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Mangaluru: Basheer buried amidst tears and prayers; family appeals for peace

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January 7, 2018

Mangaluru, Jan 7: Thousands of mourners on Sunday evening attended the funeral prayers of Ahmed Basheer, who breathed his last earlier today four days after he was attacked by a gang of trouble mongers in the city.

47-year-old Basheer was laid to rest at the burial ground located near the Muhiuddin Juma Masjid at Kuloor-Panjimogeru on the outskirts of the city after Magrib prayers.

On January 3, hours after Deepak Rao, a youth from Katipalla area in Mangaluru was hacked to death by a gang of four miscreants another gang had attacked Basheer at Kottara Chowki area in the city without any provocation.

The attack took place at around 9:30 p.m. when Basheer was returning his home at Akashabhava after closing his fast food outlet. A critically injured and unconscious Basheer was rushed to a hospital by two ambulance drivers. After four days of treatment, he breathed his last at 8:10 a.m. on Sunday.

Even though the family members wanted to conduct the last rites immediately after the post mortem, they had to wait till the arrival of victim’s second son Irfan from United Arab Emirates. Irfan had landed in Abu Dhbai just three months ago. He reached Mangaluru at around 6 p.m. Basheer’s elder son had returned from Middle East two days ago.

Meanwhile, the preparations for the funeral rites as per Islamic customs had commenced in the hospital itself. The body was given bath and covered in plain white cloths before transporting it in an ambulance to his hone at Akashabhavana at around 2 p.m. for public viewing.

The mortal remains were then taken to the mosque in a vehicle for mayyit namaz at around 4 p.m. Thousands of people thronged the mosque ground to see Basheer’s face for the last time. As soon as his second son reached the spot, the mayyit was taken to nearby graveyard and laid to rest amidst prayers.

Though they were not in a condition to speak, Basheer’s family members did not forget to appeal the people not to disrupt peace. They also urged the people to pray for the departed soul. “Nobody can give justice to my brother except the Almighty God. We request all the good people to pray for the departed soul. No one should lose patience and indulge in any wrong doing. Our anger towards the killers should not provoke us to cause any harm to our innocent brothers and sisters of other faiths,” said Basheer’s teary-eyed brother Abdul Hakeem Kuloor.

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sayyed ashraf addoor
 - 
Monday, 8 Jan 2018

RIP.....May Allah SWT Grant him jannatul firdous.

Syed
 - 
Monday, 8 Jan 2018

May ALLAH SWT Grant him Jannatul Firdous. Aameen

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February 11,2020

Thiruvananthapuram, Feb 11: In a unique form of protest against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), a bridegroom in Kerala, Haja Hussain, came for his wedding ceremony riding on a camel holding an anti-Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) poster in his hands, on the outskirts of the capital city on Monday.

Accompanied by a large crowd mostly comprising his friends and relatives, Hussain carried a placard which read "Reject CAA, Boycott NRC and NPR" as he arrived at the wedding hall in Vazhimukku, about 20 km from Thiruvananthapuram, on a camel back.

Haja Hussain said that he chose to do this to express his protest against the CAA.

"Along with the ' mahr' (the custom where the groom hands over gold or money to the bride), I also gave a copy of the Constitution. CAA should be rejected," said Haja Hussain, who is a local businessman.

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January 5,2020

Ballari, Jan 5: Thousands of Muslims, joined by the members of various organisations, on Saturday staged a massive protest in the town condemning the provocative speech by Bellary MLA G Somashekar Reddy.

The police caned the agitators after they tried to lay siege to the house of BJP legislator.

The protesters holding national flag took out a rally from Kaul Bazaar, which passed through the major streets, and culminated at Gadagi Channappa Circle. They raised slogans against the BJP and burnt the effigy of Somashekar Reddy.

The protest sent the traffic haywire Gadagi Channappa Circle and the cascading effect of it was seen across the town. SP C K Babu told the agitators that the MLA has been booked for making provocative speech and pleaded them to hold a protest at Municipal College grounds. But the agitators were in no mood to relent.

Inspector General (Bellary Range) I G Nanjundaswamy has rushed to the town to oversee security. The BJP MLA on Friday made inciting remarks against minorities during his speech at a pro-CAA rally in the town.

FIR against Reddy

The Gandhinagar police in the town on Saturday registered an FIR against MLA Somashekar Reddy, for making a provocative speech, under IPC Sections 153 A (promoting enmity between two religions), 295A (insulting religious beliefs) and 505B.

During his speech at a pro-CAA rally on Friday, Reddy had said, "Hindus are 80% of the population while minorities are 17%. What will happen to you if we hit back? Hence, you should be very careful about your moves and steps."

The legislator came down heavily on those staging protests against CAA in Ballari. "We won't keep quiet if another protest is staged against the CAA. Each Hindu is like Shivaji. Nobody will be alive if all Hindus come out to streets holding swords," he had said.

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February 5,2020

New Delhi, Feb 5: Days after a gunman opened fire in Delhi's Shaheen Bagh, the epicentre of anti-CAA movement, YouTuber Gunja Kapoor was detained at the protest site on Wednesday after she was caught covertly filming the protests in a burqa.

Kapoor runs the channel ‘Right Narrative’ on YouTube and her pinned tweet on Twitter says she is followed on the microblogging site by PM Narendra Modi.

According to police, the protesters turned suspicious after Kapoor asked them "too many questions". She was caught by some of the women protesters after they identified her as the popular YouTuber. The incident led to a commotion at Shaheen Bagh, the epicentre of protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), a senior police official said.

She was taken to Sarita Vihar police station where her identity was ascertained, police said.

The incident sparked outrage on social media. Many took to Twitter to question why Kapoor was at the protest in disguise. Others expressed concern about her motives at secretly filming the protests.

Meanwhile, praises flew in for the women of Shaheen Bagh who can be seen defending Kapoor from angry protesters after she was caught.

This is not the first time that a right wing social media activist has landed in trouble in Shaheen Bagh where residents and other women and children have been sitting in protest for nearly two months since the passing of the contentious Citizenship Amendment Act 2019 in December last year.

In January, Deepa Sharma had posted videos online about the "traumatic" experience she had when she was allegedly heckled and harassed by Shaheen Bagh protesters. While the woman's claim could never be verified, other pieces of rampant fake news aimed at delegitimising and villainising protesters has taken social media by storm.

From doctored videos of women protesters allegedly accepting they were paid Rs 500 to attend protests to alleged fights over biriyani and anti-India sloganeering, trolls on social media seem to be working overtime to taint the ongoing protests.

The latter, however, show no signs of giving up. In fact, as Delhi nears elections on February 8, protesters have arranged for music performances by eminent artists, including pop celebrity Prateek Kuhad, till February 7.

Sit in protests take place 24x7 with women showing up in thousands to spend the night and sing songs of protest. And with polls around the corner, the protests have become an active part of political discourse with Aam Aadmi Party's Manish Sisodia expressing his support for the protesters at a recent press conference.

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