'Madrasas centre of love jihad, global strife,' says Sadhvi Prachi
Bareilly (UP), Jun 11: VHP leader Sadhvi Prachi on Sunday called for shutting down of madrasas in the country saying it is where the 'love jihad' emanates from.
"Hindus only think about earning money, while there is a special community, which thinks about ruling over India. Their agenda to rule over India is there for thousands of years.
"What do they have to do? run a puncture shop on a national highway. Why is a puncture shop not seen in any bylane in a city?" she said during an interaction with reporters.
"'Love jihad' starts from madrasas, where knowledge about it is disseminated. This is the reason why 'love jihad' is increasing. The day madrasas are shut down in India, 'love jihad' will cease to exist. Then, there will be peace and harmony not only in India, but in the entire world," she said.
'Love jihad' is a term often used by BJP leaders and right-wing activists to allege a ploy by Muslim men to lure Hindu women into religious conversion through marriage.
The Indian government does not recognise the term and a minister in a response in Parliament in 2020 had said no cases were registered by central agencies under it.
"The term 'Love Jihad' is not defined under the extant laws. No such case of Love Jihad' has been reported by any of the central agencies," junior home minister G Kishan Reddy had said in a reply.
The VHP leader on Sunday also said Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav should drop his dreams of becoming UP chief minister again.
"He will neither become the UP Chief Minister, nor Prime Minister. Even in the 2024 parliamentary elections, Narendra Modi will come back, people know this, and they will vote for Modi ji only," she said.
Sadhvi Prachi told reporters that in Uttarakhand no mosque had been removed, and only the illegal mausoleum were being razed.
The Uttarakhand government is running an anti-encroachment drive against illegal religious constructions in the state.
She said "number of non-Hindus is increasing in Devbhumi" and that an exodus of Hindus was underway from Uttarakhand.
Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami should take action against this, she said.
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Traffic fraud: Fake 'no-entry' sticker racket busted in Delhi, mastermind among 3 held
New Delhi (PTI): Police here have busted a crime syndicate involved in traffic fraud and extortion, arresting three people including the alleged mastermind who sold fake stickers to help commercial vehicles bypass no-entry restrictions, an official said on Saturday.
The police said they dismantled a third organised syndicate linked to traffic-related frauds, with the arrest of Rinku Rana alias Bhushan, his associate Sonu Sharma and Mukesh Kumar alias Pakodi, who was also connected to another extortion syndicate.
According to the police, Rinku Rana was running a well-organised network that facilitated the movement of commercial goods vehicles during restricted hours by selling fake 'marka' or stickers for Rs 2,000 to Rs 5,000 per vehicle every month. The stickers were falsely projected as authorisation to evade traffic challans.
During raids, the police recovered Rs 31 lakh in cash, property documents worth several crores of rupees, over 500 fake stickers and six mobile phones allegedly used to operate the syndicate.
The crackdown followed a complaint filed by a traffic police officer in April this year after a commercial vehicle tried to evade checking by producing a fake sticker claiming exemption from enforcement action.
Investigation revealed that social media groups were being used to coordinate the illegal movement of vehicles and alert drivers about traffic police checkpoints, police said.
"A parallel system was being run to cheat drivers and vehicle owners while undermining traffic enforcement. On the basis of evidence, provisions related to organised crime under the BNS were invoked," a senior police officer said.
Sonu Sharma, the police said, managed social media groups through which stickers were sold and real-time alerts were circulated regarding traffic police movement. He also acted as a link between Rana and drivers operating in the field.
In a related development, Mukesh Kumar alias Pakodi, an associate of Rajkumar alias Raju Meena, who was earlier arrested under the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA), was also apprehended.
Mukesh allegedly helped extort money from transporters and was involved in blackmailing traffic police personnel by recording enforcement actions, the police said.
Investigators alleged the syndicate led by Rajkumar deployed drivers to deliberately violate traffic rules and secretly record police officials during challans, later using manipulated videos to extort money under threat of false allegations.
The police said that in total, eight accused belonging to three different organised crime syndicates linked to traffic frauds and extortion have been arrested so far.
Further investigation is underway to trace the remaining members, conduct financial probes, and analyse digital evidence recovered during the raids, officials added.
