Rubabuddin’s taking on Modi is like David taking on Goliath. It was his filing a case in the fake encounter case of his brother Sohrabuddin and his habeas corpus on his sister in law Kauserbi that opened the Pandora’s box for the chief minister of Gujarat Narendra Modi. His brother and sister in law were murdered by the police close to the chief minister and his MoS for Home Amit Shah. The chief minister knew all these because he made it an issue in 2007 election justifying what was done to Sohrabuddin. For that he earned the distinction of sort in the sobriquet bestowed on him as the maut ke saudager or merchant of death by no other than the president of the Congress party, Sonia Gandhi.
Strangely enough the law and order in the state is a puppet show of the chief minister. He plays it with impunity because the communalized atmosphere in Gujarat is such that it has not dawned upon the people there yet that India has a judiciary that has stood test of time despite occasional aberrations.
In the latest salvo against the chief minister Rubabuddin has petitioned the Supreme Court that on August 25 2010 the chief minister used the word supari (contract) which Congress party has given to CBI against him. Ordinarily it would mean that the Congress party has contracted the agency to finish off Modi. It could be physical liquidation or political undoing. But the charge stands that the agency is accused of accepting bribe. It also shows that the bona fide of the agency is very doubtful in character. His allegations against the agency are an insult of the SC at whose behest the agency is conducting investigation. He is indulging in terribly shocking slandering and it shows how low the chief minister has slid down in moral turpitude. In any other country he would have been booked as a criminal. We have still time to see if he is criminally charged and prosecuted. Such is his temerity that he mocks the agency to arrest him as he is there and not running away or hiding.(His ministers, like Amit Shah, and police officers, like deputy commissioner of police Narendra Amin, and a proclaimed offender involved in gang rape and mass murder, Babu Bajrandi, did just that. What is worse they could do what they did because of the patronage of the CM himself!) How long can the people of India be silent spectators of the kind of tamasha going on in Gujarat for so long?
What with saffron tinted public prosecutors playing havoc with the prosecution system in the state since March 2002 and delaying tactics of Modi government meant for denying justice, if the SC does not act firmly it would give out a wrong signal to the bereaved that they have no hope of justice in India and it would entitle them to take their cases to UNO through optional protocol provided in the UN charters. That would/should not be an insult to the country given the gimmicks that Modi is playing with the image of the country in the rest of the world. Moreover India ratified in 1959 the Convention on Prevention and Punishment of the Crimes of Genocide but has not instituted laws in this regard. The world including many in India knows that 2002 systematic murder, mayhem, arson, loot and boycott was genocide of Muslims. In fact Citizens for Justice and Peace is now appealing to international community to intervene recognizing the urgent need for monitoring and intervention of the ongoing process of justice.
Modi is never tired of bragging that he would prefer harsher laws to tackle terrorism while he is practicing what amounts to terrorism!
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