Shafiq Ur Rahman Khan

MMS scandals seem to have become a way of life. They are the essential spice added to the world of pornography paving way for more serious crimes and destroying innocent lives. Can we conclude that an MMS scandal is worse than rape? Fahim Ahmadi writes in 2007 has become the most sellable commodity today…what’s more…the more controversial, the better. Man seems to have become a playboy at the hands of technology and women have become commodities for sale. If one was to think about chastity, it’s a long forlorn tale. The rise in camera phones has also seen the rise in mms scandals. Now what leaves us wondering is the fact if it is the Indian male who has opened up to the realm of visual sex that has ripened the cherry or is it the hunger to satisfy something that was concealed since ages? The all-advanced gadgets in the hands of immature kids have resulted in the rise of these mms scandals. With their digital cameras and avante garde technology, the intervention of Bluetooth and the...

It was an argument over mobile phone repairing that turned into a nightmare for a 24-year old woman from Naranpura. The woman told the police that the repairman used mobile clips in her phone to blackmail her, abducted and confined her to a flat in Juhapura where he raped over one-and-a-half months. The victim, a primary school teacher in a town near Ahmedabad, rushed to Vejalpur police station on Saturday with a laptop and mobile phones, and told the cops she had escaped from the clutches of her rapist. "She had given her mobile phone for repair around six months back. She was not satisfied with the service and had complained to the repairman's boss. The accused Mohammed Asif Sayed, a resident of Bapunagar, was suspended, which made him angry and decided to get even," said MC Patel, inspector of Vejalpur police station. Sayed has been arrested. The teacher, by then, got transferred outside Ahmedabad where Sayed followed her and tried to blackmail her with some of ...

Jind (Haryana), May 23: News 24   A Sarv Khap Mahapanchayat (all community council congregation) held in this Haryana town on Sunday threatened to boycott all MPs and assembly members from the state if they did not support the khaps call for a ban on the same-gotra marriages. They also threatened a blockade of Delhi. At the meeting, which only a few hundred leaders and their supporters attended, various khaps sought support from all quarters for a ban on marriages within the same gotra (ancestral lineage) and demanded an amendment to the Hindu Marriage Act. "If all MPs and MLAs (members of legislative assembly) in Haryana do not support us in this matter, we will start their boycott from next month," a khap leader announced. Congress MP from Kurukshetra and billionaire industrialist Naveen Jindal landed in a controversy earlier in May after he extended support to the demands of the Khap panchayats. Farmers` leader Mahendra Singh Tikait, who belongs to western Uttar Prade...

May 12: Yet another suspected case of honour killing has emerged in Punjab's Tarn Taran, where a woman and her mother-in-law were killed and the woman's husband seriously injured. The newly-wed bride Gurleen Kaur (19) and her husband Amarpreet Singh (25) reportedly married despite protests from Kaur's family. Relatives of Gurleen attacked Amarpreet's house on Tuesday, May 11 night and sprayed bullets into the girl and her mother-in-law, Kuljit Kaur (50). The two died on the spot, the police informed on Wednesday, May 12. The brutal aspect of the killing is the mutilation of the bodies. The police found the girl naked and with her shoulders and fingers cut off. It is also suspected that the attackers wanted to gorge out the eyes of the mother-in-law as deep cuts were found above her eyes. Amarpreet Singh, who tried to put up a fight against the assailants, escaped with gun wounds and is battling for his life in a private hospital. While the father of the groo...

Bangladesh Rifles rescued two teenage girls while being trafficked to India and arrested an alleged woman trafficker from Benapole transport stand Saturday. Acting on secret information that some human traffickers were taking the girls to India a BDR team raided the area, rescued the victims and arrested woman trafficker Khadiza Khatun while her accomplices managed to flee the scene.  Local people said Khadiza, wife of Amir Ali of Bhabanagar village under Gurudaha thana of Satkhira district, was the member of a trafficking gang. The gang was engaged in trafficking young women to India in the name of giving good job there. The rescued victims were identified as Hayatunnesa (18), daughter of Haider Ali of the Bhabanagar village and Sabina Khatun (19), daughter of Arshad Ali of Chanduria village in Sharsha Upazila of Jessore. The rescued girls said the traffickers took a handsome amount of money from them promising quality job in India.  the financial express bangladesh...

Supposed to be the victims in an honour killing, a couple made a dramatic return on Sunday, much to the amazement of the boy’s family who had performed his ‘funeral’ earlier in the day. Ajit Saini, 23, and Anshu Tomar, 21, fell in love while studying at the same college and decided to get married. But their inter-caste alliance — Saini-Jat — did not win approval of their parents. On April 29, the brother of the girl, Anuj Tomar, allegedly killed the boy, hacked him to pieces and buried him in a paddy field to save the “honour” of the family. Police, who found the body on May 8, said the girl might have met the same fate. The brother was arrested, and the entire town mourned the death of two innocent souls. However, no one was able to come to terms with the fact that the couple were safe as Ajit and Anshu returned, hand in hand. It turns out that the two had eloped to Delhi on April 29 — their second elopement, the first being on April 18 — in order to escape the pressure of their fami...

May 9 (IANS) Four people were arrested from Rajasthan’s Alwar district for kidnapping and trafficking young girls from the national capital, police said Sunday. Three minor girls have been rescued. Bina, Mangal, Ashok and Shyam Lal were arrested from Sondavas and Girvas village in Alwar district Saturday, police added. According to police, raids were conducted after receiving information that a gang was kidnapping young girls from Delhi and selling them in Rajasthan. “The police team conducted raids in Sodavas and Girvas village in Rajasthan yesterday (Saturday),” a senior police officer said. During the raid, police rescued three girls aged between five to eight years. Two of these girls were kidnapped from Sultanpuri area of outer Delhi in 2009, while the third does not remember who her parents are as she was very young when she was kidnapped. All three girls are presently in a children’s home. “The kingpin of the gang Radha (name changed) sold the young girls to the accused who us...

The nation rocks again with a brutal episode to lovers after Nirupama Pathak’s death in a row, now Anshu Tomar of UP who is heard to be missing whereas her boyfriend found murdered brutally with his throat slit and legs cut off by her own brother for the ‘honor' Anshu’s lover Ajit Saini's body was found in New Mandi area in Muzaffarnagar district of Uttar Pradesh on Friday, who was admitted to have been killed by the brother. On account of Saini’s death, Anuj Thomar the brother exclaimed, “He killed Ajit to salvage his family's honour.” Reportedly the girl is suspected to be murdered as she is found to be missing as mentioned by the police and added, “Arrested the girl's father Narendra Tomar and brother Anuj on the basis of the complaint filed by the boy's family.” Actually the both lovers eloped two months ago but they returned home on April 19 after they were given an assurance that their marriage would soon be solemnized to deceive them to death. Reports ar...