Cleric announces bounty on heads of Tarek Fatah, Subhash Chandra
- | Monday | 20th February, 2017
Bareilly: On Monday, Bareilly-based religious organisation All India Faizan-e-Madina Council announced a bounty of Rs 10,786 on the head of Islamic scholar and journalist Tarek Fatah, a Canadian national originally from Pakistan. Islamic scholar and president of Ittehad-e Millat Council, Maulana Tauqeer Raza, said he considered it only a kind of gimmick. AIFMC head Moeen Siddiqui Noori also announced a bounty of Rs 5 lakh on the head of the channel’s owner Subhash Chandra.This is not the first time that Noori has announced such bounty against people who have allegedly hurt Muslim sentiments. Noori claimed that he had contested in 2014 general election from Bareilly and got 16,000 votes. The organization has alleged that Fatah’s programme telecast on a private news channel was “anti-Muslim” and he, being the anchor of the programme ‘Fatah ka Fatwa’, had hurt Muslim sentiments.
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