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  • Anti-conversion legislation: MP executive to transport SC towards intervening time reduction given to interfaith {couples}

    By means of PTI

    JABALPUR: The Madhya Pradesh executive goes to transport the Best Court docket to problem the prime courtroom’s intervening time order restraining it from prosecuting interfaith {couples} who input wedlock with out informing the district Justice of the Peace.

    The prime courtroom, in an intervening time order, directed the state executive to not prosecute beneath phase 10 of the MP Freedom of Faith Act (MPFRA) adults who solemnise their marriage on their very own volition.

    A department bench of Justices Sujoy Paul and PC Gupta on November 14 seen that phase 10, which makes it mandatory for a citizen wanting (non secular) conversion to provide a (prior) declaration on this regard to the district Justice of the Peace, is “in our opinion ex facie, unconstitutional within the enamel of aforesaid judgments of this courtroom.”

    “The state executive goes to transport the Best Court docket to problem the prime courtroom’s intervening time order, which restrains it from prosecuting beneath phase 10 of the MPFRA adults who solemnise their marriage on their very own volition,” Recommend Basic Prashant Singh informed PTI on Sunday.

    The MPFRA forbids conversions via misrepresentation, allurement, use of risk of power, undue affect, coercion, marriage or via some other fraudulent method.

    “We’re going to report a plea within the honourable Best Court docket in a while,” Singh stated.

    The prime courtroom’s intervening time course got here on a host of 7 petitions difficult provisions of the MPFRA, 2021.

    The petitioners sought intervening time reduction to restrain the state from prosecuting any person beneath the Act.

    The courtroom had granted 3 weeks’ time to the state executive to report its para-wise respond to the petitions and stated that the petitioners would possibly report a rejoinder inside 21 days thereafter.

    JABALPUR: The Madhya Pradesh executive goes to transport the Best Court docket to problem the prime courtroom’s intervening time order restraining it from prosecuting interfaith {couples} who input wedlock with out informing the district Justice of the Peace.

    The prime courtroom, in an intervening time order, directed the state executive to not prosecute beneath phase 10 of the MP Freedom of Faith Act (MPFRA) adults who solemnise their marriage on their very own volition.

    A department bench of Justices Sujoy Paul and PC Gupta on November 14 seen that phase 10, which makes it mandatory for a citizen wanting (non secular) conversion to provide a (prior) declaration on this regard to the district Justice of the Peace, is “in our opinion ex facie, unconstitutional within the enamel of aforesaid judgments of this courtroom.”

    “The state executive goes to transport the Best Court docket to problem the prime courtroom’s intervening time order, which restrains it from prosecuting beneath phase 10 of the MPFRA adults who solemnise their marriage on their very own volition,” Recommend Basic Prashant Singh informed PTI on Sunday.

    The MPFRA forbids conversions via misrepresentation, allurement, use of risk of power, undue affect, coercion, marriage or via some other fraudulent method.

    “We’re going to report a plea within the honourable Best Court docket in a while,” Singh stated.

    The prime courtroom’s intervening time course got here on a host of 7 petitions difficult provisions of the MPFRA, 2021.

    The petitioners sought intervening time reduction to restrain the state from prosecuting any person beneath the Act.

    The courtroom had granted 3 weeks’ time to the state executive to report its para-wise respond to the petitions and stated that the petitioners would possibly report a rejoinder inside 21 days thereafter.

  • MP Human Rights Fee acts over minister Usha Thakur calling for public putting of rapists

    Via ANI

    BHOPAL: Madhya Pradesh Human Rights Fee (MPHRC) has taken cognizance of the remark of Tourism and Tradition Minister Usha Thakur in connection together with her beside the point remarks concerning the Human Rights Fee and putting rapists on the crossroads.

    The fee additionally sought a answer from Madhya Pradesh Leader Secretary in 15 days. MPHRC member Manohar Mamtani mentioned that the answer must be given best via a accountable officer of the state executive in order that the seriousness of the governance can be thought to be.

    Minister Thakur had mentioned that rapists must be hanged on the crossings and must no longer also be cremated. Their lifeless our bodies must be eaten through eagles and crows. She additionally mentioned that such rapists had no human rights and if the Human Rights Fee interferes, nobody must fear about it.

    She made the above commentary whilst addressing a public accumulating at Ambedkar Nagar, Mhow in Indore on November 13.

    Mamtani mentioned that the fee discovered that whilst preserving a decent ministerial place within the executive, the remark given through the minister was once in opposition to the fundamental spirit of the Indian Charter and in opposition to the Human Rights Fee. Her commentary was once beside the point and objectionable, Mamtani added.

    Regarding the felony precedents of the Preferrred Courtroom and the provisions discussed in Article 21 of the Indian Charter, the Fee has mentioned that everybody has elementary rights. Prisoners even have elementary rights. 
    READ | ‘Rapists must be publicly hanged’, MP minister says it once more

    BHOPAL: Madhya Pradesh Human Rights Fee (MPHRC) has taken cognizance of the remark of Tourism and Tradition Minister Usha Thakur in connection together with her beside the point remarks concerning the Human Rights Fee and putting rapists on the crossroads.

    The fee additionally sought a answer from Madhya Pradesh Leader Secretary in 15 days. MPHRC member Manohar Mamtani mentioned that the answer must be given best via a accountable officer of the state executive in order that the seriousness of the governance can be thought to be.

    Minister Thakur had mentioned that rapists must be hanged on the crossings and must no longer also be cremated. Their lifeless our bodies must be eaten through eagles and crows. She additionally mentioned that such rapists had no human rights and if the Human Rights Fee interferes, nobody must fear about it.

    She made the above commentary whilst addressing a public accumulating at Ambedkar Nagar, Mhow in Indore on November 13.

    Mamtani mentioned that the fee discovered that whilst preserving a decent ministerial place within the executive, the remark given through the minister was once in opposition to the fundamental spirit of the Indian Charter and in opposition to the Human Rights Fee. Her commentary was once beside the point and objectionable, Mamtani added.

    Regarding the felony precedents of the Preferrred Courtroom and the provisions discussed in Article 21 of the Indian Charter, the Fee has mentioned that everybody has elementary rights. Prisoners even have elementary rights. READ | ‘Rapists must be publicly hanged’, MP minister says it once more

  • MP lady calls for feminine buddy from Rajasthan to marry her, ‘creates ruckus’; arrested 

    Via PTI

    JAIPUR: A girl from Madhya Pradesh was once arrested after she ‘created a ruckus’ at her feminine buddy’s area in Rajasthan’s Nagaur, pronouncing she sought after to marry her, police mentioned on Sunday.

    The 2 ladies, elderly between 21 and 25, met on social media a few years in the past and become pals, Superintendent of Police Ram Moorthy Joshi mentioned.

    The girl from Madhya Pradesh allegedly sought after to marry her buddy and likewise sought a bodily courting along with her. She additionally demanded Rs 10 lakh. Additional, she threatened the Rajasthan lady of leaking their chats on social media if she didn’t settle for the calls for, the SP claimed bringing up the criticism.

    “The Madhya Pradesh lady reached her buddy’s area at Ladnun in Nagaur on Saturday evening and created a ruckus. She sought after the lady to get married to her. The sufferer and her members of the family filed a police criticism lately, and then an FIR for area trespass and extortion was once registered,” Joshi claimed.

    The Madhya Pradesh lady has been arrested, he added.

    JAIPUR: A girl from Madhya Pradesh was once arrested after she ‘created a ruckus’ at her feminine buddy’s area in Rajasthan’s Nagaur, pronouncing she sought after to marry her, police mentioned on Sunday.

    The 2 ladies, elderly between 21 and 25, met on social media a few years in the past and become pals, Superintendent of Police Ram Moorthy Joshi mentioned.

    The girl from Madhya Pradesh allegedly sought after to marry her buddy and likewise sought a bodily courting along with her. She additionally demanded Rs 10 lakh. Additional, she threatened the Rajasthan lady of leaking their chats on social media if she didn’t settle for the calls for, the SP claimed bringing up the criticism.

    “The Madhya Pradesh lady reached her buddy’s area at Ladnun in Nagaur on Saturday evening and created a ruckus. She sought after the lady to get married to her. The sufferer and her members of the family filed a police criticism lately, and then an FIR for area trespass and extortion was once registered,” Joshi claimed.

    The Madhya Pradesh lady has been arrested, he added.

  • After farmer falls to dying from rope bridge, MP minister guarantees everlasting construction over nullah

    By means of PTI

    INDORE: Citizens of a village in Indore in Madhya Pradesh have dismantled a rope bridge over a nullah (main drain) from which a farmer fell and died lately after state minister Tulsiram Silawat promised to exchange it with an everlasting construction, a panchayat professional stated on Friday.

    Farmer Premnarayan Patel (45) of Silotia village had fallen off the bridge and into the nullah on Monday, resulting in Tilwat, the state’s water assets minister, visiting the spot on Thursday.

    Silwat introduced he would sanction Rs 15 lakh for the brand new bridge and in addition passed over Rs 4 lakh as ex-gratia to Patel’s family, as in line with native officers.

    “After Silawat’s announcement to construct an everlasting bridge, other folks right here have dismantled the rope bridge.

    We have now been not easy an everlasting construction over the nullah for the previous 20 years,” Silotia village sarpanch Kamal Patel stated.

    “Folks crossed the two-rope bridge with issue and chance. They used the bridge to steer clear of a 6-kilometre highway shuttle to get to their farms,” sarpanch Patel added.

    Silotia is a part of Silawat’s Sanver Meeting constituency.

    INDORE: Citizens of a village in Indore in Madhya Pradesh have dismantled a rope bridge over a nullah (main drain) from which a farmer fell and died lately after state minister Tulsiram Silawat promised to exchange it with an everlasting construction, a panchayat professional stated on Friday.

    Farmer Premnarayan Patel (45) of Silotia village had fallen off the bridge and into the nullah on Monday, resulting in Tilwat, the state’s water assets minister, visiting the spot on Thursday.

    Silwat introduced he would sanction Rs 15 lakh for the brand new bridge and in addition passed over Rs 4 lakh as ex-gratia to Patel’s family, as in line with native officers.

    “After Silawat’s announcement to construct an everlasting bridge, other folks right here have dismantled the rope bridge.

    We have now been not easy an everlasting construction over the nullah for the previous 20 years,” Silotia village sarpanch Kamal Patel stated.

    “Folks crossed the two-rope bridge with issue and chance. They used the bridge to steer clear of a 6-kilometre highway shuttle to get to their farms,” sarpanch Patel added.

    Silotia is a part of Silawat’s Sanver Meeting constituency.

  • Madhya Pradesh: Guy rapes four-year-old lady, throws her in sugarcane box in Khandwa

    Through PTI

    KHANDWA: A four-year-old lady used to be raped by way of a person and deserted in a sugarcane box in Madhya Pradesh’s Khandwa district, police mentioned on Tuesday.

    The kid, who used to be discovered subconscious within the timber at the box on Monday, is present process remedy at a medical institution in Indore, an legit mentioned.

    The incident got here to gentle when the lady used to be reported lacking from her relative’s area in Jaswadi on Monday morning, superintendent of police (SP) Vivek Singh mentioned.

    The police have been knowledgeable and a seek used to be introduced for the lacking lady, he mentioned.

    Right through the probe, the police zeroed in on a 25-year-old guy operating at an eatery within the locality.

    The person had allegedly approached the sufferer’s circle of relatives on Sunday night time to borrow a cot, the legit mentioned.

    On interrogation, the person admitted to have taken the lady to a box and raped her.

    In response to the tips, the lacking kid used to be discovered subconscious on the box, he mentioned.

    The woman used to be to begin with taken to the district medical institution, however later shifted to Indore for remedy, the legit mentioned.

    The accused allegedly kidnapped the lady whilst she used to be drowsing, took her to the sector the place he raped her and later threw her within the timber, he mentioned.

    The police had to begin with registered a case below phase 363 (kidnapping) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), and later added phase 376 (rape) and related provisions of the Coverage of Youngsters from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, the legit mentioned.

    Whilst the accused has additionally claimed the involvement of someone else within the crime, the similar isn’t showed and the police are investigating the declare, he mentioned.

    KHANDWA: A four-year-old lady used to be raped by way of a person and deserted in a sugarcane box in Madhya Pradesh’s Khandwa district, police mentioned on Tuesday.

    The kid, who used to be discovered subconscious within the timber at the box on Monday, is present process remedy at a medical institution in Indore, an legit mentioned.

    The incident got here to gentle when the lady used to be reported lacking from her relative’s area in Jaswadi on Monday morning, superintendent of police (SP) Vivek Singh mentioned.

    The police have been knowledgeable and a seek used to be introduced for the lacking lady, he mentioned.

    Right through the probe, the police zeroed in on a 25-year-old guy operating at an eatery within the locality.

    The person had allegedly approached the sufferer’s circle of relatives on Sunday night time to borrow a cot, the legit mentioned.

    On interrogation, the person admitted to have taken the lady to a box and raped her.

    In response to the tips, the lacking kid used to be discovered subconscious on the box, he mentioned.

    The woman used to be to begin with taken to the district medical institution, however later shifted to Indore for remedy, the legit mentioned.

    The accused allegedly kidnapped the lady whilst she used to be drowsing, took her to the sector the place he raped her and later threw her within the timber, he mentioned.

    The police had to begin with registered a case below phase 363 (kidnapping) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), and later added phase 376 (rape) and related provisions of the Coverage of Youngsters from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, the legit mentioned.

    Whilst the accused has additionally claimed the involvement of someone else within the crime, the similar isn’t showed and the police are investigating the declare, he mentioned.

  • Madhya Pradesh information 1,595 dengue circumstances up to now this 12 months; important drop from 2021

    By way of PTI

    BHOPAL: No less than 1,595 circumstances of dengue had been detected in Madhya Pradesh up to now this 12 months, which is an important decline from the remaining 12 months’s infections, an professional from the state well being division stated on Friday.

    In 2021, the state had recorded 10,102 circumstances of dengue throughout the similar duration, whilst this 12 months greater than 21,000 exams have been carried out and 1,595 circumstances have been detected, Madhya Pradesh’s malaria regulate officer Dr Himanshu Jaiswar stated.

    A survey was once carried out in additional than 79 lakh properties within the state for dengue larvae and efforts have been repeatedly underway to do away with mosquitoes (aedes aegypti), he stated.

    Exams, remedies and precautionary measures are being taken as according to protocol, he stated.

    As according to the directives of the Central executive, 64 centres have been designated to habits ELISA exams for the detection of dengue and chikungunya circumstances and efforts are directly to break dengue larva at its supply via spreading consciousness amongst other people, the professional stated.

    BHOPAL: No less than 1,595 circumstances of dengue had been detected in Madhya Pradesh up to now this 12 months, which is an important decline from the remaining 12 months’s infections, an professional from the state well being division stated on Friday.

    In 2021, the state had recorded 10,102 circumstances of dengue throughout the similar duration, whilst this 12 months greater than 21,000 exams have been carried out and 1,595 circumstances have been detected, Madhya Pradesh’s malaria regulate officer Dr Himanshu Jaiswar stated.

    A survey was once carried out in additional than 79 lakh properties within the state for dengue larvae and efforts have been repeatedly underway to do away with mosquitoes (aedes aegypti), he stated.

    Exams, remedies and precautionary measures are being taken as according to protocol, he stated.

    As according to the directives of the Central executive, 64 centres have been designated to habits ELISA exams for the detection of dengue and chikungunya circumstances and efforts are directly to break dengue larva at its supply via spreading consciousness amongst other people, the professional stated.

  • 3 arrested in Madhya Pradesh for attacking, robbing Portuguese vacationer

    By means of PTI

    BHOPAL: 3 individuals have been arrested on Thursday for allegedly attacking and robbing a 41-year-old vacationer from Portugal on October 23 right here, a Madhya Pradesh police reputable mentioned.

    Nunu Rodrigues used to be attacked and injured whilst he used to be strolling via a lake beneath Mangalwara police station limits on Sunday.

    3 individuals within the 23-24 age workforce have been arrested on Thursday for the incident, through which Rodrigues’ pricey sun shades have been stolen, Crime Department Assistant Commissioner of Police Shivpal Singh Kushwaha informed PTI.

    ALSO READ | Burglar stuck asleep close to crime scene in Chennai’s Pallikaranai

    “The 3 have confessed to the crime and feature been charged beneath related Indian  Penal Code (IPC) sections,” he added.

    “Rodrigues hails from Funchal in Nova-Mafra in Portugal. He’s right here on a vacationer visa. He used to be attacked on Sunday. Rodrigues attempted to fend off the assault and raised an alarm, and then the accused fled,” Mangalwara police station inspector Sandeep Pawar mentioned.

    BHOPAL: 3 individuals have been arrested on Thursday for allegedly attacking and robbing a 41-year-old vacationer from Portugal on October 23 right here, a Madhya Pradesh police reputable mentioned.

    Nunu Rodrigues used to be attacked and injured whilst he used to be strolling via a lake beneath Mangalwara police station limits on Sunday.

    3 individuals within the 23-24 age workforce have been arrested on Thursday for the incident, through which Rodrigues’ pricey sun shades have been stolen, Crime Department Assistant Commissioner of Police Shivpal Singh Kushwaha informed PTI.

    ALSO READ | Burglar stuck asleep close to crime scene in Chennai’s Pallikaranai

    “The 3 have confessed to the crime and feature been charged beneath related Indian  Penal Code (IPC) sections,” he added.

    “Rodrigues hails from Funchal in Nova-Mafra in Portugal. He’s right here on a vacationer visa. He used to be attacked on Sunday. Rodrigues attempted to fend off the assault and raised an alarm, and then the accused fled,” Mangalwara police station inspector Sandeep Pawar mentioned.

  • MP girl killed as metal shards pierce her after bursting cracker by means of placing metal field on it

    Via PTI

    MANDSAUR: A 19-year-old girl died after items of metal pierced her frame when she burst a firecracker by means of maintaining a tiffin field the wrong way up on it in Madhya Pradesh’s Mandsaur district on Wednesday, police mentioned.

    The incident took place at Karju village when the sufferer used to be bursting crackers out of doors her area, mentioned Bhaugarh police station in-charge Arvind Singh Rathore.

    “The younger girl put a metal tiffin-box the wrong way up on ‘sutli bomb’ (firecracker product of jute wire) after lights it. Alternatively, because the cracker burst, it shattered the metal field into items and its splinters entered her frame, together with the tummy,” he mentioned.

    She used to be rushed to the district health center, the place medical doctors declared her lifeless, he mentioned.

    MANDSAUR: A 19-year-old girl died after items of metal pierced her frame when she burst a firecracker by means of maintaining a tiffin field the wrong way up on it in Madhya Pradesh’s Mandsaur district on Wednesday, police mentioned.

    The incident took place at Karju village when the sufferer used to be bursting crackers out of doors her area, mentioned Bhaugarh police station in-charge Arvind Singh Rathore.

    “The younger girl put a metal tiffin-box the wrong way up on ‘sutli bomb’ (firecracker product of jute wire) after lights it. Alternatively, because the cracker burst, it shattered the metal field into items and its splinters entered her frame, together with the tummy,” he mentioned.

    She used to be rushed to the district health center, the place medical doctors declared her lifeless, he mentioned.

  • Dalit couple, son shot useless in Madhya Pradesh village

    Through PTI

    DAMOH: A 32-year-old Dalit guy and his oldsters had been shot useless in Madhya Pradesh’s Damoh district on Tuesday after he have been accused of staring on the spouse of one of the crucial assailants, police stated.

    The 32-year-old sufferer’s two more youthful brothers had been injured within the assault whilst the principle accused has been arrested, officers stated.

    The incident came about round 6.30 am at Devran village below Dehat police station limits, some 20 km from Damoh district headquarters, Superintendent of Police D R Teniwar stated.

    Six assailants, who belonged to the similar village, allegedly shot useless the 60-year-old Dalit guy, his 58-year-old spouse and their 32-year-old son.

    The aged couple’s two different sons, elderly 28 and 30, had been injured within the assault and present process remedy on the district medical institution, the legit stated.

    Inspector Normal of Sagar zone Anurag informed newshounds after visiting the village that there have been a dispute after the couple’s eldest son — who was once killed within the assault — was once accused of regularly staring on the spouse of the principle accused, Jagdish Patel.

    Patel was once arrested after the killings, the IG added.

    A case was once registered in opposition to Patel and 5 others at the fees of homicide below the Indian Penal Code in addition to provisions of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, SP Teniwar stated.

    Seek was once on for the 5 absconding accused, he added.

    Divisional Commissioner Mukesh Shukla, who additionally visited the village, directed the district collector to do so in opposition to encroachments on executive land by way of the accused and his circle of relatives.

    State Congress leader Kamal Nath demanded high-level inquiry into the killing of 3 participants of the Dalit circle of relatives.

    The federal government will have to be certain safety of the circle of relatives and supply all conceivable assist to them, he added.

    DAMOH: A 32-year-old Dalit guy and his oldsters had been shot useless in Madhya Pradesh’s Damoh district on Tuesday after he have been accused of staring on the spouse of one of the crucial assailants, police stated.

    The 32-year-old sufferer’s two more youthful brothers had been injured within the assault whilst the principle accused has been arrested, officers stated.

    The incident came about round 6.30 am at Devran village below Dehat police station limits, some 20 km from Damoh district headquarters, Superintendent of Police D R Teniwar stated.

    Six assailants, who belonged to the similar village, allegedly shot useless the 60-year-old Dalit guy, his 58-year-old spouse and their 32-year-old son.

    The aged couple’s two different sons, elderly 28 and 30, had been injured within the assault and present process remedy on the district medical institution, the legit stated.

    Inspector Normal of Sagar zone Anurag informed newshounds after visiting the village that there have been a dispute after the couple’s eldest son — who was once killed within the assault — was once accused of regularly staring on the spouse of the principle accused, Jagdish Patel.

    Patel was once arrested after the killings, the IG added.

    A case was once registered in opposition to Patel and 5 others at the fees of homicide below the Indian Penal Code in addition to provisions of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, SP Teniwar stated.

    Seek was once on for the 5 absconding accused, he added.

    Divisional Commissioner Mukesh Shukla, who additionally visited the village, directed the district collector to do so in opposition to encroachments on executive land by way of the accused and his circle of relatives.

    State Congress leader Kamal Nath demanded high-level inquiry into the killing of 3 participants of the Dalit circle of relatives.

    The federal government will have to be certain safety of the circle of relatives and supply all conceivable assist to them, he added.

  • Guy thrashes MP cop who requested him to take away tinted glass from automotive home windows; arrested

    By means of PTI

    INDORE: A 31-year-old guy allegedly thrashed a visitors constable in Indore after the latter requested him to take away the tinted glass from his automotive home windows, an reliable stated on Tuesday.

    He then hit his personal head with a stone when he noticed different police workforce coming near him following the incident on Monday night time, the reliable stated, including that the person used to be arrested.

    Throughout a car checking power at a sq., a visitors police group stopped a sports activities application car (SUV) having its windscreen and window glasses coated with a black movie which is illegitimate, Bhawarkuan police station in-charge Shashikant Chaurasia stated.

    The SUV proprietor, resident of Morar in Gwalior, used to be requested to take away the tinted glass and deposit a penalty for violation of regulations, he stated.

    On the other hand, the SUV proprietor were given violent and allegedly thrashed a police constable, the reliable stated.

    When the person noticed different police workforce coming against him, he hit his head with a stone mendacity at the highway, he stated.

    The person used to be arrested and a case used to be registered towards him on fees of threatening and thrashing the police body of workers and obstructing reliable paintings, Chaurasia stated.

    INDORE: A 31-year-old guy allegedly thrashed a visitors constable in Indore after the latter requested him to take away the tinted glass from his automotive home windows, an reliable stated on Tuesday.

    He then hit his personal head with a stone when he noticed different police workforce coming near him following the incident on Monday night time, the reliable stated, including that the person used to be arrested.

    Throughout a car checking power at a sq., a visitors police group stopped a sports activities application car (SUV) having its windscreen and window glasses coated with a black movie which is illegitimate, Bhawarkuan police station in-charge Shashikant Chaurasia stated.

    The SUV proprietor, resident of Morar in Gwalior, used to be requested to take away the tinted glass and deposit a penalty for violation of regulations, he stated.

    On the other hand, the SUV proprietor were given violent and allegedly thrashed a police constable, the reliable stated.

    When the person noticed different police workforce coming against him, he hit his head with a stone mendacity at the highway, he stated.

    The person used to be arrested and a case used to be registered towards him on fees of threatening and thrashing the police body of workers and obstructing reliable paintings, Chaurasia stated.