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D-7/2 Vasant Vihar, New Delhi 110057 30th Sept.2015
Press Statement
CFD CALL UPON THE UP POLICE TO ARREST AND PROSECUTE ALL THE ATTACKERS OF BISARA VILLAGE, DADRI FOR INTENTIONAL MURDER ON THE PRETEXT OF BEEF-EATING
It is shocking that a helpless Muslim family in village Bisara in Dadri, NOIDA was brutally attacked and mercilessly beaten by miscreants in which Akhlaq was killed while others injured- one being critical. It is reported that an announcement was made around 9.30 PM on 28th Sept. 2015 by some people from the village temple that Muslims were consuming beef. Surprisingly hundreds of people gathered in few minutes and soon attacked the family of Akhlaq who was killed. Even women were attacked and attempt was made to molest one of the victims. The police reached late. The villagers also tried to prevent the police from lodging an FIR . The villagers fought with the police when it tried to arrest some of the accused. It is also reported that rumours of calf killing had been going on the village for the last about 12 days which was enough for the police to wake up itself and take steps for preventing any mischief and provide protection to the only two Muslim families in the village. But it appears that police remained indifferent or deliberately did not care while the miscreants went on building up flare up resulting into the horrible incident. The events leading to the incident show that there was well thought out planning to communalize the situation.
This incident and other incidents in recent past elsewhere in the country show that some Hindu communal groups are intentionally spreading rumours like cow-killings, religious conversions of Hindus to other faiths like Islam or Christianity and demanding law on conversions, love-jihad, so called Islamic terrorism, killing any person naming him as Pakistani, murdering rationalists like Dabholkar, Pansare, Kulbargi, and spreading hate campaign against Muslims and Christians. Not only that, such groups are openly declaring awards for those Hindu youth who participate in damaging churches, mosques and who bring the head of secularists like Swamy Agnivesh. These groups are openly issuing threats to all those who differ with them. They feel encouraged to indulge in such anti-social and unconstitutional activities because the present governments at the Centre and in concerned states are sympathetic to them and are reluctant to take any action to restrain them.
Therefore it is incumbent on all the forces who believe in the principles of communal harmony, fraternity and secularism to come together and confront this menace. The governments at the Centre as well as in the States where these religious fanatics are roaming around defying law of the land must take immediate actions against such unruly elements.
Akhlaq and his family lived for centuries in the village reposing faith in the Hindus who dominates the village which has, as per reports, only two Muslim families. The dominant community of the village betrayed that faith and acted cowardly in attacking and killing Akhlaq and the hapless family. Whether there was beef or not is immaterial. The attackers had no business to take the law into their own hands.
Citizens For Democracy call upon the UP police to immediately arrest all the persons who attacked the victim family and prosecute them for intentional murder as it appears to be a part of well thought out strategy.
CFD also call upon all the communities to keep peace and patience- for to act otherwise will be playing into the hands of these communal elements who have become desperate for inciting communal conflagration in the country to reap political dividends.
N.D.Pancholi, General Secretary, Citizens For Democracy
