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Curfew, boycott for Muslims in Ambala village

NADIM AHMAD The trouble for the community started in the third week of want to live in this village.' They also announced that if they do
July, 2009, when Muslims of the village laid the foundation-stone not obey these rules, Muslims should vacate the village by the 18
Ambala/New Delhi: Thakurpura-Kalalti, a hamlet in Ambala dis- of a mosque. Said Zamir Ali, “Earlier we had been living in peace of August otherwise they will be driven out of the village and their
trict of Haryana, comprising of 11 Muslim families and about 400 and harmony, even dur-
non-Muslim families, is in a state of chaos. Muslims have been ing Partition we had cor-
declared unwanted in the village. Their total boycott has been dial and harmonious
declared and undeclared curfew has been imposed on them by relationship with the
the Hindu residents of the village. They cannot move around in the Hindu community. We
village or buy their daily necessities only because they wanted to had generously con-
build a mosque in their village. A majority of Muslim males have tributed for temple in the
fled from the village, taking shelter with their relatives in nearby vil- village and still have
lages. Police deployment has been made but the non-Muslim vil- many receipts of the
lagers are equally unrelenting. The administration is finding it contributions. There are
tough to make Muslims stay in the village. At the moment only ten many good people in the
persons with a few small children and women of Muslim families village who want to live
are left in the village and they dare not move around freely. peacefully but recently
Mariam, wife of Sabir Ali, who is staying in the village, said over some outsider funda-
the telephone that she “would stay in the village come what may”. mentalists and bad ele-
All men and young girls fled the village after a diktat was issued on ments have started sow-
14 August 2009 and renewed on 22 August 2009 with physical ing seed of hatred
attack on Muslims, their homes and properties. among the two commu-
Police and local administration are providing food and daily nities of the village.” Some injured villagers of Kalalati now in Mullana hospital
necessities for Muslim women left behind in the village. According Another villager called
to Peerji Husain Ahmad of Budhia, ADC Ambala Ms Renu Phulia Nannhe (60), elder brother of Zamir Ali, completes the narrative houses will be destroyed."
had personally intervened and assured that full protection would saying that, “The previous year my youngest brother Haji Sabir Ali The matter was first reported on 16th of August in a section
be given to those staying in the village. He insisted that it would bought a piece of land for rupees three and a half lakh, measur- of Urdu press. Members of the minority community sought help
not be advisable for Muslims to leave the village to settle else- ing one kanal and a marla, from Krishen Lal, a resident of the vil- from their acquaintances in the area. Matters were reported to the
where. Police posse at the entrance of the village is not allowing lage, to build a mosque in the name of his wife Maryam...At the police also. Mediation started and police deployment was made
Muslims from outside the village to enter it while the administra- time of the purchase, Sabir had informed the seller that the land in the village. On 18 August, an area panchayat of majority com-
tion has assured to provide medical treatment to injured persons is for mosque. This year on July 21, when we tried to fix the direc- munity was held in the premises of the government school of the
free of cost and adequate compensation against damages. tion of the qibla and lay the foundation-stone, members of the village. According to Nanhe, “slogans hurting the sentiments of
According to one of the victims, few con- Muslims were raised and the demands were reiterated.” Nannhe
sumer durables such as fridges and adds, “On 20 August, local police administration called respected
coolers have already been provided to persons from both sides and held a meeting for reconciliation.
them by the local administration and are About one hundred persons took part from the majority commu-
kept at Zamir Ali's house in the village. nity while the police had asked only ten members from each side
This reporter met some of the vic- to take part.” In the meeting it was agreed that the mosque will
tims and residents of Thakurpura-Kalalti be built at a later date with consent and help from the majority
on 28 August. According to Zamir Ali son community. "At this they (Hindus) demanded that Muslims should
of Umerdeen (55), who fled the village give in writing that they will not build the mosque but as this was
on August 22, "There are 11 houses unacceptable to us, we refused" said Zamir Ali.
beloning to two extended families in the Drum-beating, announcements and harassment of Muslims
village. They are eight families of our restarted after the failure of the reconciliation meeting. "The last
real brothers, two families of our children act was in the afternoon on 22 August 2009 when a huge crowd
and one family of our distant relative. armed with sharp weapons and lathis with many outsiders
We are permanent residents of the vil- Some residents of Kalati who have fled their village attacked us. They severely beat up our family members and
lage and are living in the village since destroyed and looted our properties,” said Zamir Ali. Twelve peo-
very long time. We are small farmers although we do not have our majority community objected and asked us to stop the construc- ple got injured, four of them seriously. One Rulda son of
own agricultural land. We till land on lease. Some of us are tion. At that time they had told them: this is our purchased land Umerdeen (70) went into coma. He suffered sever head injuries
traders engaged in selling cloth from village to village. Our and we would build the mosque. An argument ensued and we and is currently admitted to PGI Hospital in Chandigarh. They
women are housewives. Literacy is very low in our community. were threatened." also raised slogans such as “Muslims should be driven out to
One of my brothers is in Army." During the next two three weeks, rumours flew thick and fast Pakistan”. They came in great numbers shouting slogans and
and verbal threats also took place. "Members of the minority com- armed with sharp weapons and attacked me and my elder broth-
MG/Yusuf munity who were found passing by were er" says Kreshan with tears in his eyes as he was recuperating in
caught and beaten up or abused or MM Hospital, Mullana. Kreshen had stitches on his head, under
harassed," said Naseeruddin (72) of vil- his left ribs and on his left thigh. The attack was on the pretext
lage Telemajra, Budhiya, Yamunanagar, that Omveer, a young boy of 19, was beaten up by Haji Sabir Ali's
the relative of a villager who had visited men while he was going to market outside the village. On inquiry
Kalalti during this period. Nanhe adds, as to who paid for the medical bills, said Shaukat who had stitch-
"On 13/14 of last month they held a meet- es under his left ribs and on his left thigh, "Madam Saheba, ADC
ing and made announcement in the vil- Ambala, has told us that we are not required to pay the medical
lage with drum-beat that 'Muslims will bills.” Cases of rioting and looting have been registered and
have to shave off their beards, discontin- some arrests have been made, while the actual culprits are still
ue wearing caps, and desist from offering roaming free and the Muslims are unable to return to their village.
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ISSUES / OPINION

Effective measures to curb hate speech Movement since 1984 its leaders indulged in hate speech and Given this background, in the Report on 'Communal riots:
IQBAL A. ANSARI
iqbalansari35@gmail.com hate writings without any fear of law. For example one Hindu Prevention and Control (1999) written for the National
Sangram Samiti distributed pamphlets in 1969 in Ahmedabd Commission For Minorities (NCM), we recommended the con-
uring the Lok Sabha electoral campaign Varun calling upon Hindus to "leave defensive policy and attack now. stitution of a statutory Community Relations Commission

D Gandhi's hate speech against Muslims aroused inter-

est in the existing applicable law and law-enforce-
ment system in the country. It needs to be noted that
obligation of the State to enact effective laws to prevent and
punish hate speech flows from country's commitment to imple-
ment article 20 of the International Covenant on Civil and
Political Rights (ICCPR), which requires prohibition by law "any
advocacy of national, racial or religious hatred that constitutes
incitement to discrimination, hostility or violence".
For obvious reasons the discussion was focused on the
powers and functions of the Election Commission (EC) and the
relevant provisions under the Representation of People's Act
(RPA). Though it has been pointed out that even without any
express provision to injunct a person from making inflammato-
ry speeches, article 324 of the Constitution, which vests the
entire authority of "superintendence", "direction" and "control"
of the conduct of elections in the E.C., already equips it with a
reservoir of power "to ensure that the country shall be gov-
erned in its true secular, socialist, democratic perspective."
However the E.C will be on a firmer ground for such action, if
express provisions are made for prevention and punishment of
hate speech, during the conduct of elections.
Given the existence of Hindu hate literature against
Muslims, which Rosenthal characterized as "almost exactly the
same in manufactured paranoia as the Protocols of Elders of
Zion, Hitler's favourite", and given the increasing demonization
of Christian charitable missionary workers as exemplified by
killing of Graham Staines, the issue needs to be discussed in
the wider context of community relations in the country in the
human rights perspective, of which democratic electoral
process is just one aspect, though a very crucial one. No less
worthy of attention are hate writings and speech during politi-
cal and religio-cultural campaigns, rallies, processions and
public meetings over contentious ethno-religious issues.
It needs to be recalled that when the first National
Integration Committee met in 1961 in the wake of communal
riots in Jabalpur and linguistic disturbances in Assam, it recom-
mended that "Section 153(A) of the Indian Penal Code should
be suitably amended and effectively enforced". It has not been
done till date. During the entire period of the 1960s and 70s
and again more ferociously during Ranjanam Bhoomi
Arise to avenge insult to our temples and ladies and rush to
Muslim areas with weapons and finish them."
Sadhvi Rithambra, used to hold out the threat to Muslims
that they must submit to their (Hindutva) will by withdrawing
their claim to Babri Masjid or else they would be taught a les-
son. Walls across north India displayed posters about the only
befitting place of Muslims being Pakistan or Qabristan (grave-
yard). One of the greatest violations of Ss 153A and 153B was
committed by Bal Thackeray in his writings in Saamna in
December 1992 - January 1993. On December 8, 1992 he edi-
torially wrote that "Muslims should draw a lesson from the dem-
olition of Babri Masjid, otherwise they will meet the same fate
as Babri Masjid". On December 9, 1992 he wrote: "Pakistan
need not cross borders and attack India. 25 crore Muslims in
India will stage an armed insurrection. They form one of
Pakistan's seven atomic bombs". On January 8, 1993 the edi-
torial directly exhorted Sainiks to kill Muslims: "Muslims of
Bhendi Bazar, Null Bazar, Dongri and Pydhonie, the areas we
call Mini Pakistan … must be shot on the spot". Yet he was not
brought to justice as there was collusion between the public
prosecutor representing the Congress Government of
Maharashtra and the defence counsel and the learned Court
was too willing to show extreme indulgence to the hate-leader.
Varun Gandhi's hate speech against Muslims and projec-
tion of Modi as the future Prime Minister of India provide clear
vindication of the apprehension and warning expressed by the
UN Special Rapporteur's recently released Report on India that
"there is at present a real risk that similar communal violence
(like Delhi 1984, Ayodhya 1992 and Gujarat 2002) might hap-
pen again unless …. advocacy of religious hatred is adequate-
ly addressed."
The following observation of the Special Rapporteur
deserves careful attention. She says that "Organised groups
claiming roots in religious ideologies have unleashed an all-
pervasive fear of mob violence in many parts of the country.
Law enforcement machinery is often reluctant to take any
action against individuals or groups that perpetrate violence in
the name of religion or belief. This institutionalized impunity for
those who exploit religion and impose their religious intoler-
ance on others has made peaceful citizens, particularly the
minorities, vulnerable and fearful".
(CRC), which along with resolving-managing inter-community
ethno-religious conflicts would be empowered to take action
under Ss 153A&B, 295 & 505 and any other applicable law
dealing with inter-group relations.
An independent CRC is to be empowered and equipped
with special public prosecutor for prosecution of those violating
the law and transgressing guidelines for the conduct of proces-
sions, rallies or public meetings or any inter-group agreement
over specific local, regional or national issue having a bearing
on inter-group relations.
Apart from not putting in place this independent mecha-
nism for punishment of hate speech what has been neglected
is the enactment of a law regulating the activities of political
parties, recommendation for which was made in the NCM
Report (1999) at the instance of Justice V.M. Tarkunde. The
law should bind all parties - even those which, though while
keeping away from electoral politics, play public political role,
like the Jamaat-e-Islami and the RSS to strictly abide by the
human rights norms of equality, non-discrimination, non-exclu-
sion, non-assimilation, non-dominance, and non-hatred and
tolerance. While making political parties pledge allegiance to
secularism has proved futile, as defining secularism, especial-
ly Indian secularism, proved so problematic that the exercise of
enactment on it was abandoned. There is no such undefinabil-
ity in human rights norms. Moreover it can take care of the prin-
ciples of secularity which was originally conceived of to ensure
equality of status and rights to all persons, irrespective of ori-
gin or affiliation.
It follows from this that we need to adopt the following
measures to effectively deal with hate speech: Establishment
of a statutory independent empowered CRC entrusted with the
responsibility of peace-keeping; enactment of a Political
Parties (Regulation) Act to bind them to observe human rights
norms (not secularism and socialism); express provision of the
EC's powers to regulate,, restrict, and prohibit hate speech
during any electoral process by any one.
No less significant is the requirement of expeditious trial of
hate speech cases by specially designated courts for the pur-
poses of determining disqualification of candidates. Similarly
trial of cases related to hate speech filed by the CRC during
non-electoral process should be given highest priority.

Time has come for US/UK/NATO to quit inflicted on a UN member country. 220 million to 230 million Indians, nearly a quar-
Quit Afghanistan Afghanistan forthwith, without committing more Though India at some level seems to be ter of the country's population, survive on less
BC's security correspondence on 4 and more war crimes daily on the innocent hap- involved in the conspiracy being played out in than $1 a day (ppp). According to the report,

B Sept 09 went on record with a clear

admission that US/NATO operations in
Afghanistan on Taliban and Afghan
civilians has nothing directly or indirectly related
to US/NATO's avowed claim to be fighting Al-
Qaeda terrorism in Afghanistan. None of the ter-
ror attacks in the West that Frank Gardner rat-
tles off in his BBC intervention, according to him,
has any remote relations with Taliban in
Afghanistan or Pakistan. Daily aerial bombings
are a serial war- crime murders committed
against civilians in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Al-
Qaeda is not necessarily based in these areas.
They can operate from Yemen, Somalia and in
future from North Africa. With each incident of
wanton massacre of civilians, Obama, Gordon
Brown and NATO Secretary General Anders
Fogh Rasmussen instantly go on TV and fool
their people back home, that their bloody mis-
sion in Afghanistan is necessary to protect
homeland from terrorism emanating from
Afghanistan and Pakistan. These are patent
lies. They cannot fool all the people all the time.
less people of Afghanistan and Pakistan.
NATO forces yesterday shot an oil tanker,
hijacked by Taliban in Kunduz province. The
tanker was stuck while crossing a river and
Taliban had asked local people to empty the
tanker, by taking away the fuel for their private
use. NATO did not find it necessary to find out if
the crowd collected around the hijacked tanker
was that of civilians or Taliban. Reconnaissance
can easily make out. However, NATO forces
directly undermined clear instructions from the
High Command and in an enraged vindictive
action blew up the tanker. The action resulted in
over 90 killed. BBC in its first report clearly men-
tioned that all were civilians. But the NATO Chief
later found it convenient to resort to blatantly lie
and say that all killed were Taliban. An inquiry is
promised. But all such enquiries are self-serv-
ing, bending backwards to prove the forces to
be not guilty. However, the civilians in these
cannot be fooled. This carnage is going on by
the hour and the world seems to be sanitized to
one of the most blatant and wanton criminal war
Afghanistan and Pakistan, Indian people are not
fully taken into any confidence, if the criminal
acts have any legal basis. Indian government
should gather up moral courage and come out
with open notice to the US and NATO forces to
QUIT AFGHANISTAN. A moral India owes it to
its people to oppose such horrendous carnage
in its neighbourhood. Needless to say, the fire
could spread into India's own territory, in one
form or other.
Ghulam Muhammed, Mumbai
ghulammuhammed3@gmail.com
Development Goals
India is passing through a crucial period.
Supriya Sule, chairperson of the parliamentari-
an's Group on Millennium Development Goals,
has pointed out some pressing problems pre-
vailing in India . She stated that "India is home
to a fourth of the world's poor, the efficiency of
national poverty reduction programmes is under
the spotlight more than ever before.
National Sample Survey data reveal that
5.36 lakh women worldwide who die during
pregnancy or child birth,1.17 lakh are Indians.
According to the Bulletin on Rural Health
Statistics in Indians (2006), nationally there is a
shortage of 20,903 sub-centres,4,803 Primary
Health Centres and 2,653 community Health
Centres, as per the norms, based on the 2001
population figures. Nationally, there is only one
bed per 6,000 people. One in four pregnant
woman has not had a single ante-natal check-
up. And roughly a third of expectant mothers are
not immunized against tetanus, which would
help pregnant infection in both mother and child
at birth.
It is time the UPA government should take
constructive steps to solve these problems and
do away with all road-blocks causing hindrance
and obstacle in India’s progress and prosperity.
A sincere attempt to ameliorate the lot of people
is called for and we expect from government
positive efforts in this direction.
Obaidur Rahman Nadwi, Lucknow
ornadwi@yahoo.com

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PUCL and PUHR expose grave human rights violations in UP REQUIRES TEACHING STAFF
HAIDER ABBAS disgust and disbelief over what he termed
as the "fake encounter" of Kashmiri youths
Lucknow: A small gathering of like-minded on the break of the Republic Day-Jan 26, 1. LAW (2 posts)
people, along with a couple of students, sat 2009, and called the murder of those two
here on August 28 at Gandhi Bhawan youths a fake-death drama. He read 2. ACCOUNTING (1 post)
Library to discuss the grave human rights through his own piece, "A Conscience
situation in Uttar Pradesh. Present at the Encountered" which is posted at 3. MARKETING (1 post)
discussion arranged under the aegis of http://www.countercurrents.org/pandey061
Peoples Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) 008.htm [see box] saying that he can in no University-level teaching experience is preferable
and Peoples Union for Human Rights lesser terms call the prevalent police sys-
(PUHR) were Sandeep Pandey, recipient tem as just "a killing machine" with no one
of Ramon Magsaysay Award, SR to hold or rein in. In the same piece, he had
but PhD is a must.
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noted human rights activist, Vandana who were supposed to be "encountered" in
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The VC, Zanzibar University, c/o Pharos Media,
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They sat together to put face to the on- would-be killers preferred to lie low," he
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where ironically, the historically subjugated analysis of the more-than-visible-loopholes
community Dalits' representative is the in the police theory of the Jan 26 Abu Ismail and Farooq. One passport recovered NOIDA whereas the NOIDA police claims that
chief minister, and yet, there is no sign of encounter. "There are reasons to believe from them is in the name of Ali Ahmad. Farooq they were chased for 25 kms from Lal Kuan in
any reprieve vis-à-vis human rights. that the killing of two alleged Pakistani "ter-
has made a dying declaration that he and Ismail Ghaziabad - that would have crossed at least five
The discussion put the whole ambi- rorists" by NOIDA police and UP Anti- are Pakistani nationals. The police are yet to police posts on the way. None of the police posts
ence to fire as Arindamjit Singh said that Terrorist Squad (ATS) in the early hours name a terror outfit to which the duo belonged. intervened.
"every encounter manufactured by the (2:15 am) of the Republic Day, 26th The DIG Meerut claimed that the terrorists had (4) Sector 97 in NOIDA has been the site of two other
police apparatus" is always 100% fake. He January, 2009, was a fake encounter as two identity cards in the name of students of two recent encounters.
lambasted the latest National Human these two persons were probably the same Indian institutions. (5) The terrorists had stopped at a NOIDA tea stall to
Rights Commission report, submitted on Kashmiri youth whom I had referred in my 2) Two AK-47s were recovered from the terrorists ask for directions from a man who, coincidentally,
July 20, 2009 in the wake of Batla House article earlier. It is possible that these two which were not used in self-defense even when was a police informer.
Encounter of Sept 19, 2008, as a fake youths had become a liability for the police police opened fire. "These guns are probably the (6) The Gypsy car used by police in the encounter had
report and farce piece of paper. "The com- and therefore were eliminated," said same as the ones bought for the planned October a few number plates lying inside which were seen
mission members and encounter special- Sandeep Pandey. Explaining the matter encounter in Lucknow which I had earlier immediately after the encounter. The Gypsy car
ists are like chor-chor mausere bhai (all further why the encounter appears fake, he referred," he said. has since gone missing.
thieves are cousins of each other) and all offered the following reasons: (3) There are conflicting claims about chase given to (7) There is one bullet hole on the windshield of the
the exercise is a piece of redundant red (1) The Pakistani identity of the victims is the terrorists before they were shot dead. ATS Gypsy which could not have been caused by the
tape." not conclusively established. The
claims that terrorists were chased from the Amity AK-47s, the only firearm recovered from the ter-
Sandeep Pandey expressed his utter names given out by police and ATS are
University check post, 6 kms from Sector 97 in rorists, whereas there are no bullet marks on the
Maruti 800 used by the terrorists.
A Conscience Encountered (8) The credibility of the operation was questioned
immediately during the following two days by two
DR SANDEEP PANDEY police doesn't want to remain behind in the game of bravery now national dailies.
I've often been blamed by friends and colleagues for not keeping being played by police elsewhere. They are anxious to demonstrate "Now, in the wake of these details who would buy
secrets to myself. It has been my practice to share information with that they too can carry out high profile encounter operations like the the official theories of the police," said Vandana
people whenever I feel my conscience burdened. From my experience one at Jamia Nagar in Delhi . It is a different matter that civil society Mishra adding that "an all-round struggle has to be
I can say that whenever I've, under such circumstances, shared the groups and some media have questioned the bona fides of the Jamia waged, otherwise there will be nothing but anarchy,
truth, it may have put some people in inconvenient positions but in Nagar operation itself and the credibility of the government is at and of course, then, we would be making just more
the long run it proved to be right thing to do. But, I must confess, I've stake. and more spineless surrenders to the official-and-
never encountered something as big as this. Till now it has been only The objective of the above operation is to bring laurels to UP manufactured theories."
very personal things or at the most matters dealing with my friends or police. The operation would be justified in the name of national SR Darapuri highlighted the case study of the fire
colleagues. But the information I possess now is of societal and interest. UP is under pressure because it has been projected as the at the residence of UP Congress President Rita
national significance. I'm revealing it because it can save two lives. breeding ground for terrorist. The UP police wants to show that it is
Bahuguna on July 27, 2009 in which five persons
I'm quite aware, that in the process, I'm raising a finger at the depart- doing its part in countering terrorism. If this is true then nothing can
ments concerned with internal and external security of the country be more shameful. Most of the newspaper reading citizens would go were arrested. "All the five are absolutely innocent
and can possibly attract some punitive action too. But when I weighed along with the police version and not question it in the national and should be released immediately on bail. Since, all
the pros and cons of this I was convinced that if by revealing this interest if such an operation takes place. However, I've decided that the five belong to a very poor strata, they should be
information lives of two youth can be saved then I must do it. I must my commitment to my nation is in ensuring justice to its citizens or given legal aid by the society and the erring police offi-
take the risk. at least questioning what is not just. Killing of innocent citizens in cers should be investigated against and duly pun-
The UP Police in a planned joint operation with the army is likely such operations or incidents like hunger deaths and farmer suicides ished," he said. He further elaborated that since those
to kill two Kashmiri youth (obviously Muslim), already picked up and are all government's responsibility and no such incident can be par- accused in the fire are ruling party members along
in their custody somewhere in Meerut , in an `encounter' with these doned. However, if what I've written above is totally based on imag- with one legislator, the investigation should be given
`dreaded terrorists.' The drama would be enacted in the Lucknow can- ination run wild and doesn't have an iota of truth in it then I'll be to the CBI instead of the state investigating agency
tonment area, the most plausible location for an anti-national to be most relieved person, because I shudder to think that responsible Crime Branch-Chief Investigation Department "which
encountered in. Two AK-47 guns, already bought from Nepal and government institutions could be engaged in such gross things. I is a toothless organization." On Sept 1, however, all
brought through the Bahraich route, would be shown to have been obviously apologize to the police and army for having questioned the five arrested were released on bail, as police was
recovered from these `terrorists. ' Very high level police officials and their integrity. But the fact of the matter is that police has lost so unable to produce any evidence about their involve-
Colonels of the Army are involved in planning this Jamia Nagar much credibility in this country that I thought it fit to bring out the ment in the riot and arson. All have been ruined as
encounter equivalent of UP level operation. An encounter specialist, matter in open for the sake of two Kashmiri youth. We hope that not they had to exhaust even their paltry savings to meet
posted at the Cantonment Police Station till recently, has been chosen only they will not be `encountered' but no innocent will be subject- the legal costs over the past 46 days.
to implement the design. Recently, UP police has been presented in ed to such a fate, ever. Two reports, one by Rajiv Yaday and the other by
poor light because of contradictory (and competitive) claims made by Dr Sandeep Pandey is one of the founders and early volunteers of Asha for
Education, New York. He was awarded the 2002 Ramon Magsaysay Award in Arvind Murti, on the state of affairs of law and order in
Delhi and Mumbai police for having arrested terrorists which they
the Emergent Leadership category for his work towards uplift of the poor and and around Azamgarh were also released. One inves-
claim were responsible for bomb blast incidents in UP. The question
the underprivileged. He is currently Coordinator for Asha-India and devotes tigation report on the episode of the arrest of three
raised then is who are the people the UP police has arrested earlier time to the Asha Ashram at Lalpur in UP. He may be contacted at Email: HuJI militants from Lucknow on June 22-23, 2007 was
who are being claimed to be responsible for these same incidents. UP ashaashram@yahoo.com also made public.

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Assault on Protestant churches in Ka’taka
Bangalore: Two Protestant churches attacked, Bibles and prayer
books destroyed or sequestered, pastors and believers threatened.
This happened in the district of Tumkur in the state of Karnataka.
The crime is attributed to members of the Sangh Parivar and local
police officers who aided and abetted the violence.
In the late evening of 28 August, a group of Hindutva radicals
stormed the Gypsy Prayer Hall in Mavunakatte Palay. Led by three
well-known activists (Rangantha, Ramalingayya Gowda and
Ramesh) members of the Sangh Parivar were seen aboard a jeep
along with three deputy superintendents of police, the chief inspec-
tor and deputy chief inspector of the district. The group accused
Hanuma Naik, the 33-year old pastor of the place of worship, of
forced conversions and deception, to the detriment of the local
inhabitants. After having been beaten along with a student present
at the time on the site, police dragged Naik to the police station reg-
istering a case against him.
After the incursion in Mavunakatte Palay, some of the attackers
directed their rage on the Baptist church in Krupashraya. There too
the scene was repeated. In the absence of the pastor, the group
threatened his wife with punitive actions and confiscated Bibles and
prayer books. The Sangh Parivar activists then stopped at the
Protestant church of the International Cooperation Ministries (ICM)
near Agrahar. They failed to cause any major harm given that the
pastor barricaded himself into his house for fear of attacks.
Karnataka has long been the scene of assaults and violence
against Christians. Already in coincidence with the pogrom in
Orissa last summer, the Indian state had recorded attacks on local
churches and communities. Local sources say that the increase in
violence has coincided with the coming to power in state govern-
ment of Hindu nationalist party BJP. In 2009, Karnataka has record-
ed at least 10 attacks against Christians, the last dating back to
August 11. Mainly Protestant churches are targeted in the attacks
accused of carrying out forced conversions. (AsiaNews)
Goon BJP MP claims he was absent from the scene of crime
Lucknow: BJP’s goonda parliamentarian from Azamgarh,
Ramakant Yadav, denied that he was present during the clash
between the Ulama Council members, which led to the death of a
youth in Phoolpur on August 12. The court had sent Yadav to 12-
hours police custody. He was brought from the district jail around
11.30 am on 4 Sept and was sent back later in the evening.
Azamgarh Deputy Inspector General, KK Tripathi, said Yadav
claimed that he had not stepped out of his house between August
11 and 13 and that the allegations were fabricated. According to
the BJP leader's lawyer, A S Dubey, August 13 was the birthday of
his son. Hence, the MP was busy in making arrangements on
August 11 and 12. The Ulema Council founder president, Amir
Rashadi had lodged an FIR accusing the BJP parliamentarian of
participating in the shootout, leading to the death of a member of
his organisation.
Branding Azamgarh as terror hub is unfair: Shabana
Azamgarh: Noted film personality Shabana Azmi is distressed that
her native place is in news for all the wrong reasons. Presently on
a visit to her native house Fateh Manzil in Mijwan village here, the
birthplace of her late father and acclaimed Urdu poet Kaifi Azmi,
Shabana said branding Azamgarh as a terror hub was unfair
."Azamgarh is the birthplace of people like author Rahul
Sanskritayan, scholar Allama Shibli Nomani and poet Kaifi Azmi
who were the living examples of communal amity and brother-
hood...maligning their hometown Azamgarh as atankgarh (terror
hub) is saddening," Azmi said on 4 Sept. adding that the population
of Azamgarh is 50 lakh of which a few may have adopted the wrong
path like in any other place, but branding the whole town or district
as atankgarh is not fair, the former Rajya Sabha member said. "The
people of Azamgarh had played an active role in the freedom strug-
gle and the first war of independence in 1857 and this is one town
where both Hindus and Muslims had always been living peaceful-
ly," she said.
Kerala to set up Islamic bank
Tiruvandrum: The Kerala government will set up an Islamic bank in
the state, Finance Minister Thomas Isaac told the assembly on 9
Sept. The share capital of the proposed bank has been fixed at
Rs.1,000 crore, Isaac said, adding that an advisory committee
would be set up shortly to work out the details. "Non-resident
Malayalees and Kerala-based businessmen like E.M. Najeeb are
involved in the project," he said.
Later, Najeeb told IANS the core committee that has been set
up has held three meetings following a feasibility study conducted
by a consultant.
"The study has found that a bank under the Sharia rules of
Islamic banking is feasible and viable here. By next year this would
be a reality," said Najeeb, who is part of the core committee.
"The company would be registered by next month. Once the
company is formed, we will move for clearance from the Reserve
Bank of India," he added.
"The bank will not receive or pay interest and have Sharia com-
pliant products. The profits made out of investments will be distrib-
uted among shareholders. A Sharia board will decide on what sort
of investments will be made."
Muslims constitute the second largest community in Kerala,
accounting for close to 24 percent of the 3.2-crore population.
According to a study done by the Centre for Development
Studies, 48 percent of 18.5 lakh non-resident Malayalees are
Muslims.
Of the total remittances of Rs.24,525 crore (about $49 million)
to the state in 2007, Muslims remitted Rs.12,158 crore (Rs.24.3 mil-
lion), the study found. (IANS)
Triple whammy for Narendarbhai
Within a span of days, “Nero” Modi’s Gujarat has received
three major setbacks in its dogged efforts to thwart the law
to take its course in his state. Maulana Naseeruddin, an eld-
erly and crippled cleric kidnapped from Hyderabad six years
and kept in jail without trial, has been granted bail by the
Supreme Court; A magisterial enquiry has concluded that
Ishrat Jahan andher colleagues “encounter” was fake and
Gujarat High court has thrown out the arrogant ban Modi
slapped on Jaswant Singh’s book.
Supreme Court grants bail to
Moulana Naseeruddin
New Delhi: The Supreme Court of India on
4 September granted bail to Hyderabad
cleric Moulana Naseeruddin who is lan-
guishing in Gujarat's Sabarmati jail for the
past five years on unsubstantiated
charges. The bail appeal of Moulana
Naseeruddin was pending in the Supreme
Court for the last seven months. The apex
court had three times issued notices to the
Gujarat government to submit its counter
reply but the Gujarat Government failed to
do so until now.
When the hearing of the case started in the Supreme Court on
4 Sept., Kamini Jaiswal, the Advocate of Moulana, presented his
case in court number 9 consisting of Justice Markandeya Katju
and Justice Ashok Kumar Ganguly. Adv. Jaiswal said that the
Gujarat Government, while avoiding to file its reply, became a hur-
dle for the bail appeal which is against the right of any citizen. Adv.
Jaiswal also said that the government is unable to present any evi-
dence/witness against the Moulana to support its charge against
him in the case of an alleged conspiracy. Due to the repeated
change of the public prosecutor, the trial has been delayed in
Gujarat and there is no hope that the trial will complete in near
future, said Adv. Jaiswal. Though the Supreme Court has given the
direction to the Gujarat Government to complete the trial as early as
possible in 2006 itself, the Gujarat Government failed to fulfill the
directions of Supreme Court. Adv. Jaiswal urged that the appeal of
the Moulana be accepted and granted bail. On the other side,
Gujarat Public Prosecutor Ms. Hemantika Vahi strongly opposed
the bail appeal saying that granting of bail to Moulana Naseeruddin
will affect the trial and many others will be in line for appeal. The
Supreme Court took this matter seriously. Justice Markandeya Katju
said that "already six years have been passed without trial, and
looking at his age, will you take his life and then only leave him."
Hyderabad-based Civil Liberties Monitoring Committee wel-
comed the judgment of the Supreme Court saying that this will pro-
vide a great relief to Moulana and his family. The committee reiter-
ated that the Supreme Court is the last hope for the Gujarat victims
as Muslims cannot get justice in Gujarat state. The committee clar-
ified that Moulana Naseeruddin is an accused in an alleged con-
YSR and Muslims
In AP budget, share of Muslims is less than 0.25%
The tragic death of Y. S. Rajashekhara Reddy is
undeniably a loss for Andhra Pradesh's Muslim
community. Among all the current chief ministers
he stands out for taking proactive measures to
improve the socio-economic status of the Muslim
community.
Among his prime contributions for the Muslim community was
the extension of limited reservations for Muslims in the state which
has benefited many a student. His interest in return of Waqf prop-
erties was also applauded by the Muslim community. He was per-
sonally involved in returning to the Waqf Board 50 acres of prime
land belonging to Dargah Hazrat Baba Sharfuddin which had been
encroached by a state corporation. The present value of this land
stands at Rs. 350 crore. Such measures had led the senior most
Muslim leader of Hyderabad Maulana Aquil Husami to remark that,
'we have never seen such a chief minister.'
He had also sanctioned a Rs. 2,000 crore special package for
the development of Old City. YSR was also instrumental in solving
the issue of sanctioning houses for the ex-servicemen of the old
Hyderabad Army. This problem had been languishing in cold stor-
age for more than forty years until YSR revived it at the urging of
the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen. He enjoyed a close rela-
tionship with the AIMIM and most of his minority development proj-
ects were urged on by the latter's leadership.
However, despite his close relationship with the Muslims YSR's
government's actions were not always in tune with the sentiments
of the community. His government was unable to control the reck-
less actions by the police in the aftermath of the Makkah Masjid
bomb blasts. Many innocent Muslim youth were rounded up for
apparently no fault of their own. He was similarly unable to prose-
cute the perpetrators of the Bhainsa riots last year who had burned
a Muslim family to death. Many blamed his then home minister for
the lapse but being the CM he was also held partly responsible.
YSR also did not take any effective measures to improve and
groom the Muslim leadership in the Congress party. Last elections
saw two Congress stalwarts Fareeduddin and Ali Shabbir losing
their seats. In the case of Fareeduddin it was alleged by some that
he was deliberately denied a seat in his hometown and moved to
spiracy case by the Gujarat Government under section 120B and
in POTA, but not in the Haren Pandya murder case as wrongly
reported by a section of the media.
Gujarat High Court lifts ban
on Jaswant's book on Jinnah
New Delhi: The Gujarat High Court on 4 Sept. set aside the Modi
government’s order banning Jaswant Singh's book on Pakistan
founder Mohammad Ali Jinnah. The court, hearing a public inter-
est petition, ruled against the ban. The ban curtails fundamental
rights, the high court said.
The Gujarat government had banned the expelled BJP
leader’s book Jinnah -- India, Partition, Independence, claiming
that the contents of the book tarnished Sardar Patel’s image and
questioned his patriotic spirit.
"Jaswant Singh's book questions role of Sardar Patel during
the partition of India as well as his patriotic spirit. This is an attempt
to tarnish the image of Patel who is considered the architect of
modern united India," a statement issued by the state government
had said adding that "It is a bid to defame Patel by distorting his-
torical facts."
The expelled leader had criticized the ban, saying it amount-
ed to “banning thinking...The day we start banning books, we are
banning thinking." The controversial book lauds the founder of
Pakistan and holds India's first PM Jawaharlal Nehru and its first
home minister Vallabhbhai Patel responsible for the country's par-
tition in 1947.
Another false alarm by Gujarat police
Gandhinagar: Central intelligence agencies have cautioned
Gujarat about an attempt by members of the banned Students
Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) to regroup with a different name
in the state, an official said here on 3 Sept. "We have intelligence
information on SIMI activists regrouping in Gujarat, particularly in
south Gujarat, under the name of 'Wahadat-e-Islami'. This is being
verified and the action to nab the activists would start immediate-
ly if the inputs are found to be accurate," the home department
official said, not wishing to be named. He said there had been
some intelligence inputs from the state-level agencies regarding a
SIMI training camp held in Nanpada region of Bharuch district in
central Gujarat between March 22 and April 12. The state govern-
ment has further strengthened its intelligence gathering efforts to
prevent any untoward incident during the festive season. "We
have been informed by the intelligence agencies that Gujarat is
not the only state where SIMI members had held meetings during
the recent past. They have also done so in Uttar Pradesh,
Maharashtra, Rajasthan and Tamil Nadu," the official stated.
(thaindian.com)
MG comment: It is a strange but consistent fact that most
such news attributed to faceless “intelligence agencies”
almost always comes out of Gujarat whose government, it
seems, has made its mission to harass Muslims not only in
the state but all over the country.
Hyderabad where he lost to a BJP candidate. It was alleged that
YSR had done so at the urging of a mining tycoon from Karnataka
who had wanted the lone BJP member in Andhra Pradesh to
reclaim his seat.
In earlier allegations, YSR was also accused of trucking in riot-
ers, during the reign of the late Chief Minister Chenna Reddy, from
Rayalaseema to foment communal trouble in the Old City. The sup-
posed motive was to create instability in the Chenna Reddy gov-
ernment. He always denied it and was given a clean chit by an
enquiry commission.
Whatever the veracity of such accusations YSR in the role of
the Chief Minister has been a friend for the Muslim community---
warts and all. It remains to be seen how the new Chief Minister of
Andhra Pradesh will tread the path paved by YSR or digress from
it. If YSR's son Jaganmohan Reddy assumes the office then one
expects that he continues his father's legacy. Jaganmohan Reddy
is also on friendly terms with AIMIM's leadership. (Ayub Khan)
Victory for Aysha, can attend classes wearing headscarf
Mangalore: Aysha Ashmin, who made it to head-
lines last month by protesting against her col-
lege’s refusal to allow wear headscarf, has suc-
ceeded partially in her efforts. Sri Venkatramana
Swamy (SVS) College in Bantwal, near here, has
agreed to allow her to attend classes wearing headscarf. But for
how long it will allow her to wear the headscarf of her choice is
still not clear. In a meeting convened by Magalore University
Vice Chancellor, Prof K M Kaveriappa on September 3 at
University Syndicate Hall, the college management agreed to
allow her to wear the headscarf but disclosed that it would intro-
duce dress code inside the campus. It only said that the girl
could use dupatta of the salwar kameez as headscarf. SVS
College Principal Dr Seetharama Mayya, correspondent Ganesh
Prabhu, Bantwal MLA B Ramanath Rai, Mangalore MLA U T
Khader, Mangalore University Syndicate member P V Mohan
and registrar Prof Chinnappa Gowda were present at the meet-
ing. Aysha Ashmin told a newspaper that she is happy to get jus-
tice at last. "I am happy with the decision and extremely thankful
to the college management. I am willing to go to SVS College
again wearing headscarf. But my parents and relatives are
unhappy with my decision," she said, adding that she may try to
join some other college.


Snub to Delhi Minorities
Commission over Batla House
New Delhi: The struggle for an impartial enquiry into the Batla
House fake encounter of September 2008 has received another
blow when the enquiry committee constituted by Delhi State
Minorities Commission to enquire into the said encounter, was
rejected by Delhi's Lt Governor Tejinder Khanna who is the de
facto ruler of the capital city. Central and Delhi state governments
have been consistently rejecting the demands from various quar-
ters for a judicial enquiry into this suspicious murder. After great
efforts, Delhi High Court assigned National Human Rights
Commission with the task of enquiring into this case and people-
heaved a sigh of relief that at least something will now come out
but in its report, without taking into account the various objections
raised by the people and many unanswered questions about this
encounter and without even meeting the arrested “terrorists”, their
relatives and people of the encounter area, the commission sim-
ply okayed the police version without even physically inspecting
the place of encounter.
Delhi Minorities Commission had constituted a four-member
enquiry committee in view of persistent demands of people of the
area and NGOs, especially human rights organisations. Delhi
Chief Minister Shiela Dikshit and Lt Governor Tejinder Khanna
were duly informed about it. At that time no one raised any objec-
tion about the constitution of this enquiry committee. After the
NHRC's report was submitted to Delhi High Court which had total-
ly disappointed all concerned, Lt Governor Khanna reportedly dis-
approved of the investigation by this committee. He snubbed
Minorities Commission's chairman Kamal Farooqi by asking him
not to commit the mistake of crossing of the limits of his jurisdic-
tion which has stopped the commission in its tracks. Not only this,
Jung takes charge as Jamia VC
New Delhi: Putting an end to months of
speculation about the appointment of a
new vice chancellor for Jamia Millia
Islamia, a central university, a former
IAS officer Najeeb Jung's appointment
was cleared by the President on
September 1 for the post. Mr Jung, who
joined his duties on September 3, was
chosen over two other contenders
include incumbent vice chancellor
Mushirul Hasan and Bihar state's prin-
cipal secretary home, Afzal Amanullah
for the coveted post. Reacting to his
new turn Jung said, ''I view my appoint-
ment as a huge challenge. I dream of
making Jamia an international universi-
ty. It has the potential and a lot has
been done in the past five years.''
A known energy expert, Najeeb Jung studied at Delhi’s St.
Stephen's College and the London School of Economics
before joining the IAS in 1973. He served as District
Magistrate for 10 years before moving to the Petroleum
Ministry as joint secretary. He is currently pursuing his PhD
on energy economics from Oxford University. Jung had also
played a major role in the privatisation of ONGC's Panna
Mukta oilfield that went to a consortium of Reliance-ONGC
Hubli bomb-blast accused Nagaraj Jambagi murdered
ABUL HALEEM MANSOOR
angalore: Sri Ram Sene Chief Pramod Mutalik's for-
B mer PA Nagaraj Jambangi was murdered in a well-
planned conspiracy. This is another attempt to tarnish
the image of Muslim youth as Jambagi's death has left
many facts hidden and many a question unanswered.
Jambangi was facing court cases for his alleged involvement in
the Hubli court bomb blast and the planting of a bomb under
the Dharwad Bridge.
Jambangi was charged as
the mastermind of the Hubli
court blast and for planting a
bomb under the Venkatpur
Bridge, near Dharwad. Besides,
he was accused of killing an oil
trader in Bijapur and kidnapping
the son of a leading politician in
Bagalkot. Further, he was under
trial for cases of murder and
extortion.
Jambagi reportedly died at
KIMS hospital, Hubli, on 26
August 09. On 18 July, his own
associates had assaulted him in
Bagalkot jail with lethal
weapons whle they were
strolling inside the jail premises.
Jambangi was rushed to the
the Lt Governor reportedly asked for the relevant file and has put
it in cold storage. This is a message that this matter should now
be treated as closed.
Naturally, people are angry and disappointed. Muslim leaders
like Jama Masjid's Imam Maulana Ahmad Bokhari, Jamat-e
Islami's chief Maulana Jalaluddin Umari, AIMM Mushwarat's
Chairman Dr Zafarul Islam Khan, National Council of Shia
Ulama's president Maulana Syed Mohsin Ali Naqvi etc while
expressing their disappointment and anger at LG's attitude said
that all commissions set up for Muslims and minortieis are noth-
ing more than simple advisory bodies and they are appointed or
constituted simply to befool people.
Meanwhile the Delhi High Court on 26 August refused to
order any further inquiry into the Batla House shootout. A divi-
sion bench comprising Chief Justice Ajit Prakash Shah and
Justice Manmohan turned down the plea for any judicial inquiry
or a probe by a special investigation team into the matter. The
petition was filed by an NGO called Act Now For Democracy.
(NA Ansari)
Murder case against 17 Mumbai Police officers
Mumbai: Mumbai High Court has directed Mumbai police to file a
case of murder against 17 officers and constables of its own
department. They are accused of commiting fake encounter of
one Ram Narayen Gupta of Navi Mumbai on 11th November
2006. On High Court's directive an FIR against them has been
registered in Varsova police station of the city among whom are
suspended encounter specialist Pradeep Sharma, senior inspec-
tor Pradeep Suryavanshi also.

and British Gas. He had also worked
with the Manila-based Asian
Development Bank before joining the
Observer Research Foundation as
director of energy research.
With both bureaucratic and corpo-
rate managerial experience, Mr Jung is
expected to give top priority to both
academic and infrastructural advance-
ment of the university as part of making
the institution one of the best in the
world. He believes that the post of vice
chancellor comes with a lot of chal-
lenges. "I will give my best to carry for-
ward and improve the academic culture
and standard of the university. I will
make the university one of the best in
the world as it has the potential," he
said while interacting with media on 4 Sept. "My first priority
will be welfare of students, to create study facilities, games
facilities and coaching centres so that our students could suc-
ceed in civil services examinations and become IAS and IPS
officers in more numbers," said Jung adding that “Our stu-
dents are coming here from mufassils and remote towns like
Bareily and Azamgarh. They have high expectations. We
have to build confidence and raise its levels among them. We
KIMS hospital in an unconscious state as he was seriously
injured. His treatment was on in the hospital. He remained in
coma for 45 days and finally succumbed to his injuries.
Bagalkot police has registered a case against Basavaraj
Diggi, Ramesh Pawar and B Hanumpa Roogi for fatally assault-
ing Jambangi.
Nagaraj Jambangi with his associates had bomb blasted the
Hubli court using a mobile phone device on 10 May
2008 a day before SIMI activists were to be brought to the
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have to care for them," he said. He looked confident in
answering the media. On restoration of students' union in
Jamia he said "Prima facie I am not against students unions.
Government instructions are there. In normal situation I don't
think there should not be unions. But as for Jamia, there have
been no such elections for the last four-five years. I have not
studied the background of unions here. I have not met stu-
dents' representatives. So I am yet to take a stand on it."
About his view on Batla House encounter, he said that the
government report has come on Batla House and the case is
in court. I don't think V-C of Jamia has much to say on it. But
when asked pointedly if he is satisfied with the NHRC report
that has given clean chit to the police for the encounter, Jung
escaped from answering by saying that he has not read the
report. "When I come to know that injustice has been done to
my students I will extend my support to them," he asserted.
On the minority character of Jamia Millia, Jung said he had no
clear stand on it right now. He said he will have to talk to the
government, the community and the Jamia community - stu-
dents and teachers.
Jamia teachers also hope the university will benefit from
Jung's versatile experience. "His multi-faceted experience
from his jobs in bureaucracy and the corporate sector will def-
initely help in taking the university to new levels in the aca-
demic world," said Arshad Alam, a teacher in the university.
NM SALIH
court for a hearing and the idea was to blame Muslims in gener-
al and SIMI in particular. Later, on 26 September 2008, with the
help of his associates, Jambangi had placed a bomb under a
bridge at Venkatpur near Dharwad. Police had registered a num-
ber of cases of murder, kidnaping and robbery against him.
Naunagar police of Bagakot had arrested Nagraj Jambangi,
Basuraj Diggi (22), Nangraj Gururaj Jalga (24), Manjunath
Amban Jambawadgi (19) and Deepak Parshuram Govindkar
(28). Their interrogation revealed many new cases and the first
Hindutva terrorist plot of Karnataka was unearthed. The interro-
gation also revealed information about acquisition and prepara-
tion of arms. It was hoped that further investigations will reveal
the activities going on to malign Muslims. During the post-arrest
probe it was also revealed that money was sent from Karnataka
to finance Malegaon blasts. Reports also said that the blasts
which rocked Karnataka before the assembly elections in 2008
were also perpetrated by Sangh Parivar outfits.
Jamgangi was angry because after his arrest, his superiors
did nothing to get him released and he had threatened to expose
all the people involved in the bomb blasts. This has led to suspi-
cion that his murder is due to a deep conspiracy hatched by
those big fish whom Jambangi had threatened to expose.
Sources said Jambangi was attacked by dangerous
weapons inside the jail. This is an issue to be probed to unearth
how such weapons entered the jail, who were the people who
sent it inside and why they got Jambangi killled. The probe will
throw light on the Hindutva terrorist network but will the BJP gov-
ernment in Karnataka allow it? (sahilonline.org)
6 The Milli Gazette, 16-30 September 2009
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Ishrat’s encounter unveils the dark alleys of Modi’s Gujarat
ABDUL HAFIZ LAKHANI
Ahmedabad: The report of the magisterial inquiry into the
encounter of Ishrat Jahan and four others by the Gujarat Anti
Terrorist Squad on 15 June, 2004 is probably the most damning
evidence of fake encounters by Gujarat police in the name of
fake plots to “kill” Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi. Senior
officers of the level of Police Commissioner joined hands and
heads to kill the 19-year-old student of a Mumbai college and
others just to get glory and gratification from Chief Minister
Narendra Modi.
The inquiry was conducted by Ahmedabad metropolitan
magistrate S.P. Tamang under orders of the Gujarat High Court.
The hand-written report, running into 243 pages, names the
"encounter specialist" among the 21 police officers involved in
what it says "cold blooded murder". Ishrat and three others
were kidnapped by Gujarat police from Mumbai and other
places, and were shown as killed in an “encounter” in
Ahmedabad a day after their murder. Magistrate SP Tamang said
in his report that “Ishrat was innocent and was killed only
because she was a Muslim and fitted the Gujarat Police's idea of
a terrorist.”
Saying that Ishrat and three others were killed in a fake
encounter by police officers for their personal interests of get-
ting rewards, promotions and appreciation from the Chief
Minister, Mr Tamang appended a list of top police officers whom
he finds responsible for the fake encounter including Additional
Police Commissioner (Crime Branch) D G Vanazara and his then
deputy in the Crime Branch police, NK Amin, who along with
Vanzara was also arrested in the Sohrabuddin fake encounter
case, the list includes the then Ahmedabad police commission-
er, KR Kaushik, the then chief of the Crime Branch, PP Pandey,
Encounter killings in Gujarat and State Complicity
Series of Encounters in Gujarat since October 2002

December 28, 2006: Just days after Vanzara is posted as
DIG, Border Range, Tulsiram Gangarm Prajapati is killed in
Banaskantha -- one of the three districts that falls under the
Border Range -- by the Special Operations Group of the
Gujarat Police and Banaskantha Police. They said he was a
member of the Sharif Pathan gang. Incidentally, an investiga-
tion by the CID (Crime) into Sohrabuddin's case had said that
Prajapati was the third person whom the ATS and Rajasthan
STF had picked up along with Sohrabuddin and his wife in
November 2005. He is believed to have been let off later.

November 26, 2005: Sohrabuddin Sheikh is killed by the
Gujarat ATS and Rajasthan STF, reportedly in Vishala,
Ahmedabad. Vanzara, who heads the ATS at the time, holds
a post-encounter press conference, attended by the entire
media and TV news channels, and says Sohrabuddin was an
LeT operative who had come to Gujarat to kill Chief Minister
Narendra Modi, at the behest of Dawood Ibrahim and Sharif
Pathan. He also says that four days before the encounter,
Sohrabuddin had gone to Hyderabad to establish ties with an
LeT cell there. Sohrabuddin's wife Kauser Bi has not been
seen since the encounter.

June 15, 2004: Four persons, including 19-year-old college
student Ishrat Jehan of Mumbra, are shot dead on the out-
skirts of Ahmedabad. Vanzara, who is Deputy Commissioner,
Crime Branch, at the time, claims they were terrorists, plan-
ning to target Modi.

January 13, 2003: Sadiq Jemal Mehtar, a native of
Bhavnagar, is shot dead in Naroda. According to the Crime
Branch, with which Vanzara is posted at the time, Sadiq was
in the city to target Modi, apart from L K Advani and the VHP's
Pravin Togadia.

October 22, 2002 : 30-year-old Samirkhan Pathan, who had
been picked up by the Crime Branch on September 27 that
year for allegedly hatching a plot to kill Modi, is shot dead by
police near Usmanpura Garden in an early morning
encounter.
Six encounters, a common thread
“On April 24 , 2007 Rajnish Rai DIG Gujarat arrested Vanzara,
Pandian and Dinesh MN (case was handed over to him from
Geeta Johri on March 30, 2007) . Vanzara when arrested Deputy
Inspector General, Border Range, Vanzara was either Crime
Branch chief/SP or STF SP whenever these encounters hap-
pened. NK Amin, DSP Gujarat was arrested on June 18, 2007 by
the Gujarat CID in connection with the murder of Kauserbi,
Sohrabuddin's wife.
“In each of these cases the theory dished out by the Gujarat
police was that either Shri Modi, or Shri Advani or Shri Togadia
were going to be attacked.
Questions that need to be Probed
"Vanzara's Personal Assets and Wealth as he is supposed to
have benefited monetorily with each death
With best compliments from
another alleged encounter specialist Tarun Barot and a host of
other senior police officers. "It's cold blooded murder and the
court came to the conclusion that the murder was committed for
personal gain and to get the praise of the chief minister," said
Mukul Sinha, Ishrat Jehan's family's lawyer. The probe is a
result of pressure from Ishrat's family who all along maintained
that their 19-year-old daughter was innocent.
Tamang's report said the Crime Branch police "kidnapped"
Ishrat and three others from Mumbai on June 12 and brought
them to Ahmedabad. The four were killed on the night of June
14 in police custody, but the police claimed that an "encounter"
took place in the morning of June 15 near Kotarpur water works
in the outskirts of Ahmedabad. The rigor mortis that had set in
clearly indicated that Ishrat died between 11 p.m. and 12 mid-
night the previous night and the police apparently pumped bul-
lets into her body to substantiate the encounter theory. It said
"Were requisite police procedures followed when so called
'warnings' of assassination of three top leaders came in. Where
are these records
"The original Petition of Rubabuddin pending before the
Hon'ble SC demands the production of Kauserbi's body and a
CBI probe into the same. These demands should be pressed not
withdrawn. The recent arrest by the Gujarat police should not
become an excuse to scuttle incriminating evidence that has
come up
What is the Incriminating Evidence on Hand ?
"These batches of encounters show a brutalisation of a sec-
tion of the Gujarat police under a political dispensation that has
no respect for the rule of law.
"The trajectory of this case is relevant here. It was under the
SC directive that Rubabuddin's letter was sent to the DGP
Gujarat who ordered an Investigation by IGP (State) CID Crime
and the Inquiry handed over to Smt Geeta Johri, IGP State CID
Crime. The said letter was registered as an Enquiry No 66/2006.
"Four Reports were submitted by the investigating team
headed by IGP State Crime Geeta Johri under the Investigating
charge of Shri VL Solanki, Police Inspector dated 1-9-2006, 7-12-
2006, 15/16-12-2006 and 22-1-2007. These four reports are
incriminating.
"It is significant that once (as stated below and quoted on
page 18 of Geeta Johri's report) the Investigation reached the
farmhouse of one Shri Girish Patel, none less than Gujarat's
Home Minister Shri Amit Shah started tampering with the evi-
dence and the case. He influenced (as the report says) GC
Raiger Commandant Home Guards to take the case away from
Geeta Johri. Hence the demand for CBI Investigation must be
kept alive. It was after the Investigation was taken away from
Geeta Johri on 18-12-2006 that Tulsiram Prajapati was killed in a
false encounter on 28-12-2006.
"The Fourth Report Dated 22-1-2007 submitted in sealed
cover before the Supreme Court states
"From all the aforesaid statements of witnesses recorded
during the course of the inquiry which is part of the aforesaid four
interim reports of the Enquiry Officer, following facts are prima-
facie established:
1. That Shri Sohrabuddin and his wife Smt. Kausarbi on 22-
23/11/2005 were traveling in a bus bearing number KA-05-
AF-5051 from Hyderabad to Sangli.
2. Shri Rajkumar Pandiyan SP, ATS, Shri N. H. Dabhi, PI, ATS,
Shri Santram Sharma, Police Constable, ATS, Shri Jadeja,
Driver ATS and Shri Gurudayal Singh, Driver ATS were pres-
ent at Hyderabad on 21-22-23/11/2005.
3. Shri N.H. Dabhi, PI, ATS, Shri Santram Sharma, Police
Constable, ATS, Shir Jadeja, Driver ATs and Shri Gurudayal
Singh, Driver ATS started from Ahmedabad at around 1900
Hrs. on 20/11/2005 in a private Qualis car and reached
Hyderabad at around 20.00 Hrs. on 21/11/2005.
4. On 22/11/2005 Shri Dabhi instructed Shri Ajay Parmar to make
two fake number plates for Qualis car. On instruction Shri
Kaleem Kawaja Washington DC
the explosives, rifles, and other weapons allegedly found in
their car were all "planted" by the police after the encounter.
The police had then claimed that Ishrat, a resident of
Mumbra near Mumbai, and three others - Javed Sheikh, a con-
vert son of Gopinath Pillai of Kerala and two “Pakistani” citizens
Amzad Ali Rana and Jishan Jauhar - were connected with
Pakistan-based terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba, and were coming
to Gujarat to assassinate Modi to avenge the 2002 communal
riots.
The list reads: Ahmedabad Police commissioner K R
Kaushik, who is now retired, Crime Branch chief and Joint
Police Commissioner P P Pandey, Additional Police
Commissioner, D G Vanzara, now in jail, Assiatnt Police
Commissioner G L Singhal, Dr N K Amin, ACP, Inspectors of
Crime branch K M Vaghela, J G Parmar, V D Vanar, S P Agrawat,
D H Goswami, R I Patel and sub-inspectors B A Chavda, Tarun
Barot, K S Desai, Ibrahim Chauhan. Others were Mukesh
Natwarlal Vyas Head Constable, constables Mohan Lalubhai and
Nizamuddin, commandos Anaju Chaudhary and Mohanbhai
Nanjibhai and driver Talabhai.
What has brought trouble for these officials is the FIR filed
by PI J G Parmar in which he described in detail the roles of
these 21 personnel. Since, it proved that there was no encounter
and these persons were killed in the custody a day before the
so-called encounter all are in soup
All the four were killed by police bullets that were fired
from close range. The conclusion of the magistrate is exactly
opposite to the allegations made by the police. The magistrate
says there is no proof that they were terrorists and that they
were kidnapped in Maharashtra and brought to Gujarat, where
they were killed," said Mukul Sinha, Advocate for Jansangharsh
Manch who had held that the encounter was fake. 
Ajay Parmar got made two fake number plates whose num-
ber started AP-II, which were fitted in the Qualis car.
5. That on 21/11/2005, Shri Rajkumar Pandiyan met Shri
Radhakirshnan, an IPS officer of Gujarat cadre, who was on
deputation to CISF Hyderabad at his residence at
Hyderabad.
6. That on 22/11/2005 Shri Rajkumar Pandiyan was present in
the IPS mess, Hyderabad along with two Sub Inspectors and
five Policemen of Andhra Police and other ATS police person-
al named above.
7. That on 22/11/2005 Shri Rajkumar Pandiyan, Shri Santram
Sharma and Shri Dabhi started from IPS mess Hyderabad in
the same Qualis with fake number plates followed by two
Tata Sumo cars, wherein one car the Andhra Pradesh Police
were sitting and in the other car two police personnel of
Andhra Pradesh Police along with Shri Gurudayal Singh were
sitting.
8. That on 22-23/11/2005 in the night hours the Qualis car of Shri
Rajkumar Pandiyan intercepted the bus bearing number KA-
05-AF-5051 on Hyderabad Bombay Highway and stopped it.
Thereafter Policemen from the Qualis entered the bus and
picked up three persons including Shri Sohrabuddin and his
wife Smt. Kausarbi and at that time Tata Sumo cars also
came to the same place.
9. That on 23/11/2005 Shri Ajay Parmar traveled by Indian
Airlines fight from Hyderabad to Ahmedabad and reached
Ahmedabad at around 2230 Hrs.
10. That on 25/11/2005 Shri Dabhi, Shri Santram Sharma, Shri
Jadeja and two Police Sub-Inspectors, and five Policemen of
Andhra Pradesh Police were present in ATS office,
Ahmedabad.
11. That on 24/11/2005 Rajasthan Police Officials named Shri
Dinesh M.N, SP, Udaipur, Shri Abdul Rehman Police
Inspector, Udaipur, Shri Himanshu Singh, Sub-Inspector
Udaipur. Shri Shyam Singh Sub Inspector Udaipur met Shri
D.G. Vanzara, DIG, ATS and other Police personnel and dis-
cussed the activities of Shri Sohrabuddin.
12. That on 23/11/2005 Shri M.L. Parmar, Dy. S.P. ATS arranged
a farm house named Disha-Farm House, Jamiyatpura vil-
lage, Near Adalaj, Gandhinagar to keep Shri Sohrabuddin
and his wife Smt. Kausarbi.
13. That on 24/11/2005 at around 1900 Hrs. Shri Parmar along
with Shri Chaube and other Police personnel in a Qualis fol-
lowed by a Maruti car brought Shri Sohrabuddin and Smt.
Kausarbi and kept them in the office room of the farmhouse
guarded by policemen.
14. That on 25/11/2005 in the evening, Shri Sohrabuddin was
taken away by the ATS officers. Also on 26/11/2005 at around
1000 Hrs. Smt. Kausarbi was taken by some Policemen in a
Maruti car.
15. That the motorcycle allegedly recovered from the scene of
(Contd. on next page)

encounter was actually a stolen property, the latter misde-
meanor having been committed by the ATS officers them-
selves.
16. That on 26/11/2005 at around 0330 Hrs in the night Shri
Vanzara, Shri Rajkumar Pandiyan, Shri Dabhi and police offi-
cers of Rajasthan Police left the ATS office. At around 0400
Hrs. in the night Shri Dabhi called Shri Parmar and instructed
him to bring the Hero Honda Splendor motorcycle lying in the
backyard of the ATS office to Narol circle. In about 25 minutes
Shri Parmar reached the Narol circle and at that time and
place the vehicles of ATS including the vehicles of DIGP Shri
Vanzara and SP Shri Rajkumar Pandiyan were parked and all
the aforesaid officers were present there. At that place i.e.
between Ahmedabad circle and Vishala circle toll naka, near
main feeder GEB line, DIG Shri Vanzara, SP Shri Rajkummar
Pandiyan Rajasthan SP Shri Dinesh M.N. were discussing
something and at that time in a white Maruti car, Shri M.L.
Parmar Dy. S.P. ATS and PSI Shri Chaube brought Shri
Sohrabuddin there. At that time a Sub Inspector of Rajasthan
police took away the above mentioned motorcycle brought by
Shri Parmar, drove it for a short distance and jumped from the
motor cycle, and the motorcycle fell down. At that time Shri
Sohrabuddin was pulled out of the Maruti car by Shri Chaube
and was thrown on the road. And Police Inspector Shri Abdul
Rehman from his service pistol fired two rounds, ASI Shri
Ramsingh one round, ASI Shri Himanshusingh two rounds
and PI Shri. Ramsingh one round on Sohrabuddin. And Shri
Sohrabuddin was lying in a pool of blood. Thereafter Shri
Vanzara instructed Shri Parmar to take Sohrabuddin to the
civil hospital. During this Operation Shri Sohrabuddin did not
fire any round from any weapon.
….The report continues (at pages 16, 17 and 18): " As per the
version published in The Times of India of 29-12-2006 (enclosed
by the Petitioner) Supt of Police, Banaskanta Dist. Vipul Agrawal
is quoted as saying that at 10. 30 p.m. on Wednesay (27-12-
2006) he received a call from the Supdt. Police, Shri
Dineshkumar (Resp No 6) who told him that Praful a most want-
ed criminal in Gujarat and Rajasthan had escaped from the Police
Custody while being taken from Ahmedabad to Udaipur by train.
He was being escorted by Rajasthan police having been brought
to Ahmedabad for a Court hearing on a complaint of attempted
murder registered against him at Navrangpura police station of
Ahmedabad City. It may be noted that it is the same
Superintendent of Police, Shri Dineshkumar, who arrived in
Ahmedabad on 24.11.2005 and met Shri D.G. Vanzara, DIG of
Police, who was part of the police team which ultimately killed
Sohrabuddin and caused disappearance of Kausarbi on
26.11.2005. Thus the collusion of some officials of Gujarat and
Rajasthan police in both the episodes makes the killing of
Tulsiram Prajapati absolutely suspicious. (page 17)
The relevance of Tulsiram Prajapati to the killing of Sohrabuddin
and the Disappearance of Kauserbi…..
(2) It is learnt that before Shri Tulsiram was killed in an
encounter, he informed Shri Rubabuddin that on 24.11.2005 he
was called by ATS at Ahmedabad in a flat situated in Danilimda
where Sohrabuddin and Kausarbi were present. The ATS got
identified Shri Sohrabuddin and Kausarbi through Shri Tulsiram
Prajapati. Hence Tulsiram was a material witness to the killing of
Sohrabuddin and disappearance of Kausarbi…
Other important facts
1. It has been learnt that after the enquiry was entrusted to
the State CID (Crime and Railways) by the Director General of
Police, the same was proceeding smoothly and properly as per
established procedures till such time as the enquiry was con-
fined to Hyderabad, Madhya Pradesh and Karnataka. The
enquiry officer Shri V.L. Solanki Police Inspector and the
Supervisory officer Smt. Geetha Johri, IG of Police, CID
(Crime) faced no hurdle. However, as soon as the statements
of witnesses pertaining to confinement of Sohrabuddin and
Kausarbi at the Farm house of Shri Girish Patel at Ahmedabad
came to be recorded, it came to the knowledge of Shri Vanzara
and Shri Rajkumar Pandiyan, Respondent Nos. 4 and 5 It is
further learnt that these officers brought the above facts to the
notice of Respondent No. 2, Shri Amit Shah, Minister of State
for Home, Government of Gujarat.
2. It transpires that Respondent No. 2, Shri Amit Shah,
Minister of State for Home, brought to bear pressure on Shri
G.C. Raigar (Respondent No. 7) Commandant General, Home
Guards who was holding additional charge of State CID (Crime
& Railways) for the last more than 1 1/2 years. Shri Raigar
reportedly directed Smt. Geetha Johri, IG of Police, CID
(Crime)to suspend the enquiry and took away the papers of
enquiry under the guise of scrutiny. These instructions resulted
in cancellation of tour of Shri V.L. Solanki, Police Inspector and
Smt. Geetha Johri, IG of Police, CID (Crime) to Hyderabad on
18.12.2006 for further enquiries. In the meantime, the fact that
State CID (Crime and Railways) wanted to record the statement
of Tulsiram Prajapati seems to have become known to
Respondent Nos. 4 and 5 and Police Inspector Shri Solanki pre-
suming that Tulsiram Prajapati was lodged in Sabramati Central
Jail at Ahmedabad in connection with offences registered vide
Navrangpura Police Station I. CR No. 1124/04 referred to above,
had proceeded to the Prison for the purpose. It also becomes
clear that taking advantage of stalled enquiry, Tulsiram
Prajapati's escape on 26.12.2006 and subsequent death in
police encounter on 28.12.2006 happened.
Backround on Attempt to Force Encounters Between
February and May 2002:
Former Additional Director General of Police, Gujarat State
Intelligence Shri RB Sreekumar began maintaining a contempo-
rary record of illegal instructions issued by the chief minister Shri
Modi in a Personal Register. This is a contemporaneous docu-
ment. It has been filed before the Nanavaty-Shah Commission of
Inquiry.
Sohrabuddin
Regarding encounters there is a significant entry in this
Register dated June 28, 2002:
“28/06/2002 The Chief Secretary Shri G.Subba Rao convened a
meeting of officers to review situation arising / prevailing in
Ahmedabad city in the context of the proposed Rathyatra on
12/7/2002. DGP, Shri Chakravarthi, CP Ahmedabad, Shri
K.R.Kaushik, ACP Shri Pramodkumar, Home Secretary Shri
Nityanandam, ACS Shri Ashok Narayan, Subsidiary Intelligence
Bureau, Ahmedabad - JD, Shri Rajendra Kumar, Shri H.P.Singh,
IGP, Junagadh range, Collector Ahmedabad Shri Sreenivas, offi-
cials from Ahmedabad Municipal Commissioner, etc. were pres-
ent.During the discussion, I have proposed for cancellation of
Rathayatra on 12/7/2002, in view of vitiated communal atmos-
phere, presence of a highly discontented Muslim youth, who are
keen to undertake retributive revengeful action for the inhuman
atrocities perpetrated against Muslims by VHP and BD-led Hindu
mobs. I gave details of intelligence inputs received from Central
agencies about plans of Pan-Islamic militants and Muslim terror-
ists to cause harm to Rathyatra and Hindus.
“CP Ahmedabad had fully endorsed my views.
“DGP and JD SIB suggested that a change of route of
Rathyatra will be desirable.
“CS Shri Subba Rao informed that there is no question of
canceling Rathyatra as CM has taken a firm decision to permit
Rathyatra through the traditional route.
“CS wanted the officials to take all precautionary measures to
provide effective security to the Rathyatra. Various suggestions
were given by me, SIB, DGP, etc. about counter sabotage /
access control measure, etc.
“After the formal meeting the CS talked to me personally and
suggested that if someone is trying to disturb Rathyatra or
planning to spoil the same that PERSON BE ELIMINATED. He
added that this is the policy and well-considered decision of
the Chief Minister, Narendra Modi.
“I responded that such a totally illegal action cannot be taken
on legal unethical grounds.
“I added that if somebody is found indulging in arson or killing
of others only such an action of elimination can be resorted to by
the police.
“Thereafter, the CS observed that such action can be taken
on the basis of SITUATIONAL LOGIC.
“I replied that police is a creature of law and it cannot take
any action, which is not legally justified.
“At the end he asked me to renew our efforts to get specific
intelligence about plans of anti-social elements to disturb peace.
I promised that all possible efforts are made to collect
Advance, Actionable, Preventive, Real Time Intelligence.”
Encounter List in Gujarat
Date Place Name of Person killed in Encounter
24/9/2002 Akshardham, 2 unknown persons
Gandhinagar
21/10/2002 Usmanpura Gardan Samirkhan Sarfarazkhan Pathan.
Ahmedabad
13/1/2003 Nr. Galaxy Cinema Sadiq Jamal
Naroda
22/6/2003 Panchkuwa Ganesh Khunte,
Mahendra Jadav
15/6/2004 Nr. Naroda Ishrat Jahan, Javed Mohammed
Water Park Gulambhai Shaikh
Amjad Ali Akbarali Rana
Jishan Johar@Janbaj
27/11/2004 Sanjan- Bhilad Sanjay Singh @ Sanju
Highway Valsad Shreeram Shardaprasad
Chaudhary
9/10/2005 Nandigram Village Haji Ismail Sumbhania
Valsad
22/11/2005 Narol Circle to Sohrabuddin Anwerhussain Shaikh
Pirana Octroinaka
16/3/2006 Vatwa Railway Track Four unknown persons
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Gange Row-Housi-
Society
6/11/2006 Gandhinagar Rahim Qasim Sumra
28/12/2006 Ambaji-Abu Road Tulsiram Prajapati
Total 20 persons
Details of some of the Fake Encounter Cases
1. Ganesh Khute. Age 25 years. Killed in a fake encounter on
23.06.2003. As per column no. 5 of the PM notes: he died during
police interrogation. The case was tried against co-accused who
were alive as POTA Case No. 1 of 2004. Dr. Kiran Ratilal
Pensuriya Exh: 65 has stated in cross examination that the
deceased died during police interrogation. He was fired from
close distance of 3 to 4 foot. Dr. also states that at the place of
his death lot of blood must have been flown, thus, the scene of
the offence shown by the police is wrong.
2. Mahendra Jadav. Age 29 years. Killed on 23.06.2003.
Both were arrested in connection with the offence registered as
CR No. I 008 of 2003 with D.C.B. Police Station. The offence was
registered on 23.06.2003. He was co-accused in POTA Case No.
1 of 2004 and eliminated alongwith Ganesh Khute, though noth-
ing comes out that he was killed during police interrogation.
3. Samirkhan Sarfarazkhan Pathan. Killed in a fake encounter
during the night of 21.10.2002 and 22.10.2002. He was killed in
Usmanpura. Samirkhan was arrested in connection with the
offence registered as CR No. I 23 of 2002 with D.C.B.
Ahmedabad registered on 30.09.2002. It was alleged that the
accused Samirkhan and others had conspired to cause death of
the CM Narendra Modi. Samir was arrested on 30.09.2002 and
was produced before the Ld. Metropolitan Magistrate's court no.
11 on 01.10.2002. City Crime Branch was given 14 days remand.
One of the co-accused Shahistakhan was implicated and there-
fore surrendered on 10.10.2002. The police showed his arrest on
13.10.2002. Shahistakhan was produced before the Ld.
Metropolitan Magistrate, Court no. 11 on 14.10.2002. The lawyer
of Samirkhan and Shahistakhan was advocate Mr.
Vadnagarwala. Samirkhan informed Shahistakhan in presence of
co-accused Abu Bakar, Ajar and ADVOCATE ANAND YAGNIK
and ADVOCATE VADNAGARWALA. On 1.1.2003 advocate
Anand Vardhan Yagnik and advocate M. A. Vadnagarwala had
prepared an affidavit affirming above facts.
On 21.10.2002 Samirkhan met Shahistakhan in Sabarmati
Jail and told that the police of the city crime branch had informed
him that he would be done to death on that night. City Crime
Branch had taken transfer warrant in old case registered as CR
No. I 302 of 1996 registered with Naranpura Police Station for
murder of a police constable. The police constable was killed in
Usmanpura area of Ahmedabad. Samirkhan was taken out of jail
at 2.00 am for investigation of that old case. Alongwith him one
Shahid @ Saeedo too was taken out of the high security cell and
taken to the Usmanpura. On the way the police of the city crime
branch told that Samirkhan would be done to death. Both, Samir
and Shahid were made to step out of the police van and Samir
was made to lie at the place where he had allegedly killed a police
constable in the year 1996. Samir was asked to remember his
god as he would be done to death. Thereafter the police of the
city crime branch namely Barot (Tarun) and Chauhan shot him
dead. The eye witness Shahid was to be killed alongwith Samir,
but somehow the police decided otherwise. Shahid was taken
back to Sabarmati Jail.
On 17.7.2007 Shahistakhan Pathan filed a complaint before
the Ld. Magistrate, Ahmedabad for killing Samirkhan. Verification
of the complainant was done before the Metropolitan Magistrate
Court No. 9, Ahmedabad. Shahid@Saeedo too was summoned
and on oath he narrated the whole episode of killing Samirkhan
by the city crime branch. Both Shaistakhan and Sahid@Saeedo
are undergoing imprisonment in Sabarmati and Vadodara Central
Prison in different cases.
The Ld. Magistrate had issued process and ordered inquiry to
be done by police officers of the rank of IPS. However, the order
was quashed by the Sessions Court in a revision by the 'state' as
the Magistrate could not have ordered investigation by superior
officer. The investigation could have been ordered only to the
concerned police station by the magistrate ! Thus, the complaint
remains, but the order is quashed. It is therefore required to seek
investigation to be handed over to CBI. The complaint before
Magistrate is still pending, however, until investigated by inde-
pendent investigating agency, it has no meaning.
4. Rafiq Bapudi: was arrested on 14.07.2005 from Supreme
Hotel at Navsari Highway at about 2.00 pm. He was arrested in
connection with the offence registered as CR No. I 1 of 2005 with
Rajkot Rural Police Station. The offence had occurred in
Vankaner. On 15.07.2005 Rafiq was produced before the court at
Vakanner. He was remanded upto 18.07.2005 on that day at
about 3.00 pm Rafiq Bapudi was taken out of the jail in connec-
tion with an offence registered for dacoity in Jetpur. Rafiq Bapudi
was handcuffed. On same day i.e., on 18.07.2005 at about 7 to 8
pm Rafiq Bapudi was killed in a fake encounter. Rafiq Bapudi
had expressed his apprehensions before his encounter and
thereafter his parents had sent applications before appropriate
authorities to inquire into fake encounter. However, the applica-
tions are not heeded.
5. Abdul Latif Abdul Wahab Sheikh (killed during Shankarbhai
Vaghela's regime)
6. Ishrat Jahan: Encounter in May, 2004.
(The case was filed initially by Advocate Shilpa R. Shah and
now the Advocate is Mukul Sinha)
(Compiled by Teesta Setalvad - teestateesta@gmail.com)
(More on Modi’s encounters on page 10)
8 The Milli Gazette, 16-30 September 2009
NATIONAL
KERALA ROUND-UP: FAHMI RAHMANI & NM SALIH
Marad: three-year rigorous imprisonment for five RSS men
he Special Additional District Sessions Court (Marad
T Cases) Kozhikode on 27 August sentenced five RSS
persons to rigorous imprisonment for three years and
imposed a fine of Rs.18,000 on each of them for setting
a house ablaze during the communal riots at the sea-
side village of Marad in Kozhikode district on January 3, 2002.
Special Court Judge KP Prasannakumari had found on 26 the
five guilty of setting ablaze the house of Seemamudakathu Veetil
Khadeesha. The guilty are Thekkethodiveetil Murugashan, 35;
Cherupurakkal Sugunan, 35; Cherupurakkal Vinod, 25;
Choichendakathuveetil Shekaran, 58; and Cherupurakkalveetil
Santhosh, 30.
The prosecution submitted that the five accused had tres-
passed into the house of Khadeesha, destroyed furniture and
then set the house on fire. The damage was estimated at Rs.1.5
lakh. The court is pronouncing the verdict in the sixth of the 61
cases registered in connection with the destruction of property
during the communal clashes in the coastal village on January 3
and 4. Those accused in four of these cases were convicted and
those in one case, acquitted. The police had also registered
cases in connection with the killing of five persons during the
riots.
In the present case, the court awarded three years' rigorous
imprisonment and imposed a fine of Rs.5,000 on each under
Section 435 (mischief by fire or explosive substances with intent
to cause damage to amount of Rs.100 or upwards); two years'
rigorous imprisonment under Section 153-A (promoting enmity
between groups on grounds of religion, race, place of birth, resi-
dence and language and doing acts prejudicial to maintenance of
harmony); a year's rigorous imprisonment and a fine of Rs.5,000
under Section 451 (house-trespass in order to commit offence
punishable with imprisonment) and a year's rigorous imprison-
ment under Section 427 (mischief causing damage to the amount
of Rs.50 and upwards) of the Indian Penal Code. The prison
terms will run concurrently. The court imposed a fine of Rs.3,000
on each of the accused under Section 143 (unlawful assembly)
and Rs.5,000 under Section 148 (rioting, armed with deadly
weapons).
Ummerkoya remembered
A commemoration meeting in connec-
tion with the ninth death anniversary of
the Congress leader and former
Education Minister of Kerala P.P
Ummerkoya, was held in Calicut on 1
September. Delivering the memorial
lecture, Aryadan Mohammed, MLA,
stated that Ummerkoya was a secular-
ist, a Gandhian and a democrat to the
core. He recalled an incident when
Ummerkoya was PWD Minister in the
State government. Mr. Mohammed
and his friends submitted a memorandum seeking a bridge
across the Chaliyar, which incidentally came under the Assembly
constituency from where Ummerkoya himself was elected.
However, Ummerkoya reminded them that as a Minister his com-
mitment was to the whole State and not his constituency alone.
There were many more backward places which needed a bridge
badly. The MLA said that Ummerkoya never used his political
positions for furthering the interests of his family. He presented
the P.P. Ummerkoya award to environmental activist A.
Achyuthan at the meeting. K.C. Ramachandran, president, P.P
Ummerkoya Foundation, presided. Its general secretary
T.K.A.Azeez, and secretary S.M.Muhammed Koya, DCC presi-
dent K.C. Abu and M.K. Premnath, MLA, spoke.
Muslim Students shine in Kerala entrance tests
The students from Muslim community made an impressive per-
formance in the recently held common admission test for medical,
engineering and allied colleges in the state by securing more than
25 percent of the first 1000 slots in the rank list for medical and
allied courses. In the first 100 ranks, 24 are Muslim and 131 of the
first 500 ranks belong to candidates from the community. These
are in addition to the eight percent community quota in all educa-
tional institutions for various disciplines. Admissions to the engi-
neering colleges are currently under way. According to the 2001
census, 24.7 percent of Kerala's population is Muslim and a 2005
estimate by the Kerala Sastra Sahitya Parishad, a non-govern-
mental organisation, revises it to 27.8 percent. 27 percent of the
enrolment in primary schools was of Muslims but their represen-
tation in colleges was below 10 percent. Between 1996 and 2002,
only 346 Muslim students were able to secure seats in medicine,
258 in dental and 3,486 in engineering courses. A heavy rush for
admissions in higher secondary schools and colleges was seen
in the last few years prompting the state government to increase
the seats in the Muslim-dominated Malabar region. Muslims are
included as a distinct group within the broad category of back-
ward classes in Kerala and then provided with exclusive quota in
education and jobs along with caste groups such as Ezhavas and
certain sections of Christians. Last year, the state government
had announced a slew of federally-supported welfare schemes
based on the recommendations by the Sachar Committee. They
include 5,000 scholarships to Muslim girl students pursuing grad-
uate and postgraduate courses in which they will be eligible to get retary Pinarayi Vijayan also had asked for the resignation of
Rs3000 to Rs5000 every year, stipend for Muslim girls staying in
hostels, help in preparing for competitive examinations and open-
ing of pre-examination institutes to train them, similar to the one
now available for scheduled castes and scheduled tribes.
Beemapally police firing is unjustified: Report
The People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL), which conducted
Ahmed. The party's youth wing DYFI has alleged that Ahamed had
misused his position and connections to influence the Saudi royal
family into providing favours to the Al Hind Tours, a private agency
based in Kozhikode. The Centre had ordered a judicial inquiry into
the alleged irregularities in the Haj quota allocation. The External
Affairs Minister S.M Krishna asked the Supreme Court judge to
inquire into charges that large-scale irregularities took place in
an investigation into the May 17 police firing at Cheriathura beach allotting Haj quota to travel agencies during the tenure of E
near Beemapally in Trivandram district, in which six Muslims Ahamed as former Minister of State for External Affairs.
including a school boy were killed, has said the firing was unjus-
tified. The PUCL had sent a 12-member team to study the firing Kerala Haj Committee demands additional quota
and its causes. The police action was widely criticised by human The Kerala State Haj Committee will demand the Central Haj
rights organisations. “The investigating team was not convinced Committee to allocate additional quota for those who had not
that circumstances that could justify the police firing existed been able to participate in the Haj observance for the past three
there,” the PUCL team’s report, released in Kochi recently, said. consecutive years. State Haj Committee chairman P T A Rahim
The team said the police and the district administration had MLA who presided over the meeting of the committee at the
failed miserably in defusing the rising tension between two com- Karipur Haj House on 6 September said that they would request
munities in the area. “The people in the Beemapally-Cheriathura the Central Haj committee to resume the powers of the State
area have been polarised communally,” the report said. “This has Committee in this regard for selecting eligible pilgrims. Although
been the result of the communal tension and distrust that devel- the details of additional quota are yet to be declared, we believe
oped in the wake of the criminal activities of anti-social elements that Kerala will get additional seats this year too, he added.
like one ‘Kombu’ Shibu and the inactivity of the police and the dis- The committee members also discussed the possibility of
trict administration,” the report said. It said communal polarisation issuing fitness certificates for Haj pilgrims in the backdrop of the
still prevailed and called upon the government to take long-term H1N1 threat. As per the latest decision, the pilgrims will have to
measures to tackle it. The PUCL team pointed out that the police report at the Haj camps concerned 16 hours before their depar-
had not followed the set series of procedures before ordering the ture for the trip. Certificates will be issued to the pilgrims by an
firing. It asked the government to take strong action against the authorised medical team headed by the District Medical Officer,
erring police officials. The team called for criminal prosecution of Mr. Rahim said.
the police officers who were responsible for the firing. Practical sessions for guiding the pilgrims will begin on
The PUCL urged the government to immediately pay the September 23. Arrangements will be made in all districts to host
compensation it had announced to the families of the victims and the sessions. The number of camps will be decided taking into
the injured. Those whose houses, fishing gear etc, had been consideration the total number of participants in each district. The
damaged should also be adequately compensated, it said. The meeting also accorded administrative sanction for a project of Rs
team criticised the district administration for not taking steps to 7 lakh for the renovation works of the Haj House at Karipur.
ease the communal tension which had been building up in the Decisions have been taken to collect a contribution of Rs 1,000
area for years. The probe team included senior journalist B.R.P. each from all the pilgrims for further development works of the Haj
Bhaskar, PUCL State functionaries P. Chandrasekhar, P.A. House. Chairmen of various sub committees were elected in the
Pouran and Jacob V. Lazer. State committee meeting. A V Abdu Haji will head the Pilgrims
The Kerala government had constituted a one-member judi- Welfare Committee. Seven sub-committees have been formed to
cial commission to probe in the police firing and the clashes offer better service to the pilgrims.
between the two groups in the costal belt. The government asked The demand for more Haj seats for Kerala will be considered
the District and Sessions Judge K Ramakrishnan to submit the if India gets an additional quota from Saudi Arabia, Union Minister
report by January 2010. of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor said later on 7
September. He was speaking to media persons during a visit to
Haj Quota Scam: IUML refutes charges against E Ahamed the Kodappanakkal house of the former Indian Union Muslim
Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) State general secretary PK League (IUML) State president Syed Mohammedali Shihab
Kunhalikkutty refuted the charges against Union Minister of State Thangal at Panakkad, near Malappuram.
for Railways E. Ahamed of favouring a private travel agency in Mr. Tharoor said there would be no change in the Haj quota
handling the Haj quota as politically biased. He added that the distribution at present. He said the government was trying to
allegations had arisen during the time of elections and that they reverse the system by including more private tour groups to fly
were baseless. Mr. Kunhalikutty said allegations were part of a Haj pilgrims. He said a report by the Rahman Khan Committee
conspiracy to divert attention from the 'goonda raj' and law and into ways of improving the Haj quota system was being studied.
order collapse in Kerala. "There is nothing new in these allega- The Minister was received by IUML State president Syed
tions. Those who are jealous of Mr. Ahamed's achievements as Hyderali Shihab Thangal; P.K. Kunhalikutty, IUML State general
Union Minister of State for Railways were behind this," he said. secretary; Shihab Thangal’s sons Munawwarali and Basheerali;
CNN-IBN on August 26 alleged that a majority of the Haj Syed Umerali Shihab Thangal’s sons Hameedali and Rasheedali;
quota was given to private Haj groups when E. Ahamed was the K.P.A. Majeed, IUML State secretary; Abdurahman Randathani,
minister in charge of Haj Affairs in the last UPA government. The MLA; Mohammedunni Haji, MLA; E. Mohammed Kunhi, District
report alleged that private tour operators gained much from this. Congress Committee president; and Kiliyamannil Yakoob,
A travel agency based in Kozhikode was given more seats than Malappuram municipal chairman. Mr. Tharoor spent nearly half-an-
other agencies. The channel also alleged that corruption was hour at Panakkad and held discussions with the IUML leaders.

involved in giving so many seats in government quota to the pri-
vate agency. The Left parties and
some Muslim leaders had earlier Solidarity march against ASEAN pact
alleged that there was corruption in
the Haj quota allotment. The issue
was raised and much talked about
during the Lok Sabha elections.
However, the minister has refuted all
allegations against him. He said that
the travel agency in Kozhikode may
have got more Haj quota due to their
past performance. He added that he
had worked to raise the Haj quota of
the country from 72, 000 to 1, 57,000
by his good relations with Saudi
Arabia.
Meanwhile, Left Democratic Front
(LDF) leaders strongly demanded the
resignation of Ahamed. The
Solidarity protests over ASEAN pact
The Solidarity Youth Movement, youth wing of Jamaat-e-Islami Kerala unit, organised
Communist Party of India (CPI) state
AGs office march in Trivandram to protest against the signing of the free trade agree-
executive said the Haj quota alloca-
ment with the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN). The march called
tion underwent large scale irregulari-
upon the Union government to turn back from the ASEAN pact, as it is against the
ties when Ahamed was the Minister of
interests of farmers and other traditional labours in the country.
State for External Affairs. Corruption
Inaugurating the march, Solidarity vice president K.A Shafeeque said the pact
of thousands of rupees took place by
would help monopolists only. It will destroy our so-called agricultural heritage, he
the allocation of quota for private
said. Mr. Shafeeque said the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government had
agencies. Ahamed should be
betrayed the people of the Kerala by signing the agreement which would hit the agri-
removed from the ministry so as to
culture sector in the State very badly. The six Keralite Ministers in the Union Cabinet
bring to light all details regarding the
had done a disgraceful act by not stalling the agreement, he added. Solidarity state
Haj quota scam, said the CPI.
secretaries P.I Noushad, M. Shajar Khan and R. Jayan attended the programme.
CPI (Marxist) state general sec-

Dilemmas of Defeat: Whither BJP?
RAM PUNIYANI
ram.puniyani@gmail.com
The humiliating electoral defeat continues to dodge the BJP. In
quick succession lot of things are happening, old pillars are crum-
bling, earlier cracks are on display with bigger clarity and those
who joined the party in the hope of basking in the glory of power
are deserting. In the process a lot of things which were slightly
hidden are becoming glaringly obvious.
After Jaswant Singh was expelled from the party he talked
about certain incidents which show the true nature of the party
and the major political personalities involved. Later some of these
points were confirmed by Arun Shourie, Brajesh Mishra and
Company. The first point which strikes an observer is that it is the
nature of people who have come out with statements. First in the
row was Yashwant Sinha, then Jaswant Singh, followed by Arun
Shourie, another one, Sudheendra Kulkarni, was prompt enough
to leave the party. What is common about them is that they all are
not having RSS background. Most of BJP leaders, trained in RSS
shakhas kept mum on the reasons for defeat and state of disar-
ray in the party. Sushma Swaraj is an exception anyway, as
women are not allowed to be members of RSS. Some of the
beans which were spilled during the process are very revealing.
Jaswant Singh pointed out, later confirmed by Arun Shourie,
that Vajpayee wanted to sack Modi when the Gujarat carnage
was on. It was Advani who blocked it. It reflects as much on
Advani as on Vajpayee. When Vajpayee raised the issue of deal-
ing with Modi, Advani retorted that if that is done there will be
bawal, severe turmoil, in the party. As they went for the Goa meet-
ing Modi offered to resign and as if on a cue most of the top brass
of the party attending the meeting opposed it. After he realized
that most of the party is with Modi in executing the anti minority
carnage, Vajpayee changed his tune and said those words, which
subtly went in for Modi’s defense, The words were, ‘but Godhra
also happened! This episode shows that while Advani was hard
core in supporting Modi line of violence against minorities, most
the party stood by Modi, endorsing his violence and making him
a Hero. This is what happens when one is trained by RSS, trained
in ‘Hate minority’ sentiments. The character of most of the BJP
top brass is there for all to see. But what about Vajpayee, he talks
of action against Modi and when he sees that most of the party is
for supporting what is going in Gujarat, he goes on to give a hid-
den justification for what Modi was doing. Not only that he made
a weak willed attempt to resign but was ‘easily persuaded’ to stay
on. The swayasevak, the RSS soul in his body, was alive and
kicking and he went on to serve the full term.
Advani’s lies about Kandhar episode do not need further crit-
icizing the person, who driven by the ambition to show his iron
man character, kept lying to the whole nation, that much about his
leadership qualities. He is not alone in this. Earlier at one point of
time Vajpayee had also claimed to be the part of freedom move-
ment and having gone to jail for the same during 1942 Quit India
movement. This lie was exposed by two journalists of Frontline,
Maharashtra appeals against MCOCA
repeal and says that MP Govt helping
Hindutva terrorists
Mumbai: The Maharashtra Government on 24 August filed an appeal in
the Bombay High Court challenging the revocation of the Maharashtra
Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) provisions in the September
2008 Malegaon blasts case.
On 31 July, The Court had dropped MCOCA against Sadhvi Pragya
Singh Thakur, Lt Col S P Purohit and nine other accused in the 2008
Malegaon bomb blast case. But the designated Judge Y D Shinde, pre-
siding over the special MCOCA court, however, rejected the bail plea of
Purohit. Shinde observed that none of the accused are part of an "organ-
ised crime syndicate". He also observed that none of the accused had
more than one charge sheet filed against him or her -- a prerequisite for
invoking provisions of MCOCA. As provisions of IPC would apply now,
the case would be heard by a sessions court in Nashik.
On August 2, Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan had said that
his government would challenge the verdict given by the Special Court.
On August 24, questioning the negation of the provisions of
Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) in the Sep 2008
Malegaon blasts case, state government filed an appeal in the Bombay
High Court. The state government said in its appeal that the court order
was "unconstitutional and bad in law".
Maharashtra government had availed of the services of top lawyers
to prepare its case including the former solicitor general of India, Harish
Salve, Justice Nikanj (Retd), Advocate Amit Desai etc. The state govern-
ment said that the accused persons were complicit in serious crimes and
terrorist activities. Hence they should be tried under strict provisions of
MCOCA and MCOCA should be invoked against them.
Maharashtra's home minister, Mohammad Arif Naseem Khan said
that he had told Maharashtra chief minister Ashok Chavan that he has
come to know through secret source that three absconding colleagues
of Sadhvi are hiding in Madhya Pradesh and that the state's BJP gov-
ernment is providing them shelter. He said that Maharashtra's ATS tried
to take action against the three absconders many times but could not
arrest them because of MP police's non-cooperative attitude. He said
that the MP police leaks the news which helps the culprits in changing
their place of hiding. He said that if these people are arrested, bomb
blasts that had taken place earlier in various states can be cracked. He
said that ATS chief has been told that if help of CBI, IB etc is needed,
central government will be approached for this. (NA Ansari)
but this has not become so known to the public mind. Vajpayee
had been mistaken to be the participant of Quit India agitation by
the police and arrested. After his arrest Vajpayee clarified in a let-
ter written to the authorities that he was not part of the proces-
sion; agitation but was a mere onlooker to the procession organ-
ized by the youth who were part of the national movement. On
this ground he sought his release from jail and he was duly
released. So in that sense, what Advani has done is not some-
thing which the earlier top BJP leader has not done. The cash for
votes scam also shows very clearly as to what low level BJP can
stoop for the sake of power.
Now despite the fact that the BJP is in tatters, it will not die.
The reason is, BJP has been a mere political arm of RSS. At most
of the crucial junctures RSS has been controlling BJP from behind
the scene. The only difference is that now all is in the open. To
begin with majority of BJP workers, leaders are from RSS back-
ground, totally indoctrinated in the ideology of ‘Hate Minorities’, in
the ideology of Hindu nation. The statement of Shourie that RSS
should take over BJP is a bit complex. Shourie must know that as
a BJP member he is mostly amidst RSS workers, barring few. On
the top of that RSS always keeps a watchful eye on what its sub-
ordinate organizations are doing and keeps coordinating their
activities. Its agenda is clear, to bring in Hindu Rashtra over a peri-
od of time.
(NIDA-E-YATEEM (VOICE OF ORPHAN GIRLS)
THE GAYA MUSLIM
GIRLS' ORPHANAGE
23 Years Service
Islamic Sisters and Brothers! Assalamu Alaikum,
Varahmatullahi, Va Barkatuhu
Prophet Md. (PBUH)  “Taking care of widows and
orphans is the highest act of obedience to the will
and command of Allah (SWT). It is same as taking
part in (Jihad) and performing (Haj)” or Observation
of a regular fasting (Hadith)
Establishment Situation: It came into existence
with three orphan girls in a tiled rented house which
was earlier an abode of snakes, scorpions, animals
and the birds, has now been purchased. The
renowned poet Allama Iqbal says, “Ishque ne abad
kar dale hain dasht-o-kohsar” (Love has inhabited
the forests and the mountains).
Motive of Establishment : Janab Late Enayeth
Khan, founder of "The Gaya Muslim Orphanage",
had expressed his desire for its establishment in a
letter which he wrote in 1938.
Education:  Nursery  Primary  Middle  High
School  Department of Hifz-wa-Tajwid
(Memorisation of the Holy Q’uran)  Home Science
 Adult Education  Distrance Education
Vocational Training such as Tailoring  Zari
 Painting and Mehndi, Designing, etc.
Total Orphan Girl students: 110
Annual Budget: More than Rs. 12 Lakh
Source of income: Donations from Muslim Ummah.
Expenditure: The institution bears the entire
expenses of the orphan girls from clasp to them.
News Bulletin: 6 students approaching to Class Xth
have become Hafiza after compeletion of the memo-
rization of Holy Qur’an. They became Hafiza while
carrying on with their studies of modern education.
Bihar Board Examination: The secondary class
was started in 1992 and since 1993 to 2008 (58)
orphan girls and (32) other girls passed the matricu-
lation examination.  Hafiza girls are given training
of stitching and Zari also.
Vocational Training: Six batches of trainees in cut-
ting and tailoring 70 students and three (3) batches
of embroidery (Zari) training (42) passed out. The
trainees were awarded certificates.
Computer education has been started. Distance
Education from 2008-09 education upto
Intermediate class XI and XII, is being imparted to
orphan and non-orphan girls.  The girls after suc-
cessfully passing the matriculation examination from
the school of the institution, get easy admission in
different colleges and Arabic universities.
 An appeal: Kafala Scheme (Sponsorship) Annual
expenditure for the education of an orphan girl is Rs.
8,000 only. Brethren-in-Islam too can generously
The Milli Gazette, 16-30 September 2009 9
ANALYSIS
Since the electoral debacle, many a commentators said that
BJP can give up Hindutva and survive as a rightwing opposition.
Such a suggestion has no place in the real politic, as BJP is noth-
ing but a political child of RSS. It has autonomy to work in the
given framework, the framework laid out by RSS. While the cur-
rent RSS Sarsanghchalak says that BJP will decide its own poli-
cies that statement is merely something from the World of make-
believe. As things are becoming clearer RSS has taken a total
and direct charge of the tottering party.
What is the trajectory for future? For some time, with RSS
imprints being very direct, the other NDA allies will opt to remain
aloof from NDA and BJP. As happened in 1996 all the opposition
parties refused to touch it even with barge pole. They came
around the next time as it emerged as the big party and lured by
the power, they hung on to BJP. It is likely that despite all efforts
BJP will become a marginal national outfit for quite some time.
It does prevail in the form of its power through states, where
it is implementing Hindutva agenda with full vigor. It is also likely
that it will try to build itself more through states than at national
level. Till RSS is alive BJP will be there, goes without saying. The
only difference will be the speed of infiltration of RSS agenda of
Hindutva by infiltration in the state machinery, media and educa-
tion will become slightly slower than usual. (Issues in Secular
Politics)
contribute towards this by bearing the expenses of at
least one orphan girl. If you do not care for them they
would remain illiterate. Allah (SWT) would indeed
hold you accountable on the Day of Judgment. So
long as the wealthy section of the community does
not take the responsibility of educating at least one
orphan girl, the dream of spreading literacy would
never be fulfilled. Instead, the gap of illiteracy would
further widen. “Educating a girl is as if a whole fami-
ly has been educated". It is the duty of wealthy per-
sons to take care of the helpless, orphan girls of the
community.
We extend an appeal to the general public and
philanthropists to contribute generously so as to
turn the cottage into concrete buildings. These help-
less, orphan girls are the daughters of our communi-
ty who by fate have lost their father and are in dire
need of your help. For meeting the annual expendi-
ture and towards the Building fund,  returning of
loan,  paying of staffs salaries (65000/-) and pur-
chasing of land,  financial contribution is urgently
required from you and with your assitance from oth-
ers. Please get a room constructed in your name or
your parents or relative or deceased ancestors which
will be a source of permanent blessing from Allah, as
“Sadqua-e-Jaria”.
Please help this growing institution through
 Zakat  Sadqah  Charity  Construction of
the building fully or partly  Donation and 
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"THE GAYA MUSLIM GIRLS’ ORPHANAGE".
Send your Cheques, Drafts and Money Orders on
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10 The Milli Gazette, 16-30 September 2009

GUJARAT
GUJARAT ROUND-UP: ABDUL HAFIZ LAKHANI

Blood of the encountered exposes Modi’s black empire

n a major setback to Gujarat government, a magisterial said to have been taken. the roles of these 21 personnel. Since, it proved that there was

I inquiry looking into the death of the teenage girl Ishrat Jehan "Magistrate Tamang's report is bad in law, and he has over- no encounter and these persons were killed in custody a day
has concluded that she and three others were killed in a fake stepped his jurisdiction by submitting his report even before a before the so-called encounter all are in soup.
encounter. The police team that carried out the encounter is high-level committee appointed by the high court to probe the
already behind bars in the Sohrabuddin fake encounter case.
Meanwhile, Gujarat High Court on 9 Sept. stayed magistrate
matter could do so," Gujarat government spokesman Jaynarayan SP Tamang inquiry report but the family members of two alleged
The report of Magistrate Tamang damning Gujarat police for Vyas said. "The report prepared by the magistrate is beyond the victims of fake encounters demanded a judicial inquiry into the
the fake encounter of Ishrat Jahan and three others has come as jurisdiction of section 176 CrPC (inquiry by magistrate in to cause deaths. Mariam Jafri Zaffer Hussain, the widow of Kasim Jaffer
a bolt from blue for the Modi government which is not able to of death) and will not stand legal scrutiny," Vyas claimed at a Hussain, alleged that her husband, who was on a pilgrimage to
answer the basic question – who ordered inquiry by Metropolitan press conference here. Quoting the Union Government's affidavit Hussain Tekri, Mehsana, on April 13, 2006, was killed during his
Magistrate S P Tamang? Despite all his oratory skills and stick of in the Supreme Court, he said it clearly stated that Ishrat and the stay at Ahmedabad. Talking to mediapersons at Prashant, a cen-
central intelligence report, spin doctor of Narendra Modi govern- other three were LeT operatives and were planning terror strikes tre for human rights, justice and peace, Mariam said, others trav-
ment, Health Minister Jay Narayan Vyas could not give any sat- in Gujarat. elling with her husband had told her that he was defiant when
isfactory reply to this question. At a short notice media meet, he Magistrate Tamang's report, submitted on 7 Sept., said the cops confronted him at Hotel Royal at Sarkhej. He asked for the
said that Tamang was asked to inquire on August 13 this year, but encounter in which 19-year-old college student Ishrat Jahan and identity of the policeman, JM Bharwad. Hussain was roughed up
evaded all questions about the officer who asked Tamang to three others were gunned down in 2004 was fake and executed and taken away by the police in a van to Shahibaug, Mariam said.
inquire into the matter. in "cold blood" by police officers for selfish motives. They were He was also beaten up along the way to Shahibaug and later iso-
Obviously in a war-footing damage control exercise, the Modi allegedly plotting to kill chief minister Narendra Modi. The report lated from his companions. His aides were later told that he had
government has decided to challenge the report on the ground of the investigation conducted by the magistrate had accused escaped. When Mariam was informed about what had happened
that it was bad in law. Vyas who is spokespersons of Modi gov- senior police officers of "staging" the encounter. The four, claimed to Hussain, she rushed to Ahmedabad to enquire about her hus-
ernment said that on August 13, the Gujarat High Court had to have been felled by the police in an encounter on the outskirts band. She was also told that he had escaped. Mariam claimed
ordered an inquiry by a three-member committee and so any of the city on June 15, 2004 were -- Ishrat, Javed Ghulam Sheikh that only when she threatened to kill herself, the police asked her
lower court proceeding on the same alias Pranesh Kumar Pillai, Amjad Ali alias to return the next day for information. On April 18, a report of a
should have been stopped. Rajkumar Akbar Ali Rana and Jisan Johar Abdul vehicle accident was carried in a daily. Its victim was later identi-
Magistrate Tamang has named 21 Gani. Vyas said not only the state government fied as “Hussain”. Mariam claimed she was allowed to see
police personnel from the then police but also the ministry of home affairs at the Hussain’s body after repeated pleas. There was a welt like that of
commissioner K R Kaushik to the driver of Centre had sworn an affidavit in the Supreme a bullet wound on his head and trace of blood on his lips. But
the crime branch for what it describes as Court stating that the four were operatives of when she collected the body there were fresh bruises and
“cold-blooded fake encounter” that took Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT). He said wounds. “I have been left with five children to tend to and there
place in June 2004. Vyas said that as per the MHA affidavit, even a mouthpiece of has been no compensation. I have filed a petition in the Supreme
Tamang should have taken the view of LET had disclosed that Ishrat was associated Court seeking a judicial inquiry into the incident after similar appli-
these 21 persons before accusing them of with the terror outfit. cations for inquiries to police commissioner, DGP and others
such a serious charge. The third ground of After the Sohrabuddin fake encounter case, failed,” she said.
argument of Modi government is that the this is the second case in which an encounter In another development, Sumitra Chandrakant Jadhav, the
incident was an encounter death and not
custodial death and so the Magistrate Mariam claimed that only when she threatened to kill herself, the police asked her to
could not invoke sections of custodial return the next day for information. On April 18, a report of a vehicle accident was car-
death of section 176 of the Criminal ried in a daily. Its victim was later identified as “Hussain”. Mariam claimed she was
Procedure Code. allowed to see Hussain’s body after repeated pleas. There was a welt like that of a bul-
Vyas told media that the central agen- let wound on his head and trace of blood on his lips. But when she collected the body
cies had given the details of criminal and there were fresh bruises and wounds. “I have been left with five children to tend to and
chequerred background of Ishrat and Body of Kasim Jaffer Hussain there has been no compensation.
Javed Sheikh, two of the four persons
killed in the fake encounter. He, however, could not say that the involving Gujarat police during the tenure of Narendra Modi gov- mother of Mahendra Jadhav, claimed that her son, a murder
encounter was genuine. He said that the Magistrate prepared the ernment has come under the scanner. Tamang was appointed to accused, was released from jail following the efforts of Fatima
report in haste and overstepped his authority. The hand-written conduct the inquiry after the district magistrate concerned had Bibi, a POTA detainee. But he was later killed in a fake encounter.
report runs into 243 pages. It names "encounter specialist" referred the case to lower court. “My son had informed me that he was going to Gujarat for a job.
among the 21 police officers involved in what it says "cold-blood- Some retired cops argue that the twist in the tale clearly It was not possible for us to release him from jail. Fatima Bibi,
ed murder". Ishrat and three others were picked up by Gujarat shows the chaos in the administration, while officers believe that however, had managed to get him released and he was later
police from Mumbai and other places, and were shown as killed it will clearly spells more troubles for Vanzara, the suspended IPS killed in a fake encounter by the Gujarat police,” Sumitra claimed.
in an encounter in Ahmedabad a day after their murder. officer who was then deputy commissioner of police, Ahmedabad Mahendra’s brother said: “My brother may be a criminal but he
The 243-page report of Metropolitan Magistrate S P Tamang crime branch. "During the course of investigation, if it is proved was no international terrorist as claimed by the Gujarat police..”
documents the details of the murder of four persons which was that the encounter was a fake one, Vanzara could be prosecuted
itizens for Justice and Peace, a Gujarat-based human
later projected as encounter of terrorists by Gujarat police. for cold blooded murder," a retired IPS officer said adding that the
Though Gujarat government claims it to be a report in hurry, the other officers who have been named in
Magistrate scanned 1159 documents most of them official cuted for conspiracy and destroying of evidence as well as for
records like the Post-mortem (PM) report and the FIR the police helping in a cold blooded murder.
the order can be prose-
C
Narendra
rights organization, has demanded judicial inquiry into all
the police encounters during the rule of Chief Minister
Modi. Pointing out the reports of involvements of police
had filed about the incident in June 2004. "It is a matter of investigation by the agency concerned. If any officers, Teesta Setalvad, has said that there should be criminal
Tamang has fixed 21 police personnel including the police incriminating evidence is found during the course of investigation, action against these officers instead of formal departmental
commissioner to bring out the anamolies of their own statements legal action can be taken against the culprits," PK Bansal, retired inquiry.
supported by the facts of different reports. For, instance, the FIR director general of police, said. Another retired IPS officer, RB Talking to media, she said that there appears to be a group
claims the encounter to be an early morning incident while the Shreekumar, said the investigations should not stop till all the of officers with commitment to fake encounters. These officers
PM report indicates the death before midnight. He has mentioned people involved in the encounter, including those whose orders should be kept out of investigations of the fake encounters and
contents of the medical reports of bodies of Ishrat, Pranesh Pillai these officers were following, should be brought to book. other sensitive issues related to such incidents.
alias Javed Shaikh, Amjad Ali Rana and Jishan Johar concluding Tamang, in his report, has also pointed out glaring anomalies Demanding that Supreme Court should order a judicial
that the claimed visit of the senior officers to the site of the in cops’ claims of collectively firing at least 70 shots in self- inquiry, she said that there were 11 encounters in the state right
encounter is a plain lie. Tamang has cited several such incidents defence during the gunfight. Constables Mohan Nanji and Mohan from the day of the Akshardham incident in September 24, 2002.
in his report. He had not to investigate anything. All was there. He Kalasva, who were among the cops who carried out the All should be included in the judicial inquiry, she demanded.
had just to put it in a series of logical consequence and when he encounter, had stated that they fired 10 and 32 shots, respective-
did it, it turned out to be a most lethal paper missile against Modi ly, from their AK-47 rifles. Commando Anaju Chaudhary, inspec- Lacunae by Gujarat police in riot cases; SIT
government in Gujarat. tor J J Parmar and ACP N K Amin had claimed to have fired 10, The SIT investigating the post-Godhra riots cases has taken a
He has said that the four were not killed in an encounter near four and five shots, respectively, from their serviced revolvers. serious note of lacunae in police investigation of Dipda Darwaja
Kotarpur waterworks on June 15, 2004. The four were, in fact, Sub-inspector Tarun Barot and I K Chauhan had also claimed to massacre in Visnagar town in Mehsana district. The SIT addition-
shot dead a day earlier. He has pointed out that around 700 mg have shot six and five times. However, according to Tamang’s al DGP, Paramjit Singh recently visited the Dipda Darwaja area
of partly digested food was found in Ishrat and other three’s stom- report, not a single cartridge of the aforesaid guns was found at and met victims and witnesses of the carnage. Singh also met
achs which shows that they were killed a few hours after they had the spot of encounter. advocates appearing on behalf of the probe agency. Sources said
dinner on June 14, 2004. Meanwhile,Gujarat Congress has demanded that the case of that the DGP made critical observation on the role of the investi-
Pillai, Tamang has stated, was killed between 8.30 pm and fake encounter should be handed over to Central Bureau of gating officer as they had no clue about the vehicle which was
9.30 pm, while the remaining three were shot dead between 11 Investigation. Leader of Opposition in the State Assembly used to ferry the dead bodies of six people who were killed in the
pm and 12. According to the 243-page report, Rana was made to Shaktisinh Gohil said that this was necessary in view of the incident. The rioters after killing six people burnt their bodies at
sit in the right rear seat of the blue Indica car and shot from left response of Gujarat government to the report of Magistrate the Malap Talav area.
side of the vehicle with the unlicensed 9 mm pistol. To make it Tamang. Referring to the statement of government spokesperson Dipda Darwaja case is one of the few cases, which have
appear that there was a gunfight, cops fired 50 shots from the AK- Jay Narayan Vyas that the state government would challenge the already gone for trial and simultaneously an investigation by the
56 rifle at their vehicles before placing the gun in Rana’s right report, he said that the Gujarat government had no locus standi SIT is also going on. Sources said that Singh also made obser-
hand. A 9 mm pistol and an AK-56 rifle — were used to shoot to challenge the report. It is for the persons named in the report vation that people who were arrested after the carnage had sur-
Rana, Pillai and Johar. He further points out that no trace of gun- to go to court. He also disputed the claim of Vyas that Tamang rendered to the police already. Moreover, no identification parade
powder was found on Rana’s hands indicating that he didn’t use report had no legal entity when there was an investigation going of the accused has been done. Dipda Darwaja incident had taken
the weapon. Tamang has stated in his report that Pillai was shot on by a team appointed by Gujarat High Court. He said Tamang place on February 28, 2002, where 14 people, including 5 chil-
twice with the same unlicensed AK-56 rifle. This clearly suggests inquired into the matter while the High Court Committee has to dren, were burnt alive by an enraged mob. The bodies were
the killings were staged because if Rana were a terrorist, he investigate the case. recovered from Malap Talav area by forensic officers. A complaint
would not have killed his own partner Pillai. In his report Metropolitan Magistrate S P Tamang has held 21 was lodged for killing of 11 persons, but there has been no com-
The report points out glaring anomalies in police claim that police personnel including several senior officers responsible for plainant regarding the missing people.
they fired in all more than 70 shots in self-defence. Mentioning the cold blooded murder of 19 year old Ishrat Jahan and three DGP Singh also met witnesses of the Sardarpura and Dipda
the claims of individual firing, the report points out that not even others in June 2004. What has brought trouble for these officials Darwaja carnage incidents who are at present living at Santnagar
a single cartridge was found at the place where the encounter is is the FIR filed by PI J G Parmar in which he described in detail in Himmatnagar.

 The Milli Gazette, 16-30 September 2009 11

HUMAN RIGHTS
Report of the AIMMM delegation to Kalalti village
his is a report of the fact-finding delegation of the All India buried in the foundation of the mosque. A meeting of Hindu rep- been prevented from entering the village, injured were admitted

T Muslim Majlis-e-Mushawarat (AIMMM) which visited resentatives of some 18 to 47 villages of the area, led by local to hospitals, additional police force was deployed in the village,
Ambala and Yamuna Nagar districts of Haryana on 28 Bajrang Dal and Shiv Sena elements, assembled at the some damaged household items were replaced and food was
August 2009 regarding atrocities inflicted by non-Muslim Government Primary School, Thakurpura-Kalalati, on 14 August. provided to a few Muslim men and women who remained in the
villagers on Muslim families of Kalalati Village of Ambala District It resolved that no mosque will be allowed in the village and village in spite of the nightmarish event, although most Muslims
for the last one month or so. News flashed in both print and elec- issued an ultimatum to the local Muslims to forthwith stop namaz, have left the village for safer places, fearing further assaults.
tronic media since 20th instant said that local Hindus have thwart- shave off their beards and stop wearing caps and if they are not
ed the construction of a mosque in Kalalati village, which led to willing to abide by these rules they must vacate the village by Following are seven issues that must be addressed to immedi-
communal tension in the said village. The severity of the problem 18th of August or face dire consequences. Muslims' social boy- ately,
made the AIMMM send a fact-finding delegation meet the affect- cott was also declared forthwith. Local Police was present at the 1. Safety
ed people for their moral support as well as to ascertain the facts. school on that occasion but did nothing to stop the proceedings. Local Muslims do not feel safe in the village anymore. Their com-
The delegation led by Mr Abdul Rashid Agwan, convener of plaint is that they were assaulted in the presence of the police, so
AIMMM's Delhi state unit and comprised of Mr Irfan there is no guarantee that such mishap would not take
Ahmad Khan, State Incharge (Haryana) of Jamaat-e- place again in future. They are thinking to migrate to
Islami Hind; Mr Mahtab Alam coordinator of the some other safe place. This might lead them to bear
Association for Protection of Civil Rights (APCR); and heavy losses of property as their houses will be left
Mr Nadim Ahmad of The Milli Gazette. The team left behind or sold for pittance. Moreover, this might become
New Delhi early morning for the affected area reach- a cause of chain reaction in other villages of the region
ing Jagadhari around 11AM, where it met Maulana where Muslims are living in small numbers among over-
Shakil Ahmad Nadwi, teacher of Madrasa Ma'had whelming Hindu majority. Miscreants are still chasing
Rashidul Islamia and local correspondent of Rashriya younger members of the affected Muslim families for
Sahara Urdu daily, who effectively raised the issue in harming them. They tried to terrorise even the injured
the national Urdu daily. Members of the group offered people at MM Hospital at Mullana in the night of 23rd
Jum'a prayers at the historic town of Budhiya, where August.
it discussed in the afternoon various aspects of the
episode with Peer Ahmad Hasan, a prominent per- 2. Relief
sonality of the area who has played a key role in paci- Although affected families are managing their routine
fying the communal tension stoked by a handful of expenses for the time being, the communal tension and
miscreants. Some Muslim activists of Jagadhari area social boycott for almost a month has totally stopped their
also discussed the situation with the team. In the trading and agricultural work. This would lead to unprece-
evening, the delegation met some members of the dented hardships for these unfortunate families. So some
affected families at Jagadhari and Kudawa where cash relief would certainly become crucial in the next few
they have taken temporary shelter due to fear of fur- weeks.
ther assaults in their village. The team also met late
at night the injured victims admitted at MM Hospital, AR Agwan speaking to an elder from Kalalati who has fled his village 3. Compensation
Mullana. By 11 PM, the team started its journey back The total loss of property and household items has been
to Delhi. A visit to Kalalati village itself was not found advisable at This ultimatum created havoc in the area and Muslims and estimated to be in the range of Rs 525,000. Although the admin-
this juncture on the advice of the people of the area where the secular leaders started pressurizing the district administration istration has replaced some of the damaged items by new ones
police posse is said to be preventing the entry of any outsider into and Police to intervene. On the instance of the local administra- such as water tanks, fridges, coolers, etc but this measure is
the village. However, the team members talked over mobile tion, the ultimatum was extended by two days. A few constables inadequate as compared to the actual damage. Therefore, the
phones to two persons staying inside the village and ascertained were deputed for the safety of the Muslim families of the village. process of registering the overall damage and official compensa-
the present conditions of safety and morale. Media also started taking note of the tense situation. Adamant to tion at par with victims of communal riots elsewhere in the coun-
The team found out that Thakurpura-Kalalati is a small village execute their ultimatum, around 250 Hindu activists entered the try should be ensured.
located in Saha Block of Ambala District on the National Highway village from neighbouring as well as distant localities on 18th
73A, about 4-5 kilometres from the main road, falling in the area August. This terrified the small band of Muslims of the village. On 4. Legal Measures
of Mullana Police Station. It has a population of over 400 families the 22nd afternoon, at around 4 PM, an unprovoked and callous Police has filed an FIR with 23 named and several anonymous
with a vast majority of Hindus, who hail mainly from Thakur, attack on Muslim families with swords, axes and lathis took place. miscreants and some of them have been subsequently arrested.
Gujjar, Kalal and Dalit castes. There are 11 Muslim families in the The plank of the attack was an unsubstantiated episode said to However, the leading accused such as Chetan, Jagmal, Ajit, etc
village. The total Muslim population of the village consists of 118 have taken place in another village situated at around 4-5 kilome- are still at large. It is heard that the local administration will take
persons who belong to two extended families. Muslim families are tres from Kalalati, in which "Muslim boys" were accused to have due action only after the forthcoming state elections which are
living in the village for more than one hundred years and do not beaten a 19-year-old Hindu youth called Omveer. This was the scheduled for 18th October. The question is: if something unto-
own land but have their own houses built long ago. Even the tur- time when most of the elderly persons of these Muslim families ward happens again, who will be responsible? The extremist
moil of Partition did not affect their lives due to the exemplary were out of the village. However, those found at home were Hindu leaders are pressurising the administration to release the
communal harmony among various communities of the area. severely beaten up and wounded. Rulda Khan, the eldest Muslim arrested offenders. They organised a demonstration on 26th
These Muslim families depend for livelihood primarily on trading of the village, faced near-fatal injury on his head and one arm by August for this purpose. It is the responsibility of the administra-
of cloths and other items and participate in agriculture on contract sword. He is presently said to be in coma at the Post Graduate tion to thwart such undue pressures. The most unfortunate part of
basis. Before the present episode, relations between Hindus and Institute of Medical Sciences, Chandigarh. Babu Khan, Shaukat the entire episode is that the meeting in which an ultimatum was
Muslims were always cordial and Muslims of the locality did not Khan and Krishan Khan were also brutally wounded along with issued to Muslims for vacating the village was held in the premis-
even shun donating for construction of temples in the village. Kanti Bibi, a lady, and were admitted at the MM Hospital of es of a government primary school and even a holiday of the
There is a small piece of land used for Qabristan but so far the Mullana for treatment. Muslim women were insulted and scolded school was declared on the day. Action should be taken by the
village had no mosque and congregational prayers were offered by the hooligans. A lot of damage was inflicted upon properties government against the head of the school and other staff mem-
in a house. and belongings of the unfortunate people. All this happened in the bers who not only closed it for the day but allowed communal ele-
The corollary of events that came to the notice of the visiting presence of police constables who did not intervene. ments to hold their meeting with full fanfare with tent, public
team was as follows: Muslims of Kalalati purchased around 2000 The damage to property and loss of household items has address system, inflammatory speeches, threatening slogans
sq yards of land almost a year ago for the purpose of construct- been estimated to be that of Rs 525,000. The family-wise details and the like. The concerned SHO should also be taken to task
ing a mosque. It was purchased against Rs. 350000 from one of loss are as follows: who could not control the explosive situation and failed to send
Krishan Lal who was verbally informed regarding the purpose of 1. Rulda Khan: Wind-shield, tyres and other parts of his Armada sufficient forces at the critical time.
the purchase of the land but the fact was not mentioned in the jeep, two scooters, cycle, etc.
land purchase deed. The transfer was in the name of Sabir Khan 2. Roshan Khan: No major damage 5. Social Boycott
who bore a major part of the amount. In the third week of July, 3. Ajmer Ali: Wind-shield and tyres of his Armada jeep, doors The ongoing social boycott of Muslims will affect the life and
Muslims of the village resolved to start construction on the site. (Rs 65000), seven ceiling fans, four pedestal fans, two water economy of the Muslim families who belong to the village for over
Amir of Jagadhari Tablighi Jamat visited the locality at the vil- tanks, two Tulu pump motors, two "Kutti" machines, and other a century. Some social activists of the area should take up the
lagers' invitation and defined the Qibla direction and led those household items task of changing the situation as early as possible.
present on the occasion in a prayer for an early completion of the 4. Babu Khan: Fridge, cooler, two diesel engines, doors (Rs
mosque. After 2-3 days, when Muslims intended to lay the foun- 60000), two Kutti machines, Almirah, TV, double bed and 6. Communal Harmony
dation-stone and start construction, a number of neighbouring other household items The episode has badly affected communal harmony of the area,
Hindus assembled at the site and expressed their annoyance at 5. Haji Sabir Khan: Window panes and doors (Rs 100,000+), which remained intact even through the troubled times of
the construction of a mosque in their village. Phulchand, Chetan, pedestal fans, tin shed, water tank and other household items Partition. Constant efforts are required to rebuild communal har-
Raju, etc led this group. This created a tension in the locality and 6. Nanhe Khan: Motor cycle, Utensils, water pipe & tape mony and normalise the situation. Religious personalities and
nearby villages and local Muslims approached elderly Hindus of 7. Resham Khan: Two fridges, two coolers, double-bed, groups from both the communities should become proactive for
the village, Sarpanch Ramsharan, local administration and bughee, washing machine, kutti machine, diesel engine, altering the social damage.
Muslim dignitaries of the area for their intervention. Meanwhile, water pipes and tapes and other household items
some activists of communal Hindu organisations also started vis- 8. Zeer Ali: Water tanks and other household items 7. Construction of the Mosque
iting the village and meddling in the issue. 9. Basit Ali: Two sewing machines and other household items The last but not the least is the issue of the construction of a
10. Babu Khan II: Doors and other household items mosque in Kalalati village. Diehard efforts are needed for making
A group of Muslims, led by Peer Ahmad Hasan, commonly conditions conducive for the desired and rightful construction of a
called as "Budhiya ke Peer", visited the village on 13 August and The event was thoroughly covered in local media and Muslims in place of worship for Muslims, failing which, it is apprehended that
settled the dispute by reaching a comprome that Muslims would various parts of the country came to know about this heinous construction of mosques anywhere in villages of the region will
undertake the desired construction only after the consent of the crime against innocent people through reports in the Urdu press. become difficult in future.
majority of local Hindus. Although Hindus demanded a written Statements of Muslim leaders of various shades started appear- Abdul Rashid Agwan
assurance to that effect but it was not conceded at that time. This ing in newspapers, which perhaps have attracted attention of the Irfan Ahmad Khan
settlement pacified the tension to a great extent. Seemingly, state administration and that of the chief minister of Haryana and Mahtab Alam
some Hindu activists did not appreciate this and started spread- various measures were subsequently taken up. First of all, an FIR Nadim Ahmad
ing a rumour that the construction of the mosque would lead to was lodged against 23 named and several anonymous miscre- 2 September 2009
killing of cows in the area, even saying that a cow-head would be ants, about 12 persons have been arrested and outsiders have
12 The Milli Gazette, 16-30 September 2009

ISSUES
Section 377: judgement background - ii
Section 377: judgement background - ii
Morality as a ground of a restriction to fundamental right
The Court has held:
(i) Enforcement of public morality does not amount to a com-
pelling State interest to justify invasion of the zone of privacy
of adult homosexuals engaged in consensual sex in private
without intending to cause harm to each other or others.
(ii) Homosexuals are entitled to respect for their private lives. The
state cannot demean their existence or control their destiny
by making their private sexual conduct a crime.
(iii) There is no pressing social need to make such acts criminal
offences.
(iv) Although the members of the public who regard homosexual-
ity as immoral may be shocked, offended or disturbed by the
commission by others of private homosexual acts, this can-
not on its own warrant the application of penal sanctions
when it is consenting adults alone who are involved.
(v) Public morality v/s constitutional morality: Popular morality or
public disapproval of certain acts is not a valid justification for
restriction of the fundamental rights under Article 21.
(vi) If there is any type of morality that can pass the test of com-
pelling State interest, it must be constitutional morality and
not public morality.
(vii) To stigmatise or criminalise homosexuals only on account of
sexual orientation would be against the constitutional morali-
ty.
(viii) Moral convictions or instinctive feeling, however strong, is
not a valid basis for overriding the individuals privacy and for
bringing within the ambit of the criminal law private sexual
behaviour of this kind.
(ix) Such laws are wrong because they oppress a minority in the
community and target them for an attribute of their nature that
they do not choose and cannot change.
(x) Such laws are wrong because they put a cohort of citizens
into a position of stigma and shame that makes it hard to
reach them with vital messages about safe sexual conduct,
essential in the age of HIV/AIDS.
(xi) Moral indignation, however strong, is not a valid basis for
overriding individuals fundamental right of dignity and priva-
cy.
(xii) The 172nd report of the Law Commission on the subject
instead shows heightened realisation about urgent need to
follow global trends on the issue of sexual offences.
(xiii) The admitted case of the Union of India that Section 377 IPC
has generally been used in cases of sexual abuse or child
abuse, and conversely that it has been hardly used in cases
of consenting adults, shows that criminalisation of adult same
sex conduct does not serve any public interest.
Section 377 violates Constitutional guarantee of equality under
article 14 of the Constitution
i) Article 14 forbids class legislation but not reasonable classifi-
cation. To pass the test of permissible classification, two con-
ditions must be fulfilled, namely, (a) that the classification
must be founded on an intelligible differentia which distin-
guishes persons or things that are grouped together from
those that are left out of the group, and (b) that the differen-
tia must have a rational relation to the object sought to be
achieved by the statute in question.
ii) Section 377 IPC makes no distinction between acts engaged
in the public sphere and acts engaged in private sphere. It
also makes no distinction between the consensual and non-
consensual acts between adults. Consensual sex between
adults does not cause any harm to anybody. Thus it is evident
that the desperate grouping in Section 377 IPC does not take
into account relevant factors such as consent, age and the
nature of or the absence of harm caused to anybody. Public
animus and disgust towards a particular social group or vul-
nerable minority is not a valid ground for classification under
Article 14. Article 377 IPC targets the homosexual communi-
ty as a class and is motivated by an animus towards this vul-
nerable class of people.
iii) The legislative object of protecting women and children has
no bearing in regard to consensual sexual acts between
adults in private. The second legislative purpose is that
Section 377 IPC serves the cause of public health by crimi-
nalising the homosexual behaviour. This purported legislative
purpose is in complete contrast to the averments in NACOs
affidavit to the effect that S-377 IPC adversely contributes to
pushing the infliction underground, make risky sexual prac-
tice go unnoticed and unaddressed. Section 377 IPC thus
hampers HIV/AIDS prevention efforts.
iv) Section IPC violates Article 14, hence is unconstitutional.
Infringement of article 15 - whether sexual orientation is a ground
analogous to “sex”
1) As per Article 15 of the Constitution of India, no discrimination
can be made on the ground of sex. Referring to some foreign judg-
ments, the Delhi High Court has held that sexual orientation (homo-
sexuality) is analogous to sex in Article 15 and discrimination on the
basis of sexual orientation is not permitted by Article 15.
Section 377 IPC not struck down but read down
The Delhi High Court has made out a case for striking down
Section 377 IPC rendering it unconstitutional, being violative of
Articles 14 and 15. Had it struck down this section completely,
homosexuality between minors also could not be an offence. But
it has read down/diluted the operation of Section 377 IPC to the
effect that homosexuality between consenting adults in private is
not a crime. It means: it will operate as such involving minors or
a non-consenting adult.
Critique of the judgement
There has been a public outcry and protest after the judgement
was pronounced on 2 July 2009. But public outcry and public reli-
gious morality, as has been elaborately discussed in the judge-
ment, is no ground to deny fundamental right to a class of citi-
zens. That way, the strong public opinion/morality has been given
a go buy. But other judgements of the Apex Court and High
Courts point otherwise where the public opinion, effect of the
judgement on society has been well considered and implement-
ed. In the instant case, it has been argued by the petitioner and
upheld by the Hon’ble Delhi Court that public morality is not the
province of criminal law. There are various judgements wherein
public morality and public opinion have weighed with the Hon’ble
judges in pronouncing the judgement. In the Parliament attack
case, a reference has been made to the public sentiment in
awarding death sentence to Afzal Guru, probably because the
legal evidence to punish him was insufficient. In the present case,
opinion/sentiment of 99 percent population has been ignored.
During the course of the hearing, it was submitted by the
Central Government that the Indian people are not mature
enough presently to accept/digest such a judgement. But, this
argument was rejected.
The judgement under discussion is based on foreign judge-
ments pronounced in the USA, UK, Japan and Canada etc. Their
concept of morality is altogether different from us, the Indians.
The Indian psyche and social millieu are altogether different. The
indigenous ethos has altogether been overlooked.
The arguments and reasons in support of the gay communi-
ty hold good for the prostitute community also. Prostitution has
been legalised in almost all Western countries giving a fillip to the
sex industry or sex business. The instant judgement has paved
the way for legalising prostitution in India also. West has been
using the issue of terrorism for its self-aggrandisement. War on
terror is in fact a tool for furthering state’s national interest.
Likewise, in the name of fighting AID/HIV, which was created out-
side India like the present swine flu, West is trying to perpetuate
its culture giving a free hand to the international drug and sex
mafia.
A very dangerous fall-out of the judgement under review is
that it has defined adults who are 18 above 18 years of age. After
18, students being in hostels, studying in colleges/universities,
may be tempted to indulge in homosexuality, thereby polluting the
academic atmosphere.
Present position
The judgement has been challenged in the Supreme Court of
India. The shaky stand of the Union of India can be judged from
the fact that it did not request an stay of the operation of the
impugned judgement. The Union Law Minister is convinced about
the propriety of the judgment. The question, whether India in all
spheres should lead Asia or be led by the superpowers, has lost
its significance. The way the case was contested in the Hon’ble
High Court by the Central Government gives a feeble hope of
success in the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India unless there is
widespread strong public protest through the nook and corner of
the country.

Concluded

Shari’ah Advisory Making Its Presence Felt In India

ndia’s premier Shari’ah advisory and consul- Indian rupees. forums and workshops organized by Islamic ond member of TASIS’ shari’ah board is Dr Iqbal

I tancy firm, Taqwaa Advisory and Shariah

Investment Solutions Pvt. Ltd (TASIS), has
been appointed for structuring, monitoring
and certifying the Shari’ah-compliance of India’s
first Shari’ah venture capital fund in real estate.
Indian capital market regulator Securities and
Exchange Board of India (SEBI), after permitting
the entry of Shari’ah-compliant mutual funds,
has now also given the nod to India’s first
Shariah-compliant venture capital fund in the
real estate sector. The fund is promoted by
Kerala-based real estate development compa-
ny, High-lite Builders. The Fund will be managed
by Secura Investment Management Company
(SIMCO) and the scheme will be called Secura
India Real Estate Domestic Scheme. Initially the
scheme is targeting 500 million Indian rupees
with a green shoe option of another 250 million
TASIS, which is at the forefront in advising
Indian corporates in matters related to Shari’ah
investments, has earlier been associated with
India’s first shari’ah complaint mutual fund
scheme. The two-year-old company is making
its mark by increasing its client base from differ-
ent sectors like insurance, venture capital,
mutual funds, real estate and others. Core com-
petence of TASIS team includes Shari’ah advi-
sory, structuring, monitoring and certification.
Key figures of the TASIS team include Dr
Shariq Nisar, Mr MH Khatkhatay, Mr Zafar
Abbas and Ms Seema Mohammed who have
been at the forefront of Islamic finance activities
in the country for the last many years. Research
papers of Mr Khatkhatay and Dr Shariq Nisar
have been published in internationally reputed
journals and presented at various international
Development Bank, Harvard Law School and
others. Ms Seema too is a contributor to indus-
try publications.
TASIS’ three-member Shari’ah Board con-
sists of eminent Shari’ah scholars from famous
Indian Islamic institutions like Darul Uloom
(Deoband), Nadwatul Ulama (Lucknow) and
Islamic Fiqh Academy (New Delhi).
he first member of the board is Mufti
T Barkatulla, a graduate of Darul Uloom
Deoband, is currently based in London
and advises a number of institutions such as
Islamic Bank of Britain and Lloyds TSB. He has
also been judge of Shari’ah Council UK. Mufti
Barkatulla has been commended by the UK
Parliament for his immense contribution to the
Islamic Finance industry in the country. The sec-
Masood Alnadwi, who has received a doctorate
in Shari’ah law from Ummul Qura University
Makkah, after his initial education at Nadwa in
Lucknow. Dr Nadwi is currently based in
Canada where he advises a number of Islamic
Finance institutions. He has been invited to par-
ticipate in Islamic Finance discourses organized
by Harvard Law School and London School of
Economics. Mufti Khalid Saifullah Rehmani, the
third member of TASIS’ Shari’ah board, is
Secretary of Delhi-based Islamic Fiqh Academy
and also a founding member of the All India
Muslim Personal Law Board. He is the Chief
Qazi of Imarat-e-Shari’ah, Andhra Pradesh
where he has delivered over two thousand judg-
ments related to Shari’ah matters of the Muslim
community in India. He has authored over two
dozen books on Islamic Fiqh.

Mysore violence: HC orders
release of 25 detainees
Bangalore: The Karnataka high court directed the authorities to
immediately release 25 persons kept in Belgaum's Hindalaga
prison. They were arrested following the July 2 communal vio-
lence in Mysore. "Body warrants cannot be considered as deten-
tion order," a division Bench headed by Justice Manjula Chellur
observed on 31 August. It granted an interim order on a habeas
corpus petition filed by P Mohammed Sameer, state council
member of Popular Front of India.
The court pulled up the authorities for filing different versions
on the arrest and re-arrest of the detenues. On August 3, the
court had directed the release of all the 160-odd persons who
were arrested following the violence. Some of them were arrest-
ed again after the release.
Restriction on scarf is unhealthy:
Karnataka Human Rights Commission
Mangalore: The issue of wearing scarf or burkha is a matter of
religion as it is a religious practice. Religious freedom has been
guaranteed by the Indian constitution where it not only address-
es merely matters of doctrine and beliefs pertaining to a religion
but also its practices, said Justice SR Nayak, Chairperson,
Karnataka State Human Rights Commission on 23 August.
Referring to the disturbances of communal harmony in the
coastal districts, Justice Nayak said that the restriction on wear-
ing scarf and burkha in Sri Venkatarama Swamy College in
Bantwal and Government College in Uppinangady is unhealthy
and not conducive to development. "If it is repeated it will lead to
the tearing of the secular fabric of our society and create dishar-
mony in the lives of the people of various faiths and religious
denominations", he added. He said that he has ordered the addi-
tional chief secretary of the home department, principal secretary
of collegiate education, inspector general of police (western
range) and deputy commissioner of the district, through the com-
mission, to submit their reports within six weeks describing the
steps and measures to promote social harmony among all reli-
gious groups.
Minority Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid has asked educa-
tional institutions to be sensitive to the concerns and feelings of
all communities especially when it comes to dress codes and
food habits. "We have to be sensitive and considerate to con-
cerns and feelings of every community. This has nothing to do
with only minority communities. We have to be careful about all
communities. I think these matters should be settled through dia-
logue and not through accusations and mistrust," he told
reporters in Hyderabad adding that "If we can live together in this
country, we should try and accommodate." (NM Salih)
 The Milli Gazette, 16-30 September 2009 13

SPECIAL REPORTS
accountable for their acts of omission and commission.In an

Human rights of important writeup 'Walls Not A Prison Make' Editor at large of
'Tehelka' Mr Ajit Sahi provides details of a case where 'Terror
accused dare to take on their brutal jailers - and win' (Vol 6, Issue

prisoners stand suspended

"What a state of society is that which knows of no better
instrument for its own defense than the hangman, and
which proclaims . . . its own brutality as eternal law? . . . Is
there not a necessity for deeply reflecting upon an alter-
ation of the system that breeds these crimes, instead of
glorifying the hangman who executes a lot of criminals to
make room only for the supply of new ones?"
- Karl Marx, 1853
SUBHASH GATADE
subhash.gatade@gmail.com
he letter sent by an undertrial Mukesh Kumar, at present
rights of con-victs in confinement ? And if there is no total eclipse
what luscent segment is open for judicial justice? Sunil Batra,
sentenced to death had challenged his incarcera-tion in solitary
confinement and Charles Sobhraj had challenged his confine-
ment with bar-fetters.
The Supreme Court held that there is no total deprivation of
a prisoner's rights of life and liberty. The "safe keeping" in jail cus-
tody is the limited juris-diction of the jailer. "To desort safe-keep-
ing into a hidden opportunity to care the ward and to traumatize
him is to betray the custodian of law, safe custody does not mean
deprivations, violation, banishment from the lanter barguet of
prison life and infliction's of travails as if guardianship were best
fulfilled by making the ward suffer near insanity."
35, Dated September 05, 2009).
The said story discusses the brutal assault on Sohail and 26
other inmates in the prison on June 28, 2008 when the jail staff
rained "...[b]lows, belts, bamboo sticks and stones on them,
smashing their heads, breaking their bones and spilling blood."
Accused of participating in terror attack in Bombay and brought to
Mumbai's Central Prison in 2006, Sohail and his fellow accused
were quickly branded traitors not just by the jail staff but also by
the "regular" prisoners and faced all-round hatred and contempt.
To cover up their attack, jail authorities claimed that the prisoners
had rioted unprovoked, shouting Pakistan Zindabad, Hindustan
Murdabad [Long live Pakistan, Down with India] and attacked the
jail staff.
Undeterred by the ongoing brutalisation Sohail with the help
of his son Saeed filed a case against the jail authorities despite
the odds and actually won a favourable ruling. As noted in the

T
lodged in Karnal Jail (Haryana) through his counsel to the
Chief Justice of India makes depressing reading. The let-
ter talks about the manner in which he was brutalised by
the Jail staff for disobeying their orders. It is learnt that the Jail
wardens compelled him to clean the toilets calling him names and
'reminding' him of his 'caste profession'. His refusal to continue
the dehumanising work led to his public thrashing and
tonsuring/shaving of his head and moustache.
According to the administration, Mukesh Kumar is one of
those persons who were arrested from different parts of Haryana
from April to June 2009 as part of the state campaign 'to curb
Maoist activity'.
Of course, any close watcher of the human rights situation in
the state would tell you that it is not for the first time that jail offi-
cials in Haryana were engaged in targetting particular section of
undertrials/detainees. Three years back Gohana, a place around
50 kms of Delhi had witnessed burning of dalit houses with the
police turning a mute spectator supposedly to avenge the death
of a Jat youth. Few dalit youths who were arrested for the death
of the Jat youth were similarly brutalised by the jail staff.
It is beyond any sane person's comprehension that when the
matter is pending before the court itself, which is deliberating on
it, then what is the rationale behind the extra enthusiasm shown
by the jail staff. It would be height of innocence to say that jail offi-
cials are ignorant about the human rights of prisoners/detainees/
undertrials. In fact, the impunity with which they operate makes it
clear that they know the wide chasm which exists between pre-
cepts and practice. It has been more than three decades that the
Supreme Court has given its verdict on it.
Responding to two separate writ petitions filed namely by
Sunil Batra and Charles Sobharaj, two prisoners in Delhi's Tihar
jail, the highest court made an intervention to humanize jail con-
ditions. As noted in a writeup 'Prisoners Rights : Some Landmark
Judgements' the question before the Court was: "Does a prison
setting, ipso facto, outlaw the rule of law, lock out the judicial
process from the jail gates and declare a long holiday for human
Despite clearcut instructions from the Supreme Court, one
discovers that brutalisation and dehumanisation of inmates at the
hands of Jail officials, is not an exception but the rule.
It was only in March 2009 that Gujarat high court ordered the
Session Judge to visit Sabarmati jail and asked him to contact the
detainees/prisoners lodged there. Responding to a petition filed
by Jan Sangharsh Manch about the alleged atrocities committed
by the jail staff on the inmates- most of whom were Muslims - it
also issued notices to Inspector General of Police (Jails) and V.
Chandrasekhar, Jail Supdt of Sabarmati Central Jail (Indian
Express, 28 th March 2009) In fact, tension between the inmates
and the jail staff flared up when one of the prisoners Yunus
Sareswala was not allowed to meet his ailing mother. In the
melee that ensued, twenty two prisoners were badly beaten up by
the jail staff(25 th March 2009).As noted in a fact finding report of
human rights activists which met with prison officials as well as
detainees and their relatives, "...[I]nmates, most of them Muslim,
who were on a hunger strike, were denied medical attention after
a brutal attack on them by jail staff, which left at least three of
them unconscious for so long as to start rumours in the city that
they had died. They were subsequently denied access to coun-
sel, their relatives were refused permission to meet them for three
days, and then the Sabarmati Police station failed to register an
FIR as sought by relatives and counsel of the victims.
A question naturally arises why one notices quantum jump in
cases of custodial human rights violations despite all talk of
humanising jail conditions. One should see it as a product of
faulty government policies and lack of transparency observed by
the powers that be. Much on the lines of United States of
America, our government also shies away from accountability in
all such matters. Figures collated at National Human Rights
Commission confirm this trend. As of now complaints which have
reached its offices have already surpassed a figure of 70,000.
While fourty percent of the complaints focusses themselves on
the police, violations of human rights inside jail comes second.
Of course, there are moments when jail officials are held
writeup : "The order of Bombay High Court judges Bilal Nazki and
AR Joshi, delivered on July 21, 2009, does not just bring justice
to Sohail and the others the prison staff brutally attacked. The rul-
ing is historic because it restores the Constitutional rights of tens
of thousands of inmates who face indignities and brutalities inside
Indian prisons without let or hindrance. It also prescribes criminal
prosecution of the jail staff for brutalising the inmates."
According to the judges: "… We have found [that] force was
used against the under trial prisoners for no fault of theirs. Force
was used excessively for extraneous reasons and [the] law was
also flouted. Even as a formality, the Jail Manual was not fol-
lowed. We, therefore, direct the Chief Secretary, State of
Maharashtra to initiate [a] disciplinary inquiry against all the
Officers involved in the incident… If need be, in addition to the
departmental inquiry, criminal action be also initiated against the
concerned Officers."
The said judgement unequivocally lays down that the jail
authorities have no authority over an inmate's life: "Once a
charge sheet has been filed, nobody has authority over the cus-
tody of an under-trial except the court... It has to be remembered
that the convicts or the under-trials are human beings and they
have to be treated like human beings. The jail authorities who
have custody over them have [a] special responsibility to protect
their rights and in fact they are their custodian, reformer and
counsellor."
"They cannot assume the role by which they turn into [a] vil-
lain. They in fact should command respect from the prisoners and
that respect should come as a result of their conduct with prison-
ers. This is no longer in debate in this country whether or not the
prisoners have fundamental rights available to them as this has
been decided in [a] number of cases by the Supreme Court."
It need be noted that the judges also slammed the Jail
Superintendent at the Central Prison, Swati Sathe, a female offi-
cer who is infamous for her brutalities among inmates.As of now
a departmental inquiry has been started against Sathe and there
are plans to seek her criminal prosecution once the departmental
inquiry is completed.

Equal Opportunity Commission discussed

NM SALIH
New Delhi: India, the most unequal society with
an alarmingly developing inequality, lacks prop-
er authority to thwart growing disparity in social
life of its people. To bridge this gap, the central
government took a positive step last year by set-
ting up an expert group headed by N R
Madhava Menon to study the possibilities to set
up an Equal Opportunity Commission (EOC).
After a detailed study, the expert group’s report
with a draft bill is already in public domain. The
government will soon bring in a law for the set-
ting up of an Equal Opportunity Commission to
help redress discrimination in both the public
and private sectors. EOC is meant to be a mon-
itoring mechanism to ensure adequate repre-
sentation for disadvantaged groups in job and
education sectors. It would range from ensuring
level playing field to fair selection processes and
treatment of employees.
The setting up of the EOC came as a part of
the Centre’s follow-up action on the Sachar
Committee’s report regarding discrimination
against Muslims. Almost all countries, which
have a pluralistic society, have commissions
which look into social discriminations.
To deliberate the issue and assist the gov-
ernment in this regard, the Indian Council of
Social Science Research (ICSSR) organised a
national consultation meet last month titled
‘Diversity, marginalisation and equal opportuni-
ty: democratising the opportunity space in India’
in New Delhi which was attended by noted aca-
demicians, social scientists and journalists.
The reports of stark inequalities and dis-
criminations in the country are frequent in news.
A recent survey indicates that 86 per cent of the
people from the North East feel discriminated
against in their own country. Justice Rajinder
Sachar had noticed similar discrimination
against the Muslim community. He wrote in his
2006 report from where the idea of EOC
emanated, "It is a well-accepted maxim in law
that not only must justice be done but it must
also appear to be done. It is in this context that
the committee recommends that an Equal
Opportunity Commission should be constituted
by the government to look into the grievances of
the deprived groups."
The blueprint for EOC is awaiting Cabinet
approval and all that remains to be done is to
get it passed by an Act of Parliament. "The
EOC’s primary aim is to create an equality
benchmark and code of fair practices for both
the public and private sectors," says Javeed
Alam, chairman ICSSR. A member of the expert
group, Alam says that the code of fair practices
would differ from sector to sector. "For instance,
the code for educational institutions would be
different from that for the housing sector or for
the police," he explains. The bill also proposes
‘equality auditing’ where the commission moni-
tors the extent to which its codes are being fol-
lowed by different sectors. After auditing, a
report will be prepared and submitted to the
EOC chairman. According to N R Madhava
Menon, Chairperson of the expert group, the
EOC will rely largely on evidence-based advo-
cacy. It would not be a chairman-centric and
can’t be influenced by regional politics. It is
meant to ensure that various under-represented
sections of society are given an equal opportu-
nity to acquire proper education and decent jobs
in private and public sectors, so the diversity of
the country can be reflected in both sectors.
"Sachar committee itself has contemplated the
scope of a wider equal opportunity commission
rather than a narrow one confined to only
Muslims," Menon asserted. EOC will be a seri-
ous attempt to address the fundamental issues
of under-representation of Muslim community
and it will be a paradigm shift, opined Prof. Zoya
Hasan, former member of the National
Commission for Minorities.
CPI (M) politburo member Sitaram Yechuri
stressed the need for legislation on it in
Parliament. "The EOC has a much more com-
plex issue to handle than those like the SC-ST
Commission, NHRC etc. Parliament needs to
legislate on it," Yechury said while expressing
his views on EOC during the workshop.
NCP general secretary DP Tripathi suggest-
ed that to thwart the ever-widening gap between
the richest and the poorest, the EOC should be
given the power and strength of a civil court.
Noticeably, Prof Kamal Mitra Chenoy’s ques-
tion, "How do you ensure equality in a country of
most billionaires and most poor," remained
unanswered in the discussion.
Social scientists and public intellectuals
expressed concern whether the body could
actually serve its intended purpose in the
absence of judicial powers as its envisaged role
was just advisory in nature. However, the partic-
ipants welcomed the proposed move for the
EOC but raised apprehensions over it turning
out to be yet another of those 13 odd chairman-
centric Commissions in the country. Exact sta-
tus of EOC’s structure and representation in it,
the private sector’s reaction to the attempt to
bring it in the public domain, political interfer-
ence, further complication of problems with the
possible emergence of new minority groups and
conflict and overlap of interest with the existing
commissions were the doubts raised in the con-
sultation meet.
The architects of the EOC, NR Madhava
Menon and Amitabh Kundu along with Satish
Deshpande, a member of the expert committee,
tried to address the concerns and doubts. The
suggestions include a constitutional amendment
to give more teeth to the EOC Act, linkage with
the university education system, clear identifica-
tion of the deprived and discriminated and dep-
rivation and discrimination, usage of income
generation instead of employment and service
delivery instead of education and coordination
with judiciary.
Priority to Muslim women: Khurshid
New Delhi: In a meeting with the delegation of
All India Democratic Women Association on 28
August, Minister for Minority Affairs Salman
Khurshid assured that the Central Government
will give priority to Muslims women. The delega-
tion led by Subhashini Ali presented the charter
of demand for Muslim Women to the Minister.
The memorandum has the signatures of about
75 thousands Muslim women. The demands
which have been made by the AIDWA are
among the priority list of Government, said Mr.
Khurshid. The AIDWA's demands include the
equal social, educational and financial rights for
Muslims women, schools with hostels in Muslim
majority areas, health centres in Muslim locali-
ties, increment in scholarships, establishment of
ITI, loan facilities for Muslim women and priority
for them in jobs.

14 The Milli Gazette, 16-30 September 2009
JAMMU & KASHMIR
Shopian continues to simmer
ife came to a standstill in south Kashmir's Shopian on
L August 20 due to a 'civil curfew' call against Chief
Minister Omar Abdullah's proposed visit to the town,
which was later cancelled in view of the development.
The 'civil curfew' was called by Majlis-e-Mashawarat, a non-
political body spearheading movement for justice for two women,
who were allegedly raped and murdered in the town, 52 km from
here, in intervening night of May 29 and 30.
Although Omar cancelled his visit to the town, all shops and
business establishments remained closed, while vehicles went
off the roads in response to announcement made through loud-
speakers of mosques early in the morning.
According to the official sources, the Chief Minister changed
his plan to visit Shopian in view of the development.
"We have called for a civil curfew to protest the visit of the
Chief Minister," said Mohammad Shafi Khan, spokesman Majlis-
e-Mashawarat.
He said Omar was scheduled to inaugurate a stadium in
close vicinity of the area from where 17-year -old Asiya and her
22-year-old sister-in-law Neelofar Jan went missing before their
"brutal and barbaric" killing.
"The inauguration of the stadium by the Chief Minister is like
rubbing salt on our wounds. The culprits of the victims are still at
large," said Khan.
However, the Jammu and Kashmir High Court on August 28
gave its nod to government's decision to hand over Shopian
probe to Central Bureau of Investigations [CBI].
The Division Bench headed by Chief Justice Barin Ghosh
said they would not come in the way if government wanted to
hand over the probe to CBI.
The Bench had earlier reserved its decision after question-
ing SIT investigation about alleged rape and murder of two
Shopian women.
Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has reiterated his determina-
tion to unearth the facts of Shopian incident assuring severe
punishment to culprits. "Nobody involved in covering or perpetu-
ating to cover up the heinous crime will be tolerated," he assert-
ed and said there was no let up in strong will of government to
punish the culprits.
The probe into rape and murder of two women has hit anoth-
er roadblock as DNA analysis of hair recovered from a police van
didn't match with either of the victims or the police officials
arrested in connection with the case.
The hair was recovered by SIT, constituted by Jammu and
Kashmir High Court, from a police vehicle, from which cries of
women were heard on May 29, as claimed by two witnesses
before a magistrate.
The SIT was directed by the High Court to send the hair for
DNA analysis and find out whether it matched with the victims or
the four police officials, including the then Superintendent of
Police Javed Mattoo, arrested in connection with the case.
The Central Forensic Science Laboratory stated that DNA of
hair neither matched with two women nor with any of the police
officials accused in the case, official sources said today.
Earlier, the probe came to a standstill when it came to light
that key forensic evidence comprising slides of the vaginal
swabs didn't match with the victims.
The SIT headed by Farooq Ahmed, at present Inspector
General of Police (Kashmir), had sent these to CFSL for making
a DNA profile of the tissue cells present in slides. The CFSL
made attempts to compare vaginal swabs with that of viscera
and blood samples of the two victims but it didn't match, sources
said, prompting the CFSL officials to conclude that slides said to
be prepared from vaginal swab of victims were actually drawn
from some other women.
The bodies of Asiya and Neelofar were recovered from a
stream on May 30 after they went missing, sparking massive
protests by locals who suspected the hand of security personnel
in alleged rape and murder.
The Members of Independent Women's Initiative for Justice
in Shopian [MIWIJS], a Delhi-based women's group comprising
of women from different professions, on August 29, while accus-
ing authorities of "deliberately misdirecting" investigations in the
Shopian case said "the case was being systematically covered-
up."
Usha Ramanathan, MIWIJS member said post-mortem lying
with Criminal Investigation Department officials contradicted the
one forwarded by doctors to Chief Medical Officer, Shopian.
"The DIG CID, Abdul Gain Mir showed us a copy of post
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mortem report in which there is no mention of floating test being
conducted. However, they refused to give us a copy of it. But the
authentic post mortem report has a clear mention of the test
which rules out drowning. We wonder how many post mortem
reports are being circulated."
Army officer’s immunity dismissed
In its recent judgment the Apex Court has not only dismissed
Special Leave Petition [SLP] but upholds the order of High Court
of Jammu and Kashmir asking Col. Kishore Malhotra to make
himself available before Special Investigation Team [SIT] so that
investigation into disappearance of Jana's husband, Manzoor
Ahmad, could be completed.
"Upholding the High Court order, which has directed Col.
Malhotra to appear before Senior Superintendent of Police [SSP]
for investigation, who is the chief investigation officer of the
team, the appeal had been dismissed by the Supreme Court on
August 24," says Jana and her daughter Bilkis.
According to SLP No: 23370 - 71 of 2008, titled Union Of
India versus Musmat Jana and others, the Union of India has
challenged the orders dated 5-06-2008 and 10-07-2008 of the
High Court of Jammu and Kashmir.
"The High Court had directed Chief Judicial Magistrate
[CJM] Budgam for holding an enquiry and the CJM has indicted
Colonel Malhotra for disappearing Manzoor," says the mother-
daughter duo.
They said that the High Court had constituted a Special
Investigation Team [SIT] for conducting investigation. "On 10-07-
2008, the court had observed that Col. Malhotra, currently post-
ed at Brigade Headquarter Drass, should appear before the SSP
Srinagar, the investigating officer. Instead of appearing before
the SSP Srinagar, the SLP was filed before the Supreme Court,"
they said.
Expressing satisfaction over the judgment, Jana says, "Now
I expect justice. So far no one has got even such relief." Her
daughter, Bilkis adds, "We express our thanks to Gautam
Navlakha and Prasad Bushan, senior advocate Supreme Court
for the support they've extended to us."
Jana's husband, Manzoor Ahmad Dar was arrested on
January 19, 2002 by a contingent of 35 Rashtriya Rifles led by
Col. Malhotra.
Jana said that contention made in the appeal was that sum-
moning of armed forces in relation to discharge of his duty under
Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act [AFSPA] 1990, as an
accused, will amount to institution of prosecution requiring sanc-
tion from the central government, under section 7 of AFSPA.
However, the plea made by her counsel, according to Jana, was
that merely appearing before investigating team doesn't amount
to prosecution requiring sanction. "Once the investigation is
complete and final report is filed before the magistrate and if
magistrate after taking cognizance of said report issued sum-
mons to accused, it is at this stage prosecution starts and war-
rants sanction."
Pervez Imroz, patron Coalition of Civil Society says, "It is
appreciable judgment. The Supreme Court has dismissed
impunity atleast upto investigation."
Two sit-ins by disappeared persons
A seminar and a sit-in were held here by two factions of
Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons [APDP] on
August 30 with international day of disappeared being observed
across the globe.
Wailing and shrieking; scores of women
and men appeared at Pratap Park and
expressed dismay over continued disap-
pearance of their dear ones. As they narrat-
ed their ordeal, the whole atmosphere
turned somber.
Tasleema Bano, one of the members
regretted that there is no relief for them from
any quarter. Bano, a young widow, says
"officials as well as people from non govern-
ment organizations have evil motives when-
ever she approaches them for assistance."
Her husband, Nazir Ahmad Decka, a
perfume seller was picked up by "a number-
less white gypsy, four years ago." Two years
later Decka's body was exhumed together
with four others at Ganderbal.
Relatives of JKLF chief Yasin Malik welcome his Pakistani bride at Srinagar on 6 Sept.
WORD OF MOUTH
Sharing her views, Parveena Ahangar, President of her fac-
tion of APDP, said that Bano's husband has now been framed as
'surrendered militant'.
She however, said that the Association is hopeful to get jus-
tice and that would be 'Eid' [a day of celebration] for all of us.
"We don't want money or job or SRO-43. We want to know
the whereabouts of our missing children," she says.
Some other family members of the Association also put for-
ward their view point.
Religious clerics threw light on "half widows and orphans - A
way forward in Islamic jurisprudence" during a day-long seminar
organized by another faction of APDP.
"A fatwa [decree] can be issued by Qazi [Shariah court] after
four years of rigorous search by woman, the whereabouts of
whose husband are unknown, that the disappeared person is
presumed to be dead and the said woman can re-marry," says
Mufti Yaqoob.
Gautam Navlakha, noted human rights activist and journal-
ist, said that International convention on enforced disappear-
ances was passed by United Nations General Assembly in 2007
with India being one of the signatories.
He said that state government on the floor of assembly said
that 3,428 cases have been recorded by Home department. "If
government is sincere then they should come out with informa-
tion in these cases and it would be known who has been made
to disappear by whom. This would even encourage silent ones
to come forward and lodge their complaint."
First art gallery to come up in Valley
First ever art gallery is expected to come up in Kashmir valley
soon while as another one would come in near future.
"The work is in progress. It will come up within few days.
We've taken up a building at Lal Mandi and soon the art gallery
would be set up," says Dr. Javaid Rahi, Cultural Officer, Jammu
and Kashmir Academy of Art, Culture and Languages
(J&KAACL).
Rahi said that about one thousand art objects and paintings
have been dumped in the strong room [where temperature is
maintained and paintings are carefully kept in racks], here.
He says that an art gallery exists at Kala Kendra in Jammu.
"The upcoming art gallery would help local as well as artists from
outside the state to exhibit their paintings; manuscripts would be
displayed; photographers would put their photos on display and
gallery would be used by sculptors as well. There would also be
a seating arrangement for 100-150 people."
Another proposal regarding construction of modern gallery
at Srinagar is under submission to state government. "Chief
Minister Omar Abdullah has agreed to establish this gallery at
Tehzeeb Mahal here. It would be the state-of-art building com-
prising of art galley, sculptor garden, coffee shop, machines for
cutting stones to be used by sculptors," says the cultural officer
adding "old Assembly complex would be dedicated for Tehzeeb
Mahal."
He says that the Academy organizes various art camps,
annually. "Generally, art and painting camps are held at
Gulmarg, Pahalgam and Patnitop. There is no sculptor garden
here."
He added that art in Kashmir has historical significance and
renowned artists like M. F Hussain and J Swaminathan have vis-
ited Kashmir.


BJP/Jaswant Singh’s book on Jinnah
Arun Shourie's outrageous admission that he was more worried
about the effect of Gujarat Riots on Vajpayee than about the
Gujarat carnage itself and by his own confession, that it was pret-
ty inhuman of him, is rarest of rare glimpse of the inner rot in our
intellectuals. The audacity of the man is chilling. The incident
shows how humanly great Vajpayee is and how he was hemmed in
by pygmies. On the other hand, the contradictions in Shourie's life
is galore. The way he puts down BJP and calls on RSS to take
over, shows he has absolutely no reservation about the fascist ide-
ology of the Sangh Parivar and its poisonous ingress in Indian poli-
ty. That would be a second show of his gross inhumanity.
Ghulam Muhammed, Mumbai
ghulammuhammed3@gmail.com
II
How is it that when Advani and Jaswant Singh are at loggerheads
Vajpayeeji is totally silent? Does this not strike our so 'vigilent' and
'concerned' media also? S. Akhtar, Khanpur Deh (Bharuch) -
392150
III
Senior BJP leader and former Finance, Defence and Foreign
Minister Jaswant Singh in his book Jinnah: India, Partition,
Independence blames Nehru etc for India's Partition. Former
Congress President and Central Minister Maulana Azad has also
expressed such views in his bok "India Wins Freedom". In true con-
text of history to blame only Muslims for India's partition is unjust.
The primary responsibility rests on the leaders of Congress and
Hindu Mahasabha. Many eminent Hindu and Sikh scholars, lead-
ers, jurist and Educationist C.L. Sitalward, author and Journalist
Khushwant Singh etc. are of the same opinion. I would like to say
that the 2-nation theory was not the brain child of Jinnah. RN
Agarwal has recorded in his well known book The National
Movement that "V.D. Savarkar was freely preaching the gospel of
Hindu Rashtra. Savarkar said that India was inhabited not by a
homogeneous nation but by two nations, Hindus and Muslims." In
1923, V.D. Sarvarkar wrote in his book "Hindutva" and propogated
the ideology of "Hindutva" and two-nation theory with vehemence.
Jinnah borrowed this idea from Savarkar in late Nineteen Thirties.
Savarkar was not alone in this line of thinking. Many eminent con-
gress leaders had supported Savarkar. In 1924, top Congress
leader Lala Lajpat Rai had openly advocated the idea of India's
partition which was opposed by Muslims including Jinnah who was
still a Congress leader working for Hindu-Muslim unity.
Open letter to Manmohan Singh
Dr. Manmohan Singh
Hon'ble Prime Minister of India
September 8, 2009, 1.02am
Dear Dr Manmohan Singh.
I had written a small article in The Hindustan Times in June
2004. It was called 'Come Shoot Me: I am a Terrorist'. It was to
express my anguish on Ishrat Jahan's killing in Gujarat.
The Magisterial Enquiry, which is mandatory in every encounter
case (and which was never done in the Batla House encounter)
has finally termed Ishrat jahan's killing as a fake encounter on
7 September in a metropolitan court. It is not a matter of sur-
prise for us as we knew that she was killed in cold blood.
Perhaps you will also agree that such things are happening and
happened in Gujarat under Modi. But I am not writing to talk
about how bad Modi is.
I am writing this to ask you a small favour. I know you have
absolutely hectic schedules and thousands of issues to handle
so I am putting down here the facts, gathered from various
media reports. On June 15, 2003, the Ahmedabad city crime
branch, then headed by the now jailed IPS officer D G Vanzara,
shot four young people -Ishrat Jahan, Javed Shaikh alias
Pranesh Pillai, Amjad Ali Rana and Jisan Johar. It was propa-
gated that these four young people were alleged Lashkar-e-
Toiba (LeT) operatives who were allegedly on mission to kill
chief minister Narendra Modi.
Ishrat, was a 19-year old student of Khalsa College in Mumbra,
a Mumbai suburb.
Ishrat's mother filed a petition in the high court in 2004 demand-
ing death compensation and a CBI probe. Ishrat Jahan's moth-
er's Petition alleged that it was a fake encounter as one of the
many that the present government regime in Gujarat headed by
Narendra Modi had done to achieve Political Mileage to publicly
create panic and sympathy that the Chief Minister was sought
to be assassinated.
The crime branch carried out the operation and the same
agency conducted investigation. When the petition was heard
by Justice KS Jhaveri , he immediately proposed, almost on line
taken by the Supreme Court in the infamous Sohrabuddin fake
encounter case, for which Vanzara was jailed along with other
policemen, that a five-member team - all of the rank of addition-
al DGP - should probe this case. The encounter was done by the
infamous D. G. Vanzara and his team who are presently arrest-
ed under Orders of the Hon'ble Supreme Court in the case of
fake encounter of Sohrabuddin and his wife Kausarbi.
Sohrabuddin's encounter has been admitted by the state to be
fake and recently on 11/08/2008, they have agreed to deposit an
amount of Rs. 10.00 Lakhs as interim ex-gratia compensation
for being paid to the Kith and Kin of the two.There are alleged-
ly 28 encounters which were fake and have been covered up.
In Ishrat Jahan's matter the CBI was impleaded as a Party and it
took a stand that if the Court so orders they are willing to carry
out fresh investigations and unearth the truth. Such stand trig-
gered panic with the State Government and it seems even with
some Officers of Central Home Ministry. After UPA came to
power some tainted CBI officers placed in Gujarat during the
NDA with questionable track record were removed after a lot of
pressure and almost two years but they soon found plush posi-
tions in Delhi under UPA regime.
To our dismay we realized last month through the media reports
Read more letters on page 31 and on MG website. Readers who do not want their email IDs printed should indicate so in every letter
The idea of Pakistan was
first mooted by some
Muslim students of
Cambridge University, London in 1932 which was dismissed by
Jinnah. It took 7 years for the idea to find favour with Jinnah. When
Congress assumed office under the Act of 1935, it dealt unjustly
with Muslims and made them hostile. In this background Pakistan
resolution was passed by Muslim League in 1939. Till 1947, ardent
protagonist of 2-nation idea were Pundit Nehru, Sardar Patel and
Dr. Rajendra Prasad. Later on Mahatma Gandhi also surrendered
before them. Only Maulana Azad had opposed partition vehement-
ly. His book India Wins Freedom bears testimony to these facts. In
the light of above facts Savarkar, Nehru, Patel Jinnah, all were
responsible for India's partition.
G. Hasnain Kaif, Azad ward, Bhandara, Maharashtra 441904
IV
Jinnah was neither a secularist nor a communalist. He was an
opportunist to the core. Dr. Rafiq Zakaria in his book The Man Who
Divided India has painted a perfect portrait of Jinnah. We the
Muslims of India should always remember that most of the prob-
lems we are facing today are firmly rooted in the partition of the
country perpetuated on us by a man called Mohammed Ali Jinnah
and a party called Muslim League. Having said that it is equally
true that Nehru and Patel did make some grave mistakes during
that period paving the way for partition. I have been reading the
book written by Jaswant Singh and I am of the view that it is a very
well researched and very well written book. I have read nearly 150
pages so far but I have not come across anything new so far.
Whatever he has said about Gandhi, Jinnah, Nehru and Patel that
has already been said and written by several historians and
authors before. One thing that makes Jasawnt's book different from
others is the fact that he belonged to BJP which is considered to be
an ultra nationalist or communalist party by many. The importance
of this book lies in those questions which Jaswant has raised in this
book and which have a bearing on the present and future of entire
Indian subcontinent. Most people have not read the book so far
and heavily relying on the information provided by the media.
Media is very selective in its approach. It has taken out certain
paragraphs and sentences from the book without telling in what
context they have been written. I believe every thinking individual
should read this book and derive his or her own conclusions. This
is what we do in case of other important books.
Prof. Obaid Siddiqui m_obaid_siddiqui@hotmail.com
V Communism and fascism
On 29th August, a press meet was organised by RSS where its
that the Ministry of Home Affairs in an affidavit stated that
Ishrat, Javed and two others Jisan Johar and Amjad Ali Rana
were all operatives of Pakistan-based terror group Lashkar-e-
Toiba.
Maintaining that the four were terrorists, the Union government
told the high court, "No proposal for CBI investigation is under
consideration of the Centre nor does it consider the present
case fit for CBI probe."
Moreover, the Centre claimed that there is no question of inde-
pendent inquiry, as an additional DGP (CID & Intelligence) had
carried out an independent probe into the incident and the offi-
cer is neither working with crime branch nor is he a subordinate
to the crime branch, which carried out the operation and later
investigated the case itself."
If you remember Hon'ble prime Minister when I met you regard-
ing the Package for the Gujarat 2002 victims along with other
activists from Gujarat I had jokingly said, "The news that UPA
has replaced NDA at the centre has not reached your Home
Ministry as yet'. I had said this precisely in the connection of
how the tainted officers promoted by the BJP were still being
pampered under the UPA.
The reason behind filing of the Affidavit by the Central
Government was to dissuade the Court from appointing a
strong S I T and give a message that even the Central
Government had approved the act of fake encounter. But for the
magisterial enquiry the Central Home Ministry had left no stone
unturned to prove that Ishrat deserved to be killed.
The logic used always is what will happen to the morale of the
officers. My question is what happens to the morale of the offi-
cers when they torture innocent young people, when they kill
them, when they illegally detain them, beat them. What happens
to their morale then? Do they just go home and sleep?
Why don't we as nation stop playing the farce of being a secu-
lar nation and why don't we remove the article from the consti-
tution which says all citizens are equal?
The affidavit filed by the Home Ministry is a proof of the fact that
in Ishrat Jahan's fake encounter case UPA has connived with
the Gujarat government in a blatantly communal manner. With 3
days to go before assembly bye election in 7 seats in Gujarat 5
more innocent boys have been picked up in Baroda and
declared' terrorists'. I do not know if this letter will be also lost
on the way and find itself in a dustbin as I have never received
any acknowledgment from your office, so I will be forced to cir-
culate it to others to lodge a strong protest against this blatant
connivance of the Home Ministry with the Gujarat government.
My request to you is that if your government has any political
will then please ask your home ministry to tender a public apol-
ogy for filing the affidavit against the innocent girl who was so
brutally murdered. It requires some courage and conviction.
You are fond of poetry. Faiz ke chand lines apki nazar kar rahi
hoon: Tujh ko kitnon ka lahoo chahiye ae arz-i-watan, Jo tiray
arz-i-berang ko gulnaar karein / Kitni aahon se kaleja tira than-
da hoga, Kitne aansoo tiray sehraon ko gulzaar karein
(The blood of how many do you need O motherland;That which
will brighten your colourless earth; How many sighs will soothe
your heart; How many tears will cause your deserts to bloom.)
Sincerely Yours
Shabnam Hashmi
Member, National Integration Council, New Delhi
anhad.delhi@gmail.com
The Milli Gazette, 16-30 September 2009 15
REJOINDERS / OPINION
chief Mohan Bhagwat answered media’s questions regarding
Jaswant Singh’s expulsion from BJP, his book, Sudhindhra
Kulkarni’s statement about cash-for-vote that it was not himself but
some other BJP leader and Jaswant's statement that Advani was
in the centre of cash-for-vote scandal, etc. Whole media said that
RSS wanted Advani & Rajnath to quit and that it has decided their
substitutes. Even then RSS says that it does not interfere in BJP’s
affairs. Does RSS think every Indian is a fool and media too is a
bunch of fools? If RSS does not interfere then why so much fuss
about the meetings between BJP leaders and RSS chief?
On 29th August “Muqabla” discussion on NDTV India, RSS
spokesperson Ram Madhav, Congress’s Manish Tiwari, CPM’s
leader Sitaram Yetury and others participated. When the anchor
asked, why not the RSS openly takes over the BJP, Sitaram
Yechury replied that after the death of Mahatma Gandhi, RSS was
banned and to lift the ban RSS gave an assurance to Patel, then
Home Minister, that RSS will never take part in politics. In reply to
another question Manish Tiwari, said that Gandhiji’s murder
charges makes RSS think that people will not accept RSS.
Through MG, I request Sitaram Yechury and Manish Tiwari to write
a book on the factual history of RSS. Till today no leading
Congress leader touched this issue. S. Haque, Patna
VI
The BJP seems to be the victim of failures in the last two elections.
Despite all hyped campaign of feel good, India Shinning and strong
leader, the overconfident BJP lost though not by huge margin but
certainly was forced to stay away from power. During this period
the power hungry party seems to have tried doing different things
right from applauding the Jinnah to trying people with communal
refrain. This time again in 2009, the BJP did badly, since the peo-
ple had an obvious choice the secular and stable government. The
frustrated BJP members had nothing but to behave in the most
crazy ways, since couple of months of election result declaration,
the party seems to have shattered with the senior leaders venting
out their frustration either rebelling or airing views which are harsh
for any party to accept and that in a public domain. The crisis went
to such an extent, the confused leaders of the BJP expelled
Jaswant for wrong reasons which they couldn't even were able to
justify, and this naive acts keep happening, with Shourie calling the
party a Kati Patang, the Vasundra Raje not ready to resign etc etc.
I guess this is the beginning when the BJP out of frustration and
dismay falling to such an incredible extent, what more can we
expect from a party which is founded on the agenda of
Md Ziyaullah Khan,Mehrauli, New Delhi
writeziya@gmail.com
VII
The famous poet Meer has long been said: "Meer kia sada hain
huye beemar jiske awaz usi attar ke laonde se dawa lete hain." The
Vishal Indian nation has categorically rejected the BJP agenda
which was based on anti minority plank. What a pity a seasoned
politician is again approaching the old veterinary doctor for treat-
ment. He will do nothing but an animal dose which he gave in the
last fifty years. Advani instead of taking the same old medicine
which increases the disease he should refer the modern doctors
and specialists. He should kick start a new Rath Yatra with his con-
fidential colleagues and intellectuals of all sections of the public
and all religious scholars spent one or two months for this purpose
then form a new party, on healthy and broad minded grounds.
Those who do not have light in their brains how can they guide you
Mr. Advani. If you follow the advice of Mohan Bhagwat. The coun-
try will disintegrate. Dr. Abdul Hameed Maqdoomi, Gulbarga
drmaqdoomi@yahoo.com
VIII
Jinnah: India, Partition, Indipendence by Mr. Jaswant Singh has
opened Pandora's Box after 62 years of partition. Some people say
that it was British and their policy of "Divide and Rule," others say
that it was "Jinnah and Muslim League." Some others say that it
was Congress led by Gandhi -Nehru and Patel was responsible for
the division of Indian Subcontinent. After such a long period there
is no unanimity amongst historians and intellectuals as to who is
the real culprit of partition. In my humble opinion, it was Hinduism
(Read Upper Cast Hindus or to be precise "Brahminism "), respon-
sible for the partition, as Congress was too heavily dominated by
upper caste Hindus which discriminated against the Muslims. In
other words the attitude of upper caste Hindus was not normal
towards the muslims. It was this attitude or behaviour of upper
caste Hindus that alienated the Muslims from the mainstream.
Muslims felt that they will never get justice by upper caste Hindus.
They will be butchered like animals once Britishers left. This ulti-
mately led to the partition. Farooq Abdul Gaffar Bawani, Gujrat
mohammad.galeriya@yahoo.co.in
IX
The BJP must rise to the big role
A robust and responsible opposition is the need of the viable and
stable democracy. Barring the NDA, all non-UPA parties have
abandoned their role as the opposition and have lined up with
unwanted and unconditional support to the UPA. This makes BJPs
role so much more important. The party should not renege on its
role. It should cry a halt to the current infighting, rewind to the day
the election results poured in. It should repeal all the unjustifiable
puraskars and punishments meted out by the muddle-headed high
command; must reconvene its baithak, this time among equals;
trace the steps backwards to do some honest and meticulous
analysis of what went wrong. The partys challenging and thorny
problem is to throw up a leader of Vajpayees stature, who can lead
and be acceptable to all. That can wait a while. Priority is introspec-
tion and analysis, pinpointing maladies and charting the path
ahead. The answers must come from within. Outsourcing advice
and remedies reduces the partys credibility as an inclusive political
force. What the hopelessly divided party needs at the present junc-
ture is a totem to rally around. These two leaders should play just
that role before bowing out. The party, unlike in the 14th Lok
Sabha, must rise to play a constructive role in opposition and pre-
pare for the 2014 general elections.
Dr Mookhi Amir Ali,Santacruz West, Munbai
drmookhi@hotmail.com
16 The Milli Gazette, 16-30 September 2009

NEWSMAKERS
MEN & WOMEN IN NEWS
Prof IMRAN SALEEM, a former professor at
Aligarh Muslim Univesity, who is presently at
Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi has been appointed
Vice Chancellor of Singhania University. It may
be mentioned incidentally that he belongs to
Vohramafi village in Aligarh district. This small
village has acquired national fame because
probably maximum number of intellectuals and
professionals like doctors, professors, medical
college doctors, lecturers, readers etc live here.
Prof Imran Saleem, after taking 6 years leave
from AMU in 2006, joined Jamia Hamdard.
Taking 6 years leave from AMU indicates that he
has not resigned but maintains his lien in AMU
which he may rejoin after 6 years.
MAHMOODUL HASAN, a senior advocate was
unanimously elected president of Nuh District
Bar Association at Nuh (Haryana) on 19 August.
Prof MOHAMMAD HAMIDUDDIN of AMU's
mechanical engineering has been appointed
new Dean of the University's Faculty of
Engineering & Technology for a period of two
years. He has taken over the charge from outgo-
ing Dean, Prof A.K. Gupta.
Prof FURQAN QAMAR, advisor in the Planning
Commission has been
appointed Vice Chancellor of
Rajasthan (Jaipur) University
by governor S.K. Singh. Born
in Ghazipur (UP) in 1960, he
started his career as a teacher
in Lucknow's Christian
College. He was also a profes-
sor of Management Studies in Jamia Millia
Islamia, New Delhi. He is an author of two books
and has also completed many research projects.
Prof Dr TABASUM SHAHAB of the Department
of Children's Diseases in AMU's J.N. Medical
College has been appointed Nodal Officer for
the scholarships of minorities, scheduled castes,
scheduled tribes and backward classes by Vice
Chancellor Prof P.K. Abdul Azis with immediate
effect till further orders.
NAWAB KAZIM ALI KHAN alias NAVED MIAN,
MLA from Tanda (Rampur) has been appointed
a member of UP Madrasa Education Board by
UP government. UP Assembly's chief secretary,
Pradeep Kumar Dubey in a letter to Nawab
Kazim Ali Khan informed him about UP govern-
ment's decision.
Supreme Court collegium headed by Chief
Justice of India K.G. Balakrishnan has approved
the appointment/elevation of 10 senior judges of
different High Courts. With this, Justice
IBRAHIM KHALIFULLA of Madras High Court
has been recommended for being appointed as
Chief Justice of Himachal Pradesh High Court.
Justice SYED RAFAT ALAM of Allahabad High
Court has been recommended for appointment
as Chief Justice of Madhya Pradesh High Court
and Justice BILAL NAZKI of Bombay High
Court has been recommended for being
appointed as Chief Justice of Orissa High Court.
Their formal appointments will be made by
President Pratibha Patil.
NAJEEB JUNG, a former IAS officer in the min-
istry of oil and natural gas, has been appointed
Vice Chancellor of Jamia Millia Islamia, New
Delhi in place of Prof Mushirul Hasan.
Describing his appointment as VC as a big chal-
lenge, he told media persons that he dreams of
making Jamia Millia an international university.
He is doing Ph D in energy economics from
Oxford University.
President Pratibha Patil in her capacity as Visitor
of Banaras Hindu University has nominated
PROFESSOR SYED IQBAL ALI, Principal,
University Polytechnic, Aligarh Muslim
University as the Member of the Court of
Banaras Hindu University for a term of three
years.
PROF. M. HAYAT, Dept. of Zoology, Aligarh
Muslim University has been appointed as a col-
laborator to the project on Hymenoptera, one of
the priority areas of research under AICOPTAX,
Ministry of Environment and Forests,
Government of India. Prof. M. Hayat will be
working under a Steering Committee coordinat-
ed by Dr. T. C. Narendran, Professor Emeritus,
Zoological Survey of India along with two Junior
Research Fellows on his disposal.
Ms ASMA FAZILAT has been conferred PhD
Degree by Central University, Hyderabad for her
treatise on Gulbarga's popular poet 'Critical
review of Naseer Ahmad Naseer's poetry' which
she completed under the supervision of Dr Baig
Ehsas, President of the Department of Urdu of
this University.
Prof Gulam Mohammed Sheikh, an interna-
tionally renowned painter, writer and art critic
has been selected for the Kerala government's
Raja Ravi Varma Award-2008 in recognition of
his outstanding contribution to art and culture.
The award consists of a purse of Rs 1.25 lakh
and a specially designed statuette. Announcing
the award, State Minister for Culture and
Education M A Baby said Prof Sheikh who was
teacher at M S University, Baroda, for three
decades had made significant contributions to
the growth and development of Indian Painting.
Prof. Sheikh was born in Surendranagar,
Gujarat in 1937 and studied painting at the
Faculty of Fine Arts, Baroda and the Royal
College of Art, London. (Afsana Rashid)
Society and he was also associated with many
OBITUARIES
DR. SYED MEHMOOD NAQVI, FNA, doyen of
modern geochem-
istry and an alum-
nus of the Geology
Department, AMU,
breathed his last
on 4 September,
2009 at Hyderabad
after a massive
heart attack.
Though he was
seriously ill for last
few days, his death
came as a great shock. In the span of his
research, he has covered a wide spectrum of
topics in precambrian geology and made signif-
icant contribution in each of them. Dr. Syed
Mehmood Naqvi was born in Amroha in 1942.
He did his B.Sc. in 1967 and M.Sc. (Geology) in
1969 from Aligarh Muslim University and com-
pleted his Ph.D. under the guidance of Late
Prof. Fakhruddin Ahmad in 1973. He was
awarded Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar Award in
1983, APCOST Award in 1986, National Mineral
Award in 1992, INSA Fellowship in 1986,
Decennial Award of the Indian Geophysical
Union in 2001, Fellow of the Andhra Pradesh
Academy of Science in 2001 and National
Mineral Award for Excellence in 2006. Dr. Naqvi
published more than 260 research papers on
Indian plate in national and international jour-
nals. He was most cited geoscientist of India.
Dr. Naqvi supervised about 40 PhD theses and
published six books
on Precambrian rocks of Indian shield. Dr. Naqvi
held several prestigious positions including
Director, National Geophysical Research
Institute, Hyderabad, Vice-President of Mining
and Metallurgical Society of India, Secretary,
Geological Society of India, Fellow, Geophysical
Union, Chairman, INSA Committee for
International Commission on lithosphere and
Vice President, Indian Association of Applied
Geochemists.
Prof NIZAMUDDIN S. GORIKAR, a prominent
Urdu scholar, teacher and poet died at Kalyan,
near Mumbai on 1 August after a brief illness at
the age of 88 years. Born in Bhiwandi in 1921,
he started his professional career as a teacher.
He served as Professor of Urdu, Persian and
Islamic Studies at Mumbai's St Xavier's College
for about 40 years and retired from there in
1982. He worked mostly in Educational Uplift
educational institutions like Bhiwandi's Ghulam
Momin College (for girls), Anjuman-e Islam
Research Institute, Mumbai, Kokan Muslim
Education Society's Women's College,
Bhiwandi etc. He also wrote a number of books
like Tootian-e Hind (Urdu), Fikr-o Nazar, Urdu-
Marathi Shabd Kosh (dictionary), Maharashtra
main Urdu ka Maqaam. He also wrote books in
English on Urdu literature and Indo-Iran Cultural
Relations.
HAIDAR WARSI, a former minister of Bihar died
at his residence in Patna on 22 August after a
brief illness. He was 90 and is survived by one
son and 4 daughters.
ABDUL WAHID KHAN, oldest person of
Najibabad and a former teacher of Jamia Millia
Islamia died on 31 August at the age of 101
years. He is survived by his widow, three sons
and four daughters.
HAJI MOHAMMAD SAMI KHAN, noted social
worker and religious scholar of Rampur died on
28 August after a prolonged illness. After retire-
ment from service in 1980 he devoted himself to
religious activities, particularly tabligh. He was
89 and is survived by four sons.
ABDUL KHALIQ, a senior freedom fighter and
a soldier in Subhash Chandra Base's Azad Hind
Fauj died at his ancestral home in Jaunpur dis-
trict of UP on 18 May. In Singapur he had met
Subhash Chandra Bose along with his 11 col-
leagues and joined Azad Hind Fauj. He was 90.
He was buried at his ancestral home with full
state honour in the presence of a large number
of people including former governor of
Arunachal Pradesh, Mata Parasad and newly
elected MP from Jaunpur, Dhananjay Singh.
MOHAMMAD YAMEEN QURAISHI, a popular
and prominent social worker of
Miranpur died at his home on 22 May. He was
neither a Qari nor Hafiz
but his style of reciting Quran was so beautiful
and attractive that people from distant places
used to come to him to listen to his recitation of
Quran, which was in fact a God-given gift to him
and left the audience spell-bound.
AL HAJ MUSHTAQ AHMAD VAZIRI, a well-
known businessman in field of
carpets at Bhadohi died at Delhi's Batra
Hospital on 20 May. Jamiat Ahl-e Hadith's gen-
eral secretary Maulana Asghar Ali Imam Mehdi
Salafi while paying tributes to him said that he
was a deeply religious person and used to liber-
ally help Islamic madrasas, religious institutions
especially Jamiat Ahl-e Hadith etc spread all
over the country. He is survived by two sons and
three daughters.

AWARDS DR. ASAD ALI KHURSHID, Senior Lecturer,

MESSRS ALLANASONS LTD, Mumbai, an industry in the field of
food processing was honoured with the prestigious Platinum
Trophy Award for its excellent performance in the export of
processed foods during the years 2007-08 and 2008-09.
CHOWDHARY MOHAMMAD KAMIL
QURESHI, chairman of M.K. Group of
Companies which includes eight different
companies, was honoured with Golden
Trophy Award for good performance in the
export of processed foods during the above-
mentioned two years. The Trophy was in fact
won by M.K. Overseas (P) Ltd, New Delhi,
one of the constituents of the larger M.K. Group of Companies
along with some other companies in this field. The Golden Trophy
Award was given to Chowdhary Kamil Qureshi as the Chairman
of M.K. Overseas (P) Ltd. The Awards in the form of trophies were
sponsored by APEDA (Agricultural & Processed Food Products
Export Development Authority) and given at a function held at
Hotel Maurya, New Delhi on 18th August.
GUL-E SURKHAB of Kashmir won two bronze medals in two
separate games i e Duo
Women and Jujitsu
Women events in 62 kg
category in the 1st Asian
Martial Arts games 2009
organised by Olympic
Council of Asia at
Bangkok (Thailand) from
1 to 9 August. With this
feat she has become the
first J & K and Indian
woman to win two bronze
medal in individual
events. She was selected
by All India Jujitsu
Olympic Association of
India to participate in
these games. She has
also won many state and
national awards.
Department of Persian, Aligarh Muslim
University has been nominated for President's
Award for his outstanding contribution in the
field of Persian language and literature. This
Award is given by the President to the young
scholars of not more than forty years. Dr. Asad
Ali Khursheed is the first such young scholar in the Department of
Persian who has received the prestigious award. Dr. Khurshid's
two books, "Bastanul Ikram" and "Ahd-e-Khaljian-e-Hind Ki Farsi
Mansurat" have received wide acclamation. In addition, more than
twenty research papers of Dr. Khursheed have been published in
prestigious journals. He was honoured with Vyas Samman earlier.
PROF FIDA MOHAMMAD HASSNAIN, eminent historian and
author was honoured with the annual 'Safvi Memorial Award
2009' in recognition of his contribution to history. This Award,
instituted in the memory of Agha Ali Safvi, the 'Kashmiri Mujahid'
who played a prominent role in Quit Kashmir Movement, was
sponsored by ASA Safvi Memorial Trust and was given to Prof
Hassnain by Justice Hakeem Imtiaz at a function held to observe
33rd death anniversary of Agha Syed Ali Safvi.
Dr MOHAMMAD HAYAT, a teacher in AMU's Department of
Zoology has been honoured with 'Prof T.C. Narendra Trust for
Animal Taxonomy Award in recognition of his valuable services in
the field of Taxonomy. The Award which consists of Rs 10, 000 in
cash, Commendation Certificate and a Medal, will be presented
to him at a function to be held on 19 September.
Retired Professor of Punjab University's Fine Arts Department,
DR NARESH has been honoured by Haryana Waqf Board with
Khwaja Altaf Husain Hali Award for promoting Urdu literature. The
Award consists of a cash prize of Rs 10, 000, a memento, shawl
and a medal. Dr Naresh has written more than 70 books. The
award-giving function was held at Ambala Cantt's headquarters
on 19 August.
MAULANA AAFAQ RAHMANI, Principal of Madrasa Ahmadiya,
Madhubani and MAULANA SALEEM AKHTAR BILALI of
Madrasa Islamia Amaniya, district Darbhanga have been select-
ed by Bihar government and approved by central government for
being honoured with 'National Award 2009' which will be given to
them along with many others by President Pratibha Patil on
Teachers Day on 5 September 2009 at New Delhi.
DR SYED ABDUL AFSAH, a professor in R.K. College,
Madhubani (Bihar)'s Department of Chemistry, has been hon-
oured with 'Bhartiya Vikas Ratn Award' in recognition of his valu-
able contribution in the fields of chemistry, education and social &
economic growth. The Award was presented to him by G.V.
Krishnamoorthy, former Chief Election Commissioner in the pres-
ence of a distinguished gathering at a function sponsored by All
India Business Association at New Delhi on 25 August.
A.R. RAHMAN who now needs no introduction and who is nick-
named 'Mozart of Madras' has won the Grassroot Grammy Award
at the Just Plain Folks 2009 Music Awards held recently in the
US. He won this Award for the soundtrack in Tamil film Varabaru
(Godfather) in the Best Indian album category.
Dr ZAKIA RIF'AT, a Reader in Bijnaur's Rani Bhagyavati Girls
Degree College has been honoured with 'Bharat Vikas Ratn
Award' sponsored by All India Business Development
Association, New Delhi. The Award was presented to her by for-
mer Chief Election Commissioner, G.V. Krishnamurthy at the 29th
national Seminar on 'Individual Achievement and National
Development' held at New Delhi. In addition to her, this Award
was also given to selected scientists, industrialists, teachers and
doctors from all states of the country.
Late HABIB TANVIR, renowned theatre personality, Urdu Hindi
dramatist, theatre director, actor and poet and PUNDIT BHIM-
SEN JOSHI, distinguished Hindustani classical vocalist and
Bharat Ratn have been selected by Delhi government to be hon-
oured with Lifetime Achievement Award for the year 2008-09. The
Award will be given posthumously to Habib Tanvir who had died
in June this year. A decision to award them was taken by Delhi
cabined chaired by chief minister Shiela Dikshit. The Award con-
sists of Rs 11 lakh in cash, a shawl and a Commendation
Certificate. Both have already won many awards.
World Urdu Day Organising Committee has selected the following
persons for being honoured on Urdu Day on 9 November for their
valuable contribution to Urdu literature. ALAM NAQVI, famous Urdu
journalist with Journalism Award, HAKIM KHURSHID AHMAD
SHAFQAT AZMI, former Dy Director of CCRUM with Unani Tibbi
Literary Award, Prof SAHIL AHMAD (of Allabad) with Research
Award for Public Health services, Dr NUZHAT HASAN, Director,
National Book Trust of India with Award for Urdu Broadcast &
Publication and Dr KHALIL AHMAD, former editor of Science ki
Duniya with Award for Best Institutional services. These Awards will
be presented to them on 9 November at Ghalib Academy, Delhi.

 The Milli Gazette, 16-30 September 2009 17

SPECIAL REPORTS

Hindutva terror comes to Nepal

ZAFARUL-ISLAM KHAN
Police in Nepal on 5 Sept. arrested a man accused of master-
minding a series of attacks on churches and mosques that have
killed at least eight people in the last two years. Ram Prasad
Mainali, who authorities allege is the leader of the shadowy Nepal
Defence Army (NDA), was arrested in the southeastern town of
Biratnagar, the government said next day. Mainali is a former
cadre of the Nepali Maoists.
The NDA is a Hindu organisation that says it wants to restore
Nepal's Hindu monarchy, abolished in 2008. The NDA is respon-
sible for attacks on two mosques and a Catholic church, killing at
least seven people and injuring many others. The NDA had taken
responsibility for an explosion at the Catholic Assumption Church
in Kathmandu valley's Dhobighat last May, killing two women and
a schoolgirl. Soon after the blast, police had arrested Sita Thapa,
who reportedly admitted to having planted the bomb in the prayer
hall, after being paid by the NDA. The same extremist group had
last year murdered Indian priest Fr. John Prakash. The 60-year-
old Salesian priest, who served as the principal of Don Bosco
Christian school in Sirsiya, Morang district, was shot dead by five
masked men at his residence. They had also bombed the Nepali
Congress Office in Sanepa, Kathmandu in April this year, police
said.
Last year It had bombed a mosque in Biratnagar, killing two
Muslims during prayer time. It also claimed responsibility for
attacking last year a Christian priest, John Prakash in Dharan,
some 220 km east of Nepali capital Kathmandu and killing him.
The NDA had been terrorizing Nepal's Christian and Muslim com-
munities, demanding money and asking them to leave Nepal.
"Acting on a tip-off, we caught Mainali while hiding at one of
his relative's houses," said Devendra Subedi, chief of the Morang
district police office. "He has confessed to us that he mastermind-
ed a series of blasts in various churches and mosques killing at
least eight people. We are investigating all his criminal activities
in the past, the police officer said adding that "The group was ter-
rorising people and had been trying to disrupt religious harmony
in the country. We had been chasing him for a long time and final-
ly we were able to arrest him."
Nepal Police has also arrested four persons belonging to the
NDA, identified as Biswash aka Tribhuvan Yadav, Morang com-
mander. Two more persons are under investigation weather they
are affiliated with NDA or not said a police officer.
According to the police they have confiscated a pistol and 14
rounds of bullets, a revolver and five rounds of bullets, a dozen
cell phone sim cards, different pamphlets and warning letters
from them.
The NDA claimed responsibility for the bombing in May of a
Catholic church in Kathmandu which killed three people and an
attack on a mosque in southern Nepal last year that also left three
dead. The group also said it carried out a bombing in Kathmandu
in August at the headquarters of the Nepali Congress party, one
of Nepal's main political parties. No one was hurt in the attack,
which caused only minor damage to the building. A second bomb
at the government's transportation department was diffused suc-
Vinod Kumar Pandey (centre), leader of Ranvir Sena
after his arrest; arms recovered from him (left)
cessfully by police.
Nepal has been the scene of sporadic ethnic violence since
a peace deal was reached between former rebel Maoists and the
government in late 2006. But there is little history of religious con-
flict in Nepal, where more than 80 per cent of the 27 million peo-
ple are Hindu.
nother kingpin of Hindu terror in Nepal, a 41-year-old civil
A engineer, who claims to have received his degree from
Chennai, was arrested in Nepal for allegedly planning a
series of explosions in four major cities with the avowed aim of
reinstating Hinduism as the state religion. Vinod Kumar Pandey,
who was produced by Nepal Police in court in Biratnagar on 8
Sept., told his interrogators that he studied in the south Indian city
and used the Internet to get knowhow about explosives. Pandey
was arrested on 6 Sept. from Biratnagar, located on the Indo-
Nepal border, with explosives and ingredients used to make
bombs. He headed the Ranvir Sena, a shadowy outfit in Nepal
that was involved in extortion, abduction and blasts in the Terai
plains. Police said the Sena, which is not linked to the armed
organisation of landlords in India’s Bihar state of the same name,
Major activities carried out by the “NDA”
11 Aug 2009: Explosion at Nepali Congress central office in
Sanepa, Kathmandu
30 Jun 2008: Principal of Don Bosco College located at
Majhare, Morang, John Prakash Moyalan, shot dead
26 Mar 2008: Explosion at a mosque in Sarouchiya, Biratnagar
leaves three dead
22 Jun 2007: Firing at Sudesh Bhattarai in Teteriya, Motipur-9
02 Apr 2008: Explosion at District Forest Office
24 Dec 2007: Explosion at Nobel Medical College
04 Dec 2007: Explosion at the toilet of Nepal Telecom
30 Mar 2007: Bomb planted at Kantipur Publications' regional
office premises in Biratnagar
23 Feb 2007: Explosion at the toilet of Department of Drug
Administration in Morang
(Source: kantipuronline.com)
was planning bomb attacks in Kathmandu, Biratnagar, Birgunj
and Pokhara. It had also planned attacks against high-profile indi-
viduals, police said. The long-haired, suave Pandey spoke fluent
English. The rented house where he was caught was converted
into a 'mini laboratory' to make explosives, police said. He also
masqueraded as a bona fide engineer, working with a construc-
tor who had been contracted by Surya Nepal, ITC's subsidiary in
Nepal, to erect a building in Biratnagar. Pandey used aliases like
Bhagirath Singh, Vajra Singh and Radguvar Singh. Police
Superintendent Devendra Subedi said they are continuing inves-
tigations to see if he or the Sena have links with militant groups
in India.
Like NDA, Ranvir Sena too claims it is working to reinstate
Hinduism as the state religion. Pandey's arrest came a day after
police arrested the chief of another underground militant Hindu
organisation, Ram Prasad Mainali, who headed the Nepal
Defence Army (NDA), and was arrested in neighbouring Jhapa
district. Fears have been expressed that police would let these
criminals free on different pretexts after its inability to resist
tremendous pressure from the Hindu fundamentalist and notori-
ous criminals of India and Nepal.
It is noteworthy here that Sangh Parivar, which took pride in
Nepal’s erstwhile “Hindu” monarch, had demanded the return of
monarchy and opposed the abrogation of Hinduism as the state
religion of Nepal. HIndutva terrorists (Col. Purohit et al) also dis-
closed that they had close ties with Nepal monarchy which was
training army officers and soldiers for the Hindutva terrorists in
India according to the chargesheet filed by Maharashtra ATS in
Malegaon blast case.

Yeh musalmaan jinhen dekh ke sharmaayen yahood

Hyderabad: This is a scene
three days before the Amawas
Puja ceremony the Thousand
Pillar Temple situated at Main
Hanamkunda, Warangal. Many
Muslim men and women partic-
ipated in the ceremony (left).
Some Muslim women came in
burkha with coconuts in a hand,
holding their children with the
other. When a Muslim leader
asked them: why they are doing
such a thing during Ramadan”,
they simply said: when Hindus
come to our dargahs, why we
can’t come to their mandir?
They claimed that they get sat-
isfaction from participating in
the puja and regain their
health. They even said: if any-
body disturbed them, they will
call the police.
In another episode, fasting
Muslim boys with their skull-
caps on were seen at a puja
mandap in Motinagar,
Hyderabad (right) where they
claimed they were going to
break their fast. This incident
was witnessed on 23 August
Yusuf/MG (Khaja Salahuddin, Warangal).
18 The Milli Gazette, 16-30 September 2009
Speaking Out NILOFAR SUHRAWARDY
Political Drama:
BJP Against
Jaswant Singh
espite all the hype raised about Jaswant Singh’s
D expulsion from Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) over
his book “Jinnah: India,Partition, Independence, ”
the fact remains that little attention has been paid
to his remaining listed as a member of Lok Sabha from the
BJP. In view of the noise made by BJP leaders demanding
his resignation as the chairman of Public Accounts
Committee (PAC) of Parliament, it is strange that till earlier
this month, the party made virtually no noise seeking his
resignation from the Lok Sabha. They have justified their
demand for his resignation as the PAC chairman as Singh
secured it on ground of his being a member of the princi-
pal opposition party. In their words, he should quit the post
as it “belonged to BJP,” from which he had been expelled.
Signaling their stand, the BJP members and party’s allies
refrained from participating in a PAC meeting convened by
Singh this month. Well, why haven’t the same members
asked for his resignation from Lok Sabha, if they feel so
strongly against Singh holding on to any position, which
he secured as a BJP member? Why?
The ongoing political war between Singh and the BJP
certainly suggests that the tussle has far greater implica-
tions than apparent. Singh’s decision to approach the
Supreme Court and have the ban imposed on his book in
NHRC Batla House Report: an analysis
SALMAN SULTAN
HRC in its report on seemingly fake Batla House
N encounter has stated that "The scope of enquiry before
the Commission is very limited. The only question
which we propose to consider is whether the police had
opened fire without any justification or it had acted in the exercise
of the Right of self-defence". Further, it states, "Enquiries are con-
ducted by the Commission in accordance with the provisions of
Section 17 of the Protection of Human Rights Act, 1993. Section
17 does not contemplate an adversarial proceeding. It empow-
ers the Commission to call for information or report from the
Central Government or any State Government or any other
authority. If on the material placed before it, the Commission is
satisfied that no further enquiry is required, it may not proceed
with the complaint".
How the revered commission got satisfied about the exercise
of the right of self-defence? The commission did not even bother
to look for contradictions in two different police reports:
1. Excerpt from the Report of Shri R.P. Upadhayay, Additional
Commissioner of Police, Vigilance, Delhi dated 23 October, 2008:
"On 19.09.2008, specific information was received that Atif @
Bashir was residing on top floor flat No. 108 of building L-18, Batla
House, Delhi. On the basis of this information, Inspector Mohan
Chand Sharma of Special Cell, Delhi along with few staff entered
into the building to conduct raid at the said flat whereas remaining
team members remained at ground floor to cover the building. The
team knocked at the main door of the flat and disclosed identity
but the occupants of the flat did not respond. Then the team, in
order to enter the flat, pushed the main door but was found bolted
from inside. Thereafter, the team went to another door of the flat
and found it unbolted. The team members entered the flat through
the side door to apprehend the suspects. The occupants of the flat
opened fire on the police team to evade arrest."
2. Excerpts from Shri Karnail Singh, Joint Commissioner of
Police, Special Cell, Delhi note dated 19th November, 2008:
"A team headed by Inspector Mohan Chand Sharma, first
went to the place to apprehend the accused, who were all with-
out bullet proof jackets for the reason explained above. A back-
up team in bullet proofs and AK-47 assault rifle was stationed at
a distance. Inspector Mohan Chand Sharma who was heading
the first team, directed SI Dharmender to go into Flat No.108 in
the garb of an executive of one of the mobile service providers
with the express purpose of fixing the identity of the user of
mobile number 9811004309.
“SI Dharmender first went upstairs on the top floor of Flat
No.108 of L-18, Batla House. He heard couple of voices in the
apartment and decided to come back to inform Inspector Mohan
Chand Sharma who then decided to go together to check the
inmates in the apartment. A seven member team including
Inspector Mohan Chand Sharma went to the top floor of this build-
ing, where this Flat No.108 was located. The building was such
that it had four floors and each floor had two apartments. Flat
No.108 also had two entry points in L-shape.
Inspector Mohan Chand Sharma knocked the front door and
asked them to open the door informing them of their being police
personnel. Nobody opened the door. He then tried to push the
door but it was found bolted from inside. He then pushed the
other door which was not found bolted from inside and the team
Gujarat lifted suggests the same. Certainly, Singh has the
constitutional right to approach the apex court against the
Gujarat High Court’s ban on his book. He did and earned
ample media coverage, free publicity and great sale of his
book even in Gujarat with all these scales tipped heavily in
his favor.
It is but natural for several critics to raise questions on
Singh’s decision to approach the apex court as it appears
only for the sake of his book. They have asked: Why did he
not approach the apex court on the Gujarat-carnage and
against the state chief minister Narendra Modi? Well, it
seems fairly unnatural to expect any veteran BJP leader to
take any action or even utter a word against what seems
favoring the party. It is only after BJP lost the second par-
liamentary elections in a row, the party leaders have been
forced to acknowledge the political damage done at the
national level by leaders such as Modi and those following
his path (including Varun Gandhi). Political strategy behind
the entire Singh versus BJP drama may be directed to
undoing this damage. Singh’s attempt to project Jinnah in
a more favorable light than expected of those linked with
saffron brigade could be a part of the campaign to change
anti-Pak image held by leaders associated with BJP and its
hardcore groups. It must be clearly noted, Singh has been
expelled only from the party, which of course has negligi-
ble relevance till the same party calls for his
resignation/dismissal from Lok Sabha, where till earlier
this month he remained listed as a BJP member.
Behind the scenes, several party members and sympa-
thizers are apparently working hard to change BJP’s image
and enhance the political appeal of its leaders. It may be
recalled that after several hardcore saffron brigade mem-
bers accepted that entering the political field as members
Injured Mohan Sharma being led away;
DCP Alok Kumar (inset) in front of L-18 flat
led by Inspector Mohan Chand Sharma entered the flat through
this door. Immediately, a volley of fire came on the police team
from the right side of the drawing room as well as the left side
room of the apartment."
ccording to the first report the team headed by Mr. Sharma
A went directly upstairs while in the second report first SI
Dharmendra went upstairs and after hearing voices came back to
let Mr. Sharma lead a seven-member team. Keep in mind that the
whole area was cordoned off and L-18 Batla House occupant
were already under surveillance. Even then as per the second
report, SI Dharmendra’s climbing so many stairs, patiently hear-
ing voices inside the flat and then coming down to let a seven-
member team go upstairs did not even alert the occupants of L-
18 to at least bolt the doors of their small flat. The purpose of the
police party’s visit to L-18 also differs from one report to the other.
The first report says that the purpose was “apprehend the sus-
pects” while the second says their “express purpose” was to fix
the identity of the user of a certain mobile number”.
Another point worth noting is the inexplicable picture (seen
internationally) of an injured Mohan Chand Sharma being walked
down so many stairs and continued walking on the street with a
little help from a colleague. Does the police party raid without first
aids/stretcher etc? Was Inspector Sharma covering so much dis-
tance under different terrains (stairs and road) really hit by a
dreadful weapon like AK-47 allegedly in possession of the occu-
pants of L-18? Still there is a second photograph, also seen by
people all over the world, in which a ????, Assistant
Commissioner or Police is seen brandishing his pistol at the same
time on the same floor where L-18 is situated. What was such a
senior police officer doing their with exposed gun?
A lot of questions about seemingly fake Batla House
encounter have been raised by a report brought out by Jamia
Teachers' Solidarity Group. The Commission did not even take
the trouble of interviewing JTSG people who are responsible
teachers at a university or to look into questions raised in their
report.
Tehelka magazine recently published one dozen photo-
graphs that exposed the truth behind such encounters. The pic-
tures are a testimony to the gruesome, barbaric and deceitful
cold-blooded murder of an unarmed youth (Sanjit) in Manipur
who appeared to have followed the Commandos docilely. The
modus operandi of our security agencies has been depicted so
vividly in these photographs that there is no need of further proof
ANALYSIS
of extremist group (Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh) car-
ried little electoral appeal that they decided to launch its
political wing- the BJP. A similar strategy is being appar-
ently exercised now but with the use of different tactics.
They are probably taking a few political tips from the
break-up of Congress, its defeat in national polls and its
return to power. The Congress heads a multi-party coali-
tion, with several of its allies being former Congress mem-
bers. These include, among others, Sharad Pawar and
Mamata Bannerjee.
Jaswant Singh is making all possible efforts to “dis-
tance” himself from the BJP, to the point of even stating
that there was no question of his ever returning to the
party. Till he remains listed in the present Lok Sabha direc-
tory as a BJP member, such statements may well be con-
sidered as nothing more than rhetoric. In this context,
there is nothing surprising about more BJP members com-
ing out gradually but definitely in support of Singh. News
about an internal division within the BJP on Singh’s expul-
sion as well as the control exercised on the party by RSS
is also being given ample coverage. The BJP as well as
Singh have taken a major risk by hitting out at each other
with the hope of apparently politically cashing on this
game in the near future. They have erred by counting on
this strategy- based only on an individual’s viewpoints
expressed in a book- on having appeal beyond media-cov-
erage and some publicity. The partition and those respon-
sible for it carry little political relevance for today and
tomorrow’s voters. Not surprisingly, critics have strongly
stated Singh’s moves would have carried far greater
appeal had he taken the same stand on issues, including
Gujarat-carnage, that have actually turned today’s voter
against the BJP!

or enquiry in this case. If we compare this to Batla House episode
it seems probable that in the month of Ramadan, when people
generally sleep in the morning to cover for staying awake in the
night for pre-dawn meal, the sleeping Muslim youths were
nabbed and cold-bloodedly killed like Sanjit. This explains as to
why Inspector Sharma and his team did not bother to wear pro-
tective gear. Another pertinent question raised in different reports
is the highly profitable business of encounters, i.e. the award
money, decoration and quick promotion that follows such cold
murders. Further, persistent award winning by a single officer
may give rise to jealousy among the rank.
In view of these photographs in Tehelka and persistent
doubts expressed about a number of encounters, NHRC should
reconsider its “satisfaction” over the question "police had opened
fire without any justification or it had acted in the exercise of the
Right of self defense?"
When NHRC initiates enquiry, common man lives under the
impression that Commission will unearth the truth and is empow-
ered enough to cross-examine any individual or agency irrespec-
tive of his/her stature. The exalted position of NHRC was even
emphasized by our hon'ble court when it refrained from question-
ing the decision of a statutory body on a writ petition filed by an
NGO (ANHAD). Further, provisions of Section 17 of the
Protection of Human Rights Act, 1993 should be modified to allow
adversarial enquiry on part of NHRC. Otherwise, NHRC will just
be a showpiece like elephant tusks.

High Court accepts CBI’s report
in l'affaire Irshad and Qamar
New Delhi: Delhi High Court has overruled lower court's
verdict in which, while describing CBI's report as incom-
plete it had refused bail to alleged terrorists Irshad Ali
and Moarif Qamar who were given clean chit by CBI. The
High Court also rejected Delhi Police's Special Cell's
plea about implicating these two people in terrorism,
saying that when the case has been transferred to CBI,
Special Cell has no role. With this verdict of the High
Court, acquittal of Irshad Ali and Moarif Qamar has now
become almost certain.
Being a sensitive case in which Delhi Police Special
Cell and CBI were at loggerheads, High Court’s Justice
Mool Chand Garg had sought the views of Attorney
General of India, GE Vahanvati who said in his report to
the court that when the case has been passed on from
Special Cell to CBI, Special Cell's views have no mean-
ing and its interference is illegal. In the light of these
views of the Attorney General, Justice Garg overruled
the verdict of the lower court and ordered it to again
start hearing of this case without relying on Special
Cell's report. It may be noted that these persons, Irshad
and Moarif had been working as police informers. At one
point, IB had asked them to join terrorist camps in
Kashmir and spy on their activities and plans, which
they refused. At this, police arrested them in May 2003 at
Delhi and falsely charged them with being members of
Al Badar terrorist group. (NA Ansari)

1.6 lakh Haj pilgrims this year
New Delhi: In the current year India has been given a quota of
about 1, 60, 000 pilgrims who will go to Saudi Arabia for perform-
ing Haj, first flight for which will start from India on 20 October. Of
1.6 lakh, 1, 15, 000 will go through Haj Committee of India while
the remaining about 45, 500 will go through registered private
tour operators. This information was given by a spokesman of
External Affairs ministry on 27 August.
Haj: Direct flight form Mangalore
Mangalore: Haj pilgrims in and around the city can travel directly
from Mangalore airport as the central government has made all
necessary arrangements for this, said Hameed Kandak, member,
All India Haj Committee and special training person for Haj, in a
press meet here on Septenber 7. "The Haj travelers' demand
several years old for travelling directly from Mangalore airport is
being fulfilled. Travelling from the city will help the pilgrims to don
the holy dress 'Ahram' while embarking on the journey from their
home", he said. Out of 14860 applications received for the pil-
grimage, only 6500 can travel from Karnataka. Mr Hameed said
that union external affairs minister for state Shashi Tharoor has
assured of providing 1000 extra pilgrims from his quota so that a
total of 7500 can go for Haj from the state this year. "The training
camps are conducted by the Haj committee for the pilgrims and
temporary shelters with facilities will also be set up at Mangalore
airport", he added.(NM Salih)
Scientific progress in the light of Qur'anic verses
Noble Education Foundation organised a lecture on the topic of
'Qur'an, Science and Universe' at India Islamic Cultural Centre on
20th August. On this occasion prominent lawyer and intellectual
Wasi Ahmad Nomani reviewed in detail scientific progress, dis-
coveries and inventions etc in the light of Qur'anic verses. In his
lecture, he covered wide ranging subjects right from the scientif-
ic theory about creation of the world and universe till the
Doomsday, origin of child in mother's womb and its evolutionary
process, natural phenomena and mysteries below and above the
ground. He proved in the light of Qur'anic verses that everything
in the world, except God Almighty, is subject to destruction and
that no one except God is their Creator and Master. He said that
whatever scientists have discovered and invented till date after
long and deep research has already been revealed and explained
by God in Qur'an. In his two-hour lecture, Nomani discussed in
detail dozens of topics and also spoke about mysteries of nature
in understanding and explaining which great scientists find them-
selves helpless. He said that even now scientists have not been
able to explain many things of the past whereas Qur'an has shed
light not only on past and present events but also on those which
will take place thousands and lakhs of years hence. He said that
even now there are hundreds of points and topics mentioned in
Qur'an which are beyond the comprehension of even greatest
scientists and they find themselves unable to understand and
explain them. (NA Ansari)
U.S. Consulate hosts Iftar party
Mangalore: In a bid to cultivate good relations with the Muslim
community, the U.S. Consulate at Chennai and Yenepoya
University together hosted an Iftar party here on September 2.
Scott Woodard, political and economic officer of the U.S.
Consulate, said that the United States was committed to building
a world that was more peaceful and secure. "That is why we are
responsibly ending the war in Iraq and isolating violent extremists
while empowering people in places like Afghanistan and
Pakistan," he said. He praised the rituals practised by Muslims
during Ramadan and Islam's role in advancing justice, progress,
tolerance and dignity. Vice-chancellor of Yenepoya University Y
Abdulla Kunhi, Dr Sayyed Akhil Ahmed, associate VC of
Yenapoya University and B R Shetty also spoke on the occasion
'Point-Encounter point' a play for a cause
Taking gruesome cues from a 'terror hunting' drama called Batla
House (fake) encounter, four Jamia Nagar youths have come to
the fore with a play named "Point- Encounter point". Now, almost
a year after the Batla House encounter, Shameem, Farhan,
Sameer and Zeeshan from Jamia Nagar tell their stories in this
experimental play in a vivid style of theatre. Shameem was
asleep when the police flare up was taking place in Batla House
in the morning of September 19 last year. Directed by Pranab
Mukharjee, the play questions the life in dreaded times. "How do
people survive in a climate of fear?" asks Mukherjee, an expert in
alternative theatre. He has been conducting theatre workshops
with people at Jamia Nagar for two years. At his workshop after
the Batla House encounter, the foursome did away with their sur-
names and travelled to the less-frequented areas of the city, the
homes of Burmese immigrants at Kailash Colony and Vijay Nagar
near the North Campus where Manipuri students stay. "Two
weeks ago, the workshops turned into a well-coordinated effort to
produce a play. The boys' narratives are their personal opinions,
I don't intrude in their narratives," says the director. The 55-
minute play has an edgy format to suit the topic. It has three
parts. In the first, the four Jamia Nagar residents tell their narra-
tives in separate monologues; in the second, JNU student and
actor Kaustuv Basu does a silent solo act on the theme of terror;
in the third act photographer Sreedeep takes pictures of the per-
formers and audience and morphs them before streaming them
on screen in real time. "Even as the actors recount their horrors,
people can see their own faces projected on screen," says
Sreedeep, as Basu quietly wraps a toy gun in crepe bandage until
it resembles a corpse. Here, almost everything takes on an image
of violence and trauma. The play held at Delhi's Café Mocha and
JNU was well appreciated by the audience. (NM Salih)
Maulana Azad Foundation announces girl scholarships
The Maulana Azad Education Foundation has invited applications
for scholarships for meritorious girl students from the minority
communities. The scholarship is given to meet the tuition fees,
expenses for books, hostel fees etc. Only girl students of Muslim,
Christian, Sikh and Buddhist communities are eligible for the
scholarship. Only those students whose parents' annual income
is below Rs 1 lakh need apply. The income certificate from the
part of the parents, and not from the school, should be submitted
along with the application form. The students should have
obtained 55% marks in the 10th standard exam and secured
seats in 11th standard or +1. The admission slip issued by the
college/school authority where the student is presently studying
should also be attached with the application form. The scholar-
ship amount is Rs 12000 and will be distributed in two equal
installments of Rs 6000 each, for 11th and 12th standards.
Students once selected for the scholarship will not be eligible for
it again. The application form can be downloaded from the web-
site of the Maulana Azad Foundation and its photocopies too can
be used. There are no special application fees. The filled up appli-
cation forms should reach the office of the Foundation in New
Delhi before August 31. (For further details, visit
http://maef.nic.in/ScholarshipForGirl.pdf)
No compulsory 'Surya namaskar' in schools: HC
Bhopal: In an interim order on 28 August the Madhya Pradesh
High Court directed the state government not to force education-
al institutions to conduct the yoga exercise suraya namaskar, or
salutation to the sun. Two years ago the BJP- led state govern-
ment had made 'surya namaskar' compulsory in schools and col-
leges for which the minorities, Christians and Muslims, protested
as an attempt to impose Hindu rituals on students of minority
communities. The Catholic Church went to the Madhya Pradesh
High Court bringing to its notice that the order of the state govern-
ment violates Section 25 to 30 of the Fundamental Rights of the
Constitution under which the minority institutions are governed.
Advocate Rajesh Chand pointed out that the order was against
the interim order of the high court in the same matter in 2007. He
requested the court to give an interim order to stop the state gov-
ernment from making surya namaskar compulsory and initiate
action against officials who violate the court order. "In the light of
the above arguments, the Jabalpur bench of the Madhya Pradesh
High Court comprising of Chief Justice A.K. Patnayik and Ajit
Singh, issued an interim order to the government to abstain from
exerting any preasure on students and schools that do not take
part in the surya namaskar," said Mr Rajesh. The court has also
issued notices to the chief secretary, principal secretary educa-
tion, education commissioner, district education officer Jhabua
and Rajgarh in this regard, he added.
Threats to Darul Uloom Deobnd
New Delhi: An unknown local outfit in Saharanpur (U.P.) called
“Rashtrawadi Maha Sabha” (RMS), has issued an “ultimatum” to
Darul Uloom Deoband on 7 Sept to launch an agitation if it the
fatwa advising Muslim students not to sing the controversial
Vande Matram song is not withdrawn “within fifteen days”. The
threat evoked sharp reaction from Muslim organizations from
across the country. For about a fortnight prior to this warning,
RMS leader Virender Singh has been spitting venom in and
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around Saharanpur warning that Darul Uloom's effigy will be
burnt in front of the institution in Deoband. The local administra-
tion has remained mum over this hate-mongering and no action
has been taken again this hate speech. Expressing concern over
latest developments, the Principal of Darul Uloom Deoband,
Maulana Marghoobur Rahman said, "Earlier, RMS spit venom in
its gathering in Faqir Das Inter-College in Margpur village and at
Saharanpur collectorate. This is not known under which expedi-
ency the district administration and police officers have not taken
any notice of this provocation." Darul Uloom's Vice Principal
Abdul Khaliq Madrasi said, "If the administration and police offi-
cers do not bridle the leaders of this communal organization, their
provocation may prove a serious danger to communal harmony
and peace and well-being."
Roza in fulfillment of a vow
Varanasi: Arjun Lal, a 53-year old railway employee who mans
gates at a railway crossing in Varanasi and who is a devotee of
Hanuman, was married 34 years ago. For 10 years he had no
issue. During this period he consulted many doctors, hakeems,
vaids and even religious divines for talisman also to become a
father but without success. After 10 years of marriage one day he
thought of sighting new moon on the last day of Ramzan, i e Eid
moon, as almost all Muslims do. On that day after sighting the
moon he made a vow that if he has an issue, he will observe
Ramzan fasts. Call it a matter of chance or God's favour, before
the next Ramzan the couple was blessed with a daughter. This
was 24 years ago. Ever since then he is observing all Ramzan
fasts religiously without fail, with the timely rituals of sehri and iftar
etc. Now the couple has not one but six children, three sons and
three daughters, including the first and eldest one whom he had
named Sochani. She also is observing rozas like her father. She
is doing so even after her marriage. Arjun says that this is his way
of thanking God for blessing him with the first, the eldest, daugh-
ter and 'only death will prevent me from not doing this this'.
Madrasa students missing
Guwahati: A news that 27 students of a madrasa in Assam are
found missing has created a great concern becaust it is suspect-
ed that some of them may be belonging to fundamentalists
groups. Police has started investigation after identifying them from
school records. The madrasa is located in Chief Minister Tarun
Gogoi's constituency in Jorhat. A complaint about their missing
has been lodged in police station. According to madrasa authori-
ties, in January this year there were 150 students in this madrasa
but when police made further enquiries, they said that there were
87 students but in register, names of 125 students are entered. All
this has created great confusion. However, Jorhat's District
Superintendent, Deepak Chowdhary said that so far 98 students
have been confirmed and investigation about the remaining ones
is going on. It is also suspected that some of them might have
come from Bangladesh illegally. Meanwhile, different organisa-
tions of Assam have alleged that these students are involved in
anti-national activities and have told the police that if investigations
are not completed within a week, they will start agitation.
Fatwa against political iftar parties
Lucknow: Mufti Zahoor Ahmad of Darul Uloom Nadwatul Ulama's
Darul Ifta, has issued a fatwa saying that iftar parties by politi-
cians and political parties etc have no religious sanctity and
should be avoided. It is said in the fatwa that these are not in true
spirit of Islam because such parties are hosted with some person-
al or ulterior motive/s. According to knowledgeable sources, a
beginning in iftar parties was made during 1970s in UP by the
then chief minister Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna after which such
parties became common and now it appears that politicians are
trying to vie with each other in hosting larger and more sumptu-
ous iftar parties. There were of course iftar parties earlier also but
they were on a limited scale and in true Islamic spirit.
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Communal riots in Shahpur
Ahmadabad: Communal clash took place in Shahpur (Gujarat) on
the occasion of Janamashtmi and continued for the next two days
intermittently. According to available reports, tension started when
two different communities clashed over damage to an idol in a
temple after which a group of rioters set fire to some jhuggis
(shanties) and also tried to set fire to a mosque. In view of the fes-
tival, police had imposed some restrictions but in defiance of that
people held a puja outside a newly built temple and took out a pro-
cession also with idol of Lord Krishna on 15 August. According to
police, a part of the idol was broken due to alleged mischief by
some youths of the other community. This led to mob violence and
heavy stone pelting from both sides. Some jhuggies were looted
and burnt. With police using force the situation was brought under
control momentarily but on 16th morning some people tried to set
fire to a mosque. Police foiled this attempt but violence started
again after sometime. Efforts by police authorities to bring about
an understanding between the warring groups could not succeed.
On the two days i e on 15th and 16th August, police resorted to
lathi charge and tear gas on several occasions. Among the many
seriously injured persons, 5 were rushed to V.S. Hospital and Civil
Hospital with head, eyes and chest injuries in stone pelting. In
addition to shanties, many houses also were damaged and set on
fire. Ambulance vehicles, fire brigades and additional police forces
were deployed. It is not known how many rioters were arrested.
No death was however reported.
Communal tension in Sangli
Sangli (Maharashtra): Communal tension was created on 3rd
September in Sangli district's Meraj when some posters were dis-
played on Hindu Sangathan Mandal Day showing Shivaji killing
Adil Shah's general Afzal Khan. The posters were damaged by
some miscreants which led to minor clash and communal tension
which continued for two or three days. In order to obviate deterio-
ration of the communal tension District Collector Shyam Vardhane
promulgated section 144 and also curfew because some vehicles
were also damaged and many people were also hurt in stone pelt-
ing incidents. Maharashtra's home minister Jayant Patil, in order
to remove communal tension, met leaders and important persons
of both the communities but the representatives of both commu-
nities were adamant on their respective demands. Hence no
understanding between the representatives of the two communi-
ties could be arrived at.
Communal tension in Rajasthan's Banswara District
Jaipur: Communal tension erupted in Banswara after the two
communities i e Hindus and Muslims clashed when a religious
procession was being taken out on 31 August. According to avail-
able report, when the procession was being taken out, some
youths of a particular community indulged in slogan shouting.
There were incidents of stone pelting between the people of the
two communities as a result of which many people were injured,
including 4 policemen. Some vehicles were also damaged in
stone pelting. Section 144 has been promulgated and extra
forces have been deployed to keep the situation under control.
Some people of a particular community observed strike.
Representation of Shias in central government demanded
Lucknow: Shia Action Committee in its meeting chaired by Sheikh
Mohammad Haidar strongly demanded prime minister
Manmohan Singh and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi represen-
tation of Shia Muslims in the central government. Sheikh
Mohammad Haidar while speaking in the meeting said that there
are about 5 crore Shias in the country but it is a great pity that they
have representations neither in Lok Sabha, Rajya Sahbenor or in
the central government. He said that many important members of
Shia community like Dr Ammar Rizvi, Raja of Mahmoodabad
Ameer Mohammad Khan, Begum Noor Bano of Rampur, Justice
Haider Abbas Raza, Ahmad Zamin, Ishrat Rizvi, Abid Husain and
many other able and hard working leaders should be appointed
Rajya Sabha members and given important positions in central
government. Another leader Haidar Mirza Toofani while address-
ing the meeting said that Congress must not forget that Shia
Muslims have always supported Congress and it was Sir Justice
Wazir Hasan who had merged Shia Political Conference with
Congress. He said that Syed Ali Zaheer politically represented
Shias for a long time but after him Congress did not give any rep-
resentation to Shias which is out and out an injustice. A five point
memorandum was also approved in this meeting which will be
sent to President of India, Prime Minister, Sonia Gandhi and
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Smallest manuscript of Qur'an
Baitul (MP): Amin Khan, a retired teacher and poet has claimed
that he has got the smallest manuscript of Qur'an in which there
are all the 30 paras (chapters) but this writing is so small that it
can be read only with the help of a magnifying glass. Its weight
is 1.42 gram, length 2.4 cms, width 1.5 cm and thickness 0.4 cm.
He further said that the Qur'an that was being considered small-
est till recently is also with him whose weight is 2 grams, length
2.5 cms, width 2 cms and thickness 0.5 cm. He said that he has
sent a letter to Guinness Book of World Records claming that he
has got the world's smallest Qur'an.
Ramzan facility for Muslim railway employees
New Delhi: Union rail minister Mrs Mamta Bannerji has permitted
Muslim employees of her ministry who observe fasts to leave the
office early so that they may reach their homes well in time for
iftar in the company of their family members. While specially con-
gratulating Muslim sisters and brothers for this holy month, she
has made an appeal to them to remember 'this sister' also during
the special hours of Ramzan.
Admiration of Jinnah is “the handiwork of Pak Lobby”
New Delhi: RSS might very well deny its role in the expulsion of
Jaswant Singh from BJP because of his controversial book
'Jinnah: India, Partition, Independence,’ writings and views indi-
cate something else. Whereas RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat says
that Sangh has no role in his expulsion from the Party, in latest
issues of Organiser and Panchjanya (Sangh's publications)
Jaswant Singh has strongly been taken to task. Not only this,
these publications have very subtly tried to associate Singh with
some Pakistani lobby in India. In Organiser's editorial under the
heading 'No Jinnah for India' it is written that 'there is a very influ-
ential and powerful lobby in India which presents 'out of box'
views' from time to time and Indian media in preference to news
of Indian interests, gives priority to Pak-related news'. In recent
years many books have been published on Jinnah in India also.
Only time will tell how such efforts will be successful in changing
Jinnah's devilish image in India. In the absence of any national
hero in Pakistan, it is trying to put him (Jinnah) in the category of
persons like Mahatma Gandhi, Abrahm Lincoln, Nelson Mandela
etc. However, in India image of Jinnah is not going to be changed
and every effort in this connection will fail'. It is interesting to note
that BJP's spokesman Balbir Punj in his article in this very mag-
azine under the heading 'Jaswant and his Jinnah, Poking a
canker' has criticised Jaswant Singh but at the same time he has
written that in order to understand Jaswant's views, he has not
yet read the book. Regarding Jaswant Singh's criticism of Sardar
Patel, an editorial of this RSS mouth piece, says that since
Sardar Patel had got all the princely states merged with India,
including Jodhpur state to whose royal family he (Jaswant)
belongs, his grouse with Sardar Patel is but natural. (NA Ansari)
PM's 15-point prog not implemented in Jharkhand
Giridih: Prime Minister's 15-point programme for the welfare and
development of minorities has not so far been implemented in
Jharkhand state because of which the amount of Rs 181 crores
allocated for this purpose during the financial year 2008-09 has
been returned to the central government. No meeting of the con-
cerned officers made responsible for execution of the projects
has so far been held in Giridih and the concerned officers even
do not know any thing about these plans. It may be stated that
district committees for the implementation of prime minister's 15-
point programe were formed which consisted of DCs of all dis-
tricts who were made president, district welfare officers who were
made members, Panchaiti Raj Samiti and 3 representatives of
each district were also included for implementation of the
schemes for the welfare of minorities. Under the 15-point plan,
the purpose is promotion of education among minorities and
improvement of educational standard, to create better opportuni-
ties for the education of Urdu, modernize madrasas education,
granting scholarships to promising and hard working students,
their economic empowerment by providing employment, preven-
tion of communal riots and making suitable
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and proper rehabilitation of riot affected people etc. Irshad Alam
Waris, member of the district level committee for implementation
of PM's 15-point plan says that so far this plan has not yet been
implemented in this state which has disappointed Muslims.
Jagannath Mishra's efforts for promotion of Urdu
Darbhanga: Bihar's former chief minister, Dr Jagannath Mishra
said in a telephonic talk to the chief of Qaumi Tanzeem that in
Bihar Urdu is no doubt the second official language of the state
but that is in name or on paper only and in practical field, it has
no value. He said that his government had taken many decisions
and steps for the welfare and promotion of Urdu. In the first place
Urdu was made the second official language of Bihar.
Appointment of Urdu translators and Urdu typists in government
offices, setting up of Urdu Cell, appointment of Urdu teachers in
all schools and colleges etc were some of the important deci-
sions taken by his government. Urdu translators who were
appointed for translation work are now given other jobs. His gov-
ernment was giving Rs one crore for promotion of Urdu which
has now been stopped. Dr Mishra said that Urdu readers and
writers themselves are responsible for the present deplorable
condition of Urdu. They are not at all worried about what should
be done for the preservation and promotion of Urdu. They neither
submit their applications in Urdu nor adopt any concrete steps for
fulfilment of their demands. He said that as chief minister he had
fulfilled his responsibility and had tried to give its due rights to it
but if the decisions taken by his government have not been put
into practice, Urdu knowing people themselves are to be blamed
for this. He said that if the decisions taken by him are implement-
ed sincerely and honestly even now, Urdu will progress. He fur-
ther said that supporters and well wishers of Urdu should strug-
gle hard for the achievement of their rights from the government
and strongly put forward their stand before the government.
Teachers arrested for teaching halal slaughter
Jagadhari (Haryana): President of Haryana unit of Rashtriya
Janta Dal, Mohammad Qari Qasim and three others were arrest-
ed because they were teaching madrasa students how to slaugh-
ter a buffalo. It is reported that on receipt of secret information,
Haryana police raided a madrasa in Fatehpur's Amarpur Colony
on 9th August and caught red handed Mohammad Qasim and
three others, viz Naseem, Reyaz and Nadeem who were guiding
the students about the method of slaughtering buffalo in halal
way and how to cut it in different pieces. They were arrested
under section 429 of IPC and section 11 of Prevention of Cruelty
to Animals Act. Police also took into its custody the knife, chhuri
etc that were used in the 'crime'.
Al Habib Trust's iftar programmes in Punjab jails
Ludhiana: Majlis-e Ahrar Islam Hind's welfare institution Al Habib
Charitable Trust has started its usual programme of making
arrangements for roza iftars in all jails of Punjab (photograph
below). Before starting this programme its volunteers had toured
all the jails of Punjab in order to assess the number of prisoners
who are observing fasts. According to Trust's general secretary,
Mohammad Usman Rahmani Ludhianvi, Ahrar's volunteers
toured Amritsar Central jail, Firozpur Central Jail etc etc. They
requested jail authorities to arrange iftaris for the prisoners who
are observing fasts in different barracks. The volunteers also took
large amounts of eatables and other goods in jails for fast-
observing prisoners. In different cities also the Trust deployed its
volunteers for carrying iftari items from markets to jails and all
these people are doing their jobs well. He said that the number
of Muslim prisoners is more in Amritsar, Ludhiana, Patiala and
Nabhi while in other jails their number is between 30 and 50
approximately. He said that in Punjab jails in border areas the
number of Muslim women prisoners is about 25. He said that the
Trust members found out from jail authorities about the number
of prisoners who have completed their term of imprisonment but
because of some difficulties like payment of fines or some legal
problems they cannot be freed. A detailed report about all these
problems has been submitted to Ahrar's chief, Shahi Imam
Maulana Habibur Rahman Sani Ludhianvi. Maulana Habibur
Rahman thanked Hira Singh Gabaria, minister for jails who has
done a good work by providing special facilities for prisoners dur-
ing the month of Ramzan.

Missing files of Babri Masjid
Lucknow: CBI has succeeded in tracing 16 of the 23 files regarding
Babri Masjid case that were found missing and which were needed
in connection with this case. The recovered files are however in a
very bad condition. Some of the important documents that were
found missing are a telegram from the then prime minister
Jawaharlal Nehru to UP's chief minister at that time, Pundit Govind
Ballabh Pant asking his government to remove the idols that were
secretly placed inside the Masjid in the night of December 1949.
Other documents are the correspondence between the state gov-
ernment and the DM of Faizabad at that time in this connection. It
is said that copies of Pundit Nehru's telegram are in the records but
the original was missing. All these documents are needed by
Allahabad High Court in connection with this case. It was suspect-
ed that the important documents were deliberately removed or
destroyed. In spite of repeated reminders by the High Court to UP
government to submit the required documents to it, the state gov-
ernment finally informed the Court that as many as 23 files contain-
ing the relevant documents could not be traced and were missing.
Thereafter the state government filed FIR regarding the missing
files on July 10, 2009. On 15 July the High Court bench of Lucknow
directed the CBI to enquire into the missing files and submit to it a
report by 24th August, the next date of hearing. It is not known
whether the telegram and correspondence with Faizabad DM are in
these 16 files are not. The remaining 7 files are yet to be traced.
Babri: Nirmorhi Akhara witness failed to support its claim
Lucknow: Nirmorhi Akhara witness, Ranjit Lal Varma, advocate
submitted his documents and papers in the special 3-member
bench comprising Justices Rifat Alam, Sudhir Agarwall and V.
Sharma in support of his claim to Babri Masjid but they were found
irrelevant to this particular case. During the court proceedings
Justice Sudhir Agarwal interrupted him many times regarding his
documents pertaining to Babri Masjid ownership claim but he could
not produce correct documents in support of his claim. At one point
Justice Sudhir Agarwal said to him that in one of his statements he
has stated that from 1934 to 1949 Babri Masjid was under the
occupation of Hindus but this contention is not proved by any of
these documents. Among these documents there is a copy of the
verdict of Faizabad court in connection with Babri case of 1949 but
this case is regarding dispute among the mahants of Ayodhya
themselves regarding ownership of Ram Chabootara and not
about the ownership of Babri Masjid. However, according to this
verdict and other relevant documents it is mentioned that Babri
Masjid is located in the west of Ram Chabootara. Justice Sudhir
Agarwal admonished Ranjit Lal Varma and said that with these
irrelevant documents he is telling lies and trying to mislead the
court. According to Mohammad Shamim, advocate of High Court
who is involved in Babri Masjid case, Nirmorhi Akhara could not
prove its claim to Babri Masjid by any of these documents and
papers. He said that after Ranjit Lal Varma, another witness on
behalf of Hindus who also has filed the case in favour of Ram Lalla
will start his arguments after which, witnesses of Muslims will cross
examine witnesses of Hindus. After this the bench of learned
judges will pronounce the verdict.
Protest over cancellation of allotment of land for mosque
New Delhi: Large number of Muslims of Rohini and other places
staged a noisy agitation and demonstration near Delhi Lt
Governor's residence in protest against cancellation of allotment of
a piece of land in Rohini for construction of a mosque. It may be
mentioned that on demand of local Muslims and intervention of
some Muslim leaders, a plot of about 400 sq meters at a price of
Rs 45 lakh was allotted by DDA to Dargah Islamia Managing
Committee on 1 June, possession of which was obtained on 15
June and initial work for building the mosque was started.
Residents Welfare Association (RWA) and local people of the
majority community of Rohini objected to the construction of
mosque in this locality. Under their and some other organisation's
pressure, it is understood that Lt Governor asked DDA to cancel
the allotment which it did on 7 July. This angered Muslims and their
delegation met Jama Masjid's Maulana Imam Bokhari, Delhi
Minority Commission's Chairman Kamal Farooqi, Chief Minister
Shiela Dikshit, Minister Salman Khurshid etc. The delegation also
tried to meet LG but could not meet him. All these people assured
the delegation members that they will try to meet LG and solve this
problem because cancellation of land after allotment and making
all payments is highly unfair. Salman Khurshid assured the people
that he will meet the prime minister and home minister
Chidambaram and try to get the allotment of land restored.
Demand for a "Muslim state" in Kerala
Konoor: Kerala police's cyber branch received an email from UAE
in which a warning is given that if a separate Muslim state by
including some north Kerala districts like Malappuram, Calicut,
Kunoor and Kasargot is not formed, there will be serial bomb blasts
in the state. Inspector General of Police said that this email was
sent to some media offices on 13th August after which police has
gone into action. A report has been lodged in Konoor police station
about this. The IGP said that the sender of email has given his
name Zakir Husain and has described himself as head of an
organisation called 'Malabar Mujahid'. The headquarter of this
organisation has been mentioned as Karachi which enjoys the
support of Pakistan's ISI and Lashkar-e Taiyyaba. After receipt of
the email, high alert has been issued in the whole state and also
all district headquarters have been ordered to be on alert.
Iftar party by British High Commission
New Delhi: British High Commissioner in India, Sir Richard Stagg
held a sumptuous iftar party at his residence at Rajaji Marg on 28
August in which, among others, ambassadors/high commissioners
of Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Egypt and many other Muslim and
European countries participated. Among the Indian invitees were
central minister Salman Khurshid, Khwaja Hasan Nizami Sani,
Jamaat Islami chief Maulana Jalauddin Umri, Congress leader Har
Charan Singh Josh, Justice Rajinder Sachar, Christian leader John
Dayal, IICC chairman Sirajuddin Qureshi, prominent media and
public personalities.
Case filed against Aziz Burney for treason
New Delhi: A criminal case of treason against
the country has been filed against Rashtriya
Sahara (Urdu)'s group editor Aziz Burney in the
court of Navi Mumbai's Chief Judicial Magistrate
by an advocate, Prashant Kakko on behalf of
V.V. Joshi, a research scholar and social activist.
This information is given by
BhadasforMedia.com in its news on website. The petitioner in its
suit filed under section 156 (A) of IPC on 7th August while accusing
Burney of treason against the country has pleaded that he may be
tried for treason against the country. The petitioner has further said
that Burney has published in his newspaper news about terrorists
attack in Mumbai on 26/11/08 which are always against national
interests. It has been stated in his paper that terrorists attack on
Mumbai was not committed by Pakistan but by RSS. Bhadas Media
dotcom further writes that this newspaper questioned and described
as false all claims and news by country's foreign ministry and gave
credence to Pakistan's claims. It is also stated against him (Burney)
that whatever news he has published in his newspaper with refer-
ence to blog, website and Pakistani media falsify government of
India's stand and support Pakistan's claims. It further writes that
according to Burney's newspaper, Hemant Karkare was not killed by
the terrorist Qasab but by Indian military intelligence personnel.
According to this website, more than a dozen baseless and cock and
bull stories were published in his paper which were against Indian
government's stand. The petitioner V.V. Joshi told Bhadas for Media
dotcom that the Court has been requested to take action against
Burney under MCOCA and on Court's order Mumbai police is inves-
tigating the case. According to Bhadas for Media, after investigation,
police will file FIR. According to the website, Court has taken the
accusations against Burney and his newspaper very seriously.
Meanwhile, when Burney was asked in an interview about the accu-
sations made by him in Rashtriya Sahara, he denied the accusation
that he described RSS complicit in the terrorists attack on Mumbai.
He however admitted that he had doubts about it and had expressed
it in his newspaper. He also denied the he ever said that Pakistan is
not involved in this attack. The cases filed against him (Burney) in the
court of Chief Judicial Magistrate are under various sections of IPC.
In his defence Burney said in an interview to Mumtaz Falahi that if
he had said any thing against RSS, how and why Advani invited him
in the function for release of Urdu edition of his book, My Life, My
country? In any case, this criminal suit has put Burney in a difficult
position. It is also difficult to say what will be the fate of the criminal
suit. (NA Ansari)
Translations of books on social reforms and Islamic studies
Chennai: Books written about social reforms and Islamic studies in
Urdu by different authors and their translations in Tamil and
Malayalam languages were released at Chennai and Calicut on
different dates by Maulana Mohammad Rabey Hasani Nadwi,
president of All Indian Muslim Personal Law Board. These books
are published by Islah Moaashra Committee (Social Reforms
Committee). Some of these books are Shaadi Mubarak, Two
Distinctive Characteristics of Ummat-e Muslima, Jab Rishta Toot-ta
hai (when relationship breaks off), Islam ne Aurat ko kya diya (what
Islam gave to women), Larkiyon ka Qatl-e Aam (Mass murder of
girls), Dukhtar kushi ki La'nat aur uska hal (Curse of feticide and its
solution), Islam's Gifts to Women,
Aqiqa ki sunnat ada kijiye (Perform
Aqiqa). At Chennai, among those
present at the book release func-
tion were Maulana Nizamudin,
general secretary of AIMPLB,
Maulana Mohammad Wali
Rahmani, secretary of AIMPLB etc
and a large number of Muslims.
These books (translations) were
also presented to authors of the
books and also to Khalifatullah
Saheb, Chief justice of Madras
High Court.
At Calicut also translations of
these and some other books in
Malayalam were released by
Maulana Rabey Hasani Nadwi.
Stickers regarding social reforms
in both languages i e Tamil and
Malayalam were also released in POSTER SHOWING THE FLAG OF NEWLY LAUNCHED SOCIAL DEOMOCRATIC PARTY
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Chennai and Calicut. Tamil translations of these books were done
by Maulana Abdul Aziz whereas translations in Malayalam were
done by Maulana Abdul Shakoor, member of the AIMPL Board
from Kerala. It may be stated in this connection that bringing about
social reforms in Muslim society is also among the important pro-
grammes of Muslim Personal Law Board and in order to popular-
ize and strengthen this mission it has published magazines, arti-
cles, books etc in brief and easy language on useful topics so that
people could know and benefit from them. In addition to Urdu,
English, Hindi and the above two languages, such books on social
reforms etc are published in Bengali and Kannad languages also.
These will be translated and published in other language also.
Award to Gujarat state, not to Modi
London: A British business magazine, fDi published by the famous
business and financial daily, Financial Times, has conferred its Asia
fDi Award to Gujarat state, instead of its chief minister Narendra
Modi because of his role in 2002 riots, in recognition of Gujarat's
ability to attract an outstanding volume of foreign direct investment
by more than 50 percent over the past year, which is more than 10
percent of all foreign direct investments into India. Normally, the
credit for this should have gone to the leader, chief minister of the
state, but because of his role in the riots, which is under investiga-
tion, the Award was given to Gujarat state.
Human Rights Commission's notice to UP's chief secretary
New Delhi: National Human Rights Commission has issued
notices to Uttar Pradesh's chief secretary, Director General of
Police and other officers to appear before it on 25th August and
explain why no action has been taken on its directive to close down
around 200 furnaces and industries of Meerut city which are
engaged in extracting fats from bones which are available from an
illegal slaughter house in Meerut. These furnaces and insustries
create widespread pollution in the city. The Commission said that
it has been trying for the past six months to provide relief to the
people from ill effects of pollution which is caused by the activities
of these furnaces, but in spite of orders and recommendations no
step has been taken by these authorities to get these industries
and illegal slaughter house closed within 15 days. A team of NHRC
toured Meerut city to find out the situation regarding closing down
of these factories or furnaces but found that no action was taken to
get these furnaces closed and the situation remained as before.
Because of the activities of such furnaces and industries an area
of 2 to 5 kms is affected by pollution.
More than three thousand people missing in J&K
Srinagar: According to statistics furnished in state assembly by
government in response to questions raised by opposition mem-
bers, during the past 20 years, 3429 persons were found missing,
of whom 1062 belonged to the Valley and the rest belonged to
Jammu region. Moreover, at present there are a total of 26355
orphan children in the state, of whom 5389 are those of armed mil-
itants who have been killed during operations against them or are
still missing. According to government figures, the number of wid-
ows is 8612 of whom 2267 are those whose husbands were
involved in armed conflicts and were killed. Government also stat-
ed that human rights organisations of government are doing their
jobs well and during the past 2 years 20 magistrate level investiga-
tions have been ordered. Opposition leader Ms Mahbooba Mufti
while reiterating her demand of withdrawal of army said that viola-
tion of human rights cannot be ended unless army is withdrawn
from populated areas. Referring to prime minister's speech on
Independence Day in which he had stated that from the results of
recent elections it is clear that separatists have no role, she said
that in Kashmir separation is a fact which we should not ignore and
at which we should not close our eyes. She said that separatism is
an ideology and ideology never dies. Hence we must discuss it.
She also referred to an incident in which a minor boy of 14 years
was put in a jail outside the valley under Public Safety Act for his
crime of stone pelting! She said that in Kashmir army is present at
every nook and corner and for a small crime of stone pelting, the
minor boy was booked under Public Safety Act and jailed. Such a
situation is worse than Guantanamo Jail, she said.
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Minority Min. to push for reservation
New Delhi: The Central Government will soon begin the spade-
work to take reservation benefits to more backward Muslims,
under the leadership of the Minority Affairs Ministry headed by
Salman Khurshid. At present, there are 21 Muslim groups like
Ansari and Ganchi in the Central List of Other Backward
Classes (OBCs) that has 100 communities in all, who get 27
per cent reservation in education and government jobs.
According to the Sachar Committee, Muslim OBCs constitute
40.7% of total Muslims, and comprise 15.7% of the total OBC
population. However, their share in the OBC quota is just 8.3%,
according to an estimate. The report also found that Muslims
hold less than 5% of government jobs and make up only 4% of
undergraduates.
Minister for minorities affairs Salman Khurshid met the PM on
27 August seeking a "policy direction" on the issue. Asked
about the move, Khurshid said: "We flagged this issue for the
Prime Minister for a direction. He has assured all support for
affirmative action. There is, in the Constitution, a clear promise
of reservation on the basis of backwardness." The minister said
a reference could be made to the Backward Classes
Commission to revaluate its norms nationally to include more
Muslims groups.
The Congress manifesto had promised to nationally apply the
initiative of some party-led states to extend affirmative action to
the majority of Muslims. "The Congress pioneered reservations
for minorities in Kerala, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh…We
are committed to adopt this policy at the national level," the
manifesto stated. Many Muslim groups, however, have been
demanding inclusion of Dalit Muslims under the SC category,
which will give them political reservation, like reserved assem-
bly seats, a tricky issue. "The government has to consider this
demand. A Dalit Muslim is not entitled to reservation but a Dalit
Hindu is," said Ali Anwar Ansari, JD(U) MP and head of All-India
Pasmanda Muslim Mahaz or Backward Muslim Congregation.
The Ranganath Mishra Commission, set up by the previous
UPA government, had recommended 10% reservation for
Muslims but the government has not tabled the report yet. Its
terms of reference included the identification of Dalits among
non-Hindus. The Commission recommended amendment to the
Presidential Order of 1950, which defines Article 341 and limits
Dalit status to Hindus, Sikhs and neo-Buddhists.
AP seeks SC status for Dalit Christians, Muslims
Hyderabad: The Andhra Pradesh Assembly has passed a reso-
lution urging the Centre to amend the Constitution to extend
Scheduled Caste status to the Dalit Christians on 25 August. An
amendment was also brought in the resolution on the sugges-
tion of MIM floor leader Akbaruddin Owaisi to urge the Centre
to accord SC status to Dalit Muslims too. All parties apart from
BJP and LSP were unanimous in seeking SC status for
Christians. BJP leader G. Kishan Reddy opposed the resolution
stating that it would open the floodgates for conversions. LSP
member N. Jayaprakash Narayan demanded that instead of
bringing the Dalit Christians in the SC category, the reserva-
tions enjoyed by them under BC 'C' category should be
enhanced without disturbing the existing SC quota.
4 million Assam Muslims to be removed from voters list
New Delhi: In response to a petition about exclusion of approx-
imately 4 million names of alleged Bangladeshis from voters
lists in Assam, Supreme Court has taken up this case. The con-
stitution bench headed by Chief Justice K.G. Balakrishnan
issued notices to Election Commission, central and state gov-
ernments. The petitioner, Abhijit of Assam Public Works had
pleaded before the Supreme Court that 2011 Assam assembly
election may be postponed till the names of illegal
Bangladeshis who are unauthorisedly living in Assam are not
deleted from the voters lists and fresh lists of voters are pre-
pared. In view of this it is feared that on this pretext, names of
many Indian Muslims who speak Bengali may also be excluded
and they may be deprived of their voting rights.
Ramzan.com website launched
Ludhiana: Punjab's Shahi Imam, Maulana Habibur Rahman
Sani Ludhianvi inaugurated a website www.ramzan.com spe-
cially for the month of Ramzan at Punjab's religious centre in
Jama Masjid, Ludhiana which will indicate iftar and sehr times.
He said that this website will be helpful to Muslims in finding out
sehr and iftar times, particularly at places where there are no
mosques. He said that in the first phase, such times are given
for all cities of Punjab but soon such times for the cities all over
India will also be made available on this website. Incharge of
Ramzan.com, Mohammad Usman Rahmani Ludhianvi said that
this site will also be linked to U-Tube soon. He further said that
viewers of this site will also be able to hear and see the speech-
es and sermons of Maulana Habibur Rahman Sani and other
learned scholars and religious leaders. He said on the website,
information about spiritual benefits of Ramzan are also avail-
able in Urdu and English. He further said that naats and hamds
can also be downloaded through a system that will soon be cre-
ated in it. He also said that this website will be equipped with
blog and other facilities. It may be noted that this is the first
website of its kind in the country which has specially been pre-
pared for the month of Ramzan.
Muslim love their country but cannot worship it
New Delhi: Darul Uloom,
Deoband's fatwa department,
in reply to a question if as
Muslims they can sing the
national song Vande Matram
or not, said that Indian Muslims
deeply love their country but
cannot worship it. It was fur-
ther stated that in the song Vande Matram some parts are
against Islamic belief because in this song while comparing
land or soil of the country to God, one is asked to worship it
which is against Islam's belief in the Unity of God. It also said
that Islam teaches that worship, in fact everything, is for Allah
only. Hence Muslim children should not sing the song. It is fur-
ther said in the fatwa that we are old citizens of India. We
deeply love it but we cannot worship it.
In another fatwa of Darul Uloom's website, the accusation of
making all non-Muslims as Muslims by force has been
described as nonsense. It is said that in no case, Islam allows
this and that Islam neither allows non-Muslims to be made
Muslims by force nor killing them. Qur'an says that in religion
there is no force and compulsion. According to Islam, any one
is free to enter the fold of Islam and similarly, is free to follow
his religion.
It may be stated in this connection that VHP's president Ashok
Singhal had stated in a press conference at Mathura on 12
August that those who live in the country will have to say Vande
Matram. He said that central government, because of vote bank
politics, is appeasing minorities whereas some minorities are
not even prepared to consider themselves as Indians. He said
that for living in India one will have to say Vande Matram. In
another context he said that VHP is determined to build Ram
Mandir and preparations for this are in full swing in Ayodhya. He
further said that gau yatra will be taken out in which a huge doc-
ument signed by 50 crore people will be submitted to the
President of India.
Survey of Waqf properties will be done in West Bengal
Kolkata: Chairman of West Bengal Waqf Board, Mohammad
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Nizam Shamim said while speaking to media persons that the
Board will conduct a survey of all its movable and immovable
properties in West Bengal so that more resources could be cre-
ated for different welfare and development activities and proj-
ects for minorities (Muslims). He said that a request has been
made to state's survey department to conduct a survey, with the
help and cooperation of Kolkata Municipal Corporation, of all
Waqf properties in Kolkata's 156 wards.
Mohammad Shamim, a former IPS officer who took over as
chairman of W. Bengal's Waqf Board in September, 2008, said
that at present there are nearly 1½ thousand Waqf properties in
Kolkata from where it gets income in the form of rent and other
activities. He said that a survey of all Waqf properties, disputed
as well as undisputed, was earlier done in the state's 18 dis-
tricts after which it came to be known that there are a total of
approximately 25000 Waqf properties in the whole state. He
said that now a committee of high officials will be constituted
which will examine these properties and serious efforts will be
made to free all properties which are illegally occupied. He said
that Waqf properties under illegal occupations have been iden-
tified and action will be taken soon to get such occupations
vacated. Regarding Waqf properties occupied by Shaw Wallace
since long, he said that an understanding with this firm has
been reached after which Waqf's monthly income has
increased from Rs 32000 to Rs 6 lakhs and as compensation
for its illegal occupation for a long time, the firm has separately
given Rs 1 crore to the Board. Similarly, after understanding
with Royal Golf Club of Kolkata, the Board is now getting Rs 1
lakh monthly which was extremely low earlier. In addition to this
increased rent, the Club has also given Rs 38 lakh to bring all
the earlier disputes to an end. Another dispute had been going
on between the Waqf Board and Tollygunj Club. After agree-
ment with this Club, the Board will now get a monthly rent of Rs
1 lakh from the Club and Rs 32 lakh as compensation.
In Kashmir 10.5 lakh kanal land under army occupation
Jammu: Jammu & Kashmir government, in a written reply in the
state assembly in reply to questions by opposition members,
admitted that in the three regions of Jammu, Kashmir and
Laddakh of the state, army has occupied 10, 54, 721 kanals of
land. Since the chief minister Umar Abdullah, who is also the
home minister, was not present in the House, copies of the
reply were distributed in the assembly. It was further stated in
the reply that the army, CRPF, PSF and Indo-Tibetan Border
Police are illegally occupying a total of 8, 55, 407 kanals of land
and the rights of 1, 99, 314 kanals of land have been trans-
ferred by the state government to the army and other agencies
under local law. Laddakh tops in this respect where on more
than 4, 03, 600 kanals army has set up its camps and other
installations. Similarly, in thousands of kanals of lands in other
areas of northern Kashmir, Uri, Southern and Central Kashmir
(Srinagar, Badgam, Ganderbal etc) army and para military units
have set up its camps and installations.
Government has clearly stated in its replies, which are of very
sensitive nature, that under Land Acquisition Act, which is fully
applicable in Kashmir, land acquired by any military or non-mil-
itary organisation cannot be taken back by government.
Government reply also said that under this Act rent is also being
paid to owners of land according to new rates and for non-agri-
cultural land occupied by army or any other agency, rent is
being paid to land owners and for agricultural lands under their
occupation, compensation is given or land itself is returned
within six months. It may be mentioned that pro-Indian political
parties too demand vacation of agricultural lands, fruit gardens
and residential accommodations occupied by army or para mil-
itary forces because people and organisations are very much
worried over increasing army occupation.
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INTERNATIONAL
How Israel Wages Game Theory Warfare
JEFF GATES 2003 invasion of Iraq began treatment of Arabs and Muslims, particularly
their psyops campaign no later Palestinians?
In 2005, the Nobel Prize in than 1986 when an Israeli Israeli game theorists operate not from the
Economic Science was Mossad operation (Operation Center for Morality or the Center for Justice
awarded to Israeli mathe- Trojan) made it appear that the but from the Center for Rationality. As mod-
matician and game theory Libyan leadership was transmit- eled by Zionist war planners, game theory is
specialist Robert J. ting terrorist directives from devoid of all values except one: the ability to
Aumann, co-founder of Tripoli to their embassies world- anticipate-within an acceptable range of prob-
the Center for Rationality wide. Soon thereafter, two U.S. abilities-how "the mark" will react when pro-
at Hebrew University. This soldiers were killed by a terror- voked. Thus we see the force-multiplier poten-
Jerusalem resident explains: "the entire school ist attack in a Berlin dis- tial for those who wage war with well-planned
of thought that we have developed here in cotheque. Ten days later, U.S., provocations and well-timed crises.
Israel" has turned "Israel into the leading author- British and German aircraft Israeli behavior is often immoral and
ity in this field." dropped 60 tons of bombs on unjust but that does not mean it is irrational.
Israeli strategists rely on game theory mod- Libya. Robert J. Aumann For Colonial Zionists committed to the pursuit
els to ensure the intended response to staged The following is a senior of an expansionist agenda, even murderous
provocations and manipulated crises. With the Mossad operative's assessment (published in armed, financed, befriended and defended provocations are rational because the response
use of game theory algorithms, those responses 1994 in The Other Side of Deception) of that Zionism. This "special relationship" includes the can be mathematically modeled, ensuring the
become predictable, even foreseeable-within an 1986 operation-five years before the Gulf War U.S.-discrediting veto of dozens of U.N. resolu- results are reasonably foreseeable. That alone
acceptable range of probabilities. The waging of and 15 years before the murderous provocation tions critical of Israeli conduct. From a game is sufficient for a people who, as God's chosen,
war "by way of deception" is now a mathemati- that preceded the invasion of Iraq: theory perspective, how difficult was it to antici- consider it their right to operate above the rule of
cal discipline. After the bombing of Libya, our friend pate that-out of a worldwide population of 1.3 law.
Such "probabilistic" war planning enables Qadhafi is sure to stay out of the picture for billion Muslims-19 Muslim men could be Jeff Gates is author of Guilt By Association,
Tel Aviv to deploy serial provocations and well- some time.. Iraq and Saddam Hussein are the induced to perpetrate a murderous act in Democracy at Risk and The Ownership
timed crises as a force multiplier to project next target. We're starting now to build him up response to U.S support for Israel's lengthy mis- Solution. See www.criminalstate.com.
Israeli influence worldwide. For a skilled agent as the big villain. It will
provocateur, the target can be a person, a com- take some time, but in
pany, an economy, a legislature, a nation or an
entire culture-such as Islam. With a well-mod-
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INTERNATIONAL
“Our sons are used as involuntary organ donors by Israel”
Here is an English translation of the full text of the arti-
cle by a Swedish journalist in his country’s top newspa-
per, Aftonbladet, on 17 August. It was convered in a
news item in the previous MG issue on page 25. The arti-
cle has caused a sensation worldwide about the criminal
and outlaw nature of Israel and has led to the cancella-
tion of the scheduled visit of the Swedish foreign minis-
ter to Israel. The exposure should be read with the sen-
sational arrest of rabbis and influential Jews in the US
who were trading in [Palestinian?] human organs (see
MG< 16-31 August 09, p. 25). Similar stories of of of
organs of Palestinians and nationals of other countries
are appearing in various newspaers and websites. We
will carry some of them in the forthcoming issues.
Despite the usual Israeli crying and threats, the paper
did not back off and followed it up with a second article
on the same issue (Editor)
DONALD BOSTRÖM
You could call me a 'matchmaker,' said Levy Izhak Rosenbaum,
from Brooklyn, USA, in a secret recording with an FBI-agent whom
he believed to be a client. Ten days later, at the end of July this year,
Rosenbaum was arrested and a vast, Sopranos-like, imbroglio of
money-laundering and illegal organ-trade was revealed.
Rosenbaum¹s matchmaking had nothing to do with romance. It was
all about buying and selling kidneys from Israel on the black market.
Rosenbaum says that he buys the kidneys for $10,000, from poor
people. He then proceeds to sell the organs to desperate patients
in the States for $160,000. The accusations have shaken the
American transplantation business. If they are true it means that
organ trafficking is documented for the first time in the US, experts
tell the New Jersey Real-Time News.
On the question of how many organs he has sold Rosenbaum
replies: "Quite a lot. And I have never failed," he boasts. The busi-
ness has been running for quite some time. Francis Delmonici, pro-
fessor of transplant surgery at Harvard and member of the National
Kidney Foundation¹s Board of Directors, tells the same newspaper
that organ-trafficking, similar to the one reported from Israel, is car-
ried out in other places of the world as well. 5-6,000 operations a
year, about ten per cent of the world's kidney transplants are carried
out illegally, according to Delmonici.
Countries suspected of these activities are Pakistan, the
Philippines and China, where the organs are allegedly taken from
executed prisoners. But Palestinians also harbor strong suspicions
against Israel for seizing young men and having them serve as the
country¹s organ reserve - a very serious accusation, with enough
question marks to motivate the International Court of Justice (ICJ)
to start an investigation about possible war crimes.
Israel has repeatedly been under fire for its unethical ways of
dealing with organs and transplants. France was among the coun-
tries that ceased organ collaboration with Israel in the nineties.
Jerusalem Post wrote that "the rest of the European countries are
expected to follow France's example shortly." Half of the kidneys
transplanted to Israelis since the beginning of the
2000s have been bought illegally from Turkey, Eastern Europe
or Latin America. Israeli health authorities have full knowledge of
this business but do nothing to stop it. At a conference in 2003 it
was shown that Israel is the only western country with a medical
profession that doesn't condemn the illegal organ trade. The coun-
try takes no legal measures against doctors participating in the ille-
gal business - on the contrary, chief medical officers of Israel¹s big
hospitals are involved in most of the illegal transplants, according to
Dagens Nyheter (December 5, 2003).
In the summer of 1992, Ehud Olmert, then minister of health,
tried to address the issue of organ shortage by launching a big cam-
paign aimed at having the Israeli public register for post mortem
organ donation. Half a million pamphlets were spread in local news-
papers. Ehud Olmert himself was the first person to sign up. A cou-
ple of weeks later the Jerusalem Post reported that the campaign
was a success. No fewer than 35,000 people had signed up. Prior
to the campaign it would have been 500 in a normal month. In the
same article, however, Judy Siegel, the reporter, wrote that the gap
between supply and demand was still large. 500 people were in line
for a kidney transplant, but only 124 transplants could be per-
formed. Of 45 people in need of a new liver, only three could be
operated on in Israel.
While the campaign was running, young Palestinian men start-
ed to disappear from villages in the West Bank and Gaza. After five
days Israeli soldiers would bring them back dead, with their bodies
ripped open. Talk of the bodies terrified the population of the occu-
pied territories. There were rumors of a dramatic increase of young
men disappearing, with ensuing nightly funerals of autopsied bod-
ies.
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FACTS AT A GLANCE
Dear Brethren-e-Islam! Assalamu Alaikum
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The parents’ teaching of a good word to their child is
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Educational Session: April to March

Educational Milestones:
Primary
Middle
High
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Department of Holy Quran Memorization (Hifz-wa-
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Education and upbringing in a purely Islamic
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Quran (Hifz) and secondary level education.

Centre for distance education. Programme G.M.O,
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Training Institute)

No. of boy and girl students: 450 (approx.)

No. of orphans : 125

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Teaching and non teaching staffs: 28

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Visitors: The institution has been visited by Maulana
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Maulana Abul Lais Islahi Saheb., Ameer Jamaat-e-
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Dr. Zakir Hussain Sb. (visited twice as
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Professor
Humayun Kabir Sb., Union Minister
Dr. A.R. Kidwai
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Maulana Nizamuddin Sb,
Ameer Shariat Imarat Shariya Bihar and Orissa, Patna

Ibrahim Sulaiman Sait Sb., President All India Muslim
League
Afzal Hussain Sb., Secretary General J.I.H

Maulana Mujibullah Nadvi Sb, Shaikhul Jamia, Jameat-
ur-Rashad, Azamgarh (U.P.)
Maulana Abdus Sami
Jafri Sb., Ameer Ahle Hadees Saqidpur, Patna
Dr.
Ghulam Haider Sb., I.D.B Hyderabad
Maulana
Ziauddin Islahi Sb., Editor Monthly Ma’arif, Darul
Musannefin Shibli Academy, Azamgarh (UP)
Syed
Shahabuddin Sb., Ex-M.P.
Saiyid Hamid Sb., Vice
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Muslim University
Maulana Syed Rabey Hasni Nadwi
Sb, President of All India Muslim Personal Law Board
and Rector Nadwatul Ulama, Lucknow
Justice A.M.
Ahamadi Sb, Former Chief Justice of India and
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Uzma Naheed
Saheba, Chairperson, Iqra Education Foundation
Mumbai and Member All India Muslim Personal Law
Board and several other Islamic Scholars,
Administrators, Governors, Chief Ministers, Judicial
luminaries, etc.
I was in the area at the time, working on a book. On several
occasions I was approached by UN staff concerned about the
developments. The persons contacting me said that organ theft def-
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Atiya
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initely occurred but that they were prevented from
doing anything about it. On an assignment from a
broadcasting network I then travelled around
interviewing a great number of Palestinian fami-
lies in the West Bank and Gaza - meeting parents
who told of how their sons had been deprived of
organs before being killed. One example that I
encountered on this eerie trip was the young
stone-thrower Bilal Achmed Ghanan.
It was close to midnight when the motor roar
from an Israeli military column sounded from the
outskirts of Imatin, a small village in the northern
parts of the West Bank. The two thousand inhab-
itants were awake. They were still, waiting, like
silent shadows in the dark, some lying upon roofs,
others hiding behind curtains, walls, or trees that
provided protection during the curfew but still
offered a full view toward what would become the
grave for the first martyr of the village. The military
had interrupted the electricity and the area was
now a closed-off military zone - not even a cat
could move outdoors without risking its life. The
overpowering silence of the dark night was only
interrupted by quiet sobbing. I don't remember if
our shivering was due to the cold or to the ten-
sion. Five days earlier, on May 13, 1992, an
Israeli special force had used the village's carpen-
try workshop for an ambush. The person they
were assigned to put out of action was Bilal
Achmed Ghanan, one of the stone-throwing
Palestinian youngsters who made life difficult for
the Israeli soldiers. As one of the leading stone-
throwers Bilal Ghanan had been wanted by the
military for a couple of years. Together with other
stone-throwing boys he hid in the Nablus moun-
tains, with no roof over his head. Getting caught
meant torture and death for these boys - they had
to stay in the mountains at all costs.
On May 13 Bilal made an exception, when for
some reason, he walked unprotected past the
carpentry workshop. Not even Talal, his older
brother, knows why he took this risk. Maybe the
boys were out of food and needed to restock.
Everything went according to plan for the
Israeli special force. The soldiers stubbed their
cigarettes, put away their cans of Coca-Cola, and
calmly aimed through the broken window. When
Bilal was close enough they needed only to pull
the triggers. The first shot hit him in the chest.
According to villagers who witnessed the incident
he was subsequently shot with one bullet in each
leg. Two soldiers then ran down from the carpen-
try workshop and shot Bilal once in the stomach.
Finally, they grabbed him by his feet and dragged
him up the twenty stone steps of the workshop
stair. Villagers say that people from both the UN
and the Red Crescent were close by, heard the
discharge and came to look for wounded people
in need of care. Some arguing took place as to
who should take care of the victim.
Discussions ended with Israeli soldiers load-
ing the badly wounded Bilal in a jeep and driving
him to the outskirts of the village, where a military
helicopter waited. The boy was flown to a destina-
tion unknown to his family. Five days later he
came back, dead and wrapped in green hospital
fabric. A villager recognized Captain Yahya, the
leader of the military column who had transported
Bilal from the postmortem center Abu Kabir, out-
side of Tel Aviv, to the place for his final rest.
"Captain Yahya is the worst of them all," the vil-
lager whispered in my ear. After Yahya had
unloaded the body and changed the green fabric
for a light cotton one, some male relatives of the
victim were chosen by the soldiers to do the job of
digging and mixing cement.
Together with the sharp noises from the shov-
els we could hear laughter from the soldiers who,
as they waited to go home, exchanged some
jokes. As Bilal was put in the grave his chest was
uncovered. Suddenly it became clear to the few
people present just what kind of abuse the boy
had been exposed to. Bilal was not by far the first
young Palestinian to be buried with a slit from his
abdomen up to his chin. The families in the West
Bank and in Gaza felt that they knew exactly what
had happened: "Our sons are used as involuntary
organ donors," relatives of Khaled from Nablus
told me, as did the mother of Raed from Jenin and
the uncles of Machmod and Nafes from Gaza,
who had all disappeared for a number of days
only to return at night, dead and autopsied.
"Why are they keeping the bodies for up to
five days before they let us bury them? What hap-
pened to the bodies during that time? Why are
they performing autopsy, against our will, when
the cause of death is obvious? Why are the bod-
ies returned at night? Why is it done with a mili-
tary escort? Why is the area closed off during the
funeral? Why is the electricity interrupted?" Nafe's
uncle was upset and he had a lot of questions.
The relatives of the dead Palestinians no
longer harbored any doubts as to the reasons for
the killings, but the spokesperson for the Israeli
army claimed that the allegations of organ theft
were lies. All the Palestinian victims go through
autopsy on a routine basis, he said.
Bilal Achmed Ghanem was one of 133
Palestinians killed in various ways that year.
According to the Palestinian statistics the causes
of death were: shot in the street, explosion, tear
gas, deliberately run over, hanged in prison, shot
in school, killed at home, etcetera. The 133 peo-
ple killed were between four months to 88 years
old. Only half of them, 69 victims, went through
postmortem examination. The routine autopsy of
killed Palestinians - of which the army spokesper-
son was talking - has no bearing on the reality in
the occupied territories. The questions remain.
We know that Israel has a great need for
organs, that there is a vast and illegal trade of
organs which has been running for many years
now, that the authorities are aware of it and that
doctors in managing positions at the big hospitals
participate, as well as civil servants at various lev-
els. We also know that young Palestinian men
disappeared, that they were brought back after
five days, at night, under tremendous secrecy,
stitched back together after having been cut from
abdomen to chin.It's time to bring clarity to this
macabre business, to shed light on what is going
on and what has taken place in the territories
occupied by Israel since the Intifada began.
Donald Boström is a Swedish photojournalist,
graphic artist and writer. He is a contributor to the
leading Swedish evening paper Aftonbladet
where this article was published in the 17 August
09 issue)
Israel Steals Body Parts: Palestinians
KHALID AMAYREH
Occupied Palestine: "I don't know for sure why they
are refusing to hand him over to us to bury him,"
Fawzi told IOL about the body of his slain son.
RAMALLAH - The controversy triggered by a
Swedish newspaper report about Israel's har-
vesting of Palestinian organs has salted the
wounds of many Palestinian families haunted by
the memories of loved ones who suffered the
same fate.
"They claimed they came to arrest him, but in
truth they came to murder him, which they did,"
Walid Masalmeh, a resident of the small West
Bank town of Dura, 10 kilometer west of Al-Khalil
(Hebron), said about his relative Bassam.
In 1995, Bassam was killed by the Israeli
army at the village of Beit Awwa, located near the
former armistice line between the West Bank and
what is now Israel.
"But 24 hours later they returned the body
with a huge scar running from the chin to the
lower abdomen," Walid remembers.
"They took all the vital organs, including the
heart, kidneys, Liver. Then they stuffed the empty
cavities with garbage before sewing him up."
Several other Palestinians gave a similar nar-
rative, recounting how they received the bodies
of their murdered relatives, mostly men in their
early twenties, with vital organs taken away by
the Israeli authorities.
Israeli occupation authorities don't deny that
the bodies of victims were returned to their
respective families minus the internal organs, but
claim that the organs were disposed of as part of
routine autopsy operations.
"I am not a medical doctor, but I do know that
an autopsy is performed to establish the cause of
death," says Walid.
"In Bassam's case, and hundreds of similar
cases, the cause of death is known too well since
the victims were killed by the Israeli occupation
army." The Swedish mass circulation Aftonbladet
published last month a report accusing Israeli
troops of killing Palestinians and then harvesting
their organs. Israeli officials have dismissed the
report as anti-Semitic and have been piling up
pressures on the Swedish government to con-
demn it. Stockholm has so far remained stead-
fast, insisting it was in no position to interfere
with its free media.
Held Bodies "These people have no morality,
save the morality of murder and lies," Shahin
said about Israeli authorities still holding the
body of his son. Majed Abu Dush was assassinat-
ed by Israeli death squads west of Al-Khalil in
2002. But Israeli authorities are still keeping his
body.
"I don't know for sure why they are refusing
to hand him over to us to bury him," his tearful
father Fawzi told IOL. "This makes me think that
there is a foul play."
Fawzi has been petitioning Palestinian
Authority (PA) officials, including Premier Salam
Fayyad, to press the Israeli government to
release the detained bodies of hundreds of
Palestinians.
Over the years, the Israeli occupation army
killed thousands of Palestinians, hundreds of
them children, and in many cases the bodies
INTERNATIONAL
were buried in
u n k n o w n
graves or
remained
"imprisoned" in
refrigerators.
Israel has
also been
detaining the
corpses of
Palestinian Fawzi, father of victim
fighters killed in Majed Abu Dush
combat with its
forces to inflict
maximum emo-
tional pain on
their families.
Mustafa
Shahin sus-
pects that Israeli
authorities
might have har- Mustafa Shahin
vested the father of victim
organs of his
son, whom they killed in 2003.
"What would prevent Israel from doing the
worst thing that comes to your mind," he fumed.
"These people have no morality, save the
morality of murder and lies."
According to Shahin and Abu Dush, Israel is
detaining the bodies of at least 48 young
Palestinians killed by its army in recent years, all of
them from the al-Khalil region alone.
The overall number of detained corpses of
Palestinian victims is believed to be in the hun-
dreds.
Bad Record: Indeed, the Aftonbladet report
was by no means the first revelation of its kind
concerning Israeli violations of bodies of
Palestinian victims.
In January 2002, an Israeli cabinet minister,
Nessim Dahan, tacitly admitted during a routine
questioning in the Knesset that certain organs
from the bodies of Palestinians might have been
used for Jewish transplant patients without the
knowledge of the victims' families.
Dahan said he couldn't confirm or deny that
organs taken form Palestinian victims were used
for transplant or in scientific research.Arab
Knesset member Ahmed Teibi, who questioned
Dahan at the time, told IOL the Israeli minister of
health "was hedging and wouldn't give a clear
answer." Late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat had
openly accused the Israeli army and medical
authorities of harvesting the organs of Palestinian
victims. "They murder our kids and use their
organs as spare parts," Arafat told Al-Jazeera in
2002, showing pictures of the bodies of
Palestinian children killed and badly mutilated by
the Israeli army.
In 1998, Israeli medical authorities brashly
stole body organs from a Scottish tourist named
Alistair Sinclair who died under mysterious cir-
cumstances at the Ben Gurion Airport. Sinclair's
family reportedly sued Israel upon finding that
their son's heart and other organs were missing.
According to one report, a heart and organs
were sent to his mother who didn't believe that
these were her son's. (islamonline.net)

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INTERNATIONAL
Top Officer Says US Bungling Muslim Outreach
ANNE GEARAN
Washington - The U.S. military is bungling its outreach to the
Muslim world and squandering good will by failing to live up
to its promises, the nation's highest-ranking military officer
wrote on 28 August 09. Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff, said there is too much emphasis on
telling the U.S. story and not enough on building trust and
credibility.
"We hurt ourselves and the message we are trying to
send when it appears we are doing something merely for the
credit," Mullen wrote in an essay published in a military jour-
nal. "We hurt ourselves more when our words don't align with
our actions."
Mullen said he dislikes the military's focus on "strategic
communications," which he said has become a cottage
industry where the shaping of a message eclipses what that
message says. "Most strategic communication problems are
not communicatons problems at all," Mullen wrote. "They are
policy and execution problems."
Efforts to reach out to the Middle East and elsewhere in
the Muslim world is a main priority of the vast communica-
tions and public relations machinery of the Defense
Department. Mullen suggested that much of the effort is
wasted, or at least misdirected. Public opinion in the Muslim
world would seem to bear him out.
A survey of two dozen nations conducted this spring
found that positive public attitudes toward the United States
have surged in many parts of the world since President
Barack Obama's election, but not in most of the Arab and
Muslim world. The poll registered continuing levels of pro-
found distrust about U.S. influence and motives among
Muslims, particularly in Turkey, Pakistan and the Palestinian
territories. There, the report from the nonpartisan Pew
Research Center said, animosity toward the United States
"continues to run deep and unabated."
U.S. intelligence considers Pakistan, a nuclear-armed
Muslim country that Mullen has made a priority with nearly a
dozen visits over the past 18 months, among the most pro-
foundly anti-American places on Earth.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates frequently remarks that
the United States has let itself be "out-communicated by
men living in caves," a wry reference to the skill with which
al-Qaida uses the Internet to distribute its messages and
capitalize on U.S. failings. Mullen noted one of those failings,
the abuse of Iraqi detainees at the Abu Ghraib prison, but he
said the problem isn't the skill of the communicators.
"Our biggest problem isn't caves, it's credibility," Mullen
wrote in the Joint Force Quarterly. "Our messages lack cred-
ibility because we haven't invested enough in building trust
and relationships, and we haven't always delivered on prom-
ises." (truthout.org)
CIA's Black Sites,Illuminated
GREG MILLER
Washington: Their transformations took place in a sensory cocoon:
aboard a CIA aircraft, shackled in place, deprived of sight and sound
by blindfolds, headsets and hoods.
They emerged into an existence that was hidden for most of the
last eight years, but now is possible to glimpse through dozens of
declassified files released by the Obama administration last week.
Scattered throughout, in the CIA's clinical style, are descriptions of
the prisoners' surroundings, the extraordinary security measures with
which they were handled, the often brutal search for answers they
were thought to possess, and what passed for everyday life.
Some days seemed endless, illuminated around the clock by a
pair of 17-watt fluorescent bulbs. White noise from the walkways fil-
tered through the cell walls usually "in the range of 56-58" decibels,
about as loud as people generally talk.
There were touches of CIA hospitality. Prisoners were given
books, movies and checkerboards to pass the time. They could hit the
gym for exercise, and let their hair grow as long as they liked.
But there were also long stretches designed to break prisoners'
will. They were stripped, shaved and shoved against walls the moment
they arrived. What came next was an escalating menu of interrogation
options, culminating in a method used in the Inquisition - waterboard-
ing - to make them think they would drown.
The purpose, of course, was to make them talk. The Bush admin-
istration said the United States was in danger of additional assaults
after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. CIA interrogators were under orders
to get a lot of information, fast. Whether the harsh interrogation meth-
ods were necessary to gather the intelligence is still a matter of dis-
pute.
The Only Glimpse? The secret overseas "black sites" where the
CIA conducted the interrogations are empty now, if not already disman-
tled. They were never examined by a congressional committee, nor
inspected by the international Red Cross.
"These papers may provide the only picture that history gets of
what life was like in these facilities," said Tom Malinowski, Washington
director of Human Rights Watch.
The black sites not only imprisoned men but reduced them to a
near helpless state. The aim, as outlined in one document, was to
teach every detainee "to perceive and value his personal welfare, com-
fort and immediate needs more than the information he is protecting."
The prisoners' arrival - almost always in diapers - was engineered to
achieve that end.
After being shaved, stripped and photographed nude, detainees
were examined by CIA medical and psychological personnel. Then
came a preliminary interrogation that would determine the prisoners'
fate. Only those considered extremely cooperative would avoid a trio
of techniques designed to produce a "baseline, dependent" state: the
deprivation of clothes, solid food and sleep.
Follow-up sessions would start with the prisoner standing with his
back against a wall and a towel or collar to prevent whiplash wrapped
around his neck. He could be thrown against the wall just once "to
make a point, or 20 to 30 times consecutively."
Prisoners so abhorred the repeated slamming that they would
remain in so-called stress positions, such as painful kneeling postures,
for hours to avoid a return to the wall, according to one Dec. 30, 2004,
memo that amounts to a CIA blueprint for breaking a detainee's will.
Meticulous Detail: The rules for administering such methods were
spelled out precisely. Detainees could be kept in a large box for 18
hours a day, but small boxes for only two hours at a time. They could
be hosed with water for 15 minutes, but the air temperature had to
exceed 65 degrees if they weren't to be given a towel.
The detainee "finds himself in the complete control of Americans,"
the memo said. "The procedures he is subjected to are precise, quiet
and almost clinical." Earlier this year, the Obama administration
released a series of Justice Department memos laying out legal ratio-
nales for the array of coercive interrogation methods the CIA
employed.
The documents - including an internal report by the CIA inspector
general and correspondence between the agency and the Justice
Department - show that the agency also sought Justice Department
review of the basic conditions in which prisoners were kept.
The agency had to use extraordinary security measures inside the
prison walls, the records indicate, because keeping the facilities' pur-
pose secret meant the CIA could not surround them with guards and
barriers that would attract attention from the public.
The black sites "were not designed as ordinary prisons, much less
as high-security detention centers for extremely dangerous, and often
highly sophisticated, international terrorists," one Justice Department
memo said. "They are a serious risk to escape and to the safety of CIA
personnel."
About 100 prisoners passed through the CIA system. Among them
were a handful of "high-value detainees" including Khalid Shaikh
Mohammed, self-proclaimed mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks.
Some detainees attacked guards, according to the documents,
and the sites themselves were also seen as potential targets for terror-
ist attacks.
Total Isolation: The records don't say where the prisons were, but
news reports and accounts from former U.S. officials indicate the sites
included Thailand, Poland, Romania, Morocco and Lithuania.
Internal security measures included the "white noise" in the prison
walkways to prevent detainees from communicating. The upper limit
was 79 decibels - about the level of a garbage disposal - to avoid per-
manent harm to detainees' hearing.
Prisoners were kept in solitary confinement and allowed no com-
munication with the outside world. Any time they were moved, they
were shackled and outfitted in blacked-out goggles to prevent them
from seeing the layout of the prison, or getting any clues to where it
was. Their cells were illuminated and monitored via closed-circuit video
24 hours a day. "Some detainees are provided eyeshades to permit
them to block out the light when they are sleeping," an Aug. 31, 2006,
Justice Department memo said.
In some sections, the memos seem contradictory, describing ways
to reduce prisoners to an infantile state while insisting that the agency
be committed to "minimizing the physical discomfort and psychological
distress that detainees are likely to suffer."
As a result, after prisoners were broken by a regimen of sleep dep-
rivation, slamming them against the wall, and in three cases water-
boarding, they were often given items to ease their sense of isolation.
Among them were "a wide variety of books, puzzles, paper and 'safe'
writing utensils, chess and checker sets, a personal journal, and
access to DVD and VCR videotapes."(truthout.org)

Lockerbie: Megrahi was framed

JOHN PILGER
he hysteria over the release of the so-
600 pages of new and deliberately suppressed
evidence would have set the seal on his inno-
cence and given us more than a glimpse of how
stood to collect, on the Libyans' conviction, up
to $4m as a reward.
Megrahi was convicted by three Scottish
by Tehran as a reprisal for the shooting down of
an Iranian airliner by a US warship in Iranian
territorial waters. Among the 290 dead were 66
children. In 1990, the ship's captain was award-
ed the Legion of Merit by Bush Sr. "for excep-
tionally meritorious conduct in the performance
of outstanding service as commanding officer."

T called Lockerbie bomber reveals

much about the political and media
class on both sides of the Atlantic,
especially Britain. From Gordon Brown's
"repulsion" to Barack Obama's "outrage," the
theater of lies and hypocrisy is dutifully
attended by those who call themselves jour-
nalists. "But what if Megrahi lives longer than
three months?" whined a BBC reporter to the
Scottish First Minister, Alex Salmond. "What
will you say to your constituents, then?"
Horror of horrors that a dying man should live
longer than prescribed before he "pays" for his
"heinous crime": the description of the Scottish
justice minister, Kenny MacAskill, whose "com-
passion" allowed Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-
Megrahi to go home to Libya to "face justice
from a higher power." Amen.
The American satirist Larry David once
addressed a voluble crony as "a babbling brook
of bullsh*t." Such eloquence summarizes the
circus of Megrahi's release.
No one in authority has had the guts to
state the truth about the bombing of Pan Am
Flight 103 above the Scottish village of
Lockerbie on 21 December 1988 in which 270
people were killed. The governments in
England and Scotland in effect blackmailed
Megrahi into dropping his appeal as a condition
of his immediate release. Of course there were
oil and arms deals under way with Libya; but
had Megrahi proceeded with his appeal, some
and why he was stitched up for the benefit of
"strategic interests."
"The endgame came down to damage limi-
tation," said the former CIA officer Robert Baer,
who took part in the original investigation,
"because the evidence amassed by [Megrahi's]
appeal is explosive and extremely damning to
the system of justice." New witnesses would
show that it was impossible for Megrahi to have
bought clothes that were found in the wreckage
of the Pan Am aircraft - he was convicted on the
word of a Maltese shopowner who claimed to
have sold him the clothes, then gave a false
description of him in 19 separate statements and
even failed to recognize him in the courtroom.
The new evidence would have shown that
a fragment of a circuit board and bomb timer,
"discovered" in the Scottish countryside and
said to have been in Megrahi's suitcase, was
probably a plant. A forensic scientist found no
trace of an explosion on it. The new evidence
would demonstrate the impossibility of the
bomb beginning its journey in Malta before it
was "transferred" through two airports unde-
tected to Flight 103.
A "key secret witness" at the original trial,
who claimed to have seen Megrahi and his co-
accused al- Alim Khalifa Fahimah (who was
acquitted) loading the bomb on to the plane at
Frankfurt, was bribed by the US authorities
holding him as a "protected witness." The
defense exposed him as a CIA informer who
judges sitting in a courtroom in "neutral"
Holland. There was no jury. One of the few
reporters to sit through the long and often farci-
cal proceedings was the late Paul Foot, whose
landmark investigation in Private Eye exposed
it as a cacophony of blunders, deceptions and
lies: a whitewash. The Scottish judges, while
admitting a "mass of conflicting evidence" and
rejecting the fantasies of the CIA informer,
found Megrahi guilty on hearsay and unproven
circumstance. Their 90- page "opinion," wrote
Foot, "is a remarkable document that claims an
honored place in the history of British miscar-
riages of justice." (Lockerbie - the Flight from
Justice by Paul Foot can be downloaded from
the Private Eye website for £5).
Foot reported that most of the staff of the
US embassy in Moscow who had reserved
seats on Pan Am flights from Frankfurt can-
celed their bookings when they were alerted by
US intelligence that a terrorist attack was
planned. He named Margaret Thatcher the
"architect" of the cover-up after revealing that
she killed the independent inquiry her transport
secretary Cecil Parkinson had promised the
Lockerbie families; and in a phone call to
President George Bush Sr. on 11 January
1990, she agreed to "low-key" the disaster
after their intelligence services had report-
ed "beyond doubt" that the Lockerbie bomb had
been placed by a Palestinian group contracted
Perversely, when Saddam Hussein invad-
ed Kuwait in 1991, Bush needed Iran's support
as he built a "coalition" to expel his wayward
client from an American oil colony. The only
country that defied Bush and backed Iraq was
Libya. "Like lazy and overfed fish," wrote Foot,
"the British media jumped to the bait. In almost
unanimous chorus, they engaged in furious vil-
ification and op-ed warmongering against
Libya." The framing of Libya for the
Lockerbie crime was inevitable. Since then, a
US defense intelligence agency report,
obtained under Freedom of Information, has
confirmed these truths and identified the likely
bomber; it was to be centerpiece of Megrahi's
defense.
In 2007, the Scottish Criminal Cases
Review Commission referred Megrahi's case
for appeal. "The commission is of the view,"
said its chairman, Dr. Graham Forbes, "that
based upon our lengthy investigations, the new
evidence we have found and other evidence
which was not before the trial court, that the
applicant may have suffered a miscarriage of
justice."
The words "miscarriage of justice" are
missing entirely from the current furor, with
Kenny MacAskill reassuring the baying mob
that the scapegoat will soon face justice from
that "higher power." What a disgrace.
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Settlement Freeze No Longer Required
RAMZY BAROUD
he US has decided to be ‘flexible’
T
regarding its once touted call for a total
Israeli freeze on the expansion of its
occupied territories’ settlements, all
illegal under international law.
A senior official spoke to reporters on condi-
tion of anonymity on August 27. “It was more
important that the scope of a settlement freeze
was acceptable to the Israelis and the
Palestinians than to the United States,” Reuters
reported, citing the senior official. This means
that peace negotiations can resume while Israeli
bulldozers are carving up Palestinian land,
demolishing homes and cutting down trees.
It also means that the Israeli rejection of the
only US demand, which has thus far defined
President Barack Obama’s relations to the
Middle East conflict, has prevailed over the sup-
posed American persistence. In other words, the
US has officially succumbed to Israeli and pro-
Israeli pressures, in Tel Aviv and Washington.
Those not familiar with the connotation of
certain terminology in this conflict may not
appreciate what it truly means that the US will
no longer demand an Israeli halt of the ‘natural
growth’ of its settlements, especially in the occu-
pied Jerusalem area where tens of thousands of
Palestinians are vulnerable to Israeli ethnic
cleansing. Families like the Hanoun and Ghawi
family have been evicted from their homes and
thrown out on the street before sunrise. “The
police came for them at dawn on a Sunday,
heavily armed, wearing helmets and riot shields
Why Not Crippling Sanctions for Israel and the US?
PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS
n Israel, a country stolen from the
I Palestinians, fanatics control the govern-
ment. One of the fanatics is the prime min-
ister, Benjamin Netanyahu. Last week
Netanyahu called for crippling sanctions
against Iran.
The kind of blockade that Netanyahu wants
qualifies as an act of war. Israel has long threat-
ened to attack Iran on its own but prefers to
draw in the US and NATO.
Why does Israel want to initiate a war
between the United States and Iran?
Is Iran attacking other countries, bombing
civilians and destroying civilian infrastructure?
No. These are crimes committed by Israel
and the US.
Is Iran evicting peoples from lands they
have occupied for centuries and herding them
into ghettoes?
No, thats what Israel has been doing to the
Palestinians for 60 years.
What is Iran doing?
Iran is developing nuclear energy, which is its
right as a signatory to the Non-Proliferation
Treaty. Irans nuclear energy program is subject
to inspections by the International Atomic
Energy Agency (IAEA), which consistently
reports that its inspections find no diversion of
enriched uranium to a weapons program.
The position taken by Israel, and by Israels
puppet in Washington, is that Iran must not be
allowed to have the rights as a signatory to the
Non-Proliferation Treaty that every other signa-
tory has, because Iran might divert enriched
uranium to a weapons program.
In other words, Israel and the US claim the
right to abrogate Irans right to develop nuclear
energy. The Israeli/US position has no basis in
international law or in anything other than the
arrogance of Israel and the United States.
The hypocrisy is extreme. Israel is not a sig-
natory to the Non-Proliferation Treaty and devel-
oped its nuclear weapons illegally on the sly,
with, as far as we know, US help.
As Israel is an illegal possessor of nuclear
weapons and has a fanatical government that is
capable of using them, crippling sanctions
should be applied to Israel to force it to disarm.
Israel qualifies for crippling sanctions for
another reason. It is an apartheid state, as for-
mer US President Jimmy Carter demonstrated
US Audacity of Hope Falters
as they broke down the metal doors of the hous-
es and dragged the two Palestinian families out
onto the streets,” reported the Guardian on
August 24.
The heart-wrenching episodes of innocent
people being thrown into the street for no fault of
their own, only for the need to make room for
more Jewish inhabitants took place before TV
cameras and barely required more than a few
words of bashful disapproval. That was in fact a
political message, sent by Israeli Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu to the US administration
and anyone else who dares to question US set-
tlement policy. It took place when Obama’s call
for settlement freeze was at its pinnacle. Now,
just imagine how Israel will behave, now that the
US’s lonely demand is officially retracted. The
rightwing Israeli government will likely expedite
its settlement program to preclude any future
demands for freeze. Many more Hanouns and
Ghawis, and their children, will find themselves
on the pavement for simply not being Jews,
even if they are the rightful owners of the land.
The Israeli logic, however, is uncompromis-
ingly clear. Two weeks before the evictions took
place, Netanyahu addressed his cabinet, saying
that Jerusalem (including occupied East
Jerusalem) is "the capital of the Jewish people
and of the state of Israel" and that "our sover-
eignty over it cannot be challenged." He contin-
ued, "We cannot accept the idea that Jews will
not have the right to live and purchase in all
parts of Jerusalem."
Aside from her unusually ‘harsh’ statement
that the evictions were “deeply regrettable”, US
in his book, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid.
The US led the imposition of sanctions
against South Africa because of South Africas
apartheid practices. The sanctions forced the
white government to hand over political power
to the black population. Israel practices a worse
form of apartheid than did the white South
African government. Yet, Israel maintains that it
is anti-semitic to criticize Israel for a practice
that the world regards as abhorrent.
What remains of the Palestinian West Bank
that has not been stolen by Israel consists of
isolated ghettoes. Palestinians are cut off from
hospitals, schools, their farms, and from one
another. They cannot travel from one ghetto to
another without Israeli permission enforced at
checkpoints.
The Israeli governments explanation for its
gross violation of human rights comprises the
greatest collection of lies in world history. No
one, with the exception of American christian
zionists, believes one word of it.
The United States also qualifies for crippling
sanctions. Indeed, the US is over-qualified. On
the basis of lies and intentional deception of the
US Congress, the US public, the UN and NATO,
the US government invaded Afghanistan and
Iraq and used the war on terror that Washington
orchestrated to overturn US civil liberties
enshrined in the US Constitution. One million
Iraqis have paid with their lives for Americas
crimes and four million are displaced. Iraq and
its infrastructure are in ruins, and Iraqs profes-
sional elites, necessary to a modern organized
society, are dead or dispersed. The US govern-
ment has committed a war crime on a grand
scale. If Iran qualifies for sanctions, the US qual-
ifies a thousand times over.
No one knows how many women, children,
and village elders have been murdered by the
US in Afghanistan. However, the American war
of aggression against the Afghan people is now
in its ninth year. According to the US military, an
American victory is still a long ways away.
Admiral Michael Mullen, Chairman of the US
Joint Chiefs of Staff, declared in August that the
military situation in Afghanistan is serious and
deteriorating.
Older Americans can look forward to the
continuation of this war for the rest of their lives,
while their Social Security and Medicare rights
are reduced in order to free up funds for the US
armaments industry. Bush/Cheney and
Obama/Biden have made munitions the only
The Milli Gazette, 16-30 September 2009 27
Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton had no
answer to the Jerusalemite families pleading for
their stolen homes. And now this, more
American flexibility.
While Palestinians, and those who support
and sympathize with their rightful struggle, are
accustomed to Israel’s belligerent violations of
international and humanitarian law, and direct
and indirect US support of Israeli behavior,
many had the ‘audacity’ to hope that things
might change under the new US presidency.
Obama’s speech in Cairo, despite its many
flaws, was seen as a promising sign that the US
will play a more conducive role in finding a just
solution to the conflict and the ongoing tragedy
of the Palestinians. It was thought that Obama
was planning to start simple, by merely
demanding a freeze of the settlement expan-
sion. It’s anything but demanding full rights for
Palestinians, or even allowing cement, food and
medicine to starving Gaza, but it’s a start,
nonetheless.
And as Palestinians, Israelis, the entire
region and world media awaited the outcome of
the Obama-Netanyahu battle of wills, Israel car-
ried out all sorts of harms, that also went unno-
ticed.
Externally, Israel capitalized on the sup-
posed US pressure, to place counter pressure
on the US to impose dilapidating sanctions on
Iran, provide a timeline for the end of diplomacy
aimed at diffusing the hyped tension over Iran’s
nuclear program, and more. That too was the
message that Netanyahu carried with him to the
meeting with US Middle East envoy George
safe stock investment in the United States.
What is the purpose of the war of aggres-
sion against Afghanistan? Soon after his inau-
guration, President Obama promised to provide
an answer but did not. Instead, Obama quickly
escalated the war in Afghanistan and launched
a new one in Pakistan that has already dis-
placed 2 million Pakistanis. Obama has sent
21,000 more US troops into Afghanistan and
already the US commander in Afghanistan,
General Stanley McChrystal, is requesting
20,000 more.
Obama is escalating Americas war of
aggression against the Afghanistan people
despite three high profile opinion polls that show
that the American public is firmly opposed to the
continuation of the war against Afghanistan.
Sadly, the ironclad agreement between
Israel and Washington to war against Muslim
peoples is far stronger than the connection
between the American public and the American
government. At a farewell dinner party last
Thursday for Israels military attache in
Washington, who is returning to Israel to
become deputy chief of staff of the Israeli mili-
tary, Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the US
Joint Chiefs of Staff, Undersecretary of Defense
Michele Flournoy, and and Dan Shapiro, who is
in charge of Middle East affairs on the National
Security Council, were present to pay their
respects. Admiral Mullen declared that the US
will always stand with Israel. No matter how
many war crimes Israel commits. No matter how
many women and children Israel murders. No
many how many Palestinians Israel drives from
their homes, villages, and lands. If truth could
be told, the true axis-of-evil is the United States
and Israel.
Millions of Americans are now homeless
because of foreclosures. Millions more have lost
their jobs, and even more millions have no
access to health care. Yet, the US government
continues to squander hundreds of billions of
dollars on wars that serve no US purpose.
President Obama and General McChrystal have
taken the position that they know best, the
American public be damned.
It could not be made any clearer that the
President of the United States and the US mili-
tary have no regard whatsoever for democracy,
human rights, and international law. This is yet
another reason to apply crippling sanctions
against Washington, a government that has
emerged under Bush/Obama as a brownshirt
INTERNATIONAL
Mitchell in London, last week.
Still, Israel expected more, demanding -
with the blessing of the US - Arab normalization
with Israel, in reciprocation for the never actual-
ized willingness to temporarily halt the expan-
sion of settlements. Mitchell was too of the opin-
ion that “Arab states (should) offer some ges-
tures toward normalization of ties with Israel,”
according to Reuters.
Internally, things took a dramatic turn for the
worse. It started with a bill in the Israeli Knesset
(parliament) that would jail Arabs who would
commemorate the Palestinian Nakba or
Catastrophe of 1948, which saw the expulsion
of nearly 800,000 Palestinians from their land.
Then, there was the new law that enforces the
replacement of Arabic lettering on road signs
referring to various locations with their Hebrew
equivalent, even if these locations have been
known by their Arabic names for millennia.
These are neither the first nor the last of such
fascist roles aimed at denying any trace of a
Palestinian (Muslim or Christian) identity to co-
exist along with the exclusively ‘Jewish charac-
ter’ of Israel.
But that, and much more, was taking place
as Palestinians and hopeful others held their
breath, waiting for Obama to deliver, until the
most recent expression of American flexibility.
Now, Palestinians are left with one of two options:
to continue to subscribe to the illusion that the US
is capable, or even willing to rein in Israel’s trans-
gression and exact justice and human rights on
their behalf, or to cleanse their midst of self-seek-
ing and corrupt leaders, unify their ranks and con-
tinue their struggle for an uncompromisingly free
and independent Palestine.
amzy Baroud (www.ramzybaroud.net) is an author &
editor of PalestineChronicle.com. His work has been pub-
lished in many newspapers & journals.
state that deals in lies, torture, murder, war
crimes, and deception.
Many governments are complicit in
Americas war crimes. With Obamas budget
deep in the red, Washingtons wars of naked
aggression are dependent on financing by the
Chinese, Japanese, Russians, Saudis, South
Koreans, Indians, Canadians and Europeans.
The second this foreign financing of American
war crimes stops, Americas wars of aggression
against Muslims stop.
The US is not a forever superpower that can
indefinitely ignore its own laws and international
law. The US will eventually fall as a result of its
hubris, arrogance, and imperial overreach.
When the American Empire collapses, will its
enablers also be held accountable in the war
crimes court?
Paul Craig Roberts served in the Congressional
Staff in the House and Senate and was appointed
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury by President
Ronald Reagan. He is author of Alienation and the
Soviet Economy and The Supply-Side Revolution etc.
Silly season news
Abbas, Fayyad protected by Israel
Occupied Jerusalem: Hebrew daily Ha'aretz on
20, 09 revealed that
former PA chief and
Fatah leader
Mahmoud Abbas
and his illegitimate Abbas (left) and Fayyad:
premier Salam stooges protected by the
Fayyad are guarded occupier
by "Israel's Shin Bet security service on some
of their trips around the West Bank". It added,
"According to an agreement between Israel and
the PA, a team from the Shin Bet's VIP securi-
ty unit accompanies Abbas and Fayyad when-
ever they are in Area C, meaning that part of
the West Bank that is under full Israeli control
according to the Oslo accords".
The security Israel provides for Abbas and
Fayyad is meant to prevent either of two possi-
ble scenarios: "One is an assassination attempt
by Palestinian extremists, such as the Hamas
cell that was recently arrested for allegedly
planning an attack on Abbas. The other is an
assassination attempt by right-wing Israeli
extremists," the paper explained.
Both Palestinian security sources and the
Shin Bet confirmed the report, according to the
daily.

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ABDUL MALIK MUJAHID
any of today's most popular youth and family pro-
M grams include varying degrees of sexual promiscu-
ity, profanity, coarse joking, and antifamily plots and
subplots. Violence, materialism, inhumane, un-
Islamic and anti-Islamic materials are also found in a huge per-
centage of Hollywood's offerings on TV. Now more than ever,
discretion is essential for parents to help their children achieve
the best of this world and the best of Hereafter. Here are some
options if "taqwa" is in your mind and heart.
1) Get Rid of Television: No, it's not a radical idea. 73% parents,
a survey says, would like to limit their children's TV. Hundreds
and thousands of families are actually doing it. About 3 mil-
lion homes in America have no TV. It saves time. Once you
actually do it, believe me, you will not miss it. One father says
(he works for Sound Vision) that his children got rid of TV
when he was on a Sound Vision trip. It has been more than
16 months since. No one misses the thing at all. He hasn't
heard any one asking for it. More family interaction, books,
computers, and internet have taken up TV's place. TV has a
lot of haram programming. Children on an average watch
more than 27 hours of TV a week exposing themselves to
hundreds of acts of sex and violence in our own homes each
and every week! Is it worth it? If you cannot resist, then living
without TV is better.
Think hard about this option, though. Both parents much
agree first. If you have grown up children then it will be better
if they are part of the decision making process. If they will go
somewhere else to watch then it is better that they watch in
your home.
2) Tune Out TV, Turn On the Computer: More and more parents
are discovering that computers are a good hook to get chil-
dren out of the TV box. Most children already prefer comput-
ers over TV. If you still do not own a computer, buy one. A
new powerful computer may be priced $1,000 or less now. A
used one may be as cheap as $200. Now there are a num-
ber of computer programs available for Muslims which com-
plement an ever-growing number of educational and enter-
tainment products in the market which are halal and produc-
tive by any standard. Al-Qari, the world's first Islamic multime-
dia program, is helping Muslims of all ages learn how to prop-
erly read Arabic and recite the Quran from any PC or
Macintosh.
3) Web Surfing is Better than Channel Surfing: TV is passive.
Web is interactive and more informative. Although web
offerred its own set of challenges, it offers far better educa-
tional choices than TV. However, parents must use filters to
control access for children. According to PEW Research 53%
parents already use filters on internet.
4) Encourage Islamic Programs: There are organizations like
Sound Vision which are developing Islamic programs for
Muslim children on video and computers. The world is not
about to abandon TV. TV itself is not bad. It is the program-
ming which is by and large bad.
Children watch an average of more than 27 hours of TV a
week, exposing themselves to hundreds of acts of sex and vio-
lence in our own homes each and every week! In a study of 450
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watched at least one program a month that contained nudity or
heavy sexual content.
Where do children develop their weakened moral ideas? A
substantial blame can be attributed to poorly managed television.
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Islam.
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spent today on fiber optic networks, compression software
and hardware and low orbiting satellites, the world will have
a good size bandwidth available to them pretty soon. With
communication technology becoming more digital, cheaper,
faster, and more powerful, soon you will be able to produce a
video and multimedia program on your own and broadcast it
the way you publish a web page today. Who will use all these
broad bands? Those who have programs available now will
have an advantage. What about you and your family learning
the art of production? Instead of being a passive consumer of
haram programming become a producer of Islamic programs.
You can do it as a profession or as a hobby. Either way,
believe me, it is going to be fun, insha Allah.
6) Basketball is Better than TV: Encourage games, gardening
and exercises. Children who should be outdoors getting
bruised, dirty, and exhausted, exercise only their blinking
eyelids as they sit mesmerized, hour after hour, in front of the
tube. Evidence indicates that television stifles the ability to
express ideas logically. Television viewing replaces essential
play activities with passivity rather than activity. A healthy and
physically fit child will be able to achieve more in life than oth-
erwise. That's why the Prophet, peace be upon him, encour-
aged sports and himself participated in them.
7) Go Camping Old Man!: And take the young man with you.
Outdoor activities are underrated among Muslims in North
America. Hiking and camping are great ways to enjoy life and
nature. There is whole healthy culture out there which
Muslims in America, especially the immigrants, have yet to
discover.
Outdoor family activities can provide good time for family
interaction. This is something which TV takes away. According to
one study, "the average five-year-old spends [only] 25 minutes a
week in close interaction with his father [but] 25 hours a week in
close interaction with the TV set." Whose values will this baby
adopt? of the old man or of a punk in the tube?
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ISLAMIC PERSPECTIVES
control of TV time and program both. Many parents use more
DVD & VCR than broadcast TV . Without a doubt, Islamic
media alternatives are vital to our children's survival as
Muslims. Sound Vision's Adam's World DVD series is a big hit
with children ages 3 to 9 years. The series teaches Islamic
akhlaq, adab and ahkaam in a manner that's fun for them to
learn.
Some Muslims from South Asia think Indian films, and Middle
Easterners think Egyptian films are relatively harmless. I think
they are culturally more capable of encouraging you to haram
ways than any other haram film which is culturally alien to
you. Some parents think that cartoons are okay. No, they
repeat all the rubbish which is out there in feature films. All
the sex and violence is present there.
9) Visit a Masjid, Follow a Trail of Tears, or Visit the Old Country:
I was in a panel discussion with Abd alHay Moore, Uthman
Hutchinson, and Zeba Siddiqui where we debated whether
visiting parent's country of origin is a good idea for Muslim
children in America. I would like my children to grow while
knowing the good and bad of the Muslim Ummah. There is so
much of the world out there for them to discover for them-
selves. Within the US you can follow some historical trail.
What about the trail which native Americans (Cherokees)
were forced to follow from the Western North Carolina to
Oklahoma? And what about visiting one new masjid every
month? The idea is that there shouldn't be idle time available
to "kill watching TV."
10) Develop a TV Reduction Family Plan: Develop a gradual plan
to reduce your daily TV intake. You may want to start off by
giving a Summer Break to TV this year.
11) Volunteer Time: There is so much need in the society for vol-
unteer time. There are many causes in the Muslim Ummah.
There are human beings without homes and food. There are
30 million poor people in America. You can volunteer, along
with your children, to aleviate the suffering. I always look with
awe at those Christian missionaries who spend millions of
hours (and dollars) helping those in need. There is more
organized help from Christians to Muslims than Muslims to
other human beings, or to themselves.
Once a friend went to help senior citizens in an area which has a
large Muslim population for last twenty years, a beautiful
masjid and two Muslim schools. People in that facility were
shocked to see him. Their volunteer coordinator finally over-
came her surprise and said, this is the first time in the histo-
ry of our village that a Muslim has come to volunteer.
12) Write a Book: What about encouraging your children to write
a book with a promise that you will get it published. With
desktop publishing around the block, why not let her become
the first published author on the block.
Conclusion: Today television literally stands between you and
your children. And some time it stands between you and Allah as
well. TV addiction of parents is not limited to the parents in
Matilda. It is the story of millions of homes across America.
Unless you control yourself, there will be no barakah in you trying
to control children. "Are you ordering people for right conduct
while forgetting (to practice) it yourselves, even as you recite the
Book? Will you not use your reason?" (Quran: 2:44)
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Fate of innocent Muslims languishing in jails
I recall with great pain, the pathetic story of a prisoner (“Letter from
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hotel in Delhi on fake charges in 2006 and how he is rotting in the
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under the impression that Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay are
the worst incarceration cells in the world. But Ghazis heartrending
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worse as them. Incidentally, there is a ray of hope now. Recently
Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh spoke in a conference of
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2.5 lakh undertrial prisoners who are languishing in Indian jails. He
openly admitted that many of them have been in jails for periods
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a paradox, that in a country which can take pride in democratic
Ishrat Jahan’s murder
This refers to the enquiry report by the metropolitan magistrate S.P.
Tamang, holding the encounter of Ishrat Jahan and three others on
the outskirts of Ahmedabad in June 2004 as fake. For an average
Muslim, the verdict comes as a soothing music. It should be said
that, of the four pillars of democracy - it is the Judiciary, which on
all times has empathized with religious minorities. While the legis-
lature has often used religion as a key to come to power, the exec-
utive, including the law and order machinery was indisposed to
treat the minorities as equal citizens. About the press and espe-
cially the electronic media, the less said, the better. Its sole motto
has become...catching more and more eye balls.
Syed Sultan Mohiddin, Kadapa (A.P.)
sultan_awaz@yahoo.co.in
II
The ruling of Ahmedabad Metropolitan Court about Ishrat Jahan
and others declaring their killings to be fake encounter brings to
mind several past encounters and creates a suspicion that those
may have been carried out at the behest of politicians and for the
purpose of pleasing their masters. Earlier we have learnt about the
wealth accumulated by Daya Nayak, an encounter specialist also.
The controversy on Batla House encounter is still fresh in our mind.
While talking of encounters, one wonders what happened to Hari
Krishna, the eyewitness doctor, in the Ansal Plaza encounter in
Delhi? It is high time that the central government appoints a high-
level inquiry to get all the deliberate and systematic fake encoun-
ters probed. The security of the people and the nation is too impor-
tant to be the preserve of an individual or a political group.
Ruby Naushad, Koramangla, Bangalore - 560 047
ruby.naushad@rediffmail.com
III
The Magisterial enquiry, which is mandatory in every encounter
case (ironically which was never done in the Batla House
encounter) has finally termed Ishrat Jahan's killing as a fake
encounter on 7 September in a metropolitan court. It is not a mat-
ter of surprise for us as to know that how Ishrat Jahan was killed
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rights such as freedom of speech and freedom of expression the
'real freedom' for a large contingent of human beings is at stake
and has become hostage to red-tapism in our courts. After the
Prime Ministers rebuke on the sluggishness in the judicial process,
the Chief Justice of India K.G. Balakrishnan has asked the judicial
magistrates to expeditiously identify all cases where undertrials
can be released on personal bonds. After the 9/11 incident and the
Gujarat carnage, nobody knows as to how many innocent Muslims
have been arrested in the country on the charges related to terror-
ism. In Hyderabad alone there are dozens of Muslim youth who
have simply disappeared. The parents are not aware of their
whereabouts nor do they know whether they are alive or dead or
arrested by the police on any criminal charges and put in jails.
Perhaps, Right to Information Act can be availed of, to know the
details of the undertrials in all the Indian jails. I sincerely appeal to
Dr.Zafarul Islam Khan, editor-in-chief of Milli Gazatte who is also
President of All India Muslim Majlis-e Mushawarat, to form a con-
sortium of social activists and eminent lawyers, to take up the
noble task of rescuing the undertrials who in the words of
Dr.Manmohan Singh himself: languishing in jails for periods longer
than they would have served had they been sentenced.
Syed Sultan Mohiddin, Kadapa
sultan_awaz@yahoo.co.in
Ban on headscarfs and Muslim leaders
I find it extremely distressing to note the silence of the Muslim lead-
ership, particularly of the Muslim Personal Law Board on the ban
on headscarfs in colleges in Mangalore and surrounding areas. A
girl was recenelty harassed and humiliated by organisations affili-
ated by the Sangh Parivar (and senior lecturers) for wearing hijab.
She was then asked not to attend college. Similar cases have been
noticed from colleges in the region, but none publicised. When the
controversy raged, a leading newspaper (rather deliberately) high-
lighted the views of Maulana Wahiduddin Khan in which he shock-
ingly approved of the ban, asked Muslims not to wear hijab, and
even passed comments agaist the hijab. As a result, the whole agi-
tation seems to have fizzled out, as non-Muslims supporting the
cause seems to have second thoughts. Any reference to the inci-
dent also includes Maulana Khan's comments now. We don't
expect our mainstream media to interview genuine leaders any-
way, and we all know about Maulana Khan's crendentials, but what
about the Muslim Law Board's silence? Couldn't they at least have
the courage to stand up and speak for what is right? Even a pub-
lic statement would have sufficed. Is that too much to ask from
them?
Anwar Mallik anwar_malik@yahoo.co.in
Jamianagar or Juhapura: The same stories of Ghettoisation
This refers to the article “Stop Muslim Ghettoisation” by Ather
Farouqui (MG, 16-31 July, 2009). As rightly stated by him, the sce-
nario of official apathy and indifference to the Muslim predominat-
ed areas in the other parts of the country is common feature, as in
case of Jamianagar in Delhi due to communal disturbances, result-
ing in Ghettoisation during last two decades. For instance, a
Juhapura, consisting of erstwhile six to seven Gram Panchayats
(now merged with the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC))
and having total population of over 3 lakhs is facing similar prob-
lems of official apathy like inadequate civic amenities, lack of
Government dispensary facilities, migration from rural areas/towns
of Gujarat or shifting from the walled city resulting in enormous ris-
ing prices of properties. It is irony of the fact that there are inade-
quate banking facilities in the largely populated area, where only
three public sector banks are functioning and providing banking
service. Out of three, two banks were opened in the year 2008
after long, persistent and sustained representations to the con-
cerned authorities. Even at present, the ratio of average population
was nothing but in cold blood. Perhaps one will also agree that
such things are happening in Gujarat under Modi. The famous
case of Shohrabuddin also falls into this category. Unfortunately, in
India, things had been happening in this fashion, some handful of
police officers perpetrate such crime in broad daylight just to
appease some filthy minded and communal politicians like Modi
etc. Its ironic though, that despite all hue and cry made on people
like Modi, hardly anything is done against him. Even the recent
mayhem in the BJP disclosed, how much deep is the hand of Modi
dipped in the blood of innocent people butchered in the 2002
Gujrat riots. If we remember the recent interview of Mr. Arun
Shorie, it would reveal, how disturbed was Mr. Vajpayee, and he
really wanted to do something, but thanks to the pressure within or
whatever, nothing came out of this. Its high time, that the Indian
judiciary should act against the culprits as no one is above the law
despite how powerful he or she stands anywhere.
Md Ziyaullah Khan, New Delhi
writeziya@gmail.com
IV
The Ishrat Jahan story released in June 2004 itself has raised
many doubts about its veracity in the minds of one and all. Now it
has taken a little more than five years for the truth to be unveiled.
When the victim were not captured alive, how come they knew that
the victims belonged to any particular organisation or about the
mission they embarked upon. It is heart-rending to know that a
group of some selfish people could commit such a heinous crime
for the petty gains and clearly it had the backing of the ruler who
does not feel ashamed even at the ruthless killing of around 2000
people and who has been proud of killing another innocent victim
of fake encounter Sohrabuddin. A poor innocent girl has been
picked and not only ruthlessly killed but some strangers' names
have been attributed as her companions only to tarnish her
image.The 2002 riots have also been mentioned just to make the
story appear true. When the truth has been unravelled, can it at
least now be expected that justice will be delivered at the earliest
and not in many many years. K.Malikul Azeez,Chennai-12
kmalikulazeez@yahoo.com
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Email: letters@milligazette.com
per public sector branch in this large populated area is about
100000 as against 13000 and 15000 in the Gujarat State level and
All-India level respectively. In fact, there should been opened at
least 20 public sector banks as per the criteria of state/national
average population per bank. In Ahmedabad city, every nook and
corner, the branches of banks have been opened except in this ill-
fated and neglected area. The words like "negative area" or "com-
munally sensitive area" have immensely harmed economically and
socially to the residents of Juhapura in mega city of Ahmedabad .
Let us hope against hope that the dream of Ather Farouqui for
composite culture with its liberal and tolerant outlook may come
back and fruits of economic development are enjoyed by all the
people irrespective of caste, creed or religion.
U.F.MALEK, Ahmedabad ufmalek@yahoo.co.in
Benefits of fasrting
Roza is observed by muslims every year in the month of Ramadan.
All Muslims of the world observe fast throughout the month. They
fast from dawn to dusk. This self restrain help them to hold their
nerves and boost their will power or atma sakti. They feel that they
are in the gaze of Allah and they cannot deceive Him. One months
restrain makes them perfect to obey the Almighty. They attend five
times prayers in the mosques stand in row which enable to feel that
there is equality prevailing in their society. In the last prayer they
listen verses of Quran and try to understand its message. The
Imam who leads the worshippers gets by heart the total chapters
of Holy Quran. This business continues for about one hour. The
words of Quran strengthen the core belief of the listener. At the
time of break fast the rozadars feel enjoyment of the fruits, pakodis,
Bhajias cold water etc. The collective iftar and dinner gives the
Muslims a sense of brotherhood and collectivity. Muslims exercise
control on sleep and sex, intercourse is prohibited during the peri-
od of fasting, quarrelling, abusing and fighting is strictly banned. In
the last all the Rozadars pay to the poor 2kgs of wheat. Zakat and
alms to the downtrodden. The purpose of fast is to experience
hunger and thirst as experienced by the weaker section of the soci-
ety, inorder to help the downtrodden. There is complete code of
roza how perfectly the almighty has framed can be referred. The
non Muslims also feel the sense of devotion by observing fast
along with Muslims. They can also boost their atma sakti by
observing fast. And after one complete month they can feel the
improvement in their health and their digestive system enhanced.
These benefits the Hindus can gain without embracing Islam.
Islamic teachings are for all humanity.Whoever practice them he
will be benefited. Wisdom lies in accepting the valuable teachings.
In the bias of Islam we are blindly accepting western culture. This
is more harmful than useful
Dr Abdul Hameed Maqdoomi, Gulbarga
drmaqdoomi@yahoo.com
Shaheeda-e Hijaab Sherbini
How faith-building to know that the Islamic Iran has issued a
postage stamp in memory of the Martyred lady who died defend-
ing her veil. At the same time how shocking to hear (on Radio
Zahedan) that the Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak (?) has
ordered that every mail with Sherbini stamp should be sent back to
Iran!! How right was Imam Khomeini (Reh) who had said that the
Rooh (personality) of our leaders (?) were snatched away by the
(Western) institutions in which they had studied!!! Innaa Lillaah…
Sultan A Patel, Khanpur Deh-392150
Babri and Congress
In the Babri Masjid case, Congress was not just. Narsimha Rao
was wearing khaki nicker under his dhoti. He created a special cell
in the PMO and made Kishore Kunal (ex-IPS) its head. Now this
man is Administrator of Dharmik Nayas Parishad Bihar. In every
press meeting or congregation, he speaks about Ram’s birth place
denying that any mosque ever existed there.
S. Haque, Patna
Justice in India
A learned guy had once said in an open forum: you are a thief
whether you steal one rupee or one crore rupees. But if you steal
one rupee and get caught rest assured you will be punished but if
you have stolen one crore not only will people not catch you, even
if they do, you can use that money to go scot free. An editor has
recently written about Kasab, "Perhaps Kasab realises.... as he sits
on a comfortable chair in an airconditioned room...' Has he ever
visited a courtroom in our country where thousands of litigants
waste the best part of their productive life, standing for long hours
under an open sky, come rail or hail, waiting for that call from inside
a dungeon of a place converted to a courtroom announcing his/her
case number? Arundhati Roy had rightly said that in our legal sys-
tem the process is part of the punishment and it is not only the
accused who gets punished thus but also the complainant. Even
the Rs 100 crores High Court complex has totally failed to cater to
the needs of the ligitants themselves. The court halls are of course
spacious, have tiled flooring and elegant furniture for the judges
and advocates. But for the litigant all that there is a backrest-less
bench at the far end of the hall where the only thing one can do is
to sit and sleep because there is no way of knowing what is hap-
pening between the judge and the advocates! The judges cry
hoarse about shortage of judges but there are plenty of things that
they need to do themselves to provide value for money for the tax
payer litigant. The number of holidays, the short working hours, the
number of cases taken up on any single day, the scheduling of
those cases etc, etc. The list is indeed long... And last but not the
least, the judges who keep repeating ad nauseum 'be you ever so
high, the law is above you' need to do a lot to live up to the other
dictum of justice delivery that 'justice should not ony be done but
also seen to be done'.
P M Ravindran, Aathira, Kalpathy-678003
majorravi@gmail.com
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