You have a long beard, no passport for you: Cop allegedly tells Najmul Huda

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January 23, 2016

Mangaluru, Jan 23: A day after sleuths of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) arrested Najmul Huda in a predawn raid at Permude village in Mangaluru taluk, an eerie silence prevailed in the entire neighbourhood.

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The engineering student’s helpless parents and three young sisters, who have already rubbished the allegations made against him by media, have no clue of the terrible rumours being spread on WhatsApp and other social media, as all of their mobile phones have been confiscated by the NIA.

Najmul Huda’s parents hail from Uttar Pradesh and they had settled in Mangaluru over 25 years ago. The family has no enemies in the locality and those who knew Najmul Huda closely including the neighbours openly praise his kindness and humbleness.

“We know Huda family since our childhood. We all respect them. Najmul Huda is very silent and calm. He cannot be a terror sympathiser because he knows that such activities are ‘haraam’ (prohibited). We don’t believe any of the allegations being made against him,” says Sameeullah, a resident of Permude village.

“We are sure that they cannot find any evidence against him because he is innocent. But, we are disheartened and extremely frightened by the unexpected development. This is the toughest time in our life,” say the three young sisters, whose only brother was one among the 14 men picked up by the national security agencies in simultaneous raids across four states of India.

The family members also revealed that a few days ago a cop in jurisdictional Bajpe police station had scolded and mocked Najmul Huda for keeping a long beard.

It is learnt that one of the cops had told the youth that he would not get a passport because he kept a long beard. Sources in Bajpe police station confirmed that Najmul Huda had applied for passport and the application had come to the station for verification. However, they claimed that he did not turn up for verification.

Najmul Huda holds a diploma in polymer technology from Karnataka Polytechnic, Mangaluru. He had joined RV?College of Engineering in Bengaluru in 2011 to study chemical engineering, but did not complete the course due to attendance shortage. During studies, he stayed in a paying guest accommodation in Kengeri. Health problem was the only reason for his attendance shortage, according to his mother Mahira Khathoon.

But, Najmul Huda had decided to complete the course and get a good job, said his father Saiful Huda, a cleric at the local Usmaniya Mohammedi Masjid. The youth was temporarily working in a mobile store and used to spend time on internet. He was in touch with his NRI brother-in-law and had requested him to search a suitable job for him.

The media reports that portrayed Najmul Huda as a ‘terrorist’ have further disheartened the family members. “He is my son. He knows the fact that there is no place for terrorism and violence in Islam. How can he be an ISIS sympathiser? He was arrested only on the basis of suspicion,” said Saiful Huda, expressing hope that his son would be released soon.

The operation to arrest Huda began at 2:30 am on Friday with the police swooping down on his house. “We heard the loud knock in the midnight and when peeped through the window we saw a large number of policemen. The scene frightened us,” recalls the mother, who failed to understand why the armed men barged into the house, targeted his son and searched the entire house till 6 a.m.

Despite a three-and-a-half hour long search in the house, the NIA could not find anything except a laptop, five mobile phones (two of them are not working), a few old CDs and DVDs. The NIA also questioned him why he had saved the photos of Prime Minister Narendra Modi on lap top.

According to media reports, Najmul Huda was being tracked for the past six months as he was very active on social media and used to share various videos on Facebook.

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ZAMEER BAIKADE
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Sunday, 24 Jan 2016

Allah knows better, what is the truth, my pray to Allah to do justice for Huda and his family.

optimistic
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Sunday, 24 Jan 2016

If any one cross the limits, soon very soon ALLAH will grasp them and the grasping of ALLAH is very strong.

yousef
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Saturday, 23 Jan 2016

its not because of the terrorist, its because of The BJP government Pre Planned put some minority people behind the bar thats it, we muslims hopes in Allah only whoever doing injustice with us one day they will get the good lesson from Allah. O Allah save us from the enemy of Muslims

Shaad
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Saturday, 23 Jan 2016

Those who are against Modi and BJP on Social media is targeted by the name of ISIS if he is Muslim.
This is the fact. Now a days they cant say Go to pakistan (Since modi surprise visit) or anti-national and using puppet NIA to tackle anti-Modi, anti-BJPeans.

George
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Saturday, 23 Jan 2016

Frustrated comments from Muslims . cool .. CD is behaving like a very much immatured media , how can these dicussions CD can notice ? editor has lost mind .. to show support CD shouldnot stoop to this level .

Viren Kotian
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Saturday, 23 Jan 2016

ohohohoho.. paapa baayige bealitru kachchakke baralla.. all rubbish claims. Any nationalist can understand easily that this news portal is trying to protect the rights of criminals and terrorists...

abuanwar
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Saturday, 23 Jan 2016

police department now in ISIS

UMMAR
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Saturday, 23 Jan 2016

INDIAN POLICE HAVE TO SEARCH THE ISI WHO IS AGAINST THE HUMAN , NOT A BEARD ONE ,

IF THEY NEED BEARD ONE THEN U CAN EVEN FIND IN HINDHU RELIGION ....

BEC ALMOST THEY ALSO HAVE LONG BEARD ....

EVEN POLICE HAVE TO TREAT EVERY RELIGION SAME OTHERWISE ONE WHO CREATED US HE WILL TREAT U VERY BADLY IN DIFFERENT WAY ......

HAZIK
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Saturday, 23 Jan 2016

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Two sources, speaking on condition of anonymity said early on Wednesday that the strike targeted the Islamic Group’s emergency and relief center in Lebanon’s southern village of Habbariyeh.

Jamaa Islamiya, a Lebanese group closely linked to the Gaza-based Palestinian resistance movement Hamas, said in a statement that “a number” of people had been killed, and called the strike a “heinous crime.”

An official from the group said “seven rescuers” were killed in the aerial assault.

Another Jamaa Islamiya official, also requesting anonymity, said a dozen medical staff were in the emergency center at the time of the strike, adding that bodies were being pulled from the rubble.

Lebanese lawmaker Hassan Mrad said “the Israeli aggression on Habbariyeh adds to the long list of Israeli crimes.”

Israel has been launching air strikes against Lebanon since the beginning of its onslaught against the Gaza Strip in early October.

An Israeli strike knocked down part of a building in the southern Lebanese city of Nabatiyeh on February 14, killing seven members of the same family, including a child, Lebanon’s official National News Agency said. A boy initially reported missing was found alive under the rubble.

In a separate Israeli attack, a woman and her two children were killed in the village of as-Sawana in southern Lebanon.

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The Israeli campaign in Gaza has killed at least 32,414 people, most of them women and children. Another 74,787 individuals have also been wounded.

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March 25,2024

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Bengaluru, Mar 25: Former Karnataka Minister and mining baron G Janardhana Reddy on Monday rejoined the BJP ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha polls.

The Gangavati MLA, who is an accused in an illegal mining case, had formed the 'Kalyana Rajya Pragati Paksha' (KRPP) ahead of the state assembly polls last year, snapping his two-decade-old association with the BJP.

Reddy today merged his KRPP with the BJP as he, along with wife Aruna Lakshmi and some family members, joined the party in the presence of its veteran leader and former Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa, state President B Y Vijayendra, and others.

Reddy had recently met Union Home Minister Amit Shah in New Delhi.

However, in the February 27 Rajya Sabha polls he had extended support to the Congress candidate.

Calling it a "home coming", Reddy explained that the move to merge KRPP with the BJP is to "make Narendra Modi the Prime Minister a third time".

"Amit Shah had invited me to Delhi and told me that -- there is no question of extending outside support (KRPP supporting BJP in LS polls) and instead I should join the BJP and work for it, as I took my political birth in the party. Accepting it, I'm joining the party," he said.

Praising Yediyurappa and the leader's contribution in his political growth, Reddy said he is happy that he will be working in the party now with the veteran leader's son Vijayendra.

"I will work as a common party worker along with other leaders under the leadership of Vijayendra. I have not come with any conditions or expectations. Whatever responsibility the party gives me, I will honestly work.

"BJP was always there in my blood, but due to some reasons I had gone out, but today I feel I have come back to my mother's lap. Looking at my brothers here, I don't feel like I'm coming back to the BJP office after 13 years," he added.

Welcoming Reddy back into the party, Vijayendra said his joining will strengthen BJP in the Kalyana Karnataka region.

"Liking Narendra Modi's leadership and accepting BJP's ideology, Reddy has rejoined the party. Reddy has said that Karnataka should have a larger contribution in making Modi PM once again -- to ensure that BJP and JD(S) alliance win all the 28 Lok Sabha seats in the state, he is merging his KRPP with BJP and is joining the party," he said.

Before the assembly polls last year, Reddy had been largely politically inactive for nearly 12 years since his arrest by the CBI for an alleged role in a mining scam. During this period, he had a brief stint ahead of the 2018 assembly polls when he campaigned for his close friend and former Minister B Sriramulu in Molakalmuru Assembly segment.

In the run up to the 2018 assembly polls, the then BJP national president Amit Shah, in response to a reporter's question, had distanced the party from him and stressed that "the BJP has nothing to do with Janardhana Reddy." Accused in a multi-crore illegal mining case, he has been out on bail since 2015. Several conditions were imposed by the top court in its order which includes prohibiting him from visiting Ballari in Karnataka and Ananthpur and Kadapa in Andhra Pradesh.

Because of these restrictions, he had to contest the 2023 Assembly polls from Gangavati in Koppal district.

Expressing his displeasure about the way BJP had ignored him, Reddy had announced a new party last year and also took a dig at his brothers -- Karunakara Reddy and Somashekar Reddy -- and Sriramulu, as they remained with the BJP.

The three of them had unsuccessfully contested the Assembly polls, with Reddy's new party said to have impacted their performance in the election.

Sriramulu, a ST community leader and former Minister is now the BJP's candidate from the Bellary (Ballari) Lok Sabha constituency.

Reddy had played an instrumental role in strengthening the BJP in the Ballari district and is still believed to enjoy a considerable clout there as well as in adjoining districts like Chitradurga, Koppal and Raichur, which could be useful for the BJP in the Lok Sabha polls.

Reddy and his brother-in-law B V Srinivas Reddy, managing director of Obalapuram Mining Company (OMC), were arrested by the CBI on September 5, 2011.

The company is accused of changing mining lease boundary markings and indulging in illegal mining in the Ballari Reserve Forest area, spread over Ballari in Karnataka and the Anantpur district of Andhra Pradesh.

Reddy first came to political limelight during the 1999 Lok Sabha elections, when he campaigned for BJP leader, the late Sushma Swaraj, who had contested against Congress' Sonia Gandhi from Ballari.

Former Congress Minister T John's son Thomas John also joined the BJP today.

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Bengaluru: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Wednesday launched simultaneous raids in multiple places, including Bengaluru and Shivamogga.

Reports suggested that the ongoing raids are in connection with the Improvised Explosive Device (IED) blast in Bengaluru’s Rameshwaram Cafe on March 1. The blast had injured at least ten people as per the police report.

The Central Crime Branch (CCB) had launched an investigation alongside the NIA, and the trail of the suspect led them to Tumakuru first and subsequently to Ballari. Investigators believe that the bomb was planted by Mussavir Hussain Shazib, a handler of the Islamic State’s Shivamogga module who was aided by another IS handler called Ahmed Taahaa.

Sources in the know said that Shazib and Taahaa had stayed in Chennai for about a month between January and February using fake credentials. The names of the suspects were identified after they traced the cap worn by Shazib to a shop in a mall in Chennai. The cap, which was abandoned by the bomber in Bengaluru after the blast, was reportedly bought by Taahaa, around January-end.

As per the NIA, Shazib hails from Masjid Road in Thirthahalli, Shivamogga district, and Taahaa from Fish Market Road, Soppu Gude, Thirthahalli Rural. Both "wanted" suspects have been termed "absconders" by the NIA.

The NIA has questioned seven jailed terror suspects so far in connection with the blast. The investigation agency had also obtained seven-day custody of a jailed terror suspect named Maaz Muneer Ahmed.

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