Udupi Christians greet Muslims on Eid ul Fitr
Udupi: Office bearers of Catholic Sabha visited mosque on the occasion of Eid ul Fitr on Wednesday and greeted Muslim brethren on this auspicious day.
Office bearers of Catholic Sabha Udupi Pradesh visited Jamia masjid in Udupi and exchanged festival greetings by planting saplings along with Muslim leaders and locals.
Fardinand Gonsalvese, spiritual director of Catholic Sabha Udupi Pradesh said that, in India we live with harmony. Saving ths harmony by understanding each other’s religions and celebrating each other’s festivals is the need of the day.
Speaking on the occasion Muhammed Moula, member of the mosque said that, today our brethrens from Christian community have visited this mosque to greet us on Eid ul Fitr. By doing so they have spread the message of brotherhood, equality in the society.
On this occasion Ferdinand Gonsalvese felicitated Moulana Rashid Ahmed Nadwi on behalf of Christain community.
Alwyn Quadras, president of Catholic Sabha Udupi Pradesh, Santosh Carnelio, Secretary, Gregory D’Souza, asst. secretary, former presidents L. Roy Kiran Crasta, Valerian Fernandes, office bearers Rafale D’Souza, Gerald Rodrigues, Sayyed Yasin, president of Jamia masjid, Khalil Ahmed, secretary, members, Munir Ahmed, V.S Umar, Ashfaq Ahmed, Shahid Ali, Muhammed Marakada, Khalid and others were present.
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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.
