An SIO petition filed 3 months ago has prompted Aurangabad bench of Bombay High Court to question disappearance of junior college books since 2011. Following a petition by the Student Islamic Organisation (SIO), the High Court on 11 July asked the State government for a proper explanation within three weeks, regarding the unavailability of Urdu-medium textbooks in junior colleges. Urdu-medium junior college texts have not been published since the State govt took over the task of publishing textbooks in 2011. Students therefore have no option but to rely on textbooks by private publishers, which disturbs the uniformity of content studied. There are 562 Urdu-medium junior colleges in the state, with 23,012 students. Mohammad Ali, Joint Secretary, SIO, said, “The petition was filed because it has been three years since Urdu-medium junior colleges students got proper textbooks. They either depend on Marathi textbooks and self-study, or go to private publishers who are given the curriculum outline by the State board.
ACCUSED IN ISHRAT JAHAN FAKE ENCOUNTER REINSTATED
Those who were suspended for alleged having role in Ishrat Jahan fake encounter are being reinstated. In a major jolt, recently another policeman Anju Chaudhary, accused by CBI of firing 10 rounds from a sten gun at Ishrat and three others has been posted to the State Reserve Police (SRP) camp in Godhra. Chaudhary is the third accused to be reinstated after IPS officer G L Singhal and Inspector Bharat A Patel, who was arrested but never chargesheeted.
3 MORE MUSLIMS BODIES FOUND IN ASSAM’S BAKSA
Bodies of three more persons kidnapped by suspected NDFB (S) militants were recovered from Beki River in Assam’s Baksa district on 13 July. “We have recovered three more bodies this morning from Beki river. We do not know the type of injuries these bodies have. The details will be known after the investigation,” Baksa Deputy Commissioner Vinod Seshan was reported as saying.
With this, the bodies of all the four kidnapped a day earlier, including two teenaged boys have been found. The first one, bearing a cut mark on the head, was recovered last evening from the river in Barpeta district. The bodies recovered on 13 July were identified to be those of Ataur Rahman (27), Rubul Amin (45) and Saddam Ali (13), while that of Bakar Ali (13) was found a day before. The family members and villagers in Barpeta district, from where the four hailed, have refused to conduct the last rites demanding that CM Tarun Gogoi visit the area to address their grievances.
SEMINAR ON BIODIVERSTY AWARENESS
Addressing a Seminar on Biodiversity Awareness by Forest Department, Chief Guest Dr. M.I.H. Farooqi, former Deputy Director, NBRI, stressed the need of protecting the Biodiversity as the religious duty of all citizens. This ecological ethics is one of the moral principles of Islam, based on Quranic Injunctions and Prophetic Sayings (Hadith), said Dr. Farooqi. In this regard, he quoted the Quranic Verse (6:38) as “There is not an animal in the earth, nor a flying creature flying on two wings, but they are peoples like unto you” and a Prophetic saying as “There is none amongst the Muslims who plants a tree or sows seeds, and then a bird, or a person or an animal eats from it, but is regarded as a charitable gift for him (Book Sahih al-Bukhari, Volume 3, Chapter 39:).