New Delhi: A 19-year-old man was arrested in connection with the molestation incident of Gargi college fest taking the total number of arrests to 16.

Gargi College fest ‘Reverie’ last week became a molestation ground after hundreds of drunk men gatecrashed the event, traumatizing women students of the college.

Hundreds of men broke into the college on February 6 where they allegedly wanked at the students, groped and molested girl students while security and Delhi Police personnel stood by like mute spectators.

The students also said they were threatened by the intruders who made objectionable remarks used cuss words.

The disgusting incident came to light after some of the students took to Instagram to narrate their ordeal.

The intruders allegedly jumped over the barricades placed by the college security staff, outnumbered them and then misbehaved with the women students said the police.

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Ankara: Turkey’s foreign minister on Sunday said China should not label all Muslim ethnic Uighurs as terrorists, following talks with his Chinese counterpart in Germany.

UN experts believe China is holding a million Muslims in camps in the western Xinjiang region where most of the country’s ethnic Uighur, the largest Muslim minority, live.

The region has long suffered from violent unrest, which China claims is orchestrated by an organised “terrorist” movement seeking independence.

“Whether Turk, Uighur Turk, Han Chinese, Buddhist or Christian… it is not right to call all Uighur Turks terrorists just because one or two terrorists came from a certain ethnic group,” Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu told reporters in Germany.

Cavusoglu held talks with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Saturday during the Munich Security Conference. The minister said he had brought up the Uighur issue with Wang.

“Uighur Turks are Chinese citizens so our wish is that Uighur Turks exercise all their rights as first class citizens. These are our expectations,” he said in televised comments.

The Turkish minister criticised sceptical statements from Beijing over links between Turks and Uighurs, insisting they had “ethnic, religious, cultural and historical ties”.

But Cavusoglu said Ankara did not want to use the issue as a “political tool” against Beijing like other countries, which he did not name.

The Turkish minister’s comments were cautious, especially compared with the foreign ministry spokesman’s remarks last February which described China’s treatment of Uighurs as “a great embarrassment for humanity”.

Last year Beijing invited Turkey to send a delegation to Xinjiang, a meeting which Cavusoglu said could take place depending on the programme’s details.

“It is not possible to send a delegation only for official meetings,” Cavusoglu added.

The majority of mainly Muslim countries have opted to steer clear of public statements on the issue, for fear of angering China which is an important trading partner.

Footballer Mesut Ozil, an Arsenal midfielder and former German international of Turkish origin, encountered much fury from Beijing in December after he condemned China’s crackdown.

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New Delhi: With an aim to expand the organisation base and to make a volunteer bank across the country, the Aam Aadmi Party will be launching a nationwide “missed call” campaign.

To be running between February 23- March 23, the campaign was planned in a meeting between the national executive and the state office-bearers of the AAP from across the country.

The decision to launch the campaign was taken in the meeting to prepare the party for the future elections, AAP Delhi unit chief Gopal Rai said.

“The state office-bearers of the party were called from across the country. The party is expanding the nation building campaign to cover the entire nation,” Rai told IANS.

AAP launches missed call number

AAP had launched a missed call number — 9871010101 — by which people can join the campaign.

“The state party leadership will be putting up posters and doing press meetings in major cities to spread the party’s message,” Rai added.

Office-bearers of Uttar Pradesh, Uttrakhand, Punjab, Rajasthan, Haryana, Odisha, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Chhattisgarh, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Telgana and other states attended the meeting held at the residence of nation convenor of AAP Arvind Kejriwal.

On the expansion plan of the party, Rai said an organisation building will be the first step.

“We will be planning the next step as and when there are elections.”

“We will fight local body elections in other states apart from keeping MCD polls in Delhi in focus. We will be focusing on a few states as well. In future, the Lok Sabha elections will also be the target.”

Volunteers

Rai said after the joining is done, the training of these volunteers will be started.

While Bihar is going for polls later this year, West Bengal will have elections next year. Punjab, where AAP is the main opposition, will be having elections in 2022.

AAP received massive mandate in Delhi as it bagged 62 of the 70 seats.

The MCD polls in Delhi in 2022 will be AAP’s target, Rai added.

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Beijing: Chinese health authority on Monday said it received reports of 2,048 new confirmed cases of novel coronavirus infection and 105 deaths on Sunday from 31 provincial-level regions and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps.

Among the deaths, 100 were in Hubei Province, three in Henan, and two in Guangdong, according to the National Health Commission, the Xinhua news agency reported.

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Varanasi: Ruling out any rethink on decisions on CAA and Article 370, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday asserted that his government remains and will remain firm on the steps despite pressure from all sides.

“Be it the scrapping of Article 370 from Jammu and Kashmir or the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), the country waited for decisions on these for years,” he told a public meeting here during a day-long visit to his Lok Sabha constituency.

“These decisions were necessary in the interest of the nation. Duniya bhar ke saarey dabao ke bawjood, inn faislon par hum qayam hain aur qayam rahengey (Despite pressure from all sides, we remain firm on these decisions and will continue to remain firm,” Modi said.

Provisions of Article 370 of the Constitution, which accorded special powers to the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir, were abrogated by the government in August last year.

The prime minister’s tough talk assumed significance in view of protests against the CAA in various parts of the country.

Citing certain key decisions of his government, Modi referred to the trust set up for the construction of the Ram temple in Ayodhya and asserted that it would work “rapidly”.

“A trust has been formed for the construction of a grand Ram temple in Ayodhya. This trust will work rapidly,” he said.

He said that after setting up of the trust, the work on the construction of ‘Ram dham’ will start with fast speed and added that his government has also decided to transfer 67 acres of land to the trust.

The government had recently set up the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra on the Supreme Court’s directive to the Union government to form a trust that can look into the construction and management of the temple.

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Abu Dhabi: In a tragic incident, an Indian expat lost his life while saving his wife from the fire. This incident took place in Umm-al-Quwain.

As per the details of the case, the expat who is identified as Anil Ninan (32) was in the bedroom when the fire broke out in the apartment. When he saw his wife, Neenu in the corridor surrounded by the fire, he rushed to save her.

In an attempt to save his wife, Ninan also caught fire.

Rushed to hospital

Later, both Ninan and Neenu were taken to Sheikh Khalifa General Hospital in Umm-al-Quwain and then to Mafraq Hospital in Abu Dhabi.

Ninan who suffered 90 percent burns succumbed to injuries whereas, his wife who is out of danger is recovering in the hospital.

It may be mentioned that the couple who hails from Kerala has a four-year-old son.

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Rajasthan: Despite the enactment of stringent laws including the POCSO Act 2012 to deal with crimes against children, incidents of crimes against minors are taking place in various parts of the country.

In one such incident, a video of the school principal kissing a minor girl went viral. Later, he was booked for molesting the girl. This crime took place in Bharatpur, Rajasthan.

It is alleged that the girl was also made to clean the floor of the principal’s room.

When the family members of the girl came to know about the incident, they approached the police station and lodged a complaint against the principal.

However, the principal is yet to be arrested.

It may be mentioned that earlier an incident of teacher kissing his colleague came to light.

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London: In a blow to thousands of Muslim women who have no rights when it comes to divorce, the Court of Appeal has ruled that Islamic faith marriages as invalid under English law.

Overturning an earlier high court ruling that an Islamic marriage, known as a nikah, fell within the scope of English matrimonial law, the Appeal Court on Friday confirmed that nikah marriages are legally “non-marriages”, meaning spouses have no redress to the courts for a division of matrimonial assets such as the family home and spouse’s pension if a marriage breaks down.

In order to make their marriages legal, the couples need to additionally go through a civil ceremony apart from undergoing nikah ceremonies.

According to the Guardian, a survey in 2017 found that nearly all married Muslim women in the UK had had a nikah and almost two-thirds had not had a separate civil ceremony.

2018 high court case is related to a couple, Nasreen Akhter and Mohammed Shabaz Khan, who had undergone a nikah marriage conducted by an imam in front of 150 guests at a restaurant in Southall, west London, in 1998. Their relationship broke and Akhter petitioned for divorce. But Khan blocked the move, arguing the couple was not married under English law, only under shariah or Islamic law.

In 2018, Justice Williams, who heard the case in the family division of the high court in London, concluded that the marriage fell within the scope of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973.

But after the Attorney General appealed against the original court decision, the Court of Appeal has now said it was an “invalid” non-legal ceremony.

Nasreen Akhter and Mohammed Shabaz Khan, have four children.

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Washington: US President Donald Trump has asked Russia to end backing Syrian regime’s “atrocities” in the Idlib region, the White House said Sunday. Backed by Russian airpower, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad made fresh gains Sunday as he intensified his assault on the holdout northwestern province of Idlib.

Assault in Idlib

Turkey’s foreign minister also pressed his Russian counterpart over the attacks by Damascus on the last rebel-held bastion in the country.

In a call with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Trump “expressed concern over the violence in Idlib, Syria and… conveyed the United States’ desire to see an end to Russia’s support for the Assad regime’s atrocities.”

Idlib deal

Turkey has 12 observation posts in Idlib as part of a 2018 deal reached between Ankara and Moscow to prevent a regime offensive, but Syrian regime forces have pressed ahead regardless.

Four of the Turkish posts are believed to be encircled by Syrian forces, and Ankara has threatened to attack Damascus if they do not retreat by the end of February.

“I stressed that the attacks in Idlib must stop and it was necessary to establish a lasting ceasefire that would not be violated,” Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu told journalists at the Munich Security Conference after he met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.

Rebel supporter Turkey and Damascus ally Russia have worked closely on Syria in recent years despite being on opposing sides of the nine-year conflict.

A Turkish delegation will head to Moscow on Monday after Russian officials visited Ankara last weekend but failed to reach a concrete deal.

War monitor the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights on Sunday said regime forces “were in control of all the villages and small towns around Aleppo for the first time since 2012.”

Regime forces have for weeks been making gains in northwestern Syria and chipping away at territory held by jihadists and allied rebels, focusing their latest operations on the west of Aleppo province.

The Russian-backed offensive has triggered the largest wave of displacement in Syria’s civil war, with 800,000 people fleeing since it began in December, the United Nations has said. 

Backed by Russia, Iran and the Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah, Assad’s forces now control more than 70 percent of Syria and the president has repeatedly vowed to retake the entire country.

In the Saturday phone call with Erdogan, Trump also “reiterated that continued foreign interference in Libya would only serve to worsen the situation.”

Libya has been mired in chaos since a 2011 NATO-backed uprising killed longtime dictator Moamer Kadhafi, with two rival administrations vying for power.

States including Russia, France, the United Arab Emirates, and Egypt support strongman Khalifa Haftar, while the UN-recognized Government of National Accord is backed by Turkey and Qatar.

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Panaji: Hitting out at anti-Citizenship Amendment Act protesters at Delhi’s Shaheen Bagh, Kerala Governor Arif Mohammad Khan on Sunday said that the protests are “an attempt to impose views on others”. 

Speaking at a conference in Panaji, Khan maintained “Some people have decided to take the law into their hands and disrupt normal life.”

The governor is quoted to have said, “This is not the right to dissent, this is an attempt to impose views on others. You have the right to express your views but you don’t have the right to disrupt normal life.”

Citing the opposition to Supreme Court’s Shah Bano judgment 1986, Khan, who had walked out of the Rajiv Gandhi Cabinet over the issue said, “But was it justified on my part to say that I am going to sit in (in protest) till the law is withdrawn.”

Saying that one can have a dialogue with somebody who is expressing an opinion, Khan added, “but it is difficult when protesters refuse to budge.”

Khan asserted “When you have this attitude that only I am right, then dialogue is not happening. Dialogue happens when you are open to listening. Here, it is being asserted forcefully that we will not get up unless this law is withdrawn. The government is not going to decline dialogue if somebody comes”.

When asked about the Kerala government passing a resolution against the CAA, the Kerala governor said “It is for the court to decide whether the government can come to it without clearance from the governor.”

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New Delhi: Directorate General of BSF invited applications from interested and eligible candidates to fill up 317 vacancies of SI, HC, Mechanic, Electricians and other posts.

It may be mentioned that the vacancies are subjected to change.

How to apply

Candidates can submit the applications online through the official website of the Border Security Force (BSF).

The examination fee for SI (Master), SI (Workshop) and SI (Engine Driver) posts is Rs. 200. For the posts of HC (Master), HC (Workshop), HC (Engine Driver) and CT (Crew), candidates have to pay Rs. 100.

Exemption

Candidates belonging to Scheduled Caste, Scheduled Tribe, BSF candidates and ex-servicemen are exempted from making payment of the examination fee.

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Kochi: Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan reiterated that Kerala will not implement the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) in the state, nor will it permit the National Population Register (NPR) enumeration. He added that the state will also not build detention centres.

NDTV quoted Vijayan as saying “State government will neither implement CAA, nor it will permit NPR enumeration. Detention centres will not be built. The state is ready to collect information as part of the census but wouldn’t take part in data collection in the second phase for NPR”.

Calling it an attempt to undermine the country’s secularism and constitution by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government, Kerala CM said the central government is implementing the RSS policy which believes in communal segregation of the country through CAA, citizens’ list and NPR.

Referring to the second RSS chief MS Golwalkar, Mr Vijayan said “The RSS is following the British imperialism policy that created communal segregation in the country. The Vedas and Upanishads do not justify their position as they don’t have their Indian culture. The Modi government is implementing the RSS policy. Everyone rejected Hitler’s policy, but Golwalkar’s leadership accepted Hitler and Nazism.”

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The couple also promised a grand wedding reception but only after the 2021 Bengal Assembly Elections.

KOLKATA: Unable to get time out of their tedious work schedules, a devoted pair of civil servants in Kolkata decided to got married in office.

According to a report by Times Of India, Indian Administrative Service (IAS) Tushar Singla and his partner IPS officer Navjot Simmi signed their marriage certificate at Singla’s office on Friday.

Singla, a 2015 batch West bengal cadre currently the SDO stationed at Uluberia where as Simi, a 2017 batch Bihar cadre Indian Police Service (IPS) officer posted as DSP in Patna.

Reports suggest that the couple’s marriage was getting repeatedly postponed as Singla’s wasn’t getting time to go to Punjab to due heavy work scheduled.

Both the groom and bride also promised a grand wedding reception to their colleagues, but only after the 2021 West Bengal Assembly Elections.

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New Delhi: Labour Party MP and British Lawmaker Debbie Abrahams who chairs a parliamentary group focused on Kashmir was not allowed permitted to enter the country after she landed at New Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport today.

Debbie Abrahams and Indian aide Harpreet Upal had arrived in India on Emirates flight from Dubai at 9 am. The immigration officials did not cite any particular reason for denying permission and revoking Ms. Abrahams visa which was valid until October 2020 said Mr Upal.

Ms. Abrahams has been a member of Parliament since 2011 and was on a two-day personal trip to India, she said in a statement.

“I tried to establish why the visa had been revoked and if I could get a `visa on arrival’ but no one seemed to know,“ she said in the statement.

“Even the person who seemed to be in charge said he didn’t know and was really sorry about what had happened. So now I am just waiting to be deported … unless the Indian Government has a change of heart. I’m prepared to let the fact that I’ve been treated like a criminal go, and I hope they will let me visit my family and friends.”

Debbie Abrahams attracted attention for being an outspoken critic of the August 5, 2019 abrogation of Article 370 in J&K.

Ms. Abrahams also wrote a letter to India’s High commissioner to the UK that the abrogation action  “betrays the trust of the people” of Kashmir, shortly after the Kashmir special status was revoked.

Access to the region remains tight, with no foreign journalists allowed.

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Gandhinagar: A Dalit army jawan was reportedly beaten up in Gujarat’s Banaskantha district on Sunday. The Jawan’s wedding procession faced stone pelting from the Thakor Koli community because the groom was riding a mare. The incident occurred despite police protection for the procession.

Subjected to casteist slurs, the 27-year-old groom from the Dalit community was dragged down from a horse in his wedding procession, and allegedly beaten up in Saripada village, some 12 km from Palanpur on Sunday.

“Earlier, we received threats from a few people from the Thakor Koli community that they would not allow the procession to pass through the village if the groom rode a mare. We gave a written request for police security after which 6-7 police personnel were deployed to accompany the wedding procession. However, after the procession started moving, a group of people started throwing stones. The groom narrowly escaped an injury and was taken to the police control room van. However, three of our relatives, including two women, were injured in the stone-pelting,” said Akash’s brother Vijay Koitiya, according to the Indian Express.

“He had come to his village for marriage a few days back. When we tried to ignore the objections raised by upper-caste members of the village, they pelted stones. A 60-year-old man and some women playing Garba were injured, and a DJ sound system was damaged,” Dalapatbhai Bhatia, president of the Dalit Samaj in Banaskantha told PTI.

The police have said they have registered an FIR and the situation is under control. In the FIR, 11 Thakor Kolis have been named – Senji Koli, Shivaji Koli, Deepak Koli, Tushar Koli, Bhavan Koli, Vinod Koli, Ramaji Koli, Deepak Ishwar Koli, Bai Koli, Manju Koli, and Jeetu Koli. No arrests have been made so far.

“We have booked 11 accused under Indian Penal Code sections 323 (assault), 337 (causing hurt by rash act) 294 (obscenity), 506 (criminal intimidation) 147 (rioting) and 148 (rioting with deadly weapon) along with sections of the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities Act),” P.G. Rajput, officer in charge of Gadh police station, told the Indian Express.

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New Delhi: The CCTV footage of Police brutality beating, assaulting students in the library after entering the Jamia Millia Islamia premises without permission has gone viral on the internet driving heavy criticism was not released by the Varsity said the Jamia PRO Ahmed Azeem.

In their official statement, Mr Azeem said “It has come to our notice that some video with regard to police brutality in Dr Zakir Husain Library of the Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI) is in circulation. This is to clarify that the video has not been released by the university.”

Meanwhile, Jamia Chief Proctor Waseem Ahmad Khan clarified the administration did not release the video but however confirmed the video was from the university library.

“The Jamia Coordination Committee, which is actually a Joint Coordination Committee (JCC) of students and alumni of JMI, is spearheading the movement against CAA/ NRC /NPA outside Gate No 7 of the university on Maulana Mohammed Ali Jauhar Road. This is to clarify that JCC is not an official body of the university. Any communication from JCC should not be taken as communication from the university,” he added.

Mr Azeem also said “a number of Twitter accounts, Facebook pages and other users on different social media platforms are using Jamia Millia Islamia’s name, creating confusion among people,” and that the varsity is in no way responsible for the circulations.

On the library video footage, he said, “Prima facie the footage seems to be of the MPhil & PhD section of the Old Library. Police are investigating the case.”

When questioned why the university distanced itself from commenting on the Police violence on its students, Azeem said, “We have already spoken about the violence. We have submitted a police complaint on police brutality and moved court for an FIR. We have mentioned it in our report to the MHRD as well. Today, the talk was about the footage, so we clarified that.”

The Chief Proctor said the footage had been submitted to the Delhi Police, NHRC, MHRD, the internal fact-finding team of the university as well as the Jamia Teachers’ Association.

Jamia Chief Proctor said the footage had been submitted to the Delhi Police, NHRC, MHRD, the internal fact-finding team of the university as well as the Jamia Teachers’ Association.

“We had, however, given it to them with the undertaking that they will not release it anywhere. We don’t know from where it has been released. There is nothing in the video that we haven’t already said. We have been saying from day one that police entered without permission, beat students and damaged our property. Still, we will inquire into the matter,” he said.

“The first committee has already submitted all evidence to the second committee. They are now working on it,” said Mr Azeem speaking on the status of the report.

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The top court also appointed three interlocutors to talk regarding change in the protest site

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday said it is troubling to see protesters blocking the road as it may set a bad precedent, and suggested that the protest may shift to an alternate venue.

The top court also appointed three interlocutors led by senior advocate Sanjay Hegde to talk to the Shaheen Bagh protestors regarding change in the protest site, and file report in court.

A bench headed by Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Justice K.M. Joseph, citing replication of protests involving blocking of public roads, said: “We are concerned, what will happen if people start hitting the streets and blocking the roads while protesting….it is a concern.”

The court suggested that the Delhi Police may also offer an alternative site to the protesters at Shaheen Bagh. Solicitor General Tushar Mehta contended before the court that protesters can”t continue blocking roads on grounds of not getting an alternative site.

To this, the court replied: “It is fundamental right of people to protest and people can protest.”

Mehta also contended that the message that every institution has been kneeling and praying to the protesters should not go out.

“For some reasons, you have not gone there. If nothing works out, we will leave it to you,” the bench told Mehta, who insisted that talks were held with welfare and market associations to lift restrictions on road.

The court also observed that the authorities should favourably consider this aspect of right to protest. The other two interlocutors on the matter are advocate Sadhna Ramachandran and former Chief Information Commissioner Wajahat Habibullah.

The apex court observed that it is not saying that people have no right to protest against a law while the matter is pending in the top court, but the question is where to protest.

The apex court has scheduled next hearing on the matter on February 24.

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Thrissur: Beef has always been a topic of controversy in India.

In a circular released by the Kerala Police Academy on 15 February “beef has been omitted from the menu in canteens at the training campaigns across the state.”

The department faced a huge backlash after it said it would exclude beef from the menu for its new batch of trainees.

Though academy authorities had made it clear that there is no prohibition on beef being served to trainees, yet sources have complained about the hugely popular dish being left out.

Non-Ministry of External Affairs, V Muraleedharan also slammed the ruling CPI (M)-led Left government in Kerala over the reports, saying that it is raking up the issue for political gains.

The police, however, rejected the reports of exclusion of beef from the menu and said any such reports are false.

Meanwhile, the academy has also increased the mess fee from 2000 to 6000 rupees.

This is not the first time since beef was omitted from the menu; earlier in 2015, there was an ‘unofficial ban’ on meat since 2015 in the canteen at Kerala Police Academy.

In 2017, the BJP-led government banned cattle slaughter. Political parties held protests by holding beef festivals.

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New Delhi: A Delhi court on February 17 set a new date for the hanging of the four death row convicts in the Nirbhaya case. The execution has been scheduled for 6 am on March 3.

The court was hearing the applications by Nirbhaya’s parents and the Delhi government, seeking fresh death warrants for the four convicts after the Supreme Court granted liberty to the authorities to approach the trial court for issuance of fresh date for the execution of these convicts.

The convicts were to be hanged on January 22 at 7 am in Tihar Jail, a Delhi court had announced on January 7 while issuing their death warrants.

However, on January 17, the court had issued a fresh death warrant for the execution of the four Nirbhaya convicts, with the convicts now scheduled to be hanged at 6 am on February 1.

The court had, however, on January 31 stayed the hanging of the four death-row convicts. The trial court had postponed the execution of the death warrant untill further notice.

Earlier in the day, Additional Session Judge Dharmender Rana reserved the order after hearings during which Mukesh Kumar Singh, one of the four death row convicts in the case told the court that he does not want to be represented by advocate Vrinda Grover.

The court then appointed advocate Ravi Qazi to represent Mukesh.

The court was also informed that another death row convict, Vinay Sharma, is on hunger strike in Tihar jail.

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Hyderabad: The Interfaith Coalition for Peace (ICP) on Sunday, wrote a letter addressing to the Home Minster Amit Shah, that the IPC approaching the Home Minister for appointment to discuss on Citizenship Amendment Act 2019 (CAA).

As per their letter, the IPC info@icpindia.org motioned: We are grateful to you for saying on February 13, 2020, at Time Now Summit that you are open to anybody approaching you to discussion on merits regarding CAA and that your office should be approached for an appointment which will be fixed with three days. We are will to come over for discussion. We would request you to kindly direct your office to inform us of the date and time.

In the meanwhile, we take this opportunity to apprise you of our evaluation of the CAA.

In our well-considered yet dispassionate view the CAA violates (a) not only Articles 14, 25, 26, 27 and 51 of the Constitution of India but also (b) Articles 1, 2, 6, 7, 14, 15, 22 and 28 of the UNO’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights and (c) Article 13 of the New York Declaration of Refugees & Migrants, 2016 which was attended and endorsed by India’s MoS External Affairs.

Thus, the CAA is unjustifiably selective in providing largesse to favored citizens of only three countries and ignores similarly placed citizens of many neighboring countries with similar characteristics. Thus, CAA places parochial interests on top of and superseding the general interests of humanity. A detailed note appended for your kind perusal.

Besides, in an unprecedented move, there are ongoing protracted countrywide and worldwide protests against CAA, many state assemblies have passed resolutions, much international organization has spoken against it.

Therefore, we earnestly request you and our Government of India to kindly (a) either repeal the CAA or, alternatively, (b) delete the words “belonging to Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Jain, Parsi or Christian community” form the Provisos below Sections 2 and 6 in the CAA.

CAA violates the following Articles of the Constitution of India:

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