The leaders of Muslim organisations on May 29 met to decide the ways in order to counter the whole effort to terrorise and demonise individual Muslims and the community as a whole by illegal picking up of the youths. The members came to the decision to form a separate fund that would look into the financial requirements of the cases and a ‘legal cell’ to provide judicial assistance for those in need. The fact is that since the time of the inception of TADA and POTA, the accused in...

Dr. Zafarul Islam Khan, President All India Muslim Majlis-e-Mushawarat, claimed the current quota crisis as government’s own handiwork. He said earlier government did not announce it with proper planning and later Andhra Pradesh High Court defied it. He further said there is absolutely no need for Muslim organisations to move the court in this regard and they must demand the implementation of recommendations made by the Ranganath Misra Commission according to which there should be 15 pe...

Outraged at the reinstatement of suspended Bharatpur Collector Krishna Kunal, Muslim groups demanded a “fair and impartial” probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation into the Sep 14, 2011, police firing at a mosque in Gopalgarh, Rajasthan in which 10 persons were killed. Tahaffuz-e-Auqaf Committee, Jamaat-e-Islami Hind, Irada Society and the Association for Protection of Civil Rights (APCR) said the CBI’s “clean chit” for the then Bharatpur Collector and Super...

The Karnataka state government, which had constituted a high-level committee to look into the alleged encroachment of Wakf board property across the State, has now decided to hand over the investigation to the Lokayukta. A statement from the Chief Minister’s office said the announcement made to the press on May 21 had been revoked. “After reconsidering the seriousness of the report submitted by the Karnataka State Minorities Commission about the allegation of encroachment of Wakf ...

A decade after the incident, a local court on May 28 convicted a person and sentenced him to two-year jail term for torching a house in Madhavpura area during the 2002 riots. Additional sessions judge B J Dhandha awarded imprisonment to one Kunjan alias Kalio Patel, who was tried in connection with a complaint filed by Shamshuddin Shaikh (78), whose house was burnt on Mar 21, 2002. He had accused eight persons for the mischief, and police charge-sheeted them after investigation. The court has...

On the recommendation made by the Academic Council and the Executive Council, the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) approved the declaration of ABK Union High School as regular secondary school of the University subject to the approval of the Ministry of HRD regarding the funding and budgeting of the staff of the school. On the recommendation of the Vineet Joshi Committee regarding strengthening of existing schools of the AMU and conversion of ABK Union High School as a regular school of the Un...

Welfare Party of India is gearing up to launch its Andhra unit in October. The state unit, the contours of which are still in the making, has already taken the first step by electing a journalist, writer and JIH state vice-president Sultan Mohiuddin Mallick as its president and given him the mandate to complete the formalities required to start the party. Mallick said the AP unit of the party will have the general council comprising 150 members and executive and working committees. The party,...

Nowadays evil is rife in society, promiscuity and immoral activities are common and parents are spending sleepless nights in order to find a suitable match for their children. Youngsters are getting into wrong activities for not getting married within a proper age and Nikah, which is the best way to curb immorality, has been made so tough by the irrelevant and utterly obnoxious traditions and cultures that it has made fornication much easier than getting married. The people who suffe...

The opposition TDP on May 26 contended that the ruling Congress had been treating the minorities as mere vote bank since Independence and neglecting their socio-economic and political development. Addressing a press conference, TDP State Secretary Yunus Akbani, TDP Charminar assembly constituency in-charge Ali Masquati said the reports of the Rajinder Sachar Committee and the Ranganath Misra Commission which had been gathering dust, pointed out to the backwardness of the community. They said ...