Father of lynched Pune techie Mohsin Shaikh passes away without getting justice
Pune : Sadiq Shaikh, father of Mohsin Shaikh, the Pune-based techie who was lynched by a Hindutva mob in 2014 passed away on December 17, 2018 after a heart attack.
The lynching of Mohsin Shaikh in 2014 was the first hate crime committed by a group of Hindutva activists after Narendra Modi became the Prime Minister.
The incident took place after some offensive posts concerning the Maratha King Shivaji and the late Shiv Sena leader Bal Thackeray that were seen as derogatory by right-winged groups were circulating on social media. And after a particularly provocative speech by one of their leaders that instigated the Hindutva mob and they attacked Mohsin Shaikh and another youth who happened to be there at that time.
(Mohsin Shaikh)
Mohsin was returning home after his prayers from the mosque when he was lynched by the mob. Another youth also suffered serious injuries that left him battling him for life. But Mohsin succumbed to the injuries.
Mohsin who was from Sholapur had just secured employment in Wipro and was living in a rented room.
Mohsin’s father ran from pillar to post for justice to be delivered to him. Sadiq Shaikh wrote several petitions, gave interviews, appeared for the hearings in the court of law, appealed to the government and other organisations to stand by him in his demand for justice and to ban the groups that propagated hate and killings. He even posted his videos asking for the monetary compensation and a job to his younger son Mobin Shaikh that was promised as Mohsin was the lone earning member of the family.
His family was promised compensation, a job for his other son by the CM of Maharashtra but even after 4 years he got nothing but assurances that were meaningless.
Sadiq Shaik faced financial, moral, emotional and physical difficulties in his quest for justice which was never delivered to him.
He was ailing for sometime and undergoing treatment for some heart ailment. Sadiq Shaikh, 63, has left behind his wife and son.
courtesy : twocircles.net
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Chakankar's resignation forwarded to CM Fadnavis, says Sunetra Pawar
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Mumbai (PTI): NCP chief and Maharashtra deputy CM Sunetra Pawar on Saturday said she has forwarded Rupali Chakankar's resignation as state women's commission chairperson to Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis for acceptance.
Chakankar, a leader of the Nationalist Congress Party, on Friday tendered her resignation after facing flak from opposition parties over her association with rape-accused 'godman' Ashok Kharat.
Following a meeting with CM Fadnavis, who asked her to step down, she handed the resignation letter personally to Sunetra Pawar late in the evening.
"Chakankar has tendered her resignation considering the current circumstances and ongoing investigation. To ensure that the probe is conducted in a fair and transparent manner, I have forwarded her resignation to the Chief Minister for further process," Pawar said in a statement.
Appointed as chairperson of the Maharashtra State Women's Commission first in October 2021, Chakankar was given another three-year term in 2024.
Kharat, who heads a temple trust at Sinnar and had several political leaders visit him over the years, was arrested by Nashik Police on Wednesday for allegedly repeatedly sexually assaulting a woman.
As per the complainant, he called her to his office sometime in 2022 after her marriage, claiming that his astrological predictions point to a threat to her husband’s life and she needed to perform certain rituals to ward it off. He then gave her a sedative-laced drink and raped her, the woman alleged, claiming that he raped her multiple times over the next three years.
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