'...I have carefully listened to the speech Dr Khan made at AMU in December. He has nowhere spoken against any religious community. All that he said was that ‘we (i.e. Indian Muslims) are 25 crore (250 million) people, and we cannot be scared by lynching or making laws’ (“Tumhaari auqaat nahi ki tum humse kuch chheen sakte, hamein daraa sakte, hamein hataa sakte. Hum 25 crore hain”.) Dr Khan was voicing the feelings of many Indian Muslims who have the impression that this government is anti-Muslim.
'Kafeel Khan, the Uttar Pradesh doctor who was jailed after the death of over 60 children at a government hospital in 2017, has been charged under the tough National Security Act (NSA) for a speech against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act or CAA at a talk at the Aligarh Muslim University late last year. Dr Khan was granted bail on Monday after he was arrested by the Uttar Pradesh police last month from the Mumbai airport following a First Information Report (FIR) against him. However, he was yet to be released from the Mauthura jail...'
'The Uttar Pradesh police on late Thursday night slapped the stringent National Security Act (NSA) against Gorakhpur paediatrician Dr Kafeel Khan, hours before he was expected to walk free from the Mathura jail, four days after he was granted bail by Aligarh’s chief judicial magistrate...'
'The relatives of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLA Amanatullah Khan were alleged charged with batons by the Uttar Pradesh police in Meerut while they were celebrating the success of his re-election from the Okhla constituency of Delhi under which the Shaheen Bagh and Jamia Bagh areas fall, Hindustan Times reported. The incident took place at Khan’s village Agwanpur on Tuesday evening after the election results were announced. It was reported that the police stopped the celebration and baton-charged some of the relatives and asked them to disperse.
'A woman on Monday accused BJP MLA Ravindranath Tripathi and six others of raping her. "The woman, whose husband died in 2007, met MLA Ravindranath Tripathi's nephew in 2014. She said that she was physically exploited by him for many years on the pretext of marriage," said Ram Badan Singh, Superintendent of Police, Bhadohi...'
'The father of a rape survivor was shot dead by two bike-borne men in Firozabad on Monday, police officials said. The victim’s family alleged that the man accused of raping the deceased’s minor daughter last year was behind the attack. Taking strong view of negligence by police, inspector-general (Agra range) A Satish Ganesh suspended three cops. Besides, a reward of Rs 50,000 was declared on the absconding accused, Achhman Upadhyay, who allegedly raped the girl and shot her father dead...'
'In a provocative remark, BJP MP Satish Gautam said social activist Sumaiya Rana, daughter of leading Urdu poet Munawwar Rana, should "go to Pakistan" since she is feeling suffocated in today's India. The Aligarh MP made the remark while talking to reporters on Sunday. Sumaiya, while addressing a gathering of anti-CAA protesters in Aligarh on Saturday, accused the Uttar Pradesh police of using "coercive measures" to crush protests against the amended citizenship law and said such measures are "very suffocating" for the people.
'A saint, accused of raping a 14-year-old girl, has been arrested from Jhusi area by the Prayagraj police. According to reports, the accused has been identified as Sanjeev Kumar Rai a.k.a. Sanjeev Maharaj. Police sources said that Sanjeev Maharaj had allegedly raped the girl at his camp on the Magh Mela ground on February 5...'
'A BJP leader Monday demanded a ban on burqa, calling it a security threat and provocatively linking it to demon king Ravana’s sister Surpanakha. “Burqa should be banned in the country as has been done in several other countries,” Raghuraj Singh, who holds a rank equivalent to a minister of state in the Uttar Pradesh government, told reporters... “The burqa helps terrorists, thieves and anti-socials elements to hide behind it... Burqa is a threat to national security and has to be banned to crush terrorism,” Singh said...'
'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...'
