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New Delhi: Right-wing Twitter users on Wednesday evening started a campaign on the micro-blogging site, calling for a boycott of TIME magazine after it listed Shaheen Bagh ‘Dadi’ Bilkis among the 100 Most Influential People of the World in 2020.

The list also includes PM Narendra Modi, actor Ayushmann Khurrana, Google CEO Sundar Pichai are among others.

While PM Modi was listed in the "Leaders" category, Bilkis, a.k.a "Dadi of Shaheen Bagh", was featured under "Icons".

Bilkis is among those better known as the 'Dadis (Grandmothers) of Shaheen Bagh' and had led the protests from the front, shedding the comfort of their homes.

The profile of Bilkis in the TIME magazine list, written by journalist and writer Rana Ayyub, says she "became the voice of the marginalized in India".

Twitter users called for boycotting the magazine alleging that it was listing someone “Who prompted riots” in the list of “World’s Most Influential People in 2020”.

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Bengaluru: Vidyaranyapura police have arrested four persons, including a man posing as a Police Sub-Inspector (PSI), for allegedly breaking into a house, threatening the occupants, and extorting money while wearing police uniforms.

The arrested accused have been identified as Mallikarjuna, Pramod, Vinay, and Hrithik.

Police said the accused had hatched a plan to pose as police personnel, conduct fake raids, and extort money from residents by intimidation.

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According to the police, Mallikarjuna had failed the PSI examination twice and later falsely projected himself as a PSI. He allegedly conducted photo shoots in his hometown, Siraguppa, wearing a police uniform, baton, cap, and shoes, claiming to be serving as a PSI in Bengaluru.

On December 7, the four accused allegedly went to the house of Naveen in the Vidyaranyapura limits, threatened him with a stick and an iron rod, and claimed they had information that he was selling ganja. Under the pretext of searching, they allegedly extorted ₹87,000 through bank transfer, ₹53,000 in cash kept in the house, and ₹2,000 from his wallet.

Following Naveen’s complaint, Vidyaranyapura police registered a case and launched an operation, leading to the arrest of all four accused. Police have seized ₹45,000 in cash and the car used to commit the crime.
Further investigation is underway.

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