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Amarajivi Yadaiah, the Rebel: shame on governance in Bharatam.
Saturday, February 20, 2010
Amarajivi Yadaiah, the Rebel: shame on governance in Bharatam.
This aatman will live on. No state power can wish the life away, as
the last act of philanthropy of Yadaiah will be remembered for long.
The loot of the chamchas will give the chamchas no solace.
May his aatman stay united in paramapadam with the Paramaatman.
Is political power such a big deal that the life of Yadaiah should
have been sacrified to Agni deva? Let us remember what Vaak said in
Rigveda in the Rashtra sukta:
aham rashtrii samgamanii vasoonaam (I am the rashtra, the united
movement of all treasures...)
For sustaining this rashtra under sanatana dharma, let Yadaiah's be
the balidaan.
Weep my countrymen, bharatiyas. Weep for the tragic polity we have
built for ourselves. Weep and shed tears of joy celebrating the
Rebel Yadaiah of RangaReddy in Hindu rashtram.
Let Albert Camus' The Rebel ring memories of suicide as the ultimate
act of the rebel. The rebel will live forever in the hearts of all
Hindusthani.
dhanyavaadah.
S. Kalyanaraman
Youth who attempted self-immolation for Telangana cause dies
PTI, Feb 21, 2010, 09.59am IST
Hyderabad: A 19-year-old youth, who attempted self-immolation in the
Osmania University campus here in support of a separate Telangana
state, has died, police said on Sunday.
S Yadaiah from Nagaram village in adjacent Ranga Reddy district, who
had come to the university to take part in the students' agitation
for Telangana, had poured petrol over his body and set himself on
fire yesterday.
He was rushed to the Apollo Hospital, where he succumbed to the burns
last night, police said. Fearing a backlash from the student
community, the Andhra Pradesh police got the body shifted to his
native place early this morning.
City police commissioner A K Khan said Yadaiah's post mortem was
conducted and the body taken to his village.
Yadaiah, who set himself ablaze shouting pro-Telangana slogans in the
campus yesterday, was identified with help of some certificates found
in his bag along with a suicide note.
The note, purportedly written by him in Telugu, said the government
is not responding to the agitation for a separate Telangana.
"People like me will get jobs if Telangana state is formed. I am
giving life for Telangana and please don't stop this movement till
Telangana is achieved," the note said.
The incident last night sparked off tension in the university area,
where police sealed off the campus to prevent students from
participating in the 'assembly muttadi' (siege) announced by the
Osmania University Students Joint Action Committee.
Irate students broke some barricades in their attempt to move out of
the campus. Two state roadways buses were damaged and a private bus
was burnt by some unidentified persons near Jamai Osmania railway
station yesterday, police said.
Curfew-like situation had prevailed in most parts of the city
yesterday as police had put up barricades and restricted vehicular
movements on roads leading to the state assembly in view of the siege
call.
The restrictions were lifted after the assembly, which was adjourned
till Tuesday, finished its business in the afternoon. Students who
raised pro-Telangana slogans near the assembly were detained by
police.
Yadaiah planned suicide on Assembly premises
Express News Service
First Published : 21 Feb 2010 02:32:00 AM IST
Last Updated : 21 Feb 2010 02:37:40 AM IST
Hyderabad: An ardent supporter of separate Telangana, S Yadaiah (21)
can do anything for the cause. A few days ago he offered his hair to
Sri Lakshmi Narasimha Swamy at Yadagirigutta anticipating that the
Sri Krishna Committee would bring cheer to the people of Telangana.
Since the Telangana agitation began he has participated aggressively
in various protests and also enlightened his friends and local youth
of his little-known village of Nagaram in Maheshwaram mandal of Ranga
Reddy district about the needfor statehood to the region.
After losing his parents at a young age, Yadaiah studied up to 10th
Class at Victoria Memorial Residential School at Saroornagar.
"Yadaiah worked at Satya Restaurant in Saroornagar.
He is also a philanthropist and donates half of his salary to a
hostel for blind students,'' Yadaiah's uncle A Venugopal told Sunday
Express.
"It seems Yadaiah's decision to commit suicide was not spontaneous
but pre-planned. He reached the campus with his certificates, a bunch
of his photogrpahs taken with politicians and a suicide note,'' a
relative said.
"He promised to bring me a few books on Telangana literature and
history apart from flags to be distributed among the friends before
leaving for Hyderabad to participate in the Assembly Muttadi. I was
shocked to hear that he attempted suicide,'' said S Srinivas,
Yadaiah's friend. Scores of his friends and colleagues thronged the
Apollo DRDO Hospital at Kanchanbagh, where he is being treated for
burns.
"He completed SSC from VMM School at Saroornagar.
He is witty and brilliant in education. As his parents died a few
years ago, he decided to stop his studies and started working as a
photographer at Kothapet. Recently he joined a local restaurant,''
Venugopal added.
Family members said Yadaiah's brothers abandoned him after the death
of his parents. He, however, completed SSC and appeared for
Intermediate examination as a private candidate.
Sources said Yadaiah planned to take the extreme step near the high-
security Assembly premises had the Muttadi been a success.
"Yadaiah came prepared to commit suicide on the Assembly premises,''
a police officer said."
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Headmaster held on sexual harassment charge
STAFF WRITER 23:44 HRS IST
Kannur, Jan 31 (PTI) A government school headmaster was arrested
today
on the charge of sexually harassing a 11-year-old girl student in the
district.
The 48-year-old headmaster of Government Upper Primary School in
Karyad was arrested following a complaint by Parent Teacher
Association President N P Anwar, police said.
The girl had told her parents that she had been subjected to sexual
harassment by the headmaster over the last few months.
As the issue came to the fore, several parents came out with similar
complaints against the headmaster, the in-charge of the school for
last two years, they said.
He was produced before a local court this evening and remanded in 14
days judicial custody, police said.
A medical examination of the girl was conducted yesterday.
http://www.ptinews.com/news/494143_Headmaster-held-on-sexual-harassme...
Man arrested for raping mother-in-law
STAFF WRITER 22:22 HRS IST
New Delhi, Jan 31 (PTI) A man was arrested for allegedly raping his
65-
year-old mother-in-law in south Delhi, police said today.
The incident was reported from Mehrauli and it came to light when the
wife of the accused Naseeb (30) informed the police about it.
A medical examination of the victim confirmed rape and 30-year-old
Naseeb was arrested.
http://www.ptinews.com/news/494119_Man-arrested-for-raping-mother-in-law
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Surat gang rape case: All 3 accused get life term
ANI
Posted: Friday , Feb 19, 2010 at 1156 hrs
Surat:
A local court here on Friday awarded life sentence to the three
accused in the infamous July 2009 Surat gang rape case that had
rocked
the city.
A Principal and Sessions Judge held the three accused in the infamous
gang rape case and sentenced life imprisonment to the accused Sahid
Syeed, Tariq Syeed and Abu Bakr Ismail.
The trio raped 17-year old class 12th schoolgirl around 5 a.m. on
July
12, 2009 while she was on her way to the tuition. She was picked up
by
the accused in their car posing as police officials, who then raped
her in the vehicle shocking the conscience of the people of the city.
The accused had also recorded the rape on their mobile phones. The
three were however, arrested within hours of the incident.
The chargesheet in the case was filed on July 24, 2009. The hearing
was scheduled on day-to-day basis.
The accused Shahid and Tariq are sons of police officials.
The city was on boil after the incident and circulation of MMS. There
were protests in the city after the gang rape of a 17-year-old minor
girl.
The court has completed the hearing time in record time and announced
the verdict within a year of incident setting an example for others.
13 Comments |
Surat Rape Case
By: Frank Steve | Friday , 19 Feb '10 15:38:35 PM
Undoubtedly, this is a good example of speedy justice. But on the
other hand it is very selective. Can the judiciary show the same
courage and speed in convicting the rapists involved in rapes during
the Gujarat riots, or should the rapists change their names to Shahid
and Tariq.
Secular
By: moon | Friday , 19 Feb '10 15:01:56 PM
I wonder how long before the "secular" people in the country take out
candlelight marches to set the accused free on the grounds that they
are "discriminated against, humiliated, backward, and only wanted to
avenge the 2002 riots"
fast judgement
By: raj | Friday , 19 Feb '10 14:22:06 PM
JUDGEMENT DELAYED JUDGEMENT DENIED! DEAR JUDGES PL DONT WASTE UR AND
OUR TIME ON KASAB CASE. TELL UR VERDICT IMMEDIATELY. DONT SAY IT IS
VERY SENSITIVE CASE! A ABSOLUTE NONSENSE. FURTHER GOVT SPENDING
UNNECESARILY ON HIM TO GIVE BIRYANI AND MEETING ALL HIS PERSONAL
REQUIREMENTS. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE FINISH IT FAST BEFORE HE BECOME
OLD
AND DIE NATURALLY
Surat gang rape case: All 3 accused get life term
By: sathviok | Friday , 19 Feb '10 14:11:07 PM
WOW THE COURT TOOK ONE YEAR TO GIVE A JUDGEMENT FOR A CASE.HOW MUCH
THE GIRL HAS SUFFERED FOR ONE YEAR.OUR LAW BOOK SHOULD BE WRITTEN
ONCE
AGAIN.THE PERSONS WHO GOT A LIFE TERM AND WHO FATHERED THEM SHOULD BE
REMOVED OF THEIR POSTINGS ASLO and made to beg on the roadsssss
Life term?
By: Indi | Friday , 19 Feb '10 14:05:12 PM
These animals deserve more than life term.
SHAME FOR THE YOUNGSTERS
By: TRUE INDIAN | Friday , 19 Feb '10 13:50:43 PM
THIS IS HOW EFFICIENT TE BJP GOVT RUNS UNDER CM NARENDRA MODI INSPITE
OF BEING THE SONS OF A POLICE OFFICER THEY WERE TERMED TO SENTENCE IN
JUST ONE YEAR. IF IT WOULD BE CONGRESS GOVT THAN THE GOVT WOULD HAD
RUN CASE FOR YEARS AND THERE WUOLD BE NO RESULTS.
You are right
By: Indi | Friday , 19 Feb '10 14:07:13 PM
You are absolutely right man. Look at the case of afzal and kasab. It
is still being dragged and will be dragged and will be dragged as
long
as cong rules. Bravo Modi. Shame on cong who can sell country for few
votes as they have been doing when ever they are in power.
I m with u
By: Mayur | Friday , 19 Feb '10 14:34:26 PM
Yes. Modi is great as he has always been. Does anyone know that
someone did bomb blast at the same court?
Hope, other long pending cases of rapes on tribal girls are also
expedited.
By: Babubhai Vaghela Ahmedabad | Friday , 19 Feb '10 13:36:34 PM
Two infamous rape cases of Gujarat. Patan case took more than a year
with twists and turns. Surat case has taken about seven months. Hope,
other long pending cases of rapes on tribal girls are also expedited.
Gujarat Govt done a great job
By: S roy | Friday , 19 Feb '10 13:24:28 PM
Gujarat Govt done a great job, others should learn from Guj Gove.
"Hang" would have been better for them.
Sons of Policemen should be hanged
By: bharadwaj | Friday , 19 Feb '10 13:21:48 PM
What a joke! They destroyed the life of a child. They should have
been
destroyed. After 10 good years inside jail they will be back to do
same acts. let us hang them!
Why not a capital punishment
By: harsha | Friday , 19 Feb '10 13:19:51 PM
why does the tax payer take the burden of these morons... the court
should have set an example by awarding Capital Punishment. Judiciary
is sometimes the last hope and that is slowly waning... probably the
sections under which they have charged cannot be awarded capital
punishment... Then is the Hon Law minister listening
Fast Judgement
By: Nishit Desai | Friday , 19 Feb '10 13:17:24 PM
The judgement is historic and fast. However, it is time that all rape
offenders be compulsorily executed. We must have death penalty for
rape and terror related offences.
http://www.indianexpress.com/news/surat-gang-rape-case-all-3-accused-...
India's 'Most Sensational Crimes of the Year 2009' (Flashback)
Posted On: 22-Dec-2009 15:49:44 By: Anjali Singh
New Delhi: The alleged rape and murder of two women in Shopian in
Kashmir, the kidnap and murder of a call centre employee in Delhi,
the
gang rape of a management student in Noida, the mysterious death of a
Muthoot house scion in Kerala, and actor Shiney Ahuja's arrest for
allegedly raping his maid were some of the sensational crimes that
hogged newspaper headlines in 2009.
Following is a list of some of the major crimes of the year:
The deaths on May 30 of Neelofar Jan, 22, and her sister-in-law Asiya
Jan, 17, in Shopian town of Jammu and Kashmir state continues to hog
the limelight. The deaths led to a massive furore in Kashmir Valley
with allegations that the women were first raped and then murdered,
with some pointing fingers at the security forces.
The CBI in its Dec 14 report to the state high court ruled out rape
and murder and said the women died due to accidental drowning in a
stream.
The kidnap and murder of call centre employee, Jigisha Ghosh, 28,
outside her south Delhi house on March 17 this year rocked the
national capital. Jigisha was speaking on the phone and walking
towards her apartment after being dropped by a cab hired by her
office, Hewitt Associates, around 4.30 a.m. when she was pulled into
a
car by some men. Police say the killers made her give them her bank
debit card secret identification number and withdrew Rs.20,000 from
an
ATM. They killed her and dumped the body near Bhatkal Lake in
Faridabad and then went on a shopping spree with her credit cards.
Four men were arrested.
The Aug 21 murder of Muthoot house scion Paul M. George, 32, shocked
Kerala and grabbed national headlines. George, a bachelor, was
travelling in a car at night with two men who have several criminal
cases against them.
His body was found in Alapuzha. Questions were raised about what
George was doing with two known bad elements. Police have arrested 19
people on charges of involvement in the murder while his father, M.G.
George Muthoot, has asked for a CBI probe.
The gangrape of a 24-year-old MBA student in the vicinity of the
capital Jan 6 was among the most sensational crimes. The girl, a
resident of south Delhi, was with her male friend inside a car parked
near the Noida Expressway when a group of 10 youths, back from
playing
a cricket match, dragged her out of the car. They took turns to rape
her.
According to police, the rape was in celebration of their cricket
victory. The youths were arrested.
Another case that hogged the limelight was the alleged staged
shooting
by police of 24-year-old MBA student Ranbir Singh in Dehradun July 3.
He was allegedly shot at point-blank range 30 times by Dehradun
police. The CBI said police personnel first beat up Singh in the
lockup and then drove him to the Ladpur jungles near Dehradun where
they fired 30 shots at him from close range.
Goa was very much in the news in 2009. A 25-year-old Russian woman
was
allegedly raped by a Goa politician.
The woman, who was employed as a Russian liaison representative in a
five-star resort in Goa was having dinner with a woman friend on Dec
1
night when she was offered a lift by John Fernandes. She alleged
Fernandes raped her in the car. The politician will have to surrender
before the Goa trial court as the Supreme Court on Friday told him
that he deserved no relief in the form of pre-arrest bail.
The coastal state was in the news in October too when 10 bodies,
including that of seven young women, were found in a span of three
days. The killings were the handiwork of two groups - a scrap dealers
gang and two local goons, who along with women accomplices, would rob
and kill their victims.
In another shocking crime, Orissa cadre Indian Administrative Service
(IAS) officer Jagadananda Panda killed four members of his family
'one
by one', firing at them from his service revolver before turning the
gun on himself in his home in Deogaon in Bargrah district. The
incident took place in July. Panda was a 1983-batch IAS officer and
had worked in several important positions in the Orissa bureaucracy
before he left for Delhi on a central deputation in 2006.
The crime scene did not spare Bollywood. Actor Shiney Ahuja was
arrested in June for allegedly raping his domestic help. Shiney has
reportedly told the court it was not rape but consensual sex. He was
in the lock-up for nearly four months and denied bail on at least two
occasions. He had come to Delhi to his parent's home. He is at
present
out on bail and back in Mumbai.
In Haryana, a young woman, Alka, consumed poison along with her
husband outside the office of the Rohtak range inspector general of
police, alleging she was raped by five men and the police were not
taking any action. Alka died in a hospital in Rohtak while her
husband, Sunil, survived. She allegedly took the extreme step after
she failed to meet the IGP.
http://www.mynews.in/India's_'Most_Sensational_Crimes_of_the_Year_200...
MP: Woman gang-raped at railway station
Posted On: 26-Oct-2009 18:25:53 Source: Rohit Sharma
Bhopal : A 23-year-old woman was allegedly gangraped by five people,
including one in khaki uniform, at Katni railway station in Madhya
Pradesh, police said Monday.In a complaint lodged with the Government
Railway Police (GRP) in Betul, the 23-year-old woman said she was
assaulted late Saturday when she was waiting for her husband who had
gone out for buying some food.
"A man in uniform came to me and asked why I was sitting at the
platform alone. When I told him that my husband has gone out to bring
some eatables, he started asking foolish questions. Realising that he
was unnecessarily harassing me, I moved on to the other platform but
he followed me there also and asked me to accompany him to the police
station as my husband has been arrested," the woman said in her
complaint filed Sunday.
She said while taking her to the police station, the man stopped her
at an isolated corner of the platform where four others joined him
and
all five raped her in turn. As they left, they threatened that her
husband would be arrested if she reported the matter to the
police.The
Government Railway Police (GRP) have lodged a case against
unidentified attackers and are investigating the matter."It is too
early to say anything. We are waiting for the medical report for
further action," a GRP official said.
http://www.mynews.in/MP__Woman_gang-raped_at_railway_station_N28561.html
2 Prez guards get Life term sentence in rape case
Posted On: 22-Aug-2009 19:37:00
New Delhi: A city court on Saturday awarded life sentence to two
members of the President''s bodyguard in the 2003 Buddha Jayanti Park
gangrape case.
Assistant Sessions Judge S.K. Sarvaria awarded life imprisonment to
Harpreet Singh and Satender Singh for raping a 17-year-old student of
a Delhi University college, while two other members, Kuldeep Singh
and
Manish Kumar, were given 10 years' rigorous imprisonment each.
The four have been found guilty under sections 394 (robbery), 366
(kidnapping) and 34 (common intention) of the Indian Penal Code
(IPC).
Harpreet and Satender have also been convicted for gangrape under
section 376 (2G) of the IPC.
The victim, who had gone with her friend to the park near Rashtrapati
Bhavan on Oct 6, 2003, was raped by Harpreet and Satender while the
other two Kuldeep and Manish kept watch.
The prosecution examined 25 witnesses to establish the rape charge.
The four first roughed up the girl's friend and then took her to a
secluded place inside the park where they raped her, the prosecution
had maintained.
http://www.mynews.in/2_Prez_guards_get_Life_term_sentence_in_rape_cas...
Woman sold after gangrape in UP
Posted On: 19-Jul-2009 16:01:00
Muzaffarnagar: A woman was allegedly sold for Rs 10,000 to a man
after
being gangraped by her abductors, police said on Sunday.
According to the police complaint, the woman was picked up by two men
from the railway station on her arrival here from Delhi on July 8
under the pretext of giving her lift.
The men then took her to an unknown location and raped her for two
days. She was later sold for Rs 10,000 to a person in Solapur village
in the district.
However, the woman managed to escape from the house of her buyer
yesterday.
http://www.mynews.in/Woman_sold_after_gangrape_in_UP_N21991.html
5-year-old girl gangraped in TN
Posted On: 09-Jul-2009 20:47:00
Chennai: In a shocking incident, a five-year-old girl was allegedly
gangraped by a group of unidentified persons who left her in a
suburban locality.
Police said the incident occurred in the wee hours of Sunday in
Egathur village on the IT corridor.
The victim''s father, Mohan Rao hailing from Andhra Pradesh, had
immediately taken her to a private hospital which refused to admit
the
child on the plea that she was a minor and it was a police case. The
girl was later admitted to the Government Institute of Child Health
here, the police said.
Kelambakkam Police, investigating the case, said Egathur village has
a
large number of construction workers from Andhra Pradesh. "We are
interrogating all close relatives of the child. Around 3,000 workers
from Andhra Pradesh are believed to be working at this site," a
police
official said.
http://www.mynews.in/5-year-old_girl_gangraped_in_TN_N21131.html
DFS officials begin test of Surat gangrape accused
Posted On: 23-Jun-2009 13:33:00
Gandhinagar: Following the psychological profiling of the three
gangrape accused brought from Surat, the forensic science experts on
Tuesday began their preliminary test for narco analysis, sources
said.
Though officials at Directorate of Forensic Science (DFS) remained
tight-lipped about the case, sources said after completion of the
psychological profiling of the three accused of raping a teenage
girl,
some preliminary tests which are part of narco analysis were
conducted
on them.
"Even I have not been informed about what was happening inside. I
have
been told to bring them to DFS in the morning and take them back in
the evening," Inspector I I Hadia, who brought the three to DFS from
Surat, said.
Narco test is being conducted on the three accused to know about
other
crimes committed by them as police found numerous video clips in
their
mobile phones.
http://www.mynews.in/DFS_officials_begin_test_of_Surat_gangrape_accus...
MMS clips to play crucial role in college girl’s gang rape: Police
Posted On: 21-Jun-2009 19:08:00
Mumbai: The video of the alleged gangrape of a 19-year-old girl at
Mira Road recorded by the accused would be crucial evidence in the
case than the medical report of the victim because of the time lapse
since the incident.
"We will have to depend more upon MMS clips on mobile phones
recovered
from the accused. Though the victim would undergo medical
examination,
we may not have strong medical evidence against the accused as a lot
of time has passed since she was raped," an investigating officer
told
PTI here.
"In this case, MMS clips and circumstantial evidence will be
crucial,"
the officer said.
An Arts Faculty student of a private college in Mira Road was
allegedly raped on two occasions on May 14 and June 6 by the accused,
who filmed the crime to blackmail her.
http://www.mynews.in/MMS_clips_to_play_crucial_role_in_college_girl’s_gang_rape__Police_N20176.html
Rape Victim Commits Suicide at DGP's office in Haryana
Posted On: 09-May-2009 09:50:00
Rohtak: Another rape victim in Haryana committed suicide in Front of
Rohtak DGP''s office in protest. Alka, who was gangraped by five
persons, tried to kill herself with her husband on Wednesday at
police
officer’s office, with the result Alka died and her husband is in
serious condition.
Alka’s relatives have refused to cremate the body until the police
officers and the guilty are punished.
Alka had filed a case of gang rape against five persons at a police
station in Panipat but the accused are still free due to lack of
evidence.
Alka is survived with two children who are 7 and 5 years old.
Earlier, Sarita a rape victim committed suicide by consuming poison
in
front of a police station in Haryana after the police failed to act
against the rapists.
http://www.mynews.in/Rape_Victim_Commits_Suicide_at_DGP's_office_in_H...
Hindu man saved me from being gang-raped: Nun
Posted On: 19-Nov-2008 14:44:00
New Delhi: The nun, who was allegedly raped during communal violence
in Kandhamal, has told the Crime Branch of Orissa police that after
the sexual assault, she was saved by a local Hindu man from being
gangraped, police said today.
During her examination by the Crime Branch team in New Delhi, the 29-
year-old nun said that she was raped at K Nuagaon in Baliguda during
Orissa bandh on August 25, the sources said.
Though two others also molested and attempted to rape her immediately
after the incident, a local Hindu man came toher rescue and saved her
from being gangraped, the nun was quoted to have said in her
statement
before the Crime Branch team.
Inspector General of Police (Crime Branch) Arun Ray confirmed that
both the nun and Father Thomas Chelan, only witness to the incident,
were examined between 5 p.m. and 7.30 p.m. According to sources, the
nun was confident that she would be able to identify the accused,
with
whom she had a scuffle.
However, the alleged victim was worried that she might not be able to
identify the two others who had also attempted to rape her as she was
in a semi-conscious state after being raped, they said.
Expressing her unwillingness to go to Kandhamal again, she urged the
Crime Branch team to organise the Test Identification Parade (TIP) of
accused persons anywhere in Orissa except Kandhamal, sources said.
Narrating her experience, the nun said that the rape was committed
near a stair case of a building, the sources said.
After the incident, she was shocked and completely speechless as her
only help Father Chelan was assaulted by the mob, they said.
The examination of the nun and Father Chelan was held nearly three
months after the incident as both of them were unwilling to cooperate
with the probe saying they had no faith in Orissa police.
However, after the Supreme Court rejected a plea for handing over the
case to the CBI and asked the nun to assist the investigation, they
agreed to cooperate.
Ten persons have been arrested in connection with the incident and
the
state government has suspended six police personnel on charges of
dereliction of duty on the basis of the allegation made by the nun.
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Orissa: Teenager gangraped in Kendrapara
Posted On: 03-Sep-2008 16:44:00
Kendrapara: Police have registered a case against three youths of
Narayanpada village under Kendrapara Police station of the district
on
the charge of gang raping are 18-year-old girl.
Police said the girl was allegedly gangraped by the youths on Sunday
evening at the Bankimundei school. After keeping mum for the last two
days, the victim lodged an FIR last evening.
As per the report, the girl, an inmate of a short stay home in
Kendrapara, had an affair with one Dillip Mallick of Narayanpada
village seven months back. On Sunday evening Dillip allegedly asked
her to meet him at Bankimundei School.
While she was sitting with Dillip at the school veranda Fukuli,
Raghua
and Basant of the some village reached the spot and asked Dillip to
go
home as his father was looking for him. After Dillip left, the three
youths allegedly raped her and fled from the spot.
Police said all the youths, including Dillip, were absconding and
efforts were on to arrest them.
http://www.mynews.in/Orissa__Teenager_gangraped_in_Kendrapara_N9634.html
Two get death penalty for murder of Australian woman
Posted On: 11-Aug-2008 18:25:00
Two taxi drivers were on Monday awarded the death sentence by a Delhi
court for killing Australian tourist Dawn Emilie Griggs, after
gangraping and robbing her, in 2004.
"Jyotish Prasad and Ashish Kumar, for the offence of brutal murder of
the Australian tourist, you be hanged till death," Additional
Sessions
Judge Vinod Kumar said, pronouncing the sentence in a packed
courtroom.
The court also imposed a fine of Rs 3,000 each on the two convicts
who
were held guilty of gangrape, robbery, destruction of evidence and
common intention. The court had convicted the two accused on August
2.
Griggs was found murdered in a deserted area in New Delhi on March
17,
2004 within hours of landing at the Indira Gandhi International
Airport from Hong Kong.
Besides awarding the death penalty for murder, the court also handed
down the convicts rigorous life imprisonment for gangraping the
tourist, who had come to India to join a meditation course.
On pronouncement of the verdict, convict Prasad''s mother started
crying inconsolably inside the courtroom. "My poor and innocent son
is
wrongly being awarded the death penalty," she said.
Griggs, who landed in Delhi from Hong Kong on a Cathay Pacific Flight
in the wee hours of March 17, 2004 for enrolling for a meditation
course with the Brahmakumari Aishwarya Vidyalaya, had taken a pre-
paid
taxi from IGI airport and was later found murdered.
The court convicted Prasad, 28, and Kumar, in his early 30's, for the
various offences in a case which hinged on circumstantial evidence.
As there was no eye-witness to the gruesome killing, the prosecution
had relied upon circumstantial as well as forensic evidence,
including
the DNA reports of the convicts, to prove its charges against them.
The police had traced the duo by scrutinising the records of the pre-
paid taxi booth at the airport. Prasad was arrested on the date of
the
incident while Kumar was apprehended on his disclosure on March 21.
During the arguments on the quantum of sentence, the prosecution had
sought the gallows for the two cab drivers, describing the offence as
a 'stigma' on the country.
Public Prosecutor Vinod Kumar said that both the convicts had not
only
murdered a foreign tourist but also killed the trust of a foreign
nation. The offence is a stigma on the country, which believes in the
policy of 'Atithi
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Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2010 23:22:51 -0800 (PST)
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Man held for raping daughters .
Sunday, 21 February 2010 03:00 .
Lucknow, Feb. 20: A 50-year-old man has been arrested in Barabanki
district for allegedly raping his two teenage daughters for nearly
two
years.
Siyaram Rawat, a resident of Sarai Saif village in Barabanki and a
farmer by profession, Lucknow, repeatedly raped his daughters, aged
17
and 14, at a rented house near his farm where he had held them
captive. Rawat has confessed to his crime.
According to police reports, Rawat had taken a small house on rent in
Pahi village saying that it was near his fields.
He took his elder daughter to the house, forced her to drink alcohol
and then raped her. A few days later, he brought his younger daughter
and subjected her to similar treatment. He would lock up the girls in
the house while going to work.
On Friday, the two girls somehow managed to break open a window and
escaped from the house. They narrated the incidents to their mother
and later went to the police with their complaint.
Rawat was arrested on Friday night from his house.
Amita Verma
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bademiyansubhanallah
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday said the government understood
the situation in Andhra Pradesh over the Telangana issue and would
deal with the problem appropriately.He conveyed this to a group of 11
Congress Lok Sabha members from Telangana who met him in Parliament
House and sought stopping of police repression on students on the
Osmania University campus, withdrawal of cases filed against them and
an early solution to the issue as the people were pressuring the
elected representatives to quit their posts.
The MPs expressed their disappointment over non-mention of the
Telangana issue in the President’s address to Parliament.According to
the Peddapalli MP, G. Vivekanand, Dr. Singh said: “I can understand
the situation in Telangana. We will deal with the situation.”Concern
over deaths.Madhu Yaski (Nizamabad) said Dr. Singh told them that the
government was working out a solution and also expressed concern over
the deaths of people during the agitation.
Earlier, during the President’s address, some Telangana MPs wore black
shirts and waved placards — which read “Jai Telangana, Jai Congress” —
demanding the creation of a separate State. They staged a protest near
the Gandhi statue in the Parliament complex and mourned student
Yadaiah, who immolated himself recently in Hyderabad pressing for a
separate State.The MPs claimed that after the President’s address they
observed a two-minute silence in the Central Hall in memory of those
who laid down their lives for the cause of Telangana.
Meanwhile, Congress spokesman Abhishek Singhvi said it was not
necessary for the President to comment on every issue. Non-mention of
an issue did not mean it had been left out of the policy of the
government and the Cabinet.He denied that the government was not
according priority to the Telangana issue. “It has got so much
priority that it has now gone on the process of a committee.”
Christian group demands jobs, protection for riot victims
By IANS
February 23rd, 2010
BHUBANESWAR - A Christian group Tuesday demanded adequate jobs and
protection for riot victims in Orissa’s Kandhamal district where at
least 38 people were killed during communal violence in 2008.
“Hundreds of riot victims continue to live under fear as justice
eluded them,” Sajan K. George, president of Bangalore-based Global
Council of Indian Christians (GCIC), told reporters here.
Although the district officials denied the claims and said adequate
steps have been taken to rehabilitate the victims and to ensure their
security, George said he has come across a large number of cases and
found that no jobs were given to many of the victims.
Citing examples he alleged that people living in at least 14 villages
have no means of livelihood and their children are not able to go to
schools due to fear.
“The people living in 14 villages from Bakinga to Behragao Khari Sahi
have no means of livelihood. No jobs were given to them. Their
children are not able to go to school fearing safety,” George said.
“GCIC demands the government ensure employment to all the victims
under National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme and protection to
their families,” he said.
“Though the riot victims had filed 3,232 complaints in different
police stations in Kandhamal district, only 832 cases were registered;
while 89 people were convicted, 251 were acquitted due to lack of
evidence,” he said.
“A special investigation team under National Human Rights Commission
should investigate the role of the district officials including the
collector, block and tehsil officers,” he said.
“It is strange that officers in whose presence the violence took place
and thousands of houses were burnt are still in office and are
declaring that there is peace in the district,” he said.
Kandhamal, about 200 km from here, witnessed widespread violence after
the murder of Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) leader Swami Laxmanananda
Saraswati and four of his aides at his ashram Aug 23, 2008.
More than 25,000 Christians were forced to flee their homes after
their houses were attacked by rampaging mobs, which held Christians
responsible for Saraswati’s killing, although police blamed the
Maoists.
LS, RS adjourned over price rise
TNN, Feb 23, 2010, 11.29am IST
Both houses of Parliament adjourned over price riseNEW DELHI: Both the
houses of the Parliament were adjourned on Tuesday, the second day of
the budget session, as the opposition parties cornered the ruling UPA
over price rise.
With opposition sticking to its demand, there was an uproar in Lok
Sabha with government insisting that the problem of price rise was
"more a failure" of the state governments than the Centre.
Meira Kumar adjourned the house till noon after opposition MPs
including those from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the Rashtriya
Janata Dal (RJD) and the Samajwadi Party (SP) demanded that their
adjournment motion be accepted and all other businesses of the house
postponed to discuss the skyrocketing prices of essential
commodities.
The house witnessed noisy scenes soon after the speaker introduced
Sushma Swaraj of the BJP as the new Leader of Opposition welcoming
her.
"I extend warm welcome to her," she said.
Meira Kumar also thanked former leader of the opposition L.K. Advani
for his support in running the house.
Swaraj returned the compliment to the speaker but said she was
compelled to move an adjournment motion "because the government has
been sleeping over the price rise issue".
"I am sorry but the people are suffering. We want discussion on top
priority basis. All the businesses should be delayed. The price rise
is the most important issue," Swaraj said.
"Please accept my adjournment motion. We will allow the house to
function but price rise should be discussed first."
Other opposition members shouted slogans against the government
forcing the speaker to adjourn the house.
Earlier, BJP had insisted on bringing an adjournment motion in the Lok
Sabha to discuss the issue of price rise as previous debates have
yielded no results.
"We want to bring an adjournment motion in the Lok Sabha on the
burning issue of price rise. Previous debates under Rule 193 (short
duration discussion) have yielded no results," party's Deputy Leader
in the Lower House Gopinath Munde told reporters here after the
Parliamentary Party's meeting this morning.
The BJP had already given a notice for adjournment motion and said the
government should not make it an ego issue.
A discussion under an adjournment motion entails voting. Similarly in
Rajya Sabha, BJP wanted a debate on price rise under Rule 167 which
allows voting.
BJP MLA & son face arrest in land-grabbing case
Nikunj Soni / DNA
Tuesday, February 23, 2010 11:30 IST
Ahmedabad: Babu Jamana Patel, a powerful MLA of the BJP, is likely to
face arrest in an alleged land grabbing case. In a recent hearing in
Gujarat high court, the state government has shown willingness to
arrest and interrogate Babu.
One Pravin Patel had earlier lodged a complaint against Babu Patel,
his son Ketan and their accomplices after Pravin and his family
members were beaten up in 2008 by men allegedly hired by the MLA.
The dispute was over a land owned by Pravin in Nidhrad village in
Sanand. Pravin has alleged that the MLA was threatening him in
connection with some inter-connected cases of land grabbing in Ambli
and Nidhrad village of Sanand.
He has also alleged that the MLA and his henchmen have tried to grab
lands in Ambli and Nidhrad using fake documents and creating legal
disputes. However, during the investigation, which was first carried
out by the Sanand police and then state CID, the charge-sheet did not
make a mention of the MLA and his son.
Pravin then moved an application for further investigation under
various charges, which was granted by the court. But when the MLA got
an anticipatory bail from the Ahmedabad rural court, he challenged it
in the high court.
During the hearing in the high court, Devang Vyas, assistant public
prosecutor appearing for the state, supported the petition moved by
Pravin.
Vyas submitted that the state supported the petition with the
submission that Babu and his son were indeed required to be arrested
and subjected to custodial interrogation, so as to bring out full
facts of the case and unearth the missing links in the case.
He further said that the state had not moved the court for
cancellation of anticipatory bail, but had proposed to make an
appropriate application for their police custody.
On the other hand, counsels on behalf of the MLA and his son said that
Pravin was unduly expanding the scope of investigation as an after-
thought to harass and malign Babu and his son. After the hearing,
justice DH Waghela upheld the order of the lower court for further
investigation as sought by the state.
It should be noted that Pravin has also moved a petition in the high
court seeking investigation by the CBI in the case
http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report_bjp-mla-and-son-face-arrest-in-land-grabbing-case_1351444
SC directs AP govt to furnish proof on involvement of Maoists
PTI
Tuesday, February 23, 2010 12:08 IST
New Delhi: The Supreme Court today directed the Andhra Pradesh
government to furnish "proof" of the reported intelligence inputs to
establish that Maoists have infiltrated the Osmania University, the
hotbed of the ongoing Telangana agitation.
"Where is the input of the infiltration inside the campus? What is the
proof available? We would like to have it," a bench of justice GS
Singhvi and justice Asok Kumar Ganguly observed while passing the
direction.
The apex court posted the matter for further hearing for February 25
after senior counsel Harish Salve said inputs would be furnished
before the bench either tomorrow or the day after.
The apex court passed the direction after Salve repeated the state's
arguments that deployment of paramilitary forces was indispensable as
the movement is instigated by the Maoists.
The bench also extended till February 25 the stay imposed on the AP
high court order directing withdrawal of the paramilitary forces from
the university campus.
Maoists should not lay pre-conditions for talks: Chidambaram
PTI
Tuesday, February 23, 2010 11:14 IST
Last updated: Tuesday, February 23, 2010 12:04 IST
New Delhi: Responding to the ceasefire offer by Maoists, the
government today made it clear that it will not accept any pre-
conditions for talks with "ifs and buts" and asked the militants to
come out with a simple statement saying they will abjure violence.
"I would like no ifs, no buts and no conditions," home minister P
Chidambaram said in a statement, a day after the CPI(Maoists) made a
conditional ceasefire offer asking the government to halt the
offensive against them for 72 days and involve mediators for talks.
He said the government has seen many versions of a statement by the
leaders of the CPI (Maoist). "In the absence of an authentic
statement, Government is unable to respond to these versions," the
statement said.
Nevertheless, in order to clear the air, the home minister said, "I
would like a short, simple statement from the CPI (Maoist) saying 'We
will abjure violence and we are prepared for talks'".
Chidambaram said he would like the statement to be faxed to home
ministry number 011-23093155.
"Once I receive the statement, I shall consult the prime minister and
other colleagues and respond promptly," he said.
Yesterday night, top Maoist leader Kishenji told the media over the
phone from an undisclosed place that "State governments and the Centre
should not indulge in violence between February 25 and May 7 and
concentrate on development of tribal areas which will be reciprocated
by Maoists".
He was responding to Chidamabaram's statement last week that if the
Maoists halted violence for 72 hours, the government would be ready
for talks with them.
Hours after announcing ceasefire, Maoist attack security camp in West
Midnapore
PTI
Tuesday, February 23, 2010 9:33 IST
Midnapore: Hours after offering a conditional 72-day ceasefire to the
Centre and West Bengal government, Maoists attacked the Kantapahari
camp of the security forces in West Midnapore district, leaving one
person dead.
The attack took place late last night in the Naxalite stronghold of
Kantapahari.
Superintendent of police, Manoj Verma said Maoist-backed People's
Committee against Police Atrocities (PCPA) members assembled near the
Kantapahari camp of the forces and fired, prompting the jawans to
challenge them.
In the ensuing gunbattle, one person, believed to be a PCPA member,
was killed.
"The PCPA members, with a number of Maoists among them, obviously had
plans to attack the Kantapahari camp but the jawans were alert and
repulsed them," Verma said.
More forces have been despatched to the area.
Unconfirmed reports said the deceased has been identified as Lalmohan
Tudu, a PCPA activist.
The attack came hours after Maoists made a conditional ceasefire offer
asking the government to halt the offensive against them for 72 days
and involve mediators for talks.
"State governments and the Centre should not indulge in violence
between February 25 and May 7 and concentrate on development of tribal
areas which will be reciprocated by Maoists," top Maoist leader
Kishenji said over phone from an undisclosed place.
Kobad Ghandy remanded in two-day police custody
PTI
Monday, February 22, 2010 20:45 IST
Patiala: A local court today remanded Maoist leader Kobad Ghandy to
two-day police custody.
Ghandy was brought here by Patiala police on production warrants from
Delhi today in connection with an FIR registered against him on
January 25 at the sadar police station here under Anti National
Prevention Act 2008.
Police has "sufficient details" to prove that the Maoist leader stayed
at Patiala university under a fake name Kishore, SSP RS Khatra said.
The police told the court that they wanted to investigate whether
Ghandy did anything to spread Naxalism in Punjab.
During his brief stay here, Ghandy may have established some hidden
and active links which the police are trying to ascertain, Khatra
said.
"Ghandy had managed to procure an identity card of Punjabi University
here. We are trying to locate his accomplice, Manoj alias Rajesh, who
may also be a member of the banned CPI-Maoist," he said, adding that
the police are investigating if the extremist leader has links with
any student leaders or other staff members of the university.
http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report_kobad-ghandy-remanded-in-two-day-police-custody_1351282
Maoists will now be confronted, warns P Chidambaram
October 7, 2009
Strongly condemning the cold-blooded murder of a cop who was abducted
and killed by the Maoists, Indian Home minister P Chidambaram said the
state governments were geared up to give tit for tat to the Maoists.
http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report_kobad-ghandy-remanded-in-two-day-police-custody_1351282
Villages score when it comes to sex
Ipsita Bhattacharya / DNA
Monday, February 22, 2010 11:32 IST
Bangalore: When it comes to premarital sex, India’s rural youth score
more than their urban counterparts. According to a study done by the
International Institute of Population Sciences, 17% of men in rural
areas engaged in pre-marital sex compared to 10% in cities while four
percent women in rural areas engaged in sex before marriage against
two per cent in cities.
The study, which was released by Nobel laureate Amartya Sen and Union
health minister Ghulam Nabi Azad on Saturday, was conducted in six
states—Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, Maharashtra, Rajasthan and
Tamil Nadu—between 2006 and 2008, involving over 58,000 youths in the
age group of 15-29 years.
But there also a cause for concern. “Almost all sexually active young
people in both cities and villages had unsafe sex with multiple
partners,” Azad said.
“Data shows more than 8 per cent people below 19 have experimented
with sex,” said Azad. There is also some disturbing statistics that
the study has thrown up. Almost 58% of women surveyed believe that
wife-beating is justified and a huge chunk of this number comes from
southern states like Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh.
In Tamil Nadu, 56% accepted wife-beating as a part of life and a
shocking 88% from Andhra Pradesh was okay with it.
The study also found that detailed awareness of contraceptive methods
was limited, particularly among sexually active young women.
“Awareness of HIV/AIDS was limited among sexually experienced youth
with majority of women unaware of it,” the study said.
With agency inputs
http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report_villages-score-when-it-comes-to-sex_1351016
Young India fails to mix sex and safety
Vineeta Pandey / DNA
Tuesday, February 23, 2010 1:56 IST
New Delhi: More and more Indians may be shedding their inhibitions
about sex and getting more ‘physical’ than generations gone by, but
they seem poor at managing libido and protection together.
Despite huge campaigns focusing on safe sex, a majority of Indians
engage in unprotected sex. Condom use in premarital sexual
relationships is almost non-existent.
According to a study, only 13% of men and 3% of women used condoms
during sex. Intriguingly, most of those who were surveyed were aware
of the benefits of contraception.
The recklessness could have a reason. The study reveals that a large
chunk of the youth surveyed felt uncomfortable buying contraceptives,
including condoms, from a healthcare provider or pharmacy.
The study, Youth In India: Situation And Need, by the Mumbai-based
International Institute of Population Sciences, says that not only
were a substantial number of youngsters getting involved in premarital
romance and sexual relationships, most also indulged in high-risk
sexual behaviour, including having multiple partners and using condoms
inconsistently.
The survey involved 50,848 married and unmarried young men and women.
Incidentally, 25% men had sex with two or more partners while 21%
young women reported multiple partners — all this without using
condoms. But urban young men were more likely than their rural
counterparts to report consistent condom use (21% versus 11%).
Only 43% young men and 59%young women who were sexually experienced
before marriage knew that a woman can get pregnant because of just one
unprotected sexual encounter. This reveals a pathetic level of
awareness about the reproductive system and human anatomy.
This casual and unsafe sex often took place in the shadow of fear as a
majority of young women feared pregnancy or infection at the time of
first or unprotected sex. As many as 62% of unmarried young women
reported fear of both pregnancy and infection, compared to 55% of men.
Condoms and contraceptives became part of the sexual encounters only
at a subsequent stage as the relationship progressed.
Similarly, in-depth awareness of contraceptive methods was limited
among youngsters as 15% men and 39% women did not know that one condom
can be used for only one sexual act. Awareness of HIV/Aids was also
limited among such sexually experienced youth.
The study was commissioned by the Union ministry of health and family
welfare. Its findings break the widespread perception that the youth
in India do not find opportunities to mix and form romantic
relationships and that the incidence of premarital sex is negligible.
It found that 23% of young men and 21% of young women had either been
approached by or had approached a person of the opposite sex for a
romantic liaison and it happened before marriage for many.
The study, for the first time, looked at key transitions experienced
by young people in six states — Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand,
Maharashtra, Rajasthan, and Tamil Nadu. These states were selected to
represent the different geographic and socio-cultural regions within
the country, and they together represent two-fifths of the country’s
population.
http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report_young-india-fails-to-mix-sex-and-safety_1351405
NDFB militant killed in encounter in Assam
PTI
Tuesday, February 23, 2010 11:51 IST
GUWAHATI: A militant of the NDFB (Daimary) faction was killed in an
encounter with security forces in lower Assam's Kokrajhar district
today.
The extremist, belonging to the anti-peace talk Ranjan Daimary group,
along with two others exchanged fire with the security forces at
Howraguri Narayanpur, official sources said.
In the encounter, the militant was killed. An AK-56 assault rifle with
five bullets and two magazines were recovered from the slain ultra.
Two other NDFB insurgents fled from the spot.
http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report_ndfb-militant-killed-in-encounter-in-assam_1351453
Column
Performance is the watchword for Muslims
Firoz Bakht Ahmed
Monday, February 22, 2010 1:04 IST Email
It agonises people like me who follow the voice of reason and sanity
that the issue of quotas (a non-issue) for Muslims has turned into
such a major point of contention. What is clear however is that the
political establishment is not sincere about the community’s education
and social uplift. It is still treating the
Muslims as a vote bank.
The Congress, which has approached the Supreme Court regarding the
beleaguered minorities’ reservations after the Andhra Pradesh High
Court refused it, is only good at paying lip-service. The Muslims must
accept the fact that for the third consecutive time since 2004, the AP
government’s attempt to provide reservations to the Muslim community
failed judicial scrutiny. Earlier, the high court had quashed the
government order in 2004 and another Act in 2005. West Bengal is
making the same mistake. Salman Khursheed, the minorities affairs
minister ought to know that history has proved time and again that
reservations on communal lines are not in the interest of national
unity and integrity.
For the Congress, the lesson comes from India’s first prime minister
Jawaharlal Nehru. Nehru had stated while addressing an important
session of the Constituent Assembly on May 26, 1949: “If you seek to
give safeguards to a minority, you isolate it. Maybe, you protect it
to a slight extent but at what cost — at the cost of isolating and
keeping it away from the main current.”
It would be worth examining also as to what the other founding fathers
say about reservations. While a vote was sought for the charter of
providing political safeguards to the minorities according to articles
292 and 294 of the 1949 draft Constitution, five leaders (all Muslims)
out of seven, namely Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, Maulana Hifzur Rehman,
Begum Aizaz Rasul, Hussainbhoy Laljee and Tajammul Hussain had voted
against it. Interestingly, Sardar Patel had vehemently supported the
charter.
The problem with this kind of lop-sided reservation is that the real
beneficiaries of reservation may be the economically well-off among
the “backward community” members who generation after generation reap
the benefits at the expense of those who are poor and illiterate.
The minority tag must be shunned by the Muslims. A day after the
reservations bill was passed (August 28, 1947), Maulana Hasrat Mohani,
a member of the Constituent Assembly, had objected to the use of the
word “minority” for Muslims. “I refuse to accept Muslims to be a
minority. Now you say you have done away with this communalism. Are we
not calling a minority to refer only to Muslims? The Muslims refuse to
be called a minority if parties are formed on political line,” he had
stated. Maulana was not allowed to speak further on the subject as the
bill was already discussed and passed. As per this observation, the
Muslims were a minority decades ago but now they are not. In fact,
they are the second majority.However, two years later, Muslims were
removed from the list of reservation beneficiaries while the scheduled
castes have been receiving these benefits.
The process of reservation will hardly solve the community’s problems.
It is divided into umpteen castes and sub-castes, a system Muslims
have borrowed from the Hindus. Muslims have four major caste
divisions: Ashraf at the top (Syed, Sheikh, Mughal and Pathan), Atraj,
the second rung (Rajput, Tyagi, Thakur, Jaat), Azrab, the third rung
(Julahe, Kunjre, Darzi, Mirasi, Qasab, Naiee, Mahigir etc), and Azlab,
at the lowest rung (Halalkhor, Chamar and Lalbezi).
However, there is a way out of reservations. Let the Centre as well as
the states institute financial aids on the basis of performance
instead of seat reservations. If Muslims will compete, participate and
become go-getters, India is bound to prosper. The voices of reason
should demand that educational standards and qualifications should be
uniform, whatever the language, religion or region.
http://www.dnaindia.com/opinion/column_performance-is-the-watchword-for-muslims_1350918
Editorial
Ticking off Tel Aviv
Friday, February 19, 2010 21:22 IST
The killing of Hamas commander Mahmoud al Mabhouh in a Dubai hotel
last month has been carried out by a team of 11 assassins carrying
stolen passport identities of those belonging to Britain, Ireland,
France and Germany. There is little doubt left that Israel’s spy
agency Mossad is behind this.
Hotheads in India and elsewhere will be tempted to applaud an apparent
act of daredevilry that brazenly violates laws of many countries — the
United Arab Emirates (UAE), where the killing took place; Britain,
Ireland, France and Germany where the passport identities were stolen.
Hawks would, in their irrational zeal, argue that this is the way to
defend national security — by going to every extreme to kill opponents
who are hostile to the country and win glory in the process. This
would be nothing but an advertisement for pigheadedness.
As a matter of fact, this killing in Dubai has made the lives of
Israelis less safe, not more. All of those stolen identities are those
of Israeli nationals with European passports. By carrying out the
killing in the UAE, Israel has turned the Gulf country into hostile
territory, which does not in any way strengthen the security of
Israel. And the Zionist state has shut the door on friendly relations
with Arab countries in the future.
The stealing of those passport identities has not only embarrassed
Israel-friendly countries in Europe, it has made it difficult for
those countries to support Israel and share intelligence as in the
case of Britain.
It is possible to psychoanalyse the Zionist zealots at the helm of the
Israeli state and find extenuating motives for their crimes. It is
possible to rationalise that Zionists carry the mind of the hunted and
in their desperate last stand they commit irrational crimes. But this
kind of indulgence is not a luxury that anyone can afford in the real
world. The world is not a couch.
Israel has for too long manipulated world sympathy for the sufferings
of Jews in Christian Europe and in Nazi Germany, culminating in the
unspeakable Holocaust. It expects the world to turn the other way when
it breaks the law and commits crimes with impunity.
Israel has today almost become like a rogue state, rivalling North
Korea and Pakistan. It is necessary for the international community,
especially Europe and the US, to tick off Tel Aviv.
This should be done to protect Israelis from the hubris of their
rulers. It is also necessary to rein in Israel to marginalise jihadi
terrorists and to maintain peace in West Asia. Zionism and jihadism
feed each other but the world cannot be drawn into the deathly duel.
http://www.dnaindia.com/opinion/editorial_ticking-off-tel-aviv_1350098