By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter
Hyderabad: Hyderabad-based human rights organisation, Civil Liberties Monitoring Committee has strongly condemned the Bhopal encounter in which eight under trial SIMI members were killed by Police.
“There are not enough words to condemn the brutality and inhuman act done by the BJP-led Madhya Pradesh government by killing the eight under trial Muslim prisoners in the name of encounter,” said CLMC in a statement.
Reprimanding BJP government, CLMC alleged that Bhopal “fake encounter’ and the cruelty of the police personnel backed by the state government, it is clear that killing under trial Muslim prisoners in the name of “encounter” has become the policy of the BJP government.
“Their trial was near to completion and they had chances of acquittal from the court, but the state did not want them to be acquitted so they chose them, made plans, scripted and staged drama, killed and then named it as encounter. On this whole episode of planned killing, humanity is hanging in
shame,” CLMC said.
Comparing the Bhopal encounter with Aler encounter which happened in 2015 in Warangal district of Hyderabad in which five under trail Muslim youths were killed, CLMC alleged, “The same has been repeated in Bhopal of Madhya Pradesh. In both the incidents youth were Muslims who were under trial prisoners, their trial had come to an end and they had great hopes and fair chances of acquittal from all the charges that were framed against them after which they would’ve lead a normal life as free men.”
CLMC raised apprehensions about safety of under trial Muslim prisoners and termed them unsafe in Indian jails.
“In the present era of BJP’s Hindutva government, the sword of encounter always hangs over them; when and who will be encountered is matter of time suitable to the ruling fascist governments at centre and state levels. It is a matter of fact that killing of people in the name of “encounter” has
become a policy of the Indian government; instead of bringing them to justice the state is itself deciding who and when has to be killed sparing no space for the judiciary to provide justice.”
Targeting judiciary, CLMC termed them deaf and dumb on the issues of encounters by the police.
“When the under trials are killed by the state and police on the name of encounter, the It never makes the state and police neither accountable nor even questions as to how can the police kill the under trial prisoners who are in the judicial custody,”CLMC said in the statement.
“The judiciary never takes any such killing as suo motu and never runs any trial against the killers. Recently Chief Justice of India had cried on the large amount of cases pending & vacancies in the courts. But it is a matter of sad affairs that not even a single tear falls from his eyes or a single word from his mouth on the killing of human beings in the name of encounter,” they added.
CLMC demanded that the Chief Justice of India to express minimum humanity and show the presence of judiciary in India by taking this case as suo motu* under section 302 of IPC against the security personnel who are involved.
The committee also made an appeal to all the citizens to pressurize the Indian ruling political classes to end the encounter culture and respect the ‘right to life’ of the citizens of India.