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  • ‘Quash cases on Navratri organisers’: BJP MP Gopal Shetty

    By Express News Service

    MUMBAI:  BJP Lok Sabha MP Gopal Shetty said that Maharashtra government should withdraw the cases filed against Navratri organisers over sound limit violations following the government recently withdrawing cases against Govinda and Ganesha festival organisers under similar circumstances.

    Gopal Shetty also appealed to the Shinde-Fadnavis led Maharashtra government to allow four days for Navratri festival in the current year till midnight. “Let the people celebrate the festival as per their wish. It’s a once in a year festival. For the last two years owing to Covid, Navratri could not be organised across the country publicly. But now that Navratri in public has been allowed by the administration,” he said. 

    MUMBAI:  BJP Lok Sabha MP Gopal Shetty said that Maharashtra government should withdraw the cases filed against Navratri organisers over sound limit violations following the government recently withdrawing cases against Govinda and Ganesha festival organisers under similar circumstances.

    Gopal Shetty also appealed to the Shinde-Fadnavis led Maharashtra government to allow four days for Navratri festival in the current year till midnight. “Let the people celebrate the festival as per their wish. It’s a once in a year festival. For the last two years owing to Covid, Navratri could not be organised across the country publicly. But now that Navratri in public has been allowed by the administration,” he said.
     

  • Nupur Sharma seeks time to appear before Bhiwandi police over remarks against Prophet Mohammad 

    By PTI

    THANE: Suspended BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma, who was summoned by the Bhiwandi police in Maharashtra on Monday over her alleged objectionable remarks against Prophet Mohammad, has sought time to appear before the police to record her statement, a senior official said.

    Sharma has been granted time and will not appear before the Bhiwandi police on Monday, he said. The official did not specify how much time Sharma has been granted.

    The Bhiwandi police in Thane district had registered a case against Sharma over her remarks about the Prophet during a TV debate, following a complaint lodged by a representative of the Raza Academy on May 30, he said.

    They had also registered a case against expelled BJP functionary Naveen Kumar Jindal over his alleged controversial tweets against Prophet Mohammad and asked him to record his statement on June 15, an official earlier said.

    The Bhiwandi police on Sunday detained a 19-year-old Muslim man for allegedly posting a derogatory remark on Prophet Mohammad and showing support to Nupur Sharma over her controversial comments, a senior official earlier said.

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    The accused was taken into custody by the police after a tense situation prevailed in the town over his viral social media post, which angered members of the Muslim community, he said.

    The man has apologised, Deputy Commissioner of Police, Zone-II, Bhiwandi, Yogesh Chavan said on Sunday night, adding that an offence was registered against him under Indian Penal Code Section 153A (promoting disharmony, enmity or feelings of hatred between different groups).

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    Chavan appealed to citizens of the town not to believe in rumours and help the police in maintaining law and order. Earlier, the Mumbra police in Thane asked Sharma to appear before them on June 22 to record her statement over her remarks.

    The Mumbai Police have also summoned her to record a statement on June 25 in connection with her remarks about the Prophet during a TV debate that triggered a huge controversy. The police had asked for a video of the debate from the news channel concerned.

    The BJP had on June 5 suspended its national spokesperson Nupur Sharma and expelled Delhi BJP media head Jindal after their alleged derogatory remarks against the Prophet led to an outrage in India and Gulf countries.

  • Case against ex-SP MLA Rameshwar Yadav for illegal occupation of government land

    By PTI

    ETAH: A case was registered on Saturday against ex-Samajwadi Party MLA Rameshwar Yadav, who was arrested two days ago in another case, for alleged illegal occupation of government land, police said.

    He was arrested from Agra on Thursday night and sent to judicial custody by a court the next day. The arrest had come after an FIR was lodged against Rameshwar Yadav and his brother Jugendra Singh Yadav under the Gangster Act on April 18 for alleged land encroachment. The duo was absconding following the FIR.

    Another FIR has been lodged against the former SP MLA, his absconding brother Jugendra Singh Yadav, who is also the district panchayat chairman, and some others at the Jaithra police station, Additional Superintendent of Police Dhananjay Kushwaha said.

    The SP leaders have been accused of illegally occupying the government’s barren land and building a marriage hall and their houses on it, the police officer said.

    According to police, over 70 cases are lodged against Rameshwar Singh Yadav at various police stations of the district under serious charges, including an attempt to murder and voluntarily causing hurt.

  • Legal battle going on in Calcutta HC for 150 years and growing old

    Express News Service

    KOLKATA:  Believe it or not, a legal battle has been going on in the Calcutta High Court for the past 150 years. Said to be the longest-heard legal matter in the country, the litigation has its origin in 1872 when the British colonial law was reigning supreme. The original petition related to Rani Rashmoni’s Arpan-nama (dedication of deeds) for the running of Dakshiineshwar temple, which receives devotees from all over the country. 

    Philanthropist and founder of the temple Rashmoni had, a day before her death in 1861, appointed five persons as sebaits to run the temple.  She had signed the deed in the presence of six witnesses and it was registered in Alipore court six months after her death.

    In 1872, two of the sebaits petitioned before a British judge of the high court that the deed doesn’t mention the rules and regulations to run the temple. After hearing the case for 40 years, the court in 1912 chalked out a scheme to run the temple’s affairs and in 1929, the court instructed to issue a new guideline and form a board of trustees to run the temple.

    As the number of sebaits of the temple crossed more than 200, the case was again heard in 1972 to decide their voting rights in electing the board of trustees. The court passed an order in 1986 saying the election would be held every three years under the supervision of a court-appointed officer.

    The case was again placed before the court in 2021 in which it was claimed that the head of the board was being elected for the past 35 years keeping the sebaits in dark. The case is being heard on the basis of the original petitions by the two sebaits in 1872.

    Additions to the trailing litigationThe records available with the HC show that the case is being heard on the basis of the original petitions of 1872. The latest addition to the dispute is that the head of the trustee board was being elected for the past 35 years keeping the sebaits in dark