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Vol. XLVI No. 4, 2008-04-25

PM PROPOSES JOINT PANEL TO PREVENT HARASSMENT OF MUSLIM YOUTHS

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has proposed a joint panel consisting of Muslim leaders and top intelligence and security officials to stop the harassment of young Muslims across India in the name of “fight against terrorism”. The leaders expressed their concern on the security of Muslims in India and complained of random arrests and media trials of Muslim youth. A member of the delegation, Dr Qasim Rasool Ilyas, said the leaders presented detailed cases of such harassment at the ...

ONE ARRESTED FOR GUJARAT MASSACRE

The Special Investigation Team (SIT), formed by the Supreme Court to inquire into cases of the 2002 communal riots in Gujarat, has arrested a long time absconder in the infamous Gulbarg massacre. In its first arrest after it was formed on March 25, the team on April 19 nabbed Parbat Thakore from Banaskantha district. Thakore is accused of being involved in the Gulbarg massacre. The five-member team led by former Central Bureau of Investigation director R.K. Raghavan on April 8 visited the h...

SIMI LINK: JAMAAT TERMS HT REPORT 'BASELESS' AND 'DEFAMATORY'

“The exclusive front-page report which appeared in the Hindustan Times today (Mumbai and Bhopal editions) linking Jamaat-e-Islami Hind with the banned Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) is misleading, baseless and defamatory in nature, said Secretary-General Jamaat-e-Islami Hind Nusrat Ali in a statement on April 16.

“It is a deliberate effort to tarnish the image of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind which has a remarkable service record of 60 years serving ...

IUML DEMANDS SEPARATE QUOTA FOR MUSLIMS

President Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) G.M. Banatwalla has welcomed the Supreme Court nod to 27% reservation for Other Backward Castes (OBCs), but expressed his disappointment over the exclusion of the “creamy layer” from the purview of the quota and also over its restriction to the graduation level.

Congratulating the United Progressive Alliance Government and in particular the Union HRD Minister Arjun Singh, the IUML president in a statement on April 15 said,...

RTI: NEW RULE RESTRICTS QUANTUM OF INFO

Karnataka Information Commission (KIC) recommended that the State Government amend the Karnataka Right to Information (RTI) Rules 2005 to restrict the quantum of information sought in a single application. This was discovered by Y.G. Muralidharan, consumer rights activist, who evoked the RTI Act only to receive this startling piece of information. According to the amendment, request for information should relate to one subject and not ordinarily exceed 150 words. For information on more than ...

JAIN COMMUNITY DEMANDS MINORITY STATUS

The Jain community has raised the pitch for minority status on par with the Buddhists, Christians, Sikhs, Muslims and Parsis, listed as notified minority groups under the Delhi Minorities Commission Act, 1999, reports said on April 20. Members of the community say they want minority status primarily because they want to incorporate Jainism as a subject in Jain schools. The capital and its adjoining areas have eight Jain schools. They are not being able teach Jainism to their children becaus...

SIO CHILDREN WING PROTESTS AGAINST SEZ

Taking a cue from their elders, a group of children from Permude, Tenka Yekkaru, Kuthethur and Delanthabettu staged a demonstration against the Mangalore Special Economic Zone project at Mangalore on April 19. The children urged the Dakshina Kannada District Administration to de-notify the 2,035 acre of land proposed to be acquired by Karnataka Industrial Areas Development Board for the second phase of the project. In a memorandum submitted to the Deputy Commissioner, the children said thei...

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