BJP MLA Sangeet Som booked for showing 'riot' documentary ahead of UP polls

January 19, 2017

Meerut, Jan 19: Sangeet Som, the controversial BJP MLA from Sardhana in UP , has been booked for allegedly screening footage from the 2013 Muzaffarnagar riots as part of a documentary . The riots left 63 people dead and over 50,000 homeless.

sangeet"A case has been filed against Sangeet Som under Section 125 (promoting enmity between classes in connection with election) in the Representation of the People Act, 1951," Sardhana circle officer Chandra Pal Singh said. On Tuesday , police had seized a CD allegedly containing footage of the riots from Som's campaign vehicle at Fareedpur village in Meerut's Sardhana constituency. A case was also filed against the driver of the vehicle and another person for violating Section 144 of CrPc. Police sources said the CD contained footage of the clashes that took place in Muzaffarnagar's Kawal vil lage in 2013.

Meerut district magistrate B Chandrakala had said on Tuesday , "The 21-minute documentary has been found objectionable and communal in nature by the media certification and monitoring committee (MCMC). A report is being compiled and sent to the Election Commission."

According to sources in the MCMC, the documentary included interviews of Som on different TV channels during the riots, and projected him as a hero. When TOI contacted Som, he said, "The CD did not contain any clips on Muzaffarnagar riots." Som, an accused in the communal flare-up, was among three BJP legislators booked on Wednesday for violating the model code of conduct. The two others are Muzaffarnagar MLA Kapil Dev Agarwal and Shamli representative Suresh Rana, also an accused in the 2013 riots.

While Agarwal has been booked for a campaign march from his office to a temple, Rana sat on a dharna held by traders and made an address.

Both have been booked under IPC Section 188, i.e. disobedience of an order issued by a public servant.

VHP issues Ram temple ultimatum

VHP has postponed its Ram temple campaign till the UP assembly elections conclude, but said on Wednesday that the BJP-led Centre had three months after that to build the temple, failing which it would march to Parliament with its "80 lakh members". VHP international general secretary Champat Rai, who presided over the chintan shivir at the annual Magh Mela in Allahabad, said, "We have suspended the agitation... as BJP is engaged in polls. The campaign will intensify after the polls." "He said the government's "dilly-dallying" over the issue had given rise to resentment among seers. "I urge VHP officebearers and seers to prepare themselves for an agitation if the government fails to fulfil our demand," he added.

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May 19,2020

Bareilly (UP), May 19: Samajwadi leader Chhotelal Diwakar and his son, Sunil Diwakar, were shot dead in broad daylight in Sambhal district of Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday. The entire incident was caught on camera.

The murder was apparently a fallout of a dispute over laying of a road under MGNREGA.

Chhotelal Diwakar had contested the 2017 assembly elections on a Samajwadi Party ticket.

Superintendent of Police, (SP), Sambhal, Yamuna Prasad, said, "Some work was being carried out under MGNREGA due to which some dispute happened. Two people have been shot dead. We will reach the spot of the incident to find more details."

According to his family members, Diwakar and his son had gone for a walk in the fields when the assailants came on a motorbike and after a brief altercation, shot them dead. They fled on foot, leaving their motorbike behind.

A large number of SP workers reached the village soon after the news of the double murder spread.

SP Yamuna Prasad who reached the spot that falls under Behjoi police station, soon after the murders, said that a manhunt has been launched for the assailants. He said that further investigations were underway and the bodies have been sent for post mortem.

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February 20,2020

Nagpur, Feb 19: The Central Bureau of Investigation said that it has arrested a former employee of Union Carbide Bhopal, who was absconding since 2016.

A senior CBI official said on Wednesday that the agency sleuths arrested S I Qureshi from Maharashtra’s Nagpur on Tuesday, who was convicted by a local court here in connection with the Bhopal gas tragedy case.

The official further said that he had been absconding since 2016.

He added that the convict would be produced in a district court.

On December 3, 1984, forty tonnes of methyl isocyanate leaked from the Union Carbide pesticide factory and settled over slums in Bhopal

A Bhopal court convicted eight people in 2010 to two years each in jail over the gas plant leak that killed thousands of people.

The eight convicted included the Chairman of the Indian arm of the Union Carbide (UCIL) Keshub Mahindra, Managing Director V P Gokhale, Vice-president Kishore Kamdar, Works Manager J Mukund, Production manager S P Chowdhury, Plant superintendent K V Shetty and Production Assistant Qureshi.

The CBI had taken over the Bhopal gas tragedy case on December 12, 1984.

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June 11,2020

Thrissur, Jun 11: Volunteers of People for Animal Welfare Services rescued a dog that had its mouth sealed with insulation tape around it for two weeks in Ollur of Thrissur district.

The dog has now been shifted to an animal shelter home.

Recently two elephants died in Kerala. One pregnant elephant died after consuming crackers wrapped in some fruits in Palakkad.

Another elephant died in Malappuram after it was found seriously injured in North Nilambur forest range of the district.

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