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  • Bhopal: Interfaith duo on bike harassed; girl’s niqab pulled down

    Bhopal: Interfaith duo on bike harassed; girl’s niqab pulled down

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    Moral policing bhopal

    An interfaith couple in Madhya Pradesh who were travelling on their bike was halted and heckled by some men on March 26.

    The incident took place in Bhopal’s Karond, where the couple, reportedly a Muslim woman and a Hindu man were harassed and shamed publicly for travelling and being a purported couple.

    In a video which is doing rounds on social media, some men can be seen cordoning off the motorcycle of a couple and questioning their morality.

    The man recording the video forcefully pulls down the girl’s niqaab (veil) stating that he will have to use force against her if she doesn’t reveal her face.

    In the video, the man also publicises the locality the man and the woman belong to alongside their religion.

    The man alleges that the Hindu man had taken the woman to an OYO (room).

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  • Sikh community protests in Bhopal, Indore against pro-Khalistan elements

    Sikh community protests in Bhopal, Indore against pro-Khalistan elements

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    Bhopal: Members of the Sikh community in Bhopal and Indore took to the streets on Tuesday to protest against the acts of vandalism by pro-Khalistan sympathisers outside India’s diplomatic premises in London and San Francisco.

    “We strongly condemn the incident outside the London High Commission. These anti-social elements disrespecting the tricolour are not part of the Sikh community,” said religious leader Gyani Dileep Singh during the protest at Roshanpura Square in Bhopal.

    Madhya Pradesh BJP spokesperson and Sikh activist Neha Bagga said it was regrettable that a few Sikhs working at the behest of anti-India forces were defaming the entire community.

    “This is the time for the Sikh community to come forward openly against such anti-social elements sitting in foreign countries,” Bagga said.

    In Indore, Sikhs gathered at the city’s Regal square holding the tricolour and placards carrying patriotic messages, raised the slogan “Bharat Mata ki Jai”, and said they would not tolerate insult to the national flag.

    “Many people from the Sikh community have sacrificed their lives for India’s freedom. Today some foreign forces are conspiring against the unity and integrity of India. We will not allow the designs of these forces to succeed,” a protestor said.

    State BJP spokesperson Narendra Saluja, who was among the protesters, said, “Some anti-social elements funded by Pakistan are trying to defame the Sikh community through the incidents in London and San Francisco. We oppose such elements.”

    The national flag is a symbol of respect and self-respect for the Sikh community, he said.

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    ( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

  • Bhopal gas tragedy survivors condemn SC’s dismissal of Curative Petition

    Bhopal gas tragedy survivors condemn SC’s dismissal of Curative Petition

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    Bhopal: Five organizations of the December 1984 Union Carbide disaster in Bhopal have jointly condemned the Supreme Court’s dismissal of the Curative Petition on Tuesday.

    Likening Tuesday’s decision with the apex court’s February 1989 decision on the settlement of the case, the organizations called it a “judicial assault on the constitutional and legal rights of the Bhopal survivors”. The organizations resolved to continue their struggle for justice in Bhopal till all survivors are adequately compensated.

    Rashida Bi, president of the Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Stationary Karmchari Sangh, said: “The Bhopal victims were denied their day in court because of the pro-corporate bias of the Supreme Court bench. The counsel for Union Carbide that continues to abscond from charges of culpable homicide was given ample time to speak by the bench, while the counsel for the survivors’ organizations was only heard for just 45 minutes. Apparently, the Bench believes in a ‘fugitive entitlement doctrine.”

    “The Supreme Court judges dismissed the case for additional compensation due to their insistence that the case must attain finality in line with the wishes of the corporate counsel,” said Balkrishna Namdeo, President of the Bhopal Gas Peedit Nirashrit Pensionbhogee Sangharsh Morcha.

    “How can you impose finality when the corporation’s crimes continue to victimize people? When gas affected people continue to die untimely deaths from cancers and other exposure induced chronic diseases? When the criminal remains absconding, and the suffering of its victims, including that of their progeny, continues, how can a Supreme Court bench draw the curtain over the injustice in Bhopal?

    Rachna Dhingra of the Bhopal Group for Information & Action condemned the Supreme Court for deliberately ignoring arguments and facts presented by the survivors’ organizations.

    “We presented official figures of injury and death analyzed by an international expert on epidemiology that proved the 1989 settlement has perpetrated a gross miscarriage of justice but the Supreme Court bench chose to blind themselves to it. The bench said that only an argument of fraud could re-open that settlement, while entirely ignore our counsel’s detailed submissions on the fraud committed by the Union Carbide to procure the settlement of 1989,” Dhingra pointed out.

    “We refuse to accept the injustice delivered by the Supreme Court on Tuesday”, said Nawab Khan, President of the Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Purush Sangharsh Morcha. “We fought and won against the injustice of the settlement of 1989 and we will resume our fight again. We will fight in the court and we will fight on the streets till justice is done in the World’s worst corporate massacre”, he said.

    Nousheen Khan of Children Against Dow Carbide said: “Tuesday’s decision exposes the perversity of the Supreme Court bench that took the government to task for ignoring the health impact on the next generation but failed to hold the corporation accountable for the crime against the unborn.”

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    ( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

  • Bhopal gas tragedy: SC to deliver judgment on Centre’s plea on Tuesday

    Bhopal gas tragedy: SC to deliver judgment on Centre’s plea on Tuesday

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    New Delhi: The Supreme Court will on Tuesday deliver its verdict on a curative petition filed by the Centre demanding an additional compensation of Rs 7,400 crore from the successor firms of Union Carbide Corporation (UCC) for the victims of 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy.

    The successor firms of the UCC had told the Supreme Court that the Indian government never suggested at the time of settlement (of 1989) that it was inadequate. The firms’ counsel emphasized that depreciation of the rupee since 1989 cannot become a ground to seek a top-up of compensation now for the Bhopal gas tragedy victims.

    After hearing detailed arguments, a five-judge bench headed by justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul on January 12 reserved its verdict on Centre’s curative petition seeking an additional Rs 7,844 crore from the successor firms of UCC for extending greater compensation to the victims.

    Senior advocate Harish Salve, representing successor firms of the UCC, submitted before the bench – also comprising Justices Sanjiv Khanna, Abhay S. Oka, Vikram Nath, and J.K. Maheshwari – that there are affidavits starting from 1995 and ending as late as 2011, where the Indian government has opposed every single attempt to suggest that the settlement is inadequate.

    During the hearing, Salve also cited several conspiracy theories connected with the case. He said in one of the theories it was claimed the then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi had met UCC Chairperson Warren Anderson in a hotel in Paris before the settlement, and added that Anderson had by then retired from his post.

    The top court had grilled Attorney General R. Venkataramani, representing the Centre, on how the government could file a curative petition without filing the review. It told the AG that the Central government was not prohibited from granting relief to the Bhopal gas tragedy victims, and it cannot absolve from itself from the welfare state principle saying, “I will take it from them (successor firms of Union Carbide Corporation), as and when taken from them, I will pay”.

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    ( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

  • Decades-old demand of ‘Ahir Regiment’ raised its head again in Bhopal

    Decades-old demand of ‘Ahir Regiment’ raised its head again in Bhopal

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    Bhopal: Decades-old demand of instituting ‘Ahir Regiment’ raised its head again here when thousands of Yadav and Ahir community members, including ex-servicemen, from across the country descended in Bhopal here on MVM college ground on Sunday. They came from Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh to participate in the rally to press their demand.

    Later, a delegation submitted a memorandum to the Bhopal district administration demanding the government to form a full-fledged infantry regiment for the community at the earliest. Ahead of the Assembly elections, the Ahir and Yadav community members have come out strongly pressing for their demand of ‘Ahir Regiment’. A few days earlier, former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath had written to the Prime Minister and defence minister to institute the regiment.

    The community members said they have been raising the demands for decades but the government had not considered it. Highlighting the bravery and patriotism of Yadavs, the community leaders said that the Yadavs have made a lot of sacrifices in Pre-Independence and Post-Independence. They laid down their lives for the country combating the enemies at the Line of Control, in 1962 during the Indo-China war at Rezang La Pass, which is at a height of 17,000 feet, 120 soldiers had laid their lives fighting 3000 Chinese soldiers. All the Indian soldiers belonged to the Yadav community, they said.

    Among the martyrs, major Shaitan Singh had received ‘Param Veer Chakra’ and other eight had received ‘Veer Chakra’. In the world war, 243 soldiers martyred were from the Yadav community, they said, adding that Brigadier Yogendra Singh, who was awarded the highest Indian wartime gallantry decoration, the Param Vir Chakra, for his actions during the Kargil War is also a Yadav.

    Meanwhile, Madhya Pradesh Congress leader Arun Yadav, who participated in the public meeting, said in the Indian army, there are already Sikh regiment, Rajput regiment, Gorkha regiment, Mahar regiment so why can’t there be Ahir Regiment? And, if Ahir Regiment is instituted it will be a commemoration of the sacrifice made by the community for the country.

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    ( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

  • Three arrested on charges of killing cow in Bhopal; NSA to be slapped on them

    Three arrested on charges of killing cow in Bhopal; NSA to be slapped on them

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    Bhopal: Police have arrested three men on charges of killing a cow in Bhopal, an official said on Wednesday, as local authorities demolished “illegal” constructions at the house of one of them and moved to invoke the stringent National Security Act (NSA) against the trio.

    The alleged incident occurred on Tuesday in Paras Nagar under Gandhi Nagar police station limits of the Madhya Pradesh capital.
    Gandhi Nagar Police Station in-charge Arun Sharma informed that following a tip off, a police team reached the spot and spotted three persons with a blood-stained sharp-edged weapon.

    Remains of the slaughtered cow were also found at the spot, he said.

    The trio tried to flee the site of the crime after seeing the police team. The police, however, caught them and during interrogation they admitted to killing the bovine, Sharma said.

    The three men — identified as Imran (30), Irshad (28) and Javed (30) — were booked and arrested under provisions of the state’s anti-cow slaughter law — Madhya Pradesh Govansh Vadh Pratishedh Adhiniyam and — also the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, said the police officer.

    He said process of invoking the National Security Act (NSA) against the accused has been initiated.

    The NSA allows the government to detain people for up to one year without a trial if they suspect that they could disrupt public order or endanger the security of India.

    After the incident, the Bhopal administration demolished “illegal” constructions at the house of Irshad on Wednesday, he said.

    Local MLA Rameshwar Sharma termed the cow killing incident as unfortunate and said this was a serious issue as intention of these people could be to trigger communal tension.

    The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) legislator said he has asked the police to find out if more people were involved in the incident.
    “I have asked the police and administration to take strict action in the matter,” he said.

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    ( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

  • MP: BJP leader Uma Bharti staying in Bhopal temple for stringent liquor policy

    MP: BJP leader Uma Bharti staying in Bhopal temple for stringent liquor policy

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    Bhopal: Ahead of the Madhya Pradesh government’s likely announcement of a new liquor policy, BJP veteran Uma Bharti on Saturday reached a temple here where she would stay put till January 31 demanding the policy be made more stringent.

    Bharti has been demanding appropriate amendments in liquor policy, which the state government releases every year, and incorporating more controls to promote de-addiction.

    On Saturday afternoon, Bharti reached a temple located near a liquor shop in Ayodhya Nagar trisection and announced she will stay there till January 31 awaiting the liquor policy announcement. Bharti had earlier opposed the wine shop located near the temple.

    The state government has not announced a date but a new liquor policy is generally announced in January end.

    The former Union minister told reporters she had expressed a desire to tour various spots in Madhya Pradesh last November but the visit could not materialise for the lack of arrangements for her staff including security personnel.

    “I have never demanded absolute prohibition. I said I would implement a total prohibition if it is in my control. I have full faith in Shivraj ji (MP Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan). I will wait for the decision about the liquor policy on January 31,” she said.

    The former chief minister said she didn’t want the opposition Congress to benefit from her stand.

    “If a controlled liquor policy, as I had told (to the BJP government), is implemented, the BJP will repeat its record victory like 2003,” she said.

    The BJP had won 165 seats in the 230-member Assembly in the 2003 polls decimating Congress, which was in power at that time, to 58 seats. After that election, Bharti became the chief minister. She resigned after eight months.

    The Assembly elections in MP are due in December this year.

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    ( With inputs from www.siasat.com )