'A Times Now broadcast of March 5 ran a video of a man in red, wearing a helmet, opening fire during communal riots in Delhi. “New video of Delhi violence surfaces. Video reportedly from Maujpur…This is the 4th video of attack on police,” the channel claimed. The video was tweeted using #ShaheenLynchModel... A day later, the same clip was tweeted by BJP IT cell head Amit Malviya who insinuated that the shooter was a member of the Muslim community. He wrote, “Another video of a ‘peaceful’ protestor firing at the cops?
'After spending 12 years incarcerated, the two men that Faheem Ansari was really keen to meet as he stepped out of Bareilly Central Jail last November were Shaheed Azmi and Hemant Karkare. He couldn’t, of course, as both of them had fallen prey to bullets while he was in prison. While Karkare, then head of the Mumbai Anti Terrorism Squad, was shot dead during the 2008 attack on the city, Shahid, a lawyer, was assassinated by unidentified men at his office in Kurla, Mumbai, on February 11, 2010. The assailants had come posing as prospective clients...'
'...'Framed As A Terrorist: My 14-Years Struggle to Prove My Innocence' is a heart wrenching book by Mohammad Aamir Khan written with noted human rights activist Nandita Haskar. The book was published in 2016, making this review a little late in day, yet I share this book review with you because 'Framed As A Terrorist....' is not only a personal account of immense struggle, pain and survival, but it is a profound and eye-opening commentary on working of Indian criminal justice system and Indian judiciary.
'A youth known locally as a BJP worker and five associates, each of them in lungi and skullcap, were detained by Murshidabad police on Wednesday after local people allegedly caught them throwing stones at a train engine. Chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday alleged, without mentioning this incident, that the BJP was buying skullcaps for its workers to wear while going on the rampage to try and deflect blame on a particular community. Prime Minister Narendra Modi had on Sunday said the protesters against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act could be “identified by their clothes”....'
'Gulab Khan and Mohammad Kausar were acquitted by a Rampur court in the 2008 Rampur terror attack Case... “Who will wash off the blot of terrorism conferred upon me by the investigative agencies and the media?” questioned Gulab Khan, as he walked out of Bareilly Central Jail on Saturday as a free man. “I have been kept in the jail for nearly 12 years—the term being equivalent to the sentence of a murder convict. Will the court or those who destroyed not only me but my whole family help me now? Will the media make sure that people know I’m innocent?” he asked.
What is the role of Sadhvi Pragya Singh in terror attacks in Malegaon, Ajmer Sharif, Mecca Masjid and the Samjhauta Express? Find out about ATS Chief Hemant Karkare and his role in exposing Hindu terror. Listen to the stories of innocent men whose lives have been shattered by false accusations in terror crimes in Malegaon. Detailed testimonies from those who were falsely framed in the Malegaon blasts reveal a sinister conspiracy by the Hindu right-wing and the brutalisation of those who were innocent by law enforcement agencies.
'The brother of the doctor accused in the Gorakhpur hospital tragedy last year was shot at three times on Sunday night. Gorakhpur is the constituency of Adityanath, chief minister of Uttar Pradesh. Kashif Jameel, Khan’s 34-year-old brother, has survived the shooting and is in Star Hospital in Gorakhpur...'
'KP Raghuvanshi, former chief of Maharashtra's anti-terrorism squad (ATS), was understandably absent from the media glare around the Mumbai special MCOCA (Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act) court's order of April 25, 2016 that discharged nine Muslim accused from all charges in the Malegaon bomb blasts case of 2006. The retired additional director general of police had led the ATS investigation of the Malegaon blasts as well as the Mumbai train blasts of 2006.
Not some time ago a very brief write-up by Younus SK had shared news items revealing Hindus posing as Muslims to be committing mischief to whip up anti-Muslim frenzy.
Editor’s note: in Karnataka earlier this year, the RSS-affiliated miscreants were caught red-handed hoisting Pakistani flag to foment communal tension. Why in India a few random instances of inter-religious gone bad are easily termed as love jehad, a conspiracy in which a whole community is supposedly involved, whereas the increasing instances of Hindu youths masqurading as Muslims and issuing threat are not seen as a conscious effort to malign and criminalise the Muslim community?
