There is an alarming situation developing again in the recent arrests, killings of suspects and implicating of Muslim youths in past events of terror. They have hardly anything to do with those events and yet they have been made to pay with their life. On March 26, 2012 the Anti Terrorism Squad killed Khalil Querishi at the Wali gate of Aurangabad city. It turned out that he was an innocent boy from Khandawa in Madhya Pardesh and his real name was Azhar Qureshi. He had gone to Aurangabad in search of a job. The Madhya Pardesh police categorically denied that it was Azhar whom they were in search of. Then why did ATS of Maharashtra kill him and give him a different name? Azhar’s father Mohammad Wakil Qureshi traveled from Khandawa to claim the body of his son. He maintains that his son was innocent.
The Maharashtra police also claimed that the injured person in the encounter was Khalil Khilji. In fact he was Shakir Khalil. This change was made subsequent to the photo of Khalil Khilji issued to ATS by the MP police. So it is clear that the MP police again wanted a different man but the Mahrashtra police targeted an innocent.
Given this kind of wide spread misuse of power by the police against the Muslims time has come to compare and contrast between the number of innocent Muslims of India being killed or maimed and imprisoned with the well known figures of terror whom the US lists as wanted. Hafiz Saeed is a citizen of Pakistan it is up to Pakistan and the US to handle him. Dawood Ibrahim, Chota Rajan are Indians hiding somewhere and India is competent to get them through extradition as it did in the case of Abu Salem.
However, what the police and investigation agencies are doing to the legitimate Muslim natives of India is now acquiring a nuance in its treatment. Both the right wing Hindu governments and the Congress governments have abysmally failed to protect the Muslims falsely implicated in terror. They are frequently tortured and killed or imprisoned. It is high time that more broad based and neutral agencies join the work of detection, tracing and arresting those who are really involved in the crimes. Simultaneously there is more urgent need to free the innocent and compensate them. Mohammad Shakeel textile printer spent 14 years in prison and was acquitted almost of all the 19 crimes he was alleged to have committed. When he was sure to have walked out of the prison the police reported that he had hanged himself to death in the prison on June 19, 2009. He was from the village of Pilkhua in Ghaziabad near Delhi. His daughters were toddlers when he was arrested for serial bomb blasts in Delhi of 1996-1997. Now they are adults and have been deprived of ever seeing their father. The police had called him the alleged bomb maker and Mohammad Amir as the mastermind. Amir was set free though he was the one supposed to have identified Shakeel and was a co accused. Thus it was a bogus case. Amir did not know Shakeel at all.
There is every reason to believe that this is a make believe story invented by the police. Neither was his tongue hanging out nor was there any mark of his nails on the neck. What is even more disturbing is the finding of the magisterial inquiry that Shakeel was murdered. It was only then that the police registered a case in 2010 in which the jail superintendent VK Sight and his deputy Ramji Signh and the head constable Surveer Singh Yadav were named as accused. And still no action is forth coming against the accused police! So Muslims pay with their life even when they are found innocent while the police are found guilty and yet no action is taken!
What happened in Ghaziabad village has also happened in Aurangabad and where is the hope that the guilty cops would be ever punished!
These sinister framing of Muslims and their murders are taking place in the broad daylight as if someone in Delhi is writing the script of the murder and mayhem with reassurance vouchsafed that nothing would happen to the cops who are fortuitously playing the game of hunting the Muslims. Proof is tumbling down at your feet and crying for attention. On April 9th, 2012 the Marathi newspaper Punaya nagri from Mumbai has a report at the banner head “MALEGAON sfot chey aaropi SIMI chya nishanavar” (MALEGAON bomb attacks [of 2008] accused in the cross hair of SIMI). The report is date lined from Delhi and says that SIMI will kill Sadhvi Pragyasingh Thakur, Lt Col Shrikant Purohit and Dyanand Pandy outside jail. SIMI has also had the Gujarat 2002 carnage perpetrators as their target for terrorist attacks. So far there has been not even the remotest fear of threat to either Babu Bajrangi or anyone from Bajrang Dal who slaughtered and burnt Muslims in the genocide. The perpetrators have been out of jail and roaming freely. No report of any attempt to harm either any one of the three accused in MALEGAON 2008 case has come. However, the goons have at will attacked lawyers who offered to plead for the Muslim accused in terror. Fear of attack on Hindutva terrorists under police escort outside jail is a fantasy.
Interestingly the same Marathi paper had some years ago reported on front page that Jalgaon had a terror university there. This was a malicious attempt to malign the educational campus which the Muslims of Jalgaon have set up there purely for education, teaching courses that are prescribed by the North Maharashtra University and medical courses that are recognized and approved by Indian medical councils.
These goings on show that there are forces at work which are bent on destroying the country from within by sowing disaffection. If the governments do not wake up to the danger posed at least non government organizations and foreign human rights groups have a bounden duty to set our house right.
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Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Monday, January 3, 2011
Malegaon blasts of 2006 in retrospect
The sitting MLA of Malegaon Mufti Ismail said that hamara ek naujawan tha jo ATS ka mukhbir bun kar police ka dalal ban kar lakhun rupya le kar us ne hamare Muslim nawjawanon ke namon ki nishan dhahi ki aur un ko griftar karwaya. Jab lakhon rupya le kar ghar ata tha tub ghar walon ko nazar nahin aya tha ke yeh kutch kam nahn kar ta. Aaj lakho rupya leker ghar kahan se aaraha hai (There was one of our youth who was informer of the ATS and worked as an agent of the police. He took lakhs of rupees home and identified names of Muslim youths and got them arrested. When he was bringing lakhs of rupees home then why did not the folk at home see where he was bringing the money from. That he was not doing any work and yet he was bringing home lakhs of rupees!) (Discipline. October 3, 2010)
This piece of information in the local Urdu daily of Malegaon town needs vetting. Though a politician makes the allegation he is also a mufti leading prayer at the central mosque of the town and also at the Id gah. It is like the certain knowledge of an insider. It is an insider’s job. Could Mufti Ismail have grapevines within the police force? In this respect he parallels the veteran MLA Nihal Ahmed who had informed the home minister of the terrorist attacks even before they took place. Between them they owe to their people explanation of how far were both (mufti and former MLA) in the know of the matter. Why did they not prevent the disaster?
There are enough people in Malegaon who would like to quiz not just these two leaders but also the police and the government how come the innocents are still languishing in jail. Those arrested were all Muslims. So far nothing has been proved against them.
One explanation of all this is that if not the government itself, the police have taken Muslims for granted. They believe Muslims to be too backward to do anything. The investigations in the bomb explosions of September 8, 2006 have strangely ended up in the desert of unreason. The Police under the then SP of Malegaon Rajwardhan made the world know that the Muslims themselves conspired to kill themselves to create tension in the country. But this illogicality is throwing up strange facts that have successfully resisted all attempts to cover them.
1. Among the dead bodies was one of a man with fake beard. 2. The police sketches of the two suspects who bought new bicycles do not match with the bearded Muslims who are languishing in jail. The bombs were fitted into the cycles. 3. Accused number one Noorulhoda was already under close watch of the police. 4 Another accused Shabbir Masiullah was in police custody since many days before the explosions. 5. At first the police called twenty Hindus for interrogation, and then left the trail there. 6. The imam of Phoosangvi village of Yawatmal, Zahid, performed the Friday prayer there. How could he be planting bomb at the same time in Malegaon more than five hundred miles away. 7. Some of the accused like Abrar Ahmed about whom the Mufti speaks eloquently were police informers. Abrar claims that he was introduced to Sadhvi Pragyasingh Thaku, Lt Col Purohit, Dayanand Pandey and others involved in 2008 blasts. Why should the police chief of Malegaon let Abrar travel to Indore and other places at the cost of the Anti Terrorist Squad and meet them and be photographed and video made of his visit? Why have the agencies not taken his affidavit submitted to special court judge YD Shinde into consideration so far? 8. Why was Rajwardhan taken aback when Abrar told him that he had heard Hindus saying that Dr Rajendra Amin, Dr Bipin Parekh, Someshwar Shanker and others caused the blasts? 9. Why did the police make doctored tape of conversation among the accused? 10. What had Purohit to do with the fake recording and make Abrar hear it? 11. The source of money paid to Abrar’s father in law and wife and also his brother in law is the Gordon’s knot. 12. There are discrepancies in the application form of Abrar for getting a phone connection. He claims that it was the police who supplied it. He also heard people talking in strange languages. The identity of the speakers has never been bothered about in investigation. 13.The man who called local Marathi paper Dinkar and threatened more such attacks in future has never come within the radar of the police and investigative agencies. 14. The police have also failed to trace the caller to the chief of Jamiatul Ulemae Hind in connection with the explosions. 15. If Indresh Kumar had accepted crores of rupees from the ISI to cause the blasts, did this include Malegaon blasts of 2006? 16. Purohit has asserted that he had given the Israelis two examples of Abhinav Bharat’s action of causing disruption within the country to exterminate the Muslims. Were the terrorist attacks of 2006 one of them? He has confessed that he had given RDX for the 2007 Samjhauta express attack. He has also remarked that in the past Abhinav Bharat has used Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) activists to cause blasts. How far is it true? Why have the police not probed this so far? 17. The two incidents of bomb blasts of Nanded need more probing. In the case of April 2006 several Bajrang Dal extremists died when they were assembling bombs at the house of a retired engineer and RSS activist. The police covered it up saying that it was a fire accident caused by crackers. In the second incident of February 9, 2007 at Amol Bakery two were killed while assembling bombs. One of them was the chief of Shiv Sena, Pandurang Bhagwan Amritkanthwar, whose identity the police had tried to hide. They also tried to cover it up by saying that biscuit cartons had caught fire. Who was the police officer that gave them this kind of fake explanation for police recording? Some of those involved in Nanded blasts had received training in bomb making from Mithun Chkerborty who is now believed to be no other than Purohit. Were those who succeeded in causing bomb explosions in Malegaon in 2006 and 2008 a part of the batch that was trained in bomb making by Purohit, etc.? 18. 2006 was crucial. On February 11 to 13 there was a meeting in Dangs, Gujarat attended by Swami Asimanand and his followers. A road directly links Dangs and Malegaon. Then two follow up meetings were held at the house of Ramji Kalsangra in Indore in March and April 2006. In the light of these stepped up activities it is but natural the first terrorist attack in Malegaon took place on September 2006. It falls in line of the logical sequence of events.(Probe links Swami to Samjhauta bast. Hindustan Times November 21, 2010.) 19. If Swami Asimanand is the mastermind of 2008 blast, he was also responsible for 2006 blast in Malegaon. The Secret meeting at Gujarat Samaj Guest House, Jaipur in 2005 was attended by Sadhvi Pragyasingh Thakur, Asimanand, Indresh Kumar, etc. It was an important meeting because Indresh Kumar was there and mass killing of Muslim in retaliation was his brainchild. More than thirty Muslims lost their lives and many more lost their limbs in the 2006 blasts. (Ajmer blast accused spent night at BJP MP house. Express New Service November 18, 2010.) Etc.
The 2006 attacks are similar to the attack in 2008. More casualties were in the minds of the terrorists. There was no question of schism within the right wing Hindu extremists. Indresh Kumar wanted more casualties and so that happened. Sadhvi Pragyasingh wondering at low casualty in 2008 blast reveals the common agenda of the sangh parivar which of course includes Abhinav Bharat. Indresh Kumar of RSS as well as Parveen Togadia of VHP has important bearing on Malegaon blasts of 2006 and 2008. Togadia had donated money to Abhinav Bharat and Indresh Kumar had attended a meeting in which Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur and Purohit were present prior to Malegaon terrorist attacks of 2006.
As of now the entire investigation of Malegaon 2006 and prosecution in the court is based on the premise that the Muslims are prone to rioting and they used the bomb attacks of 2006 to cause a riot. This is the chink in the armor of the police and the prosecution. The Muslims became irate and attacked the police vehicle. The police opened fire at them at Azad nager police station as they did in front of Mecca Mosque of Hyerabad. Therefore the faulty assumption flies in the face of logic. It is important to note that the Muslims also rioted against the police in 2008 because the police tried to cover up the Bhiku chowk explosion as a cooking gas cylinder burst. Now the world knows how the police have become the laughing stock of the world.
And why should not the world laugh at it? The police and prosecution also believe that the bombs were planted on a height, on a wall, to cause fewer casualties among the fellow Muslims. This is simply absurd. The bombs were fitted in bicycles of which the upper parts remained attached to the pole while the lower parts blew away. The bombs could not have been any higher than a foot from the ground. Any way the bombs did kill more than 30 people and injured hundreds. Moreover Hindus and Muslims alike helped in carrying the dead and the injured to hospitals and donated blood. There was absolutely no communal riot. It is also the height of absurdity that the police have reasoned in their charge sheet that the Muslims exploded bombs to take revenge of the communal riots of 2001. Why should the Muslims in the town blow bombs to kill more Muslims five years later to take revenge of the 2001 riot in which more than a dozen Muslims were killed by the police?
This piece of information in the local Urdu daily of Malegaon town needs vetting. Though a politician makes the allegation he is also a mufti leading prayer at the central mosque of the town and also at the Id gah. It is like the certain knowledge of an insider. It is an insider’s job. Could Mufti Ismail have grapevines within the police force? In this respect he parallels the veteran MLA Nihal Ahmed who had informed the home minister of the terrorist attacks even before they took place. Between them they owe to their people explanation of how far were both (mufti and former MLA) in the know of the matter. Why did they not prevent the disaster?
There are enough people in Malegaon who would like to quiz not just these two leaders but also the police and the government how come the innocents are still languishing in jail. Those arrested were all Muslims. So far nothing has been proved against them.
One explanation of all this is that if not the government itself, the police have taken Muslims for granted. They believe Muslims to be too backward to do anything. The investigations in the bomb explosions of September 8, 2006 have strangely ended up in the desert of unreason. The Police under the then SP of Malegaon Rajwardhan made the world know that the Muslims themselves conspired to kill themselves to create tension in the country. But this illogicality is throwing up strange facts that have successfully resisted all attempts to cover them.
1. Among the dead bodies was one of a man with fake beard. 2. The police sketches of the two suspects who bought new bicycles do not match with the bearded Muslims who are languishing in jail. The bombs were fitted into the cycles. 3. Accused number one Noorulhoda was already under close watch of the police. 4 Another accused Shabbir Masiullah was in police custody since many days before the explosions. 5. At first the police called twenty Hindus for interrogation, and then left the trail there. 6. The imam of Phoosangvi village of Yawatmal, Zahid, performed the Friday prayer there. How could he be planting bomb at the same time in Malegaon more than five hundred miles away. 7. Some of the accused like Abrar Ahmed about whom the Mufti speaks eloquently were police informers. Abrar claims that he was introduced to Sadhvi Pragyasingh Thaku, Lt Col Purohit, Dayanand Pandey and others involved in 2008 blasts. Why should the police chief of Malegaon let Abrar travel to Indore and other places at the cost of the Anti Terrorist Squad and meet them and be photographed and video made of his visit? Why have the agencies not taken his affidavit submitted to special court judge YD Shinde into consideration so far? 8. Why was Rajwardhan taken aback when Abrar told him that he had heard Hindus saying that Dr Rajendra Amin, Dr Bipin Parekh, Someshwar Shanker and others caused the blasts? 9. Why did the police make doctored tape of conversation among the accused? 10. What had Purohit to do with the fake recording and make Abrar hear it? 11. The source of money paid to Abrar’s father in law and wife and also his brother in law is the Gordon’s knot. 12. There are discrepancies in the application form of Abrar for getting a phone connection. He claims that it was the police who supplied it. He also heard people talking in strange languages. The identity of the speakers has never been bothered about in investigation. 13.The man who called local Marathi paper Dinkar and threatened more such attacks in future has never come within the radar of the police and investigative agencies. 14. The police have also failed to trace the caller to the chief of Jamiatul Ulemae Hind in connection with the explosions. 15. If Indresh Kumar had accepted crores of rupees from the ISI to cause the blasts, did this include Malegaon blasts of 2006? 16. Purohit has asserted that he had given the Israelis two examples of Abhinav Bharat’s action of causing disruption within the country to exterminate the Muslims. Were the terrorist attacks of 2006 one of them? He has confessed that he had given RDX for the 2007 Samjhauta express attack. He has also remarked that in the past Abhinav Bharat has used Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) activists to cause blasts. How far is it true? Why have the police not probed this so far? 17. The two incidents of bomb blasts of Nanded need more probing. In the case of April 2006 several Bajrang Dal extremists died when they were assembling bombs at the house of a retired engineer and RSS activist. The police covered it up saying that it was a fire accident caused by crackers. In the second incident of February 9, 2007 at Amol Bakery two were killed while assembling bombs. One of them was the chief of Shiv Sena, Pandurang Bhagwan Amritkanthwar, whose identity the police had tried to hide. They also tried to cover it up by saying that biscuit cartons had caught fire. Who was the police officer that gave them this kind of fake explanation for police recording? Some of those involved in Nanded blasts had received training in bomb making from Mithun Chkerborty who is now believed to be no other than Purohit. Were those who succeeded in causing bomb explosions in Malegaon in 2006 and 2008 a part of the batch that was trained in bomb making by Purohit, etc.? 18. 2006 was crucial. On February 11 to 13 there was a meeting in Dangs, Gujarat attended by Swami Asimanand and his followers. A road directly links Dangs and Malegaon. Then two follow up meetings were held at the house of Ramji Kalsangra in Indore in March and April 2006. In the light of these stepped up activities it is but natural the first terrorist attack in Malegaon took place on September 2006. It falls in line of the logical sequence of events.(Probe links Swami to Samjhauta bast. Hindustan Times November 21, 2010.) 19. If Swami Asimanand is the mastermind of 2008 blast, he was also responsible for 2006 blast in Malegaon. The Secret meeting at Gujarat Samaj Guest House, Jaipur in 2005 was attended by Sadhvi Pragyasingh Thakur, Asimanand, Indresh Kumar, etc. It was an important meeting because Indresh Kumar was there and mass killing of Muslim in retaliation was his brainchild. More than thirty Muslims lost their lives and many more lost their limbs in the 2006 blasts. (Ajmer blast accused spent night at BJP MP house. Express New Service November 18, 2010.) Etc.
The 2006 attacks are similar to the attack in 2008. More casualties were in the minds of the terrorists. There was no question of schism within the right wing Hindu extremists. Indresh Kumar wanted more casualties and so that happened. Sadhvi Pragyasingh wondering at low casualty in 2008 blast reveals the common agenda of the sangh parivar which of course includes Abhinav Bharat. Indresh Kumar of RSS as well as Parveen Togadia of VHP has important bearing on Malegaon blasts of 2006 and 2008. Togadia had donated money to Abhinav Bharat and Indresh Kumar had attended a meeting in which Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur and Purohit were present prior to Malegaon terrorist attacks of 2006.
As of now the entire investigation of Malegaon 2006 and prosecution in the court is based on the premise that the Muslims are prone to rioting and they used the bomb attacks of 2006 to cause a riot. This is the chink in the armor of the police and the prosecution. The Muslims became irate and attacked the police vehicle. The police opened fire at them at Azad nager police station as they did in front of Mecca Mosque of Hyerabad. Therefore the faulty assumption flies in the face of logic. It is important to note that the Muslims also rioted against the police in 2008 because the police tried to cover up the Bhiku chowk explosion as a cooking gas cylinder burst. Now the world knows how the police have become the laughing stock of the world.
And why should not the world laugh at it? The police and prosecution also believe that the bombs were planted on a height, on a wall, to cause fewer casualties among the fellow Muslims. This is simply absurd. The bombs were fitted in bicycles of which the upper parts remained attached to the pole while the lower parts blew away. The bombs could not have been any higher than a foot from the ground. Any way the bombs did kill more than 30 people and injured hundreds. Moreover Hindus and Muslims alike helped in carrying the dead and the injured to hospitals and donated blood. There was absolutely no communal riot. It is also the height of absurdity that the police have reasoned in their charge sheet that the Muslims exploded bombs to take revenge of the communal riots of 2001. Why should the Muslims in the town blow bombs to kill more Muslims five years later to take revenge of the 2001 riot in which more than a dozen Muslims were killed by the police?
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