By TwoCircles.net News Desk,
New Delhi: The Popular Front of India has demanded the Central Government to dismiss the Narendra Modi-led BJP government of Gujarat for fake encounter killings, and order a thorough and time-bound probe into the role of the state government machinery in all the encounter killings in the state.
The judicial probe by Ahmedabad metropolitan magisterate revealed this week that the killing of the 19-year-old Ishrat Jahan and three others by the Gujarat police was a cold blooded murder. The Chief Minister Narendra Modi should admit the responsibility and quit office if he has respect for human and democratic values, said PFI, South India’s largest Muslim organization.
As the magisterial probe found senior police officials guilty for the encounter killings, the PFI has demanded that all the officers responsible for the killings should be punished.
The Gujarat police had claimed that Ishrat Jahan and her three friends were members of the terrorist group Lashkar-e-Taiba and were on a mission to kill Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi when they were gunned down on the outskirts of Ahmedabad on June 15, 2004. The probe exposed that fake encounters appeared to be elaborately planned, indicating a communal conspiracy to secure ideological support for the Modi government by calling Muslims as terrorists.
“Though the investigating agencies reported that Narendra Modi’s Government had supported the culprits of massacres in 2002 communal riots in Gujarat, he is still continuing as a Chief Minister. Now as it is proved that the encounter killings of Sohrabuddin, Ishrat Jehan and three others are fake, the continuation of Narendra Modi as CM is a mockery of democracy and mark of discredit to the secular design of our country,” said K. M. Shareef, General secretary, Popular Front of India.