Maulana Held for Sexual Abuse at Pune Orphanage; 36 Children Rescued, Trafficking Suspected
The statements of the children were recorded by the Child Welfare Committee (CWC). During investigation, it was found that all the children hail from Bihar and some of them are not even orphans, triggering suspicions of a child trafficking racket.
Chaitanya Mangure | CNN-News18Updated:July 28, 2018, 12:55 PM IST facebookTwittergoogleskype
Maulana Held for Sexual Abuse at Pune Orphanage; 36 Children Rescued, Trafficking Suspected Representational Image.
Pune: In one of the biggest rescue operations carried out in the city, 36 children were freed from a Muslim orphanage in Pune's Katraj area after two of them alleged persistent sexual exploitation by a maulana. The accused cleric was arrested by the police and booked under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code and Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act on Friday.
Two boys, both 10-year-old, had recently escaped from the orphanage and were found at the railway station by an NGO.
On being questioned as to why they chose to run away, the boys revealed that they were scared after a cleric, who visited the orphanage, sexually abused one of the inmates on several occasions in the name of education.
The accused, 21-year-old Maulana Rahim, was a teacher at the orphanage, which runs under the banner of Jamiatul Khairiya Al-Islamia Educational and Charitable Trust. The rescued children, all aged between 8 to 15, were forced to live in inhuman conditions with no toilets but plastic water tanks, said the police after they raided the orphanage.
The statements of the children were recorded by the Child Welfare Committee (CWC). During investigation, it was found that all the children hail from Bihar and some of them are not even orphans, triggering suspicions of a child trafficking racket.
"We took the two boys to the CWC where they revealed that they were being sexually exploited by their teacher. We then approached the police and raided the orphanage," Yamini Adbe, Child rights activist told News18.
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News Portal CEO, 22 Others Held in Bangladesh for 'Fanning Rumours' During Massive Student Protest
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News Portal CEO, 22 Others Held in Bangladesh for 'Fanning Rumours' During Massive Student Protest File photo: Students run after clashes with the police during a protest over recent traffic accidents that killed a boy and a girl, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, August 5, 2018. REUTERS/Mohammad Ponir Hossain
Dhaka: Bangladesh police have arrested 23 people including the CEO of an online news portal for allegedly trying to create anarchy by publishing fake news and spreading rumours over the student protest which had left over 1,000 people injured, media reports said on Thursday.
Thousands of students of schools, colleges and universities took to the street on July 29, demanding strict implementation of road safety rules, following the death of two teenage students - a boy and a girl - by a speeding bus.
The unprecedented protests lasted nine days, paralysing the country and leaving over 1,000 people injured in clashes with the riot police.
Yousuf Chowdhury, 40, Chief Executive Officer of 'Zoom Bangla', was held for inciting the peaceful safe roads movement by publishing "illogical and irrelevant" photographs of police, Nazmul Islam, additional deputy commissioner of the Cyber Crime Monitoring Team of Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate (DMP) was quoted as saying by The Daily Star.
Twenty-two others, including two students, were also arrested under the Information and Communication Technology Act for spreading rumours on social media during the protest, the report said.
They were arrested for trying to create anarchy by publishing fake news and spreading rumours on social media over the ongoing student protest, it said.
"Zoom Bangla has been practising yellow journalism, which is against the basic norms of journalism for a while now," Nazmul said.
Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology student Daiyan Alam was arrested for playing a role in turning the ongoing protest into a violent one through spreading rumours on social media, he said.
The officer said that the DMP will strictly continue its operation against spreading rumours online.
Zahid, a student of Bogra Govt Azizul Haque College, was detained for giving posts against the prime minister, road transport and bridges minister, home minister and spreading rumours through Facebook, Nazmul said.
The massive agitation by the students prompted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's Cabinet to approve a tougher transport law and launch a crackdown on reckless driving.
At the height of the protest, students were seen managing Dhaka's notorious traffic and checking whether drivers of the cars and buses have valid licences and proof of roadworthiness of their vehicles.
The accident had taken place when two buses were racing to pick up passengers on Dhaka's main Airport Road.
Despite being peaceful initially, the protests turned violent. Buses were torched, hundreds of vehicles vandalised as activists from the ruling Awami League's student front and transport workers allegedly attacked protesters, journalists, photographers and even the US ambassador's car during the protests, leaving several injured.
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New Delhi: The Union Cabinet on Thursday approved inclusion of a provision of granting bail to men found guilty of giving instant triple talaq to their wives.
Giving instant triple talaq will continue to be illegal and void and will attract a jail term of three years for the husband.
The 'Muslim Women Protection of Rights on Marriage Bill' was cleared by Lok Sabha and is pending in Rajya Sabha where the government lacks numbers. Provision of bail was one of the demands of the opposition parties.
Under the amendments cleared on Thursday, the magistrate will have powers to grant bail, the sources said. The proposed law would only be applicable on instant triple talaq or 'talaq-e-biddat' and it would give power to the victim to approach a magistrate seeking "subsistence allowance" for herself and minor children.
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A bench comprising acting chief justice Gita Mittal and Justice C Hari Shankar struck down the provisions of the Bombay Prevention of Begging Act, 1959, as unconstitutional, except those parts which criminalise “forced” begging.
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Unaware That Begging in Delhi Has Been Decriminalised, Beggars Continue Search for Food and Dignity Qalam, a beggar, is seen here with his blue umbrella.
New Delhi: It has been close to 26 years, but even now Manu searches for cover as the sun starts getting more intense. He is unbearably itchy if he spends more than an hour under the sun.
It was in 1992 that while working at a shoe factory in Najafgarh that a tub of hot polish fell over him leaving him in pain for the rest of his life along with a tag of being unemployed. It was only after repeated humiliation at home, did Manu start begging.
The Delhi High Court on Wednesday decriminalised begging in the national capital, saying provisions penalising the act were unconstitutional and deserved to be struck down.
“How can begging be an offence when the state cannot provide food or jobs,” the bench had observed during the hearing on the legality of the Act which is in force in many states.
However, Manu, and the three others who beg along with him near Vivekananda Marg in Delhi, knows little about the verdict and its implication.
"I don’t know if there was a law against us. We hardly take less than a few metres on the roadside and don't force people to give us money. But yes whenever police ask us to leave the place, we do," said Manu huddling for cover at a local tea shop from the sweltering heat.
Though begging in large urban cities often takes place near temples, dargahs or mosques, beggars are also found under the flyovers and bridges. Their homes are covered with tattered plastic sheets and old clothes.
Just across the Safdarjung government hospital, Shanta, in her mid forties, hands out a rusted iron plate whenever she sees someone passing by.
Shanta, who hails from Hisar in Haryana, is suffering from hypochondroplasia, or a short limb disorder, since childhood. Soon after marrying a 50-year-old, she found herself dumped on a busy Delhi street.
She knows nothing about the Bombay Prevention of Begging Act and has no idea why was begging considered to be a criminal act when "unsolicited prostitution and rapes weren't acted upon”.
"I have been begging here for the last four years and everytime a high-fi wala (dignitary) is passing through the street, we are asked to leave the place. Although we have never been arrested for begging but everytime a child is kidnapped, we are held up," says Shanta.
Shanta, however, demands 'others' to be punished because of whom the beggars have been looked at with suspicion.
"There are girls who come here at night and stand here till some big car comes to pick them up. Often there are drunken quarrels that soon turn into violent scenes. But it is we who are asked to leave the next morning. Why? Just because we beg?" asked Shanta while trying to manage a plastic sheet on which she sits.
The Delhi High Court verdict which decriminalised begging in the state also mentioned that making begging a criminal offence also violated their "fundamental rights".
But do these beggars look at begging as a profession or a means to earn livelihood?
Qalam's blue bright umbrella can make him recognisable even from a distance. Wearing a white cap and donning an old pair of kurta pajyama he easily passes off as a regular commuter, but his sharp voice begging for food and alms makes him stand out.
Unlike others, Qalam does know about "humara kanoon" and recalls young boys being reprimanded by the police whenever they are found begging on the streets.
"So no one can ask me to leave from here? But what if the police still force us? No one listens to a beggar. I started begging after my children drove me out of my own home, but since then people have been nice to me but not to the younger ones," said Qalam pointing to a young girl cajoling a couple to give her some money for food.
"She won’t get a single paisa from that money. Her trade mother will take most of it. All that she will have is her life so that she is able to again beg tomorrow and have some food," said Qalam.
However, the Delhi High Court has also ruled that the Delhi government is free to bring in an alternative legislation to curb the menace of forced begging or begging rackets but what distinguishes the normal beggars from those involved in rackets is yet to be seen.
Kalkaji-Tughlakabad junction, one of the busiest traffic hubs of Delhi, is also a prime spot for beggars to knock on the dark shiny car glasses for money.
Lata, mother of three, started begging in the last last eight months as her employer sacked her for alleged theft.
The 37-year-old who hails from Muzaffarnagar had come to the capital seeking employment at the residence of a businessman in South Delhi. But after working there for over eight years, one morning she was blamed to have stolen a gold ring and soon found herself on the streets.
But it’s not that she didn’t try to go back home. Upon going back, she was asked to return and look for work since her already deprived family could not bear another addition.
"I have been raped thrice here itself. Once by a security guard, and twice by unknown men who decided to feast on me when they were done with drinks. There was no law then. For us, making begging safe is of no use. Ensure some respect, and work for us, it’s only then that there can be any law," said Lata, tightly clutching onto her three-year-old.
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