This has reference to The Milli Gazette news report on Mysore incidents and the rejoinder from the Deputy Commissioner and District Magistrate, Mysore.

1. We congratulate The Milli Gazette for publishing a brief but comprehensive and unbiased report on the events happened in Mysore. By publishing the report you have brought to light the Hindutva agenda of Karnataka government of which administration is a part, which is targeted against the minority communities in the state. The recent events in Mysore are only the latest episode in the series of discriminatory and communally motivated state interventions started since the installation of BJP state government in power. And there are reasons to believe that even honest and duty conscious officers both in police and administration are under compulsions to act accordingly. It may also be the reason that the District Magistrate has come forward with a rejoinder which is intended to justify the police atrocities against Muslim community and Popular Front of India.

2. Many details of the Mysore incidents have now come to light through media as reports, photographs and video footages. In addition to the narrations of the victims which can again be collected by media and fact-finding teams, there are published reports of the statements by responsible leaders in the State Assembly and outside which blame the government, administration and police for their failure in the impartial discharge of their duties.

3. The DC starts questioning the objectivity of the The Milli Gazette report by stating that the building where the mutilated body of a pig found was not a Masjid/Madrassa, but an Arabic School. The Arabic School is called “Madrassa”. Does it make the gravity of the sin lesser to call it a Masjid/Madrassa considering that it was done with the ill-intention to disrupt peace in the area? Secondly, the place is under the name of a trust called the Haleema Sadia Trust which had permission for a Madrassa at the site and prayers have been offered there for the last three years without any interruption. It is learnt that permission has been granted to the trust for construction of a Masjid, work for which is to begin soon and this was being vehemently opposed by the local fascist wings of the Sangh Parivar. Probably this is how the spot was picked up to stir it and throw it into a controversy.

4. We need not go to hospital records to count the number of injured. We learn that local hospitals, perhaps due to external influence, were not ready to admit even the seriously injured persons. They were just given first aid and they had to flee from hospital under the threat of police custody. The video footages that have been shown in television channels and photographs (both published and unpublished) are available for scrutiny.

THERE ARE MANY MORE SUCH FACES!

NOTHING MUCH TO SAY ABOUT THE COUNTING… THE PICTURES SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES… WE REQUEST YOU TO PUBLISH THESE PICTURES TOO.