Cleric
- India
Bareilly violence: Another aide of cleric Tauqeer Raza arrested
Bareilly: Another aide of controversial cleric Tauqeer Raza Khan was arrested on Sunday in connection with the September 6 violence here as authorities intensified their action against the accused, including demolition of…
- Middle East
‘Make them regret’: Iran’s top cleric issues fatwa against Trump, Netanyahu
Tehran: Iran’s one of the most senior Shia clerics, Ayatollah Makarem Shirazi, has declared US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as “enemies of God” in a newly issued…
- India
Cleric criticizes pacer Mohd Shami’s daughter for playing Holi, calls It ‘against Shariat’
Bareilly: A cleric who had claimed cricketer Mohammed Shami committed a sin by not fasting during Ramzan has described the Holi celebrations of the pacer’s daughter as “illegal” and “against Shariat”. In…
- Middle East
Iraq arrests ex-official over execution of cleric who opposed Saddam Hussein
Baghdad: Iraq’s National Security Agency said Friday it arrested a former high-level security official for his involvement in the 1980 execution of a prominent Shiite cleric and his sister during Saddam Hussein‘s…
- India
BJP leader files complaint against Cleric for alleged ‘Fatwa’
New Delhi: A BJP leader has got a police complaint filed here against Islamic cleric Maulana Sajjad Nomani, alleging that he has issued a “fatwa” calling for the social boycott of Muslims…
- India
Meerut: Cleric shot, injured outside mosque
Meerut: A cleric was shot at and injured outside a mosque here, police said on Sunday, October 6. The incident occurred in the Lisadi Gate police station area when Naeem (35) stood…
- India
Rajasthan: Cleric arrested for raping 5-yr-old girl inside mosque
Jaipur: A cleric was arrested on Sunday for allegedly raping a five-year-old girl in a mosque in the Alwar district of Rajasthan, police said. The girl was playing outside her house when…
- News
UP: Cleric booked for raping woman under pretext of curing mental illness
Budaun: A man who claimed to be a cleric at a ‘dargah’ here has been booked after a woman alleged that he raped her multiple times on the pretext of “curing” her…
- India
Cleric murdered in Ajmer mosque
Jaipur: Rajasthan Police have deputed additional forces in the city after a cleric was murdered in a mosque in Ajmer on Saturday, a police officer said. The incident was reported at around…
