Kota: Police on Wednesday lodged a case after a video showed a group of people allegedly indulging in celebratory firing during Eid prayers at an eidgah in Sangod town here, an officer said.
“Taking note of the video clip that went viral on social media, the police lodged a case against unidentified persons under relevant sections and began an investigation,” Kota (Rural) Superintendent of Police Kavendra Singh Sagar told reporters.
In the 36-second video clip, three persons, each with a two-barrel gun sitting at separate places among the people offering namaz, were seen opening fire at intervals during the Eid prayers.
“It was a case of celebratory firing,” the SP said.
Every year, a number of incidents are reported from various states where people get injured or even killed during celebratory firing at weddings and other celebrations.ORR
The $787.5m settlement between Fox News and Dominion Voting Systems spared executives and on-air talent from taking the stand in a defamation lawsuit that centered on the network airing false claims of a stolen election in the weeks after Donald Trump’s 2020 loss.
The lawsuit still revealed plenty of what Fox personalities had been saying about the bogus election claims, including Tucker Carlson, the network’s top-rated host who was let go Monday. His unexplained departure has turned a spotlight on what he said in depositions, emails and text messages among the thousands of pages Dominion released in the leadup to jury selection in the case.
Carlson’s messages lambasted the news division and management, revealed how he felt about Donald Trump and demonstrated his skepticism of the election lies – so much so that Fox attorneys and company founder Rupert Murdoch held him up as part of their defense of the company. The judge who oversaw the case ruled that it was “CRYSTAL clear” none of the election claims related to Dominion was true.
Election lies
“Sidney Powell is lying,” Carlson told a Fox News producer in a 16 November 2020, exchange before using expletives to describe Powell, an attorney representing Trump.
“You keep telling our viewers that millions of votes were changed by the software. I hope you will prove that very soon,” Carlson wrote to Powell a day later. “You’ve convinced them that Trump will win. If you don’t have conclusive evidence of fraud at that scale, it’s a cruel and reckless thing to keep saying.” There was no indication that Powell replied.
Fox attorneys noted that Carlson repeatedly questioned Powell’s claims in his broadcasts: “When we kept pressing, she got angry and told us to stop contacting her,” Carlson told viewers on 19 November 2020.
Carlson told his audience that he had taken Powell seriously, but that she had never provided any evidence or demonstrated that the software Dominion used siphoned votes from Trump to Biden.
Fox’s 2020 election coverage
Fox viewers were outraged when the network called Arizona for Joe Biden on election night, a race call that was accurate. Fox executives and hosts began to worry about ratings as many of those viewers fled to other conservative outlets.
“We worked really hard to build what we have. Those [expletive] are destroying our credibility. It enrages me,” Carlson said in a 6 November 2020, exchange with an unidentified person.
On 8 November, after Biden was declared the winner, Carlson texted a couple of other employees: “Do the executives understand how much trust and credibility we’ve lost with our audience? We’re playing with fire, for real.”
Later in the chain, as others bring up Newsmax as an emerging competitor, Carlson said, “With Trump behind it, an alternative like Newsmax could be devastating to us.”
Donald Trump
In a text exchange with an unknown person on 4 January 2021, Carlson expressed anger toward Trump. He said that “we are very, very close to being able to ignore Trump most nights” and that “I truly can’t wait.”
Carlson said he had no doubt there was fraud in the 2020 election, but said Trump and his lawyers had so discredited their case – and media figures like himself – “that it’s infuriating. Absolutely enrages me.”
Addressing Trump’s four years as president, Carlson said: “We’re all pretending we’ve got a lot to show for it, because admitting what a disaster it’s been is too tough to digest. But come on. There really isn’t an upside to Trump.”
In texts early on the morning of 7 January 2021, a day after the violent assault on the US Capitol, Carlson and his longtime producer, Alex Pfeiffer, bemoaned how the rioters had believed Trump’s election lies.
“They take the president literally,” Pfeiffer said. “He is to blame for everything that happened today.”
“The problem is a little deeper than that I’d say,” Carlson replied.
Later, Carlson writes of Trump: “He’s a demonic force, a destroyer. But he’s not going to destroy us. I’ve been thinking about this every day for four years.”
Fox news department
Some of the most heated vitriol was reserved for colleagues in the news division and included conversations with fellow on-air personalities Laura Ingraham and Sean Hannity.
On 13 November, the week after the 2020 election, Ingraham, Carlson and Hannity got into a text message exchange in which they lambasted the news division. It began with Ingraham pointing out a tweet by correspondent Bryan Llenas, saying he had seen no evidence of widespread voter fraud in Pennsylvania.
Carlson replied that Llenas had contacted him to apologize, then added “when has he ever ‘reported’ on anything”.
Ingraham then names another colleague who indicated there was no fraud, with Hannity responding: “Guys I’ve been telling them for 4 years. News depart that breaks no news ever.” In a subsequent Twitter message seconds later, Hannity says, “They hate hate hate all three of us.”
Ingraham responds she doesn’t “want to be liked by them” and Carlson chimes in, “They’re pathetic.” The conversation continues with Hannity bemoaning the damage that has been done to the brand: “In one week and one debate they destroyed a brand that took 25 years to build and the damage is incalculable.”
Another text conversation by the trio three days later had Ingraham telling her colleagues that her anger at the news channel was “pronounced”, followed by an “lol”. In response, Carlson attacked two Fox anchors: “It should be. We devote our lives to building an audience and they let Chris Wallace and Leland [expletive] Vittert wreck it. Too much.” Wallace and Vittert have since left the network.
The three hosts then started musing about a path forward after Ingraham says they have “enormous power” and that they should think about how, together, they can force a change. Carlson’s response: “For sure. The first thing we need to do exactly what we want to do. That’s the key. Leland Vittert seems to have the authority to do whatever he wants. We should too.”
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New Delhi: The condition of the woman shot at inside a Delhi court complex was stated to be out of danger and stable, officials said on Saturday.
The woman is currently undergoing treatment at the premier All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) here. A police officer said the condition of the woman was out of danger and stable.
The accused, a debarred lawyer, had fired four rounds at the woman, identified as M Radha, and wounded her inside Saket court in south Delhi on Friday. A man who works as a ‘munshi’ in the court was also injured in the firing that occurred around 10.30 am.
Kameshwar Singh alias Manoj Singh, a resident of Durga Ashram in Chhatarpur, was arrested from a house in Faridabad where he was hiding after the incident. He has been booked under IPC Section 307 (attempt to murder) and sections of the Arms Act.
Singh had filed a case of cheating against the woman and her lawyer over a monetary dispute involving Rs 25 lakh. The hearing was scheduled for Friday.
On his complaint, a case was registered against Radha and she was arrested in December 2022. After she got conditional bail from Delhi High Court, he asked her to return the money but she refused.
Singh had warned Radha that if she did not return the money he would kill her in court. They had an argument over the issue on Friday, when they gathered for mediation, and Singh took the licensed revolver of his private security guard and opened fire on Radha.
(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by Siasat staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)
New Delhi: A woman, who was shot at in Delhi’s Saket court complex on Friday, is said to be critical and sources in the police said that the attacker has been identified.
According to the sources, the woman was at lawyers’ block in the Court complex when three to four rounds were fired.
The woman sustained gunshot wounds in the abdomen.
“The woman was taken to AIIMS hospital and currently, her condition is reported to be critical,” said a police official.
However, the accused, after firing at the woman, fled from the spot.
As per sources, the accused has been identified and is said to be a history-sheeter.
“It is suspected that there was some money dispute between the victim and the accused,” said the sources.
“A police team has arrived at the crime scene and it is scanning CCTV cameras in the area to ascertain the crime sequence and to trace the accused,” said the police official.
A question has been raised again on the security checks after the man entered the court premises with a weapon despite metal detectors and frisking by the security officials.
A day after a 20-year-old woman was shot dead in broad daylight in the Jalaun district of Uttar Pradesh, the accused was injured during police firing on Tuesday night.
On April 17, Roshni Ahirwar, a Bachelor of Arts (BA) student, was returning home after taking a test at her college when two men on a motorbike shot her dead with a handmade gun. They left the murder weapon near her body and fled.
Siasat.com spoke to Jalaun Superintendent of Police Iraj Raja who informed the accused – Raj Ahirwar – is being treated at the Government Medical College, Orai in Jalaun.
“Roshni’s relatives named Raj as the accused in their complaint. When the police went to arrest him, he started firing. In response, we fired back. Raj received two bullet injuries on his back and is currently being treated, ” the SP said.
The senior police officer also told Siasat.com that Raj and Roshni were in a relationship for over a year.
“Since they belonged to the same caste, their families had no objection to their affinity. They were even talks about marriage. However, two months ago, the couple had disagreements after which Roshni decided to break up with Raj,” SP Raja said.
According to the SP, Raj could not digest the breakup and started following Roshni by calling her constantly and through social media. Roshni however tried to ignore Raj’s advances.
Unable to accept that breakup, Raj decided to murder Roshni, the SP said.
Amid reports of Raj’s death in the cross-firing with the police, the SP stated that the former is alive and is being currently treated for his injuries. He also said that the couple were not engaged.
A case under sections 302 (Murder) and 506 (Punishment for criminal intimidation) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).
Roshni’s murder comes days after gangster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmed and his brother Ashraf were shot dead on LIVE television amid police security in Prayagaraj.
The Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) also shared the disturbing video clip on Twitter and targeted the UP government. “Will the wolves of Godi media and the BJP also celebrate this death?” the party wrote in the caption, in an apparent swipe at celebratory coverage of Atiq’s murder.
Kota :Traders in Kanwas town here shut their shops on Thursday to protest against two firing incidents in the market.
Two bike-borne men fired in the air at two different places in the market on Wednesday afternoon.
Station House Officer of Kanwas Police Station Kalyan Singh said the two have been identified as Shakeel and Atique, residents of Kanwas.
Prima facie, the shots were fired to terrorise the traders as no one was targeted. The real motive will be known only after interrogation of the duo, he said.
Holding the police responsible for the incidents, the traders, led by former local BJP MLA Heeralal Nagar, said the market would remain shut till the accused are not arrested.
Police have assured the traders that the culprits would be nabbed by Friday.
An FIR has been lodged against the duo following a complaint by traders, Koshal Soni, Madhusudan, and Himanshu, police said.
Soni is a local BJP leader and former panchayat samiti member.
Police personnel in large numbers have been deployed in the town to maintain law and order and prevent any untoward incident, officials said.
The traders accompanied by activists of Hindu organisations also submitted a memorandum to the SDM demanding the immediate arrest of the accused.
According to police, Shakeel and Atique have a criminal background.
Atique has three cases, including attempt to murder and Arms Act, lodged against him, Deputy Superintendent of Police Rameshwar Parihar said.
Several police teams are engaged to trace the accused, they said.
Jerusalem: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has withdrawn his decision to dismiss the Defence Minister whom he had recently said to fire for outspoken criticism of a controversial judiciary overhaul plan.
In a televised press conference on Monday, Netanyahu said that he decided to keep Yoav Gallant in his position, citing the escalating violence in the region, Xinhua news agency reported.
“I decided to put the differences we had behind us,” Netanyahu said, adding “Gallant remains in his position and we will continue to work together for the security of the citizens of Israel.”
While having embroiled for weeks in an internal debate over the contentious plan to reform its judicial system, Israel faced two Palestinian attacks that cost the lives of four people and barrages of rockets from Lebanon, Syria and the Gaza Strip amid escalating tensions with Palestinians in recent days.
Netanyahu announced the removal of Gallant, a senior member of Netanyahu’s right-wing Likud party, on March 26 after the minister called for a pause in the judicial overhaul that would weaken the powers of the Supreme Court and expand the authorities of the government.
Despite the announcement, Gallant technically remained in his ministerial post because Netanyahu never made the necessary formal steps needed for the firing to take place.
On Saturday, hundreds of thousands of Israelis held rallies across the country for the 14th week, calling on Netanyahu’s hard-right coalition government to cancel the reform plan.
Hathras: A bride who was booked here for celebratory firing, has gone absconding after the police began searching for her.
SHO of Kotwali Hathras Junction, Girish Chand Gautam, said, “A case has been registered against the bride Ragini, a resident of Hathras Junction area, under IPC section 25(9) (celebratory gunfire). Fearing arrest, she has absconded. We are on the look-out for her. We are also trying to identify the person who handed over the pistol to the bride.”
A video had gone viral on social media which shows a bride holding a pistol and firing several rounds in air while the groom sitting beside her, looks confused.
The police have registered a case against the 23-year-old bride on the charges of engaging in celebratory firing on her wedding day.
A relative of the bride recorded the video of the incident, which took place on Friday night at a guest house in Hathras district and uploaded it on social media.
The purported video shows an unidentified man handing over a pistol to the bride, identified as Ragini, who can be seen firing in the air after the garland exchange ceremony.
Additional Superintendent of Police Ashok Kumar said, “The matter is being investigated thoroughly. A case was registered against a bride for flouting norms related to celebratory firing after she fired four times in the air from a firearm during her wedding on Friday.”
One person in whose name the license of the firearm was issued, has also been booked on Sunday, said Girish Chand Gautam, incharge, Hathras Junction police station.
“Whoever uses firearm in a rash or negligent manner or engages in celebratory gunfire so as to endanger human life or safety of others shall be punishable with an imprisonment for a term which may extend to two years, or with fine which may extend to rupees one lakh, or with both,” reads section 25 (9) of the IPC.
Meerut: Three persons were arrested following a firing that took place over standing in a queue at the meeting centre of the Chaudhary Charan Singh jail here on Saturday, officials said.
According to police, four persons had an argument with a woman over forming a queue, one of whom fired at her. She had a narrow escape.
Police arrested three of them while one managed to flee from the spot.
Those arrested have been identified as Shokindra alias Johny (35), Vipin (30) and Shubham. All of them are residents of the Hastinapur area of Meerut. A pistol and two cartridges have been recovered from them.
The fourth associate is named Puneet.
Police have registered a case against the accused persons based on the complaint lodged by the woman.
SRINAGAR: The Union Territory of Ladakh plans to declare a field firing range in the Drass area of Kargil district, covering 5.69 lakh Kanals of land. The UT administration has issued a notification inviting objections from the general public.
The notification, issued by Umang Narula, advisor to LG Ladakh and administrative secretary, Home of the Union Territory, stated that objections must be communicated to the Deputy Commissioner of Kargil within two months from the date of issuance.
The Ladakh administration plans to allow field firing and artillery practice on a 5,69,911 Kanals and 17 Marlas area in village Matayen Kharu, district Kargil for five years, according to a proposal issued under sub-section (3) of section 9 of the Maneuvers, Field Firing and Artillery Practice Act, 1938.
The law requires that the State/UT administration issue an intention notice before designating an area as a field firing range for use by the forces. In 2017, the government of the former state of Jammu & Kashmir designated an area of 4,80,000 Kanals (60,000 acres) located at Mandalthang, Shayok in Durbuk sub-division, Leh district as a field firing range for five years. (KNO)
