What the Imam said

IN Media Watch Briefs | 05/04/2018

Urdumediamonitor.com points out that the only thing that is being reported by the media is the appeal to his followers by Maulana Imdadullah Rashidi of Noorani Masjid, Asansol to maintain peace and not to retaliate following the brutal killing of his son . But the media did not care to report the rest of his statement as a mourning father, describing the cruelty inflicted on the son who was killed, and the behaviour of the police in locking up the older son who went to look for the boy.

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