NEW DELHI — Harassment and arbitrary arrests of human rights defenders for tirelessly seeking truth and justice have become alarmingly commonplace in India, Amnesty India said on Tuesday, demanding immediate and unconditional release of fact-checking website Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair. Zubair was arrested by the Delhi Police on Monday night for allegedly hurting religious […]
NEW DELHI — Alt news co-founder Mohammed Zubair has been allowed by a court here to meet his counsel once a day for half an hour in police custody for providing legal assistance, a senior police official said. Zubair, 33, was arrested for allegedly hurting sentiments of a particular religious community. His counsel had moved […]
NEW DELHI — The Enforcement Director has summoned Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut on Tuesday for questioning in a money laundering probe linked to the re-development of a Mumbai ‘chawl’, officials said. The Rajya Sabha MP has been asked to depose before the federal agency at its office in south Mumbai on June 28 and […]
NEW DELHI — Fact-checking website, Alt news’ co-founder Mohammed Zubair was arrested in the national capital on Monday for allegedly hurting sentiments of a particular religious community, the police said. The police had registered a case after getting a complaint from a Twitter handle, where it was alleged that Zubair had tweeted a questionable image […]
THANE — Police have arrested a 28-year-old man in Maharashtra’s Thane district for his alleged objectionable and provocative post on Prophet Mohammad on a social messaging platform, an official said on Saturday. The accused, Nikesh Raju Pashte, a ‘mathadi’ worker (porter in wholesale market) from Sangampada in Bhiwandi town in the district, was arrested on […]
NEW DELHI — The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed a plea of Zakia Jafri, the wife of slain MP Ehsan Jafri, challenging the Special Investigation Team’s (SIT) clean chit to 64 people, including then Chief Minister Narendra Modi, in the 2002 Gujarat riots case. A bench headed by Justice A M Khanwilkar upheld the Special […]
DAKSHINA KANNADA — Five Muslim girl students from the Hampanakatta University College here have asked for transfer certificates from the college administration after being denied permission to attend classes wearing hijab. Principal Anusuya Rai has confirmed that the five students have applied for transfer certificates to join other colleges. However, they are being asked to […]
MUMBAI — Actor Sai Pallavi on Saturday said her recent remarks drawing a comparison between the Kashmiri Pandits’ genocide in the 1990s and recent mob lynching incidents were taken out of context. The 30-year-old actor is currently in the middle of a controversy for remarks that she made during an interview to a Telugu YouTube […]
MUMBAI — Senior TV journalist Navika Kumar has been named in an FIR registered in Maharashtra’s Parbhani district against now-suspended BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma, who had allegedly made objectionable remarks against Prophet Mohammad during a news debate hosted by Kumar, police said on Tuesday. The First Information Report was registered at Nanalpeth police station on […]
NEW DELHI — The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear on Thursday the pleas filed by Muslim body Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind seeking directions to the Uttar Pradesh government to ensure that no further demolitions of properties of alleged accused of recent violence are carried out in the State. The Muslim body in its plea has said […]