Rudrapur killings: Muslim leaders demand punishment for guilty officials Submitted by admin3 on 4 October 2011 - 2:20pm Indian

Muslim By TCN Staff Reporter, New Delhi: Muslim leaders unanimously condemned police firing at a crowd of Musl ims who were protesting against the desecration of Holy Quran in Rudrapur town o f Udham Singh Nagar district in Uttarakhand. Four people were killed and scores wounded in the firing on October 2. The Muslim leaders have demanded the state g overnment to punish guilty police officials and to give proper compensation to t he affected families. Shahi Imam of Delhi Jama Masjid, Maulana Ahmad Bukhari while condemning the inci dent demanded high level inquiry and proper rehabilitation of the victims. Muslim s should not adopt violent ways in response to the provoking acts by miscreants because they first provoke Muslims then as per pre-planned program they destroy properties and lives of Muslims with the help of communal minded Police. If ther e is anything wrong, consult to regional Muslim leaders who should take it to th e authorities he advised.

Police chase away protesters at Rudrapur town in Udham Singh Nagar district, Utt arakhand, on Sunday [PTI Photo] The killings of Muslims by Police in Forbesganj of Bihar, in Gopalgarh of Rajasth an and in Rudrapur of Uttrakhand are enough to prove that governments are neglec ting the problems of Muslims and police are becoming biased against Muslims. Thi s is very harmful for inclusive progress of the country which we are dreaming sai d Nusrat Ali, secretary general of Jamaat-e- Islami Hind. Dr. Manzoor Alam, General Secretary of All India Milli Council, while condoling the families of victims in Rudrapur riots, demanded from the government a compen sation of Rs. 10 lakh to the families of each killed and Rs. 5 lakh to each inju red besides, government job to one member of each family. He said that police was the real culprits for the incident because they did not act though Muslims complained about the desecration of holy Quran. If Police had acted rightly, the violence would not have erupted but once again P olice showed its biased attitude and opened fire at Muslims while mischief monge rs were allowed to attack on Muslims. Therefore, we demand from the government t hat guilty Police official should be dismissed and they should be booked with cr iminal case for their partial acts demanded MP Maulana Asrarul Haque Qasmi, the G eneral Secretary of All India Talimi Milli Foundation. He demanded the Central Government to take stringent action against communal for ces who want to create communal tension all over the country. Gopalgarh riot and now Rudrapur riots are indicating that how anti-social forces are disturbing the communal harmony of the country. So, it should take it seriously and act agains t them severely he added. Maulana Usman Mansoorpuri, President of Jamiat Ulama-I-Hind, has demanded the su spension of DM, SP, DSP of Udham Singh Nagar district and all other police offic ials who failed to control the Rudrapur incident. The repeated incident of communal riots in the country strengthens our demand to hold administration responsible for the communal riot because either in Gopalgar

h or Rudrapur the Police worsened the matter instead of controlling it. Therefor e we urge the UPA government to get passed the Communal Violence Bill with the p rovision to hold authorities accountable for the riots he added. On October 2, communal violence gripped the Rudrapur town of Udham Singh Nagar d istrict of Uttrakhand after a copy of Quran was desecrated by some anti-social e lements. When police did not act to nab the guilty, Muslims came out on the road to protest. Police started lathi charge to disperse the protestors which result ed stone pelting from the protestors. Then police opened fire at them killing fo ur and injuring score of others. The mob of non-Muslims also joined the attack o n Muslims and they looted shops of Muslims in the market. After the incident cur few was imposed and security was tightened in the town. Share