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Minor girl gangraped for not converting to Islam, gives birth to a premature dead baby

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Love Jihad Bihar

In another case of Love Jihad, a 15-year-old girl from Barwani district in Madhya Pradesh was allegedly gang-raped by four men, after she refused to convert to Islam to solemnize marriage with one of them.

According to the police, this incident took place in Maharashtra’s Malegaon district, where the teenage girl worked as a labourer.

As per police reports, the minor girl came in contact with a 23-year-old youth who used the fake identity under the name Mohit while his real name is Majid Khan. Khan allegedly sexually assaulted the girl after promising to marry her. He had reportedly attempted to convert the girl to Islam last October.

However, when the girl said no to the conversion, Khan and his three friends allegedly gang-raped her which led to her pregnancy.

What is even more disheartening is the fact that the girl’s family members did not report the crime to the police and housed the minor at her sister’s house in Ujjain.

A report by Hindustan Times quoted Ujjain ASP Amrendra Singh as saying “She had a premature delivery in the hospital, but the baby died. It was then that the girl shared her ordeal with another woman in the hospital, who then informed a Hindu organisation and the police about it,”. 

The police have however is going ahead with the investigation and have exhumed the body of the baby that died due to premature delivery for conducting DNA paternity tests.

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Self-styled godman and POCSO accused Siva Shankar ‘Baba’ arrested in Ghaziabad

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The Tamil Nadu Crime-Branch Crime Investigation Department (CBCID) arrested self-styled godman and founder of Sushil Hari School  Siva Shankar ‘Baba’ over the sexual harassment charges levelled against him by girl students who had studied in the school.

A lookout notice was issued against Siva Shankar yesterday in order to prevent him from leaving the country. Following this, it was reported that he had disappeared from the private hospital in Dehradun where he was admitted after supposedly suffering a ‘heart-attack’.

A few days back, a case was registered under the Prevention of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act by the Kelambakkam Police in Chennai. Prior to that, the Tamil Nadu Commission for Protection of Child Rights (TNCPCR) had issued summons to Siva Sankar ‘Baba’ and the management of Sushi Hari school to inquire about the allegations. Siva Shankar had failed to present himself before the Commission following which three cases were registered at the Mahabalipuram All Women Police station (AWPS) under various sections of the IPC, POCSO Act and Tamil Nadu Prohibition of Harassment of Women Act based on complaints of the alumni.

The case was handed over to the CBCID last week. Police sources were quoted saying that Siva Shankar will be brought to Chennai after obtaining a transit remand.

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BJP TN spokesperson Asuvathaman’s office allegedly set on fire by miscreants, complaint filed with police

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Ashok Kumar
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Asuvathaman, secretary of BJP Tamil Nadu’s legal wing, has filed a complaint with the Chennai city commissioner’s office, seeking the arrest of those who set fire to his office. The party’s General Secretary Karu Nagarajan, BJP State legal wing president Paul Kanagaraj, and district secretary Vijay Anand accompanied Asuvathaman to the commissioner’s office.

Due to COVID restrictions, Asuvathaman left for his hometown in Ulundurpet district after closing his office at Linghi Chetty street in Chennai on 24.4.2021. As the COVID restrictions were eased, he returned to his office after one and half months only to find his office had been burned down.

In his tweet, he said that the initial police investigation ruled out the possibility of an electric short circuit and that the flammable substance was thrown from the window.

He added,” An object like this does not exist in my office at all. That’s where the fire started and there are traces of burns. Anti-social elements may have been put through the window. Smoke ash is also different. Only if a chemical has been added, this sort of smoke appears.”

On June 15, Asuvathaman, along with Karu Nagarajan, and Paul Kanagaraj went to the Chennai city commissioner’s office and filed a complaint to nab the culprits who had set fire to his office. The cops told him that they would act swiftly.

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Twitter to lose ‘Intermediary’ status in India, now directly responsible for posts published on its platform

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The Commune
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After a spate of violation by Twitter, this micro-blogging site is now all set to lose the intermediary status it enjoys in India following its failure to comply with the new IT laws.

As per reports in ANI reports, Twitter will be directly and editorially responsible for all the posts published on its platform. Twitter is the only mainstream social media platform in India that has failed to comply with the new rules.

As a result, if any alleged unlawful content is published in its platform, Twitter will be treated as a publisher and not an intermediary, which makes it open to prosecution under various sections of the IPC.

However, an Economic Times report has claimed that Twitter has already lost its intermediary status despite reminders and extensions from the government as it did not appoint three key executives as permanent employees and for damage control, it has only appointed an interim compliance officer on a contractual basis.

Meanwhile, the Ghaziabad Police has also filed an FIR against Twitter and others over a video shared on the social media platform with the “deliberate and malicious intention to foment religious discord”. Despite the Ghaziabad issuing clarification on the beard chopping incident of a Muslim man in Uttar Pradesh, Twitter failed to report this as manipulated media which was shared by Congress politicians and online influencers. 

The Ghaziabad Police has accused Twitter of “doing nothing to prevent the video from getting viral,” naming the company, Twitter Communications India Private Limited.

Twitter now also has to appear before the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Information and Technology on 18 June and present its views.

It must be noted that the Union Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) had sent its final notice to Twitter last week over its compliance to the new IT norms. 

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UP police file FIR against Twitter, Alt News Mohammed Zubair, Congress leaders and few journalists for fake news and inciting communal hatred

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The Commune
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The Ghaziabad police in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday (15 June) filed the first information report (FIR) against Twitter and six individuals, including journalists and Congress politicians, under various sections of the IPC after the shared a video on social media platform Twitter with the “deliberate and malicious intention to foment religious discord”, The Times Of India reported.

https://twitter.com/rajshekharTOI/status/1404894383367802880

A tampered video of an elderly Muslim man being assaulted was shared widely on social media saying that his beard was forcibly cut for not chanting ‘Vande Mataram’ and ‘Jai Shri Ram’.

However, this was found to be fake news as the Ghaziabad Police clarified that there was no communal angle to the incident.

Apparently, the old man identified as Abdul Samad Saifi was an occult practitioner and was assaulted by the men as the amulets he gave did not give positive results.

The police have arrested three men  – Adil, Parvesh Gujjar and Kallu – regarding the incident. Three more men identified as Arif, Poli, Mushahid are reportedly absconding.

The Uttar Pradesh Government has  initiated action against Twitter for its failure to label this tweet as manipulated media which led to the spread of misinformation about a crime in the state.

Mohammed Zubair, self-proclaimed ‘fact-checker’ and co-founder of Alt News announced that he had deleted the videos he had posted related to the matter.

But the damage had already been done as many other liberal journalists like Arfa Khanum Sherwani, Saba Naqvi and actor Swara Bhaskar promoted this fake news.

The Ghaziabad Police noted in their FIR,“There is no communal angle to the incident in Loni where a man was thrashed and his beard was chopped off. The following entities-The Wire, Rana Ayyub, Mohammad Zubair, Dr Shama Mohammed, Saba Naqvi, Maskoor Usmani, Salman Nizami-without checking the fact, started giving communal colour to the incident on Twitter and suddenly they started spreading messages to disrupt the peace and bring differences between the religious communities,”

Muhammed Zubair, now also faces charges in a POSCO case (Protection of Children from Sexual Offences), for posting pictures of a minor granddaughter of an elderly person on social media.

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BBC News Tamil and DMK family owned Sun News peddles fake news about assault on U.P. man

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The Commune
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A tampered video of an elderly Muslim man being assaulted was shared widely on social media saying that his beard was forcibly cut for not chanting ‘Vande Mataram’ and ‘Jai Shri Ram’.

However, this was found to be fake news as the Ghaziabad Police clarified that there was no communal angle to the incident.

Apparently, the old man identified as Abdul Samad Saifi was an occult practitioner and was assaulted by the men as the amulets he gave did not give positive results.

The police have arrested three men  – Adil, Parvesh Gujjar and Kallu – regarding the incident. Three more men identified as Arif, Poli, Mushahid are reportedly absconding.

Despite clarification, Twitter neither flagged the video content as ‘manipulated media’ nor did it remove the video from the platform.

An FIR has been registered by Uttar Pradesh Police against Co-founder of ‘fact-checking’ website AltNews Muhammad Zubair, Congress leaders Maskoor Usmani, Salman Nizami and Shama Mohamed,  Muslim journalists Saba Naqvi and Rana Ayyub and digital publication The Wire.

In Tamil Nadu, Sun News owned by Kalanithi Maran of the DMK family too peddled the fake news saying that the man was attacked for not chanting ‘Jai Shri Ram’.

https://twitter.com/sunnewstamil/status/1404697708456124419

BBC News Tamil too took to spread the fake news.

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In light of this, BJP Spokesperson SG Suryah has urged the Uttar Pradesh police to take action on Sun News and BBC News Tamil too for inciting communal hatred.

Girl held captive for 10 years by Rahman was a minor at the time of kidnap, Kerala police misleading public: Complaint before NCPCR

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The Commune
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A minor Hindu girl belonging to a Scheduled Caste goes missing in February, 2010 from a small village in Palakkad District of Kerala. Her parents file a complaint with the Police, but to no avail. They think that their daughter had been killed and resign to their fate. Last week, she was miraculously found locked up in a very small room in her neighbor Rahman’s house. Rahman lived in that house along with his parents, sister and sister’s daughter. However, nobody in the house supposedly knew that a girl was living with them, inside their house, for the past ten years.

When the incident caught the attention of the media, Sajitha told the media that she had voluntarily left her house to live with Rahman and that it was her choice to live confined to a small room for ten years without any connection with the outside world. Without giving it any further thought, social media and some sections of media in Kerala immediately portrayed it as a case of ‘true love’ between a Hindu girl and a Muslim man, where the Hindu girl had to make huge sacrifices to live with her loved one.

Kerala Police has told the media that Sajitha was not a minor at the time she went missing. That claim and the statements given by Sajitha were cited by Police to refuse to register a case. Now the actions of Kerala Police are under scanner with a complaint filed by the legal advocacy group Kerala People’s Front.

“Kerala Police is dragging its feet and making false statements to media to support the false narrative being spread through media and social media that the case is one of “eternal love” between Sajitha and Rehman”, states the complaint filed before the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights.

As per the complaint, Sajitha was born in April, 1992 and she was a minor in February, 2010 when she was reported missing by her parents. It states that irrespective of whether she went voluntarily with Rahman or was kidnapped by him, an offence under Section 361 of IPC (kidnapping from lawful guardian) will have to be registered by Police.

The complaint also states that the statements of Sajitha made after coming out of captivity for 10 years should not be accepted at face value as she could be suffering from Stockholm Syndrome. The complaint demands that Sajitha be evaluated by medical experts before the Police acts based on her statement.

It also makes a serious note of the possibility of Sajitha still being held against her consent, and seeks immediate intervention by the NCPCR.

Since the woman reportedly belongs to the Scheduled Caste, the complaint also seeks registration of an FIR against Rahman and his family under Sections 344, 346, 361, 365, 366, 367 and 376 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 and Sections 3(1)(w) and 3(2)(v) of the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989.

Interestingly, Sajitha who made her initial appearances before the media wearing a headscarf has today appeared before the media without the headscarf, sporting a tilak on her forehead.

“What was portrayed as a case of ‘eternal love’ is turning out to be a sordid tale of kidnapping and mental torture”, the complainant said speaking to The Commune.

The parents of Rahman have told the media that their son is lying about Sajitha living in their house for 10 years. There are many unanswered questioned in the case. However, it is noteworthy to mention that the Kerala Police has not even registered a case to start an investigation, despite mounting pressure.

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Faculty of MEASI Academy of Architecture accused of sexual harassment

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The Commune
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Three professors of Muslim Educational Association of Southern India (MEASI) Academy of Architecture, part of The New College, Chennai, have been accused of sexual harassment and inappropriate behaviour by students and alumni of the college.

The issue had come to light after several screenshots of Instagram stories was shared by a former faculty of the college went viral on social media. Many of the female students had shared their experience with the said faculty on Instagram a few days ago.

Most of the screenshots pertained to the abuses and harassment made by Prof. Anwar Shariff who is also a Design Chair of the college.

One of the alumni of the college had narrated an incident when Anwar Shariff had confiscated her phone and called her to his cabin where he grabbed her backside.

In another post, an alumnus of the college had said that Anwar was known for ‘touching’ lady staff members too.

A lady staff of the college who wished to stay anonymous had said that she had been a victim of Anwar’s predatory behaviour. He also allegedly filmed a lady staff without her consent or knowledge.

Another male alumnus of the college belonging to 2011-16 batch had said that he himself had seen Anwar touching the back of a female design staff.

It is noteworthy to mention that Anwar who is more than 70 years old is related to Malayalam film star Dulquer Salman. His grand-daughter is Dulquer’s wife who also studied architecture in the same college. One of the alumni of the college mentioned that even friends of Dulquer’s wife were harassed by Anwar in college.

Anwar had reportedly returned from the US in 2007 and joined the college as a faculty.

Another faculty who has been accused of sexual harassment is Thooyavan Krishnan. One of the students had shared that Thooyavan used to touch at inappropriate places whenever he got the chance.

Solomon, who is reportedly a visiting faculty at the college and runs a private coaching institute for NATA exam (National Aptitude Test in Architecture), had allegedly shown pornographic content to students.

 

All these allegations were made by students and alumni of the college on Instagram. These screenshots which were shared in an Instagram page named ‘Measi Abuse’ have now been taken down.

One of the students who had recently passed out of the college told The Commune that despite several complaints, the management had turned a blind eye as Anwar is influential. She said that they deliberately fail people who voice out. The student told that when 7 people complained about Anwar in 2009, all of them were made to repeat a year of which two were made to repeat another year.

She said that Anwar quite often calls girl students to his cabin where he behaves with them inappropriately.

A petition has been sent through the official alumni association (AAMAA) seeking action against the accused professors two weeks ago. However, it was told that the management has only orally mentioned that they will take action.

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In the coming days 5 million Indians will be vaccinated daily against the Wuhan virus

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As the rest of India is again coming out of a lockdown and the third wave of the coronavirus is in its last legs, the chairman of the government’s Empowered Group on Vaccine Administration (EGVAC), RS Sharma has said that the daily vaccinations will go up to five million doses within the next ten days, reports Economic Times.

“We are already vaccinating 3.5 million people every day. I am very sure we will reach five million in a matter of 10 days.” Sharma was quoted as saying

This is indeed great news for Indians as the number of people getting vaccinated daily will now increase just days before the roll-out of the new vaccination strategy wherein the Centre will resume the process of buying and supplying COVID-19 vaccines to the state governments for free of cost.

Sharma also emphasised the need for the state and the private hospitals to indicate vaccine slots for a week to ensure that the daily inoculations go up.

Sharma said, “From the beginning of the vaccination drive we have been emphasising that the states need to publish as long a timetable as possible. The Centre is also giving visibility of vaccine supplies to the states a fortnight ahead. So the states can publish the vaccine slots. But some states are still not doing it.”

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Catholic Bishops in US could stop administer of communion to President Biden for antithetical views

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The Commune
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According to a report by Reuters, the US Conference of Catholic Bishops will decide the fate of US President Joe Biden and other politicians who support abortion, same-sex marriages and LQBTQ rights that are antithetical to Church teachings and tenets should be given communion which is a sacred ritual for Catholics.

The powerful US Conference of Catholic Bishops will meet from 16 June to Friday 18 June to decide if Catholics who do not support the Church’s doctrine should be given communion.

The ritual of the communion is a sacrament central to the Roman Catholic faith. It is important that the faithful receive the communion which is administered by a priest which is an act of god-eating wherein a piece of bread that symbolizes the body of Jesus and a sip of wine that represents His blood–is conducted at every mass.

The Bishops will take a call on a proposal to ask the ‘Committee on Doctrine’ to draft a teaching document on the topic of Communion.

And if the draft is adopted that would translate into a call to all Catholic Bishops in the US to deny communion to Catholics who support LGBTQ rights, including same-sex marriage, and abortion rights.

When Biden to the oath of office in 2021, he became only the second Catholic to serve as US President– the first was John F Kennedy (1961-1963).

In 2004, the US Conference of Catholic Bishops allowed individual Bishops the liberty to administer or withhold communion to politicians who support abortion rights.

According to the Catechism of the Catholic Church, a woman’s willful termination of her pregnancy is “gravely contrary to the moral law”. It also lays down that ‘marital love’ should be shared between men and women, not people of the same sex.

However, Biden has been a staunch advocate of LGBTQ and abortion rights over the past decade and when he took the office, he rolled back federal restrictions on abortion pills to make them more accessible. He also has plans to junk a long-standing ban on federal funding for abortion in his 2022 budget.

This has created a rift in Catholics and the Catholic Church is now alarmed that the US President’s views could cause serious damage to them.A Pew Research poll conducted in March revealed that 67 per cent of Catholics in the US believe Biden’s views should not disqualify him from communion.

Also, many Catholics feel that the Church should not rake up these issues which leads to a divide and further decline in the numbers. Already the Catholic Church membership in the states has dropped nearly 20 per cent in the past two decades compounded by sexual abuse scandals involving predatory priests and increasing division on social issues.

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