Twitter restricts account of standup comic Nitin Gupta over 2020 tweet listing crimes committed by Muslim mobs and Islamists
2 years, 5 months ago

Twitter restricts account of standup comic Nitin Gupta over 2020 tweet listing crimes committed by Muslim mobs and Islamists

Op India  

On June 30, Twitter restricted the account of standup comic Nitin Gupta for listing crimes committed by Muslim mobs and Islamists. It happened amid reports of the social media giant refusing to take action against those who hailed the murderers of Kanhaiya Lal on the microblogging site. Twitter restricted Nitin Gupta’s account over a tweet he published in 2020 Twitter said his tweet was found “Violating our rules against posting media depicting gratuitous gore.” The notice added, “You may not share excessively graphic media. In the last four days alone Yeh haal to tab hai, Jab dare hue hain!” Twitter had refused to take action against handle hailing Kanhaiya Lal killers Earlier, OpIndia reported that Twitter had initially refused to take action against a Pakistani Twitter user who hailed the killers of Kanhaiya Lal as ‘tigers of Islam’.

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From the India Today archives (2013) | Nirbhaya gang-rape: India's most hated
1 week, 3 days ago

From the India Today archives (2013) | Nirbhaya gang-rape: India's most hated

India Today  

It’s a quiet, rainy morning in a small village in the heart of western Uttar Pradesh. “At least three or four years,” hesitantly chips in another, “Bhura was a good boy.” This good boy is now seen by the rest of the country as evil incarnate. “Welcome to my life.” She has tears in her eyes when she starts talking …

Udaipur tailor Kanhaiya Lal murder accused Mohammed Javed granted bail
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Udaipur tailor Kanhaiya Lal murder accused Mohammed Javed granted bail

Live Mint  

The Rajasthan High Court on Thursday, September 5, granted bail to Mohammed Javed, one of the accused in the Udaipur tailor Kanhaiya Lal's murder case. The National Investigation Agency had arrested Mohammed Javed nearly a month after he and three others killed Kanhaiya Lal in June 2022. On June 28, 2022, tailor Kanhaiya Lal was working in his shop when …

Rajasthan High Court gives bail to Muslim man who informed the killers about Kanhaiya Lal's whereabouts, leading to his beheading
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Rajasthan High Court gives bail to Muslim man who informed the killers about Kanhaiya Lal's whereabouts, leading to his beheading

Op India  

On Thursday, September 5, Rajasthan High Court granted bail to Mohammed Javed in the Kanhaiya Lal murder case. Kanhaiya Lal was slaughtered by 2 rabid Islamists in Udaipur just because he posted a social media message in support of Nupur Sharma, former BJP spokesperson. Kanhaiya Lal was killed for uploading a social media post in support of ex-BJP spokesperson Nupur …

Bangladesh: Islamists kill Hindu journalist, politicians in the name of 'anti-government' protests
4 months, 2 weeks ago

Bangladesh: Islamists kill Hindu journalist, politicians in the name of 'anti-government' protests

Op India  

The anti-quota protest in Bangladesh, which culminated in anti-government agitation, is now taking a drastic turn. On Sunday noon, the ‘protestors’ laid siege on the Rayganj Press Club in Sirajganj and brutally attacked a Hindu journalist named Pradip Kimar Bhowmik. #Masskilling and #terrorism: the response from #Islamist opposition for banning #JamaatEIslami — — In #Narsingdhi, at least six #AwamiLeague leaders …

Pannun murder plot: Nikhil Gupta hasn’t sought consular access, says MEA
6 months ago

Pannun murder plot: Nikhil Gupta hasn’t sought consular access, says MEA

Hindustan Times  

NEW DELHI : The ministry of external affairs on Friday said it did not receive a formal request for consular access for Indian national Nikhil Gupta, who was extradited to the US last week. Gupta pleaded not guilty on Monday to murder-for-hire conspiracy charges in a court in Manhattan and a source close to his family told Reuters on Thursday …

Gurpatwant Singh Pannun murder plot: Nikhil Gupta extradited to US in Sikh separatist case
6 months, 1 week ago

Gurpatwant Singh Pannun murder plot: Nikhil Gupta extradited to US in Sikh separatist case

Live Mint  

An Indian man suspected by the U.S. of involvement in an unsuccessful plot to kill a Sikh separatist on American soil has been extradited to the United States from the Czech Republic, according to the federal Bureau of Prisons website and a source familiar with the matter. Nikhil Gupta has been accused by U.S. federal prosecutors of plotting with an …

Hindu tailor in Rajasthan receives threat from PFI over 'land issue'
1 year ago

Hindu tailor in Rajasthan receives threat from PFI over 'land issue'

Op India  

On Saturday, a Hindu tailor in Rajasthan’s Alwar district filed a complaint with the police after reportedly receiving a death threat from the banned radical Islamist outfit Popular Front of India. The tailor claimed that about two weeks ago, he received a handwritten letter containing explicit threats of bombing and death. Threat letter received by Sohanlal jatav However on Sunday, …

US says Indian gov’t official directed plot to assassinate Sikh activist
1 year ago

US says Indian gov’t official directed plot to assassinate Sikh activist

Al Jazeera  

Authorities in the United States have said that an Indian government official directed a failed plot to assassinate a Sikh separatist on US soil, as they announced charges against a man accused of orchestrating the attempted murder. On Wednesday, federal prosecutors said that Nikhil Gupta, a 52-year-old Indian man, had worked with an Indian government intelligence and security worker in …

'Udaipur tailor Kanhaiya Lal killers have links to BJP': Rajasthan CM Ashlot Gehlot's big claim ahead of polls
1 year, 1 month ago

'Udaipur tailor Kanhaiya Lal killers have links to BJP': Rajasthan CM Ashlot Gehlot's big claim ahead of polls

India TV News  

Rajasthan Assembly Elections: In a fresh attack on the Bharatiya Janata Party ahead of the assembly elections, Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot made a startling admission and said that the killers of Udaipur tailor Kanhaiya Lal Teli were linked to the BJP. Gehlot's remark came days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi accused the ruling Congress in Rajasthan of sympathising with …

2020 Delhi anti-Hindu riots: Police arrest Mohd Khalid in Ratan Lal murder case
1 year, 5 months ago

2020 Delhi anti-Hindu riots: Police arrest Mohd Khalid in Ratan Lal murder case

Op India  

On July 10, Monday, the Delhi police said that they have arrested a man near the Myanmar-India border over his involvement in the murder of Head Constable Ratan Lal during the anti-Hindu Delhi Riots of 2020. Mohammad Khalid is the brother of Mohammad Ayaz, one of the main conspirators of the murder of Head Constable Ratan Lal. Ratan Lal Murder …

Delhi anti-Hindu Riots 2020: Delhi Police arrest Mohd Ayaz, one of the main conspirators of Head Constable Ratal Lal’s brutal murder by Muslim mob
1 year, 6 months ago

Delhi anti-Hindu Riots 2020: Delhi Police arrest Mohd Ayaz, one of the main conspirators of Head Constable Ratal Lal’s brutal murder by Muslim mob

Op India  

On June 21, Delhi Police’s Special Cell said they had arrested Mohammed Ayaz, one of the main conspirators of the murder of Head Constable Ratan Lal during the anti-Hindu Delhi Riots of 2020. Notably, during the February 24, 2020 riots, a Muslim mob killed Ratan Lal while then-Assistant Commissioner of Police Gokulpuri Anuj Kumar and then-Deputy Commission of Police Shahdara …

Three years on, Ghaziabad police establish identity of murdered man
1 year, 7 months ago

Three years on, Ghaziabad police establish identity of murdered man

Hindustan Times  

The Ghaziabad police has established the identity of a 35-year-old daily wager, who was murdered more than three years ago, and said the prime suspect, a labour contractor, had forged his ID papers to present him as his brother and extort ₹5 lakh from the builder by portraying the victim’s on-site death as accidental. The police identified the prime suspect …

NIA makes ninth arrest in Kanhaiya Lal murder case
2 years, 4 months ago

NIA makes ninth arrest in Kanhaiya Lal murder case

Firstpost  

The agency said 41-year old Khan alias Muslim Raza, a resident of Pratapgarh in Rajasthan, played an ‘active role’ in the conspiracy New Delhi: National Investigation Agency has arrested Muslim Khan, an alleged conspirator in the brutal killing of a tailor in Rajasthan’s Udaipur, making it the ninth arrest by the central agency in the case, officials said. The agency …

Udaipur: Hindu Family Saves Muharram Procession from Fire Near Murdered Tailor Kanhaiya Lal’s House
2 years, 4 months ago

Udaipur: Hindu Family Saves Muharram Procession from Fire Near Murdered Tailor Kanhaiya Lal’s House

News 18  

In an act with potential to fill some of the breach between the two communities, Hindus rescued a ‘tazia’ from fire during a Muharram procession which was being carried out barely a few metres from Kanhaiya Lal’s shop in Udaipur. Kanhaiya Lal, a tailor, was brutally murdered in a hate crime over a month back by two Muslims, with the …

Two theories about Praveen Nettaru’s murder emerge: Kanhaiya Lal connection to retaliation for death of one Masood and agencies ignoring security concerns
2 years, 4 months ago

Two theories about Praveen Nettaru’s murder emerge: Kanhaiya Lal connection to retaliation for death of one Masood and agencies ignoring security concerns

Op India  

Praveen Nettaru, a Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha member, was hacked to death on July 26 by unknown assailants. Hindu activists and BJP workers surrounded BJP state party president Nalin Kumar Kateel’s car and heckled him as they protested Praveen Nettaru’s murder, demanding answers from senior party leaders. Govt will form a commando force with special training, intelligence, ammunition, resources to …

In India's Bitter Politics, Who Pays the Price for Hate Spread By the Powerful?
2 years, 5 months ago

In India's Bitter Politics, Who Pays the Price for Hate Spread By the Powerful?

The Quint  

As many will recall, in late June, prohibitory orders were imposed in Rajasthan for a month after two men hacked a tailor, identified as Kanhaiya Lal, to death inside his shop in Udaipur and posted a gory video online of the incident. They claimed that it was in retaliation for the victim supporting the Bharatiya Janata Party’s Nupur Sharma and …

Kanhaiya Lal murder case: 3 accused sent to judicial custody till 1 August
2 years, 5 months ago

Kanhaiya Lal murder case: 3 accused sent to judicial custody till 1 August

Live Mint  

A designated National Investigation Agency court today sent three accused in the Udaipur tailor murder case accused to judicial custody till August 1, according to a government lawyer. Riaz Akhtari, also known as Riyaz Attari, Ghouse Mohammad and Farhad Mohammad Sheikh were under NIA custody, and were produced in the court by a team of the anti-terror probe agency amid …

Udaipur murder case: NIA makes seventh arrest, section 144 revoked. Read here
2 years, 5 months ago

Udaipur murder case: NIA makes seventh arrest, section 144 revoked. Read here

Live Mint  

The Rajasthan administration lifted the curfew on Sunday in Udaipur even as the National Investigation Agency arrested a seventh person in connection with the brutal killing of tailor Kanhaiya Lal in Udaipur last month. The Rajasthan administration lifted the curfew imposed after Udaipur tailor Kanhaiya Lal Teli was beheaded in Udaipur on June 28. The Udaipur district administration notified that …

Udaipur murder case: NIA arrests 7th person
2 years, 5 months ago

Udaipur murder case: NIA arrests 7th person

Live Mint  

The National Investigation Agency Sunday said it has arrested a close criminal associate of one of the two main accused in connection with the brutal murder of Kanhaiya Lal in Udaipur last month. Farhad Mohammad Sheikh, arrested on Saturday evening, is the seventh arrest in the brutal killing of Kanhaiya Lal, a tailor in Udaipur's Maldas street neighbourhood. NIA spokesperson …

NIA chief meets Amit Shah over Udaipur, Amravati killings
2 years, 5 months ago

NIA chief meets Amit Shah over Udaipur, Amravati killings

Firstpost  

Tailor Kanhaiya Lal was murdered at his shop in Rajasthan’s Udaipur city on 28 June, while chemist Umesh Kolhe was killed in Maharashtra’s Amravati on 21 June New Delhi: Days after the Ministry of Home Affairs directed National Investigation Agency to take over the probe of the brutal killings in Rajasthan’s Udaipur and Maharashtra’s Amravati, NIA chief Dinkar Gupta on …

NIA to take over probe into killing of medical store owner in Maha’s Amravati
2 years, 5 months ago

NIA to take over probe into killing of medical store owner in Maha’s Amravati

Hindustan Times  

The National Investigation Agency will take over the probe into the killing of a medical store owner in Maharashtra's Amravati over an alleged social media post supporting suspended Bharatiya Janata Party spokesperson Nupur Sharma, whose comments against Prophet Mohammad triggered widespread condemnation in India and overseas. The ministry of home affairs has handed over the investigation of the case relating …

Centre asks social media firms to remove content justifying Udaipur beheading
2 years, 5 months ago

Centre asks social media firms to remove content justifying Udaipur beheading

Firstpost  

Kanhaiya Lal, a resident of Udaipur in Rajasthan, was killed on Tuesday by two cleaver-wielding men, Riaz Akhtari and Ghouse Mohammad, who posted a grisly video of the crime online claiming responsibility for the murder New Delhi: Social media platforms need to remove content that encourages, glorifies or justifies brutal murder in Udaipur, the ministry of electronics and IT said …

NIA to Link Udaipur Incident to Recent Killings in Maharashtra, Gujarat: Sources Tell News18
2 years, 5 months ago

NIA to Link Udaipur Incident to Recent Killings in Maharashtra, Gujarat: Sources Tell News18

News 18  

The National Investigation Agency will link Udaipur tailor Kanhaiya Lal’s killing to similar recent murders in Maharashtra and Gujarat, top agency sources told CNN-News18. Tailor Kanhaiya Lal was hacked to death inside his shop in Udaipur by two men, allegedly over a social media post in support of a suspended Bharatiya Janata Party spokesperson Nupur Sharma, who had made controversial …

Islamists 'celebrate' killing of Kanhaiya Lal, 2 arrested in Meerut, 1 in Noida
2 years, 5 months ago

Islamists 'celebrate' killing of Kanhaiya Lal, 2 arrested in Meerut, 1 in Noida

Op India  

Following the ruthless beheading of Kanhaiya Lal by two Islamists in Rajasthan’s Udaipur, several incidents have been recorded in which other Islamists supported the act and in some even cheered the horrendous crime. According to reports, the Uttar Pradesh police have arrested a person accused of celebrating the beheading of Udaipur tailor Kanhaiya Lal. #Noida police has arrested a Chhaprauli …

Udaipur killing: Police gave security to businessman who received similar threats
2 years, 5 months ago

Udaipur killing: Police gave security to businessman who received similar threats

Hindustan Times  

Around the time Udaipur tailor Kanhaiya Lal was receiving threats for a Facebook post in support of suspended Bharatiya Janata Party spokesperson Nupur Sharma, another businessman from the city was facing similar threats for a post on Islamic literature. “The family haven’t filed any official complaint with us, but we have been providing them a security cover from the first …

‘Hang the killers’: Family of murdered Udaipur tailor seek justice
2 years, 5 months ago

‘Hang the killers’: Family of murdered Udaipur tailor seek justice

Hindustan Times  

A public outcry erupted over the brutal killing of tailor Kanhaiya Lal, who was hacked to death in broad daylight in Rajasthan's Udaipur by two men for allegedly supporting suspended BJP leader Nupur Sharma. "We demand those people who murdered him should be hanged to death, we demand their death sentence and need justice," said Yashoda, a day after her …

Kanhaiya Lal Murder: Bajrang Dal, VHP protest at Jantar Mantar in Delhi
2 years, 5 months ago

Kanhaiya Lal Murder: Bajrang Dal, VHP protest at Jantar Mantar in Delhi

Op India  

On 29th June 2022, at Jantar Mantar in Delhi, Bajrang Dal and Vishwa Hindu Parishad staged a protest against the beheading of Kanhaiya Lal Teli. Kanhaiya Lal was killed by Islamists in Udaipur on 28th June 2022 for allegedly supporting Nupur Sharma. Hindus were expelled out of the Kashmir valley in a similar way.” A woman protestor said, “All the …

Udaipur murder | Timely action by Rajasthan police would have saved tailor’s life, says AIMIM chief Owaisi; calls killing ‘act of terror’
2 years, 5 months ago

Udaipur murder | Timely action by Rajasthan police would have saved tailor’s life, says AIMIM chief Owaisi; calls killing ‘act of terror’

The Hindu  

AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi on June 29 said the killing of Udaipur tailor Kanhaiya Lal as well as the past killings of Pahlu Khan, Mohammad Akhlaq and Mohammed Bhatta Sheikh were all "acts of terror," and blamed the Rajasthan police for not acting in time on Lal's complaint. When a person in Hyderabad issued threats to the suspended BJP spokesperson …

As NIA Slaps UAPA on 2 Accused of Udaipur Killing, Read Chilling Details from Police FIR - News18
2 years, 5 months ago

As NIA Slaps UAPA on 2 Accused of Udaipur Killing, Read Chilling Details from Police FIR - News18

News 18  

“You have written against our Nabi, you have no right to be alive. Tum kaafir Hinduon ko hum anjaam tak pahunchaenge.” This is what the two attackers said while brutally murdering tailor Kanhaiya Lal in Udaipur on Tuesday, as per the FIR registered by the police. “These two killers have operated as a gang to strike terror and panic amongst …

Madrasas are teaching that beheading is the lawful punishment of God: Arif Mohammad Khan on Udaipur murder
2 years, 5 months ago

Madrasas are teaching that beheading is the lawful punishment of God: Arif Mohammad Khan on Udaipur murder

Op India  

On June 29, Kerala Governor Arif Mohammad Khan reacted to the murder of Kanhaiya Lal, a Hindu tailor from Udaipur, by two Islamists. It’s being taught as the law of God…What’s being taught there should be examined: Kerala Gov AM Khan on Udaipur beheading case pic.twitter.com/oqys2KFGyS — ANI June 29, 2022 He said, “We worry when symptoms come but refuse …

Udaipur killing an act of terror by sleeper cell of Pak-based radical outfit: Intelligence sources
2 years, 5 months ago

Udaipur killing an act of terror by sleeper cell of Pak-based radical outfit: Intelligence sources

India Today  

The gruesome murder of a Hindu tailor, Kanhaiya Lal, in Rajasthan’s Udaipur, was a terror act by a sleeper cell of a Pakistan-based radical outfit, intelligence sources told India Today. Two men murdered a tailor on Tuesday and posted videos online that said they were avenging an insult to Islam after the victim had allegedly made social media posts in …

Day after Udaipur man's killing, ex-BJP leader says received beheading threats
2 years, 5 months ago

Day after Udaipur man's killing, ex-BJP leader says received beheading threats

Hindustan Times  

Naveen Kumar Jindal, a former leader of the BJP who was expelled from the party for his tweet on Prophet Mohammed, on Wednesday said he received a threat that he and his family will meet the same fate as Kanhaiya Lal, a tailor, who was beheaded in Rajasthan’s Udaipur a day ago for supporting Nupur Sharma, another suspended spokesperson of …

Media 'secularises' the beheading of Kanhaiya Lal by Islamists in Udaipur
2 years, 5 months ago

Media 'secularises' the beheading of Kanhaiya Lal by Islamists in Udaipur

Op India  

On June 28, a Hindu tailor was beheaded in broad daylight by two Muslim men in Udaipur’s Dhan Mandi area of Bhoot Mahal for putting social media status in support of former BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma. While it is out in the open that two Muslim men entered the tailoring shop with swords and brutally beheaded the Hindu tailor, identified …

Another Hindu businessman shot dead: A look at persecution of minorities in Pakistan
2 years, 10 months ago

Another Hindu businessman shot dead: A look at persecution of minorities in Pakistan

Firstpost  

The spokesperson for Justice for Minorities in Pakistan, Anila Gulzar, has urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to raise the issue of persecution of minorities in Pakistan at the UNSC and and other international forums Only a day after a Christian priest was shot dead by unidentified gunmen in Peshawar city of Pakistan, a Hindu businessman Satan Lal was shot dead …

Dalit rape and murder: Rahul Gandhi's tweet with photo of victim's kin no longer available on Twitter
3 years, 4 months ago

Dalit rape and murder: Rahul Gandhi's tweet with photo of victim's kin no longer available on Twitter

India Today  

A tweet of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi with a photo of him meeting the family members of a nine-year-old Dalit girl who died in Delhi following an alleged sexual assault showed is "no longer available" on the microblogging website. Sharing a picture of his meeting with the girl's family on Wednesday, Rahul Gandhi had tweeted in Hindi, “Parents' tears are …

Relatives of Liyaqat and Rihasat Khan give death stares: Hindu man whose garage was gutted by Muslim mob during Delhi anti-Hindu riots a year ago
3 years, 9 months ago

Relatives of Liyaqat and Rihasat Khan give death stares: Hindu man whose garage was gutted by Muslim mob during Delhi anti-Hindu riots a year ago

Op India  

One year since the gruesome anti-Hindu riots broke out in the national capital, the fear of being persecuted by the Muslim residents still preys on the minds of the Hindus living in the violence-stricken regions of Delhi’s northeast, an eyewitness of the riots told OpIndia. Pradeep Kumar Verma, a Hindu whose garage was gutted by Tahir Hussain and other Islamists …

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