By TwoCircles.net staff reporter
Belgaum (Karnataka) : Â Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) has urged the Government of India to set up a high level Judicial Commission by Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), to probe into all police encounters and custodial deaths and to suggest measures to prevent police atrocities and extra-judicial killings.
Forwarding the resolutions of its All India Political Committee to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil, the IUML has demanded that enquiry into every incident of extra-judicial killings by the police be entrusted to the CBI, as the police and the CID cannot be free from departmental and state government pressures.
The IUML Political Committee, which met here under the presidentship of former Member of Parliament G.M. Banatwalla, has also submitted that a permanent specialised cell be created in the C.B.I. to probe into all incidents of bomb-blasts and assaults on mosques and other places.
The IUML regretted the general tendency to hold Muslims responsible for all such incidents. "This vitiates the communal atmosphere and it is necessary that high level independent and speedy enquiry be instituted," read one of its resolutions.
The Committee meeting was inaugurated by Kerala Muslim League President Syed Mohamedali Shihab Thangal. Kerala former Ministers P.K. Kunhalikutty and E.T. Mohamed Bashir, P.V. Abdul Wahab, M.P., Prof. Kader Mohideen. M.P. (Tamilnadu), Shahensha Jehangir (West Bengal), Naeem Akhtar (Bihar), Dr. Najmul Hassan Ghani (U.P.), Advocate Ahmed Baksh (Rajasthan), Imran Qureshi (Maharashtra), Advocate Hashim Qureshi (Gujarat), Advocate Akhlaque Ahmed Sheikh (Pune), Mirza Mohamed Mehdi and Advocate Javedullah (Karnataka), Ibrahim Shamsher and Dastagir Agha (Belgaum) were among those who participated in the meeting.
Congratulating Ms. Mayawati on assumption of the office of U.P. Chief Minister, the Committee resolution forwarded to her reiterates the demand for issue of notification to enable joint trial of all Babri Masjid demolition cases in Lucknow instead of separately in Lucknow and Rae-Bareilly courts as at present.
The Committee has also demanded amendment of U.P. laws to restore to Muslim women their right under Shariah to inheritance in agricultural land.
In the resolution submitted to the Prime Minister and the Union Home Minister, the Committee stressed early completion of the long-delayed rehabilitation of the victims of riots at Bhagalpur, Assam, Hashimpura and Maliana in Meerut (U.P.), Gujarat and others.
Pointing out communal prejudices of the Gujarat Government, the Committee submitted that the Modi Government has long forfeited the right to govern.
Thanking the Central Government for its positive response to Sachar Committee report, the Committee asked for early implementation of the report along with reservations for Muslims. It appealed to the Central Government to give up any proposal to set up a Central Madrasa Board.
Demanding that the proposals for SEZ at Nandigram and Signur (West Bengal) be shifted to barren land elsewhere, the Committee suggested enactment of a comprehensive law providing for leasing of land with monthly rent and share in the project income instead of outright acquisition of land.
"There must not be any transfer of land without the free consent of its owner," the committee stressed. Â