacier, the world’s highest battlefield in Ladakh region.

Modi was received in Srinagar by state Governor N N Vohra, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, senior civil personnel, police and security force officers at the airport.

“He will hold a meeting with army as well. The purpose of that meeting is to appreciate the role of army in rescue operation during the floods. On the evening, he will return to New Delhi,” Bhat said.

On Tuesday, Modi had announced on his Twitter handle that he is coming to Kashmir on Diwali to spend the day with flood-hit people. Both ruling National Conference and opposition PDP appreciated his “gesture” of coming here on this occasion. However, two factions of Hurriyat Conferences have called for a shutdown on Thursday and holding of peaceful protests against the visit.

Chairman Hurriyat Conference(M) Mirwaiz Umar Farooq Wednesday dismissed Indian Prime Minister Narednra Modi’s visit Kashmir on Diwali as a mere “publicity stunt.

Mirwaiz, during his visit to flood-hit areas, said “the theatrics of false mourning and tears were a hollow show of sympathy over the hardships faced by the flood-hit Kashmiris.”

He said that people were immensely suffering due to floods since past two months, rendered homeless, and had nothing to left to fend their families.

Security has been beefed up across Kashmir ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the valley on Thursday.

Police and paramilitary forces have been deployed in strength and are conducting random checking of vehicles. Special checking points have been set up at various places in the city including entry and exit points as a precautionary measure to maintain law and order.

This is Modi’s fourth visit to Jammu and Kashmir since taking charge as Prime Minister in May.

Bangalore school booked, attendant detained for alleged rape of nursery student

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Parents speak to police outside the private school in Jalahalli. Photo: Special Arrangement

Parents speak to police outside the private school in Jalahalli. Photo: Special Arrangement

Bangalore: A criminal case has been filed against a school in Bangalore where a three-year-old nursery student was sexually assaulted on Tuesday. An attendant has also been detained, the police said.

The attendant, believed to be 45, is being questioned but hasn’t been arrested yet. He had allegedly been missing till now.

The police say the school has been booked for running classes beyond the sanctioned limit; it reportedly had a licence to run only classes 1 to 6. The school is allegedly running the nursery section illegally and has been asked to explain.

There have been angry protests in Bangalore since the case surfaced on Tuesday, the third instance of sexual assault in a school in four months.

The child’s mother says she found her daughter crying when she went to pick her up from the school on Tuesday.

According to the police complaint filed by her father, the child “had signs of fever and complained to her mother that she was physically abused by someone she did not know or recognize.”

The police registered a case of rape on the father’s complaint. “We have registered a criminal case late Tuesday on a complaint by the victim’s father that his young daughter was sexually abused in the Orchid International School premises,” said Police Inspector TC Venkatesh on Wednesday. “We are checking the footage of CCTV cameras and questioning the staff and faculty,” he added.

Three months ago, Bangalore witnessed large street protests after a six-year-old child was raped at her school; two gym instructors were arrested.

Nearly 200 schools in the IT city were booked for not having safety measures in place.

Collective statement of the Third National Coal and Thermal Power Gathering

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Following is the text of the Collective Statement of the Third National Coal and Thermal Power Gathering held at Dumka, Jharkhand on 16-17 October 2014.

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Third National mm&P Gathering on Coal Mines and Thermal power was held on 16-17 October at the Social Development Centre, Dumka, Jharkhand. More than 300 affected peoples from coal mining area and mm&P representatives participated from Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Odisha, Telangana, West Bengal, Karnataka, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh.

The two day gathering reviewed the situation of coal mining and thermal power in the country, particularly in the light of the recent Supreme Court’s historic judgement to cancel the allocation of all coal blocks granted to private companies. People from different areas presented the conditions prevailing in their regions and the machinations of the government and the private companies in the process. After deliberating on the situation and recognising the need to continuously expose the human and environmental costs of such illegal decisions, the gathering unanimously resolved to step-up action and

    1. Demand withdrawal of all the cases against protestors in all the coal and other projects, particularly in those coal blocks which have been cancelled by Supreme Court in it’s judgment dated 25 August, 2014. Cases should be immediately withdrawn and all the injured and those killed by the police repression and firing should be appropriately compensated;
    2. Demand cancellation of all statutory clearances granted to the coal and thermal projects granted earlier to this judgement of the Supreme Court and new such projects shall seek afresh clearances under environment, forest and tribal laws.
    3. Demand CBI enquiry into the police firing on protestors opposing coal, dam and thermal plant in Kathikund, Jharkand in 2008; illegal land deals of Heavy Engineering Corporation and the illegal appointment of over 9000 ineligible people in Damoder Valley Corporation;
    4. Demand resolution of the legacy issues and pending resettlement and rehabilitation;
    5. We totally oppose the dilution of the protective laws such as Santhal Pargana Tenancy Act, Chhota Nagpur Tenancy Act.
    6. We condemn the efforts and intention of central Government to dilute the provision of environment and forest laws in favour of corporate. The reality, notwithstanding the rhetoric of protecting rivers and environment, is the systematic dilution, amendment and/or abolition of the jurisprudential, constitutional, fundamental rights based on internationally recognized instruments of environmental and community protection built into the country’s laws, rules, regulations and legal system.Some of the most glaring instances of these have been:
      • The High Level Committee, setup to ‘reform’ Environmental Laws has been given a mandate to overhaul all green laws and make them investor friendly, within a framework of 2 months.
      • 240 projects cleared by the Ministry within 3 months a time period that simply cannot be adequate to undertake proper environmental impact studies, public hearings at local sites, and other mandated procedures
      • Delinking forest clearance from the green signal that is given by the National Board for Wildlife (NBWL), to projects around tiger reserves, national parks and sanctuaries. Previously forest clearance could only be given after the NBWL approval.
      • Reducing the need for NBWL approvals for projects within 10 km around protected areas to only 5 km.
      • Relaxing procedures under the Forest Conservation Act, which requires central approval of diversion of forestlands, for linear projects through forest areas, projects in forests and eco-sensitive areas along international borders and in “Naxal-affected” areas.
      • Doing away with the need for public hearings for coal mines of less than 16 million tonnes per annum (mtpa) capacity (from the earlier 8), and allowing onetime expansion of mines up to 6 mtpa if they are already of 20 mtpa size.
      • Exempting irrigation projects affecting less than 2,000 hectares from needing environmental clearance, and allowing state governments to clear those a effecting 10,000 hectares.
      • Proposed amendments to the Green Tribunal and Land Acquisition Acts.
      • Systematic removal of independent voices from critical institutions of environmental and social governance
      • Reducing the budgetary allocation for the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change (MoEFCC) by 50%.
    7. We resolve to take up actions at local level immediately by movement groups on the 42 blocks which are to be transferred to Coal India Ltd (public sector undertaking), w.e.f. 31 March 2015.
    8. We demand the adoption of alternative development paradigm based on decentralised economic activities, decentralised renewable energy generation and equity.

This programme organised during the week of Reclaim Power – Week of Global Action, express solidarity with all the people across the globe who are struggling to keep dirty development away and are seeking ecological justice.

Issued by R.Sreedhar, Chairperson, mm&P (mines minerals and PEOPLE), dated 17th October 2014.

Kerala CM lets off RSS youths from murder case, match fixing between Congress and BJP cries CPM

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Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala unit of Congress is caught in an another controversy as its Chief Minister has revoked a murder attempt case involving RSS workers against a police officer.

The executive order has created a storm as CPM said that it was a sign of match fixing between Congress and BJP going on in Kerala.

The murder attempt case was registered in 2005 against 32 RSS workers after they attacked and hurled bombs on police inspector Mohan Nair, who tried to contain campus violence in the state capital. A seriously injured Nair had been hospitalized for more than a year.

The CM took the decision in December 2012 after police had submitted the charge sheet and trial was about to begin. His contention is that he received an appeal from a youth saying that if he is not relived from the case he would lose the job of being a police constable. His selection would be disqualified on this ground. He was a student at the time of the incident. CM says that it was done on humanitarian grounds.

The current Home Minister Ramesh Chennithala washed his hands off the pardon given to the RSS and even Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan, the ex-Home Minister denied that it had anything to do with him.

Reports say CM’s A group MLA Palode Ravi had recommended for this RSS man.

Sexual assault of school girl confirmed, says Bangalore top cop

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Parents protest outside the school where a minor was sexually assaulted. (Photo: ANI)

Parents protest outside the school where a minor was sexually assaulted. (Photo: ANI)

Bangalore: The sexual assault on a three-and-half-year-old girl student at a school here has been confirmed by doctors, as police today intensified the probe into the horrific incident which evoked protest from parents.

The school staff members were questioned and the CCTV footage was being examined by the police, as outraged parents thronged the campus of Orchid International School demanding answers from its authorities on the incident.

“The doctors (at a private hospital where the girl was taken for treatment yesterday) confirmed there was a slight bruise of a very small dimension, amounting to sexual assault,” Bangalore Police Commissioner M N Reddi told reporters here.

Reddi said, “There is the statement of the child and the injury and the circumstances. At this point of time, there is no other possibility. It looks like a sexual assault.”

A criminal case has been registered under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act 2012 and IPC section 376 (rape) on a complaint from the father of the child, he said.

This is the third incident of a minor girl student being allegedly sexually assaulted on school campus in the city in the last four months.

Reddi said the girl was crying when her mother picked her up from the school at Jalahalli yesterday noon and she was not behaving normal and had symptoms of fever.

While the girl initially told her mother that someone beat her up, she later said she was sexually assaulted, police said.

Reddi said it was difficult for the police to say they are clueless whether the crime happened on the school premises or outside. “Our objective is to detect the case and investigate fairly. It would be difficult for me to tell you we are clueless,” he said.

Asked about the school management clarifying that the assault took place outside the school campus, Reddi said the police would conduct a thorough investigation despite varied opinions about the crime.

“We have spoken to all possible people including the school management….the police will do a professional investigation,” he said.

Reddi said the police had contacted the school management as per the demands made by parents and its chief has been asked to visit Bangalore. The school is an inter-state institution, whose main group is from neighboring Andhra Pradesh, he said.

He also said the parents had been requested to form a small group of five to eight people, who would be in touch with the investigating authorities and management, “to tackle confusion over varied information pouring in.”

Reddi said the area and the classroom in which the girl sits also have been inspected and CCTV footage seized and being examined.

“I am shocked about the news that the incident has happened in this school where the atmosphere was so good. I have come here to know from the management what has happened. I have been to this school, security is good here,” a parent of a child studying in the school said.

“If it is true that the incident has happened in the school, then we will definitely support that child and try to get justice for her,” another parent said.

Three cases of sexual assault on minor girls in schools have occurred in the last four months in Bangalore.

An eight-year-old girl was allegedly sexually assaulted by her 63-year-old teacher inside her school premises over a period of time, with the offence coming to the fore in early August, barely a month after the “gang-rape” of a six-year-old girl at Vibgyor High School here evoked public outrage.

The Vibgyor school incident saw public erupt in anger on the streets leading to police issuing stringent guidelines to schools to ensure safety of children and government amending the Goondas Act to bring sexual offences under its ambit.

(PTI)

Former RSS pracharak Manohar Lal Khattar is new Haryana CM

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Chandigarh: Following its victory in the Haryana assembly elections, the Bharatiya Janata Party is all set to appoint Manohar Lal Khattar as the state’s new chief minister.

The 60-year-old former Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh pracharak was unanimously elected to become the state’s first BJP chief minister by the party’s 47 newly elected MLAs. A Khatri by caste, Khattar will be the first non-Jat chief minister in the Jat-dominated state in 18 years.

Khattar’s name was proposed by state president Ram Bilas Sharma, said Dinesh Sharma, a party vice president who attended a meeting in a guest house in Chandigarh on Tuesday to choose the chief minister. Venkaiah Naidu, the central urban development minister, was also present.

Khattar, a first-time MLA, has worked as a RSS Pracharak for 40 long years. Born in Rohtak district, he had contested the Assembly elections from Karnal. He won the Karnal seat with a margin of 63,736 votes. He is stated to be close to both Narendra Modi and Amit Shah.

Known for his sharp political acumen, in 1996, Khattar first began working with Narendra Modi, who was then in-charge of Haryana. He was called upon to manage the 2002 assembly election campaign in Kutch, and was also given charge of the Jammu and Kashmir elections the same year.

In 2004, Khattar got charge of 12 states, including Delhi and Rajasthan. He worked with veteran RSS ideologue Bal Apte, who was then heading the Chunaav Sahayak Yojna. Immediately thereafter, Khattar was made Regional Sangathan Mahamantri for J&K, Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh and Himachal Pradesh.

For the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, Khattar was appointed chairman of the BJP’s Haryana election committee.

Controversial figure

Befitting his association with RSS, his views on women is as obscurantist as his ideological parent. During his election campaign, Khattar had blamed women for India’s rising number of rapes.

“If a girl is dressed decently, a boy will not look at her in the wrong way,” Khattar had said. When asked whether young people should have freedom of choice, he replied, “If you want freedom, why don’t they just roam around naked? Freedom has to be limited. These short clothes are western influences. Our country’s tradition asks girls to dress decently.”

During his campaign, Khattar also expressed support for Khap panchayats ‒  unofficial village bodies that dispense justice in some parts of North India. The politician had said that Khap rulings are justified as they are only trying to maintain Indian traditions and culture in the state.

HC allows probe against Yeddyurappa in denotification case

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Bangalore: Karnataka High Court today allowed the Lokayukta Police probe against BJP National Vice-President B S Yeddyurappa and others, on a petition challenging the Lokayukta Court order dismissing complaints against them in a land denotification case in Shimoga district.

Justice Anand Byrareddy set aside the Shimoga Lokayukta Court order which had dismissed complaints against Yeddyurappa and his son and MLA B Y Raghavendra accusing them of purchasing land through illegal means, and ordered Lokayukta Police to initiate an inquiry into the matter.

The Lokayukta Court had dismissed the complaints against Yeddyurappa and others filed by B Vinod, a Shimoga-based advocate, on the grounds that he had not availed himself of sanction from the Governor for prosecution prior to filing the complaint.

Challenging the Lokayukta Court order, Vinod filed a criminal revision petition in the High Court contending that Yeddyurappa is not in a similar position (Chief Minister) as he was at the time of the alleged commission of offence and hence there is no requirement for him to avail sanction from the Governor for prosecution prior to filing the complaint.

Vinod has alleged that Dhavalagiri Properties, owned by family members of Yeddyurappa, had purchased 69 acres near Hunasekatte village in Bhadravati taluk through benamidars.

The complainant has also alleged that various provisions of Karnataka Land Reforms Act were violated in purchasing the land, and that Yeddyurappa had misused power in getting the land transferred to the name of the firm owned by his family members.

(PTI)

4 year old girl raped in Bangalore school

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The alleged assault on the child is the latest in a series of brutal gender-related crimes that have caused outrage in India.

The alleged assault on the child is the latest in a series of brutal gender-related crimes that have caused outrage in the country.

Bangalore: In a shocking incident a four-year-old girl was raped allegedly by a teacher at her school in North Bangalore on Tuesday.

The girl, an LKG student of ‘Orchids International School’ located near Jalahalli Cross, off Tumkur Road, was subjected to medical tests and later admitted to a private hospital in Yeshwantpur.

Acting on a complaint filed by her mother, North division police headed by DCP TR Suresh interrogated six male teachers in the night. Two were found on the school campus, and the others were summoned from home, police said. No arrests or detentions were made. The incident came to light when the girl’s mother noticed wounds on her private parts after she returned from school in the evening, and questioned her.

The child revealed she had been abused by a teacher. “Uncle did this to me,” she reportedly told her mother.

Police say they are questioning school staff and are waiting for a report on the child’s medical condition.

The incident comes three months after a six-year-old was raped by a staff member in another Bangalore school.

That led to street protests by parents and activists, with many accusing the school of not handling the allegations properly.

The school has eight campuses in Bangalore, besides branches in Mumbai, Pune and Hyderabad. Police have registered a case against under Sections 4 and 6 of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012, and under Section 376 of the Indian Penal Code for rape.

Northeast rights activist receives threat mail

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New Delhi: Cyber attacks seem to be the new mode of operation for people who are perpetrators of ‘hate crime’ against Northeasterners. It has hardly been a week that the news of a derogatory Facebook post targeting the assaulted Manipuri youth was doing rounds, reports have flowed in that Binalakshmi Nepram, founder of the Manipur Women Gun Survivors Network, and a vocal activist for the northeast people in Delhi received a threat message via mail.

Informing this today, Nepram said that she received a threatening email from a gmail account user who is yet to be identified.

A case in this regard vide FIR No. 840/14 u/s 507 IPC & 66-A IT Act has been registered. The Cyber crime division of Delhi Police are investigating into the matter. No arrests have been made so far.

It may be mentioned here that just a day earlier, a case was registered against one Priyanka Ravi, 25, a medical electronics graduate from M. S. Ramaiah Institute of Technology, for abusing, inciting hatred, and intentionally attempting to provoke breach of peace. She posted derogatory comments on the timeline of the Manipuri youth who was assaulted for not conversing in local Kannada language.

In Gurgaon, two men from Nagaland youths were beaten up by a group, which warned them to tell all people from the North East to leave the neighbourhood.

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