Tag: Anil Vij

  • Over 200 arrested, 102 FIRs lodged in Nuh violence: Haryana minister

    By PTI

    CHANDIGARH: Haryana Home Minister Anil Vij on Friday mentioned 202 individuals have been arrested to date and 80 taken into preventive detention in reference to the communal clashes in Nuh.

    He additionally mentioned the best way bullets had been fired from hillocks and stones collected on rooftops of buildings signifies that Nuh’s violence was pre-planned.

    In all, police have to date filed 102 FIRs within the matter.

    “I want to assure you that anyone involved in the violence won’t be spared,” Vij advised reporters in Ambala, including, the detainees are being questioned. It is a giant recreation plan, each individual had a lathi in his hand. Were these being distributed without spending a dime? Someone should have organized these. Bullets had been being fired. From the place did weapons come? We will go to the depth of the matter,” he mentioned.

    The minister had earlier on Tuesday too mentioned the violence was engineered and had a mastermind behind it.

    However, in a press convention on Friday, the Nuh Superintendent of Police mentioned they’ve to date discovered no indication of there being a mastermind behind the clashes.

    Nuh SP Narendra Singh Bijarnia mentioned the investigation to date has prompt the involvement of disparate components, that are being recognized and arrested.

    Meanwhile, when the minister was requested if the administration will resort to bulldozing the properties of the culprits, he quipped “Bulldozer, wherever necessary, will be used”.

    “Ilaj mein bulldozer bhi ek karavayi hai (bulldozer is part of the treatment),” he mentioned.

    Haryana authorities have used bulldozers up to now to raze constructions of alleged criminals in Nuh and different elements.

    On a cybercrime police station being focused in Nuh, Vij mentioned, “We have taken the incident very seriously.” Investigations are underway to seek out out who attacked the police station and what information they wished to destroy, he mentioned.

    He mentioned Nuh was changing into a brand new Jamtara — the Jharkhand district infamous as India’s cyber crime hub.

    An enormous crackdown was launched earlier this 12 months towards cyber criminals and several other individuals had been arrested for defrauding individuals throughout India.

    ALSO READ  | No mastermind behind Nuh violence, culprits being recognized, arrested: Nuh SP

    “In April a house-to-house search was conducted with 5,000 police personnel. Many laptops, several thousand SIM cards and ATM cards were found there, on which action was also taken. Now the cyber station that has been attacked, and the way attempts have been made to tamper with the files, has made us launch an investigation into whether cyber thugs attacked the computer systems also of the police station,” mentioned Vij.

    Six individuals, together with two house guards and a cleric, died within the clashes that erupted in Muslim-dominated Nuh when a Vishva Hindu Parishad procession was attacked by mobs on Monday.

    Vij mentioned police had been recording individuals’s statements and scanning CCTV footage.

    He additionally urged the journalists who’ve been to Nuh to cowl the clashes since Monday to supply movies and feeds to the authorities to assist them examine the clashes.

    Vij made the identical request to individuals who had been a part of the procession the place the violence first broke out.

    Asked if the authorities had obtained intelligence about potential bother throughout the VHP Yatra, as purportedly proven in a TV channel sting, Vij mentioned “at what level the input was there, who was told about it, all these things will be investigated.”

    ALSO READ | Violence has no faith: ‘Allahhu Akbar’ in Nuh, ‘Jai Shree Ram’ in Gurugram

    Vij mentioned an Inspector is heard saying one thing throughout a TV sting and the video has been despatched by him to the Additional Chief Secretary, Home Department, for evaluation. If that inspector had any data, then who did he give it to and at what stage, this all will probably be investigated, he mentioned.

    When requested about Ashok Gehlot’s allegation that Haryana Police didn’t cooperate within the arrest of Monu Manesar “a cow vigilante who is wanted in a case by Rajasthan Police” Vij mentioned, “Congress chief ministers are known for making irresponsible statements and they talk irresponsibly all over the country.”

    “They should come and arrest Monu Manesar, we have never stopped anyone, the Haryana Police also goes to the other states to arrest the culprit, everyone cooperates, and we will also cooperate,” he mentioned.

    The Home Minister mentioned all measures are being taken to revive peace in Nuh and close by districts.

    Referring to the Friday namaz, the minister mentioned he has spoken to deputy commissioners of Nuh, Faridabad, and Gurugram, and instructed them to make enough safety preparations.

    CHANDIGARH: Haryana Home Minister Anil Vij on Friday mentioned 202 individuals have been arrested to date and 80 taken into preventive detention in reference to the communal clashes in Nuh.

    He additionally mentioned the best way bullets had been fired from hillocks and stones collected on rooftops of buildings signifies that Nuh’s violence was pre-planned.

    In all, police have to date filed 102 FIRs within the matter.googletag.cmd.push(operate() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

    “I want to assure you that anyone involved in the violence won’t be spared,” Vij advised reporters in Ambala, including, the detainees are being questioned. It is a giant recreation plan, each individual had a lathi in his hand. Were these being distributed without spending a dime? Someone should have organized these. Bullets had been being fired. From the place did weapons come? We will go to the depth of the matter,” he mentioned.

    The minister had earlier on Tuesday too mentioned the violence was engineered and had a mastermind behind it.

    However, in a press convention on Friday, the Nuh Superintendent of Police mentioned they’ve to date discovered no indication of there being a mastermind behind the clashes.

    Nuh SP Narendra Singh Bijarnia mentioned the investigation to date has prompt the involvement of disparate components, that are being recognized and arrested.

    Meanwhile, when the minister was requested if the administration will resort to bulldozing the properties of the culprits, he quipped “Bulldozer, wherever necessary, will be used”.

    “Ilaj mein bulldozer bhi ek karavayi hai (bulldozer is part of the treatment),” he mentioned.

    Haryana authorities have used bulldozers up to now to raze constructions of alleged criminals in Nuh and different elements.

    On a cybercrime police station being focused in Nuh, Vij mentioned, “We have taken the incident very seriously.” Investigations are underway to seek out out who attacked the police station and what information they wished to destroy, he mentioned.

    He mentioned Nuh was changing into a brand new Jamtara — the Jharkhand district infamous as India’s cyber crime hub.

    An enormous crackdown was launched earlier this 12 months towards cyber criminals and several other individuals had been arrested for defrauding individuals throughout India.

    ALSO READ  | No mastermind behind Nuh violence, culprits being recognized, arrested: Nuh SP

    “In April a house-to-house search was conducted with 5,000 police personnel. Many laptops, several thousand SIM cards and ATM cards were found there, on which action was also taken. Now the cyber station that has been attacked, and the way attempts have been made to tamper with the files, has made us launch an investigation into whether cyber thugs attacked the computer systems also of the police station,” mentioned Vij.

    Six individuals, together with two house guards and a cleric, died within the clashes that erupted in Muslim-dominated Nuh when a Vishva Hindu Parishad procession was attacked by mobs on Monday.

    Vij mentioned police had been recording individuals’s statements and scanning CCTV footage.

    He additionally urged the journalists who’ve been to Nuh to cowl the clashes since Monday to supply movies and feeds to the authorities to assist them examine the clashes.

    Vij made the identical request to individuals who had been a part of the procession the place the violence first broke out.

    Asked if the authorities had obtained intelligence about potential bother throughout the VHP Yatra, as purportedly proven in a TV channel sting, Vij mentioned “at what level the input was there, who was told about it, all these things will be investigated.”

    ALSO READ | Violence has no faith: ‘Allahhu Akbar’ in Nuh, ‘Jai Shree Ram’ in Gurugram

    Vij mentioned an Inspector is heard saying one thing throughout a TV sting and the video has been despatched by him to the Additional Chief Secretary, Home Department, for evaluation. If that inspector had any data, then who did he give it to and at what stage, this all will probably be investigated, he mentioned.

    When requested about Ashok Gehlot’s allegation that Haryana Police didn’t cooperate within the arrest of Monu Manesar “a cow vigilante who is wanted in a case by Rajasthan Police” Vij mentioned, “Congress chief ministers are known for making irresponsible statements and they talk irresponsibly all over the country.”

    “They should come and arrest Monu Manesar, we have never stopped anyone, the Haryana Police also goes to the other states to arrest the culprit, everyone cooperates, and we will also cooperate,” he mentioned.

    The Home Minister mentioned all measures are being taken to revive peace in Nuh and close by districts.

    Referring to the Friday namaz, the minister mentioned he has spoken to deputy commissioners of Nuh, Faridabad, and Gurugram, and instructed them to make enough safety preparations.

  • Men ought to strengthen their minds, free girls from hijab: Haryana minister Anil Vij

    By PTI

    CHANDIGARH: Haryana Minister Anil Vij on Thursday waded into the headband situation saying males ought to strengthen their minds and free girls from the hijab.

    Vij’s tweet got here shortly earlier than the Supreme Court delivered a break up verdict on a batch of pleas difficult the Karnataka High Court judgement refusing to elevate the ban on hijab in instructional establishments of the state.

    “The men who could not control their excitement upon seeing women forced women to wear hijab. The need was to strengthen their mind, but the punishment was given to the women, they were covered from head to toe. This is a grave injustice,” the Haryana Home minister mentioned in a tweet in Hindi.

    जिन पुरुषों का महिलाओ को देखकर मन मचलता था उन्होंने ही महिलाओं को हिजाब डालने के लिए मजबूर किया । आवश्यकता तो अपने मन को मजबूत करने की थी परंतु सजा महिलाओं को दी गई उनको सिर से लेकर पांव तक डाक दिया। यह सरासर नाइंसाफी है । पुरुष अपना मन मजबूत करे और महिलाओ को हिजाब से मुक्ति दें

    — ANIL VIJ MINISTER HARYANA (@anilvijminister) October 13, 2022

    In the identical tweet, he recommended, “Men should strengthen their minds and free women from hijab.”

    In February, amid a row over some college students carrying hijab in Karnataka, Vij had mentioned the prevailing costume code in colleges and schools have to be adopted.

    In view of the break up verdict within the Supreme Court, the bench directed that the appeals in opposition to the excessive court docket verdict be positioned earlier than the Chief Justice of India for constituting an applicable bigger bench.

    CHANDIGARH: Haryana Minister Anil Vij on Thursday waded into the headband situation saying males ought to strengthen their minds and free girls from the hijab.

    Vij’s tweet got here shortly earlier than the Supreme Court delivered a break up verdict on a batch of pleas difficult the Karnataka High Court judgement refusing to elevate the ban on hijab in instructional establishments of the state.

    “The men who could not control their excitement upon seeing women forced women to wear hijab. The need was to strengthen their mind, but the punishment was given to the women, they were covered from head to toe. This is a grave injustice,” the Haryana Home minister mentioned in a tweet in Hindi.

    जिन पुरुषों का महिलाओ को देखकर मन मचलता था उन्होंने ही महिलाओं को हिजाब डालने के लिए मजबूर किया । आवश्यकता तो अपने मन को मजबूत करने की थी परंतु सजा महिलाओं को दी गई उनको सिर से लेकर पांव तक डाक दिया। यह सरासर नाइंसाफी है । पुरुष अपना मन मजबूत करे और महिलाओ को हिजाब से मुक्ति दें
    — ANIL VIJ MINISTER HARYANA (@anilvijminister) October 13, 2022
    In the identical tweet, he recommended, “Men should strengthen their minds and free women from hijab.”

    In February, amid a row over some college students carrying hijab in Karnataka, Vij had mentioned the prevailing costume code in colleges and schools have to be adopted.

    In view of the break up verdict within the Supreme Court, the bench directed that the appeals in opposition to the excessive court docket verdict be positioned earlier than the Chief Justice of India for constituting an applicable bigger bench.

  • Haryana’s proposed ‘love jihad’ legislation: RTI reveals 3 accused discovered harmless in solely 4 related circumstances

    With Haryana’s BJP-JJP authorities planning to convey a Bill on “love jihad” within the upcoming Budget Session of the Assembly, an RTI question has revealed that solely 4 circumstances had been registered over related expenses in six districts of the state over the past three years. Two circumstances had been cancelled by the police after a probe, whereas the accused within the third case was acquitted by the court docket. The fourth case is pending earlier than a court docket.
    According to the knowledge procured from police officers by RTI activist P P Kapoor, no case of “love jihad” was reported from three districts Hisar, Faridabad and Yamunanagar over the previous three years. “A case lodged in Punhana police station of Mewat area on December 12, 2020 was cancelled after the police inquiry,” says Kapoor. Similarly, a case lodged in Ambala district has additionally been cancelled after a police probe whereas the accused in one other case in the identical district has been acquitted by the court docket. A case lodged in Samalkha police station of Panipat district on July 19, 2019 continues to be pending in court docket.
    Kapoor stated he sought info from district officers of Nuh (Mewat), Yamunanagar, Faridabad, Hisar, Panipat and Ambala, which have a substantial Muslim inhabitants. He particularly sought info relating to complaints and FIRs associated to the circumstances of “love jihad”.
    Haryana Home Minister Anil Vij had earlier introduced a strict legislation will likely be enacted to manage “love jihad” circumstances within the state. When contacted on Wednesday, Vij didn’t reply to a textual content message and a cellphone name.
    Kapoor says he had sought the figures relating to circumstances of affection jihad from state police headquarters too three months again however is but to obtain a response.
    On this, a senior police officer stated, “The police don’t have any data (at state level) on love jihad. Love jihad is a term coined by the politicians and media. So, the police, except in the cases involving atrocities on SC/STs, don’t maintain data according to the religion of the victim and the accused. For us, a crime is a crime. Since, love jihad is not defined in the IPC, how can we tell how many such cases took place.”

  • Haryana minister Anil Vij asks ACS (Home) to instantly provoke course of to nominate subsequent DGP

    Amid ongoing speculations of Haryana’s incumbent Director General of Police (DGP), Manoj Yadava, getting one other extension, state residence minister Anil Vij has directed the house division to instantly provoke the method of appointing Yadava’s successor.
    In his instructions issued to Additional Chief Secretary (Home) Rajeev Arora, Vij has additionally talked about that the submit of DGP shall be thought-about vacant on March 2, 2021 and the house division ought to appoint Yadava’s successor earlier than that date.
    Yadava, a 1988 batch IPS officer, was appointed as Haryana’s DGP on February 18, 2019. He took cost as DGP on February 21, 2019 for a interval of two-year tenure.
    Towards finish of his DO letter, Vij has additionally given a scathing warning to ACS (Home) saying that the IAS officer shall be held “personally responsible in case of any future legal or any kind of complications in the matter”.
    “Your attention is drawn to Government of Haryana’s order dated February 18, 2019 vide which Shri Manoj Yadava, IPS was appointed as the Director General of Police, Haryana (Head of Police Force). It was mentioned in the said order that his term shall be for a period of two years from the date of his assumption of office. As Shri Yadava assumed charge as DGP of Haryana on February 21, 2019, he has completed his two year tenure on February 21, 2021,” Vij’s letter learn.
    It added, “Moreover, as per the orders of Hon’ble Supreme Court of India, it was directed that “All the States shall send their proposals in anticipation of the vacancies to the UPSC well in time, at least three months prior to the date of retirement of the incumbent on the post of DGP”. In compliance of the varied Hon’ble Supreme Court of India’s instructions on this regard, and the truth that Shri Yadava has accomplished his two yr tenure as DGP, a panel of officers who’ve accomplished 30 years of service and have a minimal of six months tenure left in service be despatched instantly to UPSC to be thought-about for the subsequent DGP, Haryana. The date of emptiness of the submit of DGP Haryana could also be thought-about as March 2, 2021”.
    “Based on the above mentioned observations and the gradation list of IPS officers of Haryana, a panel of seven officers needs to be sent to UPSC immediately. In case any clarifications need to be made from your side in the above said, the same should reach this office by February 23, 2021 positively, failing which the same panel shall be deemed to be final and proceeded further. You may note that you shall be held personally responsible for any future legal or any kind of complications in this matter. The matter may be treated as most urgent and of top priority,” Vij’s instructions issued to ACS (Home) acknowledged.