Probe ordered into inflammatory poem in Mumbai police magazine
Monday January 14, 2013 10:59:19 PM,
IANS
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Mumbai:
The Mumbai police Monday ordered a probe into an allegedly
inflammatory poem penned by a woman traffic police inspector after
the August 2012 Azad Maidan riots, an official said.
"We have initiated an inquiry into the matter and necessary steps
will be taken after that," an official spokesperson told IANS.
The poem, written by inspector Sujata Patil, was published in the
November issue of 'Samvaad', an in-house magazine of the Mumbai
Police, creating a furore in the Muslim community here.
Muslim NGO Jamiat Ulema-e-Maharashtra lodged a police complaint
last month demanding appropriate action, including an apology in
the matter.
"Unless the Mumbai police apologise for this fracas, we shall be
compelled to move the Bombay High Court for redressal of our
grievances," said lawyer Shahid Nadeem Ansari of JUeM.
In her poem, Patil had castigated the rioters who defaced the Amar
Jawan Jyoti Memorial at the memorial, contending that their hands
"should have been chopped off".
Spelling more embarrassment for police, the poem also highlighted
how the women police on duty then were molested, how traitors were
being cultivated and how the rioters 'dared' touch the Amar Jawan
Jyoti Memorial.
JUeM's legal cell secretay Gulzar A. Azmi, in his complaing with
the Sir J. J. Marg Police Dec 24, demanded a first information
report against the policewoman poet and legal action for inciting
communal passions.
On Aug 11, last year, violence broke out in a multi-organisation
procession taken out to condemn alleged atrocities on Muslims in
the north-eastern state of Assam and the neighbouring country
Myanmar.
However, the procession went out of control and resulted in riots
in which security personnel were attacked, some policewomen were
molested, media-persons wee assaulted and their equipments
damaged, besides large-scale damage to public and properties.
Two people lost their lives in the subsequent police firing and
scores more were injured in the rioting.
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