By TCN News,
Gulbarga (Karnataka): The lives of many Indians have been ruined and their youth snatched away in the name of terrorism even as Muslims, Tribals and Dalits are mostly implicated in false cases due to prejudiced police, politics, media, prosecution and the society in general, Ajit Sahi, well known political analyst and a journalist, said.
“Terrorism is a big issue which threatens the country at present. The issue of terrorism itself has caused great terror to many Muslims living in the country. There is no state in the country which can deny these facts. There are hundreds of cases where Muslims have been found to be falsely accused,” Sahi said while delivering the keynote address at a seminar on ‘Politics of Terror: Myths and Reality- Road Ahead’. It was organised by Students Islamic Organisation of India (SIO), Gulbarga on Wednesday.
Stating that the law enforcement agencies have meted out gross injustice against the innocent Muslims by falsely implicating them in terror charges, Ajit Sahi has regretted that even a large section of media has remained part of this injustice by not presenting the facts, and only harping on untrue news.
He said that most terrible thing the law enforcement agencies are doing, was not trying to find out the real culprits if the first arrested person has been found innocent. “This is the glaring question, people & media should ask ‘who are the real culprits?’ if the released are innocent. Where are the real culprits and what action was taken to arrest them?” he remarked, a release from Aamir Hashmi, city PR of SIO Gulbarga said.
Sahi, who has done extensive research and exposed how Muslim youths are falsely implicated in terror charges, also accused a section of judiciary of being biased in giving justice to Muslims youth. Claiming “some judges suffer from prejudice about Muslim men”, he said, “Who will help innocent people if the judiciary turn blind eye on them?”
In the past 15 years, there is no state in India where the government or the police have not implicated innocent citizens in false cases of terrorism and in hundreds of cases, these innocents are Muslims, he said. The veteran journalist said that most of the major political parties including Congress, SP and BSP, who call themselves secular, were the ones who have done injustice to the Muslim youth in the States they were ruling.
Irshad Ahmed Desai, state convener of Association of Protection of Civil Rights (APCR), in his presidential speech, stressed on the need to realize our social responsibilities & come out united with a proper action plan to address this serious issue of Injustice & Terrorism, the release said.
Shubhash Shelvanth, state president BAMCEF Karnataka, Touseef Ahmed, Zonal President, SIO Karnataka and Zakir Hussain, local president of Jamaat e Islami Hind Gulbarga, spoke on the occasion. Maaz Maniyar, city president, SIO Gulbarga, delivered the inaugural address, the release added.