Ulama Council march to Jantar Mantar on Batla House shootout 5th anniversary

    By TCN News,

    New Delhi: Rashtriya Ulama Council organized a mass protest rally on the fifth anniversary of Batla house encounter i.e. September 19, 2013 at Jantar Mantar, New Delhi pressing on their continuous demand of a judicial enquiry in the Batla House alleged encounter and the release of the innocent Muslim youths arrested in the name of Terrorism.


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    In 2008 on 19th September, on 4th floor of L-18, Batla House in Delhi’s Jamia Nagar area, two youths of Azamgarh were killed in a shootout, which was later claimed to be an encounter by special cell of Delhi police. In this shootout, one of the officers of Delhi police Inspector Mohan Chand Sharma also lost his life. However, from the very first day Human and Civil Rights’ organistions and activists are demanding an independent judicial enquiry into the shootout. The post-mortem report of the deceased also pointed towards the encounter being a fake one.

    Members of Rashtriya Ulama Council and of the Civil Society and other social organizations from different parts of the country gathered in thousands of numbers at the rally spot. Addressing the crowd, the national President of Rashtriya Ulama Council Maulana Aamir Rashadi Madni said, “Six days after the 2008 serial blasts of Delhi, the Delhi police conspired to save it’s face and carried the fake encounter operation at L 18, Batla House and murdered cold bloodedly two innocent muslim youths Atif and Sajid and falsely implicated numerous innocent Muslim Youths in the blasts case and destroyed their lives.”

    Rashtriya Ulama Council organized the huge protest march against this fake encounter right from Azamgarh to Delhi demanding an impartial judicial probe of the encounter.

    Questioning the Delhi blast case investigation Mr Rashadi said, “When the investigation itself was unfair, how can the judgment be fair?” He added that, “Law and justice are of supreme importance in any society and the law should ensure that the justice prevails and the justice should ensure that the law gets executed. It’s the justice and the belief in justice that leads to the prosperity of the nation and if vice versa it could lead to unrest among the citizens which can be a big threat to the national integrity and prosperity”.

    Describing the judgment of life sentence to Shahzad, one of the accused in the Batla House encounter Mr Rashadi said, “Until and unless an impartial judicial probe is not carried on in the Batla House encounter case there cannot be a fair trial and a fair judgment. There are many instances where in the lower courts have neglected the evidences, proofs and witnesses and have announced severe sentences however later on the higher courts have strictly criticized these judgments of the lower courts and have acquitted the accused.”

    He added, “The cases of Syed Maqbool Shah in the Lajpat Nagar Bomb blast and that of Md Hussain alias Zulfeqar in the Punjabi Bagh case are a few examples of the above where in the honorable High Court and Supreme Court has acquitted the accused after being convicted by the lower courts. Hence we are pretty much sure that Shahzad will get justice from the higher courts. However its very unfortunate for the democratic and constitutional values of the country that innocents like the above mentioned persons had to wait for years and decades to avail justice and destroyed the very important years of their lives fighting for justice against the blame of being terrorist and traitor and then receiving no compensations from these governments”.

    Mr Rashadi further said that, “The conspiracy of the government and the intelligence agencies of falsely implicating muslim youths in cases of terrorism to save their faces and to destroy the lives of these youths will only lead to anarchy and threat to the national integrity of the country”. He concluded by saying that, “We once again demand the judicial probe of the Batla House Encounter of Delhi, the Qateel Siddiqui murder in police custody of Maharashtra and the Khalid Mujahid murder in the police custody of Uttar Pradesh and we won’t remain silent till the government does not accept our demands and washes off the blot of terrorism on the muslim community”.

    The national General Secretary of the council Maulana Tahir Madni protested that, “right after independence we (Muslims) have regularly been harassed under different accusations; initially we were blamed for the partition of the country and were massacred in communal riots and now we are being targeted in the name of fight against terrorism where in our youths our being killed in encounters and dozens of them are being lodged behind bars and thus their lives being destroyed for ever. The pseudo secular political parties of the country have only used us as vote banks for their political gains and have done nothing for the communities’ upliftment and due to which today the Indian muslims are completely marginalized. He blamed that Congress, Samajwadi party and Bahujan Samaj Party and other so called secular political outfits are equally responsible for the downtrodden condition of the muslims in India and now the muslim of India has recognized the true face of these parties and will teach them a lesson in the coming parliamentary elections if they do not act within time.

    The rally was also addressed by the national vice president Maulana Nizamuddin Islahi, National secretary Lal Devendra Singh Chauhan, National treasurer Shahab Akhtar Qasmi, National President (Youth Wing) Maulana Muqtada Hussain Khairi, Mufti Ghufran Qasmi and the other national and state level dignitaries.

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