In a shocking incident that took place in Kashmir’s Sopore on Wednesday morning, a 60-year-old civilian, died after he got caught in a cross-firing between militants and CRPF personnel. The civilian was killed right in front of his 3-year-old grandson’s eyes. In a heart-wrenching picture that surfaced on the internet later, the boy was seen sitting on his grandfather’s body, crying, not knowing what had happened.

Mumbai Mirror reported that Bashir Ahmed Khan (65), a contractor, was travelling to Sopore to oversee the progress of one of his projects and had taken his 3-year-old grandson for an outing. However, he was caught in an ongoing encounter between terrorists and security forces and stopped to find cover when he was struck by bullets. It was also reported that one CRPF constable also lost his life in the incident and three others sustained injuries.

However, while the internet was shaken by the picture, BJP leader, Sambit Patra posted the picture on Twitter and captioned it, “Pulitzer Lovers??”

PULITZER LOVERS ?? pic.twitter.com/Mvau0UAyux

— Sambit Patra (@sambitswaraj) July 1, 2020

Patra soon faced widespread condemnation for his actions.

What Sambit Patra did violates Twitter policies on hate speech AND it violates Juvenile Justice Act provisions to share information harming privacy of a minor child & witness to a crime.
If @jack @Twitter can remove Trump’s hateful tweets, what about Mr Patra? #BanSambitPatra https://t.co/DJeOGhMHXH

— Jignesh Mevani (@jigneshmevani80) July 1, 2020

Do you not have an iota of empathy left in you?? https://t.co/PJYT4uZZbj

— Dia Mirza (@deespeak) July 1, 2020

Cant you just observe or comment on the horrific human tragedy of something like this without it being used as snark for a political grouping you disagree with? You are at a level of sickness & vileness that there may not be a way back from. Hope the journey was worth it. https://t.co/nFAmjxfHSK

— Abhinandan Sekhri (@AbhinandanSekhr) July 1, 2020

Why would such a tragic photo be posted with this horrific and cold blooded caption by @sambitswaraj ? How can this tragic event be used to taunt and troll? And who is it aimed at? Courage to be specific? ?? https://t.co/Ou4HGZv3Bg

— Sucheta Dalal (@suchetadalal) July 1, 2020

It must be noted that even though Patra received a lot of flak for his insensitive comment, neither has he taken it down, nor has Twitter taken any action against it. Instead, he took to Twitter to clarify his stance to all who questioned him on his outrageous comment.

Madam …this is the time when You should hold a placard close to your heart reading “I am ashamed because of Pak sponsored Jihad in Kashmir”

But you all are selective ..
You’ll never do that .. https://t.co/pRuifNvD4r

— Sambit Patra (@sambitswaraj) July 1, 2020

विसाल जी ?

सच्चाई बोलने पर आप को मेरी सोच घिनौनी लगती है
काश इतनी ही घिनोनी आपको “जिहाद” भी लगता … https://t.co/FPp1mo1cOl

— Sambit Patra (@sambitswaraj) July 1, 2020

Literally every media channel has posted these pictures..many journalists have ..
When you can post George Floyd’s pic with “I can’t breathe” ..that’s Ok
But when I post an Indian terror attack tragedy ..asking questions about your selective questioning ..that’s Wrong ..WHY?? https://t.co/mWOL7y4aSD

— Sambit Patra (@sambitswaraj) July 1, 2020

“Jihadist-In-Chief” need not sermonise #HumanityOverPakTerror https://t.co/fcQ2dcYOhI

— Sambit Patra (@sambitswaraj) July 1, 2020

Patra’s past attack on Pulitzer Prize winning journalists

Patra’s comment could have been aimed at Indian journalists Dar Yasin, Mukhtar Khan and Channi Anand who were honoured with the coveted Pulitzer Prize in the field of feature photography earlier this year for their work documenting the sights of Kashmir.

At the time, Patra had tweeted –

The citation of the Pulitzer award to the three so called Indian journalists:
1)Why did these journalists accept this award ..an award is important or the sovereignty of your Nation is?
2)Rahul Gandhi & @INCIndia congratulates them ..Does Rahul concur?#AntiNationalRahulGandhi pic.twitter.com/p7aywWDp7y

— Sambit Patra (@sambitswaraj) May 5, 2020

Patra had gone on a rampage against Congress leader Rahul Gandhi who had congratulated the journalists for their win. Patra targeted Rahul Gandhi alleging that he had wished those who considered Kashmir to be a ‘contested territory’. However, Patra probably didn’t take into account that it was the agency who provided captions to photographs and not the photojournalists themselves, said Free Press Journal.

Friends let me present to you the real @RahulGandhi :
Just read what the Pulitzer Prize citation to three “Indian” journalists reads,it clearly mentions Kashmir as independent of India
And here is RahulG congratulating these so called journalists !!#AntiNationalRahulGandhi pic.twitter.com/JMO94EMS3U

— Sambit Patra (@sambitswaraj) May 5, 2020

Civilian’s family alleges foul play

However, while Patra has turned to the microblogging site to call some naysayers ‘jihadis’ or ‘Pak agents’, a video of the civilian’s presumed relative has surfaced where he alleges that according to eyewitnesses present at the site, it was the CRPF jawans who shot Khan and not anyone else.

In the video circulating on Facebook, the relative said that the family members were called by onlookers and informed that the CRPF jawans had allegedly pulled Khan out of his vehicle and gunned him down. He said that he was told some personnel of the security forces had been injured in the crossfire with the militants and in probably in a fit of rage, they instead shot Khan to give way to their anger.

https://www.facebook.com/100040607924012/videos/293277962035799/

In another video, a man presumed to be the civilian’s son, said –

https://www.facebook.com/107830364192684/videos/3426246710929853/

The Kashmir Walla reported that in one video, the wife of the killed civilian has alleged that government forces placed the child on the civilian’s body. “They killed him and then kept his three-year-old grandson on his body,” the wife of the killed man can be heard saying in video, as she is consoled by mourning women at her house. “The child’s clothes are soaked with his grandpa’s blood. He was not a militant. He was a petty employee.”

CRPF denies allegations

The CRPF has denied the accusations. Javaid Iqbal, Senior Superintendent of Police, Sopore, told The Kashmir Walla, “These reports of CRPF personnel dragging him from the vehicle and shooting him outside are absolutely incorrect,” adding that two militants belonging to the Lashkar-e-Taiba were behind the attack.

The Sopore police also issued a statement saying –

The news surfaced on some social networking sites that the civilian was brought down and killed is totally baseless and is far beyond the facts, Sopore Police refutes and denies the news and legal action shall be initiated against the false reports and rumours @KashmirPolice

— Sopore Police (@SoporePolice) July 1, 2020

Zulfiqar Hasan, ADG CRPF spoke to the media saying that some people had tried to give it a spin by alleging that the CRPF personnel took the civilian out of the vehicle and shot him.

#WATCH — It was an unfortunate incident.I think some ppl have tried to give it a spin by saying that CRPF took him (a civilian) out of the vehicle&shot him. It’s totally untrue:Zulfiqar Hasan,ADG CRPF on death of a civilian during a terror attack in Sopore y’day. #JammuAndKashmir pic.twitter.com/MuKiCdfkP6

— ANI (@ANI) July 2, 2020

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New Delhi: The Delhi Medical Council is investigating a complaint made against BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra and another doctor in a case of post-operative negligence.
 
The complaint dates to 1 August, 2014, and was filed by a general physician who said that her 81-year-old mother after being operated upon for piles by surgeons Alok Aggarwal and Sambit Patra at NKS Hospital in 2013, received no post-operative care or supervision, which led to heavy bleeding and her death within a week of the surgery.
 
The complaint had been examined by the DMC’s executive committee and referred to its disciplinary committee a month ago, said the DMC’s president Arun Gupta. He added that a date for hearing the complaint will soon be fixed, according to The Economic Times.
 
Patra says that he has received no intimation of a hearing from the council. “I don’t want to comment on it right now. I am not involved in the case anyway as I was just the referring doctor,” he said.
 
The BJP spokesperson is contesting from the temple town of Puri in Odisha for the Lok Sabha elections and is receiving flak for his campaign.
 
Earlier this week, a picture of Patra in Puri with the idol of Lord Jagannath led to complaints from the Congress with the Election Commission, alleging he was campaigning with a religious symbol. Puri Collector Jyoti Prakash Das has reportedly filed a show cause notice against the BJP candidate for allegedly conducting a rally without permission.
 
Responding to the charges, Sambit had said, “BJD and Congress are afraid. I am Odiya so I first visited Jagannath. People gave different things, like garlands. In Pipili, one elderly person gave me the idol. I will reply to the notice when I receive it”.
 
Sambit Patra is up against incumbent BJD MP Pinaki Mishra and Congress candidate Satya Prakash Nayak.
 
A video from the campaign trail posted by him drew criticism online and was immediately slammed by BJD as evidence of ‘failure’ of the Modi government’s Ujjwala Yojana.
 
In the video, Patra is seen sharing a meal in a poor household, where a woman appears to be cooking for the family and Patra’s campaign team. Twitter users questioned Patra why the poor woman was cooking on a wood fire, instead of using an Ujjwala cylinder.
 
 
 

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In this episode of ‘Bol Ke Lab Azad Hain Tere’, senior journalist Abhisar Sharma talks about the number of challenges in front of the Congress, ahead of the Lok Sabha elections. Even as Priyanka Gandhi has now stepped into the political arena, the BJP is trying to undermine her by targeting her husband Robert Vadra. We’ll have to wait to see if Gandhi succeeds in making an impact in Uttar Pradesh politically. Abhisar also speaks about how the mediapersons have complained to BJP President Amit Shah regarding Sambit Patra.

Courtesy : News Click

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In this episode of ‘Bol ke Lab Azad Hain Tere’, Abhisar Sharma talks about Sambit Patra. The BJP spokesperson who had been overdoing his gimmicks on TV, is now apparently being pulled down by the BJP. He was also censured for his over-the-top behaviour in the TV studios by the BJP top leadership. The question remains: are the rest of the BJP spokespersons any better?

Courtesy: Newsclick.in

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This morning, the CBI stepped up the concerted harassment of NDTV and its promoters based on the same old endless false accusations.

NDTV and its promoters will fight tirelessly against this witch-hunt by multiple agencies. We will not succumb to these attempts to blatantly undermine democracy and free speech in India.

We have one message to those who are trying to destroy the institutions of India and everything it stands for: we will fight for our country and overcome these forces.
 
We will not succumb to attempts to blatantly undermine democracy and free speech in India: #NDTV on #CBIsearches.

Social Media outrage :

 
Cowed Indian media! Prannoy Roy being raided and intimidated by govt and not one other media house is carrying story. Their turn will come!!
— Ajai Shukla (@ajaishukla) June 5, 2017
 
Message is clear if you want to survive in journalism or media you should do Modi Bhajan #NDTV
— Lalu Prasad Yadav (@ModiLeDubega) June 5, 2017

Contrast raid on NDTV with the inaction in the pending CBI investigations against Adanis for alleged money laundering of thousands of crores
— Ashish Khetan (@AashishKhetan) June 5, 2017

First they came for NDTV… if other media doesn’t speak out now, there will be no one left to speak for them when it is their turn. https://t.co/R5jmNSuNTv
— SamSays (@samjawed65) June 5, 2017

It is a shame that other news TV channels are not standby NDTV/Prannoy Roy. Tomorrow they will be targeted.
— ashutosh (@ashutosh83B) June 5, 2017

Pranoy Roy raided. Revenge 4 Sambit’s inglorious exit from @NDTV. There is no law. No Constitution. Modi is law. Modi is Constitution
— RKHURIA (@rkhuria) June 5, 2017

It is shocking that the CBI conducted searches on the NDTV offices and residence of the promoters without even conducting a preliminary enquiry. This is a blatant political attack on the freedom of the press as sources confirm that under pressure, the CBI has been compelled to file an FIR based on a shoddy complaint by a disgruntled former consultant at NDTV called Sanjay Dutt, who has been making false allegations and filing cases in courts of law with these false allegations. So far, he has not obtained a single order from any of these courts.
 
Legal analysts are astounded that where courts have rejected giving any order in all these years, the CBI conducts raids based on what is a private complaint.
 
The allegation appears to be for a loan which has been repaid by Prannoy Roy and Radhika Roy more than seven years ago. (Scroll down for evidence of this.)
 
Even though lakhs and crores of rupees of dues have not been paid by several industrialists and no criminal case has yet been registered against any of them by the CBI, the CBI has chosen not only to register an FIR, but also conduct a search for a loan which has been duly repaid to ICICI Bank. Moreover, ICICI is a private bank.
 
The allegation that no disclosure was made to SEBI and other regulatory authorities is not only incorrect and false but also does not cloth the CBI with any power to register cases and search which further amplifies the fact that the search by the CBI is only a witch-hunt against independent media.
 
NDTV and its promoters have never defaulted on any loan to ICICI or any other bank. We adhere to the highest levels of integrity and independence. It is clearly the independence and fearlessness of NDTV's team that the ruling party's politicians cannot stomach and the CBI raid is merely another attempt at silencing the media.
 
No matter how much the politicians attack us – We will not give up the fight for freedom and the independence of media in India.

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हाथापाई के साथ, कुर्सियों को एक दूसरे पर उठा-उठाकर फैंकना शुरू कर दिया और जमकर नारेबाजी की गई। इस कार्यक्रम में संबित पात्रा के अलावा सपा, बसपा व कांग्रेस के नेता भी अपने-अपने समर्थकों के साथ मौजूद थे।

मीडिया रिपोट्स के मुताबिक, इस टॉक शो में बीजेपी के प्रवक्ता संबित पात्रा, सपा के राजकुमार जायसवाल, कांग्रेस के नदीम जावेद आदि नेता नोटबंदी के फायदे व नुकसान को लेकर परिचर्चा कर रहे थे। सभी दलों के समर्थक भी वहां पर कुर्सी पर जमे हुए थे और विषय को लेकर प्रश्र भी कर रहे थे।

नोटबंदी के बाद बेकार हुए अपने नोट बैंकों में जमा कराने पर लगी इस रोक को लेकर कार्यक्रम में पूछे गए सवाल पर बीजेपी प्रवक्ता संबित पात्रा ने कहा कि एक बार ही नोट जमा करने का निर्देश इसलिए कि ऐसा न हो बार-बार किसी ब्लैकमनी वाले का पैसा कोई जमा कर आए। वहीं कांग्रेस नेता नदीम जावेद ने इस कदम की आलोचना करते हुए पीएम मोदी पर इस मामले पर चर्चा से भागने का आरोप लगाया।

इसी दौरान जबरदस्त बहस का माहौल बन गया। बीजेपी, सपा और कांग्रेस के बीच गर्मागर्मी का दौर शुरू हो गया। देखते ही देखते पार्टी समर्थकों के बीच विवाद बढ़ने लगा। इसके बाद निजी चैनल के लोग मामले को सुलझा पाते कि बात बिगड़ गयी और सपा और बसपा के कार्यकर्ता आपस में लड़ गये।
दोनों ही पक्षों ने एक-दूसरे पार्टी के नेताओं के खिलाफ जमकर नारेबाजी की और मारने के लिए कुर्सी भी चलायी। दोनों ही पक्ष में जमकर बवाल हो गया। हंगामे के चलते कार्यक्रम को भी स्थगित करना पड़ गया।

सपा कार्यकर्ताओं ने बीजेपी पर सीएम के खिलाफ अभद्र भाषा का प्रयोग करने का आरोप लगाते हुए लंका थाने का घेराव किया। सपा के लोगों ने बीजेपी प्रवक्ता संबित पात्रा के खिलाफ कार्रवाई के लिए तहरीर दी गई।

Courtesy: Janta Ka Reporter
 

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