Our Hindu Rashtra writer Aakar Patel was stopped from leaving India at Bengaluru Airport. He was heading to the US but was stopped at the airport and the CBI officer said that he is on the lookout circular due to the case filed against Amnesty International India.

He shared about the incident on Twitter and wrote that he even got the passport through a court order specifically for his trip to the US. He further said that immigration told him that CBI has put him on the exit control list.

Patel said that the CBI officer called and said that he is on the lookout circular because of the case in which he tweeted against PM Modi. He even mentioned that the case was filed by the Modi government against Amnesty International India.

It is reported that his passport was released for a trip to the US upon deposit of the amount of Rs. 2 lakhs and according to the condition mentioned by the court, Aakar Patel has to surrender the pass[port within five days after his return to India.

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In 2020, Aakar Patel was booked under several sections of the Indian Penal Code- sections 153 A, 295 A, 505 (1) B, 505 (1) C, 499, and 500 for his three tweets that were against PM Modi, BJP-RSS and Ghanchi caste.

In the tweet, he alleged that PM Modi is from the Ghanchi caste. He also mentioned that the caste was added to the Other Backward Caste list in 1999 by then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s government.

He even said that those who belonged to the Muslim Ghanchi community are responsible for the Sabarmati train carnage that took place in 2002.

In a tweet, he wrote, “The RSS and BJP always profit by the violence against other Indians, especially Muslims. Vajpayee more than Upadhyaya, Advani more than Vajpayee, and Modi more than Advani benefitted from this. We have to stop this cycle of violence and blood profit by the RSS and BJP”.

After that, a case was registered against him and after that, he got arrested and later received bail.

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Amnesty International has decided to shut its India offices after the Enforcement Directorate’s latest move to freeze its accounts. The agency termed this move as the government’s witch-hunt over unfounded and motivated allegations.

Amnesty International India (AI India) noted that it decided to shut down its operations in India after it was compelled to let go off staff in India and halt all its research work as the government froze all its bank accounts. The ED, following an FIR by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), filed on November 5, 2019, on charges of an alleged violation of the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act (FCRA), had initiated a separate probe last year. The ED has now converted the preliminary inquiry into an ECIR (the equivalent of an FIR) alleging money laundering charges and froze all of AI India’s bank accounts.

Amnesty said the complete freezing of AI India’s bank accounts by the Government of India, which it came to know on September 10, brings all the work being done by the organization to a grinding halt. The move comes a month after the AI India accused the Delhi Police of complicity in the riots that erupted in the capital in February this year.

Avinash Kumar, Executive Director, AI India, said the government’s aggressive pressure on the organisation in the last two years is not accidental. He said the constant harassment by government agencies including the ED is a result of AI’s unequivocal calls for transparency in the government, more recently for the accountability of the Delhi Police and the Government of India regarding the grave human rights violations in the Delhi riots and in Jammu and Kashmir.

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In August, an investigation conducted by the organisation alleged that there was a denial of medical services to victims, failure to rescue them, excessive and arbitrary use of force on protesters and differential treatment of assemblies, no response to multiple calls leaving the survivors to fend for themselves over the period of six days of violence in Delhi.

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