{"id":1486897,"date":"2022-05-21T13:15:14","date_gmt":"2022-05-21T17:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1486897"},"modified":"2022-05-21T13:15:18","modified_gmt":"2022-05-21T17:15:18","slug":"leader-of-tiny-indian-fishing-village-asks-court-to-allow-him-and-600-followers-to-commit-suicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/leader-of-tiny-indian-fishing-village-asks-court-to-allow-him-and-600-followers-to-commit-suicide\/","title":{"rendered":"Leader Of Tiny Indian Fishing Village Asks Court To Allow Him And 600 Followers To Commit Suicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fleader-of-tiny-indian-fishing-village-asks-court-to-allow-him-and-600-followers-to-commit-suicide%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1486897&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/05\/GettyImages-809979398.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The leader of a Muslim fishing community in Mahatma Gandhi\u2019s hometown <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/ahmedabad\/alleging-discrimination-negligence-fisherfolk-leader-moves-gujarat-hc-for-euthanasia\/articleshow\/91347294.cms\">asked an Indian court<\/a> earlier this month to allow him and 600 of his followers to kill themselves.<\/p>\n<p>The bizarre request from Allarakha Ismailbhai Thimmar, leader of a fishing village in Porbandar, was lodged with the\u00a0Gujarat High Court. The Gosabara Muslim Fishermen\u2019s Society claims its members have been driven to desperation by the local government\u2019s 2016 decree barring their boats from docking at a local port.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThimmar and his community are being denied their rights despite\u00a0having licenses,\u201d said the group\u2019s lawyer, Dharmesh Gurjar. \u201cThey say that they are like dead wood, and without a decent livelihood it\u2019s better to end life en masse. And they asked for mass euthanasia.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Plight of Muslim Fishermen in Gosabara village in Gujarat: Move High Court Seeking Permission for Mass Euthanasia. Banned from fishing since 2016.<br \/>Is this how a weak group of society is treated? Where is <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CMOGuj?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@CMOGuj<\/a>, Gujarat high court? <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dgpgujarat?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@dgpgujarat<\/a>?<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FsgjySKDH4\">https:\/\/t.co\/FsgjySKDH4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Zafarul-Islam Khan (@khan_zafarul) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/khan_zafarul\/status\/1527675192985944065?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 20, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The order barring the community\u2019s boats from docking at Gosabara port has ravaged the community\u2019s economy, the group claims, alleging that \u201cthe government does not provide facilities to people belonging to a particular community.\u201d Unable to go to sea to fish, the men of the society are forced to do odd jobs and fish in an area river and lakes.<\/p>\n<p>Gosabara is the only majority-Muslim village in the area. The village is in the western Indian state of Gujarat, home of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and a stronghold of his Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party.<\/p>\n<p>Thimmar alleges that authorities are \u201charassing\u201d his group\u2019s families and that it allows Hindu fishermen to use the port.\u00a0The petition claims the society is loyal to India and has \u201cgiven information to security agencies\u201d on criminal activities sponsored by Pakistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The leader of a Muslim fishing community in Mahatma Gandhi\u2019s hometown asked an Indian court earlier this month to allow him and 600 of his followers to kill themselves.The bizarre<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":729,"featured_media":1486903,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1486897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1486897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/729"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1486897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1486897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1486903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1486897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1486897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1486897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}