Following the Bengaluru police registered an FIR against Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman for her alleged involvement in extortion and criminal conspiracy through the now-scrapped electoral bond scheme, the Congress on Sunday demanded the union minister’s resignation and a Supreme Court-monitored SIT probe into the allegations.
The Uttar Pradesh Police on Sunday booked YouTube channel Hindustani Media for reporting that a Muslim man had been lynched by a mob in the state’s Shamli district.
At least 40 organisations, including civil society groups and student movements, released a joint statement expressing solidarity with Maktoob and freelance journalist Rejaz M Sheeba Sydeek, who was booked by Kerala Police for his story on Maktoob, highlighting alleged anti-Muslim bias by Kerala Police.
Muslim student leader and Fraternity Movement national secretary Sharjeel Usmani has approached the Bombay High Court for quashing the FIR registered against him in Pune for his speech at Elgar Parishad 2021 edition.
Maulana Saad Kandhalvi, the chief of Tablighi Jamaat has sought a copy of the FIR registered against him in connection with an event at Markaz mosque in Delhi's Nizamuddin in a letter to the Crime Branch of Delhi Police.