Mysore
police attacks protesting Muslims: Popular Front's reply to Police
The
Milli Gazette
24 July 2009
MG had carried the story
Police attacks peaceful rally protesting Hindutva
miscreants. Then we published the
Rejoinder from the Deputy
Commissioner and District Magistrate, Mysore District, Karnataka. Below
is Popular Front of India's reply to it.
15 July 2009
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.
5. Only an impartial enquiry
and investigation can bring out the real facts and expose the actual
perpetuators and promoters of violence. A secular society cannot
expect the same from the administration and police controlled by BJP.
Only an enquiry by a judicial commission and transfer of the
investigation to the CBI can bring justice to the accused victims. It
is not surprising that the Chief Minister has rejected a demand for
judicial enquiry raised by the Leader of Opposition on the floor of
the State Assembly. And nobody need jump into final conclusion till
this takes place. The DC has defended the administration and denied
any intervention by BJP leaders for putting the blame on the District
President and workers of Popular Front. But the fact remains that they
are falsely implicated and put in jail. Meanwhile, it is also to be
noted that the DC himself has appreciation for the role played by our
District President. Read from the rejoinder: “Not only that, but by
another hour, 1000s of Muslim youths gathered in all main streets of
that area. Shri. Kalim, the president of local PFI (Popular Front on
India wanted to have a peace march, and i talked to him to desist from
gathering a crowd at that point of time. Indeed he was congenial and
did tell the other youths not to resort to any violence. But nobody
was listening to anybody and soon violence erupted………….. The local MLA
was in constant touch with me, and helped the district administration
in peacefully burying the deceased. The president KFD also did
co-operate with the district administration.”
We take the following lines of the DC as an assurance
favouring justice: “It is a fact that the PFI office was searched, and
there were arrests outside the court premises. I am discussing with the
Police commissioner regarding the release of such persons after the
investigation…. The police did have arrested more than 200 persons, but
after enquiry and investigation they are likely to be released.”
We are sorry to state that till this moment it remains
unfulfilled. We wait for the results. We will continue to cooperate with
the administration and police for maintaining peace and harmony and bring
back normalcy in Mysore. We follow the democratic system of this country.
We have faith in the judiciary. Also we will not go back from pursuing
justice through democratic and legal means.
Yours faithfully,
Mohammed Riyas Pasha
President In Charge
Popular Front of India
Karnataka State
popularfrontmail@gmail.com
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