By M Reyaz, TwoCircles.net,
New Delhi: Former Additional Director General of Police of Uttar Pradesh Vibhuti Narain Rai condemned the Muzaffarnagar riots, adding that any riot can be controlled within 24 hours if the government and administration is willing to check the rioters.
IPS VN Rai, who was SSP of Meerut during the infamous Hashimpura riot said, “If any riot is not quelled within 24 hours, then either the government is inapt or complicit,” for some political agenda.
Retd AIG of UP and current VC of Mahatma Gandhi Antarrashtriya Hindi Vishwavidyalaya at Vardha, VN Rai.
VN Rai, who has authored five novels in Hindi and is currently serving as the Vice Chancellor of the Mahatma Gandhi Antarrashtriya Hindi Vishwavidyalaya at Vardha was speaking in the capital in a programme organised by the Urdu Press Club International at Delhi’s Mavlankar Auditorium on Thursday evening on the Anti Communal Violence Bill.
Pressing for a comprehensive Anti Communal Violence Bill, he said that although the present laws are also sufficient and if implemented with good intent, all sorts of violence could be curtailed, however, what the present system lacks is the accountability of the police and local administration and compensation package.
He said that if local administration and police are made accountable vis a vis incidents of riots, cases of riots would be reduced considerably, adding that the compensation and rehabilitation of the riot victims should be the responsibility of the State.
other speakers in the programme included Justice MSA Siddiqui, chairman, National Commission for Minority Education, Chairman of All-India Muslim Backward Classes Federation (AIMBCF)Ibrahim Qureshi and Swami Agnivesh among others.