Are we inching towards fascism ?
It is an established fact that the police had always harboured a strong minority bias right from the dawn of freedom. In spite of partition or despite of partition, the divide in society is not decreasing as much as it should.
AS THE memories of Godhra Carnage still lurk in shadows and the new year celebrations began to fizzle out we are getting the repeat of the same story from the land of Mahatma.
There is no immediate victory for anyone in the present game but this kind of attitude has created strong feeling of alienation among Muslims throughout India. The police, after every blast arrests some young boys, mostly from lower middle classes and accuses them of being involved in the conspiracy to carry out terror attacks. A well informed citizen of India knows well how the confessions are usually obtained by police.
A group of Muslim women in Godhra have written to the Chief Justice of Gujarat High Court, requesting him to take suo motu note of the alleged physical and sexual assault on them by the police in Godhra town, an allegation which the cops term baseless. The alleged incident occurred during a midnight combing operation by the police on December 19 last year. The signatories include six Muslim women, who claim to have been among the several who were beaten up and sexually assaulted by personnel of the B-division Godhra town police, who raided their homes that night. All are residents of Geni Palot and Hathila Palot area in Godhra.
“We are terribly helpless and feel insecure in our locality despite being bonafide citizens of India. Even at this moment, we live in our homes fearing attack by the police without any legitimate reason. We request you to kindly initiate suo motu action so that those guilty of violating human and natural laws are punished at the earliest,” the request reads.
Just to quote one of the women, 40-year-old Sabera Hayat, the cops stormed in around 1am. “All of us were asleep, including my daughter Amina, who recently delivered her first child. They pulled my hair and started beating me. They also pounced on Amina, when she tried to intervene. Even the newborn got injured on her leg while the police were beating Amina. When I started screaming for help, they covered my mouth and threatened to rape me.” Farida Chimaji, 27, said she and her six-month-old daughter Musfira were injured all over. “We cannot even describe the gestures and words that they hurled at us.”
Just to quote one of the women, 40-year-old Sabera Hayat, the cops stormed in around 1am. “All of us were asleep, including my daughter Amina, who recently delivered her first child. They pulled my hair and started beating me. They also pounced on Amina, when she tried to intervene. Even the newborn got injured on her leg while the police were beating Amina. When I started screaming for help, they covered my mouth and threatened to rape me.” Farida Chimaji, 27, said she and her six-month-old daughter Musfira were injured all over. “We cannot even describe the gestures and words that they hurled at us.”
It is an established fact that the police has always harboured a strong minority bias right from the dawn of freedom. In spite of partition or despite of partition, the divide in society is not decreasing as much as it should and the police can’t remain unaffected by communalisation of society. To garner the Muslim votes the shrewd Congress Party always appeals them to support. It gives assurance to minorities of protection and security but this party had never tried seriously to inject secularism into the minds of security agencies. The police record, as various inquiry commission reports into various major communal riots show that it had been nothing but demoralising.
There is no immediate victory for anyone in the present game but this kind of attitude has created strong feeling of alienation among Muslims throughout India. The police, after every blast arrests some young boys, mostly from lower middle classes and accuses them of being involved in the conspiracy to carry out terror attacks. A well informed citizen of India knows well how the confessions are usually obtained by police.
Can’t we just accept the fact that no more diasporas and long marches are possible in this well informed civilised society today. There is no other way but to understand and respect the approaches which are diametrically opposite to our own. There is no substitute of justice and harmony in society.
Communal approach on the part of police would have serious consequences for the future of our country. Does anyone sincerely believe in police claims today? After every incident the police claims that it has caught the mastermind; the public is hit with further terror attacks to ridicule the claim. That is the ‘police katha’ till date in nutshell.
Communal approach on the part of police would have serious consequences for the future of our country. Does anyone sincerely believe in police claims today? After every incident the police claims that it has caught the mastermind; the public is hit with further terror attacks to ridicule the claim. That is the ‘police katha’ till date in nutshell.
Are we not inching towards fascism?
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