Letter to PM demanding action against Ananth Kumar Hegde
Seek apology of Muslims within a week: Ansar
Udupi, May 3: Union Minister Ananth Kumar Hegde who insulted the Muslims and hurt their religious sentiments by saying that masjids have amassed crores of rupees in the name of zakat and were purchasing weapons and bombs, should tender apology of Muslim community within a week.
Addressing the Muslims who staged a protest condemning the statement of the Union Minister near the Memorial of the Servicemen at Ajjarakadu here on Thursday, Karnataka Rakashana Vedike district president Ansar Ahmed said that if the Minister failed to apologize, they would intensify their protest. Islam has five tenets like kaleema, namaz, zakat, ramzan and hajj. But without having this knowledge, the Minister has spoken like that. They were ready to give information to the Minister who does not know anything about the Islam, he said.
Now the minister is issuing derogatory remarks against the religion. In future, he might question the roots of the religion. So, Prime Minister Narendra Modi should warn his colleague against giving such statements. Otherwise, the entire Muslim community may revolt against the Minister. The Prime Minister should take steps to maintain religious harmony by keeping a gag on Hegde and they have written a letter to the Prime Minister about this development, he said.
He also condemned the act of insulting the religious practice of Lord Tirupati Thimmappa in a private TV channel. People should respect other religions as they respect their own religion and this is real human religion, he added.
Leaders Zunaid, Samshuddin, Asif, Irshad and others were present.
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Online fraud: Hotel chef from Udupi cheated of over Rs 1 lakh by WhatsApp contact
Udupi: Udupi City Police have registered a case of online fraud after a 62-year-old hotel chef was allegedly cheated of Rs 1.13 lakh by a woman who befriended him on WhatsApp, claiming to be based in London.
The victim, identified as Pandu Kariappa Poojary, a resident of Kuthpadi in Udupi, was working at a hotel in Mangaluru.
He reportedly came into contact with a woman identifying herself as Emilda William on WhatsApp. During their interactions, she told Poojary that she planned to start a cosmetics and hotel business in India and would meet him during a visit to Mangaluru.
On April 7, Emilda sent Poojary a flight ticket from London to Delhi via WhatsApp. The following day, Poojary received a phone call from a woman who informed him that Emilda had arrived at Delhi airport carrying a demand draft worth Rs 5 crore along with other items. The caller allegedly asked him to pay Rs 70,000.
Subsequently, Poojary also received a call from Emilda, who was reportedly crying and spoke about the situation. Believing the claims, he transferred a total of Rs 1,13,300 in phases using a scanner. He later realised that he had been cheated.
