The village of Ode in Anand district had 200 houses of Muslims. The Muslims lived in the four neighbouhoods known as Sarewalli Bhagol, Malao Bhagol, Pirawali Bhagol and Ode Nawapura.
On March 1, 2002 there was no Morning Prayer call from the mosques of the village as the Muslims were so much frightened by the reports of murder, mayhem and arson of the previous day that they were shocked stunned and terrified to the extent of being transfixed alive within their dwelling.
But their turn had overreached them. They had premonition of what lay in store for them as a community for the last two months. They had been animated into freezing fear of nervousness as they watched the Vishwa Hindu Parishad and Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh volunteers and activists descending on the village with evil intent. The meeting of these took place in the house of Harishbhai Vallabhbhai Patel and the ominous posters for purging Muslims appeared on the walls in the public places soon afterward. These warned the people that Muslim youths had been teasing Hindu girls and there was need for teaching them a lesson. The two inauspicious threatening events were the harbingers of secret meetings in the nearby farms where the Hindus of the village gathered. Although they pretended it was farm related work but the farm hands mostly Muslims got the wind that it was an organized movement planned that did not bode well for their existence. For two months beginning with the last days of 2001 and the months of January and February 2002 the Muslims had become self conscious of what they were on account of the new deportment of their fellow villagers from the majority community.
Then the most dreaded first act of announcement came on March 1, 2002 when Harishbhai Vallabhbhai, Vasantbhai Poonambhai Patel and Natubhai Sanabhai Patel and some others warned them that soon there would be a rally of Hindus. What really transpired was the murderous crowd armed with sharp swords, spears, petrol bombs and gas cylinder entering the areas and locking the houses of the Muslims and burning them! They perished in the fire. Two of them were seriously burnt but ran out and went to a house of a Hindu whose key they had. They were farm hands of the Hindu farmers. For three days they hid there. There was no food or water worth name but they survived. One of them was Rehana Yusufbhai Vohra who saw how the houses were burnt and people killed, there were 28 of them of which seven were young girls and two elderly women. She became the eye witness.
Two others also had come out. One was Syed Ghulam Hussein and a small boy. The old grandfather of the boy could not walk. Chotubhai Ramabhai attacked and killed him by setting him on fire. His grandson saw the gruesome end of his grandfather from where he had sheltered himself.
The survivors identified the attackers who killed the Muslims as Dilipbhai Vallabhbhai Patel, Chotubhai Ranabhai Patel, Prakashbhai Jamnadas Patel and Hemant Kumar Rathod led the attackers. Among the armed they named Harish Vallabh who had a can of petrol, Nantubhai Sana who had a spear, Basant Poonambhai with a can of kerosene and a fire ball, Lalabhai Bakoorbhai with sickles. Some other identified and named were Ghanshayambhai Ambala, Devendrabhai Harishbhai Patel, Prakashbhai Jashbhai Patel, Dilipbhai Sanabhai Patel and Grishbhai Somabhai Patel.
Later on when the police came there and the victims were evacuated to nearby village of Sureli they identified and named Haribhai Vallabhbhai Patel who brought those who wanted to prevent the evacuation. There were two ex sarpanch or head of the village council, Ganesh Panwala Odhi and Ashabhai Patel. They also had their vehicles filled with people. The crowd intended to stop the victim survivors and kill them. Godhabhai Patel, Arvindbhai Patel, Anil Kumar,, Niranjan Kumar (Bobo), Arvind Rambhai, Raoji Sarabhai, Rajubhai Santabhai and Chotu Ramabhai Patel were on the road.
Twenty three Hindus were arrested including the above but most of them got bail. Seven were put in prison. One of them was given bail to celebrate Navratri dance of nine nights!
The most remarkable for history of modern India is that the local people many of whom had lived generations together turned on the Muslims in frenzy to eliminate them. They almost succeeded. The bulldozers had replaced the hands and bullock carts of yore to destroy any remnants of households of Muslims there. The Muslims of Ode could never return there. They dare not. That was what came out when Lord Mountebatten and his lady visited villages in Punjab where the Punjabi Muslims too were thus uprooted.
Unlike partition era when a fig leaf of holistic sense of nationalism was still there to hide the unseemly tendencies, things now and especially in Hindu party BJP ruled state like Gujarat have slid into an abyss. There is no hope left for the victims to return to their earlier life, let alone to their position or status, thanks to the kind of new order that Modi ushered in. He dreamed that Muslim should be so taught a lesson that they would never retaliate. Thus far he has succeeded and India has failed.
This bitter inference is based on how the state of Gujarat under the control of Modi has suborned the judiciary. Judge Ms SY Trivedi was constrained to resign in the first week of May 2011. April 28 2011 was the day she had fixed to give her verdict on Ode. But the Modi dispensation did not want to hear what her decision on the case was. She was transferred out of Anand district even before April 28. But the matter was tightly kept in secret. But now that it is in public domain we wait with waited breath how India reacts.
India reacted to the Non Resident Indians (NRI) enthusiastically as it meant huge funds coming into the country. But the acronym is a status symbol, it connotes opulence and affluence. However, its grim side is that the fund that Sonal Shah and VHP had collected and sent it to the Delhi address of office of the same saffron group which channeled it to those who conducted the pogroms of Muslims. Most of it ended up in the hands of the marauding crowds who had dry fruit packets, pouches of liquor, and weapons. They killed the hapless Muslims of Gujarat in 2002. The twenty eight of Ode were done to death with wherewithal supplied by the NRI. Ode of Anand district was famed as an “NIR village.” Most of the Hindus in the village known as Patels were quite rich and had many members of their families in the US. Even the superrich abroad shared the juggernaut of Hindutva back home.
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Crime Against Humanity
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Saturday, May 28, 2011
Arun Jaitley and the albatross of CTVB hanging from his neck
The Communal and Targeted Violence Bill of 2011 is the bird of good omens which the mariner of BJP has shot down.
The bill must be seen in the backdrop of the last two decades of India’s communal cauldron and the past beyond that should not be forgotten either. Only obsession with the highest powerful man in Gujarat and shielding him by sophistry will not do.
Arun Jaitley conveniently forgets that mass rape of Muslims in Gujarat 2002 was an act of communal violence and an act of terror. Terror and communal violence are the two sides of the same coin as far as India and the whole of Indian subcontinent is concerned. The most disastrous events of violence associated with the juggernaut of demolition of the mosque in Ayodhya in the late eighties and early nineties of the 20th century and building a temple there and the burning of the train compartment carrying karsevaks returning from Ayodhya in 2002.
It is history and fresh in mind that Muslim girls and women were paraded naked, gang raped and burnt alive. In many cases their fetus were also yanked out and stuck on spears. These heinous acts were perpetrated by extremist “groups” of the right wing Hindutva—Bajrang Dal, VHP, Chhara community which the RSS had co-opted into the attacking hordes. There is no doubt that they belong to the majority community, Hindu. But then all the Hindus in Gujarat did not think or act like the hordes. The same ‘groups’ or hordes who descended on the Muslims carried out the pogroms because it was well known from day one that the Chief Minister of the state of Gujarat had given instructions to that effect. On February 27, 2002 he had instructed the police not to intervene but let the Hindu crowds vent out their anger at the Muslims to teach them a lesson that they would never dare to react.
This is the most crucial example of ‘targetting’ Muslims as a ‘group’ by right wing groups of BJP, VHP, Bajrang Dal. That is, the threat held out. The Chief Minister said that VHP had declared strike on February 28 and his own party BJP had also accepted the call to strike and joined it. Therefore he and his party acted as ‘group’ made up of the Hindu who are in majority in the state. But by no stretch of imagination does this mean all the Hindus had subscribed to his and his party’s views. There were Hindus like RB Sreekumar, Sanjiv Bhatt, Rahul Sharma or many good Samaritans in scattered rural and urban places who did not either agree or carry out the instructions of Modi. But KK Mysorewalla in charge of Naroda Patia police did toe the line of the Home Minister who was also Chief Minister of the state. Mysorewalla did commit dereliction of duty to protect the Muslims who pleaded for shelter but he left them to the mercy of the bloodthirsty marauding crowd and did not protect them.
But there were other Hindu officers in the police force who did not allow any pogrom in their areas. The pogroms were limited to certain districts of Gujarat. Not the whole of Gujarat was affected as not all the Gujarati Hindus had turned blind to what was happening around in other parts of the state. Therefore it is false syllogism that the majority community will only bear the blame if the CTVB is passed and enacted and they alone will be punished. It stands out clearly that the police officers who were even handed in keeping law and order were penalized by the state. Were they not Hindus and members of the majority community in the state?
What Modi did is he committed the crime in the sense of Dostoevsky’s protagonist in his novel Crime and Punishment. The novelist and his hero have a theory that an extraordinary character like Napoleon or Mohammad was so powerful that he would break the law knowing that it was wrong. But he would do it when he is convinced that it serves the larger interest of the community. For example the hero kills a Jewess money lender for her exorbitant rate of interest. Usury was condemned by Christ for which the Jews nailed him on the crucifix. But then every breaking of law is a crime and must lead to punishment. The would-be heroine persuaded the hero to confess his homicide and undergo exile to the Siberian desert. The whole momentum of BJP is against this meting out of the judgment. Jaitley again: "The drafting of this bill appears to be the handiwork of those social entrepreneurs who have learnt from the Gujarat experience of how to fix senior leaders even when they are not liable for an offence." Therefore, according to the theory of Dostoevsky Modi stands with Napoleon and Mohammad.
Why does Jaitley appropriate the whole of the populace of India when he says “Even when minor communal or caste disturbances occur, there is a national mood of revulsion against them. The governments, media, the courts among other institutions rise to perform their duty. The perpetrators of communal trouble should certainly be punished.” He should better ask AB Vajpayee and Narendra Modi if they did their raj dharma or state duty. What was “shameful” to the former was not shared by the latter. They also belonged to the majority. And how far did the former share in the national mood of revulsion which the latter did not show an iota of it. Did the targeted killing of Sohrabuddin fill either of the two with remorse? So talking of the national mood is limited to the ‘group’ of the ‘cultural nationalists’ of the two who indulge in prevarication. Those who felt true revulsion were different Indians.
Perhaps Jaitley needs to be schooled in the phenomenal shift that terrorism has taken the place of communal riots and violence in India and hence they are interchangeable. This phenomenon has not transpired in the US. There were no communal riots as a result of 9/11. But what began as a traffic offence in Coimbatore in 1998 became a communal riot and ultimately terrorism. Hindus who quartered Muslims injured and hospitalized were as much terrorists as Muslims who bombed the same hospital. Both ‘groups’ practiced it, the Hindus and the Muslims. Terror is terror whether you wield a sword or detonate a bomb. In Kannur, Kerala, the turf war between the RSS and Muslims and Marxists is indistinguishable whether it is communal violence or terrorism. Who and what had “incentivized” who to do what?
Babu Bajrangi and his associates had collected arms from fellow Hindus and used them against the hapless Muslims. He boasted that they found better way of eliminating the Muslims by herding them with their guns into the dry well of Naroda Patia and took the petrol from the nearby ST bus workshop where KK Mysorewall was stationed and burnt the hundreds of Muslims alive. The commissioner of police PC Pande found the number of dead staggering and ordered the dispersion of the dead corpses to other parts. This was the work of an “association”, to use the word that Jaitley mentions in the following. “Clause 9 creates an offence for communal and targeted violence. Any person who singly or jointly or acting under the influence of an association engages in unlawful activity directed against a 'group' is guilty of organised communal and targeted violence.” Does not this description of Jaitley do justice to the offence and the offenders?
Furthermore, BJP, erstwhile Jan Sangh and the mother of all ‘groups,’ RSS, are familiar in the art of creating ‘groups’ to carry out the hidden agenda of the saffron affiliates. DR Goyal who was a member of RSS and wrote extensively about RSS has this to say: “In 1969, riots broke out in Ahmedabad. There was a separate organisation called “Support for Hindus” to lead the riot. Similarly, when there were riots in Jalgaon and Bhiwandi, a similar organisation was set up. However, if you look at their composition, all the members were also members of the RSS. The parent organisation of such groups that engineer such riots is always the RSS.”
On May 23 1969 the Jan Sangh leader and RSS hard core ‘volunteer’ Dr Bhagwan Prabhashanker Vyas created a ‘group’ in the town of Bhiwandi in Maharashtra. He christened it Rashtriya Utsav Mahasangh or National Festival Great Organization. The nineteen members of this group did not stomach the way the Shiv Jayanti committee celebrated the birth anniversary of the Maratha king. Vyas wanted them to linger longer before mosques and throw gulal or red powder at mosques to create tension and that is a sure recipe of communal violence and riots. In the past as in 1967 he did it at the Panjarpol Dargah but the police nipped the trouble in the bud. Thus the creation of the dissenting 19 under the name of a ‘group’ RUM came handy to create a riot in 1969. This is the way of the multi-headed Hydra of the sangh parivar thrives. Does Jaitley still pretend that he does not know the multiplication of the ‘groups’ created by the RSS? Such groups are from the majority community of Hindus who are in minority in Bhiwandi vis-à-vis Muslims who were 65% of the population according to Justice Madan.
Look at the lofty aims of RUM ala RSS: (1) to celebrate festivals according to Indian tradition; (2) to organize religious, social and cultural programmes; (3) to develop Indian culture consistent with the modern scientific age; (4) to foster nationalistic tendencies; (5) to curb anti–national activities ; and (6) to foster national integrity. All this proved ostentation of which the Jaitleys of such groups are always before the mike with their old legerdemain up in their sleeves. “In all matters likely to create communal tension the R.U.M. adopted a militant and aggressive attitude and set itself up as the champion of what it considered to be the rights of the Hindus against the Muslims and, so to say, to teach the Muslims their place and if they were not willing to learn their place, to teach them a lesson. It even went out of its way to create such occasions”
Some groups can be openly hostile and violent and attack Hurriyat leaders in Jammu and Kashmir irrespective of the fact whether they belong to the minority or majority. Such acts are potentially dangerous because they can create law and order situation and the local political set up in such a state may like to exercise political correctness and waive the laws of the land in dealing with the situation. That was what happened with the Shiv Sena in Jammu.
That is what Modi chose to do in Gujarat. And more, he instructed the police to do his dictate.
Thanks to the draft bill as it encompasses the whole of India and not just Gujarat or JK either
Be Indian and live Indian. Stand up, how many of you belong to this ‘group’!
The bill must be seen in the backdrop of the last two decades of India’s communal cauldron and the past beyond that should not be forgotten either. Only obsession with the highest powerful man in Gujarat and shielding him by sophistry will not do.
Arun Jaitley conveniently forgets that mass rape of Muslims in Gujarat 2002 was an act of communal violence and an act of terror. Terror and communal violence are the two sides of the same coin as far as India and the whole of Indian subcontinent is concerned. The most disastrous events of violence associated with the juggernaut of demolition of the mosque in Ayodhya in the late eighties and early nineties of the 20th century and building a temple there and the burning of the train compartment carrying karsevaks returning from Ayodhya in 2002.
It is history and fresh in mind that Muslim girls and women were paraded naked, gang raped and burnt alive. In many cases their fetus were also yanked out and stuck on spears. These heinous acts were perpetrated by extremist “groups” of the right wing Hindutva—Bajrang Dal, VHP, Chhara community which the RSS had co-opted into the attacking hordes. There is no doubt that they belong to the majority community, Hindu. But then all the Hindus in Gujarat did not think or act like the hordes. The same ‘groups’ or hordes who descended on the Muslims carried out the pogroms because it was well known from day one that the Chief Minister of the state of Gujarat had given instructions to that effect. On February 27, 2002 he had instructed the police not to intervene but let the Hindu crowds vent out their anger at the Muslims to teach them a lesson that they would never dare to react.
This is the most crucial example of ‘targetting’ Muslims as a ‘group’ by right wing groups of BJP, VHP, Bajrang Dal. That is, the threat held out. The Chief Minister said that VHP had declared strike on February 28 and his own party BJP had also accepted the call to strike and joined it. Therefore he and his party acted as ‘group’ made up of the Hindu who are in majority in the state. But by no stretch of imagination does this mean all the Hindus had subscribed to his and his party’s views. There were Hindus like RB Sreekumar, Sanjiv Bhatt, Rahul Sharma or many good Samaritans in scattered rural and urban places who did not either agree or carry out the instructions of Modi. But KK Mysorewalla in charge of Naroda Patia police did toe the line of the Home Minister who was also Chief Minister of the state. Mysorewalla did commit dereliction of duty to protect the Muslims who pleaded for shelter but he left them to the mercy of the bloodthirsty marauding crowd and did not protect them.
But there were other Hindu officers in the police force who did not allow any pogrom in their areas. The pogroms were limited to certain districts of Gujarat. Not the whole of Gujarat was affected as not all the Gujarati Hindus had turned blind to what was happening around in other parts of the state. Therefore it is false syllogism that the majority community will only bear the blame if the CTVB is passed and enacted and they alone will be punished. It stands out clearly that the police officers who were even handed in keeping law and order were penalized by the state. Were they not Hindus and members of the majority community in the state?
What Modi did is he committed the crime in the sense of Dostoevsky’s protagonist in his novel Crime and Punishment. The novelist and his hero have a theory that an extraordinary character like Napoleon or Mohammad was so powerful that he would break the law knowing that it was wrong. But he would do it when he is convinced that it serves the larger interest of the community. For example the hero kills a Jewess money lender for her exorbitant rate of interest. Usury was condemned by Christ for which the Jews nailed him on the crucifix. But then every breaking of law is a crime and must lead to punishment. The would-be heroine persuaded the hero to confess his homicide and undergo exile to the Siberian desert. The whole momentum of BJP is against this meting out of the judgment. Jaitley again: "The drafting of this bill appears to be the handiwork of those social entrepreneurs who have learnt from the Gujarat experience of how to fix senior leaders even when they are not liable for an offence." Therefore, according to the theory of Dostoevsky Modi stands with Napoleon and Mohammad.
Why does Jaitley appropriate the whole of the populace of India when he says “Even when minor communal or caste disturbances occur, there is a national mood of revulsion against them. The governments, media, the courts among other institutions rise to perform their duty. The perpetrators of communal trouble should certainly be punished.” He should better ask AB Vajpayee and Narendra Modi if they did their raj dharma or state duty. What was “shameful” to the former was not shared by the latter. They also belonged to the majority. And how far did the former share in the national mood of revulsion which the latter did not show an iota of it. Did the targeted killing of Sohrabuddin fill either of the two with remorse? So talking of the national mood is limited to the ‘group’ of the ‘cultural nationalists’ of the two who indulge in prevarication. Those who felt true revulsion were different Indians.
Perhaps Jaitley needs to be schooled in the phenomenal shift that terrorism has taken the place of communal riots and violence in India and hence they are interchangeable. This phenomenon has not transpired in the US. There were no communal riots as a result of 9/11. But what began as a traffic offence in Coimbatore in 1998 became a communal riot and ultimately terrorism. Hindus who quartered Muslims injured and hospitalized were as much terrorists as Muslims who bombed the same hospital. Both ‘groups’ practiced it, the Hindus and the Muslims. Terror is terror whether you wield a sword or detonate a bomb. In Kannur, Kerala, the turf war between the RSS and Muslims and Marxists is indistinguishable whether it is communal violence or terrorism. Who and what had “incentivized” who to do what?
Babu Bajrangi and his associates had collected arms from fellow Hindus and used them against the hapless Muslims. He boasted that they found better way of eliminating the Muslims by herding them with their guns into the dry well of Naroda Patia and took the petrol from the nearby ST bus workshop where KK Mysorewall was stationed and burnt the hundreds of Muslims alive. The commissioner of police PC Pande found the number of dead staggering and ordered the dispersion of the dead corpses to other parts. This was the work of an “association”, to use the word that Jaitley mentions in the following. “Clause 9 creates an offence for communal and targeted violence. Any person who singly or jointly or acting under the influence of an association engages in unlawful activity directed against a 'group' is guilty of organised communal and targeted violence.” Does not this description of Jaitley do justice to the offence and the offenders?
Furthermore, BJP, erstwhile Jan Sangh and the mother of all ‘groups,’ RSS, are familiar in the art of creating ‘groups’ to carry out the hidden agenda of the saffron affiliates. DR Goyal who was a member of RSS and wrote extensively about RSS has this to say: “In 1969, riots broke out in Ahmedabad. There was a separate organisation called “Support for Hindus” to lead the riot. Similarly, when there were riots in Jalgaon and Bhiwandi, a similar organisation was set up. However, if you look at their composition, all the members were also members of the RSS. The parent organisation of such groups that engineer such riots is always the RSS.”
On May 23 1969 the Jan Sangh leader and RSS hard core ‘volunteer’ Dr Bhagwan Prabhashanker Vyas created a ‘group’ in the town of Bhiwandi in Maharashtra. He christened it Rashtriya Utsav Mahasangh or National Festival Great Organization. The nineteen members of this group did not stomach the way the Shiv Jayanti committee celebrated the birth anniversary of the Maratha king. Vyas wanted them to linger longer before mosques and throw gulal or red powder at mosques to create tension and that is a sure recipe of communal violence and riots. In the past as in 1967 he did it at the Panjarpol Dargah but the police nipped the trouble in the bud. Thus the creation of the dissenting 19 under the name of a ‘group’ RUM came handy to create a riot in 1969. This is the way of the multi-headed Hydra of the sangh parivar thrives. Does Jaitley still pretend that he does not know the multiplication of the ‘groups’ created by the RSS? Such groups are from the majority community of Hindus who are in minority in Bhiwandi vis-à-vis Muslims who were 65% of the population according to Justice Madan.
Look at the lofty aims of RUM ala RSS: (1) to celebrate festivals according to Indian tradition; (2) to organize religious, social and cultural programmes; (3) to develop Indian culture consistent with the modern scientific age; (4) to foster nationalistic tendencies; (5) to curb anti–national activities ; and (6) to foster national integrity. All this proved ostentation of which the Jaitleys of such groups are always before the mike with their old legerdemain up in their sleeves. “In all matters likely to create communal tension the R.U.M. adopted a militant and aggressive attitude and set itself up as the champion of what it considered to be the rights of the Hindus against the Muslims and, so to say, to teach the Muslims their place and if they were not willing to learn their place, to teach them a lesson. It even went out of its way to create such occasions”
Some groups can be openly hostile and violent and attack Hurriyat leaders in Jammu and Kashmir irrespective of the fact whether they belong to the minority or majority. Such acts are potentially dangerous because they can create law and order situation and the local political set up in such a state may like to exercise political correctness and waive the laws of the land in dealing with the situation. That was what happened with the Shiv Sena in Jammu.
That is what Modi chose to do in Gujarat. And more, he instructed the police to do his dictate.
Thanks to the draft bill as it encompasses the whole of India and not just Gujarat or JK either
Be Indian and live Indian. Stand up, how many of you belong to this ‘group’!
Sunday, May 22, 2011
The killing of a driver
In Ben Jonson’s play Volpone there is a character who inspects the contents of a match box for what kind of piece of intelligence it might contain for a foreign country. The Intelligence Bureau of India has fortuitously given out to the world that it is assiduously doing the same in its pursuit of the most dangerous terrorist after Osama bin Laden who is also hiding in Pakistan.
The killing of the driver of Iqbal Kaskar was designed to locate where Dawood Ibrahim was hiding. The Intelligence Bureau used a middle man from Nagpada who gave subcontract to a source outside Mumbai to kill the driver. As a fall out of Abbottabad assassination of Osma bin Laden this was quite expected. What was not expected was that the IB should be so foolhardy to venture into such a tangle of terror in the heart of the underworld in Mumbai. The Mumbai edition of The Asian Age on Thursday May 19, 2011 made it a front page headline. It shows India in a poor light. If “IB outsourced Kaskar firing” according to the paper, then IB could also have outsourced Karkare killing as well. Or, still better someone outsourced Karkare killing to IB among others.
It also shows how much our agencies are obsessed with terror of one kind rather than terror of all kinds which beset us. We also fail to differentiate ourselves from the Americans. We are opportunists and wanted to piggy ride the Yankees.
It revives the memory of the blunders of IB in regard to the security set up in Mumbai in November 2008. That precipitated the climax in the assassination of Hemant Karkare though the terrorist attack continued for two more days thereafter.
Hindustan Times of January 10, 2009 says that the mobile phone numbers used by the terrorists during 26/11 were available with the IB for 5 days before the attack started. On November 21 the naval headquarters wrote and also spoke to Prabhakar Alok for more information. The Joint Director of IB did not reply. Of the 35 phones 3 were actively used to communicate with the handlers in Pakistan. In the first place the IB was in the know of more than what is known. It knew that 32 phones were bought from Kolkata and 3 from Delhi. It should have been very seriously concerned but did not show any awareness of the urgency of the request or just ignored it.
Even if we cannot call it complicity, but, the meaning can be inferred, nevertheless, that this facilitated the movement of the terrorists who attacked Mumbai on November 26, 2008.
As of now in the murder of the driver there is need for monitoring by a committee of the parliament as to the authenticity of the alleged involvement of the IB. Vice President Abdul Hamid also emphasized this in his Kao memorial lecture.
The murder of Arif Abu Baker Sayyed is clearly an act of terrorism. Unless proved otherwise it stands to reason that it was an act of terror committed by the Indian intelligence agency. It is also quite known to the world that IB has set up training camps in which criminals are trained to kill those whom the agency wants to bump off. There is recent history of 1993 bomb blasts witnesses who were killed in such a way. Scores of them met this fate. IB is back on its old hunt. But the moot question is whether it would serve the interest of the country when already judgment has been delivered and the guilty are sentenced varyingly. Even for the sake of argument suppose Dawood Ibrahim indicates flurry of activity, is India really going to execute a surgical strike? And, where is the don?
It is quite sobering to remember that India had almost gone to war with Pakistan when the Parliament was attacked in December 2001.
What kind of signal we are sending to our neighbouring countries and the world at large? Including in the list of names of the most wanted criminals like Dawood, Saeed we have also such names like Wazul Kamar Khan and Feroz Khan in the dossier we sent to Pakistan. Feroz is in high security prison of Arthur road and Wazaul is out on bail and has been marking his presence at local police station in Mumbai.
It is as absurd as the character in Samuel Beckette’s play Waiting for Godot watching for a foreign body in his hat and hitting it on the palm of the other hand again and again to see whether it falls down.
The underword has a code of honoring each other’s family by not attacking a member of it. Therefore it was not Iqbal but the driver who was the target. So, it was not Chhota Rajan or Ravi Pujari who organized the attack. Then the others in the field are IB or middle men like Ubaid ur Rehman. Striking the hat again and again would end in reduction ad absurdum.
The killing of the driver of Iqbal Kaskar was designed to locate where Dawood Ibrahim was hiding. The Intelligence Bureau used a middle man from Nagpada who gave subcontract to a source outside Mumbai to kill the driver. As a fall out of Abbottabad assassination of Osma bin Laden this was quite expected. What was not expected was that the IB should be so foolhardy to venture into such a tangle of terror in the heart of the underworld in Mumbai. The Mumbai edition of The Asian Age on Thursday May 19, 2011 made it a front page headline. It shows India in a poor light. If “IB outsourced Kaskar firing” according to the paper, then IB could also have outsourced Karkare killing as well. Or, still better someone outsourced Karkare killing to IB among others.
It also shows how much our agencies are obsessed with terror of one kind rather than terror of all kinds which beset us. We also fail to differentiate ourselves from the Americans. We are opportunists and wanted to piggy ride the Yankees.
It revives the memory of the blunders of IB in regard to the security set up in Mumbai in November 2008. That precipitated the climax in the assassination of Hemant Karkare though the terrorist attack continued for two more days thereafter.
Hindustan Times of January 10, 2009 says that the mobile phone numbers used by the terrorists during 26/11 were available with the IB for 5 days before the attack started. On November 21 the naval headquarters wrote and also spoke to Prabhakar Alok for more information. The Joint Director of IB did not reply. Of the 35 phones 3 were actively used to communicate with the handlers in Pakistan. In the first place the IB was in the know of more than what is known. It knew that 32 phones were bought from Kolkata and 3 from Delhi. It should have been very seriously concerned but did not show any awareness of the urgency of the request or just ignored it.
Even if we cannot call it complicity, but, the meaning can be inferred, nevertheless, that this facilitated the movement of the terrorists who attacked Mumbai on November 26, 2008.
As of now in the murder of the driver there is need for monitoring by a committee of the parliament as to the authenticity of the alleged involvement of the IB. Vice President Abdul Hamid also emphasized this in his Kao memorial lecture.
The murder of Arif Abu Baker Sayyed is clearly an act of terrorism. Unless proved otherwise it stands to reason that it was an act of terror committed by the Indian intelligence agency. It is also quite known to the world that IB has set up training camps in which criminals are trained to kill those whom the agency wants to bump off. There is recent history of 1993 bomb blasts witnesses who were killed in such a way. Scores of them met this fate. IB is back on its old hunt. But the moot question is whether it would serve the interest of the country when already judgment has been delivered and the guilty are sentenced varyingly. Even for the sake of argument suppose Dawood Ibrahim indicates flurry of activity, is India really going to execute a surgical strike? And, where is the don?
It is quite sobering to remember that India had almost gone to war with Pakistan when the Parliament was attacked in December 2001.
What kind of signal we are sending to our neighbouring countries and the world at large? Including in the list of names of the most wanted criminals like Dawood, Saeed we have also such names like Wazul Kamar Khan and Feroz Khan in the dossier we sent to Pakistan. Feroz is in high security prison of Arthur road and Wazaul is out on bail and has been marking his presence at local police station in Mumbai.
It is as absurd as the character in Samuel Beckette’s play Waiting for Godot watching for a foreign body in his hat and hitting it on the palm of the other hand again and again to see whether it falls down.
The underword has a code of honoring each other’s family by not attacking a member of it. Therefore it was not Iqbal but the driver who was the target. So, it was not Chhota Rajan or Ravi Pujari who organized the attack. Then the others in the field are IB or middle men like Ubaid ur Rehman. Striking the hat again and again would end in reduction ad absurdum.
Saturday, May 7, 2011
Demonstrating a cover-up job of Modi of Gujarat
On May 5, 2011 the Supreme Court refused to consider the affidavit that Sanjiv Bhatt had submitted to it. SIT submitted its report on April 25 and denied that Bhatt attended the meeting at the house of Modi. Bhatt alleged that the CM had told the police to let the Hindus vent out their anger at the Muslims as he wanted to teach the Muslim a lesson to stop the balancing act of the previous governments in communal rights and let the Hindus have the upper hand and to tilt the balance in their favour for good. The other serious observation of the SIT is that Bhatt has some motive to level grave charges nine years later and it calls for a probe. Next, he tutored his driver to give false information.
Earlier report of SIT submitted in November 2010 had found insufficient evidence against Modi and amicus curaie Raju Ramchandran objected to “no prosecutable evidence against Modi.” SC asked SIT to probe further.
However SC hints at the fact that SIT has not come up with any change in the second report submitted to it. It has given 8 weeks time to Ramchandran to study all the evidence and suggest if any offence can be made out against anyone. Next hearing is on July 28. Thus the slow movement of the judicial process makes one wonder whether the adage justice delayed is justice denied is still true.
This has been going on in Gujarat for more than ten years now. It is proudly passed off as Moditva, unrepentant hijacking of the state to commit atrocities and still go scot free. The best example is Babu Bhai Bajrangi. The crimes he committed speak loudly for the heaven to hear and yet we on the earth have not heard it so far! The courts also seem to be taken in by Moditva. Madhu Srivastava and his people made Zahira Shaikh turn hostile. She went to jail but they are still free. Of the accused and convicted for life in prison now another witness has turned hostile. The case must reopen again and this would continue ad absurdum.
The obvious reason is that the endeared chote sardar of Gujarat is also capable of becoming the Prime Minister! Therefore the judicial process must continue as it is going until more hurdles come in the way and the courts prolong to kingdom come!
The crimes Modi has committed are like a hippopotamus clearly seen trampling the grass on the lawn and yet the investigators are holding the magnifying glass close to their eyes and prying into the roots of the grass as if watching the movement of an ant. The fun is that Modi knows that we know it that Modi knows it!
The impotency of everyone in the face of all this is a tribute to those who had gathered at Janter Manter for a revolution to usher in. Exceptions are there to prove the rule.
Modi brought in a reign of terror, in the words of Zakia Jafri. He conspired, he executed the conspiracy and is busy in what Shanti Bhushan calls cover-up job. The courts like the Chief Minister are vying with each other to go to infinity in time. Will nine years that Sanjiv Bhatt took slide into nine decades before justice is delivered?
Earlier report of SIT submitted in November 2010 had found insufficient evidence against Modi and amicus curaie Raju Ramchandran objected to “no prosecutable evidence against Modi.” SC asked SIT to probe further.
However SC hints at the fact that SIT has not come up with any change in the second report submitted to it. It has given 8 weeks time to Ramchandran to study all the evidence and suggest if any offence can be made out against anyone. Next hearing is on July 28. Thus the slow movement of the judicial process makes one wonder whether the adage justice delayed is justice denied is still true.
This has been going on in Gujarat for more than ten years now. It is proudly passed off as Moditva, unrepentant hijacking of the state to commit atrocities and still go scot free. The best example is Babu Bhai Bajrangi. The crimes he committed speak loudly for the heaven to hear and yet we on the earth have not heard it so far! The courts also seem to be taken in by Moditva. Madhu Srivastava and his people made Zahira Shaikh turn hostile. She went to jail but they are still free. Of the accused and convicted for life in prison now another witness has turned hostile. The case must reopen again and this would continue ad absurdum.
The obvious reason is that the endeared chote sardar of Gujarat is also capable of becoming the Prime Minister! Therefore the judicial process must continue as it is going until more hurdles come in the way and the courts prolong to kingdom come!
The crimes Modi has committed are like a hippopotamus clearly seen trampling the grass on the lawn and yet the investigators are holding the magnifying glass close to their eyes and prying into the roots of the grass as if watching the movement of an ant. The fun is that Modi knows that we know it that Modi knows it!
The impotency of everyone in the face of all this is a tribute to those who had gathered at Janter Manter for a revolution to usher in. Exceptions are there to prove the rule.
Modi brought in a reign of terror, in the words of Zakia Jafri. He conspired, he executed the conspiracy and is busy in what Shanti Bhushan calls cover-up job. The courts like the Chief Minister are vying with each other to go to infinity in time. Will nine years that Sanjiv Bhatt took slide into nine decades before justice is delivered?
Sunday, April 24, 2011
Hunger strike of the prisoner falsely accused in 2006 blasts
Of all the nine accused in 2006 blasts case and wrongfully arrested Dr Faroqh Magdumi is the most articulate and learned. He is the Shahid Azmi of Malegaon for the simple reason that he studied law in the prison and fought for his bail. After spending more than four and a half years in prison he announced on March 17, 2011 that he would go on hunger strike. He started his hunger strike on April 5th and wrote from Arthur road prison in Mumbai making his reason for taking such crucial step.
His letter is a gospel of truth written to his family for news editors. It is so inspiring that it could give birth to radicalism as well as self sacrifice in the ones who read it discerningly. He says he has already submitted 300 pages to the court pleading for bail and exoneration as he is truly innocent. Instead of getting justice he has been kept in different prisons on different pretexts and thus deprived him of justice. But in the light of the affidavit that Sajid Shaikh (pw-3 in the case of the haj house imam Maulana Gulam Yahya) gave to the judge and the hearing of it on October 30 and 31 2008, and the affidavit of the approver Abrar who turned hostile, the undeniable confession of Swami Aseemanand, his innocence has been established before the world. Therefore it was incumbent on the government to use the prosecutor to withdraw the case against the nine accused under the acts of Code of Criminal Procedure 320 and 321and set them free. Though the National Investigation Agency took over the case on March 26, 2011 it has not registered a criminal case against Aseemanand nor has it bothered to take the statements of the nine accused. This is exactly the same mistake that CBI also had committed. This is another way of delaying justice and delaying justice is denying justice.
According to him the Maharashtra Control of Organized Crimes Act court judge is a puppet in the hands of the public prosecutor and the government. He can have only four cases tried at one time. Even if he gives 2 hours a day he can handle the cases. Presently he is hearing the cases of 7/11; Aurangabad arms haul case and Malegaon 2006 bomb blasts case. Although the article 21 of the Constitution gives right to every prisoner to demand speedy trial and the article also enjoins the government to set up fast track court for it, Dr Farog contends that the judge is not taking up the 2006 case in order to deny justice to the accused.
Let alone starting the trial, the court has not given verdict on his appeal for discharge. He had appealed the court in 2008 to discharge him. The hearing started in 2010 and concluded in December 2010 and yet the court has not given verdict just because during the hearing his innocence has been proved by the discovery of the involvement of Hindutva terrorists among other things. And now they are trying to find out some excuse or the other to delay the release of the nine accused.
It is the dictum of the Supreme Court that justice delayed is justice denied and yet Magdumi has to undergo the tribulation in prison.
Therefore he has asked the court in a letter forwarded by the jailer to the court that the court should give him justice afresh. He also cautioned the court that if his demands were not met within fifteen days then for the sake of speedy trial and against the snail speed pace of the MCOCA court and the prejudicial atmosphere in all these as well as the callous disregard of the government he would start an indefinite hunger strike.
Even so the government remained indifferent till April 4th. Hence he stopped eating from 9 am on Tuesday April 5. He started Islamic fasting by drinking a little water before sunrise and the same at sunset. He had already informed the jailer in writing about his fasting. He would continue it indefinitely. But his condition worsened on Friday April 9 so the authorities started his medical check up and started feeding him through sline. This has stopped his fasting but his abstaining from touching food is also continuing. The jailer has informed the home department as well as the concerned government officers. Frog has also been admitted in the prison hospital since Saturday. He was the shifted to JJ hospital on Wednesday April 13th.
He has resolved to continue his hunger strike until the following five demands are met.
1. As there is no definite proof against him and the real criminals have been now identified the government should under CrPC 321 ask the prosecution particularly prosecutor Raj Thackeray to request the court for the withdrawal of the case and set the accused honorably free so that NIA can collect proof against the real criminals without any hindrance.
2. The Malegaon bomb blasts case 23/6 should be tried and concluded in three months time. Till then the accord should be discharged under CrPC 169, 227 and 239 or discharge them through the trial.
3. As the hearing in his appeal for discharge has ended with what the prosecution and the defence argued, the court should decide in his favour. Postponing the verdict would be trivializing justice. It is already a mischief and lethargy to have not given verdict when more than four months have lapsed.
4. In the light of what Swami Aseemaand, Abrar and Sajid Shaikh have told to the court the real criminals should be arrested and the nine accused should be acquitted.
5. For giving justice to the nine accused and speeding up the judicial process a new fast track MCOCA court should be set up.
He addressed his letter to the editor but did not mention any name of any newspaper and requested that the content should be made known to the people.
The religious implication of the fasting is bound to appeal to the people and produce sympathy wave for him. But there is fear that this denial of justice could cause serious problems. It is likely to lower the image of India as far as denial of human rights enshrined in the Constitution of India itself is concerned. It would also make people aware that there is double standard in policing the state and the judicial practice. The real culprits have still not been arrested for the Malegaon 2006 blasts.
In the meantime Nihal Ahmed and his followers have started mass relay fasting to protest against the delay in justice. They have also begun preparation for courting arrest. All this is bad omen for the town if the government remains obdurate and the apathy continues.
His letter is a gospel of truth written to his family for news editors. It is so inspiring that it could give birth to radicalism as well as self sacrifice in the ones who read it discerningly. He says he has already submitted 300 pages to the court pleading for bail and exoneration as he is truly innocent. Instead of getting justice he has been kept in different prisons on different pretexts and thus deprived him of justice. But in the light of the affidavit that Sajid Shaikh (pw-3 in the case of the haj house imam Maulana Gulam Yahya) gave to the judge and the hearing of it on October 30 and 31 2008, and the affidavit of the approver Abrar who turned hostile, the undeniable confession of Swami Aseemanand, his innocence has been established before the world. Therefore it was incumbent on the government to use the prosecutor to withdraw the case against the nine accused under the acts of Code of Criminal Procedure 320 and 321and set them free. Though the National Investigation Agency took over the case on March 26, 2011 it has not registered a criminal case against Aseemanand nor has it bothered to take the statements of the nine accused. This is exactly the same mistake that CBI also had committed. This is another way of delaying justice and delaying justice is denying justice.
According to him the Maharashtra Control of Organized Crimes Act court judge is a puppet in the hands of the public prosecutor and the government. He can have only four cases tried at one time. Even if he gives 2 hours a day he can handle the cases. Presently he is hearing the cases of 7/11; Aurangabad arms haul case and Malegaon 2006 bomb blasts case. Although the article 21 of the Constitution gives right to every prisoner to demand speedy trial and the article also enjoins the government to set up fast track court for it, Dr Farog contends that the judge is not taking up the 2006 case in order to deny justice to the accused.
Let alone starting the trial, the court has not given verdict on his appeal for discharge. He had appealed the court in 2008 to discharge him. The hearing started in 2010 and concluded in December 2010 and yet the court has not given verdict just because during the hearing his innocence has been proved by the discovery of the involvement of Hindutva terrorists among other things. And now they are trying to find out some excuse or the other to delay the release of the nine accused.
It is the dictum of the Supreme Court that justice delayed is justice denied and yet Magdumi has to undergo the tribulation in prison.
Therefore he has asked the court in a letter forwarded by the jailer to the court that the court should give him justice afresh. He also cautioned the court that if his demands were not met within fifteen days then for the sake of speedy trial and against the snail speed pace of the MCOCA court and the prejudicial atmosphere in all these as well as the callous disregard of the government he would start an indefinite hunger strike.
Even so the government remained indifferent till April 4th. Hence he stopped eating from 9 am on Tuesday April 5. He started Islamic fasting by drinking a little water before sunrise and the same at sunset. He had already informed the jailer in writing about his fasting. He would continue it indefinitely. But his condition worsened on Friday April 9 so the authorities started his medical check up and started feeding him through sline. This has stopped his fasting but his abstaining from touching food is also continuing. The jailer has informed the home department as well as the concerned government officers. Frog has also been admitted in the prison hospital since Saturday. He was the shifted to JJ hospital on Wednesday April 13th.
He has resolved to continue his hunger strike until the following five demands are met.
1. As there is no definite proof against him and the real criminals have been now identified the government should under CrPC 321 ask the prosecution particularly prosecutor Raj Thackeray to request the court for the withdrawal of the case and set the accused honorably free so that NIA can collect proof against the real criminals without any hindrance.
2. The Malegaon bomb blasts case 23/6 should be tried and concluded in three months time. Till then the accord should be discharged under CrPC 169, 227 and 239 or discharge them through the trial.
3. As the hearing in his appeal for discharge has ended with what the prosecution and the defence argued, the court should decide in his favour. Postponing the verdict would be trivializing justice. It is already a mischief and lethargy to have not given verdict when more than four months have lapsed.
4. In the light of what Swami Aseemaand, Abrar and Sajid Shaikh have told to the court the real criminals should be arrested and the nine accused should be acquitted.
5. For giving justice to the nine accused and speeding up the judicial process a new fast track MCOCA court should be set up.
He addressed his letter to the editor but did not mention any name of any newspaper and requested that the content should be made known to the people.
The religious implication of the fasting is bound to appeal to the people and produce sympathy wave for him. But there is fear that this denial of justice could cause serious problems. It is likely to lower the image of India as far as denial of human rights enshrined in the Constitution of India itself is concerned. It would also make people aware that there is double standard in policing the state and the judicial practice. The real culprits have still not been arrested for the Malegaon 2006 blasts.
In the meantime Nihal Ahmed and his followers have started mass relay fasting to protest against the delay in justice. They have also begun preparation for courting arrest. All this is bad omen for the town if the government remains obdurate and the apathy continues.
Saturday, April 16, 2011
Impunity in disposing of rape case of a Muslim girl
The rape and murder Rukhsana of Partur Hathdi, Jalna district, is dreadfully gruesome. She was pregnant and was raped by some Hindus so far not identified. From the gory details of the circumstances it is clear who had raped her. The police Patel of the village Sadashiv Jurekar and the sarpanch (village head) Ramesh Shyam got the death of Rukshana entered as suicide and then burnt her dead body in the Muslim graveyard of the village.
What is unmistakable to infer is that both administrative officials of the village tried to cover up the matter. They could not be so naïve as to believe that the Muslims burn their dead in their cemetery! The rural Muslims are the most penurious of our population. Their being indigent makes them survive at the sufferance of the Hindus. Crimes committed against them have little chance of airing let alone registration in any administrative offices of the state. The way her body was disposed off shows that the rapists and killers were not from the Muslim community. The deafening silence of their identity is eloquently telling the story of that identity. The hand to mouth existence of the rural Muslim makes it unthinkable that they would ever have enough to grease the palms of the officials.
However, some Muslim leaders came to know the murky circumstances. One of them was Abu Azmi who condemned the event and spoke about the plight of the rural Muslims. But on Saturday April 9, 2011the Maharashtra Assembly legislative council member Hussein Dalwai entered the hall with an earthen pot containing the ashes and bones of Rukhsana. He along with other leaders like Manikrao Thakere protested. That forced Home Minister RR Patil to pacify them that an inquiry by crime investigation department would be conducted and the guilty would be brought to book.
This case of rape and murder of a Muslim girl could not have drawn even this much attention in the legislative council but for the sudden time schedule change. Two important matters were on the agenda but the concerned members and ministers were absent when the assembly session began. The third item was the case of Rukhsana. The Home Minister casually assured that inquiry would be made. The matter was hushed up. But Dalwai came to know of it in a hospital of Mumbai. He rushed to the assembly hall and along with the congress party president Manikrao Thakere forced the speaker to restart the debate on the issue. Hence, the dramatic entry of Dalwi!
Sachchar commission says Muslims constitute majority in the prison population of India. However, some crimes like rape have become so luxurious to go beyond the reach of some.
In the absence of a healthy civil society and strict adherence to the law of the land the women and the minorities suffer alike. But for the woman from the minority it is virtual hell. Even the dead body has no rest! (courtesy to Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes were Watching God).
The mainstream papers have no space for the Rukhsanas as they are preoccupied with the weighty matters of corruption. Urdu papers like Sahafat or journalism struggle to keep abreast.
What is unmistakable to infer is that both administrative officials of the village tried to cover up the matter. They could not be so naïve as to believe that the Muslims burn their dead in their cemetery! The rural Muslims are the most penurious of our population. Their being indigent makes them survive at the sufferance of the Hindus. Crimes committed against them have little chance of airing let alone registration in any administrative offices of the state. The way her body was disposed off shows that the rapists and killers were not from the Muslim community. The deafening silence of their identity is eloquently telling the story of that identity. The hand to mouth existence of the rural Muslim makes it unthinkable that they would ever have enough to grease the palms of the officials.
However, some Muslim leaders came to know the murky circumstances. One of them was Abu Azmi who condemned the event and spoke about the plight of the rural Muslims. But on Saturday April 9, 2011the Maharashtra Assembly legislative council member Hussein Dalwai entered the hall with an earthen pot containing the ashes and bones of Rukhsana. He along with other leaders like Manikrao Thakere protested. That forced Home Minister RR Patil to pacify them that an inquiry by crime investigation department would be conducted and the guilty would be brought to book.
This case of rape and murder of a Muslim girl could not have drawn even this much attention in the legislative council but for the sudden time schedule change. Two important matters were on the agenda but the concerned members and ministers were absent when the assembly session began. The third item was the case of Rukhsana. The Home Minister casually assured that inquiry would be made. The matter was hushed up. But Dalwai came to know of it in a hospital of Mumbai. He rushed to the assembly hall and along with the congress party president Manikrao Thakere forced the speaker to restart the debate on the issue. Hence, the dramatic entry of Dalwi!
Sachchar commission says Muslims constitute majority in the prison population of India. However, some crimes like rape have become so luxurious to go beyond the reach of some.
In the absence of a healthy civil society and strict adherence to the law of the land the women and the minorities suffer alike. But for the woman from the minority it is virtual hell. Even the dead body has no rest! (courtesy to Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes were Watching God).
The mainstream papers have no space for the Rukhsanas as they are preoccupied with the weighty matters of corruption. Urdu papers like Sahafat or journalism struggle to keep abreast.
Thursday, April 14, 2011
Of Praise for Mr Modi
Calling chief minister of Gujarat as Nero was self consciously too circumspect way of describing the kind rule of Ravana that Gujarat has been going through even now. He may gloat over the praises showered on him by an American officer of the US embassy, Anna Hazare, etc., he may cock a snooke at the centre or the Congress party, but it is time now for the nation to see through the kind of demagoguery he has been engaged in. This is quite serious. He is a true demagogue, a political agitator who appeals to the basest instinct of the mob. He did his act over and over again. It was evident in his repeatedly asking what the crowd would do to Sohrabuddin. Their encore of murder illustrates the point.
The acolytes and associates of Modi are like the nine blind men who have discerned features which they perceive without having a fuller comprehension of the whole behemoth he is. Major General I S Sinha of Golden Katara Division of Indian Army gave three cheers to Modi for having accomplished his work within given time. Look at what Modi accomplished overnight. Wali Gujrati’s mausoleum was demolished and wiped out of the surface and a road built overnight there. If this was not done by Modi by his own hands he also did not kill the nearly two thousand Muslims in the pogroms of 2002. What he had done was set the target for Hindus to vent their anger for full three days. He also moved around and applauded the Chharra community women for giving birth to the valiant members who slaughtered Muslims in Naroda Patia. One of the most gruesome murderers (Suresh Richard) has gone on record telling how Modi visited his womenfolk in the evening of the first day of wholesale murder and slaughter and rape. A senior police officer at the same place refused to protect Muslim women and children and told them that it was an order from above that that day they would show no heed to the pleadings of the Muslim victims. Police officer KK Mysorewala’s utterance denying help to the Muslims became the title of the report that Human Rights Watch published. Why do those praising Modi choose to ignore this? They have also not bothered that Mysorewala was the one who told Babu Bajrangi to go into hiding as there was shoot at sight order against him. When Modi wanted Bajrangi to surrender Mysorewala was again used to convey the message. Mysorewala was superintendant of police of Modasa when Muslims were attacked by Abinav Bharat with bombs on September 29, 2008. He turned a Nelson’s eye on it.
Anna Hazare’s reason for preferring Modi as well as Nitish Kumar is rural development. This is myopic vision of what actually is the case. Modi’s administration not only did not do anything to stop the genocide of Muslims but over the years tacitly and criminally let the Hindus systematically boycott Muslims in the rural parts of Gujarat. Most of them cannot even now return to their heaths and hearths although nearly a decade has passed the fury he let loose upon them. Their humble professions, commercial establishments along with their homes were destroyed. Were not the Muslim transporters, motel owners, garage mechanics parts of the wheel of development of rural Gujarat? Where was Hazare when this went on year in and year out?
Modi did what Slobodan Milosevik did in former Yugoslavia, instigate the mobs of Serbians against the minority Muslims. The mobs did the rest. It is a national shame that the police never supplied CDs of his derogatory speeches and phone calls. Why did all this fall on the deaf ears of Hazare and Sinha?
It is amazing that a Muslim divine like fellow Gujarati Maulana Ghulam Vastanavi saw the material development in Gujarat as worthy of praise. Islam does not prefer material development over the spiritual and moral development. Had it been otherwise the Prophet could have started collecting interest over the money that many deposited with him because of his sterling moral character. Islam forbids interest or usury and values sound moral character.
Amitabh Bacchan chose to advertise the glory of Gujarat because of the same material consideration. He would collect money by advertising because money is important. This is his characteristic attitude. A brother of his has enormously got rich and lives in Switzerland with the booty of the Bofors guns deal. Money and conscience are two different and contradicting things. Modi and Bacchan have set perceptions on whom to bond with. If Bacchan did not invite any of the Khans to the marriage of his son Abhishek he is free to do so as a citizen of this country. A man is known not only by the company he keeps but also the company he avoids. Choosing to bond with Modi and not bonding with Amir, Salman, and Shah Rukh Khan is truly melodrama in effect.
But in public life there is need for introspection. Modi was against the secular minded MP Ahsan Jaffri who had opposed his Hindutva ideology during the election at the beginning of Modi’s term in office. He chose to ignore and not take any notice of the pleadings of Jafri to save the life of the people taking shelter in his house. His party also did not want to have a motion in the parliament to express grief over the brutal murder of the MP. Again he like his party is free in democracy to hang a portrait of Savarkar in Parliament or bond with Swami Aseemanand or the likes of Babu Bajrangi. Conscience is a strange thing it is activated in the case of corruption involving money but remains dormant in the corruption of other things.
CPM P Abdulla Kutty is another strange bedfellow of Modi like Dr Farooq Abdullah and Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi. But how many have even thought of Tulsiram Prjapati, a family friend and associate of Sohrabuddin Shaikh? Why does he deserve real praise? He was taken to identify Sohrab. Without losing time he informed Sohrab’s brother Rubabuddin that he had seen Sohrab alive in police station. Two days later Sohrab was killed. This was the notorious fake encounter that has failed to make any dent in our cussedness as you can see how Modi hobnobs with the fathers of industry like Mukesh Ambani and Ratan Tata and how he preens over the praise showered by the American diplomatic staff.
Subsequently Tulsiram was brought to Gujarat and killed as the Rajasthan police refused to oblige the Gujarat police. During this and since his inception as CM Modi has been the home minister. In 2007 election Modi justified the murder of Sohrab. Can the nation not recall that he went further and told his mobs that what he had done would deserve hanging him and he was ready for it?
Those who are loudest in demanding hanging Afzal Guru do not want to recall that because of the demagoguery of the Modi kind that has entrapped us? But how long!
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The acolytes and associates of Modi are like the nine blind men who have discerned features which they perceive without having a fuller comprehension of the whole behemoth he is. Major General I S Sinha of Golden Katara Division of Indian Army gave three cheers to Modi for having accomplished his work within given time. Look at what Modi accomplished overnight. Wali Gujrati’s mausoleum was demolished and wiped out of the surface and a road built overnight there. If this was not done by Modi by his own hands he also did not kill the nearly two thousand Muslims in the pogroms of 2002. What he had done was set the target for Hindus to vent their anger for full three days. He also moved around and applauded the Chharra community women for giving birth to the valiant members who slaughtered Muslims in Naroda Patia. One of the most gruesome murderers (Suresh Richard) has gone on record telling how Modi visited his womenfolk in the evening of the first day of wholesale murder and slaughter and rape. A senior police officer at the same place refused to protect Muslim women and children and told them that it was an order from above that that day they would show no heed to the pleadings of the Muslim victims. Police officer KK Mysorewala’s utterance denying help to the Muslims became the title of the report that Human Rights Watch published. Why do those praising Modi choose to ignore this? They have also not bothered that Mysorewala was the one who told Babu Bajrangi to go into hiding as there was shoot at sight order against him. When Modi wanted Bajrangi to surrender Mysorewala was again used to convey the message. Mysorewala was superintendant of police of Modasa when Muslims were attacked by Abinav Bharat with bombs on September 29, 2008. He turned a Nelson’s eye on it.
Anna Hazare’s reason for preferring Modi as well as Nitish Kumar is rural development. This is myopic vision of what actually is the case. Modi’s administration not only did not do anything to stop the genocide of Muslims but over the years tacitly and criminally let the Hindus systematically boycott Muslims in the rural parts of Gujarat. Most of them cannot even now return to their heaths and hearths although nearly a decade has passed the fury he let loose upon them. Their humble professions, commercial establishments along with their homes were destroyed. Were not the Muslim transporters, motel owners, garage mechanics parts of the wheel of development of rural Gujarat? Where was Hazare when this went on year in and year out?
Modi did what Slobodan Milosevik did in former Yugoslavia, instigate the mobs of Serbians against the minority Muslims. The mobs did the rest. It is a national shame that the police never supplied CDs of his derogatory speeches and phone calls. Why did all this fall on the deaf ears of Hazare and Sinha?
It is amazing that a Muslim divine like fellow Gujarati Maulana Ghulam Vastanavi saw the material development in Gujarat as worthy of praise. Islam does not prefer material development over the spiritual and moral development. Had it been otherwise the Prophet could have started collecting interest over the money that many deposited with him because of his sterling moral character. Islam forbids interest or usury and values sound moral character.
Amitabh Bacchan chose to advertise the glory of Gujarat because of the same material consideration. He would collect money by advertising because money is important. This is his characteristic attitude. A brother of his has enormously got rich and lives in Switzerland with the booty of the Bofors guns deal. Money and conscience are two different and contradicting things. Modi and Bacchan have set perceptions on whom to bond with. If Bacchan did not invite any of the Khans to the marriage of his son Abhishek he is free to do so as a citizen of this country. A man is known not only by the company he keeps but also the company he avoids. Choosing to bond with Modi and not bonding with Amir, Salman, and Shah Rukh Khan is truly melodrama in effect.
But in public life there is need for introspection. Modi was against the secular minded MP Ahsan Jaffri who had opposed his Hindutva ideology during the election at the beginning of Modi’s term in office. He chose to ignore and not take any notice of the pleadings of Jafri to save the life of the people taking shelter in his house. His party also did not want to have a motion in the parliament to express grief over the brutal murder of the MP. Again he like his party is free in democracy to hang a portrait of Savarkar in Parliament or bond with Swami Aseemanand or the likes of Babu Bajrangi. Conscience is a strange thing it is activated in the case of corruption involving money but remains dormant in the corruption of other things.
CPM P Abdulla Kutty is another strange bedfellow of Modi like Dr Farooq Abdullah and Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi. But how many have even thought of Tulsiram Prjapati, a family friend and associate of Sohrabuddin Shaikh? Why does he deserve real praise? He was taken to identify Sohrab. Without losing time he informed Sohrab’s brother Rubabuddin that he had seen Sohrab alive in police station. Two days later Sohrab was killed. This was the notorious fake encounter that has failed to make any dent in our cussedness as you can see how Modi hobnobs with the fathers of industry like Mukesh Ambani and Ratan Tata and how he preens over the praise showered by the American diplomatic staff.
Subsequently Tulsiram was brought to Gujarat and killed as the Rajasthan police refused to oblige the Gujarat police. During this and since his inception as CM Modi has been the home minister. In 2007 election Modi justified the murder of Sohrab. Can the nation not recall that he went further and told his mobs that what he had done would deserve hanging him and he was ready for it?
Those who are loudest in demanding hanging Afzal Guru do not want to recall that because of the demagoguery of the Modi kind that has entrapped us? But how long!
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