{"id":17557,"date":"2019-04-25T14:25:14","date_gmt":"2019-04-25T08:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=17557"},"modified":"2019-04-25T14:25:14","modified_gmt":"2019-04-25T08:55:14","slug":"indian-govt-pressurising-interpol-for-red-corner-notice-zakir-naik","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=17557","title":{"rendered":"Indian govt pressurising Interpol for red corner notice: Zakir Naik"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Islamic preacher Zakir Naik on Thursday accused the Indian government of engaging in a \u201cwitch-hunt\u201d and putting pressure on the Interpol to issue a red corner notice against him.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>In a statement issued here, Naik, who fled India in 2016, said he was aware of the \u201cpressure the Indian government was applying on the Interpol\u201d to issue a red corner notice against him.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIt\u2019s part of an elaborate witch-hunt. But having verified with a few member countries, I can confirm that there is no red corner notice against me as of date,\u201d he claimed.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cOne of the Indian newspapers seems to have jumped the gun and reported internal deliberations of the Indian government which, as a matter of fact, have been going on for over two years now,\u201d he said.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Naik said the Interpol had already cancelled a red corner notice against him once.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cAnd it\u2019s been one-and-a-half years since the government submitted a charge sheet and started applying pressure on the Interpol. But as things stand, I have no reason to believe that Interpol will succumb to any kind of undue pressure,\u201d he said.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Naik, said to be in Malaysia at present, has been under investigation since 2016, when the Centre banned his Islamic Research Foundation (IRF) for five years.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>He is being probed by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on several charges under the Indian Penal Code and the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA).<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The preacher, declared a proclaimed offender by a special NIA court here in June 2017, is accused of inciting youth to take up terror activities, giving hate speeches and promoting enmity between communities.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The NIA filed a charge sheet against Naik and others before a Mumbai court in October 2017.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamic preacher Zakir Naik on Thursday accused the Indian government of engaging in a \u201cwitch-hunt\u201d and putting pressure on the Interpol to issue a red corner notice against him. In a statement issued here, Naik, who fled India in 2016, said he was aware of the \u201cpressure the Indian government was applying on the Interpol\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17556,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}