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झारखंड के कोडरमा में बजरंदल का आतंक, समुदाय विशेष को गांव छोड़ने पर किया मज़बूर

झारखंड: कोडरमा थाना क्षेत्र के गांव कोलगरमा जो कोडरमा थाना के महज 8 किलोमीटर पूरब की ओर है, उस गांव में लगभग 250 घरों में से 20 मुस्लिम समुदाय के घर है।

इस गांव में लोग सदियों से एक साथ मिल जुल कर पूरे भाईचारे के साथ रहते आये है और अपने पर्व को एक साथ मिल जुल कर मानते हैं, वहीँ खेती और आजीविका का उपार्जन भी सामूहिक किया करते हैं।

कुछ साल पहले मुस्लिमों ने मस्जिद बनाया इसका विरोध गाँव के कुछ लोग करने लगे जिनका संबंध बजरंग दल से है। उनका कहना है कि अगर आप लोगों को गांव में रहना है  तो मस्जिद , मदरसा, अज़ान और नमाज़ का ख्याल छोड़ दीजिए।

इस बात को ले कर मुस्लिमों पे कई बार जानलेवा हमला भी किया है। पिछले साल 5 अप्रैल 2017 को राम रामनवमी के जुलूस के दौरान मस्जिद में घुस कर तोड़फोड़ किया गया और मुस्लिम समाज के लोगों के साथ मार पीट भी किया गया था। इस घटना में कई लोग गंभीर रूपसे घायल भी हुए थे। गांव वालों का कहना है के इस घटना को लेके जो केस हमलोगों ने किया है उसमें धारा 307 रहने के बावजूद किसी को अरेस्ट नही किया गया, यही कारण है के आये दिन वो लोग हमलोगों के घर मे घुस कर मार पीट करते रहते हैं।

गांव में पिछले साल से मुस्लिम समुदाय के लोगों का हुक्का पानी बंद कर दिया गया है। इस तुगलकी फरमान के कारण मुस्लिम समुदाय को अपने गांव से 15 किलोमीटर दूर झुमरी से राशन पानी लाना पड़ता है और गांव में सरकारी कुआँ से पानी पीने पर भी रोक लगा दिया गया। इसके अलावा खेत मे पानी पटाना भी बंद कर दिया गया जिस कारण लाखों का फसल बर्बाद हुआ गांव का कोई भी ग्रामीण मुस्लिम समुदाय के लोगों से बात करता है तो बजरंग दल के नेताओं द्वारा उनसे जुर्माना वसूला जाता है। इस तरह मुस्लिमो के पूरे सामाजिक जीवन को कट गया है।

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Muslim Man Lynched to Death in Central India for ‘Slaughtering Cow’

A Muslim man has been beaten to death by an angry mob of villagers in India for allegedly killing a bovine – an act considered a crime and punishable by imprisonment under local laws.
The gruesome incident took place in Amgara village in the “Heart of India” – central Madhya Pradesh state – on Thursday night, local media report. The villagers allegedly noticed two men, later identified in reports as Riyaz Khan and Shakeel Maqbool, with the animal near a quarry.

Conflicting reports say it was either a cow or a bull, but the killing of either is considered a criminal offence under state laws. Madhya Pradesh prohibits the slaughter of cows, calves, bulls, bullocks and buffalo calves. However, the locals apparently decided to take the matters into their own hands.

“The villagers saw them [Khan and Maqbool] slaughtering bulls. They got angry and attacked them,” local police official Rajendra Pathak said, as cited by the Indian Express. 

Both men were brutally lynched by the villagers, with 45-year-old Riyaz later succumbing to his injuries. Maqbool was taken to hospital in a critical condition. Police who arrived at the scene found slaughtered cattle and the meat of two other animals packed in bags, senior police officer Rajesh Hingankar said, as cited by NDTV. 

At least four men were arrested following the lynching. In a separate case, the authorities also filed a complaint against Khan and Maqbool, accusing them of cattle slaughter, which is a punishable offence in a number of Indian states, including Madhya Pradesh. The state has recently increased the jail term for cow slaughter to seven years and a fine of Rs. 5,000 ($73). 

“On the basis of the FIR [first information report] lodged by the villager, Shakeel [Maqbool] will be arrested after he is discharged from the hospital,” Hingankar added. Maqbool has reportedly denied all charges against him.

India has recently seen a rise in so-called ‘cow vigilantes,’ who attack farmers and violently prevent cattle from being slaughtered. In summer 2017, a Muslim teen was allegedly stabbed to death for carrying beef. In a separate incident, a farmer who was transporting cows was killed on a road trip. 

In 2017, Human Rights Watch (HRW) called upon the Indian authorities to prosecute ‘cow vigilantes,’ arguing that Muslims are often targets of attacks, along with members of India’s lowest caste. 

Cows are considered sacred by Hindus, who make up almost 80 percent of India's population. Muslims account for 14 percent of the population, according to 2011 census data.

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Conversion Threat: BAJRANG DAL’S VALMIKI MEMBERS BREAK IDOLS

Moradabad: Describing Yogi Sarkar of Uttar Pradesh as anti-Dalit, at least families of fifty Valmiki communities of Moradabad district have threatened to abandon Hinduism and adopt Islam.

On Saturday, people accused the BJP of being anti-Dalit and sacked statues of gods and goddesses of Hindu religion in Ramganga river in their homes. They immersed the idols and the images in the nearby river.

People gathered in the Chhatarpur Park of Jigar Colony and shouted slogans against the BJP government. Although activists of Bajrang Dal had also come and made desperate attempts to persuade them but the people of Valmiki community refused to budge and threaten to read namaz and would adopt Islam.

Video of the Protest
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puwjJFqp1WA

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Muslim Exodus from A Sambhal Village due to Terror

Lucknow, May 12: Eight Muslim families have fled their western Uttar Pradesh village following three consecutive nights of attacks by armed mobs, despite police security, after a young Muslim man was accused of eloping with a married Hindu neighbour.

The development fits neatly into the "love jihad" narrative, whose promoters include current chief minister Yogi Adityanath and which entails an alleged plot by young Muslim men to seduce and convert Hindu women.

The families left Nandrauli village of Sambhal district, 420km northwest of Lucknow, last night after the third attack, which happened hours after a deputy inspector-general of police had visited the village to reassure the Muslims.

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Police Backs Cow Terrorists in Jammu

Jammu: Police came to rescue of a Gujjar-Bakarwal family when their truck carrying cows was cornered by a group of self-styled cow vigilantes at Narwal Jammu on Friday night.

The incident invited condemnation from Muslim organizations of Jammu who demanded strict action against the goons.

 Eyewitnesses told news agency CNS that a group of self-styled cow vigilantes stopped a truck carrying cows near Narwal Jammu. Fearing for their lives, the Gujjar family locked the truck and refused to come down. Despite informing them that the truck has valid government permission, the cow vigilantes continuously chanted ‘Bam Bam Bole’ slogans.

 Eyewitnesses added that a police flying squad tried to pacify the self-styled cow vigilantes; however, the goons tried to assault them and forced them to retreat. “A respectable lawyer from Bhatandi Jammu tried to intervene; however, cow vigilantes didn’t budge and tried to drag out the cows from the truck. When this drama was going on, a police party from Bagh-e-Bahu police station emerged on the spot and dispersed the cow vigilantes. The police seized the truck as well.

When contacted, a police official from Bagh-e-Bahu police station said the truck was released as the Gujjar family was carrying a valid permission. When asked why an FIR was not lodged against miscreants, he said the matter was resolved amicably.

Meanwhile, Jammu Muslim Front while condemning the incident said that it is the job of police to check cow smuggling and self-styled ‘Gau-rakshaks’ exist only to harass nomads. “It is shameful that the family carrying with valid permission was harassed and intimidated,” president Jammu Muslim Front Qazi Imran told CNS.

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Dalit Groom Beaten Up, 'Dared' To Take Decorated Car To His Wedding

Just a week after Kerosene oil was poured in a well used by lower section of the society, because a dalit man hired band party for his daughter's wedding in Agar Malwa, Madyra Pradesh, here's yet another case of atrocities against dalits from the state. 

In a shocking incident, a dalit groom was beaten up for taking a decorated car to his wedding venue at Deri village in Chhatarpur district of MP.

Arvind Singh, Akhand Singh, Prithvi Singh and Pintu Vishwakarma attacked Prakash Bansal, who was heading for the wedding venue in a decorated car last night, Inspector Rameshwar Dayal of Orchha Road police station said.

Just a week after Kerosene oil was poured in a well used by lower section of the society, because a dalit man hired band party for his daughter's wedding in Agar Malwa, Madhya Pradesh, here's yet another case of atrocities against dalits from the state. 

In a shocking incident, a dalit groom was beaten up for taking a decorated car to his wedding venue at Deri village in Chhatarpur district of MP.

Arvind Singh, Akhand Singh, Prithvi Singh and Pintu Vishwakarma attacked Prakash Bansal, who was heading for the wedding venue in a decorated car last night, Inspector Rameshwar Dayal of Orchha Road police station said.

The group of four men forced Bansal to alight from the car and thrashed him and six others of the marriage party, he said.
They even smashed up the camera of the photographer hired for the wedding.

On getting the information, the police reached the spot and arrested Prithvi. A hunt has been launched to arrest the other suspects who fled from the spot.
A case under relevant sections of Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act has been registered, police said.

Incidents of members of upper castes objecting to dalit grooms riding horses or using fancy vehicles during weddings have been reported in many areas, especially in Bundelkhand region.

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1000 Muslims Massacred: Killers Scotfree

"Do you have any information about Adam? It has been many years since I have seen him. Is he coming home?" asks 75-year-old Roshanbi, her tired and vacant eyes full of hope. Paralysed waist down due to the shock and resultant illness following her son's disappearance, Roshanbi mistakes journalists coming to her as officers who might give information about her son who disappeared on January 10, 1993 during the Mumbai riots.

For 13 years, Roshanbi has been sitting in a dark dingy passage leading to her squalid hutment, near Hari Masjid waiting for her son. Mohammed Adam Hassan, around 30 then, was among the 60 youths rounded up at the Hari Masjid area during the riots. Most of them came back. Adam did not. He is am-ong the 168 officially missing.

According to the Srikrishna Commission Report which investigated the 1992-93 riots, the police made namaazis of Hari Masjid stand in a line and forced one Adam and another person to pick up dead bodies (after the police shot dead seven of them reportedly for rioting) and put them in vehicles. Later, he was taken by the police along with other youths. He never returned.
"It is surprising that the police claimed to have fired in order to save violent clashes. There were no injury marks nor were there any mobs," says advocate Zia-ul-Mustafa who has been fighting the cases for those who were charged from the Hari Masjid area.

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Woman Cop Highlights: Police Abuse Of Adivasi Girls

In light of this, the revelations by Dongre are important. Before her post was taken down, it was shared widely on social media — much to the chagrin of police authorities in the state. As a result, the state has ordered a probe against her for raising these concerns on a public platform like Facebook. A senior government official said, “The CM (Raman Singh) had also asked officials to refrain from making such personal remarks.”

Following armed attacks in Sukma district that killed 35 CRPF soldiers in April, Chhattisgarh chief minister Raman Singh has called for a meeting on May 5 to build a comprehensive strategy for a counter-attack in the region. Dongre’s comments are simply another side of the same coin because they highlight the larger situation in which human rights abuses against Adivasi people take place. In the now-deleted post, Dongre had written: “The truth is that all natural and mineral resources are in these forests, which industrialists and capitalists have to empty out in order to sell.”

She goes on to comment on what the Adivasi community in Chhattisgarh must go through because of this: “They want Naxalism to end, but the way that the protectors of the nation abuse their daughters and daughters-in-law, the way they are burning their houses, filing false complaints against them so they are sent to rot in prison… where will they go to get justice? Don’t take my word for it, the CBI reports say this, the Supreme Court says this, this is the ground reality.“

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Violent Attacks on Christians in India

Violent attacks against Christians in India have increased at an alarming rate in 2016, with one attack occurring every 40 hours, according to a new report.

The report, published by All India Christian Council (AICC), indicated that the attacks against Christians were up by 20 percent in 2016. It also noted that physical violence against believers rose by 40 percent and murders have doubled.

“The attacks have become severe and more frequent. Incidents used to be confined to a few states. Now the violence has spread to 23 states,” it stated, noting that the sharpest rise was in the northern Uttar Pradesh state and the southern state of Telangana.

The report titled “Atrocities on Christians in India” highlights incidents of church workers being threatened, beaten and killed, as well as churches and Christian schools being vandalized, torched, bombed, and demolished. Other attacks include forced conversions of Christians to Hinduism and the disruption of church services and prayer meetings.

The rise in the attacks coincides with the victory of the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the national election in 2014.

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Vigilantes terrorism in India

On April 21, five members of a family, including a 9-year-old girl, were seriously injured in an attack by a large, illegal gau rakshak (“cow protection”) vigilante group in the Reasi district of Jammu & Kashmir. The nomadic tribal people were herding their livestock, including 16 cows and calves, when they were intercepted near the Talwara area and assaulted with iron rods.

The group belonged to two important front organisations of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (National Volutereeer Association) and the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

The tribesmen reported that the attackers absconded with their goats, sheep and cows. The nine-year-old girl suffered multiple fractures and one of the children went missing. Even the elders were beaten up. Their attackers also threatened to throw them into a nearby river.

Jammu & Kashmir is home to a large number of nomadic tribal herder groups that travel between Jammu’s Himalayan mountains every year for grazing.

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Indian Muslims Under Attack

In India, attacks on Muslims and other religious minorities –under the pretext of protecting cows- have dramatically increased ever since the right-wing Hindu nationalist party came to power. As Munawar Zaman reports from New Delhi, the violence has seen an escalation. That especially after last month’s appointment of a hard-line Hindu religious leader as chief minister of the state of Uttar Pradesh, which is home to much of the country's Muslim-dominated meat industry.

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No Justice to Rape Victim Bilkis Bano

She was pregnant and was gang raped,14 members of her family brutally murdered, But, No Death Penalty For Convicts, Says Bombay High Court

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Bilkis Bano gang-raped during Gujarat riots; she was 19 and pregnant, 14 of her family members, including her daughter, were murdered CBI had sought death penalty for three out of 11 convicted in the case The Bombay High Court has turned down the CBI's request for the death penalty to three men accused of gangraping Bilkis Bano, a 19-year-old pregnant woman, and brutally murdering 14 members of her family, including her three-old daughter, in Randhikpur near Ahmedabad, during the Gujarat riots of 2002.  

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) had told court that this was a "rarest of rare case" and that the death penalty must be awarded to three out of 11 people convicted in the case, to send out a "stern message." A trial court in Mumbai had sentenced all of them to life imprisonment, which the High Court upheld today.   

The High Court has, however, accepted the CBI's other plea to reverse the acquittal of five Gujarat police officers and two doctors in the case.  The agency has alleged that the policemen connived with the convicts by "fudging documents and compromising the inquest panchnama." A total of 19 people were convicted by the court today.

The CBI had sought the death penalty for Jaswant Nai, Govind Nai, and Sailesh Bhatt , saying there was direct evidence that they brutally gangraped Bilkis, who was five months pregnant, and her sister and her mother. Sailesh Bhatt also allegedly snatched Bilkis' three-year-old daughter from her and crushed her head on a stone. The child died on the spot.

Bilkis's mother and sister were among the 14 of her family and 17 people from the village killed by the rioters on March 3, 2002.  Bilkis Bano, who lives in central Gujarat with her husband, had identified her rapists.

The trial was transferred out of Gujarat for the fear that witnesses might be intimidated or influenced.

The trial court had in January 2008, convicted 12 people, sentencing them to life imprisonment. They had all appealed against their conviction in the High Court. One of them has since died.

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Does India need a new Ram Temple

A response to the author's newspaper piece titled, 'Why we need a Ram Temple in Ayodhya'

Dear Chetan,

I just read a piece you have written in a newspaper titled Why we need a Ram Temple in Ayodhya, and felt I should respond.

Now, as everyone knows, you are one of contemporary India’s most popular writers. Besides putting out your novels, you also tweet regularly, and write columns in different papers, and a lot of people read what you write. Whenever I have come across something you have written, more often than not I have disagreed with it. Often I will laugh at some article by you or some comment you have made, but till now I have not felt the need to engage or argue with you. So, why do I need to respond now, and why to this particular piece of writing? Let me try and explain.

Chetan, our country and society are at a very dangerous moment in our history. For reasons I have laid out before and will briefly repeat below, I am very wary of Narendra Modi, his organisation the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh-Bharatiya Janata Party and their Hindutva ideology. However, I cannot imagine that all the millions who have voted for Modi and his people are all believers in the world-view that the prime minister and his close followers hold.

For every possibly dodgy Electronic Voting Machine vote that the RSS-BJP may have gained, I have to accept that there may be many more voters who have voted for them believing in the promises of sabka vikaas – a non-corrupt government, a non-dynastic, non-nepotistic party command, and so on.

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Bajrang Dal activists brandish Swords, Trishul’s in Jammu - Hindu Terror

Brandishing sharp edged weapons, Bajrang Dal activists Tuesday took out a rally in Old City Jammu to strengthen movement to evict Rohingya Muslim refugees from Jammu region.

The rally started from Akhada near Tawi Bridge on the occasion of Hanuman Janmotsav, where over 200 youth joined Bajrang Dal, in presence of senior saffron leaders.
After the function was over, the Bajrang Dal activists took out a motorbike rally brandishing swards and trishuls.
The activists took rounds of the City before the rally culminated at the temple near Shalamar.
“Over 200 youth joined Bajrang Dal. We have pledged to raise voice against the illegal stay of Rohingya Muslims and Bangladeshi nationals in Jammu as it is a security concern. We will drive them out from Jammu,” said one of the Bajrang Dal activists, while talking to Kashmir Post.
He said that they took out rally with a motive to spread awareness among residents of Jammu against the illegal stay of Rohingya Muslims.

“Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti has failed to give rights to refugees who are struggling since 1947, 1965 and 1971 and now the government is talking about a policy for these illegally settled Rohingya Muslims and Bangladeshi nationals,” said Bajrang Dal leader Rakesh Sharma.
“We are ready to meet any challenge in Jammu,” added another Bajrang Dal leader while speaking before the saffron group in Akhada near Tawi Bridge in a provocative way.
Amid sloganeering of ‘Jai Shri Ram,’ in a provocative speech, the Bajrang Dal leader said “Vo Jahan Be Hume Bulae Gay Hum Wahan Aaege, Vo Samaiy (time) Aur Jagha Be Uske Hoge. Hum Vahi Pohanch Jaye Ge. (If they call us at the place of their choice, we will reach there. We accept the challenge).”
Raking up another controversy, the Bajrang Dal leaders said that they have started door-to-door campaign in Jammu to ensure construction of Ram Temple at the disputed site in Ayodhya.
“Until Ram Temple is constructed in Ayodhya, we will continue our movement and spread awareness “among the people about the issue”. This time, the Ram Temple will be constructed,” Bajrang Dal leader said.

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How Pragya Singh Thakur, Sunil Joshi And Swami Aseemanand Plotted The Samjhauta Express Blasts

On 24 April 2017, the Bombay High Court granted bail to Pragya Singh Thakur, a former national executive member of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), the student wing of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, in the 2008 Malegaon blasts case. On 29 September 2008, two bombs concealed in a motorcycle had exploded in the Muslim-dominated town of Malegaon in Maharashtra. Four persons were killed in the blast and 79 others injured. The investigation into the blasts was initially conducted by the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS), which filed its chargesheet in January 2009. In it, the ATS named 14 persons, including Thakur. She was arrested in October 2008. The ATS alleged that Thakur was one of the masterminds behind the blast. It stated that she owned the bike associated with the blast, and had given it to a co-accused Ramchandra Kalsangra, who planted the bomb and placed it at the blast site. The evidence the ATS presented against Thakur included statements from witnesses and co-accused, which placed her at meetings planning the blasts before its execution.

In April 2011, the home ministry transferred the case to the National Investigation Agency. Five years later, in 2016, the NIA filed a supplementary chargesheet in which it called the ATS investigation “dubious” and dropped Thakur and five others from the list of accused persons, claiming that “sufficient evidence have not been found” against them. The NIA chargesheet stated the ATS had tortured a witness who made a statement indicting Thakur. Another witness, RP Singh, who had earlier told the ATS that he overheard Thakur showing her readiness to provide men to arrange the blast, retracted his statement. On these grounds, and arguing the bike used in the blast was not in her possession, the NIA issued a clean chit to Thakur. One month after the NIA’s supplementary chargesheet was filed, an NIA court rejected a bail application filed by Thakur, in June 2016, stating that prima facie charges were still made out against her. Thakur filed an appeal against the order dismissing bail before the Bombay High Court. While granting her bail, the court said: “It cannot be said that there are reasonable grounds for believing that accusation made against her are prima facie true.” 

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'Gau Rakshak' Attacks Since 2015 Dadri Lynching

Ever since the Narendra Modi government came to power in 2014, beef and cow protection have been one of the much debated topics across India. Cow vigilantism gained widespread media spotlight in September 2015 after a 60-year-old Mohammad Akhlaq was lynched in Uttar Pradesh's Dadri for allegedly possessing beef. However, forensic reports later revealed that he had in fact possessed mutton, not beef.

Cow vigilantism has been in the news lately after Yogi Adityanath took over as the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh. The blanket ban on slaughter across the state and the alleged forced closure of meat shops in the state highlight the growing vigilantism by "gau rakshaks".

Here are a few gau rakshak attacks across India since the 28 September, 2015 Dadri lynching:

Udhampur truck attack

On 9 October 2015, a truck was attacked by petrol bombs by alleged Hindu extremists after rumours of it carrying dead cows emerged. Zahid Ahmad, the truck driver succumbed to his injuries 10 days later, while another man suffered serious burn injuries.

As news of the death in Delhi spread, mobs took to the streets in the southern district of Anantnag in the Kashmir Valley and blocked the Jammu-Srinagar highway by burning tyres.

The highway is the only road link between the Kashmir Valley and the rest of India.

They also shouted slogans against the government, and pelted stones at security personnel who tried to disperse them.

According to NDTV, the forensic report later concluded that the cows died due to food poisoning and had not been slaughtered.

Seven people were arrested by the Jammu and Kashmir Police for the murder of Zahid. 

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Jammu Nomad Family Attacked by VHP

The Bakerwals travel from the plains to higher reaches in J&K with their animals at the onset of summer every year, doing the reverse journey in winter.

AN eight-year-old girl and two women were among five nomadic Bakerwals injured when alleged Vishwa Hindu Parishad and Bajrang Dal activists attacked them on Thursday evening, when they along with their cattle herd were moving from the plains of Reasi to highland pastures in Kishtwar district. 
Two of the victims suffered fractures.
Identifying the victims as Nazakat Ali, 45, his wife Naseema, 40, his uncle Sabar Ali, 60, besides relatives Abida Bibi, 22, and Saina, 8, Superintendent of Police, Reasi district, 
Tahir Bhat said an open FIR had been registered and police had identified some of the accused.
An FIR under Section 188 of the Ranbir Penal Code and Section 3 of the Prevention of Cruelty towards Animals has also been registered against four of the injured for failing to produce “the district magistrate’s permission required for transporting the animals”.
However, as the Additional Deputy Commissioner, Reasi, Babu Ram, confirmed to The Sunday Express that nomadic families such as Bakerwals in J&K do not require any such permission if they are moving with their cattle on foot, like they do. 
A permit is required from the district magistrate to transport bovine animals only if one is moving them in a vehicle, Ram said. 
For transporting animals on foot, only a Forest Department’s ‘motto (permission)’ is needed, which these families had, the officer said.

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Three Men Thrashed for Transporting Buffaloes

People For Animals (PFA) activists claimed that they followed a truck from Haryana after they receiving information that the men were transporting animals for slaughter.

Three men were allegedly beaten up in South Delhi by activists from a prominent animal welfare group. The three victims have been identified by the police as Rizwan, Kamil and Ashu. They were taken to the AIIMS Trauma Center. The truck was transporting about half a dozen buffaloes. On Saturday night, activists belonging to the People For Animals (PFA) group claimed that they followed a truck from Haryana after they receiving information that the men were transporting animals for slaughter.
A police team arrived at the spot after being tipped off by the PFA activists, DCP Ramil Baniya told news Channel NDTV. Delhi Police registered two FIRs in connection with the incident; one on animal cruelty and the other for the attack, the channel reported.
Union Minister Maneka Gandhi’s office, however, issued a statement saying that PFA activists were not involved in last night’s attack. Gandhi is the chairperson of the trust managing PFA. 

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‘Nationalism and Hinduism'

With the spotlight now on the practice of triple talaq in the Muslim community, Khan spoke about how his personal experience had shaped his view on the matter.

From triple talaq to Islamophobia, from the “insecurity” that he sees in the “amplification of the azaan” to the now factious subject of nationalism and minorities, there was no subject that actor Saif Ali Khan shied away from during an interview, a day after he was the guest at Express Adda in Mumbai (full transcript to be published this week).
“Nationalism is amazing and important for development, but is that the same as Hinduism? I don’t think so. In a country that has been secular, there are minorities, it will make them uncomfortable. This doesn’t apply to me because my world is more privileged, insular,” he said, adding, “So I don’t mind living in a Hindu State either, just make the law same for everyone.”
With the spotlight now on the practice of triple talaq in the Muslim community, Khan spoke about how his personal experience had shaped his view on the matter. “I’ve had a nikaah before and a divorce. But I didn’t think that triple talaq was the way. I had financial responsibilities towards my ex-wife and children. So I don’t agree with triple talaq because I haven’t followed it. And the Indian Constitution addresses this with the Special Marriage Act. Kareena (Kapoor) and I got married under the Act,” he said.

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