Explained: This article explains the political background, key decisions, and possible outcomes related to Explained : Bangladesh leader hurt in shooting, Kerala decries Sangh ‘hate politics’ & more and Its Impact and why it matters right now.
A key leader of Bangladesh’s student-led National Citizen Party, Muhammad Motaleb Shikder, was hospitalised after being shot in Khulna district. Shikder is a central leader of the newly-formed party’s labour wing, the Jatiya Sramik Shakti.
Shikder was shot amid a fresh wave of violence in the country triggered by the killing of student leader Sharif Osman Bin Hadi in Dhaka. Hadi died in Singapore on December 18, six days after he was shot.
The death of Hadi, a prominent leader of the student-led movement against the Sheikh Hasina government in 2024, triggered protests, vandalism and clashes in several parts of Bangladesh.
In an interview to ANI, Hasina blamed the interim government led by Muhammad Yunus for the violence, warning that the deteriorating law and order situation was hurting relations with India. Read more.
The Kerala government alleged that a migrant worker from Chhattisgarh who was lynched in Palakkad on December 17 was a “victim of Sangh Parivar’s hate politics”. The state Local Self Government Minister MB Rajesh alleged that the man, Ramnarayan Baghel, had been “attacked after being stigmatised as Bangladeshi”.
Baghel, who hailed from Champa district of Chhattisgarh, was lynched in Palakkad’s Attappallam village after being accused of theft. In a video of the incident, the assailants can be heard asking Baghel: “Are you a Bangladeshi?”
Commenting on the killing, Rajesh, a Communist Party of India (Marxist) leader from Palakkad, alleged that the assailants included Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh workers who are facing criminal charges in other cases.
The Kerala Police arrested five persons in the case on Thursday and charged them with murder. Read more.
A court in Uttar Pradesh’s Bulandshahr sentenced five persons convicted in a 2016 gangrape case to life imprisonment. The men had held a family captive at gunpoint, looted cash and jewellery, and raped two, including a 13-year-old girl.
The men – Juber alias Sunil, Sajid; Dharamvir alias Jitender, Naresh alias Sandip Baheliya and Sunil Kumar alias Sagar – had been found guilty on Saturday.
The gangrape and dacoity case had sparked widespread outrage at the time.
The Allahabad High Court had transferred the probe in the case to the Central Bureau of Investigation. The agency filed a chargesheet in November 2016 against three persons, and submitted a supplementary chargesheet in April 2018 against six others. One of the accused men died in judicial custody while the trial was pending. Read more.
The Supreme Court asked the Uttarakhand government why it was “sitting like mute spectators” amid alleged large-scale grabbing of forest land, and initiated a suo moto case in the matter. The bench also directed the state authorities to set up a fact-finding committee.
After assessing the situation, the committee will submit a report, which will enable the court to understand the scale of the alleged encroachment of forest land and how state authorities have responded.
The court also ordered that all construction on forest land be stopped immediately and for the Forest Department to take over all vacant land, except areas where residential houses already stand. Read on.
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