Puducherry gold medalist student, who refused to remove hijab, denied entry to convocation ceremony
Puducherry: In yet another case of an alleged violation of rights by the authorities over one's religion, a Puducherry University student was denied permission to attend the 27th convocation ceremony after she refused to remove her hijab.
The victim identified as Rabeeha Abdurehim is a gold medalist in MA Mass Communication course.
According to a report in The Times of India, Rabeeha was prevented from attending the university's convocation ceremony until the presence of President Ram Nath Kovind at the event.
The student was allowed to enter the venue only after the President left. Later, Rabeeha rejected the gold medal as a mark of protest for refusal of permission to attend the convocation in the presence of President Kovind.
The 2018 batch student also registered her protest against the passing of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA), National Population Register (NPR) and National Register of Citizen (NRC).
The woman said she was stopped from entering the Jawaharlal Nehru Auditorium, the venue of the event, just before the arrival of the President. The security guards asked her to remove the hijab which the student refused.
After the President left, the officials continued to distribute the certificates and medals to students, but Rabeeha refused to collect the medal and only took her certificate.
"I rejected the medal to protest the ill-treatment meted out to me. The security guard prevented me from going to the venue and treated me as a suspect as if I was going to do something and I don't know what. I have also rejected the medal as a show of solidarity to students across India who are fighting for what is India right now," Rabeeha said.
Rabeeha also said that she rejected the honour to protest police brutalities against students in various universities across India for their protest against the NRC and the CAA.
Courtesy: www.timesnownews.com
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Man arrested with Rs 2.54-crore heroin in Mumbai
Mumbai (PTI): Police have arrested a man and seized over 500 grams of heroin worth Rs 2.54 crore in the illicit market from him in Mumbai, officials said on Friday.
The police's Anti-Narcotics Cell (ANC) made the drug seizure in Santacruz in the western suburbs. The operation was conducted by the Kandivali unit of the ANC on Thursday as part of a special crackdown against drug trafficking in the area, they said.
Acting on specific inputs, an ANC team conducted a raid in Santacruz (East) and intercepted a man. During a search, the team recovered 508 grams of high-grade heroin from his possession, an official said.
The seized contraband, a highly addictive, opioid drug derived from morphine, is estimated to be worth Rs 2.54 crore in the international market, he informed.
Following the seizure, a case was registered against the man under relevant sections of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, 1985, and he was formally placed under arrest in the early hours of Friday.
The police are currently investigating the source of the drug and trying to identify the intended recipients of the consignment, he said.
