Mangaluru: Dakshina Kannada and Udupi Muslim Central Committee is set to organise awareness program and protest against CAA and NRC on January 15. The event is scheduled to be held at Shaha Garden near Central Juma Masjid in Adyar-Kannur in Mangaluru.

Speaking at a press conference in a private hotel on Wednesday, Muslim Central Committee, President Al Haj Mohammed Masood informed that the protest was relocated to Adyar as the City Police Commissioner, Dr. PS Harsha refused to grant permission for them to hold it in Town hall and Nehru Maidaan. He added that the protest will be held in peaceful manner and religious leaders from all sects and communities will take part in the protest along with social activists.

Muslim Central Committee is enjoying support and cooperation from at least 28 organisations from Dakshina Kannada and Udupi in the protest against CAA and NRC.

Committee’s Vice President Haji B M Mumtaz added that the organisation is expecting a turnout of over one lakh people from Dakshina Kannada and Udupi and that arrangements were being made accordingly. He also added that parking arrangements for the vehicles that will come for the protest will also be in place on a five acre land near the Central Juma Masjid in Adyar.

Haji Ibrahim Kodijal, Vice President of the Muslim Central Committee, Haji C Mohammed, Haji Ahmad Basha Thangal, Haji Imtiaz Karkala, Haji Musa Moidin, General Secretary Haji Muhammad Hanif, Executive Committee Members Haji SM Rasheed, Haji Kasim HK, SKSSF’s General Secretary, Haji Sadaqatullah Faizi, Rafiuddin Kudroli, SSF General Secretary Yakub Saadi, Samasta Madrasa Management District President, Haji I Moideenabba, Haji Abdul Rahman, President of Hidaya Foundation, Haji Mansoor Ahmed Azad, Yusuf Qadar, Mangalore Welfare Association President, Jamaat Islam Hind Mangaluru’s Shareef KM, Haji Shahul Hameed, Member of State Committee of PFI Ashraf, President of the Muslim Justice Forum, Ameer Tumbe, Hope Foundation President Saif Sultan, Highland Islamic Center President Haji Nazim, Al-Haramain Mangalore President Moidin Monu, All India Beary Council President Haji B.M. Muhammed Hanif, Al-Haq Foundation President BS Imtiaz, Today Foundation Mangalore President Umar Farooq, SKSM Vice President SM Basha, Haji C.M. Mustafa, Health India President Razik, Tablig Jamaat Mangalore President Haji Al Maqbool, Coastal Minority Fishermen's Association Vice President Haji Ahmad Bawa Bajal, Madrasa Management Mangalore President Haji Riyazuddin, President of Civil Welfare Committee Haji Mustafa Kempi and others were present.

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Gurugram(PTI): At least nine people were burnt alive and 15 injured when a moving bus caught fire near Tauru in Haryana's Nuh district in the early hours of Saturday, police said.

The incident occurred around 2 am on the Kundli-Manesar-Palwal (KMP) Expressway. The bus was carrying around 60 people, all residents of Punjab's Hoshiarpur and Ludhiana, who were returning from pilgrim towns of Mathura and Vrindavan. All of them are relatives, police said.

"Nine people -- six women and three men -- were killed in the accident. Fifteen people were injured and have been hospitalised. All the injured are stable," said Inspector Jitendra Kumar, Station House Officer, Sadar Tauru.

"The cause of the fire is yet to be ascertained. A probe is underway," he said.

A local resident said that after noticing the fire, some people chased the bus on a motorcycle and asked the driver to stop. The locals also informed the police and fire department.