‘We kept asking what our crime was, but there was no answer,’ said Shafiquddin Malik, one of 70 men cleared after five years in the Tablighi Jamaat case by the Delhi High Court.
Verdict comes six years after cow vigilantes killed Mohammed Qasim (45) & severely injured his companion, Samaydeen (65). Apart from life terms, perpetrators fined Rs 58,000 each.
Forced conversion cases may exist but they are exceptions rather than the norm. And Muslim intellectuals have made few mitigation efforts to fight such attitudes.
10 men were held against an electrical pillar and caned in the incident Tuesday. Villagers allege that the men indulged in violence and disrupted a garba event the previous night.
The police has arrested the 'primary suspect' for the crime, 51-year-old Muhammad Syed, who is also a Muslim. The men were killed in the city in a span of nine months.
Nick Jonas is not trying to modernise the mangalsutra, but his gesture shows that choices can be equal. If commitment must be flaunted, it need not be gendered.
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