Eid-ul-Fitr celebrated with religious fervor in Dakshina Kannada
Mangaluru: Muslim community in the coastal part of Karnataka celebrated Eid-ul-Fitr on Wednesday with devotion and gaiety.
Namaz and religious preaching led by Dakshina Kannada Qazi Thwaqa Ahmed Musliyar was held at Eidgah Masjid in Light House, Mangaluru.
Speaking on the occasion he said, people of the community have observed fasting for 30 days during the month of Ramzan and indulged in charity acts. They have abstained from activities that hurt others.
After cleansing one’s mind and then becoming clean physically, one wears new dresses and sprays scents on his body. They visit mosques, pray and distribute sweets.
Along with personal celebration they donate festival items to needy and poor and bring smile on their faces on this day. This is the specialty of Eid, he added.
Eid encourages to improve relation between humans across families, society, country and globally. Let in this Eid bring people together who soured their relationships. A phrase in Quran says, Evil should be faced with virtuous and the preaching of Prophet who has conquered this world with love and trust must be guiding light, he said.
Imam of Shah Amir Ali masjid Moulana Riyaz ul Haq gave information about Eid namaz.
An all religious harmony meet was held after the Eid namaz. DK district in charge minister U.T Khader, parliamentary secretary for chief minister, Ivan D’Souza, Qazi Thwaqa Ahmed Musliyar, president of the mosque Y. Abdulla Kunhi gave message of the festival.
Special namaz was held at various mosques across Mangaluru. People greeted by hugging each other.
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2019 mud attack on engineer: Maharashtra court sentences BJP minister Nitesh Rane to one-month jail
Mumbai (PTI): A court in Sindhudurg on Monday convicted Maharashtra minister Nitesh Rane in a 2019 case of pouring mud on an NHAI engineer when he was in opposition, and sentenced him to one-month imprisonment, noting that lawmakers are not supposed to take the law into their hands.
Later, the court suspended Rane's sentence, allowing him time to appeal before a higher court, while acquitting 29 other accused in the case.
"Even though Rane's intention was to raise a voice against the poor quality of work and inconvenience faced by the people, he was not supposed to humiliate or insult a public servant in public," additional sessions court judge V S Deshmukh stated.
"If such incidents continue to occur, public servants would not be able to discharge their duties with dignity," the judge noted.
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Calling the act "abuse of power", the court held that "it is the demand of time to curb such tendency".
Rane, a son of former Union minister Narayan Rane, was among 30 people charged under various offences, including rioting, assault to deter a public servant, and criminal conspiracy. He was in Congress when the incident occurred.
All the accused, including Nitesh Rane, were acquitted of these offences, as the court found insufficient evidence to support most of these claims.
However, the court found Nitesh Rane guilty of an offence under section 504 (intentional insult meant to provoke a breach of public peace) and sentenced him to one month's jail.
Rane, then a Congress MLA, had called the Sub-Divisional Engineer of the National Highway Authority, Prakash Shedekar, to a bridge over the Gad river in Kankavli on July 4, 2019, for inspecting the work to widen the Mumbai-Goa Highway.
According to the prosecution, Nitesh Rane and his followers, frustrated by the poor quality of the roadwork and waterlogging, confronted the engineer. They poured muddy water on Shedekar and forced him to walk through slush in public.
The court, after perusing the evidence on record, noted that the informant (victim) was holding a high post in the National Highway Authority.
"Despite that, he was made to walk through the muddy water in public. It would have certainly humiliated and insulted him," the court remarked.
The judge held that Rane compelling Shedekar to walk through the muddy water "was nothing but an intentional insult to the informant," and provocation which will cause him to break the public peace.
