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Hans India
15 hours ago
- Politics
- Hans India
Bengal woman sticks to guns against Delhi cops
New Delhi: Sajanu Parveen, a resident of Malda's Chanchal who has claimed that Delhi police personnel in plainclothes had picked her up from a Delhi slum and assaulted her, doubled down on her allegations on Wednesday. Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee had flagged the alleged assault – in which she said even Parveen's child was not spared –as an example of how Bengali-speakers were being tortured in BJP-ruled states in the name of nabbing illegal immigrants. Delhi's deputy commissioner of police (east) Abhishek Dhania had denied the allegations, dismissing them as politically motivated. Mamata had stuck to her guns, saying the truth will eventually come out. 'They [Delhi cops] are not showing the place where I was taken to and assaulted,' Parveen said on Wednesday addressing a news conference at the Trinamool Bhawan in Kolkata, flanked by state minister and city mayor Firhad Hakim and party spokesperson Kunal Ghosh. 'I asked them where they had bought me and my son. I was told it was some hospital, Mangalam,' Parveen said. 'The first day, four people came in plainclothes and claimed they were from the CID. They asked for my Aadhaar card. When I told them we are from Malda, they said you are from West Bengal, everybody in West Bengal is Bangladeshi,' Parveen said. 'I told them if everyone in West Bengal is Bangladeshi, is the chief minister Mamata Banerjee also Bangladeshi?' Parveen, a mother of three, said she was picked up the next day. 'There is no CCTV footage from where they picked me up, where they took me and the Rs. 25,000 that we were forced to pay them. They made us sign several papers. We don't know what they were about,' Parveen alleged. 'One of them hit my son so hard, there was a cut above his ear and started bleeding. They said if we said Jai Shree Ram we could go.'
The Hindu
21 hours ago
- Politics
- The Hindu
Malda migrant worker's family backs Mamata claim of harassment by Delhi police
Family members of the migrant worker who had alleged harassment and torture by the Delhi police on Wednesday returned to West Bengal and held a press conference in Kolkata claiming that they were referred as 'Bangladeshis' and asked to pay ₹25,000 by the men posing as police personnel. Sanjur Parveen and other members of the family who hails from Chanchal in Malda district of West Bengal held a press conference at the Trinamool Congress party office in Kolkata and said that the personnel of Delhi police asked her to chant 'Jai Shri Ram. Several leaders of Trinamool Congress including chairperson of West Bengal Migrant Welfare Board Samirul Islam, party spokesperson Kunal Ghosh and, State's Minister Firhad Hakim, Rajya Sabha MP Mausam Noor were among the leaders who were present at the press conference. 'Four people came to our house and they introduced themselves as police. They wanted to see our Aadhaar cards. They referred to us as Bangladeshis and said that we should not leave the area. We told them that we are not Bangladeshi but Indians,' Ms. Parveen said. She added that the next day four others came with two women and tried to take my child away. 'There I was asked to say 'Jai Shri Ram'. I said, I am a Muslim. I cannot say that. After that, they demanded ₹25,000 from me,' Ms. Parveen said. The Malda resident added that she along with her child were assaulted. The press conference by the family of migrant workers assumes significance as the Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had on July 27 shared a 46-second video on social media and accused Delhi police of brutally beating up a kid and his mother, who are members of a migrant family from Malda's Chanchal. The Delhi police said that the video shared by the Chief Minister about migrant workers alleging harassment in the national capital was fabricated. DCP(East) Abhishek Dhania, the Delhi Police officer, said the woman, identified as Sanjanu Parveen, made the video at the request of his relative, who lives in the Malda district of West Bengal and is a political worker. After the Delhi police statement, the West Bengal Chief Minister on Tuesday doubled down on her assertion on Tuesday and urged the family to return to the State. Reacting to the press conference of the migrant workers family, West Bengal BJP president Samik Bhattacharya said that the Trinamool Congress should lodge a complaint against the Delhi police. The contending claims come at a time when hundreds of migrant workers from West Bengal have alleged harassment and torture at the hands of police on suspicion of being Bangladeshi nationals in different States including Delhi. In a related development, the Trinamool Congress claimed that 300 migrant workers have returned to the State from Haryana. '300 migrant workers, men and women, were forced to flee Haryana and return to Bengal to escape @BJP4India's xenophobic witch-hunt. @NayabSainiBJP's police raided their homes, called them 'Bangladeshi', threw them in detent ion, and brutalised them despite valid documents proving their Indian citizenship,' the Trinamool Congress tweeted. The West Bengal's ruling party described the BJP government as a 'fascist regime weaponizing state power to humiliate Bengalis'. '@BJP4India will pay for every baton blow, every racial slur, every illegal detention. The countdown to their downfall has begun, and Bengal will lead the charge,' the party added.
Time of India
a day ago
- Politics
- Time of India
Delhi cops extorted Rs 25k, kicked me on chest: Malda woman
Kolkata: Delhi cops kicked her on her chest and in the stomach, ordered her to chant "Jai Shri Ram", took away her family's citizenship documents and extorted Rs 25,000 from her family, the Malda woman — whose family is at the centre of a Delhi-versus-Bengal row over citizenship issues — has claimed. "They (Delhi cops) showed the CCTV footage of me returning home with my children but not the footage of them thrashing me near Mangalam Hospital or torturing us at a police station," Sajnur Parveen, originally from Malda's Chanchal and who now stays in the slums of Shri Ram Chowk in East Delhi's Pandav Nagar with her six-member family, said at a press conference organised by the Trinamool Congress in Kolkata on Wednesday. The woman and her family have been in the eye of a political storm after Delhi Police took the unusual step of publicly rebutting another state's CM's X post. Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee on Sunday evening had narrated on X the family's harrowing experience, calling the thrashing of a mother and her one-and-a-half-year-old son "terrible and atrocious". The family has now lodged a complaint against Delhi Police excesses at Kolkata's Pragati Maidan police station. You Can Also Check: Kolkata AQI | Weather in Kolkata | Bank Holidays in Kolkata | Public Holidays in Kolkata Parveen claimed on Wednesday that her husband, Mukhtar Khan, was away at work when four cops came to their home last week. "They asked me to show our Aadhaar, which I was getting out, when they asked me where my husband was. They alleged we were Bangladeshis and warned us not to go anywhere before leaving with our papers," she added. Four cops, two of them women, returned the next day (last Saturday) around 11.30 am. "They told us to accompany them and called us Bangladeshis again. I was taking my daughter for her bath and my son was wearing only a T-shirt. I took him along with me in that state. The moment we reached a secluded spot (I could not say where exactly but they said it was near Mangalam Hospital), they started beating me and asked me my husband's whereabouts, all the time calling us Bangladeshis. They slapped me twice when I protested," Parveen said. She was then told to chant "Jai Shri Ram". "I said I was a Muslim and could not do what they said, prompting them to kick me. I was already unwell and my son fell from my grip when they tried to snatch him away. Then they slapped him as well. He still has weals near his ear," Parveen recounted on Wednesday. "They demanded Rs 25,000 for letting me go. I gave them my husband's number, after which they let me talk to him. My husband called his mother, who arranged for the money. They left us only after getting the money," Parveen said. But that was not the end of their ordeal as cops and mediapersons landed at their door the same evening (Saturday). "They took us to a police station where they separated me from my husband. It was here that they asserted that anyone from Bengal was a Bangladeshi. They did not even let the children stay with me," she added. "They let us go very late that night but told us we would not be spared if we dared talk about the incident in Bengal. 'Khel hoga (the Trinamool slogan of 'Khela hobe' in Hindi)', they told us," Parveen said at the press conference as Azmal Khan, her father-in-law, said they might be poor but were not "staging any drama". CM Banerjee first posted about the incident on Sunday and Delhi Police waited till Tuesday to call the video "fabricated and politically motivated". Trinamool latched on to the family's allegations, with state urban development minister and Kolkata mayor Firhad Hakim saying they had exposed the "conspiracy" to prove CM Banerjee wrong. The state would take the responsibility of all migrant workers and their families returning from other states, he added.
Time of India
a day ago
- Time of India
Gujarat ATS arrests Al Qaeda 'operative' from Bengaluru
After arresting four suspected operatives of Al Qaeda Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) recently, the Gujarat Anti Terrorism Squad (ATS) on Wednesday arrested Shama Parveen (33) from Bengaluru for being a campaigner for AQIS. Parveen has been brought to Ahmedabad and remanded to 14-day police custody by the Ahmedabad Rural Court. Explore courses from Top Institutes in Please select course: Select a Course Category healthcare MCA Data Analytics CXO Digital Marketing Healthcare Others Cybersecurity Management Leadership Operations Management Finance Degree Data Science Data Science MBA Technology Product Management others PGDM Public Policy Design Thinking Project Management Artificial Intelligence Skills you'll gain: Duration: 11 Months IIM Lucknow CERT-IIML Healthcare Management India Starts on undefined Get Details Originally from Jharkhand, Parveen, a commerce graduate, was reportedly operating from Bengaluru for around half a decade and carrying out propaganda for the proscribed outfit. Speaking to the media, Gujarat DIG ATS Sunil Joshi said the interrogation of one of the four AQIS operatives arrested earlier led to the spotting of Parveen's social media handles, which were heavily populated with more than 10,000 followers each. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like The Top 25 Most Beautiful Women In The World Articles Vally Undo Joshi said that while Parveen had initially confessed that she used to upload incendiary material on social media, including speeches of AQIS leaders like Maulana Asim Umar and Anwar al-Awlaki, that promoted violent jihad and Ghazwa-e-Hind. Parveen, according to Joshi, also uploaded videos of Maulana Abdul Aziz of Lahore's Lal Masjid on her accounts. On July 22, Gujarat ATS had arrested Fardin Sheikh from Ahmedabad, Mahammad Faique from Chandni Chawk in Delhi, Jishan Ali from Noida and Saifullah Qureshi from Modasa, Aravalli district in Gujarat for their alleged affiliation with AQIS. Live Events
The Print
a day ago
- The Print
Delhi link led Gujarat ATS to Bengaluru woman held for ‘operating al Qaeda propaganda accounts'
Parveen is the fifth suspect arrested by Gujarat ATS in the last seven days on charges of promoting 'jihadi' content. Last week, ATS arrested Fardeen Shaikh from Ahmedabad and Saifulla Qureshi from Modasa in Gujarat, as well as Mohammad Faiq from Delhi's Chandni Chowk and Zeeshan Ali from Uttar Pradesh's Noida on similar charges. The woman, identified as Shama Parveen Ansari (30), was taken into custody from her family home in Bengaluru's RT Nagar, Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG) Sunil Joshi said in a press conference Wednesday. He added that Parveen is originally from Jharkhand. New Delhi: The Gujarat Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) Tuesday arrested a Bengaluru-based woman on charges of producing and publishing propaganda for the terrorist outfit al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS), including speeches of its chief Asim Umar and cleric Abdul Aziz of Islamabad's Lal Masjid, on her social media platforms. Sources in the Gujarat ATS said there is a possibility that the suspects may have been radicalised without actually coming in contact with any active operative of the AQIS but the investigation is still in a nascent stage. The then al Qaeda leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri, officially announced the existence of AQIS on 3 September, 2014, and identified Pakistan-based Asim Umar as its leader. The stated aim of the outfit was to further ideological objectives of al Qaeda in the Indian subcontinent with Myanmar, Bangladesh, Assam, Gujarat and Kashmir as regions of operation. The matter first came to the attention of ATS on 10 June this year after deputy superintendent of police (DSP), Harsh Upadhyay, received 'intelligence' about five Instagram accounts actively sharing al Qaeda propaganda videos to radicalise young recruits. These accounts were identified as sharyat_ya_shahadat, f4rdeen_03, _mujahideen1, mujahideen.3 and sefullah_muja_hid313. Content uploaded on these accounts attempted to incite Indian Muslims to commit violence or acts of terror against 'non-believers', encourage armed rebellion against the democratically-elected Government of India, and promote the establishment of a Shariat-based Caliphate in the country, DIG Sunil Joshi said in a press conference last week. Investigators said they found, on a device recovered from Fardeen Shaikh, AQIS literature promoting 'jihad' against India for 'Operation Sindoor' and a purported video of him waving a sword and chanting: 'This was the only thing missing, now it's complete; Allahu Akbar.' Gujarat ATS also found that one of the suspects, Mohammad Faik, was allegedly collaborating with Pakistan-based Instagram accounts 'gujjar_sab.111' and 'M Salauddin Siddiqui 1360' to target the Indian government. DIG Joshi said investigators reached Parveen's doorsteps after questioning Faiq, who allegedly confessed to having downloaded the majority of these propaganda videos from one Instagram account named 'strangers_nation02'. 'The accused Mohammad Faiq s/o Mohammad Rizwan, via his Instagram account sharyat_ya_shahadat, had posted inciting and provocative videos calling for Jihad, Ghazwa-e-Hind, terror attacks and spreading hatred toward non-believers (kafirs). He had downloaded this content from the Instagram account 'strangers_nation02' as well as Facebook pages 'Strangers Of The Nation' and 'Strangers Of The Nation 2', edited them, reposted them, and interacted with the users of these accounts,' DIG Joshi said in the press conference Wednesday. After this, ATS began investigating administrators of these accounts and found Parveen had allegedly been operating them from Bengaluru. Upon examining her devices, the ATS said she posted inflammatory speeches of AQIS chief Umar, as well as those of Abdul Aziz, who is infamous for his anti-India rhetoric. She was taken into custody from Bengaluru Tuesday and will be produced before a local court in Ahmedabad Wednesday. (Edited by Amrtansh Arora) Also Read: FATF flags al-Qaeda & ISIL's 'decentralisation', says such groups rely on merch sales, informal funding
