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Lynch victim Pehlu Khan’s sons, witnesses attacked en route to court

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September 29, 2018

Jaipur, Sept 29: The witnesses and sons of Pehlu Khan, a dairy farmer who was lynched in 2017, were attacked by suspected saffron extremists on NH-248 in the Mewat region of Rajasthan on Saturday morning. The attack took place when they were en route to Behror to attend the hearing in Khan's murder case.

Apart from Pehlu's sons Irshad and Aarif, his lawyer Asad Hyatt was also in the car when the attack took place.

"We were travelling in one car. Just before reaching Behror, a black Scorpio tried to stop our car. As soon as we pulled down the windows, the men in the Scorpio abused us. Within no time they overtook the car and started firing upon us. The Scorpio was without a nameplate," said Irshad, the elder son of Pehlu Khan.

Aarif, Khan's second son, added, "Instead of going to Behror we took another route to reach Alwar and met police officials there. We got scared as they were following us." Khan's sons and witnesses were travelling from Jaisinghpur village (Nuh) to Behror, which is about 100 km away.

"Since the case has been transferred to Behror from Alwar, things are not going in the direction. We have lost faith in Behror police after they gave a clean chit to the six witnesses named in the FIR. It's our demand that case should be shifted to Alwar instead of Behror", Arif said.

Meanwhile, social activists have condemned the attack and sought police protection for the family and witnesses. "Security should be provided urgently to the witnesses. Police protection should be given from Haryana itself, right up to the court and back. It is important that witnesses are not only given protection but are able to fearlessly speak out what they saw that day as part of their deposition to the court," Kavita Srivastava, general secretary of People's Union for Civil Liberties, said.

Moreover, activists have also demanded to shift the trial outside Behror. "Trial should be shifted to Jaipur, Alwar or even to Delhi as was done in some of the Gujarat 2002 cases when the trial was shifted to Mumbai", Srivastava added.

Khan, a 55-year-old dairy farmer was beaten to death by an angry mob of cow vigilantes in Alwar's Nuh area on April 1, 2017, when on their way to Haryana after legally purchasing cattle in Rajasthan. He was accompanied by Azmat and Rafiq, who were also thrashed.

Azmat and Rafiq are now the witnesses so is Irshad was accompanying his father to buy a milch buffalo to increase milk production during Ramadan.

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July 20,2020

New Delhi, Jul 20: India's COVID-19 case tally crossed the 11 lakh mark with the highest single-day spike of 40,425 new cases and 681 deaths reported in the last 24 hours, informed the Union Health and Family Welfare Ministry on Monday.

Total cases in the country now stand at 11,18,043 while the death toll is 27,497.
The Health Ministry said the total number of cases includes 3,90,459 active cases and 7,00,087 patients have been cured/discharged/migrated.

Maharashtra remains the worst affected state with 3,10,455 cases reported until Sunday.
Meanwhile, as per the information provided by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), 1,40,47,908 samples have been tested for COVID-19 till July 19, of these 2,56,039 samples were tested yesterday.

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July 8,2020

New Delhi, Jul 8: India has reported a spike of 22,752 COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, taking the country's coronavirus tally to 7,42,417 on Wednesday, informed the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.

Out of the total cases reported, 4,56,830 patients have been cured/discharged from the disease while one patient has been migrated, the Health Ministry informed.

It added that there are 2,64,944 active cases in the country.

482 deaths reported in the last 24 hours due to COVID-19 in the country, taking India's death toll to 20,642.

According to the Union Health Ministry, Maharashtra continues to be the worst affected state reporting 2,17,121 coronavirus cases and 9,250 fatalities.

Tamil Nadu -- the second worst-affected state from COVID-19 -- has a total of 1,18,594 cases and 1,636 deaths due to coronavirus.

While Delhi has a total of 1,02,831 COVID-19 cases including 3,165 deaths.

The Indian Council of Medical Research on Wednesday informed that a total of 1,04,73,771 samples tested for COVID-19 up to July 7. Of these, 2,62,679 samples were tested on Tuesday.

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March 2,2020

New Delhi, Mar 2: Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Sunday hit out at Union Home Minister Amit Shah for his comments that no one from the minority community will be affected by amended Citizenship Act and asked why then was the community excluded from the law in the first place.

Addressing a rally in Kolkata, Shah assured people of the minority community that not a single person will lose citizenship due to the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA).

"The Home Minister says that no minority will be affected by CAA. If this is correct, they should tell the country who would be affected by CAA. If no one would be affected by CAA, as it currently is, why did the government pass the law?

"If the CAA aims to benefit all minorities (no one will be affected, says HM), then why are Muslims excluded from the list of minorities mentioned in the Act?," the former finance minister asked in a post on Twitter.

At his first public rally in Kolkata after the 2019 general elections, Shah said, "The opposition is terrorising the minorities. I assure every person from the minority community that the CAA only provides citizenship, does not take it away. It won't affect your citizenship."

"The opposition parties are spreading canards that refugees will have to show papers but this is absolutely false. You don't have to show any paper. We will not stop until all refugees are granted citizenship," Shah told the public.

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