‘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.
HC says those booked were ‘helpless’ and ‘got confined due to COVID-19 lockdown’; adds ‘allowing proceedings to continue would amount to abuse of process of law’.
With 15 lakh Muslims expected to gather for three-day Ijtema in Nuh’s Ferozepur Jhirka, organisers have banned red meat biryani in light of past instances involving cow vigilantes.
The country’s Ministry of Islamic Affairs called upon its mosques to allocate the next Friday sermon to warn against the group’s ‘misguidance, deviation and danger’.
In 2020, 44 Tablighis decided not to plead guilty to Delhi Police charges on violating visa conditions & Covid protocols. All of them were acquitted by court.
In tactical terms, the shirtless protest was worse than a self-goal. Suddenly, the fiascos of the AI Summit were forgotten, and the Youth Congress’s disruption became the issue.
IAF is fine with accepting the aircraft with 'must-haves', even if some other steps remain pending, which may take at least another year, it is learnt.
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