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Congress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi today met the relatives of the people affected by the violence in Saharanpur and demanded an impartial inquiry. Senior Congress leader PL Punia, who was present along with Congress Vice President, told from Saharanpur on phone that Rahul assured people affected by the violence that he would work to get justice done to them.

Rahul Gandhi asked the administrative officials to conduct an impartial investigation of this ethnic violence and work to restore peace and brotherhood in the area.

The district administration did not allow Congress Vice President to enter the district. The administration had made strict security arrangements on the border of the district and Rahul was stopped on the border of the district.

On this, the Congress leader asked the administration that under which law he was not allowed to go to the city. One of its videos has also been released by the news agency ANI in which Rahul is telling a police officer that under which law did you try to stop me? You could not stop me on the border, but you stopped. After this he went to a nearby dhaba and met there people and their families affected by ethnic violence.

Punia said that Rahul Gandhi asked the administration to allow him to go to the hospital to meet to the victim of violence people admitted in the hospital.

On this, the administration said that all the people admitted in the hospital have been discharged from the hospital. They said that on Friday night, 23 people were discharged from the hospital by the administration.

Punia said that during the interaction with the affected people, Rahul also raised the issue of giving less compensation to the Dalits whose houses were burnt. On this, the District Magistrate assured him that he would review the matter and take necessary steps in this direction. He told that Rahul later returned to Delhi.

Earlier this morning, Rahul Gandhi left for Saharanpur from Delhi with Uttar Pradesh in-charge of Uttar pradesh Ghulam Nabi Azad and State President Rajbabbar.

Additional director general (law and order) Aditya Mishra, who was present at Saharanpur, had said that Rahul would be requested to not come to the city and if he insists then action will be taken against him under section 144.

Modi’s three-year anniversary was significant in ways more than one. It coincided with the Centre’s decision to ban sale of cattle for slaughter in animal markets across the country.

While some believe these restrictions will regulate illegal slaughter, others see this move as religious propaganda and a threat to human rights.

These new rules only ban cattle trading for slaughter in animal markets and not between individuals.

The restrictions were approved by former environment minister Anil Madhav Dave before his death last week, Hindustan Times reported. A Firstpost report says the government aims to improve the conditions of animals in these markets through the move.

All states except Kerala, Meghalaya, Mizoram and Nagaland already have strict cattle slaughter laws in place.

Cattle traders will now be required to give an undertaking that the animals brought to the market are being sold only for agricultural purposes. The purchaser isn’t allowed to resell the cattle for slaughter. Documentary proof is required to ensure the purchaser is an agriculturalist.

Before these rules were introduced, there were no records maintained or liability placed on cattle traders. The animals that were sold could be suffering from contagious diseases and could consequently be transmitted to consumers, told the managing director of Humane Society International/India to Firstpost.

CATTLE: The term cattle refers to cows, bulls, bullocks, buffaloes, steers, heifers and calves, as well as camels. 'Young' and 'unfit animals' cannot be sold. Cattle will now only be sold to a person who has documents to prove he is an 'agriculturist'.

If someone wants to sell their cattle for slaughter, it could be done legally outside the animal markets subject to slaughter rules implemented in each state.

The problem is, till now, majority of cattle trading was happening in animal markets. Over time, the animal markets had become a convenient site for farmers to make sales for slaughter and other purposes.

Additional precaution is to be taken regarding animal markets in border areas. The District Animal Market Monitoring Committee has been directed to ensure that no animal market is organised in a place which is situated within twenty-five kilometers from any state border or which is situated within fifty kilometers from any international border.

The rules, highly specific, will affect the poor and illiterate who will now have to go through hefty paperwork to buy a cow for agriculture and prove it is for that purpose only.

Scroll has reported that farmers’ unions see the new rules as an assault on agriculture. They said that in a time of distress, sale of cattle was one of the important ways through which a farmer overcomes financial difficulties. Enacting such stringent rules to regulate sale of cattle will push farmers further into debt.

Vijoo Krishnan, national joint secretary of the All India Kisan Sabha expressed his concern for the same, “To say you cannot sell the cattle for six months from the date of purchase or cannot sell infirm cattle will cripple the farmer in a drought situation.”

The impact will extend to industry and export – especially Muslim traders. DB Sabharwal, secretary general, All India Meat and Livestock Exporters Association, said that “90 percent of buffaloes are sourced from mandis by middlemen for sale in slaughterhouses against a mere 10 percent that is bought directly from farmers,” as reported by The Hindu. He adds he is skeptical about the implementation of this move as regulation of livestock falls under the purview of state governments and not the Centre.

While the Supreme Court has stayed out of this matter, the directive itself was in response to a 2014 writ petition by Gauri Mulekhi of People For Animals (PFA).

While the Supreme Court banned the bull-running sport jallikattu as cruel, it refused to intervene with states to frame a uniform policy on cattle slaughter.

Mulekhi told The Hindu that the rules will help greatly in eliminating the “middleman” from the process of buying and selling, and link farmers directly to slaughterhouses. “This will improve traceability, curb illegitimate slaughter and smuggling and, put the onus on cattle-owners to dispose of their animals responsibly,” she said.

Opposition parties have criticised the Centre’s move as being against the citizens’ right to food as well as diversity of religious faiths.

Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said that the banning of sale of cows and buffaloes for slaughter was a “fascist and anti-federal move”. The Centre cannot prepare a menu for the people of the country, the state’s Left government told Hindustan Times on Friday.

An official statement from CPI also termed the decision as “most unwise” and alleged that it was taken by the RSS. It has been a long-standing demand of the RSS to ban cow slaughter across the country.

CMO Kerala tweeted, ''With effective ban on cattle slaughter, food consumption of millions affected. Clear attack on our plurality, the essence of India.''

Concerns have been raised in the Northeast as well. “It is a very bad decision. We don’t agree to it and won’t implement it,” said Mizoram’s animal husbandry minister C Ngunlianchunga.

In an unprecedented move, the district administration in Kushinagar, Uttar Pradesh asked the residents to attend the Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s meeting after having a bath. The administration also distributed the soaps, shampoo and perfumes to the villagers.

Local They said that we should take bath before meeting CM Yogi so that there is no stench emanating from our bodies. They gave us soap and shampoo.

The backdrop of the incident is a vaccination program for the eradication of Encephalitis, initiated by Yogi Adityanath in Kushinagar's Kasiya division. Five children of the Musahar community were supposed to be vaccinated under the campaign.

Not only this, the district administration went a step ahead to prove its efficiency by paving roads and streets and fixing toilets overnight ahead of the chief minister’s visit.

The Encephalitis vaccination campaign is being held from 25 May to 11 June and will cover 88 lakh children in 38 districts. One crore vaccine vials have been provided by the Central government for this campaign.

The district administration was tight lipped on the entire issue when the reporters questioned them.

Hizbul Mujahideen commander Sabzar Ahmad Bhat, who was killed by security forces in an encounter in Tral area of Srinagar on Saturday, was under the radar of intelligence agencies for the last few days.

Bhat, who succeeded Burhan Wani as the commander of Hizbul Mujahideen in Tral, was present in Srinagar on May 19 and 20. He reportedly wanted to strike a truce with Hurriyat leaders, who were enraged when Zakir Musa had threatened to kill them for calling Kashmir’s separatist movement political and not religious.

Sources told that the Tral operation was based on specific intelligence inputs of three militants hiding in a house in Soimoh village of Tral district, 36 km from Srinagar.

The operation commenced on Friday night and contact with the militants was established at 8:15am, sources said. Para Commandos were eventually joined the operation and two terrorists, including Bhat, were killed.

The other militant who was killed was Faizan Muzaffar Bhatt, also a resident of Tral.

A search operation was on for the third militant.

Sources said security forces have so far recovered an AK-47 rifle, an INSAS rifles and a large quantity of ammunition from the encounter site.

Sources have also said that currently there are about 350 militants in the Kashmir Valley, out of whom 150 are from Pakistan.

In Greater Noida there was a new turn in the case of gangrape with four women. On Friday evening, Chief Medical Officer of Gautam Buddha Nagar Anurag Bhargaon said that in the preliminary investigation the matter of rape has not been revealed. According to them, no evidence has been found in the medical report so that the rape is confirmed.

Noida's DM, SSP and Chief Medical Officer on the gangrape case press conference on Friday. In the press conference, they told that doctors did not get any injury or symon in the private parts during the investigation.

This thing has come to light when on Thursday the women had alleged that 6 robbers dragged them into the fields and gangraped them on the Yamuna Expressway. They also shot and killed a male relative trying to save.

They told that for some more tests, women's clothing and tissue samples have been sent to Forensic Lab located in Lucknow for testing. The results of the test will come in two to three weeks. SSP Luv Kumar of Gautam Buddha Nagar said that the symptoms of rape are yet not to be found, according to medical reports, no such symptoms have been found. He said that the purpose of the miscreants behind the incident was looting.

In this case, the police arrested four people on Friday. According to the information, the four arrested persons are neighbors of the victim's family.

Uttar Pradesh Police's STF officer said, "A junk trader was killed on Thursday, two kilometers away from Jewar on Yamuna Expressway and gangrape was done with his mother, wife, sister and daughter-in-law. The Special Task Force (STF) has arrested four accused in this connection." The arrest has been made on the basis of the statement given by the victims women.

It was reported that on Wednesday night, around 1.30 pm, this incident was carried out on the Jewar-Bulandshahr highway, 60 km from Noida, when eight members of the family of Greater Noida were going towards Bulandshahr to see a sick relative.

According to the victims, six people armed with firearms shot the tire near Sabota village and stopped the Eco van and carried out mass incidents of crime on the gun.

The police said that when the junk businessman Shakeel Qureshi (40), who was opposed to this, shot him and killed him and looted a mobile phone and valuables things with Rs 47,000.

This year the month of Ramazan will start from 28th May. In Lucknow, Marakaji Chand, Khalid Firangi Mahli said that so far the moon of Ramazan has not been seen, hence the first Roza will be on 28th May.

A special helpline is being started for Muslims who are busy in the Roza in the secred month of Ramazan. On this helpline being started towards Majlis-e-Ulema-e-Hind, it will be disposed of by informing on the phone after any problems during Ramazan.

In-charge of the office of Majlis-e-Ulema-e-Hind said that most of the women ask questions through What's App which helpline for women have been released for three years, so this process will continue this time too. Women can send their questions on Whats App number 08896150234.

He told that the can ask your questions between 10:30 am and 05:00 pm from Rozedar office. For men 09451096580 and 09452901404 two helpline numbers are being issued.

Ramadan is considered to be the holiest month in Islam. In this holy month, people of Muslim community keep roza. In the month of Ramadan, roza is kept from sunrise to sunset, during which nothing is eaten and drunk. Special Nawaz are offered all month in the night, which is called Taravih. Roza is called Som in Arabic language. It means stop. Roza begins by appearing in the moon; the moon appears in the evening, they start roza from the next morning.

It is considered compulsory to keep Roza in Islam, but some people get relaxation too. As such, sick, feeding women and children are exempted to keep Roza in this month. But later they can keep Roza (sick, feeding woman) in another month.

It is argued that in the month of Ramazan, there is a constant restraint on the person while remaining away from his bad habits. Nothing is eaten in the daytime But it is said that in addition to food, a person should not even think about eating. If a person speaks lies during the Roza, doing evil of someone behind the back, swear false, greed, or does some wrong, then it is considered to be broken Roza.

It is said that if any good work is done in the month of Ramazan, then it gets 70 times Savab (Holy). Apart from this, more and more Ibadat (Worship) have to be done in this month, which gives Savab (Holy). Apart from this, an apology can also be sought from the crimes committed throughout the year.

Former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav has attacked the Bharatiya Janata Party government over the Saharanpur violence case. He said that during the last assembly elections, the party which divides Diwali and Ramzan, crematorium and graveyard is responsible for the increase in incidents of violence in the state.

The former CM further said, what can you expect from the BJP? Those who divided the Indian festivals (Diwali and Ramzan), electricity, crematorium and graveyard during the election campaign in Uttar Pradesh, what do we expect from them? This party is responsible for communal violence. Our party went to every affected area. During our government, people were given every kind of facilities.

Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath had transferred 174 officials on Thursday after the clashes and violence between the two communities in Saharanpur. The Home Ministry of India also asked the Uttar Pradesh government to file a report related to the violence in Saharanpur.

Earlier, in order to prevent the violence between the two communities in Saharanpur, the district magistrate Nagendra Prasad Singh was removed. A man was killed in the violence on Tuesday. While many people were seriously injured. BSP supremo Mayawati also reached Saharanpur.

The state government had announced compensation of Rs 15 lakh to the family members of the person killed during the violence. In another incident, on 5 May, there was a clash between Dalits and Rajputs in Shabbirpur and Simlana village. One person died in that. While 16 people were injured, including a head constable.

The Communist Party of India (Marxist) leader of Kerala has given a controversial statement on the Indian army. CPM's Kerala unit secretary Kodiyari Balakrishnan said that the army can abduct any woman and rape her.

Opposition parties have expressed strong displeasure over CPM leader's statement. The CPM leader gave a controversial statement in a public meeting in Kerala.

The CPM leader said, "If the army comes to Kannur, then people will be struggling with army."

The CPM leader said, "They (the army) can do anything. If they see four people standing together, they can shoot them too."

The CPM leader said, "They can also lift (any) the woman and rape her. Nobody has the right to question them. This is the state wherever the army is."

Kerala's Kannur has been a victim of political violence for some time. Many workers of RSS, BJP and CPM have died in Kannur district. The CPM-led Left Democratic Front's government is in Kerala. RSS and BJP have been blaming the CPM government for violence. While CPM has denied it.

In the past, the Governor of Kerala, Justice (retired) P. Sadasivam, directed the Chief Minister of Kerala, P. Vijayan, to control felony, violence and murder and incidents in the politically turbulent Kannur district. A three-member BJP delegation in Raj Bhavan had demanded action against the murder of RSS functionary Biju, who was in Kannur by handing over the memorandum. The Governor sent the memorandum to the Chief Minister and asked him to take immediate action to stop such incidents.

Congress MP and former union minister Shashi Tharoor has filed a defamation case against the editor-in-chief of Republican TV's Arban Goswami. The information about filing a defamation case was given to the former Union Minister on Facebook and Twitter.

Tharoor said that he has filed a defamation case against Arnab in the Delhi High Court on Friday. Goswami's Republic TV disclosed the matter related to the death of Tharoor's wife Sunanda Pushkar after being on air. Republic TV claimed that Tharoor had come to the room after Sunanda's death and Sunanda's body was removed.

Arnab Goswami's Channel Republic TV disclosed about Sunanda Pushkar's death in her special program. The program claimed that after the death of Sunanda Pushkar, Congress leader Shashi Tharoor had returned to the room. Anchor Arnab Goswami, through a special program, said that the evidence was tampered with when Shashi Tharoor came to the room. Even Sunanda Pushkar's body was removed. The program claimed that these recordings had never been made public before. We have strong evidence that after the murder of Sunanda Pushkar, Shashi Tharoor returned in room number 309 in the morning and evening.

Let tell that the Congress leader's wife, Sunanda Pushkar, be found dead in a five star hotel in Delhi. Since the murder, so far the disclosure has not been disclosed. During this time, Shashi Tharoor himself remained in the scope of suspicion of his wife's murder.

However, after several months of investigation and forensic reports the police could not reach any conclusions. The investigation of the case reached the American investigating agency FBI, but there was no specific information available from the spot. Later it was revealed that after landing at the Delhi airport, there was a talk about something between Tharoor and Sunanda.

News of a road accident in Poonch of Jammu and Kashmir is false.

The news agency ANI had tweeted earlier that the unbalanced bus collapsed on the Mughal road. The children present in the bus are being told to live in Manjakote of Rajouri.

According to DD News, at least 38 children died in the accident.

While the ANI issued a clarification on Twitter, it said that "this story is wrong." The initial reports given by the local authorities were wrong. No incident has happened on the Mughal road of Poonch."