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Pak court sends Chinese man to 14-day remand on blasphemy charges

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Peshawar: A Pakistani anti-terrorism court has sent a Chinese national to jail on a 14-day judicial remand on blasphemy charges in the restive Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province after he was arrested on Monday, according to media reports on Tuesday.
The police arrested the Chinese national identified as Tian on Sunday and on Monday he was shifted to Abbottabad via an Army helicopter due to security concerns as the police feared local people could harm him.
Tian was booked on blasphemy charges and sent to prison on a 14-day judicial remand by an Abbottabad anti-terrorism court on Monday, the Dawn newspaper reported.

The Chinese citizen, a manager at the Dasu Hydropower Project, the biggest hydropower project in Pakistan, in the Upper Kohistan district of the province, allegedly made blasphemous remarks on Friday when the workers were going to perform the weekly prayer.
According to local people, the Chinese manager complained to workers at the dam that “precious time” was being lost due to prayer breaks.
The Dasu Hydropower Project is a major venture under the USD 60 billion China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CEPC).
“We have arrested the foreigner suspect under blasphemy and terrorism charges and airlifted him from here to present him before the anti-terrorism court (ATC) in Abbottabad,” District Police Officer (DPO) Upper Kohistan, Mohammad Khalid, was quoted as saying in the report.
The suspect was later produced before the ATC amid strict security measures. The DPO said the Chinese national was moved to Islamabad onboard a helicopter on Monday evening, the report said.

The police registered a first information report (FIR) against Tian at the Dasu police station on Monday, hours after hundreds of residents and labourers working on the dam project blocked a key highway and rallied, demanding his arrest.
Under Pakistan’s tough blasphemy laws, the offence carries the death penalty.
According to the officer, police swung into action after getting reports on Sunday night that a local mob tried to break into a Chinese camp near the project site.
The mob was controlled, but they assembled again on Monday and blocked the Karakoram Highway, which links Pakistan with China, in a protest that lasted for over six to seven hours, demanding the Chinese national’s arrest.
The blocked highway was later reopened to traffic, and work resumed at the Dasu Dam after Tian’s arrest.
In Beijing, China’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin said the embassy in Islamabad was looking into the incident.
“The Chinese government has always asked Chinese citizens overseas to abide by the laws and regulations of their host countries and respect local customs and traditions,” Wang told reporters at a regular news briefing.
Meanwhile, in a bid to defuse the situation, a team of Ulema from nearby towns and villages have set up a committee to examine the situation.
The meeting was attended, among others, by Upper Kohistan Deputy Commissioner Irfanullah Mehsood and District Police Officer Mohammad Khalid.
The participants urged the agitators not to take the law into their hands as police and the district administration were “handling the matter admirably”.
Blasphemy is a sensitive issue in Pakistan. On December 3, 2021, a Sri Lankan national working in a factory in Sialkot was lynched by a mob after workers accused him of blasphemy.
The Dasu Hydropower Project site was hit by a suicide bus blast in July 2021, in which 13 people, including nine Chinese nationals, were killed.
Nine Chinese nationals and two Frontier Corps soldiers were among those killed when the bus carrying Chinese engineers and workers to the site of the under-construction Dasu Dam exploded.
The Centre for Research and Security Studies (CRSS), in a report in January 2022, stated that as many as 89 citizens were killed in 1,415 accusations and cases of blasphemy in the country since independence.
The report said that from 1947 to 2021, 18 women and 71 men were extra-judicially killed over blasphemy accusations. The allegations were made against 107 women and 1,308 men.
A large number of Chinese nationals have been working in Pakistan on various projects being undertaken under the CEPC.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

April 18, 2023
Kerala train arson case: Accused Sharukh Saifi sent to 14-day judicial custody

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Kozhikode: Kerala train arson accused Shahrukh Saifi was on Friday remanded to 14-day judicial custody.
The order was issued by Kozhikode Judicial First Class Magistrate, who reached the Kozhikode Government Medical College Hospital, where the accused, Saifi, was undergoing treatment on Friday morning, to complete the process of remand.
“City Police Commissioner Rajpal Meena and Munsiff Magistrate arrived at the hospital and the accused has been awarded 14 days of judicial custody,” officials said.

Saifi was brought to Kozhikode Medical College for medical examination on Thursday morning and was admitted there.
According to officials, taking into account the health problems of the accused, the magistrate court transferred the proceedings to the hospital.
Judicial First Class Magistrate Manish physically came to the Medical College for proceedings. After speaking to the accused at the Medical College, Magistrate proceeded to remand him.
They said that the accused will continue to remain in medical treatment at Kozhikode Govt Medical College Hospital.
“A decision on whether to send the accused to police custody will be taken after the fitness of the accused is re-examined. If the court refuses to send the accused in custody, the detailed questioning of the accused will be delayed,” they said.

Sharukh Saifi was detained in Maharashtra’s Ratnagiri on Tuesday night by the Anti-Terrorism Squad of Maharashtra police with the help of the National Investigation Agency(NIA).
On Tuesday, he was handed over to Kerala police.
The arrest was made based on a sketch released by the kerala police on information provided by an eyewitness.
The Maharashtra police had said he confessed to the crime. Saifi is a resident of the Shaheen Bagh in Delhi’s Jamia Nagar.
A team from Kerala police visited Saifi’s residence. Kerala police formed a special investigation team to probe the incident.
The attack happened on a moving Alappuzha Kannur executive express on Sunday night.
Three people were killed in the attack including an infant and a woman and around 10 were injured.
The investigations so far indicated that Saifi was radicalised online. Handwritten notes were also found in which he allegedly said, “Let’s do it”.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

April 7, 2023
SSC paper leak: Telangana BJP chief sent to 14-day remand, sent to Khammam jail

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Hyderabad: Bharatiya Janata Party Telangana unit president and Karimnagar MP Bandi Sanjay, who was arrested and indicted as the main culprit in the Warangal question paper leak case, appeared in court in Hanamkonda and was sent to 14 days of judicial custody.
He and two other detained individuals were sent to the Khammam jail.
The Kamalapur police charged Sanjay with IPC Sections 120 (B) (conspiracy), 420 (cheating), 447 (criminal trespass), and 505 (1) (b). (intent to cause fear or alarm to the public). He was brought before the magistrate in the latter’s official quarters behind the Hanamkonda Court Complex and remanded at about 8 p.m.

On Tuesday, three people were detained in connection with the matter, including a NaMo employee and Sanjay’s social media advisor, Booram Prashanth.
Bandi Sanjay was arrested by the Warangal police criminal conspiracy along with three other persons to create rumours and provoke a breach of peace in the ongoing SSC examination. All of them have been remanded to 14 days judicial custody. His lawyer ˙as also filed a bail petition.
The Warangal police had arrested three persons including a minor in the SSC Hindi paper leak. The paper was shared on Whatsapp minutes after the exam began. After his arrest, security has been tightened by the police in Karimnagar and Warangal districts.
Bandi Sanjay has been named the prime accused (A1) in the case.
Dismissing all claims of ‘illegal arrest’ Warangal Commissioner AV Ranganath stated that the Lok Sabah Speaker was informed about the MP’s arrest, as per the law.

Addressing the media, AV Ranganath, said that the SSC paper in the second language Hindi was leaked at the exam centre on Tuesday.
“Bandi Sanjay gave instructions to Prashanth to exploit the situation of the SSC paper leak in the Vikarabad stating that if it also happens on Wednesday it will defame the government and show it as a failure of the state government,” the remand report of police stated. The police alleged Karimnagar MP conspired with other BJP workers.
“Technical evidence by analysing the call details of the phones of the accused and Whatsapp chats of the accused proved beyond the reasonable doubt, that the accused persons are involved in a conspiracy regarding the leaking and copying of the question papers on April 4,” the police informed the court.
Three accused M Siva Ganesh, 18, B Prasanth, 33, a former journalist and G Mahesh, a lab assistant were arrested while the Warangal police issued a notice to the juvenile boy on Tuesday.
The minor along with his friend wanted to help another write the exam at the Uppala Government School under Kamalapur police station limits. On Tuesday, the minor went through the rare gate inside Government Boys School under Kamalapur Police Station at 9:30 am after the exam had begun.
The teenager then went to the first floor and with the help of a mobile phone took a photo of the question paper. He then shared it with another Ganesh through WhatsApp. The message was forwarded to a WhatsApp group `SSC 2019- 20’ by Siva Ganesh at 9:59 am.
“Mahesh saw the message and forwarded it to Prashanth, who in turn forwarded the photo of the question paper to various groups including ‘Cnu Friends’, reportedly adding captions including ‘breaking news’ and ‘question paper leaked’. The photo and message then went viral via different WhatsApp groups. Prashanth also sent the same to Bandi Sanjay and is said to have made 146 calls in about an hour.
A case under Section 120 (B), 420, 447, 505 (1)(b) of IPC and Section 4 (A), 6 The Telangana Public Examinations (Prevention of Malpractice and Unfair means) Act, 66D IT Act.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

April 5, 2023
SSC paper leak: Telangana BJP chief sent to 14-day judicial custody

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Hyderabad: Bharatiya Janata Party Telangana unit president and Karimnagar MP Bandi Sanjay, who was arrested and indicted as the main accused in the Warangal question paper leak case, appeared in court in Hanamkonda and was sent to 14 days of judicial custody.
He and two other arrested individuals were sent to the Khammam jail.
The Kamalapur police charged Sanjay with IPC Sections 120 (B) (conspiracy), 420 (cheating), 447 (criminal trespass), and 505 (1) (b). (intent to cause fear or alarm to the public). He was brought before the magistrate in the latter’s official quarters behind the Hanamkonda Court Complex and remanded at about 8 p.m.

Bandi Sanjay’s bail petition hearing is posted for Thursday.
On Tuesday, three people were detained in connection with the matter, including a NaMo employee and Sanjay’s social media advisor, Booram Prashanth.
Bandi Sanjay was arrested by the Warangal police criminal conspiracy along with three other persons to create rumours and provoke a breach of peace in the ongoing SSC examination. All of them have been remanded to 14 days judicial custody. His lawyer ˙as also filed a bail petition.
The Warangal police had arrested three persons including a minor in the SSC Hindi paper leak. The paper was shared on Whatsapp minutes after the exam began. After his arrest, security has been tightened by the police in Karimnagar and Warangal districts.
Bandi Sanjay has been named the prime accused (A1) in the case.

Dismissing all claims of ‘illegal arrest’ Warangal Commissioner AV Ranganath stated that the Lok Sabah Speaker was informed about the MP’s arrest, as per the law.
Addressing the media, AV Ranganath, said that the SSC paper in the second language Hindi was leaked at the exam centre on Tuesday.
“Bandi Sanjay gave instructions to Prashanth to exploit the situation of the SSC paper leak in the Vikarabad stating that if it also happens on Wednesday it will defame the government and show it as a failure of the state government,” the remand report of police stated. The police alleged Karimnagar MP conspired with other BJP workers.
“Technical evidence by analysing the call details of the phones of the accused and Whatsapp chats of the accused proved beyond the reasonable doubt, that the accused persons are involved in a conspiracy regarding the leaking and copying of the question papers on April 4,” the police informed the court.
Three accused M Siva Ganesh, 18, B Prasanth, 33, a former journalist and G Mahesh, a lab assistant were arrested while the Warangal police issued a notice to the juvenile boy on Tuesday.
The minor along with his friend wanted to help another write the exam at the Uppala Government School under Kamalapur police station limits. On Tuesday, the minor went through the rare gate inside Government Boys School under Kamalapur Police Station at 9:30 am after the exam had begun.
The teenager then went to the first floor and with the help of a mobile phone took a photo of the question paper. He then shared it with another Ganesh through WhatsApp. The message was forwarded to a WhatsApp group `SSC 2019- 20’ by Siva Ganesh at 9:59 am.
“Mahesh saw the message and forwarded it to Prashanth, who in turn forwarded the photo of the question paper to various groups including ‘Cnu Friends’, reportedly adding captions including ‘breaking news’ and ‘question paper leaked’. The photo and message then went viral via different WhatsApp groups. Prashanth also sent the same to Bandi Sanjay and is said to have made 146 calls in about an hour.
A case under Section 120 (B), 420, 447, 505 (1)(b) of IPC and Section 4 (A), 6 The Telangana Public Examinations (Prevention of Malpractice and Unfair means) Act, 66D IT Act.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

April 5, 2023
Oman announces 14-day visa-free entry to tourists
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Muscat: Oman has announced that it is offering visa-free entry for up to 14 days for the people of 103 countries, local media reported.
The Royal Oman Police (ROP) has published a list of countries whose nationals are eligible for this new policy.
Countries include
- Portugal
- Sweden
- Norway
- Italy
- Bulgaria
- Switzerland
- Croatia
- Hungary
- Serbia
- Georgia
- Denmark
- Germany
- Greece
- Iceland
- Belgium
- Romania
- Slovenia
- Finland
- Luxembourg
- Malta
- Monaco
- Cyprus
- Ukraine
- Spain
- Czech Republic
- Austria
- Ireland
- United Kingdom
- Poland
- Slovakia
- France
- Netherlands
- Venezuela
- Colombia
- Uruguay
- Paraguay
- Argentina
- Brazil
- Japan
- Thailand
- South Africa
- Russia
- China
- United States of America
- Turkey
- South Korea
- New Zealand
- Iran
- Australia
- Indonesia
- Taiwan
- Canada
- Malaysia
- Singapore
However, some Indian tourists can also obtain a visa on arrival, provided that they have an entry visa to the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Schengen countries or Japan, or have a residence permit in one of the Gulf countries and work in a profession approved by the Omani government.
As per media reports, the tourists from 103 countries now have the option to extend their visa-free stay in Oman for more than 14 days, with a fee applicable for the extension.
After the specified period, travellers from these countries must apply online for an e-Visa at a cost of 20 Omani Riyals (Rs 4,280) for one month.
The move aims to encourage more tourists to visit Oman.
In recent years, this country has made efforts to develop its tourism industry with the aim of diversifying the economy and reducing reliance on oil revenues.
According to the report of the National Statistics and Information Center, the Sultanate of Oman saw a 348 percent increase in tourists in 2022 compared to 2021, and 2.9 million tourists entered Oman in 2022.

Oman has also witnessed an increase in domestic tourism, with an increase in festive events across the governorates, which were jointly hosted by Amran and the governorate administrations.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )
March 14, 2023