Asaduddin Owaisi dares PMO and UP CMO to arrest ‘Bloody goons’ who attacked Kashmiris in Lucknow
Hyderabad: All India Majlis-e-Ittihadul Muslimeen Party President and MP Asaduddin Owaisi on Thursday questioned Prime Minister Narendra Modi and UP CM Yogi Adityanath, if they will arrest those who attacked Kashmiri youth in Lucknow.
Owaisi took to his official twitter handle and called the attackers “Bloody Goons”. He tagged PMO and UP CM Office’s official handles and asked if they will ‘walk the talk” and arrest the attackers.
Here’s what Owaisi tweeted:
Sir @PMOIndia @CMOfficeUP will you walk the talk and arrest these bloody goons https://t.co/12cLKYNSJi
— Asaduddin Owaisi (@asadowaisi) March 6, 2019
On Wednesday, a video surfaced on social media platforms where a group of men clad in saffron outfits were seen assaulting Kashmiri youths in Daliganj locality in Lucknow. They were attacked by sticks by the attackers before locals rushed to their rescue and informed police.
PTI quoted a senior police official as saying “We have filed an FIR in this regard at Hasanganj police station against unidentified persons”.
Bajrang Sonkar, President of Vishwa Hindu Dal and the main accused of the case has been arrested and remains to be the only arrest in the case so far.
Incidents of harassment of Kashmiris, especially students, have been reported from various parts of the country after Pulwama attack on February 14 this year.
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MP cruise boat tragedy: Search ops expanded to trace four missing passengers
Jabalpur (PTI): Army divers and disaster response teams on Saturday expanded their search at Bargi Dam in Madhya Pradesh to locate a man and three children still missing after the cruise boat tragedy that claimed nine lives two days ago, officials said.
With 28 of the 41 identified passengers onboard the ill-fated cruise boat rescued safely, police are preparing to register an FIR in connection with the accident that occurred at the reservoir in Jabalpur district on Thursday evening, they said.
The search radius has been expanded to 5 km in the backwaters of the Bargi Dam, located downstream of the Narmada River, area sub-divisional officer of police (SDOP) Anjul Ayank Mishra told PTI.
Nine people drowned in the incident, while 28 were rescued, and efforts are ongoing to trace the missing persons, he said.
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According to the police, more than 200 rescuers, including around 20 Army divers airlifted from Agra, began the search operation at 5 am on Saturday to trace Kamraj, an employee of the Ordnance Factory in Khamaria, his son Tamil (5), Vijay Soni (6) and Mayuram (5).
Mishra said that an inquest case has been registered and the post-mortem of nine deceased persons has been completed.
"Our priority is to search for the missing persons. We will soon register an FIR," he said.
Investigators have said that CCTV footage near the boarding point showed 43 people heading towards the ill-fated boat, and the names of 41 persons, who boarded the vessel, have been ascertained so far.
Collector Raghvendra Singh confirmed that a search is underway for four missing persons.
The rescue operation, being carried out by the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) and local divers, was briefly affected around 9 am due to strong winds.
The state government on Friday ordered a probe into the incident and dismissed three crew members after survivors alleged negligence and safety lapses, including failure to provide life jackets.
The government also banned the operation of similar vessels in the state.
The boat, operated by the state tourism department, sank during a sudden storm around 6 pm on Thursday, and the wreckage was retrieved from the dam water on Friday, after the rescuers confirmed that there were no more bodies inside.
Eyewitnesses have said that strong winds made the water choppy, prompting passengers to raise an alarm and ask the crew to steer the vessel towards the riverbank.
A survivor alleged negligence by the crew and described a last-minute scramble for life jackets.
