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  • Another Tragedy For BJP After Moradabad, Party’s Hathras MP Rajveer Diler Dies Of Heart Attack |

    NEW DELHI: In yet another tragedy for the ruling BJP, its sitting Member of Parliament from Hathras Rajveer Diler died on Wednesday due to a heart attack. According to reports, Diler passed away while undergoing treatment at the Varun Hospital in Aligarh. Rajveer Diler was rushed to the Varun Hospital on Ramghat Road for treatment after he complained of severe chest pain in the evening. He was declared dead upon reaching the hospital. Rajveer Singh Diler’s mortal remains were later brought to his residence on the ITI Road. The sudden demise of the sitting BJP MP triggered a shockwave throughout the district. Diler’s untimely death is a significant political loss for his party – the BJP.  

    Several top BJP leaders have expressed grief over his death.

    2nd Tragedy For BJP In A Week

    After Moradabad, this is the second major blow for the BJP within a week. BJP candidate Kunwar Suresh Singh from Moradabad passed away on the first phase of voting last Saturday

    Rajveer Diler won the 2019 Lok Sabha election on the BJP ticket and became a Member of Parliament. However, Diler was not given the ticket to contest the Lok Sabha polls this time. BJP has fielded Anoop Balmiki from the Hathras Lok Sabha seat.

    Rajveer Diler, 65, was elected as a legislator from the Iglas assembly seat in 2017. However, he resigned to contest the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. Diler won the Hathras seat with a margin of 260,208 votes. He polled 684,299 votes with a vote share of 59.00 per cent and defeated his SP rival Ramji Lal Suman, who got 424,091 votes (36.83 per cent). His father, Kishan Lal Diler, has also served as a Member of Parliament from Hathras. 

    Rajveer Diler was known for his clean image – the main reason behind his nomination as a BJP candidate in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. While family members and close relatives are grieving over Rajveer Diler’s death, his supporters and political leaders have also started gathering at his residence to offer condolences. 

    Earlier this week, BJP candidate Kunwar Suresh Singh from Muradabad passed away due to a sudden cardiac arrest at AIIMS Delhi after a brief illness. Suresh Singh was not very active during the election campaigning, but he had reached his Lok Sabha seat on polling day and cast his vote. 

    Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, state BJP president Bhupendra Singh Chaudhary and Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath expressed grief over his demise.

  • Lucknow court issues order to release journalist Siddique Kappan from jail

    By PTI

    LUCKNOW: A court here on Monday issued the release order of journalist Siddique Kappan, who was lodged in jail after his arrest in October 2020 while he was on his way to Hathras in Uttar Pradesh, where a Dalit woman had died after allegedly being raped.

    Kappan, a journalist from Kerala, was recently granted bail by the Supreme Court. He was booked under various sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act and the Information Technology (IT) Act.

    Additional Sessions Judge (ASJ) Anurodh Mishra directed Kappan to furnish two sureties of Rs 1 lakh each and a personal bond of the same amount.

    The judge also sought an undertaking from the journalist that he would not breach the conditions imposed on him by the apex court.

    Kappan along with three others — Athikur Rehman, Alam and Masood — were arrested by the Uttar Pradesh Police on October 5, 2020.

    The Dalit woman had died at a Delhi hospital a fortnight after she was allegedly gang-raped on September 14, 2020. She was cremated in the middle of the night in her village.

    LUCKNOW: A court here on Monday issued the release order of journalist Siddique Kappan, who was lodged in jail after his arrest in October 2020 while he was on his way to Hathras in Uttar Pradesh, where a Dalit woman had died after allegedly being raped.

    Kappan, a journalist from Kerala, was recently granted bail by the Supreme Court. He was booked under various sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act and the Information Technology (IT) Act.

    Additional Sessions Judge (ASJ) Anurodh Mishra directed Kappan to furnish two sureties of Rs 1 lakh each and a personal bond of the same amount.

    The judge also sought an undertaking from the journalist that he would not breach the conditions imposed on him by the apex court.

    Kappan along with three others — Athikur Rehman, Alam and Masood — were arrested by the Uttar Pradesh Police on October 5, 2020.

    The Dalit woman had died at a Delhi hospital a fortnight after she was allegedly gang-raped on September 14, 2020. She was cremated in the middle of the night in her village.

  • Hathras gang rape case: Allahabad HC refuses to stay trial in special court

    By PTI

    LUCKNOW: The Allahabad High Court has declined to stay the trial in the case of gang rape and murder of a young woman in Hathras being conducted by a special court in the district or move it to elsewhere.

    The Lucknow bench of the high court, however, kept it open for the CBI to seek transfer of the trial if it so wanted.

    A bench of Justice Rajan Roy and Justice Jaspreet Singh passed the order on a PIL which the court had suo motu registered after the incident in September 2020.

    In compliance with the order passed by the high court on March 19, 2021, two reports on behalf of the CRPF and the District Judge of Hathras who is the presiding officer of the special SC/ST court were filed before the bench with regard to the alleged incident of extending threat to the woman’s lawyer in the Hathras court on March 5, 2021, and alleged disturbance caused to the presiding officer in the course of trial.

    Taking the reports on records, the bench said, “Having perused the reports and the statements annexed therewith, without mentioning the details contained therein considering the sensitive nature of the case, suffice it to say, as of now, we do not find any reason to stay the proceedings of the case pending before the Special Court (SC/ST Act), Hathras nor for that matter to transfer the same elsewhere.”

    The bench also noted that the plea of transferring the case elsewhere was made orally by the woman’s counsel on the last date and that there was no written request.

    Considering that CBI lawyer Anurag Singh had apprised the bench that the premier investigation agency was willing to seek transfer of the trial elsewhere but has not done so till date, the bench observed, “This order would be without prejudice to any application for transfer of trial which may be filed by the CBI if it is otherwise maintainable.”

    The order was passed last week and its copy was made available on Sunday.

    The bench had taken suo motu cognizance of the incident, especially the inhuman and indecent cremation of the woman, and started monitoring the case as a whole after an order of the Supreme Court.

  • Everyday one family or the other screaming for justice in UP: Priyanka Gandhi

    By PTI
    NEW DELHI: Hitting out at the BJP over alleged rise in incidents of crime in Uttar Pradesh, Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Wednesday said contrary to the Yogi Adityanath government’s propaganda, everyday one family or the other is “screaming for justice” in the state.

    Her attack on the BJP dispensation came over the incident of a 50-year-old man being shot dead in Hathras district by an accused out on bail in a case of molestation lodged in 2018 against the victim’s daughter and the body of a 12-year-old girl exhumed from a pit in a man’s house in Bulandshahr.

    “The father of a girl who did not take back a case of molestation was murdered in Hathras. The body of a girl, who had been missing for several days in Bulandshahr, was found buried in a house,” Priyanka Gandhi said in a tweet in Hindi.

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    “Contrary to the UP government’s false propaganda on crime, everyday one family or the other is screaming for justice,” she said.

    Priyanka Gandhi and other Congress leaders have been attacking the Adityanath government over the law and order situation in the state, alleging that criminal activities were rampant, a claim denied by the state government.

  • Mayawati slams Uttar Pradesh govt over law and order situation in state

    By PTI
    LUCKNOW: Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati on Wednesday attacked the Uttar Pradesh government over the law and order situation in the state, and accused it of adopting an insensitive attitude even in serious cases.

    Every type of crime is at its peak in Uttar Pradesh and there is a very bad state of crime control, she charged.

    “Everyone is concerned about painful and embarrassing incidents of Dalit and women harassment. Even in such serious cases, the insensitive and negligence of government is unfortunate,” the former Uttar Pradesh chief minister said in a tweet in Hindi.

    1. यूपी सरकार में वैसे तो हर प्रकार के अपराध चरम पर होने से अपराध नियंत्रण का काफी बुरा हाल है, किन्तु खासकर दलित व महिला उत्पीड़न/असुरक्षा की आएदिन होने वाली दर्दनाक व शर्मनाक घटनाओं से हर तरफ चिन्ता की लहर है। ऐसे संगीन मामलों में भी सरकार की असंवेदनशील व लापरवाही अति-दुःखद।
    — Mayawati (@Mayawati) March 3, 2021

    She also targeted the BJP government at the Centre over the issue of Dalit rights.

    “Dalit oppression and murder of a man in Hathras and ruthless killing of a Dalit RTI activist in Gujarat prove that lives of Dalits, oppressed and women are not safe under the BJP government like in previous Congress regime. The government should immediately take notice of this,” she added.

    Her remarks come in the backdrop of a 50-year-old man being shot dead in Uttar Pradesh’s Hathras district allegedly by a man accused of molesting the victim’s daughter.

  • Issue of ‘forcible cremation’ of Hathras gang-rape victim could not be heard due to judge’s ‘absence’

    By PTI
    LUCKNOW: A public interest lawsuit over the alleged inhuman cremation of the Hathras gang-rape-cum-murder victim overnight after her death could not be heard by a Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court due to absence of one of the judges on the bench.

    The case was earlier listed for hearing by a bench of justices Ranjan Roy and Jaspreet Singh, but owing to the absence of Justice Roy, it could not be heard.

    The mater will now be listed for hearing on a later date as per the relevant bench’s instruction.

    The case was last heard on January 16 when the bench had seen various video clippings on the overnight cremation of the victim and other aspects of the case, submitted by various media houses.

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    The media houses had submitted the video and other material related to their news reports on the Hathras case on the direction by the court.

    The Lucknow bench of the high court had taken suo motu cognisance of the case, especially the news reports alleging the overnight and forcible cremation of the victim by local police.

    The 19-year-old Hathras girl had died at a Delhi hospital a fortnight after she was allegedly raped by four men of her village on September 14 last year.

    She was allegedly cremated in the middle of the night in her village.

    The girl’s family members had claimed after her death in Safdarjung Hospital in Delhi, the Hathras police had whisked away her body and had cremated her overnight without their permission.

    The police had allegedly not allowed the family members to take the body even to their home.

  • Hathras case: Special court starts hearing 

    By Express News Service
    LUCKNOW: A special SC/ST court started the hearing into the Hathras gangrape and murder case on Monday. During the hearing, the counsel of both the parties were handed over the copies of the chargesheet submitted by the CBI. The next hearing has been posted for January 29.

    Sources said that the four accused — Sandeep Singh Sisodiya, Ramkumar, Ravi and Luvkush — were brought from Aligarh jail under a thick security blanket for the hearing. The CBI investigating officer (IO), DSP Seema Pahuja, was also present in the court. After their first appearance, all the accused were sent back to Aligarh.

    Sources said that when the four accused were brought to the court, their parents and relatives mobbed the police van. “They were crying and wanted to have a glimpse of their sons,” said the sources.  The CBI had submitted the on December 18.

    A 19-year-old Dalit girl was allegedly raped by the four accused, who attempted to kill her on September 14. The victim succumbed at Safdurjung hospital in New Delhi on September 29.

  • CBI team reaches incident site, begins investigation

     A team of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), which has taken up the investigation of the Hathras incident, on Tuesday, reached the victim’s village Bulgadhi on Tuesday amid tight security, said the police.

    The brother of the victim was taken to the spot of the incident by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). Ahead of the CBI’s visit, police personnel were also deployed in the area. On Tuesday, the family of the deceased girl returned to the district after appearing in front of the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court. The statements of the deceased’s family members on her cremation were recorded before the court on Monday.

    Earlier in the day, Hathras victim’s family returned to their home in Bulgadhi village after appearing before the Lucknow bench of Allahabad High Court. It is noteworthy that the bench had taken suo moto cognisance of the incident in which a 19-year old woman had died on September 29 after the alleged assault and gang-rape on September 14.

    The CBI had recently registered a case against an accused and took up the investigation of the Hathras incident. The case was filed on the request of the Uttar Pradesh government and “further notification from the Government of India.”A 19-year-old Dalit woman had succumbed to her injuries at Delhi’s Safdarjung Hospital on September 29 after being assaulted and allegedly gang-raped in Uttar Pradesh’s Hathras on September 14.

  • ED to start probe into PFI links over Rs 50 crore ‘funding’ to incite caste, communal violence

    The Directorate of Enforcement is going to start probe over PFI links in Hathras conspiracy from next week. The Uttar Pradesh Police alleged that funding of around Rs 50 crore was sourced by the Popular Front of India (PFI) from Mauritius to incite violence in Hathras.

    The Popular Front of India (PFI), the Kerala-based Muslim organisation, has once again been accused of “conspiring” to instigate communal violence in Uttar Pradesh. As per sources, the ‘Justice for Hathras’ platform launched by alleged conspirators through this portal was being used to spread hate speeches, edited pictures, fake news, edited videos amongst others to incite “ethnic and communal violence.” Links of the Popular Front of India (PFI), the Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI), Amnesty International and foreign countries were found through the website.

  • West Bengal is slipping into a ‘mafia raj’-like situation like UP and Bihar

    Bengal BJP president Dilip Ghosh said that West Bengal is slipping into a ‘mafia raj’-like situation like Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. The way a councillor was shot dead in front of a police station by using a sten gun is shameful.

    He made this statement after a party leader Manish Shukla was shot dead in North 24 Parganas.On Monday (October 5),  A delegation of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) workers led by party leader Kailash Vijayvargiya met Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar at the Raj Bhavan, demanding CBI inquiry into the death of BJP councillor Manish Shukla.

    Earlier, he said that Trinamool Congress (TMC) delegation had gone to Hathras to perform a drama though such incidents happen in their home state.

    While speaking to the media Gosh said, “In Bengal, the law and order situation is out of control. Citizens don’t trust the state government and women are not safe. Incidents like the one that took place in Hathras happen in every district here every day but TMC representatives went all the way to Uttar Pradesh to do drama.”