‘Brain of Vedanta, body if Islam’ should come together: Prof Baraguru
Bengaluru, July 02: Noted senior writer Prof Baraguru Ramachandrappa said that those who use the name of Swami Vivekananda should understand his words “Brain of Vedanta and body of Islam”.
Speaking at a programme organized to felicitate Padmashri awardee Ibrahim Sutra, by the Akhila Karnataka Mohemmadans Kannada Vedike at Press Club here on Monday, Prof Baraguru said that “today we have two options like united India and communal India. At this time, we should understand the broad meaning of brain of Vedanta and body of Islam of Swami Vivekananda should come together”, he said.
It was unfortunate that India today was changing negatively. Pushing the equality backward, caste, religion and communalism were coming forward. By using the positive aspects of the concepts like religion and God, the disease of caste and religion should be removed. The literature of Sufi saints would also give effective treatment to eradicate caste and communal diseases, he said.
In recent days, the devotion was made capital. One should see the God within himself and the God should not be brought on to the streets which is not devotion or spirituality. Communalism has replaced the humanity. “We are in a panic situation and we should ask ourselves that are we growing weapons in the land where crops were being grown”, he asked.
At the 500th anniversary of St. Kabeer, some national leaders have misused his name for political gains which is a tragedy. In recent years, the number of swamijis for each caste was increasing. Caste politics, religious politics and party politics have come together to exploit the common people. At this moment, there was a need to establish communal harmony, for which, the number of people like Ibrahim Sutara should be increased, he said.
After being felicitated, Ibrahim Sutara said that “one should understand his religion and philosophy. Besides reading our religious text, holy texts of other religions should also be read. Later, the religion of others should be respected. This is real harmony. But one should have broad mentality to achieve it”, he said.
“All religious scripts have mentioned the God. If all texts were read honestly and precisely, we can understand that everything is same. But nowadays, without understanding any religion, efforts are on to disturb the communal harmony between religions”, he said.
“Going in search of the God is not a religion. We should search the God within ourselves. We should understand that body is temple and life is God”, he said.
Retired IPS officer U Nissar Ahmed, former vice chancellor Prof KR Iqbal Ahmed, writer Dr K Sharifa and vedike president Samiullah Khan were present.
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BharatPe fraud case: Delhi HC quashes lookout circular against Ashneer Grover, wife
New Delhi, Nov 12: The Delhi High Court has ordered cancellation of a lookout circular (LOC) issued against Ashneer Grover, the former MD of payment app BharatPe, and his wife Madhuri Jain Grover, noting that the FIR lodged against them over allegations of cheating and forgery has already been quashed.
Justice Sanjeev Narula passed the order on Monday after the court was informed that another bench of the high court quashed the FIR on the same day.
The FIR was quashed by Justice Chandra Dhari Singh after considering a plea moved by the Grovers stating that they have arrived at a settlement with the fintech company.
In his order, Justice Narula said, "Although the copy of the order (quashing the FIR) is not available as of now, the aforenoted fact is not disputed by the counsel for the parties.
"In light of the fact that the underlying FIR has been quashed, the LOC issued by respondent No. 3 (Bureau of Immigration), in the opinion of the court, will not survive."
The LOC was issued by the Bureau of Immigration at the instance of Delhi Police's Economic Offences Wing (EOW) in view of the investigation against the Grovers in the cheating and forgery FIR.
The court was hearing a plea moved by Grover and his wife Madhuri Jain Grover seeking quashing of the LOC issued against them in connection with the investigation into the cheating and forgery case.
"Accordingly, the present petitions are disposed of with a direction to the respondents to cancel the LOC against the petitioners in their records," the court noted.
Earlier, the Grovers claimed that they were informed about the LOC for the first time when they were detained at the Indira Gandhi International Airport here on November 16, 2023, while they were scheduled to travel to the US.
After being detained, they were informed that the LOC was operational from November 6, 2023.
In May last year, the EOW filed an FIR against Grover, his wife Madhuri, and others under eight sections of the Indian Penal Code, including 406 (criminal breach of trust), 420 (cheating and dishonesty), 467 and 468 (forgery), and 471 (using forged documents as genuine) for an alleged Rs 81 crore fraud after a complaint was lodged by BhartPe, the fintech unicorn.
In its complaint, BharatPe alleged that Grover and his family caused damages to the tune of Rs 81.3 crore through illegitimate payments to bogus human resource consultants, inflated and undue payments through pass-through vendors connected to the accused, sham transactions in input tax credit and payment of penalty to GST authorities, illegal payment to travel agencies, forged invoices by Madhuri, and destruction of evidence.
Madhuri was the head of controls at BharatPe before she was fired in 2022 after a forensic audit revealed several irregularities.
Subsequently, Grover resigned as the chief executive officer of the fintech firm in March 2022.
