by admin | May 25, 2021 | News, Politics
By Pervez Bari,
Bhopal : The Bhopal Regional office of the National Archives of India (NAI), is organising an exhibition, christened as “Karenge Ya Marenge 75 Chalo Dilli”, from October 2 here at its office premises behind MLB Girls College neat Polytechnic.
Addressing a Press Conference Dr. M. A. Huque, Deputy Director NAI, New Delhi, informed here that two big events in Indian history — Quit India Movement (Bharat Chhodo Andolan) call by Mahatma Gandhi asking the British to leave India, and the formation of Azad Hind Fauj (also known as the Indian National Army) by Subhas Chandra Bose — have completed 75 years on August 9 and September 1 this year respectively.
Dr. Huque said that the exhibition will be inaugurated on October 2 at 4.00 pm by Ajatshatru Srivastava, Commissioner, Bhopal Division and it will continue till November 3rd, 2017.
He said the exhibition will have on display thousands of declassified files and documents related to the two events, including those related to slogans “Karenge Ya Marenge” (Do or Die) by Mahatma Gandhi, “Bharat Chhodo” by Yusuf Mehar Ali and others. Both the developments had taken shape in 1942. The culture ministry has decided to hold an exhibition of the declassified documents related to both these events, including that of Bose and INA, for physical scrutiny of people.
He said that people will get a chance to get a glimpse of documents such as a letter by the Mahatma written on August 8, 1942, in which he coined ‘Karenge ya Marenge’. Since the general public believes that the slogan Bharat Chhodo was given by the Mahatma, documents prove it was freedom fighter Yusuf Mehar Ali who had coined this slogan.
The files related to INA would also have as display the enrolment of Capt. Mohan Singh in the INA on September 1, 1942. Propaganda material like pamphlets, banners, posters and others used by INA will also be displayed.
Meanwhile, Mrs. Pranjana Sinha, Assistant Director of Archives, National Archives of India, Regional office, Bhopal, said the Quit India Movement was an important milestone in India’s Freedom Movement. This Exhibition was inaugurated by the Union Minister of Culture (I/C) Dr. Mahesh Sharma in the premises of the National Archives of India headquarters at New Delhi on August 9 last.
Regarding the Regional office of which she is the head Mrs. Sinha said that this Regional Office is the first offspring of the National Archives of India in the post independent era. The record holdings of this office can be largely grouped into 3 categories. First the records of the erstwhile Bhopal State which are mostly in Persian and Urdu Shikasta script and deal with various administrative machinery of the Bhopal State it cover the 19th & 20th Century and give vivid glimpses of the vibrant socio–cultural, economic and administrative aspects of those times.
Mrs. Sinha said so far very little of this precious primary source on Bhopal State & Central India has been explored; this amounts to one lakh 50,000 files and 20,000 volumes. Besides the Bhopal State records we have in our custody a huge number of volumes of Provincial Gazettes covering 50 provinces of British period and independent India which amount to approximately14000 volumes covering period – 1841-1971.
The third collections are the files of the Govt. of India Records which has 11 Departments to name a few Department of Home, Revenue & Agriculture, Railways, Finance, PWD, Legislative, Commerce & Communication etc. covering a period 1860-1938 which amounts to more than 2 lakh 50,000 files.
Talking about Dr. M. A. Haque she said he had graduated and completed his Masters and M. Phil from Aligarh Muslim University and then completed his Ph.D. when he was posted at Bhopal as Archivist (Oriental Records) and then Assistant Director (OR). On promotion as Deputy Director Dr. Haque joined the National Archives of India, New Delhi. He has been guiding the Regional office since he has a deep knowledge of the Persian, Urdu Shikesta script. Moreover he is also the In Charge of all the four Regional Centres at Jaipur, Puduchery, Bhubaneswar and this office at Bhopal.
At the outset Archivist in the Regional office Mirza Mumtaz Baig, who was also present on the occasion, introduced Dr. M. A. Huque and Mrs. Pranjana Sinha.
by admin | May 25, 2021 | News, Politics
Engineer Rashid
Srinagar : The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Thursday summoned to New Delhi Jammu and Kashmir independent legislator Engineer Rashid for questioning.
Informed sources here said Engineer Rashid, who represents the north Kashmir Langate assembly constituency, has been asked to reach the NIA office on October 3.
The agency is investigating an alleged terror funding case involving separatist leaders, some local businessmen and others.
It is for the first time that a MLA from the state has been summoned by the NIA.
So far, 10 people, including separatist leaders and a businessman, have been arrested by the NIA.
—IANS
by admin | May 25, 2021 | News, Politics
New Delhi : The NIA here on Monday questioned a Kashmir University PhD student and the head of Kashmir Traders’ and Marketing Federation in connection with its ongoing Jammu and Kashmir terror funding case.
The student Aala Fazili and the traders body chief Yasin Mohammad Khan were questioned at the National Investigation (NIA) headquarters here, an official said.
They were summoned by the agency last week to appear before the investigators in the case, he said.
Informed sources said they were questioned about alleged funding to various groups which pelted stones on security forces on several occasions.
Meanwhile, the Kashmir traders’ body staged a protest in the Valley over over the summons issued to its chief in connection with the case.
The NIA had registered a case on May 30 against separatist and secessionist leaders, including unknown members of the Hurriyat Conference, who have been acting in connivance with active militants of proscribed terrorist organisations Hizbul Mujahideen, Dukhtaran-e-Millat, Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and other outfits and gangs, officials said.
The case was registered for raising, receiving and collecting funds through various illegal means, including hawala, for funding separatist and terrorist activities in Jammu and Kashmir and for causing disruption in the Valley by pelting security forces with stones, burning schools, damaging public property and waging war against India, the probe agency said in its FIR.
Hafiz Saeed, the Pakistan-based chief of Jamaat-ud-Dawa, the front of the banned terrorist organisation Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), has been named in the FIR as an accused.
The FIR also names organisations such as the two factions of the Hurriyat, one led by Syed Ali Shah Geelani and the other by Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, Hizbul Mujahideen and Dukhtaran-e-Millat, an all-women outfit of separatists.
The NIA, so far, has arrested 11 persons in the case.
—IANS
by admin | May 25, 2021 | News, Politics
New Delhi : Senior IPS officer Y.C. Modi, who was part of a Supreme Court-appointed probe team in the 2002 Gujarat riots cases, will be the new chief of the NIA.
The decision was taken on Monday by the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet following a Home Ministry proposal.
Modi will succeed Sharad Kumar, who retires on October 30. The designate-Director General will be an Officer on Special Duty with the NIA with immediate effect to ensure a smooth takeover.
He will hold the post till his superannuation on May 31, 2021, according to an order from the Department of Personnel and Training.
A 1984 Assam-Meghalaya cadre IPS officer, Modi takes over the National Investigation Agency at a time when it is probing the funding of separatists and stone-pelters in Jammu and Kashmir by Pakistan-based terrorist groups.
He is currently Special Director with the CBI. He was appointed the Additional Director of the CBI in 2015.
Modi was a part of the Special Investigation Team (SIT) that probed the Gujarat riots cases in August 2010 and remained part of the team till July 2012.
The SIT had cleared Narendra Modi, who at that time was Gujarat’s Chief Minister, in the Gulbarg Society massacre case.
Sharad Kumar, an IPS officer of the 1979 batch of Haryana cadre, was appointed the NIA chief on July 30, 2013. He was given two extensions — the latest on October 23 last year.
—IANS
by admin | May 25, 2021 | News, Politics
Srinagar : Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) chief, Yasin Malik was arrested on Saturday ahead of the proposed separatist protest at the NIA headquarters in Delhi.
The JKLF sources said the police arrested Malik from his uptown Maisuma residence in the city around midnight. “We don’t know where he has been lodged.”
Malik was released from Srinagar central jail on Friday.
The Joint Resistance Leadership (JRL) of separatists comprising of Syed Ali Shah Geelani, Mirwaiz Umer Farooq and Malik had announced that they would hold a protest outside the NIA headquarters in New Delhi on September 9 and also court arrest.
Umer Farooq and Geelani continued to be under house arrest in Srinagar on Saturday.
—IANS
