By TCN News,
New Delhi: During the 14th September violence, the police had shot hundreds of rounds of bullets at and in the Gopalgarh mosque killing nine Meo Muslims but even before CBI or judicial commission begins their enquiry and visits the spot, the evidence of bullet marks has been removed from the mosque by giving a new plaster to its walls.
The Students For Resistance (SFR), a Delhi-based group of students, social activists and journalists, visited Gopalgarh in Bharatpur district of Rajasthan on 25th September 2011 to get first-hand information of the police killings.
SFR team in Gopalgarh
The SFR team visited homes of each of the nine Meo Muslims who were killed in the violence. The team was informed about three persons who are missing since the day. They are Shauqeen (18) son of Md. Umar, village, Dhond, Firozpur Jhirka; Rayees (15) son of Ashraf, village Dheyondi; Shareef (22) son of Nassar, Andhwadi village. The team was also informed that 150 people were actually wounded but fearing police case they did not turn up to hospital for treatment. Moreover, 11 shops and nine houses of Meo Muslims were looted and put on fire. Gopalgarh has 50 homes of Meo Muslims and 250 of Gujjars.
During the visit, when the SFR team tried to entre the village mosque which was the centre of the killings on 14th September, the policemen standing near the mosque used filthy language for the team members and did not allow them in. The team found that a new plaster was done on the mosque apparently to remove the evidence of police bullets on its walls, the SFR team said in a press statement in Delhi after returning from Bharatpur.
The SFR team said the Muslims are facing economic boycott after the killings. Children are not going to schools and people are not moving out for work. The entire area has been turned into a police camp.
The group has lambasted the media for not highlighting the gruesome killings of Gopalgarh.
The nine-member team of SFR comprised Kusum (JNU), Raghib (JNU), Arun (DU), Mirtyunjay (DU), Haseen (DU), Abid Anwar (Journalist), Faizan (JMI), Om Prakash (Sangam Park Basti), Md. Urfi Qasmi (Social Activist).