By Apoorvanand
Who is destroying the houses and property of Muslims?
Who razed the house of Shahzad Ali in Chhatarpur in Madhya Pradesh to the ground? Who signed the orders? Who gave the order and who crushed Shahzad Ali’s three vehicles?
On whose orders was a procession of Muslims taken out and in it, youth forced to chant the slogan ‘Police hamara baap hai (police is our father)’?
Who took a rape accused in Assam near a pond at 3 am claiming it was the site of the crime of rape? And how was the accused allowed to die there? Did he really jump into the pond while trying to escape despite such police presence and die by drowning? Who believes this claim of the Assam police ? How was it predicted by journalists a day before?
All this is decided, implemented and done by administrative and local police officials. They cannot shirk their responsibility by saying that a chief minister asked them to do this, or that there was an order from above.
Stone pelting took place during a protest by Muslims at Chhatarpur in Madhya Pradesh. They were expressing their anger against the public insult of Prophet Mohammad and wanted to file an first information report. How the protest gave way to a clash with police, who was involved in it, and who instigated it can only be known after an impartial investigation. Local Congress leader Shahzad Ali was trying to convince the angry protesters to not indulge in violence, according to reports, when stone pelting started. Were there some miscreants infiltrating the protesting mass who did it? This is a legitimate question. But the police immediately, without any investigation, decided that Ali was among those who incited the violence and the very next day his house was razed to the ground and all his vehicles were crushed.
Along with this, Muslims were made to walk out in a procession that was meant to humiliate them publicly.
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