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U.P Police not ready to buy Govt theory on
SIMI's role in Kanpur riots
By Khadijatul Kubra, Faizabad
The Uttar Pradesh Police is apparently
not ready to buy State's Home Department theory that Students Islamic
Movement of India (SIMI) was solely responsible for the Kanpur violence,
which claimed at least 20 lives including a senior district officer AB
Pathak.
During the Kanpur riots recently, officials were full of venom against the
SIMI and newspapers were playing their own role to portray the SIMI as a
villain of the tragedy. They were all for hanging the SIMI for the Kanpur
violence, but the Police chief of the State Mahesh Chandra Dwivedi denying
the hand of Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) in the Kanpur
riots said in a clear term that ‘it was the handiwork of some rowdy
elements who publicized posters in which the holy Qur'an was shown
burning’.
The Director-General of Police (DGP) did not name the SIMI responsible for
the violence either. This stand of the U.P Police was contrary to the
stand taken by the state's Home Department which, through a news agency
managed circulation of a news story claiming that they have ‘definite
evidence’ of the involvement of the activists of SIMI in the Kanpur
riots.
Quoting an anonymous spokesman’, the agency report further says that
‘the preliminary inquiry into the Kanpur riots... has revealed the
dubious role of SIMI activists in these riots. The riots had started
immediately after provocative speeches were made by SIMI activists near
Naveen Market in Kanpur on 16 March’.
On being asked about the activities of organizations like the SIMI, The
DGP in Faizabad however said that ‘strict instructions have been given
to immediately register a case and arrest the members of any such
organization if they indulged in anti-social activities’.
The SIMI however took strong exception to the government floating the
‘maligning’ story and the agency released next day a story based on
the statement of Mr Waqar-Ul-Hasan, all-India Secretary of SIMI which was
faxed to it from SIMI's Delhi HQ. It says that ‘the Kanpur riots were an
engineered exercise of the Sangh Parivar and PAC and that SIMI had nothing
to do with it’. It genuinely demanded action against those who were
involved in engineering the burning of the copies of Qur'an.. Not only the
SIMI, almost all the political parties including the main opposition
Samajawadi Party, the Bahujan Samaj Party and the Congress besides the
left parties are holding Sangh Parivar and the State's para-military force
of Provincial Armed Constabulary (PAC) responsible for the perpetuation of
Kanpur violence. q |
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