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Gujarat to soon introduce Love Jihad bill to stop forced religious conversions

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As the number of Love Jihad cases are on the rise, the Gujarat government led by Chief Minister M Vijay Rupani has proposed to amend the Gujarat Freedom of Religion Act, 2003.

Under this amendment, more stringent punishment will be given against forced religious conversions through marriage, with the guilty facing a jail term of up to seven years along with a penalty.

The proposed Gujarat ‘love jihad’ law comes after Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh also introduced similar provisions. The amendment bill that was submitted in the Gujarat assembly on Tuesday (30 March) seeks to prohibit and punish religious conversions promising a better lifestyle, divine blessings and impersonation.

As per reports, the Love Jihad bill is likely to be tabled in the ongoing Budget session of the Gujarat assembly. The new ‘love jihad’ law would invite a jail term of five years and a ₹2 lakh penalty on the forced conversion of young women. The punishment would go up to seven years in jail and a ₹3 lakh penalty, in case of a minor girl being converted. Some important features of this bill include the fact that anyone who promises a “better lifestyle, divine blessings, or otherwise” as reasons for religious conversion could be booked under this bill. In addition to this, under the new section 3A that has been proposed, a relative of the victim, related by blood, marriage or adoption, can file an FIR for having committed this crime under the new bill.

It must also be noted that it was the Catholic Church in Kerala who had first raised concern against the growing menace of Love Jihad and such laws cannot be deemed as communal as both Hindus and Christian women and families have been victims.

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Income Tax Department conducts searches in Hyderabad

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The Income Tax Department carried out search and seizure operations on two real estate developers engaged in the real estate activities mainly in and around Yadagirigutta, suburb of the Hyderabad City. They are into plot ventures as well as in the construction of apartments.

During the course of search operations, many incriminating documents, hand written books, agreements etc. indicating unaccounted cash transaction were seized. The data was also recovered from a specialized software application as well as from other electronic gadgets. The groups were found to be accepting cash over and above the registered value and such unaccounted cash is used for on-money payment for purchase of land and other incidental business expenditure.

During the course of search unaccounted cash of ₹11.88 crore and gold jewellery valued at ₹1.93 crore has been seized. The search has resulted in the detection of incriminating evidences relating to the unaccounted cash receipts to the tune of ₹700 crore for the last six years, the income of which is taxable in the hands of the transacting parties.

Further investigations are in progress.

(Source: PIB)

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First-of-its-kind cruise service starts between Surat and Diu

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Minister of State for Ports, Shipping & Waterways (I/C) Mansukh Mandaviya flagged off the cruise service from Hazira Port of Surat to Diu, today via video conferencing.

In his inaugural address, Mansukh Mandaviya said that the development of cruise tourism is the prime focus of the Government of India under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

‘I feel very happy to announce that before 2014, there were 139 cruise calls at the Indian ports but today we have 450 cruise calls in the country despite the COVID-19 pandemic. There has been a steady growth in the number of tourists traveling by cruise services since 2014. The number before 2014 was one lakh and the number of tourists in 2019-20 was 4.5 lakhs’, added Mandaviya.

Mandaviya also reiterated that the Indian coastline has a huge potential for the cruise tourism industry and said that six international cruise terminals are being planned on the west coast (Mumbai, Goa, Kochi) and east coast (Visakhapattanam, Kolkata, Chennai) of India. Mandaviya expressed optimism about the development of ferry, RoRo and RoPAX services between South Gujarat and Saurashtra region of Gujarat and said that water transportation is the new future of transportation with state-of-the-art ferry terminals and modern facilities in the cruise services.

Cruise has all modern amenities

One side voyage time of the new cruise service is approximately 13 to 14 hours. The cruise service has a capacity of 300 passengers and has 16 cabins. This cruise will sail two round trips in a week. The cruise ship has a gaming Lounge, VIP Lounge, Entertainment on Deck and other modern amenities. One side journey will cost ₹900 and taxes (per head).

In November 2020, Prime Minister Modi inaugurated the ‘Hazira-Ghogha’ RoPAX service and within four months, one lakh passengers and thousands of vehicles utilised the ferry service to save journey time and travel costs from Hazira (Surat) to Ghogha (Bhavanagar). The success of the ferry service has opened the gates for many more routes of water transportation in Gujarat and all over India, Mandaviya said.

(Source: PIB)

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Security forces engage in gun battle with Maoist militants in Odisha

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An exchange of fire took place between security forces and Maoist ultras in a dense forest in the Kandhamal district  of Odisha, a police officer said here on Tuesday.

The gunfight broke out on Monday night near Raighara village under Gochhada police station area.

Acting on information received from a tip-off, a joint team of the Special Operation Group and District Voluntary Force of Kandhamal launched an operation, Superintendent of Police Vinit Agarwal said.

When the Maoists noticed the security personnel, they started firing at the security personnel who asked them to surrender. As the ultras did not pay heed to the order, personnel of the joint team returned the fire, the SP said. The rebels then fled the scene leaving behind their belongings, Agarwal said.

No casualty was reported from either side. Articles such as a 12 volt battery, flexible wire and some raw food materials were recovered from the spot.

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A Raja denies making derogatory remarks against CM Palaniswami in reply to ECI notice

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Senior DMK leader A Raja, in his reply to a notice by the Election Commission of India (ECI), has denied making derogatory remarks against Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami during campaigning for the state assembly elections.

In his response to the ECI on Wednesday, A Raja said his comments were taken “out of context and blown out of proportion for political mileage”.

The ECI had issued a show-cause notice to the DMK MP over his distasteful comments against Tamil Nadu CM Edappadi K Palaniswami and his mother, and had asked him respond by 6 PM of March 31.

The senior DMK leader maintained that he did not make any remark against EPS which is violative of the Model Code of Conduct or is obscene.

“I deny that I made any derogatory or defamatory speeches against the Hon’ble Chief Minister and I made any speech which would demean or defame women or motherhood,” A Raja told the ECI.

A Raja claimed that despite his explanation at a press conference, the CM quoted his speech out of context and became emotional in a public meeting in Chennai.

Simile an accepted norm in Tamil oratory, says A Raja

Seeking a copy of the complaint against him and the text of his alleged speech, A Raja said, “I request the Commission to get a copy and consider the full text of my entire speech and I am hopeful if it is done it can be discerned that the allegations made now are taken out of context and blown out of proportion to have political mileage.”

A Raja told the EC that simile is an accepted norm in Tamil oratory. “In my speech, the evolution of the political heights and their means of MK Stalin and Edappadi Palaniswami was compared by me through a simili as new born babies for easy understanding of the common mass. This was in response to the repeated allegations of the CM that our leader MK Stalin has never worked hard to become the leader (sic),” A Raja told the Election Commission.

“If the full text is considered by the committee, I am hopeful that it will wipe out the insult and consequent injury inflicted on me,” the DMK leader said.

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Committee submits its report on Centre’s farm laws to Supreme Court

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The three-member committee appointed by the Supreme Court submitted its report on the Centre’s farm laws on Wednesday.

The committee has reportedly consulted 85 farmer organisations while compiling its report on the farm legislations, in order to work out a solution to the demands of the agitating farmers.

The Supreme Court is likely to take up the case for hearing after April 5, once the Holi vacation ends.

On Republic Day this year, the farmers’ protests and a tractor rally at Delhi’s borders had erupted into large-scale rioting, violence and damage top public property in the nation’s capital.

Earlier in January, the Supreme Court had stayed the implementation of the farm laws after expressing disappointment with how the Centre had handled the protests and the talks with the farmers’ unions.

“Talks are breaking down because Centre wants to discuss point by point of law and farmers want the entire laws to be repealed. We will stay the implementation of the Farm Acts.”, the CJI had observed.

CJI SA Bobde had then remarked that people were committing suicides, suffering from the cold weather and gone on to raise questions about why are old people and women were present in the protest. “We don’t want to comment on the agitation”, the CJI had said.

Report was submitted in sealed cover

The Committee’s report was submitted to the apex court in a sealed cover.

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DMK and the Left’s lies about Tamil jobs in the NLC being lost to North Indians

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Ashok Kumar
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In order to establish the perception that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is hostile to Tamils, the Dravida Munetra Kazhagam (DMK) and the Left parties accuse the BJP of continuously targeting Tamil culture and language. One tool used in this propaganda is the issue of the loss of Tamil employment in NLC India Limited ― the mining and energy company under the purview of the Ministry of Coal ― to North Indians.

The DMK and their allies claim that out of all the students who passed the NLC written exams for the Graduate Engineer Trainee (GET) position, only 1% are students from Tamil Nadu while the rest of the 99% vacancy is filled from other states. This is a serious lie spread by the DMK through its media clout, and it must be debunked.

Firstly, the government and the list of shortlisted candidates make no mention of the state of the residence of the candidates who are chosen for the interview stage. So, how did the DMK and the Left come to the conclusion that only 1% of Tamil students were chosen for the interview stage? The reality is that they assumed certain people in the shortlist belong to north India based on their surnames. For example, they categorise Rajesh Gupta as a north Indian because Tamils usually do not have the surname Gupta. These are the same parties that labelled Naam Tamilar Katchi a ‘racist’ party for classifying Tamils based on caste name. They are now using the same technique of determining if an individual is a Tamil or a north Indian based on their caste name.

Secondly, some pan-India names appear in the shortlist, such as Abishek Kumar (name appears five times), Ajay Kumar (3 times), Ashish Kumar (4 times), and so on, from which it is impossible to determine if the person is North Indian or Tamil. These names have been classified as North Indians by the DMK. But Tamil people also use these names. Only those names like Arul, Arun Kumar, Balamurugan and so on were classified as Tamil by the DMK.

Thirdly, there are some Urdu names on the shortlist that Muslims would use. Tamil Muslims in Tamil Nadu also have a habit of using Urdu names. However, it is inferred that the DMK categorises all those individuals with Urdu names as North Indians. Are they implying that those whose names are written in Urdu are not Tamils? Will the DMK or its supporters say this in front of the media or at a public meeting?

Finally, this recruitment is not only for NLC India plants in Neyveli and Tuticorin as claimed by DMK and its allies, but also for the NLC India plants situated in Barsingar, Bithnok, Talabira, South Pachwara and Ghatampur.

These lies must be refuted immediately by the BJP, as the DMK is using its media clout to spread these lies to the general public. In fact, the DMK used these lies as an advertisement for its election propaganda. The majority of TV anchors who are affiliated with DMK/DK assist DMK in spreading these lies without any remorse. Will the TN BJP react to these lies?

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Kamal Haasan throws his party symbol, the torchlight, in frustration during roadshow

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Featured Image: Kamal Haasan throwing a torchlight at someone inside his campaign vehicle in a roadshow

Makkal Needhi Maiam (MNM) leader Kamal Haasan, while campaigning in Puducherry lost his cool when his  microphone stopped working. A video of the incident is doing the rounds on social media.

In the video, the frustrated and angry actor-turned-politician can be seen throwing his party symbol, the torchlight, forcefully at someone inside his campaign vehicle. Haasan has been carrying around a torchlight in his political campaigns and rallies.

With the video now going viral, netizens are taking jibes at Haasan for his temper tantrum.

A first-time politician, Kamal Haasan will be contesting his maiden electoral election from Coimbatore South, while his Makkal Needhi Maiam, a three-year-old party, will be facing the seasoned national parties of BJP and Congress.

The BJP has fielded the national president of Mahila Morcha, Vanathi Srinivasan and the Congress has fielded Mayura Jayakumar for the Coimbatore South constituency. Jayakumar had emerged as the runner up in Coimbatore South in the 2016 polls.

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Special CBI court quashes proceedings against three cops in Ishrat Jahan case

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In a vindication of the officers of the Gujarat police, a special CBI court in Ahmedabad on Wednesday (31 March) dropped proceedings against three police officers accused of the extrajudicial killing of Ishrat Jahan, Javed Shaikh alias Pranesh Pillai, and two others in June 2004.

Indian Police Service (IPS) officer GL Singhal, retired police officer Tarun Barot, and Anaju Chaudhari were acquitted by the court and the trial has now come to an end, unless the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) appeals against the same.

Previously, the CBI had not filed an appeal against four other officers earlier. According to the special CBI judge VR Raval, “prima facie, there was nothing on record to suggest” that Ishrat Jahan and the four others who were killed “were not terrorists.”

Ishrat Jahan, Pranesh Pillai, Amjad Ali Rana and Zeeshan Johar − believed to be Pakistani nationals − were killed near Kotarpur waterworks on the outskirts of Ahmedabad on June 15, 2004, by the Ahmedabad City Detection of Crime Branch, then led by former Deputy Inspector-General of Police D G Vanzara. DCB had then claimed that the four were operatives of the Lashkar-e-Taiba out to kill the then Chief Minister Narendra Modi.

In its charge sheet filed in 2013, the CBI had named seven police officers – P P Pandey, D G Vanzara, N K Amin, J G Parmar, Singhal, Barot, and Chaudhary — as accused in the case. All the accused were charged with murder, abduction, and destruction of evidence among other charges.

The court noted, “The order is passed with the application of mind and Government has also come to the conclusion that the offences committed by the present applicants are such which have been committed while discharging their official duties as police officers and also the investigation against the accused is not proper and there is no evidence against the accused.”

The Ishrat Jehan encounter, which was called an extrajudicial killing, was greatly politicised by the Congress Party and the Left. The court also said that there was no question of any fake encounter on the part of any such police officer and these high ranking police officers have performed their duty.

On June 15, 2004, Ishrat Jahan, along with Javed Shaikh, Amjad Ali Akbarali Rana and Zeeshan Johar, were killed in a shootout by the Gujarat police. According to the police, all four were terrorists, who had plans to assassinate the then Gujarat Chief Minister, Narendra Modi, and had links to the banned Islamic terror outfit Lashkar e Taiba (LeT) which eventually carried out the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack.

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Muslim man entices minor boy and takes him home to sexually harass him

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Featured Image: Hameed Maula, the accused | Credits: Daijiworld

Police in Karnataka arrested a Muslim man accused of enticing and sexually harassing a minor boy. The accused has been identified as Hameed Maula, a resident of Kabaka village in Puttur Taluk, Karnataka.

According to the information that is available, on March 27, the minor boy had gone to a private programme held at Idkidu in Bantwal taluk, under Vittal police station limits in Karnataka’s Dakshina Kannada district. The programme was held late at around 10.30 pm.

At the programme, the victim was enticed by Hameed Maula, a resident of Kabaka village. Maula took the boy to a nearby house and sexually harassed him.

The boy managed to escape from the house and informed his parents on what had occurred. The accused was then arrested by the Vittal police as per the complaint filed by the victim’s father.

A case under the Protection Of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act has been registered against the accused.

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