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  • Raja Singh hate speech: Twitter withholds tweets on Centre’s directions

    Raja Singh hate speech: Twitter withholds tweets on Centre’s directions

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    Social media giant Twitter has withheld suspended Bharatiya Janata Party and Goshmahal MLA T Raja Singh’s recent hate speech videos made across Maharashtra on the directions of the Narendra Modi-led Central government.

    HindutvaWatch, a Twitter handle that posts videos and news of hate speech and crimes that take place across the country, received an email from Twitter that certain of its tweets had violated the Information Technology Act, 2000, and hence are withheld.

    “Indian government is trying to bury the evidence of hate speeches delivered by suspended BJP legislator T Raja Singh from our Twitter handle by withholding five videos in India,” HindutvaWatch tweeted.

    “Notably, the request comes 3 days after a contempt petition on hate speeches was filed in the Supreme Court. The petition extensively mentions Raja Singh’s hate speeches documented by Hindutva Watch as evidence,” HindutvaWatch added.

    A journalist and researcher at the fact-checking media company AltNews, Kalim Ahmed was given the same notification from Twitter.

    Expressing his displeasure, the journalist linked the stories in his Twitter head before pasting the social media giant’s email contents.

    “My Twitter thread documenting BJP legislator Raja Singh delivering objectionable speeches across Maharashtra has been withheld in India. Mother of democracy is very angry with me You can still read those reports on AltNews’s website, I’ll link them below,” he tweeted.

    Raja Singh’s Maharashtra hate speech

    Last year in August, Raja Singh posted a video where he used derogatory language against Prophet Muhammad which ultimately led to his arrest. Owing to massive pressure, BJP suspended Raja.

    Raja Singh was booked under the Preventive Detention (PD) Act by the Telangana police. In November, the Telangana High Court granted him conditional bail forbidding him to participate in rallies or speak to the media as well as refrain from making any posting derogatory speeches.

    On January 29, a massive Hindutva rally took off in the heart of the financial capital Mumbai. The rally – Jan Aakrosh Morcha – weaved several right-wing groups, including Bajrang Dal, Vishwa Sanatan Sangha, Vanvasi Kalyan, Rajput Youth Front, Karni Sena and All India Maheshwar Samaj to form the Sakal Hindu Samaj.

    They demanded strict laws against ‘love jihad’, religious conversion, and alleged grabbing of land by Muslim organisations.

    Raja Singh took part in these rallies where he made an open call for violence against the Muslim community.

    On February 20, Raja Singh delivered another hate speech in Maharashtra’s Latur district where he called for Akhand Bharat.

    “Hamare Maharashtra ke dharthi per koi bhi love jihadi zinda na bache. Aaj hamari bahu-beti ko behla-phuslakar Love Jihad ke naam per fasaya jaa raha hai. Bacha paida karne ki machine banaya jaa raha hai. Rape and unke tukde kiya jaa raha hai. (No love jihadi will survive on the soil of Maharashtra. They trap Hindu women and make them slaves by producing more and more children. They rape them and cut them into pieces),” Raja Singh said in the speech.

    He made another speech in the Solapur district of Maharashtra demeaning communal harmony and brotherhood by stating Hindus and Muslims can never be brothers.

    “Can (Chhatrapati) Shivaji and Afzal Khan (a general in the Adil Shahi dynasty) become one? Can Maharana Prathap (a Hindu Rajput king of Mewar) and Akbar (a Mughal emperor) be one? Can those who worship our mother cow and those who murder her be one?” he asked a cheering crowd.

    Many notices served, none followed

    In December last year, the Hyderabad police had served a showcase notice on Raja Singh for making derogatory comments on Facebook.

    On January 26, another notice was issued to the Goshamahal MLA and then a third notice was sent following his controversial speeches in Maharashtra.

    Reacting strongly, Raja Singh alleged that the ninth Nizam is ruling the state. He said that he was not afraid of being sent to jail again.



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    ( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

  • JKCCTA Protests ‘Manipulation’ of Court Directions

    JKCCTA Protests ‘Manipulation’ of Court Directions

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    by Insha Shirazi

    SRINAGAR: The Administrative Department of Higher Education has filed an appeal in the Honorable Supreme Court of India against the ruling of the CAT Jammu bench. This was done with the merits of the fundamental petitions brought by the academic arrangement faculty in the Honorable High Court and CAT in mind. The rulings of the Honorable High Court and CAT were affirmed, but there is dissatisfaction over the failure to implement court orders generally, including recent Honorable Supreme Court Indian orders (CIVIL APPEAL NO. 103 OF 2021) and stay orders against recent academic arrangement notifications passed by the Honorable high court of Jammu and Kashmir.

    This is particularly in the department of higher education UT Jammu and Kashmir, regarding the resumption of services of those academic arrangement faculty members whose status is protected by the orders of Honorable High court of Jammu and Kashmir and CAT (Central Administrative Tribunal) Jammu/Srinagar benches. The JKCCTA expressed their disappointment at the officers of Nodal college for acting against the stay orders and starting counseling of the fresh candidates.

    The President of Jammu and Kashmir College Contractual Teachers Association (JKCCTA) Dr Fayaz Ahmad Wani and representatives from various colleges of Kashmir province addressed the media gathering on Thursday protesting at press enclave Srinagar. Dr Fayaz questioned the delay strategies and manipulation of the Honorable Supreme Court orders that harassed the professors who were already in distress, and he urged LG Manoj Sinha, Advisor to LG R.R Bhatnagar, and Principal Secretary HED to personally intervene in this matter and uphold the pillar of judiciary in the UT.

    Dr Wani also urged the Civil Societies, Media Fraternity, and Bar Associations of Jammu/Srinagar to take note of this grave issue, so that the highly qualified lot of the society is not pushed to the wall and prevent them from opting any other way to get justice.

    Contractual teacher Javaid Ahmad, who has been teaching for 12 years, expressed his dissatisfaction with the department and director for violating the rights granted by the Supreme Court. He and his colleagues had been replaced regularly without pay for the past two to three years, despite the security given by the high court since 2014 that they cannot be changed until the issue has been resolved completely. They want the Honorable Dhananjaya Y. Chandrachud, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, to ensure that the services he provided are not recognized in Jammu and Kashmir.

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    ( With inputs from : kashmirlife.net )

  • Day After Court Directions, NIA Attaches Hurriyat Office In Srinagar

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    SRINAGAR: A day after Delhi Court ordered the attachment of All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) office at Rajbagh, the slueths of National Investigation Agency (NIA), Sunday attached the Hurriyat office.

    “The NIA team arrived at Rajbag and attached the Hurriyat office,” news agency KNO quoted officials as having said.

    Earlier, on Sturday in an, order, Shaliender Malik, additional sessions judge, New Delhi district, had said the immoveable property i.e. building office of All Parties Hurriyat Conference is ordered to be attached.

    The Court had said that the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act-1967 does not in any manner hinder powers of court to attach any such property of which accused is facing trial under the UAPA of which he may be partly owner.

    The court, however, had added that the attachment in itself does not mean that there is any pre-trial conclusion regarding that property.

    The Court further said that among the different allegations and evidence, it was also the case that office of APHC was the place where meetings held to strategize different protests, funding activities of stone pelting on security forces, recruiting of unemployed youths to carry out unlawful activities as well as terrorist activities to create an unrest in the erstwhile state of Jammu & Kashmir to wage war against the Government of India.

    “In such situation taking into consideration the serious nature of the allegations as against A-5 itself, the fact that he is part owner of the property in question, cannot be a reason for not attaching the property when it is not even made clear as to who others were co-owners of that property,” the court had said.

    The NIA had moved an application seeking passing of an order for attachment of building office of All Parties Hurriyat Conference situated at Raj Bagh, Srinagar.

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    ( With inputs from : kashmirlife.net )