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Stringent action against Waqf land encroachers, warns board chairman

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Dr. Mohammed Yousuff

Dr. Mohammed Yousuff

Bidar: Karnataka State Waqf Board chairman Dr. Mohammed Yousuff has warned stringent action against the encroachers of Waqf properties said here on Tuesday.

According to Mr Yousuff, the board had been filing cases against encroachers in all districts. “In some districts, we have filed criminal cases against officials of some government agencies like city municipal councils”, he said.

He said that over 74,000 acres of Waqf land was lost to encroachers, across the State. “Only around 56,000 acres are left now. We will not only protect the existing properties, but also trying and get back all the encroached properties,” he said.

According to the chairman, a large number of Waqf properties were lost “due to wrong implementation of the Karnataka Land Reform Act, Inam Abolition Act, Rent Control Act and other laws.” Around 26,000 acres of Waqf properties are controlled by government departments like Revenue, Muzurai and Forest, he said.

He said that in some cases, private individuals or trusts had encroached Waqf lands in connivance with Imams and Mutawwalis of Islamic institutions. Such people should realize that the Imams and Mutawwalis are only trustees and protectors of the Waqf properties and not owners, he said. Such encroachments cannot be curbed easily as the level of awareness about Waqf laws among the Muslim community was very low.

Interestingly, the Waqf chairman’s accusations, resonates BJP leader and former Chairman of the Karnataka State Minorities Commission, Anwar Manippady’s 2012 report, where he has accused several state Muslim politicians and the board itself, of encroaching Waqf lands and embezzling hundreds of crores of rupees.

"Allow Hindu leaders to carry guns", urges Pramod Muthalik

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PRAMOD MUTHALIK

Coimbatore: Hardline Hindutva activist and Shri Ram Sena chief Pramod Muthalik has urged the Tamil Nadu government today, to issue licences to leaders of Hindu outfits to possess firearms for the purpose of what he terms, “self-protection.”

Speaking to reporters, Muthalik, whose extremist group was recently banned by the Goa CM from opening its branch in the state, said though police security is being provided to Hindu outfit leaders, it’s impact will be limited, as it is not possible to give them protection wherever they go. Hence, the demand for licenced weapons.

“Not only Hindu leaders, even Dalits may keep one if they feel their life is in danger. Hindu leaders need guns to protect their lives from extremists as they are being targeted frequently. As many as 127 Hindu leaders were murdered over the last decade. The government should cancel the licence if the weapons are found to be misused,” he said. One interesting point to be noted was, his distinction of Hindu leaders from Dalits.

Muthalik, along with other Hindu leaders also submitted a petition to Coimbatore City Police commissioner AK Viswanathan, which he said will be forwarded to Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa. He added that he would submit a memorandum to Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Sting video exposes BJP's 'dirty game', claims AAP

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New Delhi: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Monday released a footage showing BJP leader Sher Singh Dagar offering money to an AAP legislator swaying him in to his party, to allegedly improve BJP’s chances of forming a government in the capital.

AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal released a sting video purportedly showing Delhi BJP vice president Sher Singh Dagar offering Rs. 4 crore to AAP MLA Dinesh Mohaniya as a “token amount”, and saying Mohaniya won’t be allowed to go anywhere until the floor test is taken in the Delhi assembly. This comes amid reports that the BJP was preparing to form the government in Delhi, which has been under president’s rule since AAP gave up power in February this year.

“You are dearer than a little brother,” Dagar is allegedly heard saying in the video. “Tell us your requirements, without any hesitation,” he said.

Dagar is also heard claiming that the party was trying to buy three or four more MLAs from AAP.

Releasing the video in a press conference on Monday, Arvind Kejriwal, said “BJP’s dirty game has been exposed,” and that they would present the footage to the Supreme Court on Tuesday.

“Our operation to expose BJP’s horse-trading has been going on for one month,” said Kejriwal. “BJP does not have the numbers to form the Delhi government, which is why they are indulging in malpractices. We will not let them form the Delhi government through dishonesty,” he added.

Criticizing the video, BJP leader Vijender Gupta said that, “They (AAP) have been doing this for long. Earlier they made allegations against (now central minister) Nitin Gadkari … and now again they are attacking us. This is an attempt to defame the party.”

“Even if Dagar interacted with the (AAP) MLA, it was in his personal capacity and not as a leader of the BJP,” he added.

Meanwhile, the Congress urged the Supreme Court to take cognizance of the matter and order fresh elections in Delhi.

(With additional input from Agencies.)

Youths assaulted while buying cattle in Murudeshwar, Bhatkal

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Bhatkal: Two youths were brutally attacked by a gang of miscreants, while buying cattle at Murudeshwar in Bhatkal Taluk of Uttara Kannada district.

The youths Sadaan (31) and Nasrullah (25) had paid Rs.17,000 to one Jathappa Naik in Murudeshwar to buy cattle, however, after receiving the money, Naik allegedly insisted the duo to transport the cattle in the night on Sunday, September 7.

According to sources close to Nasheman, the moment Sadaan and Nasrullah reached the house of Naik, a group of reportedly 30 men surrounded and attacked them with iron rods.

Both have been admitted to a private hospital at Murudeshwar. DySP Muthuraj and circle inspector Prashanth Nayak rushed to the spot and assured the neighbourhood people gathered at the hospital premises of immediate arrest of the culprits.

The police have arrested Mahesh Naik, Nagesh Naik, Jathapa Naik, Purandar Naik and Ganesh Naik on Monday. All the accused were produced in the court.

A case has been registered in Murudeshwar police station.

Dissidence brews in Congress

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Siddaramaiah-Parameshwara

All is not well in state Congress, with dissidence brewing on a daily basis against Siddaramaiah’s government by disgruntled MLAs for cabinet posts. But many ministerial aspirants lining up the queue, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has decided to set aside the cabinet expansion by at least a month.

Sources close to Nasheman, say two of the reasons, why the CM does not wants to expand his cabinet, is firstly his aversion to appoint a deputy CM, which has been a long waiting demand of State Congress president G. Parameshwara, and secondly is his self reasons to single handedly control state politics for a longer time.

However, with the results of the recently concluded bypoll elections coming in favour of Congress, Siddaramaiah has effectively consolidated his powers, with even Congress general secretary in-charge of state, Digvijay Singh saying, he would leave it to the CM on when to expand the cabinet.

The biggest looser in this power struggle at least for now, seems to be G. Parameshwara, who left with no apparent choice, has given up his demands, following the decision of Congress high command.

“I have been a sincere party worker and will continue to be so throughout my career. I will stick to the high command’s decision in this regard,” he told reporters on seeking his reaction to the reports that the central Congress leadership was not in favour of creating the post of deputy chief minister in the state.

Though this has come as a disappointment, Parameshwara might strike at the right juncture, after being low for some time. One has to keep in mind that, he is an old party loyalist, and Siddaramaiah is still considered an outsider by many. Sources close to Nasheman, say that, MLAs left out of the cabinet may join forces to strengthen Parameshwara to unseat CM Siddaramaiah.

With these two camps cat fighting each other, one interesting individual to watch out for would be DK Shivkumar (DKS). An old party loyalist, DKS belongs to the powerful Vokkaliga community, who might well be a lone survival in the struggle for power between two leaders from the backward class.

'Haider', set in the backdrop of Kashmir, gets 41 cuts from Censor Board

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hansal-mehta-haider

Bangalore: Vishal Bhardwaj’s ambitious rendition of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, ‘Haider’, has become the latest victim of the sharp scissors of the censor board, with 41 cuts before getting a U/A (Unrestricted Public Exhibition-But With Parental Guidance) certificate.

A truck load of corpses, wire being inserted inside a naked man, a shot of a bloody dead body, Shahid Kapoor crying on seeing flames, are some of the scenes deleted from the movie.

Interestingly, the Vishal Bhardwaj-Basharat Peer scripted movie, was the last film to be censored by CBFC’s suspended CEO, Rakesh Kumar, who is currently in judicial custody after being accused in a bribery case.

Haider, the latest in Bhardwaj’s list of adaptations of Shakespeare, has Kashmir at the heart of the story, with Peer’s acclaimed international bestseller, ‘Curfewed Night’ as its source.

“The film is an attempt to answer the stereotypical, jingoistic films Bollywood has made about Kashmir. Every character in the film is a Kashmiri—a doctor, a lawyer, teacher, a research scholar, a police officer. These are people who have agency and they’re not just victims,” Peer has said about his debut entry.

Haider, which also stars Tabu and Kay Kay Menon, is set for release on October 2.

Salman Khan hurts Muslim religious sentiments at his Being Human show

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Bangalore: Salman Khan has done it again. A year after being booked in Hyderabad for hurting religious sentiment of Muslims in a TV reality show hosted by him on Colors channel in 2013, the actor is back in news again for “insulting” religion, this time at his Being Human fashion show.

The bone of contention is a video, which is being circulated on social media, showing a model walking down the ramp at his Being Human fashion show, with the Arabic word ‘Allah’ prominently displayed at the bottom of her gown.

Though it is unclear, when and where the event took place, or what the intention of the organizers or the designer was, but messages on Facebook and WhatsApp, clearly indicates, Muslims’s anger against the clip.

Last year, Khan was booked under section 295 of the Indian Penal Code at Falaknuma police station in the old city of Hyderabad for depicting “Jannat” (heaven) and “Jahannum” (hell).

Govinda Pai memorial award to K. S. Nisar Ahmed

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Poet K.S. Nisar Ahmed at the function to receive the Rashtrakavi Govinda Pai Memorial Award in Udupi.

Poet K.S. Nisar Ahmed at the function to receive the Govinda Pai Memorial Award in Udupi.

Udupi: Celebrated Kannada poet and writer, Prof. K. S. Nisar Ahmed was honoured with the prestigious Rashtrakavi Govinda Pai Memorial Award at a function organised by the Rashtrakavi Govinda Pai Research Centre and other organizations here. The award carries a citation and a cheque of Rs. 1 lakh.

Urban Development Minister Vinay Kumar Sorake, who spoke after presenting the annual award, said that Prof. Ahmed’s contribution to Kannada literature was invaluable.

Mr. Sorake said that it was fitting that the poet should get the Govinda Pai award. “Prof. Ahmed is a jewel of Kannada literature whom we all like and treasure,” he said.

In his acceptance speech, Prof. Ahmed said that poets such as the late D.V. Gundappa and the late Govinda Pai had a big influence on him. In addition to being a poet, Govinda Pai was a scholar who did a lot of research, he said.

Earlier, B.A. Viveka Rai, former Vice-Chancellor of Kannada University, Hampi, said that writers such as the late D.R. Bendre and the late Kuvempu liked Prof. Ahmed a lot. It was when Prof. Ahmed became the president of the Kannada Sahitya Academy that literary programmes were held for the first time at the hobli-level, he added.

Kota Srinivas Poojary, MLC; Kusuma Kamath, principal of MGM College, and H.P.R. Hande, Assistant General Manager of Karnataka Bank, were present at the event.

Modi’s silence on hate campaign against minorities disturbing: Jamaat-e-Islami Hind

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(L-R) Ejaz Ahmed Aslam (secretary), Nusrat Ali (Secretary General) and Mohammad Salim Engineer (secretary) of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind at press conference in New Delhi on 06 Sep 2014 (Photo - IndiaTomorrow.net)

(L-R) Ejaz Ahmed Aslam (secretary), Nusrat Ali (Secretary General) and Mohammad Salim Engineer (secretary) of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind at press conference in New Delhi. (Photo credit: IndiaTomorrow)

New Delhi: One of Narendra Modi’s harshest criticism against former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, during his election campaign was the latter’s silence on issues concerning the country and its people. However, since taking reigns, Mr. Modi seems to have been afflicted by the very element he and his party had accused the previous regime with.

Addressing the press meet at their headquarters in New Delhi, the country’s largest Muslim socio-religious organization, Jamaat-e-Islami Hind (JIH) expressed their concern at Mr. Modi and his government’s silence, at the vicious hate campaigns of right wing outfits and some of his party members’s targeting against minority Muslim and Christian community in the country.

“Jamaat is seriously concerned at the rise in hate campaign against minorities, particularly Muslims, since BJP came to power at the centre. There has since been a spate of communal incidents also (Saharanpur, Meerut, Muzaffarnagar, Kanpur etc.). At regular interval, leaders of BJP and Sangh Parivar have raked up contentious issues like Article 370 and Uniform Civil Code. RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat, in violation of the ethos of the constitution, said that India is a Hindu Rashtra and all citizens of this country are Hindus,” said the gathered Jamaat leaders.

Mr. Nusrat Ali, Secretary General of JIH, criticized Mr. Modi for maintaining silence on hate campaigns in the name of concocted theories like ‘Love Jihad’ and forced conversions.

“A period of 100 days is very short to judge a government elected by people for five years. However, the initial trends are not good. It seems the government is working on two fronts – while PM Modi is talking about development, some leaders of his party and Sangh Parivar have opened aggressive hate campaign against Muslims and Modi is silent. It seems there is a silent understanding among them,” said Mr. Ali.

While appreciating Mr. Modi for some of the good measures initiated during his first 100 days as PM, the Jamaat leaders said that, “PM Modi’s austerity moves like asking ministers not to buy new cars and curtail foreign tours and his announcement for toilets at every home and school, and bank account for every citizen are indeed good. In an apparent move to provide a clean and corruption free government, he asked ministers not to hire relative as personal secretaries. His visit to Japan was also successful in terms of attracting investment.”

However, the party also ccriticized the manner in which the BJP government and PM Modi used Teachers’ Day to impose his personality on the young minds of the country. “We are against the government for having made it compulsory for schools and children to listen to PM’s speech as we think such tendency does not match with democratic values of the constitution,” said Mr. Ali.

On the question of Al-Qaeda announcing its branch in India, the party leaders expressed apprehensions that this may be used by country’s intelligence agencies to witch hunt minority youths as has been the trend for past 10 years.

“Anwar Manippady is a cheater”: Wakf Board Chairman

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Dr. Mohammed Yousuff

Dr. Mohammed Yousuff

Bangalore: Following the report published today by Nasheman, about the victory celebration organised by BJP leader Mr. Anwar Manippaddy and Muslim Ulemas associated with Bazm-e-Qasmi, and their allegations leveled against minority Muslim politicians and Wakq board, charging them with encroaching Wakf lands, Dr. Mohammed Yousuff, Chairman of Karnataka State Board of Auqaf, lashed out at the former Chairman of the Karnataka State Minorities Commission, calling him a cheater.

Mr. Yousuff speaking exclusively to Nasheman, said that, Mr. Mannipaddy has “has forgotten that it is the duty of the Waqf Board to recover such properties in accordance with law as provided under the Waqf Act.  According to the existing Waqf laws, it is the Waqf Board which is Competent Authority to remove the encroachments.”

Bangalore's Hotel Windsor Manor, a Wakf property under dispute.

Bangalore’s Hotel Windsor Manor, a Wakf property under dispute.

Calling Mr. Mannipaddy a “self styled minority leader,” Mr. Yousuff accused him of taking law into his own hands and said that Mr. Manipaddy wants to disturb the peace and tranquility in the state.

“The main intention of the above said self styled BJP leader is to create panic in the public by issuing application forms by misleading the public and has gone to the extent of proposing the construction of 2000 houses in Gorubhaidoddi Waqf land for distribution among the Muslim minority people and 25% to other community people where there is no such provisions under the Waqf Act, thereby misleading the other communities also which amounts to cheating the public.”

“The act of Mr. Anwar Mannipady clearly violates the provisions of law and he is liable for punishment. He cannot run a parallel Waqf Board and discharge the duties of the Waqf Board which is constituted and functioning as per the Waqf Act passed by the Parliament. I have got my own doubt that all these illegal and unlawful activities of Mr. Anwar Mannipady has not been brought to the notice of former Chief Minister B.S. Yedurappa, State BJP leader Pralhad Joshi and Union Ministers who would definitely not support his illegal acts and I also doubt that, these persons would participate in the alleged function as per his press statement appeared in the print media,” Mr. Yousuff added.

Mr. Mannipady for his part has maintained his stance by accusing the officials of the Wakf board to be in hands in glove with state minority Muslim politicians in embezzling hundreds of crores of rupees by encroaching Wakf lands.

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