'The Hubli Bar Association, has passed a resolution on Saturday, February 15, deciding that none of it's members would appear for the three students from Kashmir, arrested on Sedition charges, for allegedly raising Pakistan Zindabad slogans and posting the video on social media. The three accused, who are studying Engineering in a city college were arrested on Sunday and produced before the Judicial Magistrate First Class, the court remanded the accused charged for sedition, to judicial custody till March 2...'
'Just days after Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray addressed a rally demanding the eviction of “Bangladeshis and Pakistanis” staying in India, his party workers have already formed a vigilante group. They have been going door to door, demanding that people show them their documents and reporting “suspicious persons” to the police. The party workers are calling this – an illegal act of criminal intimidation and an invasion of privacy – their “contribution” to the city police...'
'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.
'The arrival of an 'Indian team' in Pakistan for the World Kabaddi Championship has kicked up a controversy with the sports ministry and the national federation claiming that they have not given clearance to any athlete for competing in the neighbouring country... The tournament opens on Monday at the Punjab Football Stadium in Lahore followed by some matches which will also be held in Faisalabad and Gujrat. A sport ministry source said the government has not granted permission to any athlete to travel to Pakistan for the event...
'Bharatiya Janata Party leader Kapil Mishra on Thursday claimed there will be a match between India and Pakistan on the streets of Delhi on February 8. He was referring to the Delhi Assembly elections, which will be held on February 8, and the results of which will be out on February 11... In another tweet, with which he shared a link to an article in which Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia said he stood with protestors at Shaheen Bagh, Mishra claimed: “Aam Aadmi Party and Congress have created mini-Pakistans like Shaheen Bagh. In response, Hindustan will face them on February 8.
'The Army will take action if it receives orders to reclaim Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK), Army chief Gen. Manoj Mukund Naravane said Saturday. Gen. Naravane pointed out that there's a parliamentary resolution that all of Jammu and Kashmir, including the region occupied by Pakistan, belongs to India. If Parliament wants it, then PoK should belong to India, he said. When the Army gets orders to that effect, it will "definitely" take action, he added...'
'Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday extended New year greeting to top leaders of Bhutan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal and Maldives via telephonic conversation. PM Modi skipped Pakistan...'
'The Meerut Police have added the charge of sedition in the first information report filed in connection with the clashes during Citizenship Act protests on December 20, The Indian Express reported on Sunday. This came a day after a senior police officer was caught on camera telling protestors to “go to Pakistan”. “With respect to the violence by the protesters in Meerut on December 20, several FIRs for alleged rioting have already been filed,” Meerut Senior Superintendent of Police Ajay Sahni told The Indian Express.
'On December 28, BJP social media head Amit Malviya tweeted a video and claimed that it shows anti-CAA protesters in Lucknow raising ‘Pakistan zindabad’ slogans. Malviya wrote, “Since this is a season of pulling out old videos, here is one from Lucknow where anti-CAA protestors can be seen raising ‘Pakistan Zindabad’ slogans… Damn!
'A senior police officer from the sensitive town of Meerut in west Uttar Pradesh was filmed making extremely communal statements in a Muslim locality last Friday, when police personnel were dealing with violent protests that had broken out in the city after Friday prayers on over the new citizenship law. In a mobile phone video accessed by NDTV, Akhilesh Narayan Singh, who serves as Superintendent of Police(City) of Meerut, virtually the second in command in the district, can be seen walking in a narrow lane wearing riot gear.
