Mumbai: Mumbai Police has claimed to have arrested Manoj Prasad Singh, a 25-year-old computer programmer from Bellary in Karnataka, for blackmailing a Mumbai college student and threatening to make obscene pictures of women viral on social media. A Mumbai college student had lodged a complaint that the accused had created a fake profile on Instagram and threatened to make her obscene pictures viral, after which the police started investigating him and after investigation it was found that he was working as a security guard in Karnataka and was living there. The accused had completed the Delhi Soft School Computer Training Program in 2016. His mobile phone has also been seized from the possession of the accused. Fake IDs and emails of 100 different women have also been recovered from his mobile. Along with this, fake Instagram IDs of 11 women were also created. 13,500 screenshots and pictures of women and girls were found in the gallery of the phone. The accused used to follow women and girls on Instagram, send them messages and try to make them nude videos and video calls. If these women and girls did not talk obscenely to him, he would create their fake profiles and make them viral on Instagram and other social media. The accused has been arrested and his remand has been obtained. This operation was led by Mumbai Police Commissioner Deven Bharti. It was carried out by DCP Mahesh Chamte.

Kolkata, June 17: A division bench of the Calcutta High Court, on Tuesday, will pass an interim order on the petition filed against the pattern of the fresh survey conducted by the West Bengal government to identify the Other Backwards Classes (OBCs) in the state.

The fresh survey was started by the state government following its promise made to the Supreme Court on March 18, while hearing a matter where the state government challenged an earlier order of the Calcutta High Court in May 2024, scrapping all OBC certificates issued in West Bengal since 2010.

On March 18, the state government also promised the apex court to complete the process of the fresh survey within the next three months. However, a petition was filed at the Calcutta High Court challenging the pattern of the fresh survey.

The petitioner accused the state government of entertaining applications only from those 113 OBC communities that were scrapped by the Calcutta High Court.

Last month, when the hearing on the petition came up at the Calcutta High Court, the division bench also raised some questions on the style of conducting the fresh survey by the state government.

The division bench also observed that if individuals genuinely eligible for getting the OBC certificates are not aware of the details of the fresh survey, they will be denied their legitimate rights, and hence, the main purpose of the fresh survey would be defeated.

It also directed the state government to make proper publicity of the fresh survey by issuing advertisements at the grassroots level, starting from village panchayats. The state government counsels, throughout the course of the hearing, had maintained that the fresh survey was conducted as per the court’s directions.

To recall, in May last year, a division bench of the Calcutta High Court cancelled all the OBC certificates issued in West Bengal after 2010, which ideally meant that all such certificates issued during the current Trinamool Congress regime in the state since 2011 stood cancelled.

Following this order from the division bench of Justice Tapabrata Chakraborty and Justice Rajasekhar Mantha, over 5,00,000 OBC certificates issued during that period stood cancelled and could not be used for enjoying the reservation quota for jobs.

The West Bengal government moved the Supreme Court on the Calcutta High Court order, and in March this year, the apex court allowed the state government to conduct a fresh survey to identify the OBCs in the state.

Mumbai: under the auspices of the All India Muslim Personal Law Board, the “Awqaf Protection Conference” is being held on Friday, June 20, 2025 at 7 pm at Kesarbagh, Sheeda Marg, Charnal, Dongri, Mumbai-9 under the chairmanship of Hazrat Maulana Fazlur Rahim Mujaddidi Sahib, General Secretary All India Muslim Personal Law Board. The country’s renowned preacher and religious scholar, former MP and Vice President of the Muslim Personal Law Board, Hazrat Maulana Obaidullah Khan Azmi, is also participating in this grand conference despite his illness.

Other speakers at the conference included Hazrat Maulana Syed Khalid Ashraf (Head of Darul Uloom Muhammadiya, Minareh Masjid), Hazrat Maulana Mahmood Ahmed Khan Daryabadi (Convenor Maharashtra, Waqf Bachao Tehreek Muslim Personal Law Board), Hazrat Maulana Mufti Saeed-ur-Rehman Farooqui (Founding Member Personal Law Board), Hazrat Maulana Ijaz Ahmed Kashmiri (Khateeb Handi Wali Masjid), Hazrat Maulana Kamal Ahmed Khan (Shiite religious scholar), Mr. Abdul Mujeeb Sheikh (Secretary of Jamaat-e-Islami), Hazrat Maulana Abdul Jalil Salafi (Representative of Provincial Jamiat Ahle Hadith).

Mr. Arvind Sawant (MP), Mr. Abu Asim Azmi (MLA), Mr. Amin Patel (MLA), Mr. Raees Shaikh (MLA), Mr. Haroon Khan (MLA), Mr. Manoj Jam Sutkar (MLA), Mr. Yusuf Abrahani (Ex-MLA), Mr. Waris Pathan (Ex-MLA), Mr. Bashir Patel (Ex-MLA) are joining as other guests.

The convener of this program, Maulana Rooh Zafar, Khatib of Shia Mosque Dongri, has provided this information. The members of the Convener and Management Committee as well as members of the Muslim Personal Law Board, Farid Sheikh, Saleem Motorwala, Hafiz Iqbal Chunawala, Maulana Usayed Qasmi, Shakir Sheikh and Dr. Azimuddin have appealed to the brothers of Islam to participate in maximum numbers.