Tharoor urges Kerala govt to swiftly resolve Waqf land dispute in Munambam
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Kochi (PTI): Congress MP Shashi Tharoor urged the Kerala government on Thursday to act swiftly in resolving the Waqf land dispute in Munambam.
He also appealed to the government not to turn it into a communal issue.
Residents in Cherai and Munambam in Ernakulam district allege that the "Waqf Board has been unlawfully claiming" their land and property, despite them holding registered deeds and land tax receipts.
Protesters from Munambam village have urged Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan to find a lasting solution to their ongoing land dispute with the Waqf Board.
Interacting with reporters after visiting the locals who have been on a hunger strike for the past 96 days, Tharoor said, "It's not a Muslim-Christian issue, it's a technical-legal issue and should be resolved in that way."
"So let's not make it a communal conflict. It's an administrative, legal confusion which should be clarified in the earliest possible moment," he said while urging the state government to act immediately to resolve the issue.
The MP from Thiruvananthapuram said, "My appeal is no one should wait much more and the state government should not delay in establishing the facts on file what is happened."
"Whatever judicial process has already begun should be expeditiously concluded so that these people should get their lands," he added.
Responding to RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat's remark that India got "true independence" after the Ram temple consecration, Tharoor said, "Independence was won with a lot of sacrifices and hard work of a lot of people in our minds, starting with Mahatma Gandhi, the father of our nation."
Bhagawat may have several other ways of being happy in his political career or political interests but it's not the right category in which it was discussed, he added.
How can any responsible Indian denigrate the achievements of freedom fighters who have given their lives in several cases as well as their freedom in British jails to fight for the freedom that we take for granted today, he posed.
Welcoming the Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal, the former union minister said, durable and permanent peace should be established.
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UP man gets life term for electrocuting mentally challenged wife to death in Bareilly
Bareilly (UP) (PTI): A local court here has sentenced a man to life imprisonment for murdering his mentally challenged wife by repeatedly electrocuting her while she was tied to a cot, lawyers said on Thursday.
Additional district government counsel Harendra Singh Rathore said Additional Sessions Judge Avinash Kumar Singh on Wednesday convicted Vinod Kumar (45) for killing his wife, Satyavati, in Chaina village of Bareilly district and imposed a fine of Rs 15,000 on him.
According to the prosecution, he was allegedly frustrated with his wife Satyavati's mental illness and often assaulted her.
Rathore said the prosecution examined nine witnesses to establish the charges against him.
As per court records, on the night of May 1-2, 2022, when Satyavati was asleep, Vinod tied her hands and legs to a cot using ropes and then connected an aluminium cable to an electric board to repeatedly administer electric shocks to her.
"She writhed in pain, but the accused continued to electrocute her until she died," the prosecution said.
The court observed that the murder was carried out in an inhuman manner.
After committing the crime, the accused threw the rope and cable on the roof and left for work at a brick kiln around 2 am to create a false alibi.
He later tried to mislead the police and the victim's family by claiming that Satyavati, whose mental condition was unstable, had accidentally died by suicide after grabbing a live electric wire.
However, the victim's brother, Sanjeev, a resident of Shahjahanpur district, suspected foul play and lodged an FIR under sections 498A (husband subjecting wife to cruelty) and 302 (murder) of the Indian Penal Code at Nawabganj police station.
During the trial, the prosecution relied on the post-mortem report prepared by Dr Faraz Anwar, who stated that multiple electrocution marks found on different parts of the victim's body could not have been self-inflicted.
The police also recovered the rope and electric wire used in the crime on the accused's identification, officials said.
