By IRNA,
New Delhi : Thousands of Indian Muslim marched to Parliament to protest police harassment, counter killings of Muslim youth and terrorizing the Muslim community in the wake of Jamia Nagar encounter, at Jantar Mantar, central area of India’s national capital Delhi.
The peaceful march organized by leading Indian Muslim organizations came at a time when Indian Muslims were feeling insecure due to the high handed attitude of the police against Muslim youth in different parts of the country.
Several Muslim leaders who spoke at Jantar Mantar and later in front of the Parliament before an agitating crowd that looked deeply hurt by recent police excesses asked the people to maintain calm and said that it was just the beginning of the agitation.
Ahmad Bukhari, the Shahi Imam of Jama Masjid Delhi while speaking on the occasion questioned the police version of the encounter at Batla House. He said that at 11:15 in the morning he was informed by Atif and Sajid’s neighbors that the two youth were taken to the ground floor by the police and killed there. He said later police made it a counter killing and went up to paint the whole Muslim localities as den of terrorism.
Ahmad Bukhari said that Inspector Sharma’s death as well as Atif and Sajid’s killing should be probed. He said that police version of Sharma’s death was highly suspicious as initially it said that he had received three bullets in his abdomen, but after autopsy no bullet was found in his body.
He said that the senseless terrorizing of Muslim community would not be tolerated.
People seemed very angry with the Congress party and the UPA government and more especially with Home Minister Shivraj Patil. The demonstrators also chanted anti-Patil and anti-Congress slogans and asked parties like Samajwadi Party and Rashtriya Janta Dal to leave Congress party led alliance.
Later, they submitted a memorandum to Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh.
A high level judicial time-bound inquiry should be conducted into the whole incident to find out the truth and its findings must be made public, read the memorandum.