Friday, March 29, 2024

Topic: UP

Ghaziabad: NSA invoked against SP leader who appeared in Facebook Live with injured Muslim

The Uttar Pradesh police has initiated draconian National Security Act (NSA) proceedings against Samajwadi Party leader Ummed Pehelwan Idris in connection with the video of an elderly Muslim man named Abdul Samad assaulted allegedly by Hindu youth after forcing him to chant Jai Sree Ram in Ghaziabad.

UP: Arrests of Muslim scholars violate their constitutional rights, alleges Muslim body

All India Da'wah Centres Association has said that the recent arrests of two Muslim scholars Mohammad Umar Gautam and Mufti Quazi Jahangeer Quasmi by the Anti-Terrorist Squad of Uttar Pradesh under draconian anti-conversion law, violated the duo's constitutional rights at every stage.

“They showed a video of them attacking other Muslims”; 72 year old assaulted in Ghaziabad for not chanting ‘Jai Shri Ram’

Abdul Samad, 72 year old was brutally thrashed by Hindu extremists in Uttar Pradesh's Ghaziabad district for not chanting 'Jai Shri Ram' and not singing 'Vande Mataram'.

Punjab politics comes to a full circle with SAD-BSP alliance

The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) party announced a coalition with the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) ahead of Punjab and Uttar Pradesh 2022 elections. The alliance comes after a gap of 25 years after which the SAD forged ties with the BJP in 1997.

District Magistrate threatens journalist to slap NSA for reporting Muslims’ eviction near UP’s Gorakhnath temple

Masihuzzama Ansari, a Delhi based journalist who covered forced evictions of Muslim families near Gorakhanath Temple in Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh, was threatened by District Magistrate with arrest under the draconian National Security Act (NSA).

“There are still marks of our father’s blood…” say children who saw UP police killing their father

On 23 May, Mohammed Aqeel Qureshi, a 42 year old meat seller from Bulandshahr in Uttar Pradesh was resting with his wife and children on the terrace when police raided his house to book him in a cow-slaughter case. Police tried to extort money from Qureshi but ended in holding his collar, knocking a pistol butt on his head and throwing him off the terrace. His two daughters and wife were the eyewitnesses.