‘Waqf change won’t impact Babri case’
Amidst apprehensions being expressed that the Waqf Amendment Bill may impact the Babri Masjid title case, Union minister for minority affairs Salman Khurshid has sought to allay such fears.
While the bill has already been passed in the Lok Sabha, the Rajya Sabha is yet to pass it. With concern being voiced in the Muslim community about the proposed law affecting the title case, Mr Khurshid maintained on Sunday that this would not happen.
The minister was speaking at a seminar on the bill. He said that he has spoken to both leaders connected to the Babri case as well as Muslim clerics and maintained that changes to the Waqf Act would not affect the Babri Masjid title case.
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NHRC seeks report on youth killing
Age correspondent
NEW DELHI
The NHRC has asked the home ministry to submit a report on the alleged firing by CRPF personnel in north Kashmir’s Sopore town on June 27 in which a youth was killed.
The commission has asked the Union home secretary to submit a report on the incident within four weeks. “The commission may proceed to take such action as it deems proper,” said the NHRC, which took cognisance of the matter on the basis of a complaint filed by a rights activist and lawyer Radhakanta Tripathy. According to reports, a youth Bilal Wani was killed after CRPF personnel allegedly fired rubber bullets on a stone-pelting mob that had defied curfew in Sopore town on June 27, two days after a similar incident left two civilians dead.
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Pak apologises for airspace violation
age correspondent
jammu
While admitting to the airspace violation by its civil aircraft near Abdullian in RS Pura sector of Jammu district on Saturday, Pakistan is reported to have apologised to India saying it happened on account of bad weather. According to BSF sources, the Pakistani aircraft, which was flying low along the international border in Abdullian area of RS Pura sector, had accidentally ventured inside Indian airspace on Saturday.
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