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Kaali film controversy: Leena Manimekalai booked by Delhi and UP police for hurting religious sentiments through movie poster
Amid the ongoing controversy over the poster of the film Kaali, Delhi and Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday registered FIRs against the filmmaker Leena Manimekalai for hurting religious sentiments by portraying the goddess Kali in a bad manner.

Amid the ongoing controversy over the poster of the film Kaali, Delhi and Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday registered FIRs against the filmmaker Leena Manimekalai for hurting religious sentiments by portraying the goddess Kali in a bad manner. In the FIRs, she has been charged with criminal conspiracy, intentionally hurting religious sentiments, offense in a place of worship, and intention to disturb the peace.
The action by the police comes after days when multiple complaints against the filmmaker have been filed in different police stations. Advocate Ved Prakash Shukla also loaded an FIR against Manimekalai at Lucknow’s Hazratganj police station launching the movie poster where the Hindu god was seen in an objectionable avatar. Many users on social media also demanded the immediate arrest of her playing with religious sentiments.
When the controversial poster sparked a hate campaign against the filmmaker on all the social media platforms, the High Commission of India in Canada’s Ottawa on July 4 issued an official statement to the concerned authority there, asking them to take action against the filmmaker who has Insulted Hindu god. The statement also asked to withdraw all provocative material in the country.
Why people demanding the arrest of Kaali filmmaker?
The Toronto-based filmaker launched the poster of the document Kaali that shows a woman dressed like a Hindu god, smoking a cigarette, holding or waving the LGBT community flag. After seeing such hate on her side, Manimekalai asked her fans and viewers to support her by using the hashtag ‘Love you Leena Manimekalaik under their posts on the micro-blogging site Twitter. She also asked her support to write Leena has nothing to lose.
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Railway Board recommends CBI investigation into Odisha train accident, says Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw
Earlier in the day the Minister speaking to the reporters at the Crash site in Balasore informed that the root cause behind the accident has been identified and will soon be revealed.

Union Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Sunday, has informed about the Railway Board’s recommendation of Central Bureau of Investigation(CBI) probe into the tragic train accident in Odisha on June 2 claiming the lives of almost 300 people and more the 1000 injured.
Vaishnaw while speaking to the media at Bhubaneswar said, taking the administrative information into consideration, the Railway Board has been recommending the entire case to CBI for the probe into the matter.
Earlier in the day the Minister speaking to the reporters at the Crash site in Balasore informed that the root cause behind the accident has been identified and will soon be revealed.
Vaishnaw also had said that the enquiry into the matter has been completed by the Railway Commissioner and the report will be submitted soon.
Vaishnaw added that all the dead bodies were recovered from the crash site along with the completion of the rescue operations, the restoration work and the clearance of the wreckage is underway and will be completed by Wednesday morning to bring back a normalcy in the operation of trains.
On Friday evening, near the Bahanaga Railway station in Balasore district of Odisha, in a heart-wrenching turn of events, three trains collided that included two superfast express trains and one stationery train.
In the dreadful mishap, nearly 300 people were killed and more than 1000 people travelling in the train were injured.
Heart-breaking visuals of corpses being transported in trucks and tractors from the accident spot also surfaced.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, Railway Minister Vaishnaw along other senior officials of the state and Central government visited ground-zero to take stock of the situation and the rescue operations.
The Centre and the state government have also announced compensation worth Rs 10 lakh and Rs 5 lakh respectively to the deceased’s family members.
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Odisha train accident: Police issues warning for spreading false statement provoking communal disturbance to social media users
Some pictures have been viral, showing a white building structure next to the railway track where the dreadful tragedy took place. Reports said, the structure in the viral image is the Bahanaga ISKCON temple and not a mosque.

In the wake of the horrific train accident in Balasore on Friday evening, Odisha Police today has appealed to social media users to not to circulate false statements regarding the train accident stating that many social media handles are giving communal colour to the tragic train accident, which is highly unfortunate.
Since the horrific accident took place, internet is flooded with crash site images and visuals along with information related to it. While, some information shared by the users appear to be true, some seem spreading news and some are appearing to be communally provoking, which is after the said decision has been taken by the Odisha Police.
On different social media platforms, people are sharing images of the spot where the train collided, claiming a white structure near the spot is a mosque alleging that the Muslim community is responsible for the accident.
Some pictures have been viral, showing a white building structure next to the railway track where the dreadful tragedy took place. Reports said, the structure in the viral image is the Bahanaga ISKCON temple and not a mosque.
The Odisha Police said the investigation to find out the cause of the accident is being done by the GRP Odisha and appealed to prevent from circulating false and ill-motivated posts.
It has also warned of a legal action against those trying to create a communal dis-balance by spreading rumors.
Meanwhile, the authorities of the ISKCON temple in Bahanaga have accepted that the train accident happened on the tracks is near the temple and also confirmed that the ISKCON temple is visible close to the crash site.
In a shocking turn of events, a train accident on June 2 near Bahanaga railway station in Balasore district of Odisha killed nearly 300 people and more than 1000 inured.
Union Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw today informed, all the dead bodies have been recovered and the injured have been rescued from the site and the restoration work is currently underway, expected to be end by Wednesday.
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2 year-old girl in Gujarat declared dead after being rescued from inside a bore well
According to Jamnagar Taluka Development Officer N A Sarvaiya, the rescue effort that Army and NDRF soldiers lasted all night.

A 2-year old girl child declared dead after was rescued from a bore well, into which she fell and was stuck for more than 21 hours in Gujarat’s Jamnagar district.
On Saturday, at around 9:30 am, Roshni, fell down inside a bore well, as soon as the local administration received information about the incident, around 11 am, it launched a rescue operation involving the fire department personnel.
The girl was stuck around 25-30 feet deep in the bore well. The incident took place in Tamachan hamlet, near the border of Jamwantli in Jamnagar tehsil
The rescue operation lasted for 21 hours and Roshni was with the assistance of the NDRF at about 5:45 am on Sunday.
She was immediately rushed to the GG Hospital in the city, where doctors after examination declared her dead. Roshni’s body has been sent for post-mortem, after the examination, the child’s body will be returned to her parents.
Roshni was the daughter of a labour working in the farm, where she got trapped inside the bore well. Roshni’s family is from Devpura in Madhya Pradesh.
According to Jamnagar Taluka Development Officer N A Sarvaiya, the rescue effort that Army and NDRF soldiers lasted all night.
A private bore well robot technology was also used in the rescue operation to fill the borewell with water.
Similar cases have been reported in the past, earlier in June last year, a two-year-old child fell into a bore well at a farm, the child was fortunately rescued with the efforts of multiple teams of disaster management soldiers, fire department officials, police and author authorities of the administration.
In 2010, the Supreme Court had issued guidelines to set up barbed wire fencing around the tube wells during construction, using steel plate covers fixed with bolts over the well assembly and filling up bore wells from the bottom to the ground level, to prevent any such incidents.
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