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NRI gets 10 years jail in Saudi for abusive tweets against the Prophet

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January 29, 2019

Kasaragod, Jan 29: A non-resident Indian hailing from Kerala has been sentenced to 10 years of imprisonment in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for a series of abusive tweets against Prophet Mohammed.

The convict is Vishnu Dev son of Radhakrishnan Nair. Though initially he was sentenced to 5 years of jail term recently the quantum of punishment was increased.

According to a letter received by the family of Vishnu from the Consular, Passport and Visa Division of the Ministry of External Affairs, he was arrested for “cybercrime pertaining to blasphemy and spreading messages against the Kingdom through social media.”

He was arrested on June 7, 2018. On September 13, he was given a five-year jail term and a penalty of 1.5 lakh Saudi Riyal. His sentence was increased to 10 years on January 24,” he said.

Meanwhile, Mr Nair, who resides in Alappuzha, said that he had sought the help of several politicians to get his son released from jail, but to no avail.

Vishnu was working as an engineer at Nasser S Al-Hajri Corporation, a subsidiary of Saudi Aramco, before his arrest.

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sahil , khobar…
 - 
Wednesday, 30 Jan 2019

just sentence him to death.. this kind of morons are evil for society. he was earning handsome salary of 40k+ riyals and braking against muslims/islam. if he work in india as engineer he wont get even10k indian rupees. whoever do this kind of hatred againt other religion whether muslim, hindu or christian he deserve death only.

 

kumar
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Tuesday, 29 Jan 2019

Its every one's duty to respect the laws of the country where we live.   Being expatriate in Saudi Arabia we should be more careful on the issue.   You might be follower of enemies of islam in India, but you cannot do it in Saudi Arabia or Gulf countries.  You mihgt have been brainwashed in india but anti national and anti muslim political parties, who are trying to make use of you to spread hate among different communities for their political benefit.  At last you will be the one to suffer.  No political for whom you are working will not come to support you and they will say you are not related to their party and there is no connection between you and the party.   dont get fooled by these hate political parties.  I am sorry for the fate of this unfortunate person and hope he will be freed at the earliest possible.  This is good lesson for all hate mongers in Saudi Arabia.   Dont bring your dirty politics to saudi arab ia.   People from all religion are living peacefully here.  They eat together and live together as one family.   

Nair
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Tuesday, 29 Jan 2019

Maron is arrested, let him learn his mistake for his hatrate,

indian political people make innocent people to reach and this is what the end result but the political people are living happly with all facility only ch**tya citizen of india is fooled all time.

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June 29,2020

Karwar, June 29: The additional sessions court, Sirsi town police station and office of the deputy superintendent of police in Uttara Kannada district were sealed on Sunday after an undertrial was found positive for Covid-19.

The undertrial, accused of stealing a bike, from Hubballi was arrested by Sirsi police and had initially tested negative. He was confirmed infected when his samples were tested the second time.

He was arrested by Dharwad police in connection with a bike theft case. During interrogation it was found that he had stolen bikes in Sirsi too. Sirsi police had brought him from Dharwad sub-jail for the interrogation and was produced in the court.

The accused was in Manipal jail for some time after he was convicted there for the bike theft. While bringing him to Sirsi the police had wore PPE kits.

When he was produced in the court the judge had reportedly directed the police test him for covid as he had some symptoms.

His swab was collected and sent to the lab. In the first test the result was negative but it was positive in another test. At that time he was in Sirsi sub-jail. 10 police officials who had come into his contact have been quarantined. The police station has been sealed down and the court will be closed down on Monday and Tuesday.

All the under trails who were kept with him in the sub-jail have been isolated and their swab has been sent for the testing.

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August 8,2020

Bengaluru, Aug 8: Former Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy on Saturday demanded that the state government drop its plan to provide doorstep delivery of liquor.

"After faltering in mopping up revenue, the state government is mulling over allowing doorstep delivery of liquor by enabling online sales and starting new MSIL liquor shops in rural areas. I demand that the state government drop its plans," he tweeted.

"I came to know that the excise commissioner is keen to hold talks with a private firm to enable online sale of liquor. The government should back out from such a foolish decision. Otherwise, agitation is inevitable," Kumaraswamy said.

He said opening new liquor shops or online delivery will ruin the health of society.

"Post-COVID outbreak and subsequent lockdown, people are facing financial distress, struggling to lead day-to-day life. 

The government must withdraw such an imprudent decision to deliver liquor at doorsteps. Opening new liquor shops or the decision of online delivery in times of distress like this will spoil society's health. 

It is not fair for the government to fill its coffers by robbing people's money," he said in a series of tweets.

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January 21,2020

Bengaluru, Jan 21: Controversial Mysuru ruler Tipu Sultan will remain in state-syllabus textbooks in the next academic year (2020-21) too. But the government will form another committee to look at the subject afresh.

"Efforts are on to give textbooks and uniforms the day schools open next academic year. After a discussion with the CM, we decided to not make any changes in the textbooks for the upcoming academic year,"said primary and secondary education minister S Suresh Kumar.

No political angle, says minister

However, we will form a committee to look into it again,” said the minister.

Three months ago, Madikeri MLA Appachu Ranjan had written to the minister seeking removal of contents on Tipu Sultan from Karnataka state syllabus books of classes 6,7 and 10. The minister said: “Appachu Ranjan is a five-time MLA. When he sent a letter, it’s my duty to seek an opinion on it. There’s no political angle here.”

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