'Dr Kafeel Khan, a former paediatrician at the centre of a controversy at a hospital in Uttar Pradesh’s Gorakhpur town, was granted bail by a court in Aligarh district on Monday, his family said. The relief for the doctor came almost two weeks after he was arrested by the state police from Mumbai airport for allegedly making inflammatory remarks during a protest against the Citizenship Amendment Act at Aligarh Muslim University in December...'
'Minors detained in Uttar Pradesh following widespread protests against the controversial Citizenship Amendment Act were thrashed each time they fell asleep or wanted to relieve themselves after being supplied with abundant water, claims a shocking report released by The Quill Foundation. The report, which is yet to be made public and has seen by The Quint, is based on discoveries made by the fact-finding teams of The Quill Foundation, Citizens Against Hate, Haq: Centre for Child Rights, along with media reports.
'“I don’t regret anything that I did,” said Srishti Kashyap, an aspiring politician and businesswoman who lives in Varanasi. “I had to come out and protest because everyone else was too scared to do it... We have become a country where an alleged rapist is given bail, but a peaceful protester is denied bail,” she said, referring to Chinmayanand, a former Union Minister, who is accused of sexually exploiting a law student.
'UP POLICE Wednesday arrested 19 protesters on charges of sedition and fired tear gas shells to disperse a protest against the CAA and the proposed nationwide NRC at a park in Azamgarh. Those arrested were among 35 persons named in the FIR, police said, including a woman identified as Munni Bano who was released “as she is a heart patient”. All those arrested were sent to jail, police said...'
'Ex-IPS officer and former Special Inspector General of Police (IGP) Abdur Rahman who was in Aligarh to address a protest at the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), was detained at the Lodha Police Station in Aligarh and asked to return to New Delhi. He was invited there by the AMU Students Co-ordination Committee to educate them on the new legislation... He told reporters that he was served a notice by the police that his presence at the AMU could result in a law and order problem.
'Former Uttar Pradesh Governor Aziz Qureshi was among the persons booked on Monday for leading a candle-light march in Lucknow against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act. Mr. Qureshi, 78, and eight others were charged under Sections 145 (joining or continuing in unlawful assembly, knowing it has been commanded to disperse) and 188 (disobedience to order promulgated by public servant) of the Indian Penal Code. He has also served as the Governor of Mizoram and Uttarakhand...'
'As shocking as it may sound but a man severed his wife's head in Uttar Pradesh's Barabanki and reached a police station holding his wife's head in his hand on Saturday. The brutal incident happened at Jahangirabad police station area's Bahadurpur village. A domestic fight lead to the cruel incident when the man severed his wife's head, walked all the way to the police station holding the wife's head in his hand.
'The Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force (STF) arrested Kafeel Khan on Wednesday night at the Mumbai airport for alleged inflammatory statements he made in December at the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) campus during a protest against the Citizenship Amendments Act (CAA). Khan arrived in Mumbai to attend an anti-CAA protest and was arrested with assistance from the Mumbai Police...'
'Granting bail to two persons accused of rioting and attempt to murder during the anti-CAA protests last month, a sessions court in Bijnor, one of the worst affected districts in Uttar Pradesh, has torn into police claims, saying they produced no evidence to show that the accused indulged in firing and arson, that weapons were seized from the accused, or that police personnel sustained any bullet injury...'
'“Women need male protection from birth to death and their energy/power (urja) should be controlled lest it becomes worthless and destructive.” “Only controlling women power will foster the birth and rearing of great men.” “There are inherent dangers in making women like men. If men acquire women like qualities they become God, but when women acquire men like qualities they become “rakshas” (demons).
