HARYANA WATCH

94-Year Old Hindu Man Fathers Child; Leads by Example on How Hindus Should Counter Muslim Demographic Warfare

2011-01-03T03:42:00.003+05:30

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A father at 94: Indian farmer claims to be world's oldest dad... and he wants MORE children

By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
29th December 2010

An Indian farmer claims to have fathered a child at the age of 94.

Ramajit Raghav, of the village of Kharkhoda in Haryana, northern India, claims that he helped his wife Shakuntala, who is in her 50s, bear a son called Vikramjeet - his first child.

The couple said their child's birth, at the government-run Kharkhoda Civil Hospital, was ‘god's gift’ and Mr Raghav did not rule out siring more children, saying he'd like to try for more children next year.

Ramjit Raghav, 94, poses for a picture outside his house with his two-month-old baby Vikramjeet in Haryana, India

Raghav and wife Shankuntala Devi, 50-something, hope to have another baby

'It is great that I have become the world’s oldest dad,' he laughed.

'I am a strong follower of Lord Shiva. I wanted to have an offspring and prayed for him.

'This child is god’s gift to me.'

The proud father, who had been wrestler in his youth, attributes his incredible virility to his diet.

'My daily diet comprises of three litres of milk, half a kilo of almonds and half a kilo ghee (clarified butter),' he said.

'I had visited a quack in the village and he gave me some tablets but I didn’t take them and threw them away.'

When asked whether he was worried about his child’s future, Ramjit confidently claimed he would still be playing with his son in a decade.

'Nothing will happen to my child as I will die only if a black snake bites me and that is very far,' he said.

'Visit me after 10 years and you will find me in the same appearance.'

Doctors however have questioned the validity of the father’s claim.

Raghav feeds his son a bottle. The elderly father credits his own health to a high-calorie diet of fatty foods

Shankuntala Devi gave birth to the bouncing baby boy in a local hospital in the Kharkhoda village of Haryana, 70 kilometres north of Dehli

Dr Paramjeet Singh, chief Medical officer at the Kharkhoda civil hospital said: 'It was a normal delivery and the baby is quite healthy and fine.

'Having babies at such age is remote possibility but then it can’t be ruled out as it just needs one sperm to fertilise the egg.'

Shakuntala's age, alternately reported as 51, 52 and 54, makes for incredibly slim odds of ovulation and any viable eggs.

Villager, Karan Singh, 39, was surprised to hear one of the elders had become a father last month.

She said: 'At first I didn’t believe it but it is the god’s grace and most importantly Ramjit is quite healthy and hard-working.'

Ramjit claims to be more than 100 years old but according to the
old-age pension records he is 94.

But if true, Mr Raghav’s claims would make him the world’s oldest father, edging out another Indian, Nanu Ram Jogi, who fathered his 22nd child at the age of 90 in 2007.

Britain’s oldest father is much younger.

Raymond Calvert, 79, fathered a son with a woman 54 years his junior earlier this year.

He claims to be more than 100 years old, but according to the old-age pension records he is 94

We Wanted To Rob Cattle, Landed Up Raping Woman Just For Kicks

2011-01-03T03:23:00.001+05:30

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"We had to wear plainclothes since Mewat is known for its notorious [Muslim] criminals, who have easy access to firearms," a police officer told rediff.com.

http://www.rediff.com/news/report/bpo-gangrape-case-chilling-confessions-of-accused/20101203.htm

'We wanted to rob cattle, landed up raping woman just for kicks'

December 03, 2010, Sahim Salim in New Delhi

They tanked up their vehicle with the intention of robbing cattle. On their prowl on Ring Road in Delhi, they noticed two women from northeast India sitting at the back of their call center cab. They could see the women through the window and decided to follow the cab -- just for kicks.

A little ahead, they saw the women being dropped on the Ring Road itself and the women started walking on the isolated stretch towards Moti Village.

Seeing that the women were alone, the five men -- all in their early 20s –decided to stop their car in front of the women. They wanted to kidnap both the women, but succeeded in kidnapping just one. They shoved her into the backseat of the car and as she screamed for help, the four men tore her clothes while the driver took the car to a desolated corner and stopped. Here they raped the 30-year-old woman one by one and later gave her Rs 150, so that she could hitch a ride back home.

This is what the Delhi police learnt after they interrogated two of the accused -- Shamshad and Usman -- arrested for raping a woman from Mizoram. The third accused -- Shahid -- gave himself up on Thursday in Faridabad. However, the kingpin of the gang, Kamruddin who has been evading arrest for past six years in another gangrape case that took place in Faridabad in 2007, and another accused, Iqbal are still at large.

After the rape, the men had taken off to Haryana's Mewat area, hid the vehicle in a remote village and went underground.

A huge team of 500 policemen in plainclothes tracked them to Mewat's Dhauj and Tikri Kalan villages in the wee hours of Thursday.

"We had to wear plainclothes since Mewat is known for its notorious criminals, who have easy access to firearms," a police officer told rediff.com.

Delhi police commissioner BK Gupta said that accused could not have been arrested without the cooperation of the 'brave victim', who wanted to see her assaulters punished. The victim and her friend had hour-long conversations with the investigators, assisting them with minute details.

"The victim told us that the car in which she was raped had a flowery decoration. She also remembered a word written on the rear window of the vehicle," he said.

The accused had given the victim 15 notes of Rs 10 denomination each and interestingly, the police said, they were folded vertically. "It's a trend among criminals from Mewat to fold notes vertically and here's where we got our clue. Then we prepared a list of criminals from Mewat who had just got out of jail in and around the national capital region, and finally zeroed down on the accused," said deputy commissioner of police (south), HGS Dhaliwal, who led the operation.

The investigation was not easy. Fifteen police teams worked round-the-clock to catch the accused. Since the victim was not sure of the make of the car, police interrogated the owners of 3,245 vehicles before they nabbed Shamshad and Usman on Wednesday night.

The police have also recovered the vehicle in which the crime was committed.
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Gang of Mewati Muslims Arrested for Gangrape of BPO Employee

2011-01-03T03:09:00.001+05:30

BPO gangrape: How police found suspects

NDTV Correspondent, December 02, 2010

New Delhi: A breakthrough, as the Delhi Police arrest robbers Shamshad and Usman for raping a 30-year-old call-centre employee last Wednesday.

A rape, that has provoked a huge outrage in the capital.

Police say, they were a gang of five who dragged the victim into a tempo as she was walking back home with a colleague after the office car dropped them about 500 metres from home.

One of the five suspects, Usman, had been charged with another gangrape in Faridabad, 3 years ago. He was also charged with assualting a police team in Sarai Rohilla in Delhi last year. Others have had criminal records and have been charged with anumber of crimes ranging from petty theft to cow slaughter.

''The victim's car was followed by the five men. And seeing that the girls got off at Ring Road, they pulled the victim into the tempo. The men were drunk and committed the crime on the spur of the moment," said BK Gupta, the Delhi Police Commissioner.

The victim had given a detailed description of the vehicle.

Using that, the police had scanned 6,000 tempos in the capital and around it.

The Delhi Police, after eight days of extensive search got a breakthrough in the case through a tip off from Mewat.

It was a call about a tempo matching the description. The police raided the various dens in Haryana's Mewat region and arrested the men.

They have now led the police to the third accused, Shahid, who had surrendered himself in Faridabad Court on a previous charge of cow slaughter to escape the larger punishment.

Two others, Kamru and Iqbal, are still at large.

Kamru was also accused in another case of gang rape in Faridabad, alongwith Usman, who is now in police custody.
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Delhi Cops Offer Reward for Info on Rapists

2010-12-29T03:20:00.001+05:30

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As she continued crying after being raped atleast , one of the accused even tried to calm her down by patting on her back and assuring her in Hindi that they would not kill her and would drop her somewhere "safe", a police official said.

http://www.rediff.com/news/report/delhi-cops-offerreward-for-info-on-rapists/20101202.htm

December 02, 2010

With the Home Ministry breathing down their backs, the several specially constituted teams are working round the clock to crack the kidnap and rape of a woman hailing from northeast India.

One of the 15 specially constituted police teams has picked up a Mahindra pick-up from outer Delhi and police suspect this is the vehicle in which the 30-year-old BPO employee was gangraped by five men last week. But this very well could be a false lead, for the other teams working on the case have identified 80 other Mahindra pick-ups in and around the capital.

The Mahindra pick-up, which has been kept at Vasant Kunj police station for now, belongs to man hailing from Mangolpuri, who reportedly has a criminal record.

According to investigating officials, 80 other Mahindra pick-ups have been identified in the case. Of these four vehicles are under the scanner because their owners have criminal backgrounds, officials said.

According to the FIR in the case, the 30-year-old woman, hailing from Mizoram was dropped on the Ring Road at about 1.10 am by her cab driver on November 24. According to the cab driver's statement to the police, he had dropped her there on her own instructions. The victim was walking to her house in Moti Village with a friend, when three men stopped them at what looked like gun.

"In her statement, the victim told us that three men pointed something at her that looked like a gun. As they screamed, the men dragged the victim into a vehicle, which on basis of an eyewitness account, we have established as a Mahindra pick-up truck. They dumped her in the back, where two other men were sitting. They confiscated her cell phones and drove to an isolated spot near Dhaula Kuan before blindfolding her. They stopped and took turns in raping her. She was finally dumped in Mangolpuri area. Thankfully, she had one of her cell phones, which she used to call her friend, who by then had already called the Police Control Room," a senior police officer, involved in the investigations told rediff.com.

Several police motorcycles and PCR vans tried to trace the vehicle from the spot the victim was dropped at, but were unsuccessful. The brave woman declined the police's offer of being taken to her hometown and insisted on staying on and helping them with their investigations. Currently she is undergoing treatment for stress, physical and mental trauma at a hospital in Delhi.

Talking about the accused, the victim told police that they spoke in Hindi with an Haryanvi accent. They spoke in Hindi to each other and never once uttered each others' names, police said. The victim told police that they were all in their early 20s. As she continued crying after being raped atleast , one of the accused even tried to calm her down by patting on her back and assuring her in Hindi that they would not kill her and would drop her somewhere "safe", a police official said.

As the woman was blindfolded, she could not give a proper description of the accused, to the police. On the basis of her friend's description, police made the sketches of three of the accused, which they showed to the victim. The sketches have been published in all leading newspapers and faxed to all the police stations in Delhi.

The police's first attempt was to trace the accused with the help of three CCTV footages in Dhaula Kuan area. Images secured from this did show the vehicle, but were not clear enough to establish its make.

"The images were very grainy, because of which we could not make out the faces of the accused or even the make of the car. We then placed the mobile-phones that were used in the area on the night under surveillance. We are tracking all of them. The investigations will have to be scientific as there are several hundred phones that were in use on that night in the area," a senior police official said.

After the victim told police that her rapists appeared to be from the labour class, police identified some 1000 laborers working in factories in and around Mangolpuri area. Close to 500 of them have been questioned, police said.

"We are in the process of declaring a cash reward of Rs. 1 lakh to anyone who can lead us to the accused. We have detained four relevant suspects in the case and are questioning them. The case investigations are in full progress. We cannot share any more details at this point," Deputy Commissioner of Police (south Delhi), HGS Dhaliwal said.
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BPO Employee Rape: One Accused Surrenders, Two Detained

2010-12-28T03:11:00.008+05:30

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NEW DELHI: After two persons were picked up for questioning from Haryana's Mewat district in connection with the abduction and rape of a 30-year-old call centre employee here, another accused surrendered in Haryana's Ballbhgarh court early on Thursday.

The two - Shamshad and Usman - were detained late last night, police said, adding they resembled the sketches of the three suspects released by them.

Police is questioning the two, who are in their early 20s. More than 500 people have been questioned in the case so far.

The incident took place on November 26 when the Mizo woman was walking towards her home in Moti village near Dhaula in south Delhi early last Wednesday morning along with one of her colleagues when the men in a vehicle abducted her and took turns to rape her. She was later dumped in Mongolpuri after which she approached police.

Investigators have also impounded a truck which could possibly be involved in the crime.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/BPO-employee-rape-One-accused-surrenders-two-detained/articleshow/7026908.cms
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Camera Catches Muslim Throwing Garbage at Hindu Neighbor

2010-12-20T02:58:00.000+05:30

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Fiza caught throwing garbage at neighbour's on camera
18-Oct-2010

Mohali: Remember Fiza alias Anuradha Bali? In case you don’t, she is the woman who made it to the news before for being the second (now estranged) wife of former Haryana Deputy Chief Minister, Chander Mohan after converting to Islam.

Well, she happens to be back on air for the wrong reasons yet again. Fiza Mohammed alias Anuradha Bali was arrested on Sunday for allegedly throwing eggs and garbage in her neighbour’s house in Mohali.

She was later released on bail by Mohali SDM on a bail bond of Rs. 10,000. Police had registered a case after her neighbour Ram Krishan filed a complaint. He alleged that Fiza had earlier too thrown garbage in his backyard but started to throw eggs on Saturday.

Fiza denied the allegations and claimed that it was the other way round and that he had mala fide intentions towards her. She added that the CCTV cameras at her house would prove who is guilty. But things got worse for her on Monday.

A Hindi news channel today aired the CCTV footages which clearly showed Fiza throwing garbage in her neighbour’s compound proving his allegations true. Her claims of innocence and of being a victim of the neighbour’s so called mala fide intentions also now seem to have been a farce.
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Wife Strangled by Husband for Casting 'Wrong' Vote

2010-04-04T03:51:00.009+05:30

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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/Man-kills-wife-for-casting-wrong-vote/articleshow/6044857.cms

Joel Joseph, TNN, Jun 14, 2010 ( joel.joseph@timesgroup.com )

NUH (HARYANA): A 25-year-old woman was allegedly killed by her husband in Malab village in Nuh district, around 30km from Gurgaon, after she did not vote for the candidate her husband asked her to and instead voted for one of her relatives in the sarpanch elections, which were held on Saturday.

Her relatives and local villagers blocked traffic on Sohna road for several hours on Sunday evening demanding the arrest of her husband.

According to police, Tahira was strangulated by her husband Shahid after she voted for Kamaal, who was standing for the post of sarpanch of Malab village. Tahira’s sister Ruksana is Kamaal’s sister-in-law.

‘‘The incident happened on Saturday night after the election. It seems Tahira’s husband Shahid was furious she voted for Kamaal though he had asked her not to. In a fit of rage, he strangled her. Her husband and in-laws managed to flee, but we will arrest them soon,’’ said Ram Singh Bishnoi, SP, Mewat.

‘‘There was a lot of resentment among the locals and they blocked the traffic on Sohna road for several hours, demanding the husband and in-laws be arrested soon. They also wanted postmortem to be conducted again. We have sent the body to the Rohtak district hospital where postmortem will be conducted again. The viscera report is still awaited,’’ Bishnoi added.
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Hindu Hero of Haryana II - Ratiram Malik

2010-04-02T03:29:00.004+05:30

Ratiram Malik - the Hindu superman of 20th Century

Having read stories of so many wrestlers of yesteryears who were lucky to be patronized by princely states and achieved worldwide fame and recognition in their times, there was one superman who was not associated with any state. Mention of Hindu wrestlers started with the famous wrestler Guru Hanuman, but we have little knowledge about other wrestlers of our area in the 1900’s to 1940’s.

One such powerful wrestler whose name is still famous in rural Haryana but unknown to rest of the world, was Choudhry Ratiram Malik (चौधरी रतीराम मलिक) or nick-named Rattia Mhaal (रतिया महाल) (in Haryanvi language, Mhaal means "A Great Wrestler") who was born and lived in village Nangal Kheri or Gadi (Siva Gadi) near the city of Panipat. This village is adjacent to National Fertiliser Limited near Panipat.

Born around 1900 CE, this vegetarian Hindu was 6 feet 4 inches in height and was a true specimen of human muscle power, like the strength of the Alaskan grizzly bears. He was chiseled and muscular with big heavy bones and didn’t have the usual heavy protruding belly of heavyweight wrestler . His exercise routine sometimes included 10,000 baithaks at one go; and the next day would be for similar number of dands, besides these to gain strength in doing his baithaks, he carried two men on his shoulders. His strength can be measured with a barometer in the form of an old Girdi (a piece of heavy, round stone, used for crushing limestone and also for agricultural purposes). This type of stone usually weighs around 450 kgs and he lifted it when he was in his sixties (old age). One can imagine his strength in the prime of his youth. This girdi or roller is still present in his native village.

It is very difficult to lift this type of roller as there is no place to grip it, the only option is to use one’s own strength to hug it and lift it on the shoulders which Ratia Mhaal had - and it is a testimony to his massive strength which is justified in the form of that roller.

Old folks remember how Ratia pahelwan once pulled out a full grown male buffalo (that had fallen into a village-well) single-handedly tied with a rope. Once while he was having his food in the fields, a full grown donkey started braying loudly near him. Annoyed, he tried to shoo the animal away but the donkey didn't pay heed. So he caught hold of the beast by one of its legs and threw it away like a pillow. People said he caught a full grown powerful male buffalo tied with a rope to its neck and the male buffalo was made to run. It wouldn't move against the strength of Ratia Mhaal such was his enormous strength.

Once, during the time of Ratia Mhaal's older days in his 70's, a man tried to check his famous strength, he purposefully filled his bullock cart with sugar cane which everybody claimed was nearly 700 to 800 kgs and pretended that the fully-laden cart got stuck in a drain and asked for Ratia Mhaal's help. Ratia Mhaal put his shoulders under the bullock cart and asked the driver to move the cart forwards with the bullocks' help but instead of making the cart go forward, the devious man tried to take the cart backwards with the bullock's help. But little did he have a clue about Ratia Mhaal's enormous strength that the whole bullock cart, along with load and the bullocks went rolling forwards from the ditch .Hence we can imagine how strong Ratia Mhaal would have been in his younger days. It is simply unbelievable !

In wrestling, Rati Ram Malik used to throw his opponents in the air, in matter of seconds. With no disrespect to some famous pahelwans of that era who were lucky to get the patronage of the royal states like Patiala and got the fame by traveling around the world guided by their patrons, it was their good fortune that Ratia Mhaal remained famous only around the region of present-day Haryana and that too, on the G.T Road belt. Haryana region did not have a princely state in those times to give guidance far and wide corners. Once this famous wrestler was spotted by a British Officer while he was on a hunting expedition, he took Ratia Mhaal (who was a 20 year old then) and told him to join British Army and train as pahelwan and that he would give him all the support to train as he saw his enormous strength . But his mother brought him back saying he was their only son and if something happened to him who would look after their vast lands? If he had taken this opportunity for a bigger stage, he would have got the fame he deserved .

Older folk in the village Nangal Kheri say they didn't know much about Gama Pahelwan and other big wrestling names as there were no means to get such news in that era as it was a remote, agricultural area in those times. Moreover, there was nobody to guide Rati Ram, as his elder brother Chaudhry Dhanram (who had an untimely death) was equally strong and had wanted to make his younger brother Rati Ram a wrestler. Ratia Mhaal was between 18 to 22 when his elder brother died.

According to older folks, once in a wresting competiton in a nearby annual fair, a famous Muslim wrestler from Uttar Pradesh, who was around 6 foot 9 inches in height and supposedly had super-human strength to tear people apart, challenged all Hindus of the area and used abusive language against the Hindu religion. Ratia Mhaal heard of his challenge and came walking to the arena. During wrestling, Ratia Mhaal picked up the Muslim wrestler by his feet and hurled him towards a tree, like a doll. After crashing down, the gigantic Muslim wrestler was terrified and started trembling. Reportedly, out of fear, he fell at Ratia Mhaal's feet and begged for his life and vowed never to use such egotistic or foul language against Hindus in his lifetime.

The people in these areas claim that this handsome and powerful pahelwan called Ratia Mhaal was three times more powerful then the boastful Gama pahelwan. Older folks say Ratia Mhaal ran terror in opponents’ eyes and shiver around their spines when he caught opponents by their waists and hurled them over his head. Even the heaviest of wrestlers can be no more than 200 kgs in weight, whereas Ratia Mhaal hugged that Girdi (roller) of 450 kilograms in his sixties (in his older days), so we can imagine his strength while he was a youth. His ankles were reportedly around five inches wide.

He said Rati Ram Pahelwan's funeral pyre needed four times the wood of a normal well-built man as he had massively wide with heavy-set bones. Even at the age of 85, he had a stout and strong muscular body without any signs of fat. The people who saw the strong man's body at the time of his funeral, tell that people were worried that despite four times wood needed for his pyre (than an ordinary well built man) it won't burn his heavy bones and in the morning their apprehension was vindicated as they found big unburnt bones when they went to collect his ashes. It is unfortunate that this powerful hulk remained hidden from the pages of Indian wrestling history because of the remoteness of the area.

The 450-kg odd concrete roller (GIRDI) is still lying there, a witness to the Hindu superman of yester years, perhaps the descendant of Hanuman who lived just a few decades ago but is unknown to the rest of the world, as Rati Ram Malik was not associated with any princely state.

We should thank the Hindu princely states who gave support to Indian wrestlers of yesteryears and helped them display their might and prowress. These wrestlers were patronized by princely states who looked after there dietary needs but after India's independence in 1947, this system got dissolved and successive governments did not pay heed to our martial sports and wrestling legacy.

Jai Bajrang Bali

NH-10 shut down by massive protests after 40 Cows found slaughtered in Muslim slaughterhouse in Dabwali (Sirsa district)

2010-03-20T04:01:00.007+05:30

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14 July, 2009

Photo source: http://sirsanews.blogspot.com/2009/01/about-sirsa-brief-updated-history-of.html

Article source: http://www.tribuneindia.com/2009/20090715/bathinda.htm#1

Dabwali cow slaughtering incident

Markets shut down in protest

Tribune News Service

Bathinda, July 14, 2009

In protest against the slaughter of cows that took place at Dabwali on Friday, various Hindu organizations today held a march in the city and managed to force the markets to remain closed.

Later, the agitators staged a dharna at the Sadhbhawna Chowk where the speakers sought the resignation of the Haryana chief minister for his “callous attitude in checking such heinous activity in his state.” They also accused the Haryana police of taking the issue lightly as they had not been able to nab the accused even after four days had passed.

They urged the Union government to declare the cow as national religious animal and demanded that anybody found guilty of killing a cow should get 20 years of imprisonment.

“If one kills a man, he is punished with life term, so if one kills a cow, which hurts the sentiments of crores of people, how can he be termed less guilty while announcing the verdict,” they said.

Speaking about the charter of demands, leaders said the government should get vacated all land— which were donated for cows— but were being used for other purposes.

It was also said that the slaughter house at Dabwali, where the carcasses of around 40 cows was recovered on Friday, should be handed over to some Gaushala Samiti. Otherwise, the protesters would secure possession on their own and construct a Gaushala there, least bothering about the consequences.

The protesters had given the call for bandh on Sunday and had personally visited the shops on Monday to urge all to cooperate.

Following this, many shopkeepers did not even roll up shutters and the rest too remained closed when volunteers visited them to make requests for closing down.
At some places, verbal duel between the volunteers and the shopkeepers was also reported, but the city witnessed bandh widely.

Among others, volunteers from the Bajrang Dal, Vishwa Hindu Parishad, Naujawan Welfare Society, Salasar Yatra Sangh, Bathinda Vikas Manch, Asra Welfare Society, Mahabir Sankirtan Mandal, Charan Paduka Seva Dal, Hanuman Seva Samiti and Peerkhana Seva Samiti took part.

Later, the volunteers informed over the phone that the president of the Truck Union, Bathinda, had announced collection of some amount from its customers as charity for the welfare fund of cows.

He also assured that no cow would be transported without getting the nod from Hindu organisations.

Haryana Watch's note: - A brief history of Sirsa:

1) Dabwali is the home-town of former Deputy Prime Minister Chaudhri Devi Lal and former Haryana Chief Minister Sh. Om Parkash Chautala. After being pampered with beef Biryanis at state-sponsored Ramzan Iftaars, are Muslims feeling so arrogant that they can get away in Cow Slaughter in such a Hindu strong-hold?

2) Perhaps the Muslims have forgotten that the lessons of history that Sirsa taught them.

During the reign of Maharaja Ranjit Singh, the killing of cows was subject to capital punishment, until the mid 19th century. As the British came to power in Punjab during 1849, they encouraged cow-slaughter by Muslims and sale of beef to mock the religious beliefs of all the Hindus, including Sikhs.

In Amritsar itself, a slaughterhouse was opened adjacent to the clock tower near the Golden Temple where Muslim butchers began to slaughter cows. As beef began to be sold in Punjab for the first time for over half a century, conflict arose between the Muslims, Sikhs and Hindus. Birds of prey began to carry carrion and bones away from the slaughterhouses and this would occasionally drop within the holy precincts of the Golden Temple and other nearby Hindu temples. The Sikh and Hindu priests were infuriated at this, and began to protest to the authorities. The British Governor of Punjab ignored these protests

Sirsa's Jeevan Nagar is the home of Namdhari Kuka Sikhs - the army of Baba Ram Singh ji Namdhari. The fiercely vegetarian Namdharis are renowned for their love of cows and therefore, the protection of cows from slaughter remains the foremost concern of Namdharis.

The Namdhari Sikhs were passionate in the matter of cow killings. They were punished by the British Raj because they attacked butcher houses and murdered the butchers for which they were executed/ blown off with cannons or put behind the jails.

The then deputy commissioner of Amritsar opened a slaughter house outside the city. The butchers were asked to follow these instructions, “The cows will be slaughtered at a particular place within an enclosure. No butchers would bring beef inside the city for sale. Transgressors of these rules will be punished.”

Opening a slaughter house at Amritsar was a signal for opening many more in different towns of Punjab. This led to the development of strained relations between the Hindus and the Muslims because the butchers started selling beef openly in the streets of Amritsar. Peeved at this, Namdharis came forward to punish the butchers and embraced martyrdom during the British era.

In their zeal for protecting the cow, an armed Kuka Namdhari band attacked a cow slaughterhouse in the sacred city of Amritsar on the night of 15 June 1871.The Namdharis assassinated four Muslim butchers involved in cow slaughtering and wounded three other butchers. The cows were set free. To prevent any anti-cow slaughter movement, the British administration hanged five brave Namdharis (Sant Hakam Singh Patwari, Sant Fateh Singh, Sant Lehna Singh, Sant Jhanda Singh and Sant Beehla Singh Narli) to death.

Exactly a month later on 14 July 1971, another surprise raid by Namdhari fighters took place on a cattle slaughterhouse in Raikot, in Ludhiana district. A group of Namdharis were passing by a Gurudwara in Raikot, on their way to Bhaini Sahib when they were summoned by the local priests. The priests took the Namdharis to temple precincts where crows were seen to be dropping carrion and bones.

The Namdharis decided to spend the night there, and in the morning they attacked the local slaughterhouse and assassinated four Muslim butchers and seriously wounded seven others. These Namdharis were arrested and brought before the magistrate at the village of Bassin.

On 5th August 1871, three Namdharis (Mastan Singh, Gurmukh Singh and Mangal Singh) were blown into pieces by British cannons at Raikot. On 26th November 1871, two more Namdharis (the scholar Giani Rattan Singh of Mandi and Rattan Singh of Naiwala) who were innocent, but were considered associates of above hanged Namdharis, were blown into pieces by British cannons in Ludhiana.

Painting by Vassili Verestchagin showing the British execution of Namdharis by blowing them up with cannons in Malerkotla

Meanwhile, the British continued to encourage Muslim butchers to open slaughterhouses in the Punjab and increase the selling of beef. In January 1872, the Namdharis had gathered at Bhaini Sahib to celebrate Maghi. A Gurmukh Singh of Farwahi village narrated to Sardar Heera Singh a tale of how an ox had been deliberately slaughtered in his presence in Malerkotla, and how the police on this occasion used abusive language towards him. Against the wishes of their Guru Ram Singh, the hot-headed militant Namdharis decided to attack the butchers at Malerkotla. On 13th January 1872, approximately 100 Namdhari fighters, lead by Sardar Heera Singh and Lehna Singh started from Bhaini Sahib for Malerkotla.

On 15th January 1872, the martial Namdharis reached Malerkotla. At 7 AM, the Namdharis attacked, and a bloody fight ensued between the forewarned British Raj police, and the Namdhari fighters. The police, who received eight causalities, was lead by a Muslim officer named Ahmed Khan. Seven Namdharis were killed, and as more police reinforcements arrived on the scene at midday, the police captured 68 Namdharis, including two women and 22 injured. The British deputy commissioner of Ludhiana, Mr. Cowen, reached Malerkotla and without any judicial process, he ordered the barbaric execution of 49 Namdhari Kukas by having them blown away by cannons.

Some sources state that one young Namdhari lad named Bishan Singh attempted to choke Mr Cowen but was pulled off and cut down with a sword. In this way, Cowen murdered 50 Namdharis in all. Namdhari tradition records of how one Viriyam Singh, being too short, elevated himself by placing bricks under his feet so as he could be executed by cannon fire more efficiently. On 18th January 1872, in the presence of Mr Forsyth, another 16 Namdharis were blown away by cannons as they sang hymns from Sikh scriptures.
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'Taliban' writ in Haryana village

2010-03-20T03:31:00.022+05:30

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Author: C Shamsher, TNN
Publication: The Times of India
Date: October 8, 2007
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Taliban_writ_in_Haryana_village/articleshow/2437712.cms

Barely 25 km from the bustling township of Karnal is village Mundogari, where people don't buy television sets, don't get themselves photographed, or even listen to Hindi film music.

It's not because they don't have the financial wherewithal to do so; it's because the 5,000-strong Muslim population of the village is under the near-total sway of retrograde maulvis whose edicts have barred the folk from any form of recreation.

With just one Hindu Dalit family in Mundogari, the village has more or less been reduced to a Talibanised relic. It's not the rule of law that enshrines personal freedoms that prevails here; it's the fatwas from maulvis, who interpret the Koran according to their blinkered vision, that calls the shots, preventing people from exerting their right to freedom in a country that celebrated its 60th year of independence in August this year.
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The only connection of villagers - who don't travel out - with the outside world is the radio on which the only programme they are allowed to listen to is the news.

Says Raj Singh Chaudhary, a Karnal-based social worker: "When one family bought a TV set, it was severely ostracised." What adds to the problem, he says, is the literacy rate at an abysmal 3%, with just one person reaching college. And since no one is even 10th pass, there's not a single person in the village employed with the government.

Dilshad Ali, 20, would be seen as a villain in this village if his secret was out. For he has defied the maulvis' fatwa and took admission in BA second year. Asked whether he follows any other proclamation, he says: "I have to paste photographs on the admission form, have to read newspapers and I watch TV regularly whenever I am outside the village." How does he do all this? "I have to keep these things a secret," he says.

Eighteen year old Shadaqat Ali, who owns an STD/PCO outlet, says, Koran doesn't allow us to watch TV and listen to music in any form. On being asked who informed him about it, he says: "Maulvis have informed the entire village time and again and about TV's ill-effects."

Another woman, who refuses to be named, says: "The women folk aren't allowed to come out of their house. Many haven't travelled more than 25 km ever in their lives."

"My first outing as a child was to a hospital and ever since I have mostly gone to hospitals as do other women, most of whom are married at age 14-15."

Maulana Ajmal Khan, the imam at Sector 20 Masjid, Chandigarh, says: "If you want a photograph clicked for the passport, or on the admission form, you can have it, since it's out of necessity. But you can't have it hanging on the wall." Islam also does not allow singing and dancing or any such form of entertainment, he adds.

Mundogari in Haryana is a village where Osama will be at ‘home’

http://news.webindia123.com/news/ar_showdetails.asp?id=710110573&cat=&n_date=20071011

Mundogari (Haryana), Oct. 11, 2007 (ANI):

Mundogari, located 50-odd kilometers from New Delhi in Haryana prides itself on being a ‘true’ Islamic village.

In this village, which has 5,000 inhabitants, girls are debarred from going to schools. They have been debarred from having education. They are also not allowed to step out of their houses without totally covering themselves.

The madrassa, or the school in the village, is open only to boys.

“None of the women in our village have studied till standard ten. I went to school till fifth standard. Lots of restrictions have been imposed on the women. They say that according to Koran, girls should not be educated. Why do we have to face restrictions like this?” asks Saima, a Kindergarten teacher.

Not just that, watching television or listening to songs on radio is banned. The edict promulgated by the local cleric makes all those who listen to music and sees television of committing blasphemy,

The edict prohibits all recreational activities as un-Islamic.

The local clerics claim that going to schools and being seen outside your house, with an uncovered face is un-Islamic.

“Television is unacceptable in our religion. They show all kind of nude pictures and rubbish things which are banned in our religion. There is not a single television in our village,” said Shakeel Ahmed, a local cleric.

The clerics are not concerned that the people of the village live in abject poverty, and the only ‘employment’ open to them is to engage themselves in doing menial jobs.

No one has had the courage to defy the edict issued by the local cleric — so far. Osama would be completely at home at Mundogari. (ANI)
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Hindu Hero of Haryana - Gokula Singh Jat

2010-03-20T03:19:00.014+05:30

Gokula - Chieftain of Sinsini/Tilpat

Gokula (Hindi: गोकुला) or Gokul Singh (Hindi: गोकुल सिंह) (died 1670 AD) was a Jat chieftain of Tilpat in Haryana. His father's name was Madhu. Madhu had four sons namely, Sindhuraj, Ola, Jhaman and Saman. The second son Ola later became famous as Gokula.[2] Gokula provided leadership to the Jat peasants who challenged the Imperial power. Gokula inspired the Jats to fight the Mughals.

Condition of Hindus at the time:

It is important to know the condition of Hindus and our situation during those times in the country to understand the actions of Veer Gokula Singh. In the year 1658 A.D the fanatical Muslim Aurangzeb becomes the Mughal Emperor and embarks on a zealous mission to convert Hindus to Islam through any method possible. The atrocities of Aurangzeb on Hindus are too numerous and well known and need not be repeated here but it is important that we look at the situation of Hindus in Mathura and the adjacent areas since that was the place where Gokla was living at that time.

The fanatical Mughals used to administer the area through officers named faujdars, one of them was Murshid Quli Khan who died in 1638 A.D, and he used to raid villages for capturing beautiful women. In the words of Sir Jadunath Sarkar “the Khan, painting his forehead and wearing a dhoti like a Hindu used to walk up and down in the crowd. Whenever he saw a woman whose beauty filled even the Moon with envy, he snatched her away like a wolf, pouncing upon a flock, and placing her in the boat which his men kept ready on the bank (of the Jamuna) he sped to Agra.”

Another infamous character of the time was Abdu’n Nabi Khan, the governor (faujdar) of Mathura at that time. In the words of Sri Sita Ram Goel “He plundered the people unscrupulously and amassed great wealth. But his worst offence was the pulling down of the foremost Hindu temple in the heart of Mathura and building a Jamia Masjid on its site. This he did in AD 1660-61.

Soon after, in 1665, Aurangzeb imposed a pilgrim tax on the Hindus. In 1668, he prohibited celebration of all Hindu festivals, particularly Holi and Diwali.

The Jats who rightly regarded themselves as the defenders of Hindu honor were no longer in a mood to take it lying.”, It was under these trying times that a man named Gokul Singh rose to the occasion for the defense of Hindus of the area.

Rise to fame:

The rise of Veer Gokula Singh from obscurity to a position of importance in Hindu history starts in the year 1669 A.D. Around this time Samarth Ramdas, the Guru of Shivaji Maharaj, was traveling in the area of Gokula and after his sermon in Muzzafarpur area in which he exorted the people to rise to defend dharma “young men, led by Gokula, accepted the exhortation and challenge of the Guru to devote and sacrifice their lives for the motherland. The vows were taken, with a sip of water from the Ganga, and the Yamuna, and the chewing of a pipal leaf.”

The first serious outbreak of anti-imperial reaction took place among the Hindu Jats of Mathura district Uttar Pradesh, where the imperial Mughal faujdar Abdun-Nabi, had oppressed them greatly because they were Hindus. In 1669 the sturdy Jat peasantry rose under a leader, Gokula, Zamindar of Tilpat, killed the faujdar, and kept the whole district in disorder for a year, till they were suppressed by a strong imperial force under Hasan Ali Khan, the new faujdar of Mathura. The valiant Gokula was eventually captured and put to death. His family and many close relatives were forcibly converted to Islam.[3]

Rise of Gokula

Gokula came on scene when the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb (1658-1707) attempted to convert Dar-ul-Hurb (Hindustan) to Dar-ul-Islam forcibly through persecution and dogmatic policies. The 1669 Jat uprising in India under Gokula occurred at a time when the Mughal government was by no means weak.[4] In fact this period of Aurangzeb’s reign witnessed the climax of the Mughal Empire.[5][6] During the early medieval period frequent breakdown of law and order often induced the Jats to adopt a refractory course.[7] But with the establishment of Mughal rule, law and order was effectively established and there were no major Jat revolts during the century and a half preceding the reign of Aurangzeb,[8] though in 1638 Murshid Quli Khan, the Mughal faujdar of Mathura, was killed during an operation against Jats. During the reign of Aurangzeb, the faujdar of Mathura in 1669 was Abdunnabi, who incurred the wrath of the people.[9]

In early 1669, Aurangzeb appointed a staunch follower of Islam, Abdunnabi, as faujdar of Mathura to curb the Hindus of this area. Abdunnabi established a cantonment near Gokul Singh and conducted all his operations from there. Gokula organized the Hindu farmers not to give taxes to the Mughals. The Mughal soldiers retaliated, beginning the struggle of the farmers.

Meanwhile Aurangzeb issued orders on 9 April 1669 to abolish the Hindu temples. As a result a large number of ancient Hindu temples of priceless heritage from the ancient period of Kushans were damaged.[10] During May 1669 the faujdar Abdunnabi seized the village Sihora. Gokula was there waiting for him and there was a fierce battle in which Gokula killed Abdunnabi.

Gokula and his fellow farmers moved further, attacked and destroyed the Sadabad cantonment. Sadullakhan had founded Sadabad during the period of Shahjahan. This incidence inspired the Hindus to fight against the Mughal rulers.[11] The battles continued for five months.[12]

The outbreak of the Jat rebellion

The year 1669 witnessed, the bursting forth of the pent up fury of the Jats into a very powerful revolt under the inspiring leadership of Gokula, the zamindar of Tilpat. A remarkable feature of this rebellion was its composite character. [13] Though the Jats counted for its majority and provided leadership to it, it consisted of other local people as well such as, Meo, Meena, Ahir, Gujjar, Naruka, Panwar and others. [14] The rebels gathered at the village of Sahora (about 6 miles from Mathura). Abdun Nabi, the faujdar of Mathura, attacked them. At first he appeared to be gaining ground, but in the middle of the fighting he was killed on 12 May 1669. [15], [16], [17], [18]

Overjoyed at this success, Gokula ravaged the paragana and town of Sadabad (24 miles from Mathura) in the Daob. [19], [18], [20] The turbulence spread to Agra district also whereto Radandaz Khan was sent (13 May) with a force to put down the rebels. Aurangazeb appointed Saf Shikan Khan as the new faujdar of Mathura. [21], [22] As arms failed to prevail, diplomacy was resorted to. The Mughal government offered to forgive Gokula provided he surrendered his spoils. But Gukula spurned the offer.

The success they tasted soon stirred the Hindus of the area to rebel against the Mughal authority; the disturbance caused by them was severe enough to warrant an offer from the Mughal regime to Gokula according to which he was offered forgiveness if he stopped his rebellious activities. Gokula turned down this offer and continued his rebellion; soon Aurangzeb himself sent a strong force under the command of Radandaz Khan, Hasan Ali Khan and other officers.

On the other side, as the situation was assuming serious proportions, the Emperor had to proceed (28 November 1669) in person to the Disturbed area. On his way on 4 December 1669, Aurangzeb learnt of the circumstance of rebellion in the villages of Rewara, Chandarakanta and Sarkhud (Sarkharu). He dispatched Hasan Ali khan to attack these places. Till noon the insurgent fought with bows and muskets. Getting desperate thereafter, many of them having performed the jauhar of their women fell upon the Khan.

The Mughal forces delivered an attack on these three fortified Jat villages and in the words of K R Qanungo: “Hassan Ali delivered an attack upon three fortified villages of the Jats and won a very costly victory. The Hindu peasants fought long and steadily, displaying that cool obstinate valour which had ever characterised them. When resistance became hopeless, many of them slew their women to prevent a lifetime of sexual slavery under the Mughals and rushed upon the Mughals to sell their lives dearly.” Thus ended the first major battle against the Mughals in which Gokula’s forces made the Mughals pay dearly despite heavy odds against them.

A fierce fight raged till the evening in which many imperialists and 300 rebels were killed. Hasan Ali Khan returned to the Emperor, taking 250 male and female prisoners. Aurangazeb was pleased with his performance. He made him the faujdar of Mathura in place of Saf Shikan Khan who had obviously failed in suppressing the rebels. [23], [24], [25]

Under Hasan Ali Khan were placed 2,000 barqandaz troops, 1000 archers, 1000 musketeers, 1,000 rocketmen, and 25 pieces of cannons. Amanullah, the faujdar of the environs of Agra, was also ordered to help Hasan Ali. The latter immediately got engaged in quelling the rebellion.

The battle of Tilpat

Gokula Singh, with 20,000 Jat and other Hindu followers, rushed forward to face the Muslims at a place 20 miles from Tilpat. Both the sides suffered many casualties in the battle in which the Jats, despite showing utmost bravery, could not cope with the trained Mughals and their artillery. They took shelter in the Jat stronghold, Tilpat.

Hasan Ali followed them and besieged the Tilpat fort. Fighting continued for three days in which muskets and bows were used by the contestants. On the fourth day, the Muslim invaders charged the besieged fort from all sides and having made a breach in the walls entered Tilpat. Then ensued a sanguinary conflict. The Jats displayed their reckless courage and undaunted valour. The experienced Mughals gained the day but not before losing 4,000 men. Of the valiant Jats, 5000 lay dead, while 7000 were captured.

The gravity of this war can be understood from the fact that the Emperor Aurangzeb had to march himself on November 28, 1669 from Delhi to curb the Jat threat. The Mughals under Hasan Ali Khan attacked Gokula Jat. [26]

Gokula and his uncle Uday Singh with a united Hindu army of 20,000 Jats, Ahirs and Gujjars fought with superb courage and tenacity, the battle at Tilpat, but their grit and bravery had no answer to the Mughal artillery. It was only after three days of grim fighting that Tilpat fell. Losses on both sides were very heavy.

Gokula hacked to death

After the loss of Tilpat, Gokula and his uncle Uday Singh (who also fought in the battle of Tilpat) were captured alive through the efforts of Shaikh Razi-ud-Din, the peshkar of Hasan Ali Khan. They were imprisoned and was taken to Agra along with other captives. Many of the Jat womenfolk committed Jauhar to escape the clutches of the Mughals.

At Agra, all surviving prisoners were presented to the Emperor Aurangzeb. Gokula was offered pardon if he accepted Islam. Gokula was asked by Aurangzeb to embrace Islam if he wished to live.

On hearing this, the fearless Gokula asked Aurangzeb to offer his daughter to him in return, to poke fun at the Muslim emperor. Gokula, the defiant Hindu warrior, laughed and rejected the pardon by emphasizing that he would prefer to be killed rather than becoming a traitor to his Hindu religion.

This enraged Aurangzeb and he ordered the execution of Gokula. On January 1, 1670, following the orders of Aurangzeb, Gokula was hacked to death limb-by-limb, piece-by-piece on the platform of Agra Kotwali (Agra Police Office) and the same barbaric death was given to his uncle Uday Singh. Thus ended the lives of both the heroes and both attained martyrdom in fighting the tyranny of the Muslims but refused to give up their religion.

After Gokula's death, his family and close relatives were forcibly converted to Islam. According to Sri Sita Ram Goel “the capture and murder of Gokul with fiendish cruelty and the forcible conversion of his family members to Islam, coincided with the destruction of the Keshavadev (Krishna Janmabhoomi) temple in Mathura.”

Other Jat captives either met the same horrendous fate of their leader or were put in chains after forcible conversion to Islam. [27], [28], [24], [29]

Gokula may have passed away defiant but his death inspired many more rebellions among Jats against the Mughal authority and these rebellions would eventually lead to the establishment of the famed kingdom of Bharatpur. Hindus of today need to remember and honor such heroes without whom our religion and culture would not have survived.

Hopefully, many more Gokulas will be born among Hindus and will lift up the precarious condition of our country.

Jai Durga Ma.

References

1. ^ "GC Dwivedi's History". http://www.lppindia.com/htm/8188629081.htm.

2. ^ a b Narendra Singh Verma: Virvar Amar Jyoti Gokul Singh (Hindi), Sankalp Prakashan, Agra, 1986, p. 5

3. ^ R.C. Majumdar, H.C. Raychaudhari, Kalikinkar Datta: An Advanced History of India, 2006, p.490

4. ^ Girish Chandra Dwivedi, The Jats – Their role in the Mughal empire, Ed by Dr Vir Singh. Delhi, 2003, p. 15

5. ^ J.N.Sarkar, History of Auranzeb (Calcutta): 1912, I, Introduction, XI-XIII

6. ^ F.X. Wendel, Memoires des Jats, 10

7. ^ J.N. Sarkar, History of Auranzeb (Calcutta): 1912, I, Introduction, XXVIII f.

8. ^ Girish Chandra Dwivedi, The Jats – Their role in the Mughal empire, Ed by Dr Vir Singh. Delhi, 2003, p. 15

9. ^ Dr P.L. Vishwakarma, The Jats, Vol. I, Ed Dr Vir Singh, Delhi, 2004, p. 113

10. ^ Narendra Singh Verma: Virvar Amar Jyoti Gokul Singh (Hindi), Sankalp Prakashan, Agra, 1986, p. 33

11. ^ Narendra Singh Verma: Virvar Amar Jyoti Gokul Singh (Hindi), Sankalp Prakashan, Agra, 1986, p. 34

12. ^ Narendra Singh Verma: Virvar Amar Jyoti Gokul Singh (Hindi), Sankalp Prakashan, Agra, 1986, p. 35

13. ^ Girish Chandra Dwivedi, The Jats – Their role in the Mughal empire, Ed by Dr Vir Singh. Delhi, 2003, p. 25

14. ^ Ganga Singh, op. cit., I, p. 64-65

15. ^ Maasir, p. 83

16. ^ Roznamcha also known as Ibratnama by Muhammad (R.S.L. Ms p. 133

17. ^ Kamwar (pers. Ms.), II, p. 163

18. ^ a b Maasir-ul-Umra, I, p. 437, 618

19. ^ Maasir, p.93

20. ^ Fatuhat, 9pers. Ms.) 53a

21. ^ Maasir, p.83, 84

22. ^ Maasir-ul-Umra, I, p. 618, II, p. 673

23. ^ Maasir, p. 91-92

24. ^ a b Kamwar (Pers. Ms.), II, p. 166

25. ^ sarkar, Aurangzeb, III, p. 294

26. ^ Narendra Singh Verma: Virvar Amar Jyoti Gokul Singh (Hindi), Sankalp Prakashan, Agra, 1986, p. 39

27. ^ Fatuhat (Pers. Ms.), p. 53a-53b

28. ^ Maasir, p. 93-94

29. ^ Maasir-ul-Umra, I, p.437, 618

30. ^ Narendra Singh Verma: Virvar Amar Jyoti Gokul Singh (Hindi), Sankalp Prakashan, Agra, 1986, p. 50

• Thakur Deshraj: Jat Itihas (Hindi), Delhi, 1934

Muslim held for robbing passengers in Ambala

2010-03-09T14:03:00.007+05:30

The Tribune

Ambala, May 15, 2004

The Ambala police has nabbed a member of a gang who use to rob bus and train passengers by intoxicating them using sedatives in biscuits or other eatables.

According to information, the police arrested Javed, a resident of Bulandshahar, in this regard. A resident of Chandigarh, Mr Anil Jain, was coming from Delhi to Chandigarh in a bus. Javed boarded the bus near Ambala and sat beside Mr Jain. He offered a biscuit to Mr Jain, who became sedated after consuming it.

Javed took cash from the pocket of Mr Jain and as soon as he alighted from the bus, the police nabbed him. During interrogation, he disclosed that Yusuf Ali a.k.a. Raju, one of the members of his gang, had robbed Rs 3,000 and a mobile phone from a bus passenger at Shahbad. A police team was later sent to Shahbad in search of Raju.

Chautala’s Gotala

2010-02-23T08:39:00.058+05:30

Why did Mr. Om Prakash Chautala throw lavish Ramzan Iftaar dinners to appease Jihadis?

Mr. Om Prakash Chautala is a Hindu - a vegetarian Hindu - hailing from the brave Jat Hindu community whose fearless warriors have sacrificed their lives to defend India, Haryana and Hindu Dharma for centuries against Islamic aggression.

Then why did the then Chief Minister of Haryana, Mr. Chautala, host lavish Ramzan Iftaar dinners that served beef biryani on Haryana's sacred soil? To appease Jihadis?

This Tribune article is the proof: http://www.tribuneindia.com/2000/20001222/haryana.htm

On December 21, 2000, Mr.Chautala threw a lavish Ramzan Iftaar party to appease Jihadis in Nuh city (then part of Gurgaon district). He organised this Iftaar where his guests of honour were the Muslims of Mewat who flocked in large numbers to feast on beef biryani, just like vultures arriving at a road-kill.

Accommodating such a big crowd may have been a problem for most but not for Chautala; he simply converted a large tract of farm land into what he called an "Iftar park" just outside the city.

Muslim leader from Kashmir, Dr. Farooq Abdullah was the Chief Guest at this Iftaar Party hosted by Chief Minister of Haryana, Om Prakash Chautala.

Abdullah (whose name means “Slave of Allah”) expressed his sentiments while addressing a gathering of those who had assembled to offer namaaz on the occasion after observing the fast. The offering of Namaaz preceded the Iftaar party.

Voicing the long-standing demand of the Muslim residents of Mewat, Abdullah urged the Chief Minister of Haryana to grant the separate status of a district to Muslim-majority Mewat region by breaking it away from Gurgaon district. He reminded Mr Chautala that this would also fulfill the electoral promise of the INLD, now in power.

Speaking on the occasion, Mr Chautala remained equivocal on the demand for a separate Muslim-majority district for Mewat. However, he assured the gathering that he would always obey Dr Abdullah. But he said that he could not make the announcement on the spot as his government was inhibited on account of the fact that this was a census year.

Mr Chautala said that the Iftaar party was organised to promote brotherhood among all sections of the society.

Praising Ramzaan, Mr Chautala said that “roza” (selective fasting) observed by Muslims, steel them spiritually and psychologically. Also, it reminds all concerned the pangs of pain experienced by the deprived sections of the society. The well-offs can empathise with the trial and tribulations faced by the have-nots only after they experience the pain themselves. The occasion here was contrived so that he could have first-hand experience of poverty and hardship of the people of the area, Mr Chautala said in a laudatory tone.

[Mr.Chautala forgot to add that as part of the silly “Roza”, the Muslims stuff themselves with rich, oily food in the morning, sleep through the afternoons lazily without working and then gorge themselves with rich, oily food in the evenings. Is that fasting, Mr.Chautala? Go ask your Hindu relatives what fasting truly means. To Hindus, “Fasting” means neither eating nor drinking any morsel of food or even a drop of water for the entire day, and still continuing to have an active, work-based day-time schedule. Samjhey aap?]

Mr Chautala pulled all stops to take on his political opponents who had been reportedly criticising the organising of Iftaar parties. The opponents had made statements saying that Mewat did not require Iftaar parties but developmental works.

Mr Chautala responded saying that since he took over he sanctioned Rs 25 crore for various development works in Mewat. He emphasised that it was his party’s government which tried to bring water to Mewat through the Ujjina dam.

State machinery had been overactive in the past few days to make the occasion a grand success. Although the district administration gave impression that it was not organised by the state, the contrary to it was discernible. The authorities had divided the sitting enclosure in 28 parts on a huge area of land.

Several MLAs and Ministers and religious leaders relating to Islam were present on the podium.

Mr.Chautala, are you listening to us? You owe the people of Haryana an answer and an apology for your opportunistic mindset and short-sighted decision to support Islam and destroy Haryana.

In 2005, you betrayed Haryana by announcing the religious partition of Haryana and the creation of a new Muslim-majority district called Mewat.

THE RELIGIOUS PARTITION OF HARYANA

CM announces creation of new district

Ravi S. Singh

Tribune News Service

http://www.tribuneindia.com/2004/20041003/haryana.htm#1

NUH (Gurgaon), October 2, 2004

Haryana Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala today announced the creation of a new district, the 20th in the state, called “Satyamev Puram” for areas falling under Mewat encompassing five revenue blocks in Gurgaon and one in Faridabad district.

The announcement is a follow-up on a promise made to the people of Mewat, more than four years ago, for a separate district for them by Mr Chautala.

On the flip side, the Rashtriya Swayemsevak Sangh, the Vishwa Hindu Parishad, the Bajrang Dal, the Shiv Sena and other Hindu organisations took out a procession and blocked the national highway (Delhi-Jaipur) near Rajiv Chowk for about an hour in protest against the creation of the new district.

The agitationists had planned to block the passage of the Chief Minister’s cavalcade which was to cross the route to reach here. However, they came a cropper on this front as the cavalcade crossed much earlier than they had expected.

Making the announcement at a well-attended public meeting here, Mr Chautala said the district headquarters of Satyamev Puram would be Nuh, considered to be the political and social fulcrum of Mewat. Mewat is dominated by Meo Muslims. While Nuh, Taoru, Nagina, Ferozepur Jhirka and Punhana are the revenue blocks falling in Gurgaon district, Hathin falls in Faridabad. Assembly segment-wise, Nuh, Taoru and Ferozepur Jhirka fall in Gurgaon, and Hathin segment falls in Faridabad.

In order to give a calendar importance to the event, it was coincided with the Gandhi Jayanti and the birth anniversary of former Premier Lal Bahadur Shastri today.

According to Mr Chautala, the new district will become functional from November 1, the Haryana Day.

Mr Chautala also laid a foundation stone here for a mini-secretariat and a water scheme under the rubric “Rainy well” at Madiaki village.

The scheme, billed to cost Rs 425 crore to the state exchequer, is expected to boost the water supply system for the entire Mewat region. Water from the Yamuna will be drawn near Hodal (Faridabad) from where it will be distributed through a network of pipe lines.

Several members of the Haryana Cabinet and MLAs of the ruling INLD were present on the occasion.

The Chairman of the National Minority Commission, Mr Trilochan Singh, who accompanied Mr Chautala, in his speech lauded the Chief Minister. Mr Singh, who is also an MP from Haryana, cited the state, especially Mewat, as an exemplar of communal amity.

[HW adds: Mewat is an example of communal harmony? Since when? Is Mr.Trilochan Singh sleeping or stupid? It appears that Mr.Singh has not experienced Nuh's Jihadi riots of 1992 nor aware of their daily cow slaughter, their sexual slavery of Hindu girls and murders of Hindus by Jihadis. Or perhaps, he is a "good friend" and well-wisher of the Muslim mafia.]

Fraudulent conversion of minor girls in Faridabad: Brazilian missionary in dock

2010-01-23T04:50:00.004+05:30

Author: Siddheshwar Shukla
Publication: The Pioneer
Date: December 12, 2009
URL: http://www.dailypioneer..com/222182/Fraudulent-conversion-of-minor-girls-Brazilian-missionary-in-dock.html

Without knowledge of parents, he adopts school kids.

A Brazilian missionary has been accused of religious conversion of schoolchildren by fraudulently means at Faridabad in Haryana. The affidavit submitted by Dimas De Souza, the founder-trustee of Comademat Charitable Trust, in a Delhi court clearly mentions that the children have been adopted by him, a fact which he had concealed from their parents. Further, De Souza got the minor girls belonging to poor families admitted to convent schools and showed himself as father of all the over a dozen children 'adopted' by him.

The parents of the children told The Pioneer that they were unaware of their children being adopted by the missionary. They, instead, said that the missionary had promised them to return their children after their studies (Class XII) in the best of schools in Faridabad. Records collected by the police reveal that all children were given Christian names; De Souza as their father and their permanent addresses have also been replaced with the address of the hostel run by the missionary.

The parents of two rescued girls, Anila and Soni, denied that they had agreed to give away their children for adoption. "He has not given me any document.. However, he asked me to sign on some papers which were in English," said Suresh Paswan, who resides in Mandi village and hails from Madhubani in Bihar. "They changed their hostel from Green Field Colony to Sector 21-D but did not inform us. His mobile phone is also switched off. We have to take the help of media and police to know whereabouts of our girls," added Paswan. The girls were rescued on Tuesday last after police intervention.

Anila, daughter of Suresh Paswan who was studying in Nigam Kanya Vidyalaya, Fatehpur Beri in Delhi, was rechristened as Mary in the Angel's Public School, Sector 21A in Faridabad. According to the school records, her parents withdrew her from Nigam School on July 28, 2008.

The De Souza's affidavit, which was executed on February 11, 2008, says, "I have decided to adopt the following children of the school on permanent basis and all their educational expenses, including school fee, books, eatables, dress etc will be borne by me as long as they are studying in the school." The affidavit also mentions the Christian names of twelve children adopted by De Souza on that date. The girls are: Meenu (12), Lia (12), Rahel (15), Sara (8), Pricila (9), Ester (10), Noemy (15), Ruth (9) and Rebecca (8). The parents of these children reside in Mandi village and hail from backward districts of Bihar, Jharkhand, Punjab and Odisha. Presently 15 minor girls are residing in the missionary hostel at 134, Sector 21-D under the jurisdiction of NIT police post of Faridabad.

In another agreement signed by De Souza on October 23 this year with the owner of the bungalow 134, Sector 21-D, Jaisi Ram Asthana, the founder trustee declares: "I am taking this house on rent for providing accommodation for orphans and poor children of Indian origin, about 10 in number." The trust has been registered with an aim to provide health, education and home to destitute, needy and orphans without any discrimination of race, nationality, caste or creed, age and sex.

When told that there are records to show that Anila has been renamed as Mary, Darshanlal Malik, Assistant Police Commissioner of NIT Faridabad, said, "Anila was renamed as Mary." Malik is the investigative officer of the case. "The children residing in the hostel do not want to go with their parents as they are getting better life and education," added Mallik.

Another parent Pitamber, in his police statement, said, "I had send my daughter on my own to the hostel for better life and education. They have promised that they will return my daughter after completing studies and allow me to meet her every six months." Pitamber too is not aware about the adoption of her daughter Shivani, who is now renamed Damris (5).

When The Pioneer visited the hostel, there were two Christian women in their mid-twenties to take care of the children -- Aneilus from Nagaland and Renu from Punjab. "We do not know the admission procedure of the hostel. We are paid employees and reside here to look after the children of the trust," said Aneilus. She refused to talk as soon as she came to know that we are from media. "You talk to the police," she added and shut the door. De Souza is in Brazil owing to some medical complications and so could not be contacted. He is scheduled to return India in February 2010.

The neighbours smell something fishy in the hostel. "Why did they adopt girls only? The parents who have sent their girls here have boys also. They took the girls to the Church for two days a week, generally on Friday and Saturday for over three hours," said Jogendra Singh Saini, resident of 135, Sector 21-D.

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Haryana gives rousing welcome to "Vishwa Mangala Gou Grama Yatra"

2010-01-20T02:58:00.001+05:30

The ongoing "Vishwa Mangala Gou Grama Yatra" is a “Marathon March that promotes Universal Well-being through Cow Protection and Sustainable Socio-Economic Rural Development - including organic farming, prevention of farmers’ suicides, protection of agricultural land and preventing the root causes for the uncontrolled migration of villagers into towns and cities."

The Yatra is a 108-Day long Cross-Country Marathon March across the length and breadth of India, spanning 1 Million and 20 thousand kilometers - which started rolling on Sept 30, 2009 from Kurukshetra and will end on January 17, 2010.

Let us pray for the Yatra’s success!

For a map, objectives, photographs and videos of this ongoing saga, please visit the website:

http://eng.gougram.org/
http://eng.gougram.org/photo-gallery/
http://eng.gougram.org/category/video/

28 Sep 09 - Gou Rath Pooja
During the holy moment of Vijaya Dashami - Gou Rath Pooja, Kamadhenu Havan, Gayathri Havan & Other Religious Rituals
Kurukshethra, Haryana

29 Sep 09 - Kurukshethra Procession
Kurukshethra, Haryana
7 photos

30 Sep 09 Yathra Inauguration
Theme Park, Kurukshethra
42 photos

01 Oct 09 - Kurukshethra to Rohtak
ROUTE - Kurukshethra, Karnal, Panipath, Gohana, Rohtak
Haryana
35 photos

02 Oct 09 - Rohtak to Sirsa
ROUTE - Rohtak, Hansi, Hissar, Fatehabad, Sirsa
Haryana
40 photos

03 Oct 09 - Sirsa to Ganga Nagar
ROUTE - Dabwali, Sangeria, Hanuman Gad, Ganga Nagar
Haryana - Rajastan
59 photos
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Over 5 Lakh Muslims lay siege to Gurgaon-Delhi expressway (NH-8), and scream "Allah is the ONLY God"

2009-10-29T02:16:00.008+05:30

The well-planned "occupation" of the expressway was carried out at the Rajiv Chowk area in Gurgaon) under the pretext of Eid.

This forcible namaz is now being planned as a regular nuisance every Friday until Haryanvis rise up to put an end to this ungodly menace.

Now, an Idgah has sprung up at the same Rajiv Chowk area (Gurgaon) close to NH-8 and has become the local den of anti-national activities.

Over 5 Lakh jihadis will demonstrate their strength every week by forcibly doing namaz on the expressway and service lanes - blocking traffic and trying to intimidate Hindus to stay away from this area. Are you ready to foil their evil plans?

- Excerpts from an article by V Sundaram (IAS, Retd.) below:

Last month (September 21, 2009) more than Five Lakh Muslims "occupied" the National Highway 8 between New Delhi and Gurgaon in a planned and methodical manner and offered their Eid prayers with supreme contempt for the regular users of this busy National thoroughfare. Many innocent citizens who could not avoid using that NH 8 on that day to reach their respective places of destination felt unduly harassed and persecuted by this exercise of "minority rights" by the Muslims.

Click on this photograph above to see the actual size of the mob on NH-8.

This reminds me of a mammoth Islamic meeting addressed by Mohammad Ali Jinnah, the and the destroyer of United India, one month before the Direct Action Day in Calcutta in July/August 1946. His main aim on that occasion was to terrorize the Hindus of India into meek submission and acceptance of his Two-Nation Theory which resulted in the birth of Pakistan on August 14, 1947. Thanks to the pseudo-secular policy followed by Pundit Nehru and his Congress successors in Office, the Muslims of India today have been able to gain a blanket unfettered political license to blatantly deny the sacred and time-honoured fundamental religious rights of the majority Hindus in their own homeland today. Today the Muslims in India are flexing their political muscles with uncontrolled fervour to intimidate the peace-loving Hindus of India using the unrequited political support of the Congress government, which derives its transitory political sanction from its commitment to minority vote-bank politics.

All the Hindus of India have now come to understand that the Muslims and Christians are the most favoured children of the Government of India. John Dayal is a known Hindu-baiter in India. When he defended the rights of Muslims to lay siege to the National Highway 8 on the specious plea of saying EID Namaz, Sri R. K Ohri I.P.S (retd) and Secretary General, Patriots Forum in New Delhi gave him a fitting rejoinder in this manner: "Please tell me is it possible suddenly, improptu, for lakhs of Namazis to suddenly converge at a particular point to lay seige to NH-8 on the plea of saying Eid Namaz? You know very well that such large numbers of Muslims (according to Indian Express there were 5 lakhs of them) do not, repeat DO NOT, live in the villages adjacent to that particular spot on NH-8. Still you are trying to defend something totally indefensible. Your flimsy excuse that Muslim demand for an Idgah might have been denied is again a typical "John-type" argument. Was any demand for Idgah in that area ever made, was it refused at all? No, never. Yet you must keep on telling lies ad infinitum. This "show of force" was a very well organised event to showcase the rising crescendo of jihadi footfalls across India and their booming clout in the ruling political dispensation!

At this rate a day might come, in not-too-distant future, when Namazis will lay seige to all major roads leading to most metropolitan cities. That might as well coincide with the launching of a diabolical war by Pakistan based jihad outfits. Please stop befooling Hindus and let them wake up to the growing threat of India emerging as a global battleground of clash of civilization. That might happen around 2020, or latest by 2030."

Six Muslim Jihadis win Haryana Assembly elections; Results show increased Islamic power over Haryana’s future

2009-10-24T22:41:00.004+05:30

HW Correspondent, Chandigarh, Oct 23, 2009

The name Haryana means "The Abode of God" from the Sanskrit words: Hari (God) and Ayana (Home).

But the recently concluded Haryana Assembly elections show how divided and clueless Hindus are, and how united their enemies are in turning our land into a hell-on-earth.

While Hindus were bickering amongst themselves over ego, caste and gotra, the Muslims worked stealthily to get an unprecedented number of notorious Jihadis elected from the amongst 90 assembly constituencies in Haryana.

For the first time in Haryana’s electoral history, a total of 6 Muslim fundamentalists have won from the Hindu holy land of Haryana.

1. (Jagadhri) Akram Khan - BSP

2. (Punahana) Mohammed Ilyas - INLD

3. (Ferozepur Jhirka) Naseem Ahmed - INLD

4. (Nuh) Aftab Ahmed – Congress

5. (Hathin) Jaleb Khan - Independent (extending “unconditional support” to the Congress)

6. (Pundri) Sultan - Independent (extending “unconditional support” to the Congress)

Through these MLAs, Muslims are able to exercise their influence and push their interests on all these major political parties. These parties have shown that they are readily willing to sleep with the enemy. All Haryanvis must remember this insult and teach them a lesson in the future.

These elections demonstrate the increased Islamic clout over Haryana’s future. During 1000 years of valiant Hindu-Sikh resistance against the Muslim invaders, our ancestors made sure that not an inch of Haryana land was lost to the occupiers. After India’s independence, we have forgotten the threat perception and become complacent during the past few decades. Today, we find that Muslims are well-entrenched in two districts: where the Islamic population constitutes 66% (Mewat) and 40% (Gurgaon) of the districts’ population. The Muslim population’s numbers are also rising silently in other districts of Haryana – just like cancer spreads silently in our body without any warning.

Hindus must unite – across caste and gotra lines – and fight together to protect Haryana, our land, our heritage, our women – all of whom are rapidly falling prey to the Muslim fundamentalists. We have only another 20-30 years to reverse this trend or become a violent Talibani land like Afghanistan, Kashmir and West Punjab (in Pakistan) - which were all Hindu lands until recently.

Hindus must not think of themselves as only Jats, Brahmins, Banias, Ahirs (Yadavs), Gurjars, Khatris, Aroras, Sainis, Rajputs, Rors, Balmikis, Ravidasis, Telis, Sunars, Lohars, Dhobis, Nais or further sub-castes and gotras or as Arya Samajis, Sikhs or any other sampraday.

Hindus must think, act and unite as Hindus. That is the only solution.

We must, indeed, all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately.

Think Big. Start Small. Act Now.

Explosives stockpiled in Jind Madrasah blow up prematurely, many innocent Hindu lives saved

2009-10-23T04:57:00.004+05:30

20 October 2009

Jind, Haryana

Forensic experts have been called Tuesday to investigate a powerful bomb blast that took place at a Muslim Talibani madrassa complex in Haryana’s Jind city, an official said.

A heavy bomb blast rocked the building of Madarsa Isha’t -ul- Uloom in the city around 10 pm today. The incident took place late Monday night in Jind, located 200 km from state capital Chandigarh. The Madrasa is located on the campus of Idgah in the meat market along the Hansi branch canal.

The blast site inside the Madrasa

The blast led to the collapse of a wall of the ‘Madrassa’ (Muslim religious school) at the Idgah shrine complex. No casualties were reported.

The blast occurred in the back of the Madarsa building. The intensity of the blast destroyed one hostel room and damaged several others including the administrative office of the madrasa. There are 65 Taliban-trainee students and 6 Jihadi instructors in this madrassa with 10 rooms. The Madarsa starts brainwashing children from an early age by indoctrinating them with the Quran. These children are mostly Hindu orphans or poor street-children who are lured to the Madarsa by free food and shelter.

Future Mullah Omars in the making

Maulana Naushad Ahmad, Nazim-e- Talimat (Education Director) of Madarsa Isha’t -ul- Uloom said, “The blast was so heavy that it felt like an earthquake. It impact was felt in around two kilometers.”

Since the explosives had been stored in a back room far away from where his "Taliban-in-training" students were preparing to beseech Allah (for the success of their mission to convert India into an Islamic country), there was no death or injury to anyone. The explosives may have detonated accidentally due to a chemical reaction or due to a careless cigarette butt being tossed away by the Madrassah teachers.

DC Mohammad Shayeen, who rushed to the spot along with senior district officials, remarked, “An explosion has damaged a portion of the mosque, but no one has been injured. The motive behind the explosion remains unclear and we are still investigating whether it was a deliberate act or caused by some accident.”

A ridiculous and dangerous whitewashing of Jihadi terrorism is happening with official connivance. The local administration and police are trying to hush up the case by claiming that the massive explosion was due to leakage of gas in a septic tank.

Though police officials say explosion in a septic tank in the building of the madrasa could have been the cause, the theory appears full of holes. Even the maulvi of the masjid, Deen Mohammed, sheepishly admits that an explosion in the septic tank of the building is not possible as the tank has not been in use since about three years when it was filled with earth and a room constructed on it.

“The residents of the building have been using another septic tank and there has been no problem with it,” the Talibani maulvi confessed to mediapersons who visited the site

The impact of the blast was so severe that it ripped apart the floor of the room and broke the wooden panels and doors. A cycle kept in the gallery was thrown 70 feet away. The explosion was so powerful that it was heard at far off places in Jind town.

Local Jind residents have previously complained of explosives and arms being stockpiled in the fortified madrassa-cum-mosque complex, with strangers entering and leaving the mosque at night-time. Now their worst fears have come true but the administration still refuses to heed their concerns for safety.

This time, thanks to providence, many innocent Hindu lives were saved. Will their luck run out the next time?

Mewati mullah meets his 72 houris and 28 gilmans; Celebrity son takes Afghan wife (after Hindu wife)

2009-10-08T11:23:00.009+05:30

New Delhi, August 19:

Maulana Jamil Ahmed Illyasi, a Muslim leader and president of All India Organisation of Imams (AIOI), died at a city hospital tonight after a brief illness, his family said.

The 76-year-old religious leader breathed his last at AIIMS where he was admitted after he developed an infection in his right leg. The end came at around 10:30 pm.

Illyasi is survived by 8 children - five sons, including popular TV personality Suhaib Illyasi, and three daughters.

The maulana, whose family belongs to Mewat in Haryana, was the chief of AIOI, and he had represented around five lakh imams across the country.

Maulana was fond of teaching Quran and preaching of Islamic principles to the youth and people from all walks of life.

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Fall Of A False Hero

"New revelations expose crime-buster Suhaib Illyasi's sham"

For a self-styled crusader determined to root out crime and criminals from society, it was nothing short of a great fall.

Ilyasi and Anju were both students at the Mass Communication Research Centre at Delhi's Jamia Millia when love blossomed. Their families were as different as could be: Anju's father was head of the metallurgy department at IIT Kanpur and a visiting professor at several foreign universities. Ilyasi is the son of Maulana Jameel Ilyasi, who calls himself the president of the All-India Imams Organisation, and for whom home is a mosque on a traffic roundabout in central Delhi. Though the abode looks modest from the outside, as real estate goes it is invaluable. Despite stiff resistance from both families, Anju and Ilyasi married in London in 1993, where they stayed until October 1994.

Differences between the couple cropped up almost as soon as they returned to India. To start with, Anju refused to stay in Ilyasi's house. Things went from bad to worse, and within six months Anju was back in London, where her brother was working at the time. "Before she came to London, I got a letter from my mother saying that their marriage was on the rocks," says Prashant. "Anju was even contemplating divorce, but I persuaded her to give it another chance."

In April '96, Ilyasi too landed up in London. During his month-long stay, the couple appeared to reconcile and they returned to India. Their daughter Aaliya was born the next year.

But six days before Anju turned 30, she was dead. On Jan 10, 2000, Anju was shockingly found dead with several stab wounds - either a murder or suicide - in their apartment in east Delhi.

On February 15, Anju's elder sister Rashmi Singh -- the last person Anju spoke to before her death -- flew into Delhi from Ottawa, Canada. Exactly a month later, she filed a statement before the police, accusing Ilyasi of torturing her sister for dowry and charging him with driving Anju to commit suicide. "I have enough evidence to prove that Ilyasi should be booked under Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code," said Rashmi, who runs a Montessori school in the Canadian city.

According to the police, the evidence produced by Rashmi and her mother, the real Suhaib is a total inversion of his popular crime-buster image. On the contrary, say the cops, he’s turned out to be like many of the crooks featured on his programme. Consider this: he obtained a fake degree from Jamia Millia Islamia on the basis of which he got a job in London. Once firmly ensconced in his job, Illyasi got a credit card and borrowed £8,000 to buy a BMW. Knowing full well that keeping two passports was illegal, Illyasi "deliberately" got two passports issued by altering his name and furnishing wrong information about his date of birth.

What’s really bad news for Illyasi is a personal diary and some letters written by Anju (his late Hindu wife) in which she detailed how Suhaib had tormented and tortured her. The police have booked Illyasi under sections 498(a), 304(b), 420, 468, 471 and 201 for destroying evidence. Apart from that, he’s also been booked under section 12 of the Passport Act of 1967. "At the moment we’re in the process of verifying the details furnished by Rashmi and Rukma Singh," S. Nithianandam, DCP (East Delhi), told Outlook.

"Diary tells Anju Ilyasi's story of anger, frustration"

Suhaib Iiyasi's late Hindu wife, Anju wrote down a diary before becoming a victim of Islam and it's torture. At several places, she had accused Suhaib of not giving her money to mee ther personal expenses while he apparently spent a lot of money on his own trips abroad.

She has mentioned instances when her sister Rashmi bought household items for her as her husband refused to shell out money. In fact, the interiors and fittings at their IFS flat were apparently financed by Rashmi.

In her diary, Anju blames Suhaib for harassing and torturing her every time she committed a mistake at home, when the food was not ready when he came home and when she questioned him when he came home late. ``He is always looking for an excuse to get angry on me,'' she once wrote.

There are instances where an angry Anju has unabashedly abused Suhaib. One such entry reads: ``Kamina....rakshas...uska sapna hai ki woh mujhe naukrani banake rakhe. Mein aise nahin hone dungee.'' (He thinks he can keep me like a servant in his house. I will not let it happen.)

At the time of her death, Anju left behind a 3-year old daughter called Aaliya.

After Anju's death, Suhaib Ilyasi married again - this time to a Afghan Muslim woman named Sumaya. Together, they are raising Anju's daughter Aaliya as a practising Muslim.

This is the real life story of an actual Hindu girl fall in the Islamic claws and unfortunately loosing everything she got, even her life too.

Ambala Hindus resist Islamic Tablighi domination, stop mosque on Hindu lands, oppose sexual molestation of Hindu women by Jihadis

2009-10-05T12:48:00.006+05:30

Ambala; 29 September 2009

The Hindus are valiantly resisting Islamic Jihad in their village of Thakur Pura. The Muslims of the same village are threatening the innocent people and sexually harass the Hindu women to make them realize the Islamic fear.

The sole purpose of these highly intolerable activities is to make Hindus understand the presence of Islam in this village and to make new Mosque at the same place where there is a temple right now.

These Muslims goons roam around in isolated places in groups. Sometime they go to the small bus stand and misbehave with the Hindu women.

After creating their much needed fear among Hindus, on July 22, Muslims of this village invited "Tablighee Jamaat" (a hardcore anti-India Islamic group, responsible for many Hindu lives) to outline the mosque and set its direction. So there would be new mosque in this village. However after being successful in their pursuit, Muslims did not stop harassing Hindus of this village.

After suffering so much pain and agony, the people of Thakur Pura village have started to defend themselves and others form this new Islamic Jihad within their own village. But all the time these Muslims (minorities) gets the upper hand in terms of law.

One day, Shouqat Ali (village Thakur Pura) came at the bus stand of Thakur Pura along with some other Muslims of a nearby village and they all started harassing an innocent Hindu girl of the same village, who was waiting at the bus stop. One boy of that village intervened, which led to a fight in which this Hindu boy was brutally beaten. During this, few villagers came from a different bus and lost their temper and beat these Muslims to stray them away.

To politicize this issue, All India Muslim Majlis-e-Mushawarat (AIMMM) led by Abdul Rashid Agwan, convener of AIMMM’s Delhi state unit and comprised of Irfan Ahmad Khan, State Incharge (Haryana) of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind; Mahtab Alam coordinator of the Association for Protection of Civil Rights (APCR); and Nadim Ahmad of The Milli Gazette visited Ambala. The team left New Delhi early morning for Ambala reaching Jagadhari around 11AM, where it met Maulana Shakil Ahmad Nadwi, teacher of Madrasa Ma’had Rashidul Islamia and local correspondent of Rashriya Sahara Urdu daily, who even modified this issue in favor of Muslims and published in the national Urdu daily.

They took the pictures of those Muslims goons and interviewed them which they posted on the website "TwoCircles.net". They totally changed the whole story and showed that the real culprits are Hindus and not Muslims.

However, the Hindus of Ambala are adamant that they will not tolerate this Jihad against them and there will not be any Mosque in their village.

Kurukshetra "Anti Cow Slaughter" rally

2009-10-05T11:01:00.007+05:30

Kurukshetra, Oct. 1:

Swami Raghaveshwara Bharati, pontiff of Ramachandra Mutt in Karnataka’s Shimoga, yesterday flagged off the four-month, nation-wide Vishwa Mangala Gau Gram Yatra for cow protection, sponsored by the RSS, Vishwa Hindu Parishad and sundry mahants.

VHP’s Mr. Ashok Singhal demanded a ban on cow slaughter and said that cow meant a return to a rural idyll. Enough to have even Gandhians from Vinoba Bhave’s ashram join in.

Suresh Oberoi touches Ashok Singhal’s feet at the Vishwa Mangala Gau Gram Yatra at Kurukshetra on Wednesday

The man who really enthused the crowd at the Brahma Sarovar, in a town where every vacant space is supposed to have been a Pandava-Kaurava battlefield, was Suresh Oberoi. The former actor kept following the swami throughout.

Following his father's footsteps, Vivek Oberoi has been a follower of swami’s hermitage in Hosanagar among the arecanut plantations. The monk’s disciples claimed Vivek is full of energy to do everything possible for mother India.

The swami has powerful impacts on Karnataka chief minister B.S. Yeddyurappa and his predecessor H.D. Kumaraswamy, to both of whom he had gifted a rare cow.

The swami has been a doer, his mission being to revive the local strains of cows, cleansing the cattle population of the hybrid Jerseys and restoring the “forgotten” spiritual bond between the gau mata (mother cow) and her errant sons. So he flaged off the yatra, a ride on a motorised bus.

Sangh’s second-in-command, Suresh Joshi, said: “The village is India’s soul and the cow is the soul of the village and should be cherished.”

The swami craved Mother Cow’s forgiveness for humankind’s sins and promised that just as Krishna had made a “man” out of Arjuna in Kurukshetra, every male present would morph into her “worthy sons”.

Indresh, the pranth pracharak (state propagandist), said this would be the Sangh’s line during the yatra to try and strengthen its networks in rural India.

Chandigarh riots: 1 Hindu youth killed by Muslims

2009-10-04T05:49:00.002+05:30

The murder of an 18-year-old youth in Indira Colony on Monday night triggered off major violence after angry friends and relatives of the victim retaliated in the colony on Tuesday morning, with vehicles being set on fire and windows and doors of houses and shops smashed.

They also attacked the Muhammad (the culprit), who is now in hospital. A curfew-like situation prevailed in the colony till late in the evening, with heavy police force deployed in the area.

The police said both the communities are at peace with each other and the situation was under control.

Around 12.30 am Monday night, Tej Bahadur (18) alias Kallu, who used to supply milk, was outside his shop in the Indira Colony market with his friend Ajay Sharma when Muhammad alias Babloo, along with his friends, came and asked for a lighter. After Tej Bahadur politely said that he do not have one, Muhammad took out a sharp-edged weapon and stabbed Tej Bahadur in his stomach several times.

A profusely bleeding Tej Bahadur was taken to the health centre in Manimajra from where he was referred to the PGI, where he died later in the night.

While Tej Bahadur’s friends caught Muhammad and bashed him up, the other accused managed to flee. Muhammad is presently admitted in the Sector 16 hospital where his condition is said to be stable. He has been booked for murder under Section 302 of the IPC.

As news of the murder spread in the morning, around 25 infuriated youths went on rampage. With clubs and swords, the mob targeted whatever came its way.

Cowardly Muslims locked themselves inside their houses even as the crowd fury resulted in broken window panes and damage to five cars parked in the colony. Two motorbikes were also set on fire.

The crowd then proceeded towards the 20-year-old Sabri Masjid in the colony and pelted bricks at its building, damaged three air coolers, tried to break open the grill and ransacked the place.

“When I saw the crowd, I locked the doors of my house. They completely damaged my Santro,” said Haji Iqbal.

Soon after, the police cordoned off the entire area and controlled the mob. Additional force from the Punjab Police was also called. The accused, Muhammad, has previously been involved in other crimes also. We have talked to members of both the communities and there is no rivalry between them. A meeting was held between the members of both the communities and they have been asked to not to take law in their hands,” said UT SSP SS Srivastava.

With Tej Bahadur’s mother Kalavati weeping uncontrollably, members of the victim’s community and his relatives assembled in large number at the cremation ground in Manimajra later in the day and shouted slogans. A heavy posse of the police went along with the agitated people to the Indira Colony and remained stationed in the colony to tackle any untoward incident.

The youngest among his siblings, Tej Bahadur is survived by his parents, three brothers and one sister.

The residents claimed it was the fourth murder of Hindus by the Muslims in communal clashes in the last two decades. The police, however says that old enmity between the groups was the reason for the murder, in an whitewash the truth and to control the anger among people.

Meanwhile, even as most shops of Indira Colony remained shut, the area seemed to be slowly getting normal. But with an uneasy calm settling around the house of Tej Bahadur, who was murdered on Monday night by Muslims, police continued to be deployed in heavy numbers.

Julia Roberts renames her children after Hindu Gods and Goddess

2009-09-24T06:46:00.014+05:30

Julia’s son Phinnaeus is now Ganesh

Gurgaon, 23 Sep, 2009:

Call it the western fascination for Oriental mythology or a genuine gesture to appreciate Indian spirituality, Hollywood actress Julia Roberts—in Haryana for a film shoot—has renamed all her three children after Hindu gods and a goddess.

Swami Dharam Dev, president of the Ashram in Pataudi where film—Eat, Pray, Love’—is being shot, on Tuesday told TOI: “Julia came for my blessings this morning along with her children. She told me that she has named her five-year-old twins—Hazel and Phinnaeus—as Mahalaxmi and Ganesh. Her two-year-old son Henry will now be known as Krishna Balram.’’ But the swami has no clue whether the name-change has been for good or not.

When TOI visited the ashram on Tuesday, it saw the crew working on the ‘pray’ part of the film. “A langar was organized on Sunday, for the script required Julia to be present in the langar with devotees of the ashram. She seems to have metamorphosed herself into a sadhvi for the role. I asked Julia to step into the sadhvi’s role in her real life whenever she is in self doubt,’’ the swamiji said.

Julia on Tuesday shot a cooking scene in the mess of the ashram on Tuesday. “She was seen cooking food along with other woman sadhvis for the film. In another shot, she performed kirtan in the Mandir hall of the ashram,’’ said an inmate. The 25-acre ashram, otherwise a quite place hosting a Sanskrit Mahavidyalaya with 500 students, hostels for boys and girls, a hospital and a 100-bed old-age home, is suddenly bustling with activities and will be in the thick of action for at least 20 days.

But Swami Dharam Dev is not complaining. He was all praise for the cast and crew of the film. “They have not disturbed the sanctity of the ashram even as they complete everything as per schedule,’’ he said. The Laxmi Narayan Mandir on the campus is the main shooting area. “A wooden extension has been erected at the Krishna Niwas on the first floor. A small, white marble mandir has been erected at the Atithi Niwas where some of the scenes will be shot,’’ said an inmate.

The shooting has brought relief to the inmates of the ashram. “The ashram has turned into an air-conditioned fortress as the crew can’t tolerate the searing heat. Thanks to them, we now have uninterrupted power supply. Normally, there is no power back-up and electricity keeps playing hide and seek,’’ said one of the inmates.

NAMESAKE: Julia Roberts with Swami Dharmdev at Hari Mandir ashram in Pataudi. She has named her five-year-old twins, Hazel and Phinnaeus, as Mahalaxmi and Ganesh and her two-year-old son Henry as Krishna Balram

“America’s leading Hindus have applauded Julia Roberts for showing them respect during a recent trip to the sacred Taj Mahal temple in Agra, India. The Pretty Woman star and her husband Danny Moder were spotted visiting the tourist attraction last week - and Roberts was photographed sporting a bindi mark on her forehead – which has delighted the Hindu nation.

Nevada-based Hindu statesman Rajan Zed tells WENN, “Julia Roberts honoured the traditions of India by sporting a bindi on her forehead during her recent trip to India, and we are very happy she did. It was a mark of respect that has not gone unnoticed.”

TV, Hindi music, Banned in Haryana Muslim village

2009-08-15T01:06:00.004+05:30

(Video link: http://ibnlive.in.com/videos/50260/tv-hindi-music-a-forbidden-fruit-in-haryana-village.html )

Karnal , Oct 10, 2007:

Eighty-year-old Aflatoon has never watched TV in his life. He lives in village Mundi Garhi that is barely 25 kilometers from one of Haryana's biggest cities - Karnal.

In this Jihadi village of 5,000 people there is a ban on purchasing TVs, listening to Hindi film music or watching movies.

"In our religion, TV, cinema, liquor are considered vices and so we do not allow anyone to watch TV. If anyone does that, we fine them. So everyone obeys the rules," says Aflatoon.

And like they say - catch them young. Even the children in Mundi Garhi are taught to stay away from the temptation to watch television.

"We teach children not to watch TV and fine if someone watches TV. We also do not allow anyone to talk to someone who watches TV," says Kari Shakeel Ahmad who is a Imam at the village Masjid.

But, that only makes the forbidden fruit more tempting. Some confess they go to neighbouring villages or cities and watch TV to stay connected to the rest of the world. But when in Mundi Garhi, they abide by the rules.

However, there's been a positive fallout of this ban. Instead of staying glued to the TV, youngsters spend their leisure time playing on the banks of the Yamuna.

"Our elders have said that it is not right to watch to TV and so we do not watch TV. We just play after coming back from school," says a resident of the village, Saddam Hussein.

While that may seem like a different world view to most of us, for the people of Mundi Garhi, it's become a way of life.

Article link: http://www.ibnlive.com/news/tv-hindi-music-a-forbidden-fruit-in-haryana-village/50260-3.html

Unsuspecting residents preyed upon by Bangladeshi Muslim gangs

2009-05-05T08:38:00.023+05:30

Gurgaon, Haryana

Recent spurt in the number of thefts and murders in Sector 4 have left the residents in a tizzy. What is more disturbing is the fact that in most cases, the robbers seemed to have entered easily and made away with a successful decamping of valuables.

There is no proper fence around the sector and with the unauthorised colonies (where these illegal Bangladeshi Muslims resides) located at the boundaries, crime seems to have accelerated. "Even the fences at the dividing road of Sector 4 and 7 have been removed by the HUDA authorities. HUDA also removed the fence in between Lakshman Vihar and Sector 4. Now it is very easy for these Muslims to trespass into our colony at any time," describes Dharam Sagar, chairman, Federation of RWA. He further alleges that there aren’t sufficient police personnel to patrol the area even though a police outpost is located nearby. "Several times we have passed a memorandum to commissioner of police to take a stock of the situation here. But, when we approach the police station they say that they do not have adequate staff," alleges Dharma Sagar. The residents want to increase patrolling in their area. "As many as eight houses have been ransacked in January alone this year," informs KL Chawla, vice president RWA Sector 4.

The area residents allege, demolition of the fence near Dhanwapur by the Horticulture Department has made it easy for these Bangladeshi criminals to trespass the colony. When asked why the fencing has been removed, Horticulture Department HUDA, executive engineer Jasbir Singh Millu said, "We had put fences to protect the trees. Now that the trees have grown, there is no need for the fencing. If HUDA funds us for the same, we have no objections in putting them up."Perhaps now it is up to HUDA officials and police to take care of the situation. When GP approached the area SHO of Sector 5, she refused to comment. However ACP Crime, Sunhera Singh, promised, "I would definitely look into the matter and instruct the police officials to increase the vigilance." Until that happens, the residents better be on guard.

In most of the cases, these Bangladeshi Muslims are being employed as man-servants or maidservants as cheap labour - as they look and talk like Bengali Hindus (they wear fake bindis and pretend to be Indian Hindus), and the truth be told, it is very hard for local residents to find out if they are Indians or illegal Bangladeshi invaders. Their modus operandi is shocking. First, they work in the same house and keep an eye on where the money and all the expensive stuff is. After a few days, they sneak into the same house at night. They kill all the residents mercilessly (including children, elders) and then they take away all the expensive stuff, jewelry, money etc.

With a host of Bangladeshi illegal immigrants living opposite Block D of South City II, residents are losing their peace of mind. There are more than 3,000 occupied houses here in the colony and attempts to verify each person is proving to be a huge responsibility.

RWA is making collective efforts along with the residents to verify names and address of their servants. But, in many cases, servants just say that they are from Midnapore District, West Bengal. “People simply remain satisfied getting that much information. However, in the wake of any serious crime, how much could be found out on the basis of knowing that a particular person is from Midnapur. Residents should ideally be taking all the details of the address. But, ironically most of the residents are not following those norms and inviting risk,” shares VK Srivastava, president, Sohna Road Federation of RWA, adding, "We have been approaching district administration to remove these jhuggis from here, but they are not complying with our request.”

Residents also complain that there is a mafia gang operating in that area. "There are people from the interior areas of Bengal. Even if they come in through the Indo-Bangladesh border, there is nobody to check them. Nobody can even find out the real identity of migrants whether they are from Bengal or Bangladesh as they are also Bengali speaking people," says Sudhakar, a resident.

Residents further complain that these guards are mostly recruited from amongst the migrants. There is no security check up at the gates and also that the number of guards provided to them is very less. "We applied to the Unitech to give us 150 security guards to look after South City II but, we were given only 60 personnel," says SN Bharadwaj, a resident. Speaking to GP, SHO Sadar Thana, Ramesh Chandra says, "Police is regularly keeping a tab on the migrant population and we are also doing servant verification in a routine manner."

Rahul Gandhi Appeases Mewat Muslims

2009-05-04T19:47:00.010+05:30

Hindustan Times

Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi on Friday played the vote bank card in Mewat and promised education, healthcare and jobs to all the Muslims residents(including fresh hindus converted to Isam) of this underdeveloped backyard of Millennium City, Gurgaon.

Rahul gandhi was addressing a rally to garner support for Congress candidate Rao Inderjit Singh, who is up against Meo leader and BSP candidate Zakir Hussein in Gurgaon parliamentary constituency.

Post-delimitation, in Gurgaon, Meo Muslims have emerged the largest Vote Bank (23 per cent), followed by Yadavs (20 per cent).

Gandhi said his party was pro-farmers (pro-Muslims) and ridiculed the Bharatiya Janata Party's India Shining slogan of the 2004 general elections, saying only a few homes in select cities like Delhi were “shining” at that time.

“The NDA tossed the India Shining slogan in English. Its leaders never went to the houses of farmers. On the contrary, we worked for the welfare of farmers and waived off loans of Rs 70,000 crore. The Congress knows that the real India lives in villages.”

“We will implement the recommendations of Sachar Committee (that studied the socio-economic educational status of Muslims in India) and give employment. We will set up a medical college and create employment opportunities,” he promised the voters of Mewat.

“These elections are for the formation of the government at the Centre. You must all support the Congress or else BJP’s Advaniji will emerge stronger.”

Gurgaon residents fall victim to Bangladeshi Muslim invaders

2009-05-03T09:36:00.004+05:30

Gurgaon, 5.5.09:

Most Gurgaonites are Sikhs and Hindus but there are also a growing number of illegal Bangladeshi Muslim aliens. The recent spurt in the number of murders and robberies committed by illegal Bangladeshi Muslim aliens in Sector 4 of Gurgaon have left the residents in a tizzy. What is more disturbing is the fact that in most cases, the Bangladeshi criminals seemed to have entered easily and decamped easily with the loot.

There is no proper fence around the sector and with the unauthorised colonies (where these invading Bangladeshi Muslim hordes have occupied large tracts of land in Gurgaon) located at the boundaries, crime seems to have accelerated. "Even the fences at the dividing road of Sector 4 and 7 have been removed by the HUDA authorities. HUDA also removed the fence in between Lakshman Vihar and Sector 4. Now it is very easy for these [Bangladeshi Muslim criminals] to trespass into our colony at any time," describes Dharam Sagar, chairman, Federation of RWA. He further alleges that there aren’t sufficient police personnel to patrol the area even though a police outpost is located nearby. "Several times we have passed a memorandum to the commissioner of police to take a stock of the situation here. But, when we approach the police station they say that they do not have adequate staff," alleges Dharma Sagar. The residents want to increase patrolling in their area. "As many as eight houses have been ransacked in January alone this year," informs KL Chawla, vice president RWA Sector 4.

The area residents allege, demolition of the fence near Dhanwapur by the Horticulture Department has made it easy for these Bangladeshi criminals to trespass the colony. When asked why the fencing has been removed, Horticulture Department HUDA, executive engineer Jasbir Singh Millu said, "We had put fences to protect the trees. Now that the trees have grown, there is no need for the fencing. If HUDA funds us for the same, we have no objections in putting them up."Perhaps now it is up to HUDA officials and police to take care of the situation. When GP approached the area SHO of Sector 5, she refused to comment. However ACP Crime, Sunhera Singh, promised, "I would definitely look into the matter and instruct the police officials to increase the vigilance." Until that happens, don’t hold your breath but it is obvious that every Gurgaon resident must be on guard.

Another resident spoke bitterly, “In the prestigious and up-market DLF area, local villagers have hired out their land to illegal Bangladeshi immigrants who line the roads in DLF3 like swarms of houseflies on a dump of garbage. This is turning into a living hell. The illegal aliens (Bangladeshis) would soon outnumber Indian citizens in Gurgaon.”

In Gurgaon, interestingly most of the house maids (domestic workers), rickshaw-wallahs and labourers in the new constructions are illegal Muslim migrants from Bangladesh. The extent of the illegal aliens can be seen from the fact that every maid/, rickshaw puller and labourer here speaks the Sylheti language or Chittagong language, both of which are native to Bangladesh, not India. However, if you ask them, these aliens simply lie that they are from West Bengal because most Gurgaon residents cannot tell the difference in the Bengali dialect.

Many of these Bangladeshi Muslims are being employed as maid-servants by the wealthy expatriates and busy professionals because they ask for lesser wages than local Hindus. Since these Bangladeshis look similar to Bengali Hindus (they wear fake bindis and pretends to be Bengali Hindus), it is very hard to find out if they are Indians. Their modus operandi is simple: First, they patiently work in the houses and observe where the money, jewelry and expensive gadgets are kept. After gaining the trust of their employers, these Bangladeshi maid-servants conspire with their husbands and male relatives to rob the same house. When the employers are sleeping or away from home, these Bangladeshi maid-servants let their men-folk sneak into the house who then tie up the unsuspecting residents (including children, elders) and slit their throats in cold blood (to remove any witnesses) before looting all the money, jewelry and expensive gadgets.

With a host of Bangladeshi illegal immigrants living opposite Block D of South City II, residents are losing their peace of mind. There are more than 3,000 occupied houses here in the colony and attempts to verify each person is proving to be a huge responsibility.

RWA is making collective efforts along with the residents to verify names and address of their servants. But, in many cases, Bangladeshi servants just say that they are from Midnapore or Malda or Murshidabad District in West Bengal. “People simply remain satisfied getting that much information. However, in the wake of any serious crime, how much could be found out on the basis of knowing that a particular person is from Midnapore. Residents should ideally be taking all the details of the address. But, ironically most of the residents are not following those norms and inviting risk,” shares VK Srivastava, president, Sohna Road Federation of RWA, adding, "We have been approaching district administration to remove these jhuggis from here, but they are not complying with our request.”

Residents also complain that there is a mafia gang operating in that area. "There are people from the interior areas of Bengal. Even if they come in through the Indo-Bangladesh border, there is nobody to check them. Nobody can even find out the real identity of migrants whether they are from Bengal or Bangladesh as they are also Bengali speaking people," says Sudhakar, a resident.

Residents further complain that these guards are mostly recruited from amongst the illegal Bangladeshi Muslim immigrants, making it easier . There is no security check up at the gates and also that the number of guards provided to them is very less. "We applied to the Unitech to give us 150 security guards to look after South City II but, we were given only 60 personnel," says SN Bharadwaj, a resident. Speaking to GP, SHO Sadar Thana, Ramesh Chandra says, "Police is regularly keeping a tab on the immigrant population and we are also doing servant verification in a routine manner."

There is only so much the police can do. The murders and robberies continue unabated because of the stupidity and greed of Gurgaon residents who throw all caution to the winds and try to save a few bucks by hiring illegal Bangladeshi immigrants instead of local, trustworthy Hindu/Sikh maid-servants.

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/no-breakthrough-yet-police-probe-the-role-of-bangladesh-nationals/367233/0

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No breakthrough yet, police probe the role of Bangladesh nationals in Bomb blasts

New Delhi, September 28: A day after the blast in Mehrauli’s Sarai market, the Delhi Police are yet to find any specific clues about perpetrators. A child has died and twenty-two have been injured.

Officers of the South District Police said they have registered an FIR and are probing the role of some Bangladeshis, who could be behind the blasts.

Already, around 50 Bangladeshis have been interrogated and 15 detained. The police are probing the role of the two — Yessin Muhammad and Muhammed Majruddin — who were arrested from Jalpaiguri this July and are currently in Tihar Jail. Mobile phone records of some Bangladeshi nationals and other criminals are also being checked.

Suspicion of the involvement of Bangladeshis cropped up in view of the earlier blasts in South Delhi. The blast is the ninth there, for which no terrorist outfit has laid claims. Even though they had not caused much damage, the blasts in Hauz Khas, Malviya Nagar, IIT and Lado Sarai were executed in the same manner.

The explosive materials used in the low-intensity chemical-based bombs were quite similar and nails were used in earlier bombs too.

“Last month, a Bangladeshi was arrested for making the type of bombs which was used yesterday and later six crude bombs were recovered from Jalpaiguri on his tip-off. A team has been sent there for further clues,” a senior officer said. Asked about the involvement of Bangladesh nationals, Joint Commissioner of Police, (Southern Range), Ajay Kashyap said, “I would not be able to comment on that front at present. We are investigating the case from every possible angle.” Police sources said Delhi Police teams were sent to West Bengal’s Jalpaiguri and Meerut in Uttar Pradesh after receiving some information in connection with the Mehrauli blast.

Sketches of the two men travelling on the bike are being prepared based on three eyewitness accounts. Police are probing the role of one Mohammad Ansar, who was allegedly residing in Delhi till sometime back.

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BIGGER PROBLEMS in NCR

Former joint director of Intelligence Bureau (IB) MK Dhar informed that the problem of illegal Bangladeshi immigrants is not exclusive to Rajasthan as the National Capital Region (NCR) is also equally affected by it. “Cities in NCR region like New Delhi, Gurgaon and NOIDA also have a huge Bangladeshi population. In Delhi and Gurgaon they are involved in all kind of menial jobs like housemaids, rickshaw pullers and daily wagers,” said Dhar.

It must be recalled here that the investigations into Samjhauta Express blasts proved that the bombs were planted right in the station yard in Old Delhi Railway Station. “Old Delhi has a huge population of illegal Bangladeshis and the station itself is said a big target for terrorists,” said Dhar.

Sources in Jaipur police further informed that the terrorists behind the dastardly blasts in 2008, in which more than 65 people were killed, must have been living in the city for a long time identifying potential targets. “It was a well planned operation by the terrorists. It is not possible to plan such an event without some local help,” said a cop from Special Operations Group, Rajasthan police. A Rajasthan Home Ministry official to comment upon the exact number of illegal immigrants in Jaipur but guessed that the number to be not less than 50,000. Pink city Jaipur is not the only city marred by the problem in the desert state.

“Besides Jaipur, Sriganganagar, Alwar, Ajmer, Kota and Udaipur are equally affected by influx of illegal Bangladeshi migrants.

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Bangladeshis' gang smashed in Faridabad

Staff Reporter

Several cases of robbery, burglary and a murder solved

NEW DELHI: A gang of illegal Bangladeshi migrants allegedly involved in several cases of robbery, burglary and also a murder in Faridabad and South Delhi has been smashed by the Special Staff of the South Delhi police.

According to the police, the Special Staff had arrested the wife and two sons of Mohammad Haleem, an illegal Bangladeshi migrant who was operating as a "manpower agent" for Bangladeshi criminals, in May and recovered robbed jewellery and cash worth Rs. 2 lakhs from them. However, Haleem had escaped to Bangladesh. The police kept a watch on the movements of his associates and came to know that Haleem had returned to the Capital along with another "manpower agent" Rustam.

A Special Staff, led by Inspector Rajender Singh, laid a trap near Sainik Farms on Wednesday and arrested Haleem, Rustam and three others, Mohammad Kabeer, Mohammad Muneer and Farukh Sheikh. Arms and ammunitions were recovered from them.

The police said the gang was involved in several cases of robbery and burglary, reported from various places in Faridabad, and a murder reported from Sainik Farm in South Delhi. When a Faridabad police team had gone to Ambedkar Nagar in South Delhi to arrest Haleem in connection with the incidents, they were attacked and forced to retreat by his sympathisers.

After committing burglaries or robberies in more than a couple of houses in one stretch, the gang members would disperse to places like Panipat, Loni and Gurgaon. Subsequently, they would escape to Bangladesh with the help of manpower agents like Haleem and Rustam.

The police said after Haleem's escape to Bangladesh, Rustam gathered members of his gang and began committing crime. During the last fortnight, members of the Rustam gangcarried out many burglaries in Faridabad. Farukh, a rich Kolkata based scrap dealer, has developed a base in Madanpur Khadar, South Delhi, and was allegedly involved in helping the criminals with logistics, the police said.

The police said illegal Bangladeshi migrants have been indulging in many criminal activities in various areas of the Capital and neighbouring districts of Haryana. They come from Bangladesh, rent an accommodation, commit crimes at high frequency and then escape to Bangladesh. In many cases, they were able to cross over to Bangladesh by the time the incident was reported.

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http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/uncategorized/four-bangladeshis-held-for-robbery_10094496.html

Four Bangladeshis held for robbery in Gurgaon

September 10th, 2008

New Delhi, Sep 10 (IANS) Four Bangladeshis, who gagged and robbed a retired deputy inspector general (DIG) of police in Gurgaon and a legislator’s family in a neighbouring town last month, have been arrested here when they were planning to strike in the national capital, police said Wednesday.The four - identified as Mohammed Abbas, 27, Allauddin, 25, Nazrul, 26, and Zakir Hussain, 40 - were arrested from a public park in Shahdara of northeast Delhi while they were planning to rob a house in nearby West Jyoti Nagar, police said. Their two accomplices managed to give the slip to a raiding police party.

The police said the gang was involved in seven cases of murder, dacoity and burglary. Two country-made pistols, two live cartridges, one knife, one iron rod, two mobile phones, three Titan wrist watches and Rs.36,000 in cash were recovered from them.

“The accused in their interrogation revealed that they have committed a series of dacoities and burglaries in Delhi and its satellite towns of Gurgaon and Faridabad at gun point and knife point,” said Deputy Commissioner of Police (Northeast Delhi) Jaspal Singh.

The police said last month the robbers entered the Phase III home of R.K. Kharbanda, retired DIG of the Railway Protection Force (RPF), in the early hours, and beat up his wife and granddaughter before fleeing with cash, jewellery and mobile phones.

The gang also robbed Faridabad legislator Mahender Pratap Singh’s home after breaking the locks and tying up the inmates of the house.

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Letter from a concerned Gurgaon resident

Gurgaon Administration Must Identify Trouble-Makers Amongst Large Bangladeshi Populations In Gurgaon

Dear Sir,

I would like to draw your attention towards the increasing population around from Bangladesh.

I have seen them around South City, Gurgaon. I have seen them getting voter ID's while I was in queue for the same. They work at homes and tell any district from West Bengal. Some of the local people also help them as they get cheap housemaids and cooks.
I don't know what administration is doing about it. Some of such people have been reported to be involved in lawless activities in the past therefore I earnestly request administration to take immediate steps to look into the matter of how to identify the trouble-makers amongst them.

Kiran

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With Gurgaon’s rich shying away from poll, parties woo rural voters

April 25th, 2009

By Khalid Akhter & Ritu Sharma

Gurgaon, April 25 (IANS) With all parties agreeing that residents of the high-rise apartment complexes and sprawling villas that characterize new Gurgaon seldom vote though they are often vocal about the country’s ills, candidates in the Lok Sabha poll from here are busy wooing voters elsewhere.

“The percentage of voters in posh societies is very low as the people in the societies are very indifferent and most of them do not even have voter id cards,” Tilak Raj Malhotra, in charge of the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) campaign in the Gurgaon assembly segment, told IANS. “Our main agenda is to provide sewers, roads and drinking water to the residents of Old Gurgaon. You cannot even imagine, but there is not a single traffic light in the whole of Old Gurgaon,” Malhotra said.

The area now called Old Gurgaon predates the high-rise apartments, office blocks and shopping malls adjacent to the national capital that have put this Haryana town on the global map. The poll issues in Old Gurgaon are more typical of small town India.

After delimitation, urban voters form a small percentage in this constituency. Now it takes in those villages of southern Haryana’s impoverished Mewat region which were earlier part of the Mahendragarh parliamentary constituency. That has changed not only poll equations but poll issues too.

BJP candidate Sudha Yadav is busy touring these villages. The two national parties - the Congress and the BJP - have been forced to go all out in their efforts to show concern for Old Gurgaon and Mewat as the Bahujan Samaj Party’s candidate Zakir Hussain threatens to grab a major chunk of Muslim and Dalit votes.

Now Muslims constitute 32 percent of the 1.2 million voters in this constituency, while Dalits are 29 percent.

The incumbent Congress has been trying to showcase its opening of a Sainik School in the area and sanctioning land for setting up a National Defence College. Sitting MP and Congress candidate Rao Inderjit Singh is minister of state for defence production.

“We have held a recruitment rally for the army in the Mewat region. And soon the area will be linked through a rail line, which is the Congress party’s initiative,” District Congress Committee (Urban Gurgaon) president Madan Lal Grover said.

The planned Rewari-Bhiwadi-Palwal railway line will pass through Mewat and near its district headquarters, Nuh, if and when it is constructed.
Laying emphasis on its agenda for the region, the BJP’s Malhotra added: “The literacy rate in the Mewat region is very poor and you can forget about women’s education. But with our candidate a woman academician, we are raring to bring education within reach of everybody in Mewat.”
BSP candidate Zakir Hussain is the son of Tayyeb Hussain, who had the rare distinction of being a minister in Punjab before Haryana was carved out of it, then in Haryana and then in Rajasthan too.

Political observers here believe Zakir Hussain may grab a major chunk of Muslim votes as his family has a very strong base in Mewat, a Muslim-majority area.

“The main issues that I will be taking up in these elections will be the discrimination that has been done with the Mewat region. Despite being so close to Delhi and next to Gurgaon it lacks even the basic necessities of life like roads and drinking water facilities. We do not have rail connectivity, no good academic institutions have been set up in the region,” Hussain told IANS.

“I am going door-to-door with my agenda of development for the region and the policies of our party supremo Mayawati,” said Hussain, twice a legislator from this area.

Hussain has opened his election office in Mewat, largely ignoring urban pockets in the constituency.

In the absence of a political wave, issues like power in the city and water for irrigation in agriculture-dependent Mewat are the debating points in the campaign. Observers say this Lok Sabha election is turning out to be a referendum on the performance of the Haryana government.

(Khalid Akhter & Ritu Sharma can be contacted at khalid.a@ians.in & ritu.s@ians.in)

http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/politics/with-gurgaons-rich-shying-away-from-poll-parties-woo-rural-voters_100184453.html

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Drive against Bangladeshis on in Haryana

Express News Service

Posted: May 26, 2008

Chandigarh, May 25 After the Rajasthan government’s drive against illegal Bangladeshis in the state in the wake of Jaipur blasts, Haryana has also issued directives to identify Bangladeshi nationals. Haryana Additional Director General of Police V.B. Singh said directions have been issued to police chiefs of the districts to identify Bangladeshi nationals following suspected involvement of Bangladesh-based militant group HuJI in the Jaipur blasts.

Singh said Haryana would strengthen the police force in National Capital Region (NCR) to check the intrusion of anti-social elements in the state. He said special security measures had been taken in Gurgaon area as it adjoins Delhi and additional police force had been deployed there to check crime. Fifty cameras would be installed on various roads there to keep a close watch on criminals activities, he added.

The ADGP said 15 new police stations had been set up in Gurgaon and digital trunk system was introduced there for exchanging information among police personnel. Replying to a question, he said the state police had taken steps to bring down road accidents on national and state highways. There was a proposal to set up police first aid posts on national highways at a distance of every 20 km where the services of pharmacists would be available round-the-clock, he said.

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Police in a fix over Bangladeshi terrorists in NCR

By Devesh K. Pandey

NEW DELHI, JUNE 29. Even as the Delhi Police Commissioner, K.K. Paul, has directed his men to step up deportation of illegal Bangladeshi migrants, their identification has become a daunting task for the authorities here in the Capital. What the police fear most is that such elements could be exploited by terrorist organisations in carrying out their operations.

The recent arrest of an alleged spy, Kamran, from Malviya Nagar following the arrest of his Bangladeshi accomplice at Seerampur in West Bengal for being a part of Pakistani intelligence-sponsored espionage ring active in developing inputs on the movement of the Indian Army's Eastern Command, has once again revealed the increasing involvement of Bangladeshi nationals in subversive activities.

During interrogation, Kamran is alleged to have revealed that after being trained in espionage operations in Pakistan, he crossed over through the porous Indo-Bangladesh border with the help of Bangladeshi sympathisers.

It is now well established that a large number of Bangladeshi nationals have infiltrated into India and settled in various parts of the country over the past two decades, claiming to be residents of West Bengal and Bihar.

A common modus operandi they follow is to cross over to West Bengal, settle in some non-descript villages for some time to get used to their culture and language and then move to other States, including Delhi, impersonating as original residents of those villages, to avoid detection and deportation.

Of these, over two lakh Bangladeshis are believed to be in the Capital and neighbouring areas doing menial jobs. Several of them take to crime and the Delhi police have been able to compile the profile of 460 such people. Over the past decade, only about 16,000 Bangladeshi nationals have been deported from Delhi, whereas about 3,000 have been deported this year.

Last year, 5,760 Bangladeshis were deported. "But they keep coming back," said a police officer.

While their indulgence in anti-social activities is a genuine cause for concern, the police
here also fear that most of the Bangladeshis are vulnerable to exploitation by terrorists.

A senior police officer said: "We must remember that they are outsiders and do not have any emotional attachment with this country. They, mostly youngsters, can be easily motivated to indulge in subversive activities primarily for monetary benefits."
The Deputy Commissioner of Police (Special Cell), Ashok Chand, said the terrorist outfits have earlier used Bangladeshis to carry out their operations and they can do so in future too.

Many of these illegal immigrants residing here in jhuggi clusters like Yamuna Pushta have even obtained ration cards and other papers to prove that they were Indian citizens.
Interestingly, after a recent drive launched by the Government for rehabilitation of jhuggi dwellers, most Bangladeshi nationals possessing documents certifying them as Indian nationals are suspected to have got plots registered in their names.

They are now "bona fide" citizens of the country and have the "right" for their share in its resources.

A few months ago, another trend was noticed. Scores of Bangladeshi immigrants who had shifted from Delhi to the neighbouring places like Ghaziabad, Rampur, Gurgaon and Sonepat fearing police action, began moving to Jammu and Kashmir to work as casual labourers in vegetable markets and orchards. Several of them came in contact with militant outfits and allegedly started working for them as carriers and messengers.
This apart, over 200 people trying to enter Pakistan through the Valley have been arrested from the border areas in the recent past. Some have also been killed in encounters with the Army and the para-military forces.

In the midst of all this, latest inputs have revealed that Chhota Shakeel, brother of Pakistan-based don Dawood Ibrahim, hitherto operating from the middle-east countries, has started setting up his base in Bangladesh.

http://www.hinduonnet.com/2004/06/30/stories/2004063009010400.htm

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Bangladeshis held for robberies in DLF Gurgaon

By Our Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI, MARCH 3. A gang of alleged Bangladeshi migrants, said to be involved in recent incidents of robbery reported from DLF Gurgaon and North-West Delhi, has been busted in a joint operation of the South Delhi, South-West Delhi and Gurgaon police. Six persons, including a woman, have been arrested in this connection and a huge amount of cash, jewellery, other robbed items and weapons -- including a hand grenade -- have been recovered from them.

During the last week of February, a spate of robberies had shocked the residents of DLF Gurgaon and also North-West Delhi. The Special Staff of the South Delhi police, led by Inspector Rajender Singh, the South-West Delhi police team, comprising sub-inspectors Rajkumar and Ravinder Tyagi, and the Gurgaon police, led by Inspector Hari Kishan, coordinated their efforts to identify and arrest the culprits.

The first two arrests in this connection were made by the South Delhi police. Abdul Rahim (27) and Nijam (35) were arrested and robbed jewellery worth over Rs. 2 lakhs were received.

Three more, Sagir alias Sagar, Javed and Imran, were arrested by the South-West Delhi police following a brief exchange of fire this morning. The police have recovered a hand grenade, a Chinese pistol, two country-made revolvers and live cartridges from them.
At their instance, the police arrested Noor Jehan alias Reena from her hideout at Kishangarh in South-West Delhi. The police recovered Rs. 1.6 lakhs in cash, diamond and gold jewellery worth several lakhs, 10 imported gold watches, digital cameras and four mobile phones from her.

During interrogation, the accused allegedly confessed to having been involved in the robberies which took place in Gurgaon and also the one in Shalimar Bagh, North-West Delhi, on February 28. The robbers had escaped with cash and jewellery worth Rs. 7 lakhs after injuring the only woman present in the house in the incident.

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Bangladeshi nationals held in Gurgaon

Thursday, July 24 2008

Chandigarh, Jul 24 (UNI) The Haryana Police has arrested three Bangladeshi nationals in Gurgoan district under its special campaign to nab Bangladeshis living illegally in the state.

The three Bangladeshi nationals arrested by the Police were identified as Zakir Hussain, Rabbani and Ayub, a police spokesman said today.

Besides, 137 proclaimed offenders were arrested in Kaithal district under the police drive to nab anti-social elements in the state.

Police also arrested ten Bangladeshi nationals in Sonepat district recently.

http://news.oneindia.in/2008/07/24/3-bangladeshi-nationals-held-in-gurgaon-1216915336.html

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17 Bangladeshis arrested near Delhi

Gurgaon (Haryana)

January 11, 2007 9:15:06 PM IST

Seventeen Bangladeshis have been arrested for illegally staying in Gurgaon, the technology and outsourcing hub bordering the Indian capital.

The Bangladeshis, including children, were taken into custody following a special drive to check illegal immigrants in the national capital region, police said. They were booked for violating the Foreigners Act.

All of them were living in Mohammedpur village in the district.

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Guess if it's India or Pakistan

2008-09-25T08:48:00.001+05:30

The Future of Haryana is Beginning to Look More and More Like Pakistan

2008-09-24T04:11:00.005+05:30

Did you know?

A separate Muslim majority district (Mewat) was carved out quietly by the Haryana Government in 2005
Mewat is the birthplace of the fearsome organization "Tabligh-e-Jamaat", whose goal is to Islamize all of Haryana (and India)
Muslim families in Haryana have atleast 9 children. It is quite common for Muslim households to have 12-15 children. One Muslim couple have 23 kids, are open to having the 24th kid.
Hindus are being converted to Islam in Haryana's villages
Madrasahs, Arabic and Urdu remain the basis of education in Mewat.

If I am not mistaken, I remember reading in "India Today" magazine about Mewat region of Haryana during the December 1992 riots, when Muslim mobs (led by the local Congress MLA Tayyab Hussain) attacked Hindus in Nuh town, with Hindu Mandirs being burnt down and Gaushala cows being slaughtered on the roads.

Bomb targets crowded Hindu temple in Faridabad, defused by Haryanvi civilian

2008-09-23T09:21:00.009+05:30

A live bomb was found in the Faridabad district of Fariadabad early on Monday morning.

The bomb discovered by civilians was found outside the crowded Banke Bihari temple in the city.

Even though the Bomb Disposal Squad was rushed to the spot, interestingly it was a civilian infact who actually defused the bomb.

Police have not yet been able to ascertain as to who placed the bomb outside the temple and if it was part of a strategy to terror target the untouched state of Haryana.

Mewat

2008-09-22T04:27:00.003+05:30

Mewat is a newly created district from Gurgaon. 4th April 2005 marked the newly created Mewat District in Haryana. Bounded by Gurgaon on North, Rewari on West and Faridabad on East. Mewat is basically land of the Meo Muslims, who are basically agriculturalists.

Mewat's population has a large share of Muslims. The Muslim residents are known as "Mev" or "Meo" but the Hindus in Mewat are not called "Meo". Thus the word "Meo" is both region-specific and religion-specific. The Muslims living in adjacent Alwar and Bharatpur districts of Rajasthan are also known as "Meo". They are Hindu farmers converted from Hinduism to Islam in 15th century. Some of them were reconverted to Hinduism by Arya Samaj just after independence.

Don't have son? Buy a new 'Hindu' wife

2008-09-09T08:48:00.015+05:30

Nearly a month after the police busted a human trafficking racket in Hathin block of Faridabad district, the trade in sale of Hindu Girls continues unabated in this region of the state. It is back to business in Mewat, which has acquired notoriety as one of the biggest markets of Hindu Girls from Assam, Bihar, West Bengal and Jammu and Kashmir. In a land where a sheep costs Rs 1,000 and a cow almost Rs 14,000, a girl is available for anything between Rs 2,000 and Rs 10,000. The price depends on the physical condition of the girl and the paying capacity of the buyer. Since girls from Jammu and Kashmir have fair complexion, they are sold off for Rs 8,000 to Rs 10,000, to rich men, especially widowers, to physically challenged persons, or those who are unable to have a male child from their first wives. The "dark-complexion" girls from Assam, Bihar and West Bengal are meant for "sale" to landless and poor customers.

New girls are brought every month from the states mentioned above and are sold off in a radius of about 80 km around the Capital. The region's infamy in this trade also attracts "customers" from nearby states of Uttaranchal, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan. Local residents feel that with the landless and poor in this area not being able to get brides from within the community, they are left with no option but to "buy" women.

"The state should not interfere in such personal matters," said Farid, a 27-year-old resident of Akeera village in Gurgaon district, when asked about the legality of his marriage. He bought a 30-year-old woman, which he converted to Islam, for Rs 5,000 two months ago. The woman was brought here by her sister, Abida, after their father died at their home in Ranike, West Bengal. The girls can be from any hindu community, but they acquire their husbands' religion (Islam) after marriage. Most girls brought from West Bengal and Bihar which are Hindus, but if sold off to a Meo Muslim, they are converted to Islam. In almost every village of the region, one can come across many such cases.

The trade has been going on for the past several years and now the first generation of these women, who have maintained relations back home, act as conduits for getting new girls. In every fourth village, one can find a tout, whose business is to get these hindu women — generally referred to as 'Paaro' — every two months and then sell them off. Mehboob, a resident of Chaiyyansan village of Hathin block in Faridabad, has been in the trade for the past 20 years. A landless labourer, he had bought a widow from Baripada district in Assam for Rs 500 and married her almost 22 years ago. This marriage opened new "business vistas" for him and twice a year, he goes to Assam with his wife and get new hindu girls from there. On August 14, he got 13-year-old hindu girl from Hazifara village in Baripada district of Assam. He is now waiting for a customer. "If I don't get a good price, I think I will keep her for my son, Saidul," he says. In the same village, 16-year-old Shivani (Changed to Shabeena after convertinf her to Islam) was bought last month by Shahida Begum for her 25-year-old brother Hanif.

What is astonishing is the way these hindu women are sold off. Once the touts get the girls, word is spread among prospective customers from nearby areas. The "customers" are shown the girl and they give their rates. Within three to four days of this "showing off " of the girls, they are sold to the highest bidder.

A recent trend in this trade is the men from this region themselves going to West Bengal and Assam to fetch the girls for themselves. "This way we can save the money that has to be given to the touts and a hindu girl is available for just Rs 1,500 to Rs 2,000," informs Basruddin of Nagina village in Gurgaon district. In village Malab Nuh of Gurgaon district, this correspondent came across two girls, 13-year-old (Sarita) and 17-year-old (Asha) hindu girls, who had been sold off to 40-year-old Hassan and his 20-year-old mentally deranged nephew, Asru respectively, on August 22. The girls, both from Bildang in West Bengal, were bought for Rs 3,000 each. The family says that since Asha was not very good looking, she was bought for Asru, while Sarita was bought for Hassan, whose first wife had deserted him. These 'bought hindu brides' suffers so much pain and agony as they are converted to Islam.

40 Hindus 'Converted' to Islam in Mewat (Haryana)

2008-09-08T10:36:00.012+05:30

Two Hindu families, consisting of 40 members were converted to Islam last month in two villages of Mewat - Beersika and Tarrakpur in Nuh tehsil. Both are Muslim-dominated villages. Unlike other recent publicised events of conversion of Hindus to Christianity and Buddhism, the Mewat conversions took place in total secrecy. Even the villagers did not know until it was all over.

These families were living the life of no less than hell in their own village. They were banned in taking part in public gatherings. Hindu women were not allowed to use the same water source which all the Muslim women were using. Muslim Imams were threatening and torturing them to accept Islam.

Finally they succeeded in converting them to Islam. They were taken to Delhi's Jama Masjid and converted to Islam at the hands of the influential Shahi Imam Ahmad Bukhari who issued them conversion certificates.

The Hindustan Times of August 24 broke the story of their conversion only partially. It spoke only of one village, Tarrakpur and quoted a VHP and BJP local unit ultimatum which announced: "We have decided to give two days to the district administration to rescue the converted Hindu families from Muslim villages. Otherwise we will have to enter these villages," Attar Singh Bhagat, chief of the local BJP unit was quoted as saying.

The language was serious enough to alarm us. Before we could think of where to turn, we received an SOS email from "People of Mewat" which read as follows:"In Nuh subdivision villages of Beersika and Tarrakpur, 40 Hindus have been forcibly converted to Islam in the presence of Shahi Imam Ahmad Bukhari in Delhi. They are living in their villages as Muslims and the Haryana Government (Congress) is doing nothing to help them and Stop this conversions. Din Mohammad, Sarpanch of Beersika has openly said that he will continue converting Hindus to Islam until the Islamic goal of 'Mughalistan' is fulfilled.The Hindu people of Mewat are very much annoyed by these comments and living in fear. People of Mewat are preparing to make representation to the Administrative authorities as they are afraid of the dangerous attitude of the local Muslims there.

The situation was serious and the least we could do was to cover it ourselves so that the community and the country at large were made aware of the trials and tribulations of oppressed people. We replied to the email and soon came in contact with Chaudhry Wali Mohammad, an important personality and lawyer of Mewat and his lawyer son Tahir Husain.

Chaudhry is a well-known lawyer of Mewat and practices at Gurgaon which is now a suburb of Delhi while his son practices at the civil court in Nuh. Both are proud Meos and committed Muslims. They are the main people in legalising the whole conversion process. They even threaten the local government people by the name of Minorities Comission. Hence the police officials are also afraid to take action and stop this conversion. Through the dusty lanes of the impoverished town of Nuh we were led to the house of Tahir Husain, Advocate where his father Chauhdhry Wali Muhammad was waiting for us.

Accompanied by Wali Muhammad and his advocate son we proceeded to Beersika village. Situated off metalled road at a distance of around ten kms from Nuh, it is an abode of around 2000 people with two Hindu families. The third, Prabhu's, is now Muslim. We had to leave our car at the village entrance and walk through the muddy lanes of the village to the modest mud courtyard of Prabhu (now Sohrab).

An old man of 80, Sohrab was alone. The rest of his family had gone to another village for dawat, or feast, which is a special lunch or dinner to celebrate something. Almost every day these people are invited to some dawat in the nearby villages. The whole village seemed to have stormed us and we were led to a baithak, an area to receive guests and important visitors. Soon Sohrab arrived with a sad face and toting conversion certificates issued by Imam Bukhari.

"Was there any immediate reason for your family's conversion to Islam?" I asked Sohrab. He replied, "No. We were fighting for the last 20 years to stay Hindu. We were not allowed by the Muslims to pray to any Bhagwan's murti (sacred icon) all these years. They destroyed the last village temple recently. Still we used to do Puja secretly inside our home. We were shabbily treated by the Muslim majority here. We could not sit with them or fetch water from their wells. We, were in fact living like vermin of gutters. Living in this very house was painful. No help was forthcoming from Hindus in the neighbouring villages. It was about six months back when we finally gave up and become Muslims. It is very hard and painful for us to have given up the faith of our ancestors.", he lamented.

Village headman (sarpanch) Shahabuddin chips in. "The authorities are pressuring me to bring these people to them to record their statements but I will not allow it to happen. We would like to do more and convert each and every Hindu into Islam, but due to the officials' pressure, we are proceeding carefully", says Shahabuddin.

Former village headman, Deen Mohammad, is more forthcoming. He has been trying for years to convert Hindus into Islam but he finds the attitude of most of the Hindus unrelenting. But Deen Mohammad is adamant not to let any Hindu worship his/her chosen Vedic Deity. They are also planning to build as many mosques as possible and in some cases to demolish the temple to build a mosque.

On our way back, we come across a tractor with a trolley-full of people, mostly women. Villagers accompanying us recognised them. "These are the family members of Sohrab who had gone for dawat", they tell us. They had stopped at the entrance of the village when people told them that some strangers have come to see them. They thought we were government people and trying to help them. So we asked them what kind of dawat they went to. One of them told us that it was no dawat, but Muslims are ferrying them from one places to another so that no government official can meet them and rescue them.

Sohrab's son Hakeemuddin (previously Omkar) approaches us in confidence. He is a 50-year-old man in good health and full of youthful determination. He told us that he is ready and willing to go back to the Hindu religion, but afraid the life of his family members. Hakeemuddin says. "We are ready to face the consequences to any extent but we want to go back to Hinduism but we need help from officials".

As we talk, Hakeemuddin's 70-year old mother Sajeda (previously Bharpani) approaches us. She was among the women sitting in the trolley. "I have been secretly performing Puja for the last ten years in fear of Muslim mullahs.My last wish is to die as a Hindu," Sajda says.

Other male members of the family have been sent to the Tablighi Jamaat center where they are being forced to learn the Islamic ways and forget the Hindu customs. There is a similar family in the nearby Tarrakpur village. They are related to the Beersika family and their story and determination to go back to the Hindu religion is every bit identical.

Cow Slaughter

2008-09-07T08:34:00.008+05:30

It is a daily activity in Mewat to slaughter cows. That is why the general secretary of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP), Mr Parveen Togadia, has lashed out at the Haryana government, and alleged that it had failed to curb cow slaughter in Mewat region of the state. Speaking to media persons on the premises of Shree Ram Krishan Sadhna Kendra at Murthal, about 8 km from here, he said that West Bengal led in cases of cow slaughtering and the Mewat region in Haryana came second. He regretted that both the West Bengal and Haryana governments remained silent and refused to impose a complete ban on cow slaughter and ignored the demand made by the Hindu organisations.

He alleged that a number of cows are being slaughtered on the Muslim festivals. Even beef is served at the Iftar parties which, he said, has become an eyesore for the Hindus. The VHPleader criticised the Congress government for appeasing the Muslim community to get political gains. He said the state government (Congress) paid more attention to launch development schemes in the Mewat region at the cost of other regions of the state. He claimed that at least seven mosques had been built after demolishing the temples in different parts of Haryana and the state government (unfortunately which is also congress) has not taken any action to restore the land of the temples to the Hindus.

He warned that if the state government failed to hand over the possession of such lands to the Hindus, the VHP would be forced to launch a statewide agitation. It would also knock the doors of the court for seeking excavation of these sites to prove its claim.

Tension Grips Mewat Village Over `Cow Slaughter'

2008-09-02T10:20:00.009+05:30

Tension built up leading to a bandh today in Rajasthan's Mewat village after beating of a Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) worker by a group of Mev (Muslims of Mewat) community people over an issue of cow slaughter yesterday, a senior police official said here. The situation got tense when the RSS worker Braham Deo Shashtri objected to a muslim community person taking cattle for slaughtering at Jurerah village in Bharatpur district, the official said, adding, the cattle were to be taken to Haryana on a regular basis. Later Shashtri was manhandled at his residence yesterday by the people of the muslim community, he said.

Protesting against the incident and demanding arrest of culprits, about 250 VHP and Bajrang Dal workers headed by former BJP Minister Sampat Singh held a dharna and gave a bandh call, which the official said, went off peacefully. The law and order situation was under control and the additional police force was deployed as a precautionary measure, he said. Eight persons were today arrested who allegedly attacked the RSS workers and were named in the FIR, he added.

Meanwhile, in Lucknow, two muslims were arrested for suspected cow slaughter in Mahrajganj district of Uttar Pradesh, police said here today. Acting on a tip off, a police party reached Bandi Bilaspur village under Kothi Bhaar police station area yesterday and arrested two muslims with the carcass of a cow, they said. Four others involved in the case managed to escape, police said, adding security has been beefed up in the area to prevent any untoward incident.

Hindu Boy Banned From Mewat Village

2008-09-02T09:44:00.012+05:30

In Mewat, even the heart has to follow the "Dictates" of local Muslim panchayats. And the police dare NOT interfere. Zubeida, a Muslim girl and Neeraj, from a Hindu family in Goala village, were forced to part ways recently after the panchayat objected to their relationship.

The village elders ruled that Zubeida will have to be married off to someone from her own community within 40 days of the verdict. The sentence handed out to Neeraj is even harsher. He has been banished from the village for five years. Nobody in the village objected to the verdict as the female sarpanch — who told The Indian Express that being a female, she could not be identified — dismissed the gathering.

Welcome to Mewat, which though hardly a couple of hours drive from New Delhi, lives by its own arab rules. The saga of Neeraj and Zubeida, is even more startling considering that the verdict was delivered in the local police station. The muslims who objected to the "unacceptable" affair held a panchayat meeting inside the Tauru PS. But senior police officials are quick to deny this. "I'm unaware of this and no villagers from Goala village have approached us with such a problem," says SHO Anoop Singh.

The police may have its reasons to feign ignorance but Neeraj's family clearly told the paper that they handed the lovebirds over to the cops on September 24. They say they were left with no other choice as a village mob of muslims threatened them with violence. "The girl wanted to elope with the boy as she feared that her parents would marry her off to someone against her wishes," a villager said.

"The police then contacted the girl's family and asked them to resolve the matter. Consequently, a panchayat comprising of nearly 70 members from the Goala and other nearby villages went to the police station on September 25 and announced the verdict in the police station itself," said an former sarpanch of the village. "They were all there. Sarpanch Kasam, ex-sarpanch Nijju Gujla, Balram and Dulli were all present when the verdict was announced in the police station," the former sarpanch said. Affairs, especially inter-religious, are a sensitive matter in Mewat, which has the majority of people as muslims.

Zubeida is in the Class IX and Neeraj studies in Class X of the school in the village. Their houses are also in close vicinity. The couple had apparently eloped six months ago but were brought back to the village in September. They again managed to elope on September 23 but were caught from Sohna the very next day. They were then brought to the Tauru police station where the muslims announced their verdict.

District Status to Mewat a.k.a 'Muslim District'

2008-08-15T10:09:00.006+05:30

A number of social and political organisations, including the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS), the Bajrang Dal, the Shiv Sena, the Vishwa Hindu Parishad, the Arya Samaj, the Gau Aveng Sanskriti Raksha Samiti, the Sanatan Dharma took out a procession in the city to stall any move to grant a district status to Mewat.

The protesters also blocked the Jail Road skirting the District Court in protest against the "failure" of the Deputy Commissioner to turn up at his office to accept their memorandum on the issue. Quite predictably, there was traffic snarl when the protesters blocked the road. The memorandum addressed to the Haryana Chief Minister, made out a case against providing district status to Mewat.

It pointed out that granting of district status on the basis of religious considerations would only foster religious fundamentalism and was fraught with dangerous consequences. Meo Muslims dominate the demographic profile of Mewat, which spans across Gurgaon and Faridabad districts. It may be recalled that the Chief Minister had made poll promise to the people of Mewat to grant district status to Mewat, with Nuh as the district headquarters. Although there is no apparently move by the government to grant district status, a mere stirring from certain quarters in favour of the issue has raised the hackles of the Hindu organisations.

The memorandum also pointed out that Pakistan's ISI has been active in Mewat for the past many years and granting of separate district status to Mewat would only facilitate its growth in the region. It also demanded the withdrawal of government's sanction for opening a slaughterhouse in Sakatpuri near Ferozepur Jhirka in Mewat. It expressed apprehension that the slaughterhouse would be used to slaughter cows. It said that a large number of cows were being slaughtered in Mewat, and the authorities have failed to check the trend.

The local chief of the RSS, Major Deen Dayal, said that it had been agreed in advance that the Deputy Commissioner would meet the delegation and receive their memorandum. However, it was unfortunate that he was not available to accept their memorandum. However, it is learnt that the protestors did not arrive at the office of the Deputy Commissioner at the fixed time. Rather, they trooped in when he was leaving his office. The absence of the Deputy Commissioner forced the protestors to raise slogans against him and stage a dharna for about an hour in the court premises outside his office. With no message from the Deputy Commissioner, they took to direct method and blocked the road in protest.

Hindu Outfits Against Muslim District

2008-08-15T10:01:00.018+05:30

Hindu organisations are up in arms in Haryana against the government's decision to create a new Muslim dominated district in the state. Haryana Chief Minister has announced creation of a new district, named "Satyamewapuram." It will come into existence from November 1 as the 20th district of the state.

The new district has been carved out of the Mewat region of Haryana which is a Muslim-dominated region. The announcement which has come just a few months ahead of the coming Assembly elections in the state is fast acquiring political overtones with Hindu organisations protesting the move. These include the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP), the RSS, the Arya Samaj, 'Sanatan Dharma Sabha' and the 'Haryana Gaushala Sangh.' T

hese organisations are planning elaborate awareness campaigns and protest marches, blockades and dharnas.

The VHP north zone chief, Kailashji has warned that the government move would create communal tension in the region. "It is unfortunate that the government is creating the new district on religious grounds. It is a dangerous precedent and might disturb communal harmony in the state," he added. A "maha panchayat" of the Hindu organisations last week had unanimously resolved to oppose the creation of the new district.

The VHP had organised state wide protests two weeks back against the move and had also handed over a memorandum to the Governor. Seeking to tide over the protests from Hindu bodies, the Chief Minister has shrewdly decided to name the new district as "Satyamewapuram." Announcing his decision at Nuh, which will be the headquarter of the new district, Chautala said the creation of the district would help in the speedy development of the backward Mewat region. He said the people of the Mewat region would no longer have to travel to far-off Gurgaon, within which the Mewat region falls, for any work.

The Congress has reacted in a subdued manner to the creation of the new district. The former HPCC chief, Birender Singh has termed the creation of the new district as the victory of the Congress' efforts to create a separate Mewat district. He said the party had been in favour of the new district as it had set up a Mewat district congress unit way back in 2001.

Mewat Muslim Jogis Return to Hindu Fold

2008-08-02T10:29:00.013+05:30

Amidst slogans like Garva se kaho hum Hindu hain, Guru Goraksha Nath maharaj ki jai, over 2500 Muslim jogis of Mewat region (Rajasthan) returned to their original roots, i.e., the Hindu fold, on January 5. An impressive public function was held at Nagar town of Bharatpur district to welcome them back to the community from which their ancestors had been lured away in the past.

As many as 471 families were initiated into the Nath sect by the President of Akhil Bharatiya Avadhooti Jogi Mahasabha and Gorakhapeethadhishwar Mahant Avedyanath who himself belongs to the Nath sect. In order to save the expenses involved in the journey by every member of the families, only the parivar pramukhs (heads of the families) from 40 villages of Bharatpur, Alwar (Rajasthan) and Gurgaon (Haryana) districts, participated in the ceremony. The return of the jogis to their ancestral faith and culture was made possible with the efforts of Vishwa Hindu Parishad, Rajasthan. The ceremony began with all the parivar pramukhs along with other people of the jogi community who are born Hindus, performing a yajna and sipping holy Ganga water. Later, Mahant Avedyanath presented each of them a rosary of rudraksh, a saffron dupatta and Ganga water and similar sets for other members of their families.

Welcoming them to the Nath sect, Mahant Avedyanath also gave them a gurumantra. The Jogis pledged to work for and serve Hindu Dharma throughout their life.According to a local jogi, Shri Molhad Singh, an ex-serviceman who played an important role in this "home-coming", there are about two and a half lakh people of jogi community in Bharatpur, Alwar, Gurgaon (Haryana) and some parts of Uttar Pradesh. About 30 per cent of them are Muslim. All the Jogis including those who are Muslim, are followers of Guru Gorakshanath who is regarded by them as an avatar of Lord Shiva. Worshipping in the temples and singing songs in praise of Shiva and Bharthai has been their traditional job. Shri Molhad Singh said that a large number of jogis had been converted to Islam during Aurangzeb's times.

But despite their conversion to Islam they continued to follow the Hindu customs which prevented them from losing their identity. They could not completely assimilate themselves with Islam. The Muslim community too did not accept them wholeheartedly and they were contemptuously called jogana by the Muslims."We have not returned to the Nath sect under any pressure or allurement. We have come here with our own will", says Rabbad Singh, a 50-year old re-converted jogi. When asked if other Muslims of his village objected to his decision of returning to the Nath sect, Rilli Nath (55) says, "we hope nobody will object as it is our own decision. But if somebody objects we can answer him very well". He said that he did not bother about his safety.

Talking to Organiser, the Associate Organising Secretary of VHP, Rajasthan, Shri Jugal Kishore pointed out that various other communities of Mewat like Gujjar, Jat, Rajput, Teli, Dhobi, Jogi, Meena, Nayi and others who had to adopt Islam due to reasons of their own, were also interested to come back to their original roots. But some casteist elements within the Hindu society did not accommodate them in their original ancestral communities. Therefore, he added, before preparing other people to come back to the Hindu fold, there is need to prepare their communities within the Hindu society to accept them.

He said that the jogi community had set an ideal precedent in this regard. He pointed out that the VHP would launch an extensive campaign to welcome back those who had, due to some reasons, to go away from the Hindu society.Speaking on the occasion Mahant Avedyanath called upon the Hindu society to come forward to accept their brothers who had been weaned away in the past. He pointed out that because of untouchability and other social evils, a large number of Hindus in the country had been converted to Islam or Christianity.

Today the situation has changed and the people who had gone away from the Hindu society wanted to come back to their original faith. Therefore, the Hindu society will have to come forward to accept them in their community, he said, adding that the Shastras pose on problems in this regard. The people of jogi community will also have to adjust themselves by allowing the new entrants of participate in their religious and cultural activities. Criticising those who oppose the home-coming of people in their own communities, he said that they were harming the Hindu society.

Appealing to those Muslims and Christians who are originally Hindus to come back to the Hindu fold, the Mahant said it was the right time to correct past mistakes.The Akhil Bharatiya Dharma Prasar Pramukh of VHP, Shri Mohan Joshi who is the guiding spirit behind this endeavour assured the newly re-converted people not to consider themselves isolated as the entire Hindu society was with them.A resolution was also adopted at the function in which the people of the jogi community welcomed the newly re-converted families in their community and assured them of all social and customary dealings with the born Hindu jogis. The resolution also appealed to other members of the jogi community to come back to their original faith. After the function all the participating people joined in a samarasata bhoj (community lunch).

Muslim Members of the All-Women Panchayat at Neem Kheda in Mewat District

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Frustration has now paved way for hope in Neem Kheda village of Mewat district. After being stifled for over two years, the all-women muslim panchayat has finally found its voice and things have begun to move in favor of muslims in this back-of-beyond village on the Haryana-Rajasthan border.

While the district administration has become sensitive to the demands of the village, the muslim women panchs has banned any hindu woman into the power. The administration has arranged for water tankers to tide over water paucity while an anganwari has also been started for expecting mothers, but still it is a poor area of Haryana beacause of Islam. The process of making new schools has begun, but muslim children still goes to Madarsas. Which is the epicenter of hate and crimes against local hindus.

While the administration has written to the education department for more staff at the village school, it has even assured the muslim villagers would still prefer madarsas. However hindu families are happy about school. "Lack of education in our village was a constant irritant for us because our children would just waste their time. With staff and a school, we are happy that their future, too, is secure," Rajni states.

At Neem Kheda, village meetings no longer debate the panchayat's non-performance, but focus on the issues like how to make Mewat 100% muslim place. Hindu families lives in their own country as refugees. They have no rights, no power and no one is there to listen. Congress government (which is pro muslim) is trying to hide the situation of Mewat region.

The "Muslim" Residents of Ghasera Village in Mewat District

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In 1947, a few days after the Partition, Mahatma Gandhi visited Ghasera, renamed Gandhidham, and had appealed to the Meo families to resist exodus and stay back in India, which was the biggest mistake in the history of Haryana.

However, more than 60 years after that colossal blunder, this village's Muslim residents have become hardline fundamentalists in their outlook, just as the ISI's presence is preponderant all over the Mewat region.

A high school now stands where Gandhi had first set foot here. With a 7,000-strong population, the Meo Muslims however don't bother to go to school but instead prefer Madrasahs (Islamic seminaries). Ancient temples has been demolished to build mosques. Every Hindu in this region is paying the price of Bapu's words.

"Since Independence, the only thing that has gone up here is swindling. Freedom for us just means that we are not slaves anymore. Even in this age when India is all set to be a super power, we are struggling to get our share of basic amenities," rues the elderly Ram Singh, "Hindus live a miserable life in this region."

"I went to school for four years and realised that jobs are not dependent on the education. The only thing that works is manipulation and there is no hope for us as we don't have any godfathers," 21-year-old Sachin says.

The 73-year-old Shamsher Yadav recalls, "His conviction made us believe that we will be on the path to development shortly. Today, it saddens me to see the village full of unemployed, illiterate youths. Though I don't oppose the Muslims in this region staying back rather going to Pakistan, I do feel that we Hindus have been denied our share of progress."

Every evening, the young and the old of the village gather at a tea stall to discuss India's developments in various spheres. The conversation invariably veers to their status and the Bapu's mistake that. "Our life is almost over and we can live by the meager pension that we get. But our children need jobs. I am worried about their future," states 74-year-old Radheshyam. Without any support and hope, the Hindus of this village continue to merely exist as living, they contend, is a different ball game reserved for the 'privileged' few.

Thriving Sex Trade Of Hindu Girls in Mewat

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Mewat is seeing a bull run. Here, Hindu girls from Assam come cheaper than cattle. Floods in Assam are a cause for much delight to Muslims who are in the flesh trade in distant Haryana. More distress means the crashing of prices of the most sought-after commodity from the northeastern state—young hindu girls who serve as sex slaves.

"Mewat is one of the biggest markets with thousands of girls sold for prices ranging from Rs 4,000-20,000."

Mewat region, a belt that runs south and southwest of Delhi, is now one of the biggest markets where thousands of Hindu girls are sold at prices ranging from Rs 4,000 to Rs 20,000. The variation in price depends on the physical condition and the degree of abuse inflicted on the girl from the time she was bought from her village in Assam. NGOs working against the trafficking of these Hindu girls believe that there are good reasons for 'buyers' from Haryana to travel nearly 2,000 kilometres to procure girls.

"It is simple," says Rishi Kant of Shakti Vahini, an organisation fighting for sex workers' rights. "They all come very cheap. You can buy a girl for Rs 4,000. It is cheaper than buying cattle. Of course, in Assam, people in the villages actually believe that the girls are leaving home for a better life."

Last month, police rescued four minor girls from the Hatin block in Faridabad district. Each of these was procured for a price by a tout named Hanif. He is now behind bars but the real horror is the wide social sanction the practice of procuring girls for a price has in this belt. Villagers refuse to accept there's anything wrong about buying or selling girls. The practice is discussed openly and is prevalent among the muslim communities. Women, they say, are property and the state has no business interfering in such "personal" matters.

Which is why the whole of Buraka village sympathises with Shahzadi. "I bought Minakshi (name changed) for Rs 12,000," she tells you. "I had to sell part of my land for that. Now the police have taken her and one of my sons away. What is wrong if the girl chooses to be sold and I choose to buy her for my sons?"

Nothing, if you ask the local Muslim villagers. They describe how Hanif, the tout, had brought Minakshi to Buraka village for selling her to "whoever could pay the price". Recalls Shahzadi's neighbour Fateh Mohammad: "She was sitting right there under the tree. Hanif was showing her off because she was to be sold. All of us went to have a look. Shahzadi and her husband Razak bought her for their three sons. Thousands of these Hindu girls are bought and sold in the villages all around us. We really don't see anything wrong with this practice."

What Minakshi had to go through before she was employed by Shahzadi to 'serve' her sons is a shocking tale. "I was raped by six men," she confessed sobbing, as the police took her away to Karnal to be lodged in a home for women criminals. She was sold three times. Each time, this frail Hindu girl of about 14 was sexually abused by her Muslim buyers.

Deepa (name changed), another girl captured along with Minakshi, looks in a worse condition. She says she is 13. But her pale and drawn face, her tiny feet and hands belie that fact. She hardly speaks any Hindi, let alone Haryanvi, and it was only with great difficulty that she could convey to the police that she was pregnant. She says she was "married" to a Muslim man, 20 years older than her because his first wife could not have any children. There is no record of any marriage ever having taken place. Her "husband", Khursheed, has been arrested for trafficking. His first wife Ameena (name changed) admits that money was paid to get Deepa.

"Mewat is one of the biggest markets with thousands of girls sold for prices ranging from Rs 4,000-20,000."

"Thoda bahut kharcha pani to dena hi padta hai (One has to pay some money to people who get the girls)," says Ameena, who is about 23. "I can't have children," she says. She's an invalid, who had to have several operations after losing one leg. "What's the use of having me as a wife? I told my husband to get a new girl. So he got this new Hindu girl for sex and children. Now he has been arrested. Everyone here is buying Hindu girls. Why has my husband been arrested?" she asks with genuine bewilderment.

The police officials who rescued the girls now seem reluctant to talk about the issue. "Why don't you do a survey of this entire belt? This is a backward area," says the rescue team leader, Sukhwinder Singh, SHO at the Hatin police station. The state government won't even acknowledge this menace. Vina Igleton, Secretary, Department of Social Welfare, Haryana, refused to comment. And the central government is only just waking up to the issue. "It is a horrifying trend. I am going to get the facts verified and take up the matter with the Assam chief minister," says Dr C.P. Thakur, Minister for Development of the North-Eastern region.

The Department of Women and Child Development (DWCD) is about the only official entity that has initiated some action. Following the rescue of the four Hindu girls by the Hatin police, DWCD secretary R.V.V. Iyer wrote to Haryana chief secretary A.N. Mathur expressing concern and asking for details of any follow-up. "We are still to receive a reply although we plan to pursue the matter in all possible ways," says a DWCD official.

Unofficially, however, police officials admit that there are over 5,000 Hindu girls, mainly from Assam, who have been sold all across Mewat. New Hindu girls arrive almost every month. Outlook traced two girls who were sold two years ago and have finally settled down in a village in Rewari. Their "husbands" refuse to admit that these girls were bought, converted to Islam and claim they married them.