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Rush Hour: Sixth Indian dies in West Asia, HC refuses to quash FIR against ‘Mohammad’ Deepak & more
The Indian embassy in Riyadh said that an Indian citizen died in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday amid the conflict in West Asia. The cause of the death was unclear.
With this, six Indians have been killed in the conflict so far.
The Directorate General of Shipping said on March 2 that three Indian seafarers had been killed and one injured as a result of the conflict, which began on February 28 after the US and Israel bombed Iran. Two Indians were killed in a drone attack in Oman’s Sohar province on March 13. Read on.
The Uttarakhand High Court refused to quash a first information report filed against gym owner Deepak Kumar, or “Mohammad Deepak”, who opposed the harassment of an Muslim shopkeeper by alleged Bajrang Dal members. Justice Rakesh Thapliyal also restrained him from commenting on social media about the cases filed in connection with the incident.
Thapliyal said that the gym owner could affect the investigation against him by making statements or posting videos on social media. The judge criticised him for regularly posting on social media platforms about the incident and giving “sermons”.
The incident took place on January 26 when alleged Bajrang Dal members had arrived at the shop of an elderly Muslim man named Vakeel Ahmed in the Pauri Garhwal district, objecting to him using the word “Baba” in the name of his establishment. Kumar and another person, Vijay Rawat, rebuked the mob for its actions. Read on.
The Delhi High Court quashed lookout circulars issued by the Central Bureau of Investigation against former NDTV promoters Prannoy Roy and Radhika Roy. The notices had been issued against them by the central agency in connection with first information reports filed in 2017 and 2019.
A lookout circular is used by the law enforcement authorities to check whether a person leaving the country is wanted by the police.
In October 2024, the investigating agency had closed the corruption and fraud case against Prannoy and Radhika Roy. The counsel for the Roys had said in May that the couple had answered the summons issued to them in 2019 and had cooperated in the case. Read on.
Kashmir’s chief cleric Mirwaiz Umar Farooq claimed that he had been detained at his home and was not being allowed to offer congregational prayers at Srinagar’s Jamia masjid. Farooq alleged that he had been “put under arbitrary house arrest – never conveyed in writing” for the third consecutive Friday during the Islamic holy month of Ramzan.
The detention to prevent him from delivering the Friday sermon at the mosque had been “enforced by placing police vehicles and large contingents in front of my gate…,” the Hurriyat Conference leader alleged on social media. The action conveyed the “panic of the rulers”, he added.
Farooq had been previously placed under house arrest in September too. This came after an inauguration plaque bearing the Ashoka emblem inside the Hazratbal shrine in Srinagar was damaged on September 5, allegedly by protesters who claimed that it went against Islamic principles. Read on.
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