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Punish erring police officials in communal conflicts: AIDWA
Wednesday November 16, 2011 11:00:43 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: The All
India Democratic Women's Association (AIDWA) Wednesday demanded
exemplary punishment for police officials responsible for
"atrocities" during recent communal conflicts in different states
and sought a legislation against communal violence.
At a convention here against communal conflict, AIDWA passed a
resolution demanding speedy justice to the victims who belong to
the minority community.
The AIDWA resolution said that ten members of minority community
were shot dead by police in Bharatpur in September this year and
four Muslims including a woman and a child were killed due to
police firing in Araria district in Bihar when villagers were
protesting forcible takeover of their land by a local politician
from the ruling alliance.
It said that police had fired on protestors from minority
community and communal fanatics had razed shops and property owned
by them in Rudrapur in Uttarakhand and one person was killed in
police firing in Moradabad in Uttar Pradesh.
Victims from Forbesganj in Bihar, Gopalgarh in Rajasthan, Rudrapur
in Uttarakhand and Moradabad in Uttar Pradesh narrated their
experience of "one-sided" police and administrative action at the
convention.
"The convention condemned the communal bias of the police and
administration during these riots," the resolution said.
The convention also demanded justice for victims of Guiarat riots
and accused Gujarat government of "threatening and intimidating
those who dare to expose the role of the chief minister (Narendra
Modi) and his government in the Gujarat genocide."
Shweta Bhatt, wife of IPS officer Sanjeev Bhatt, addressed the
convention and expressed solidarity with the riot victims.
AIDWA patron Brinda Karat said Gujarat government was stifling
attempts to book Modi for 2002 riots. She alleged that witnesses
were being intimidated and killed and said United Progressive
Alliance (UPA) government had failed to provide protection of
witnesses. She said that many survivors of the Gujarat riots were
still living in camps "in deplorable conditions".
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