The travesty of justice is that there is a total impunity on the investigation of Makkah Masjid bomb blast, police firing on the innocent people and targeting of Muslim youth by the police and media in the name of Makkah Masjid bomb blast.
By TCN News,
Hyderabad: On the eighth anniversary of the Makkah masjid bomb blast and subsequent police firing, Civil Liberties Monitoring Committee (CLMC) has demanded that bomb blast criminals be brought under justice and the tainted police officials – responsible for firing – be punished severely.
The CLMC has also demanded that all cases against Muslim youth in connection with the 2007 blast be withdrawn, a release by Lateef Mohammed Khan, Committee’s general secretary, said.
On May 18, 2007, immediately after the Friday prayers, bomb blast occurred at the Makkah Masjid, following which police opened fire on the people who went there to offer Namaz or to help the injured persons, he said and expressed concern over inaction by the government of Telangana towards the criminals of blast and police firing in which many died and hundreds were injured.
“Within few minutes, a group of police officers with the help of media started propagating that Muslim youth are behind the blasts. Media also started its trial by cooking various stories against the Muslim community. This way, not one but three attacks took place on Muslim community that day – one in the form of bomb blast, second in police firing and the third, media propaganda against Muslim community,” the release pointed out.
“The main aim of the blast and police firing was to demoralize the Muslims of Hyderabad; this operation of demoralizing is in continuation in different forms – the recent killings of five under-trial Muslim youths can be seen in this sense – by anti-Muslim police officer gang which are notorious in their action against the Muslim community,” the release claimed.
“Actually Makkah Masjid bomb blast is a greater conspiracy against the whole Muslim community by the RSS and its gang supported by a particular mindset of police officers. It is a matter of great concern for the whole civil society that the criminals of Makkah Masjid blast are still free, the anti-Muslim police gang is promoted, rewarded and awarded and no action has been taken against the police officers who opened the fire against the common people and targeted the Muslim youth by falsely implicating them in Makkah Masjid bomb blast,” the Committee said.
The travesty of justice is that there is a total impunity on the investigation of Makkah Masjid bomb blast, police firing on the innocent people and targeting of Muslim youth by the police and media in the name of Makkah Masjid bomb blast. In short, there is denial of justice and injustice is continuing in the form of killing of innocent Muslim youth. “The demand of justice is that first of all the government should withdraw all the cases against the Muslim youth in connection of blast in the year 2007. It is a matter of surprise that these cases are still open,” Khan said.
“Due to the injustice happening with the Muslims, there is unrest among the Muslim community and they are strongly feeling that the system is itself anti-Muslim. They had a strong hope that TRS government and its chief minister K Chandrashekhar Rao will provide justice and a life with human dignity. But, after the assassination of five under trial Muslim youth, their confidence has been shaken. They have a strong feeling that terror operation from 2007 is still in continuation and their life and liberty in is danger,” he pointed out.
“It is high time for the government of India to take immediate steps to restore the confidence of the Muslim minorities on the system. It is also the responsibility of Rao, the Chief Minister, to provide justice as per the promises given to Muslims during the movement. Otherwise his name would be written in dark words,” he added.
The other demands of the Committee include making public the reports by Advocate Ravichander on falsely implicating Muslim youth and torture and by Bhaskar Rao Commission on police firing. “The government of Telangana must act now and fulfill its promise,” the CLMC demanded.