M Reyaz, TwoCircles.net,
New Delhi: Concerned citizens and residents of Muzaffarnagar, particularly those who are in Delhi are knocking at all possible doors seeking help and interventions in what they argue is a ‘pre-planned conspiracy’ to create communal tensions for political gains.
Advocate Naushad Ahmad Khan, who hails from Muzafarnagar and practices at the Supreme Court, has written to the Chairman of the National Human Rights Commission, the National Minorities Commission, Home Minister, Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi and Ahmed Patel, senior Congress leader and Political Advisor of Sonia Gandhi urging them for intervention to save human lives, to protect minorities and see to it that the law and order situations do not deteriorate further, and for proper relief packages. The letter has been endorsed by several other citizens.
Frightened villagers are moving to safer places (Photo: Niha Masih).
The letter highligts the purported “discripencies in the ground realities and what official stand,” like the number of people killed in different villages.
In the letter the Apex Court lawyer has also made a list those who have been murdered village wise. He has also made a list of some of the accused identified by the villagers, including local BJP leaders, who were present in the Mahapanchayat.
Speaking to TCN, Advocate Naushad Khan wondered how over a lakh people assembled for a Mahapanchayat when prohibitory orders under section 144 of IPC were in place, alleging complicit role of the local police and administration. He regards it as total failure of the district administration, and accuse the BJP leaders of hatching conspiracy for political gains.
According to rumors, the veracity of which could not be established, miscreants shouted slogans Modi ko lana hai Godhra banana hai (Modi will be brought, Godhra would be made) while ransacking and burning houses, and attacking villagers. According to another report, during the Mahapanchayat, attended by several Jat leaders, including BJP leaders, as well as a Congress leader and Bhartiya Kisan Union leaders Rakesh Tikait and Naresh Tikait, passionate speeches were given to invoke them for taking revenge. Purportedly Jats were incited to send the people of minorities community either to “Pakistan or Qabristan”.
Local police has miserably failed to provide police protection and is instrumental in deteriorating the situation to the worse and also instrumental in provoking the mob. According to unconfirmed reports, in the presence of police personal in village Lisarh 14 persons have been killed and all the homes of the Muslim minority have been set ablaze, same is the situation in village lank where in the presence of police 60 percent homes have been burnt and 5 persons have been killed in broad day light in the presence of the police of the local police station Fugana Muzaffarnagar. Frightened villagers from the Jat dominated localities are moving to safer places like Loi, turning them into virtual camps.
Advocate Khan has urged for CBI enquiry, proper compensation and for immediately proving relief materials to those who have been forced to move from their villages and are camping in schools and other places in ‘safer’ places.
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Although there has been flag march by the Army in the town, villages still appear to be out of bound of the Army Personnel. There is no adequate force deployed in the affected areas and incidents of violence have been reported from Basi Kala, Bhuvana, Sisauli, Shahpur, Fugana, Kalapar, Bhaurakala, Bahawadi, Lank, Lisarh, Mundbhar, majeedpur, Hadauli, Kurmali and have badly affected villages in Muzaffarnagar.
According to another report, mobs set ablaze religious place, several shops and vehicles in Village Lank (1Mosque) Village Lisarh (three mosques) Village Bahawadi (1 Masjid) village Sambhalkha (one mosque) and many more. Large number of people have taken shelter in police station, fearing violence, where the station officers are declining to accommodate in view of fresh incidents.
Meanwhile, Shehzad Poonawalla, a law graduate from Pune’s Indian Law Society and political activist, has also written to the NHRC and the Delhi Police urging them to take necessary legal actions against Twitter Inc and unknown users and some known users like Praveen Togadia, Dr. Subramanian Swamy for their “illegal, offensive, venomous and threatening tweets/posts on social media aimed at endangering the law and order situation and promoting enmity and hatred between communities, especially in light of the communal clashes in Uttar Pradesh.”
Expressing dismay at the inaction of the state, several civil society members and Muslim leaders and opposition BSP have also called upon the Central Government to impose Presidential rule in the state.
Meanwhile the hate mongering on social media has taken an ugly turn, after fake video from Pakistan use in spreading rumor, now online headlines of Hindi media are being manipulated to spread rumors.
Their demands:
1. TO call for the list of the officers posted during 27thAugust uptill now posted in whose jurisdictions, and to summon the accused persons and the officers responsible for lapses, abetment and conspiracy in genocide of the Muslim Community.
2. to save the human life and the Muslim minority community who are residing in the remote villages of the District Shamli, Muzaffarnagar, Baghpat and Meerut,
3. To direct and recommendation of the CBI Enquiry into the whole incident and to further direct for CBI investigation and thereby register the cases against the officials and the accused persons.
4. to request the Ministry of Home Affairs to provide sufficient Army and Para Military forces to provide safe passage as well as safe stay in their respective villages.
5. To provide a nodal office so that the First Information Report to be lodged.
6. The deceased to be buried only after lodging the FIR with intimation to the near relative.
7. To give direction for registration of FIR of the injured and the deceased.
8. To provide immediately food, shelter (Transit Camps) and clothing with the directions to the State Government and the Central Government at Delhi.
9. To give direction to provide ex gratia relief to the deceased of Rs. 50 lac each and Rs. 10 Lacs for the injured from the Prime Minister relief fund.
10. To give direction and to recommend to provide ex gratia relief to the deceased of Rs. 50 lac each and Rs. 10 Lacs for the injured from the State of the Uttar Pradesh.
11. To provide rehabilitation whose houses have been burnt.
12. To lodge FIR against Hukum Singh ex-MLA, Harender Malik Ex-MP Rajya Sabha, Naresh Tikait and Rakesh Tikait S/O Mahender Tikait r/o Sisauli Somansh MLA Sardhana, Hakishan Singh R/o Lisarh, Rajender Malik S/o Harikishan, Bijender Malik S/o Harikishan r/o Lisarh, Muzaffar Nagar, Maharaj Singh Pramukh, village Lank-District Muzaffarnagar, Sudhir@ Billu Pradhan resident of Village Lank, district Muzaffar Nagar for giving farce speeches, communal hatred, abetment and genocide of the innocents.
13. To kindly order for arrest of the culprits immediately.
14. To make a judicial probe into the serious incident.
15. To provide a unique control room number at Delhi for providing intimation by the members of the deceased and accountability to be fixed.
16. Any other relief as this Hon’ble Commission deem fit and proper in the present facts and circumstances of the case.
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