Umar Khalid is the leader India deserves, his arrest under UAPA is shocking: Yogendra Yadav
New Delhi: Swaraj India’s National President, Yogendra Yadav has said that wrongfully arresting a young intellectual and youth activist like Umer Khaled, using anti-terrorism law like UAPA, when he has opposed all kinds of violence and terrorism, is a dangerous development.
“Shocked that an anti-terror law UAPA has been used to arrest a young, thinking, idealist like @UmarKhalidJNU who has always opposed violence and communalism in any form. He is undoubtedly among the leaders that India deserves.
@DelhiPolice can't detain India's future for long”, he tweeted.
The former JNU student leader, Umar Khalid, was arrested late Sunday night on charges of conspiring the North-East Delhi riots that happened in February of 2020.
Shocked that an anti-terror law UAPA has been used to arrest a young, thinking, idealist like @UmarKhalidJNU who has always opposed violence and communalism in any form.
— Yogendra Yadav (@_YogendraYadav) September 14, 2020
He is undoubtedly among the leaders that India deserves.@DelhiPolice can't detain India's future for long.
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Bengaluru: Domestic help held for theft of gold jewellery, cash at elderly couple's house
Bengaluru (PTI): A 55-year-old domestic help was arrested for allegedly stealing gold jewellery and cash worth Rs 16 lakh from an elderly couple's house here, police said.
Dhanlakshmi had been working at the couple's house in Frazer Town for nearly 25 years, they said.
With her arrest, police claimed to have recovered 54 grams of gold jewellery and Rs 8 lakh cash, totaling worth Rs 16 lakh.
The matter came to light on February 19 when a complaint was filed in this regard at Pulakeshinagar police station, police said.
According to police, the elderly couple used to withdraw money every month from a nearby bank for household expenses and used to take the domestic help along with them. After withdrawing the cash, they would keep it in their house.
Observing this, the domestic help is suspected to have stolen cash and two gold chains weighing about 54 grams from the house since the year 2025, without the knowledge of the elderly couple.
During the course of investigation, on March 5, a notice was issued to the domestic help for an inquiry. During interrogation, she confessed to committing the theft, a senior police officer said.
"Upon questioning, the accused revealed that she had kept the stolen gold jewellery and cash at her residence. Based on the information provided by her, on March 7, 54 grams of gold jewellery and Rs 8 lakh in cash was recovered from her possession. The total value of the recovered property is Rs 16 lakh," he added.
