Star footballer Paul Pogba on Monday rubbished reports of him quitting playing international football for France over French President Emmanuel Macron’s comments on “Islamist Terrorism”.
Earlier, several media reports had suggested that Pogba had reportedly quit international football after comments from French President Emmanuel Macron alleging that Islam was the source of international terrorism.
And the French government’s decision to honour the teacher who published offensive images of the prophet Muhammad, which Pogba reportedly resented, was also said to be behind the move.
Pogba on Monday took to his official Instagram handle and rubbished the reports. He shared a picture of one of such reports in his Instagram stories and labeled it as “Unacceptable, Fake News”.
According to the earlier reports that had alleged Pogba had quit international football, the decision from the footballer had come in the wake of the beheading of teacher Samuel Paty, 47, who was attacked on his way home from the junior high school where he taught in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, 40km northwest of Paris.
President Macron had described the murder as an ‘Islamic terrorist attack’ that took the life of the French teacher.
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Palanpur, Mar 28: A sessions court in Palanpur in Gujarat's Banaskantha district on Thursday sentenced former IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt to 20 years in jail in a 1996 case involving planting of drugs to frame a lawyer.
Bhatt, who is already behind bars in a custodial death case, was held guilty of falsely implicating a Rajasthan-based lawyer by claiming, in 1996, that police had seized drugs from a hotel room in Palanpur where the lawyer was staying.
Bhatt, who was sacked from the force in 2015, was serving as the superintendent of police of Banaskantha district at the time.
Additional District and Sessions Judge J N Thakkar convicted Bhatt on Wednesday under relevant sections of Narcotics Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act and Indian Penal Code. The quantum of punishment was announced on Thursday.