The video which went viral on social media shows four men beating Sufi Abdul Samad up, chopping his beard and asking him to chant 'Jai Shri Ram' in the Loni area of Ghaziabad. Police, however, ruled out any communal angle in the incident.
BJP MLA from Loni, Nandkishor Gurjar, has filed a police complaint against Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi in connection with the assault case of an elderly Muslim man.
The FIR names Twitter Inc, Twitter Communications India, news website The Wire, journalists Mohammed Zubair and Rana Ayyub, Congress leaders Shama Mohamed, Salman Nizami, Maskoor Usmani and writer Saba Naqvi.
Twitter is the only platform that has not complied with the new IT rules that came into effect last month.
Ghaziabad Police have ruled out any communal angle in the incident, saying Sufi Abdul Samad was attacked by 6 men - Hindus and Muslims - who were unhappy over the amulets he had sold to them.
Police further said that Twitter has done nothing to prevent the video from getting viral, and named "Twitter, Twitter Communications India Pvt, The Wire, Rana Ayyub, Mohammad Zubair, Dr Shama Mohamed, Saba Naqvi, Maskoor Usmani, Salman Nizami" as accused in the FIR.
Matter relates to an incident where an elderly Muslim man in Ghaziabad was allegedly beaten up and asked to chant 'Jai Shri Ram'. The Congress leader reacting sharply to the incident had said, ‘such cruelty is shameful for both society and religion’.
Two days after a video went viral which purportedly showed an elderly man, Abdul Samad Saifi, being assaulted and his beard being forcibly cut, the Ghaziabad police have indicated it was not a random attack, and have arrested two more people for the crime.
The number of active coronavirus cases reached 471 in Ghaziabad and came down to 324 in Gautam Buddh Nagar on Tuesday, official data showed.
A police team led by Aligarh SSP Kalanidhi Naithani has arrested one Neeraj Chaudhary (Anil Chaudhary's brother-in-law), contractor Choub Singh and Banwari Lal who were involved in dealing of adulterated liquor in Aligarh Hooch tragedy. The accused were carrying a bounty of Rs 25,000.
The second wave of coronavirus challenged India's health system when many witnessed challenging times dealing with availability of essential treatment facilities. In such a time, a group of people from ATS Advantage Apartment in Ghaziabad's Indirapuram came forward with a SOS War room to help people dealing with tough times amid the pandemic.
Curfew in Noida has been extended till June 30 as the district has more than 600 active cases.
A 59-year-old COVID-19 patient, who was also detected with black, white and yellow fungus, has passed away here, the doctor treating him said on Saturday.
A case of yellow fungus infection has been reported from Ghaziabad in Uttar Pradesh amid the rising black fungus and white fungus cases among COVID-19 patients in several states.
The cumulative number of COVID-19 patients that got discharged in Ghaziabad and Gautam Buddh Nagar on Wednesday exceeded the new infections in the two districts of western Uttar Pradesh, official data showed.
Three people were arrested in Ghaziabad on Wednesday for allegedly supplying used surgical gloves in the market to make some quick money amid a high demand for such protective medical equipment due to the COVID-19 pandemic, police said.
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Uttar Pradesh on Monday recorded 288 more COVID-19 deaths which pushed the toll to 13,447 while the infection tally rose to 13,42,413 with 29,192 fresh cases, an official statement said.
Amid the spiraling COVID-19 cases in Uttar Pradesh, the Gurdwara Samiti of Indirapuram here is providing oxygen cylinders to help patients at a time when the life-saving gas is in short supply.
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