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“Data On Crimes Against Individual Communities Not Kept Centrally”: Minister Of State For Home Affairs

New Delhi: Minister of State for Home Affairs, Nityanand Rai, speaking at Lok Sabha said that specific data regarding crimes against individual communities is centrally not maintained. The minister said so while replying to a question on crimes against Christians by MP Vincent H Pala.

The minister had asked whether there was a more than 95% increase in religious crimes according to the 2020 National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) report.

On being asked what measures the Centre had taken, the Minister said, “Public order and police are State subjects as per the Seventh Schedule to the Constitution. The responsibility to maintain law and order primarily rests with the respective state governments.”

Rai further added that the government of India monitors the internal security and law and order situation in the country. For maintaining peace and tranquillity, advisories are being issued from time to time.

On being requested, the government also deploys Central Armed Police Forces to aid and assist the State government. Further to strengthening the law and order machinery, a central scheme for modernization of State Police forces has been implemented by the government and has an institutionalized mechanism for sharing intelligence for effective maintenance of public order.

In this regard, it can be mentioned that NCRB collates data relating to crimes as supplied by the state and Union Territories. However, specific data regarding crimes against individual communities are not maintained centrally.

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Salman Khan Challenges Summons Issued Against Him, Over Journalist’s Complaint

Ashmita Chhabria

Mumbai: Actor Salman Khan has approached the Bombay High Court challenging the summons issued to him by a lower court in connection with misbehaving with a journalist in 2019.

Salman Khan’s plea will be heard by a single bench of Justice Revati Mohite Dere today.

A civil court had last month issued a process (summons) to Salman Khan and his bodyguard Nawaz Shaikh and directed them to appear before it on April 5.

Salman Khan in his plea has sought to repel the lower court order issuing the process (summons) should be stayed by the way of interim relief.

Journalist Ashok Pandey had filed a private complaint before the magistrate’s court seeking criminal action to be initiated against Salman Khan and Nawaz Shaikh.

The journalist has claimed that in April 2019, he and a cameraperson tried to film Salman Khan, who was cycling. The journalist said that he had taken permission from his bodyguard to film Salman Khan, but after Salman noticed and objected, he was manhandled by the bodyguards and his phone was snatched by Salman Khan.

On March 23, a magistrate court had issued summons to actor Salman Khan and his bodyguard Nawaz Shaikh, on a complaint filed by a journalist claiming that he was assaulted in 2019. Metropolitan Magistrate RR Khan had noted that a police report submitted in the matter stated that offenses under Indian Penal Code Sections 504 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of peace) and 506 (criminal intimidation) are made out against the accused persons.

The DN Nagar Police was directed to conduct an inquiry and submit a report by the magistrate’s court.

After going through the report, the court stated that there were sufficient grounds to proceed against the accused persons.

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