By TCN News,
Jaipur: On 27th March Students Committee of the Global Institute of Technology, Jaipur with huge crowd took to the Road of Jaipur, Rajasthan to protest against discrimination of media towards minorities.
Many social activists belonging to different religions gathered for the protest which was carried out peacefully. Activists and students carried placards and banners shaming Indian media for its attitude towards minorities. Students shouted slogans against media like “shame on media”, “stop playing with innocent lives” etc. They demanded action against such media which arbitrarily declares any person as terrorist without any proof and evidence. Due to this students are harassed unnecessarily. Justice should be delivered timely as justice delayed to innocents is justice denied.
It has now become an act of politics that before elections minorities are targeted and innocents belonging to minority communities are arrested accusing them for terrorist activity. Media discrimination in the way the stories are constructed rule against minorities’ life. People, including well known scholars from minorities are arbitrarily arrested and media stoke about them without any concrete evidence and any judicial statement. Minority youth is deliberately targeted and deprived of their rights which go against the spirit of Secularism.
These innocent people are taken into custody for long years and because of there being no evidence against them they are finally released. But when they come out, their life changes and they don’t find any resource to recover it back. There is a lot of empirical data which shows large number of young Muslims are put in prison without trial or charge-sheet for years.
The students stressed the need for strict and prompt action against erring media and police officers when Malafide arrests are made of any member of a minority community. They demand that Press Council of India must ensure that no innocent person is subjected to undue harassment. The students highlighted the need for peace and communal harmony.