Monday, April 30, 2007
Modi govt under fire for fake encounters
NEW DELHI: Narendra Modiâs Gujarat government came under fire on Saturday in the Loko Sabha over fake encounters . The Indian Home Minister Shivraj Patil deplored the encounters saying the Indian government would not resort to âterrorist tacticsâ to deal with the terrorists.
Dismissing the Oppositionâs charge that the government was soft to terrorists, he asserted in his reply to the debate that âwe are neither hawkish nor soft but having a balanced approach to do what is necessary.... but we will not be âpaishaniâ (devilish) in our approach.â
Except for BJP and its supporting NDA allies, all parties, including the ruling Congress, mounted attack on the Narendra Modi government citing the killing of Sohrabuddin in a fake encounter in Gujarat for which three IPS officers were arrested early this week on Supreme Courtâs intervention. Many alleged that there have been a series of fake encounters in Gujarat targeting members of a minority community and that it was right time for the Home Ministry to intervene and get all encounters in the state in the past five, six years inquired by the Central Bureau of Investigation.
The BJP members repeatedly protested as the other side tried to allege their chief minister Narendra Modiâs hand and moral support to the Gujarat Police to resort to fake encounters. The most provocative was Gujaratâs Congress member Madhusudan Mistry who claimed that there were at least 21 other fake encounters and that the DIG arrested for the killing of Sohrabuddin was allegedly involved in ten of them.
Bahujan Samaj Party member Ilyas Azmi said the situation in Gujarat would continue to be bad as far as the Muslims are concerned but still worse was the Maharashtra government that came to power with the Muslimsâ support but acting against them in the fascist manner and the secularists are not even ready to protest at the way the Muslims are arrested and implicated falsely in cases of violence in Mumbai and elsewhere in the state.
If the Muslims are to be assured security, Ilyas said a new law should be enacted to provide for an automatic CBI probe whenever a Muslim was killed in any part of the country.
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007\04\30\story_30-4-2007_pg4_23
Modi govt under fire for fake encounters
NEW DELHI: Narendra Modiâs Gujarat government came under fire on Saturday in the Loko Sabha over fake encounters . The Indian Home Minister Shivraj Patil deplored the encounters saying the Indian government would not resort to âterrorist tacticsâ to deal with the terrorists.
Dismissing the Oppositionâs charge that the government was soft to terrorists, he asserted in his reply to the debate that âwe are neither hawkish nor soft but having a balanced approach to do what is necessary.... but we will not be âpaishaniâ (devilish) in our approach.â
Except for BJP and its supporting NDA allies, all parties, including the ruling Congress, mounted attack on the Narendra Modi government citing the killing of Sohrabuddin in a fake encounter in Gujarat for which three IPS officers were arrested early this week on Supreme Courtâs intervention. Many alleged that there have been a series of fake encounters in Gujarat targeting members of a minority community and that it was right time for the Home Ministry to intervene and get all encounters in the state in the past five, six years inquired by the Central Bureau of Investigation.
The BJP members repeatedly protested as the other side tried to allege their chief minister Narendra Modiâs hand and moral support to the Gujarat Police to resort to fake encounters. The most provocative was Gujaratâs Congress member Madhusudan Mistry who claimed that there were at least 21 other fake encounters and that the DIG arrested for the killing of Sohrabuddin was allegedly involved in ten of them.
Bahujan Samaj Party member Ilyas Azmi said the situation in Gujarat would continue to be bad as far as the Muslims are concerned but still worse was the Maharashtra government that came to power with the Muslimsâ support but acting against them in the fascist manner and the secularists are not even ready to protest at the way the Muslims are arrested and implicated falsely in cases of violence in Mumbai and elsewhere in the state.
If the Muslims are to be assured security, Ilyas said a new law should be enacted to provide for an automatic CBI probe whenever a Muslim was killed in any part of the country.
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007\04\30\story_30-4-2007_pg4_23