The torched Wagon-R in which the Tanzanian girl was travelling. (Photo: DC)
A 21-year-old Tanzanian girl student passing by the scene of a road accident was assaulted and stripped by a Muslim mob incensed following a road accident on Sunday, where a Sudanese medical student, Mohammed Ismail, had knocked down a local resident Sabeen Taj and her husband Sanuallah — causing the death of the 35-year-old woman and injuries to her husband.
The incident took place at Ganapathinagar in north Bengaluru, off Hesaraghatta Main Road, where a number of African students live and study at local colleges.
Pakistan High Commission had asked the organisers of Karachi Literature Fest to convey to Anupam Kher to not apply for the visa as it won’t be approved. Now, the Pakistan Government is saying he never applied for one. Such lies and double-faced games of the Pakistani state are not surprising – but what did surprise many is the way our Adarsh Liberals and deracinated elites jumped to Pakistan’s defense and mocked Anupam Kher.
One of the severed arms of Bhavani Mata at the small temple located inside a quarter of Karachi’s Zoological Gardens.
Source: Dawn.com
Three pistol-waving bearded Muslim men stormed a 60-year-old temple in Pakistan’s largest and most cosmopolitan city, Karachi, and desecrated the murti (idol) of Bhavani Mata, leading to fear among the minority Pakistani Hindu community there.
In the continued politicization of Rohith Vemula’s suicide, leftist student groups from JNU & DSW held a ‘protest’ outside the RSS office in Jhandewalan, NewDelhi. Below is a short video of these ‘protests’ where the students can be heard abusing PM Modi, and also singing the below lines –
“Neem ka patta kadwa hai, Narendra Modi b***a hai”
The Army and Indian Air Force (IAF) say that Sambia (Tausif) Sohrab, son of TMC leader Mohammed Sohrab, rammed his Audi Q7 SUV into Corporal Abhimanyu Gaud outside Fort William, Kolkata on 13 January as part of a planned conspiracy. It was an act of high treason and the driver should be charged accordingly, lawyers representing the Ministry of Defence (MoD) will plead in court even if the Kolkata Police only charge the driver with murder alone.
“The driver should not get any opportunity to get away. From whatever evidence we have collected so far, he was fully aware of the reasons for which the road was blocked. He also knew that military contingents would be rehearsing for the Republic Day Parade on Red Road. Despite his knowledge, he smashed into barricades and sped towards the gathering of officers and soldiers. This clearly reveals his intent. We have mentioned all this in the FIR,” a senior MoD officer said.
According to an official in Delhi, both the IAF and the Army are still not too sure that the prosecution will put in all efforts to ensure that Corporal Gaud’s family gets justice. At least, the attitude of the police in the first few days after the incident has not given them any confidence. Though the MoD has been claiming from the start that there was only one occupant in the vehicle, the Kolkata Police has not yet made any official statement confirming this.
“The FIR also mentions how officers and other personnel made an extreme effort to stop the SUV. The driver, however, swerved towards them in a threatening manner. All of this points to a planned conspiracy to cause as much harm as possible to military personnel performing their duties,” the officer added.
Another officer who witnessed the entire episode sheds more light. A traffic constable tried to stop Sambia Sohrab as he tried to enter the prohibited zone. Had the driver not had intentions to cause death, he would have never crossed the barrier by force. Even had he done so on impulse, he would have slowed down or stopped on seeing so much activity ahead, the officer said.
Recap
Source: telegraphindia.com
An Audi SUV associated with the sons of a Trinamul leader, Mohammed Sohrab, breached multiple barriers at the doorstep of Fort William, Kolkata and flung to death an Air Force Corporal, instructing a contingent rehearsing for the Republic Day parade at daybreak. Corporal Abhimanyu Gaud, who hailed from Surat in Gujarat and traced his roots to Uttar Pradesh, was only 21. He was serving his first post at Kalaikunda after joining the Air Force a year-and-a-half ago, and was planning to build a house at his native place in Gorakhpur, UP.
The Audi Q7 is registered in the name of a company called Mussadi Business Pvt Ltd. According to the Registrar of Companies, Ambia Sohrab is an additional director and Tousif Sohrab, also known as Sambia, is a director of the company. Ambia and Sambia are the sons of Mohammad Sohrab, a Trinamul leader and a former legislator elected on a ticket from Lalu Prasad’s Rashtriya Janata Dal with Left support. Sohrab senior is said to wield considerable clout in Burrabazar, Kolkata’s business hub.
The SUV eventually stopped 200 metres away. But the occupants of the car slipped away – an inexplicable feat on the flat and vast terrain that offers few hiding places and with the nearest available vehicles 400 metres away as traffic was restricted for the annual parade rehearsal.
The police blamed fog but once the political connection of the SUV emerged, there were murmurs that the suspects were allowed to walk away. The SUV and its unidentified occupants had a free run for nearly a kilometre, challenged only by guardrails that were tossed away like matchsticks under high-velocity impact.
Corporal Abhimanyu Gaud & the Audi car which mowed him down
An arrest warrant has been issued against Mohammed Sohrab, but he and his elder son Ambia Sohrab (in whose name the Audi is registered) are still absconding. Kolkata police believe the duo is trying to cross over to Bangladesh. 3 days after the gruesome murder, police finally managed to arrest Sambia Sohrab and 2 of his friends, Shahnawaz Khan & ‘Johnny’ (full name not yet revealed by police), who are also believed to be part of the conspiracy.
The three arrested have been booked under IPC sections 120(B) (criminal conspiracy), 302 (murder), 307 (attempt to murder), 201 (causing disappearance of evidence), 212 (harbouring offender) and 427 (mischief causing damage).
Ambia Sohrab and his brother Sambia have had run ins with the law before, and are known to flaunt their father’s ‘connections’. “My father is an ex-MLA and now a Trinamool leader. Think of the consequences before you even touch me,” threatened Ambia Sohrab to a bouncer who tried to ask him why he landed a punch on the manager’s face who was refusing him and his friends entry into a Kolkata discotheque in December 2015. A day after his father’s victory in the 2006 West Bengal assembly elections, Ambia slapped a traffic cop after flouting traffic norms. He was detained, but was let off after a few hours.
Ambia Sohrab’s friends include sons of several noted political leaders. One of his close friends is Kadir Khan, the gym instructor who was the prime accused in the Park Street rape case. Khan is still absconding.
(This report has been curated from the following news sources – 1, 2, 3, 4)
In a significant development, the Akhil Bharatiya Akhada Parishad (ABAP), an apex orgnization representing Hindu Sadhus and Sants and composed of 14 Akharas, has given a ringing endorsement to the new book ‘The Battle For Sanksrit’ by Shri Rajiv Malhotra. In a letter reproduced below, ABAP President Mahant Narendra Giri says,
“After reading the book, The Battle For Sanskrit, the Akhada Parishad realizes the importance of training our sadhus in the modern academic discourse concerning our sanskriti. Only then can we participate and give our responses. It is clear to me that the academic interpretation of our sacred texts has been taken over by scholars who are not properly experienced in the Vedic tradition. We the akhadas are the true insiders of the tradition, and our adhikara should not be replaced by the views of outsiders especially those living a non-Vedic lifestyle.
As the book advocates, we respect the freedom of speech of everyone, including the outsiders. It is up to us as the traditional adhikaris to rise to the challenge being posed by the outsiders. We must respond by presenting the traditional understanding with mutual respect, as the author of the book proposes. I am calling upon our scholars to properly study the writings of Westerners, to have open and fair debates with them on key issues, and to take back the study of Hindu Dharma for the well being of our samaj.
Shri Rajiv Malhotra rightfully provokes us to start our own university of Indology, where we will teach how to do purva-paksha and uttara-paksha on Western indologists.We cannot necessarily change the thinking of outsiders, but we must protect our samaj from becoming intellectually hijacked and infiltrated by harmful lifestyles and values.
I wish the book great success and recommend our akhadas to invite the author and understand his work.
This move assumes significance as it portends that the intellectual awakening in Hindu samaj has taken deep roots. There is a realization cutting across various classes of Hindu society about the need to tackle the intellectual threat to our Dharma, civilization and heritage, head on. Unlike Western ‘indologists’ such as Wendy Doniger and Sheldon Pollock who resort to distortion, cunning and even outright abuse to further their agenda, and their liberal-leftist sepoys who resort to extreme intolerance and goondaism when their viewpoint is challenged, it is heartening to see Hindu scholars talk about open debate and mutual respect.
This project of modernization within the framework of Hindu Dharma is much needed, and something which will have a far-reaching positive impact on Hindu society.
Shri Malhotra will be addressing 3 public sessions in New Delhi on the book ‘The Battle For Sanskrit’, and the schedule for these events is as below –
As the debate over Rohith Vemula’s death rages in media and political circles, it has taken a predictable turn as leftists, Islamists, secularists and anarchists look to milk his death for their respective goals.
Even though Rohith’s parents have issued a passionate appeal to not play politics over Rohith’s death, everyone from Derek O’Brien of TMC, Owaisi of MIM, Kejriwal of AAP, and Rahul Gandhi of Congress have descended on the University of Hyderabad campus to keep the political pot boiling.
Now, a new video has emerged on social media, which pieces together Rohith’s gradual progression from a hopeful young college student into a bitter and radical political activist. Watch to decide for yourself.
6 men convicted for rape and murder of Shipra Ghosh
Three convicts in the 2013 Kamduni gang-rape and brutal murder of 20-year-old college student Shipra Ghosh were on Saturday sentenced to death by a Kolkata city court, while three others got life imprisonment.
Additional Sessions Judge Sanchita Sarkar handed out a death sentence to ruling TMC party workers Ansar Ali, Saiful Ali and Aminul Ali, while Emanul Islam, Aminur Islam and Bhola Naskar were sentenced to life imprisonment for the gang-rape and murder of Shipra Ghosh on June 7, 2013.
In a shocking development, MLAs of Congress, BSP and RLD were seen holding banners demanding “Kamlesh Tiwari Ko Phansi Do” (Hang Kamlesh Tiwari) during protests against the Governor’s speech in the UP Assmebly.
A minor girl, 15 year old Twinkle Shaw, was raped, murdered and her body found dumped in a coal pit in Jamuria, Asansol, Bardhaman district of West Bengal on 26 January. The accused Mohammed Aftab Alam has been arrested by police after local people complained of police inaction.
