North-East Delhi is limping back to normalcy after three days of arson, loot, plunder, mayhem, monstrosity and murders. Humanity has again been disgraced in these riots, which were pre-planned. But apart from the inept and unprofessional handling of the situation by the police, the judiciary and the media have also brought deep despair and disappointment by their conduct. The media never made any efforts to bring about peace and harmony. It failed to mirror the factual things to dispel the doubts and tensions, which were/are created by the rouges and anti-national elements. Our television channels suffer from a chronic decease of holding debates by inviting such people who have closed minds and rigid opinions. No amount of logic can help them in changing their viewpoints. Thus, the viewers hardly get any information or clarity from these debates.
What is most perplexing, however, was the attitude and action of the higher judiciary. Why did the High Court entertain the petition at midnight by those people, who were also known for stoking the fire? If at all, the High Court thought it fit to hear the case at midnight, it should have directed the Delhi Police to pull all socks to control the conflagration that was raging the North-East Delhi but it simply ordered to lodge the FIR against three leaders namely; Kapil Mishra, Anurag Thakur and Pravesh Singh Verma of the BJP. So much so, in its misplaced zeal, the High Court got the speeches of all three leaders screened in the courtroom, delivered during the Delhi assembly elections. In fact, these three leaders never made any inflammatory or incendiary speech during or before the city was engulfed in communal riots. The Election Commission had already punished and prevented them from electioneering for 48 hours to 72 hours. In those days the Police were under the control of the Election Commission. So, the observations of the High Court for the registration of the FIR now is totally erroneous, unjustified and uncalled for.
Mr Kapil Mishra is blamed to have incited the people of the Hindu community on 23rd February, which he had made in the presence of the Deputy Commissioner of Police but that was no speech at all. It was merely a request to the police to clear the unruly crowd from the main road of the Jafrabad. These protesters were sitting at some other place for the last many days but on the eve of the visit of the American President, they were instigated by the AAP MLA and the Councillor of the area to move on the main road so as to cause inconvenience to millions of people. The court should have, in all fairness, ordered the arrest of those people who provoked the protestors to obstruct the traffic with the intent to malign the image of the country.
More than 40 persons have lost their lives and properties of crores of rupees have been destroyed and reduced to ashes in the pogrom. Its genesis needs to be thoroughly investigated and guilty persons must be meted out exemplary punishment.
Even before the Delhi High Court had taken this cognisance of this communal riots, the Supreme Court of India behaved in the funniest manner by appointing interlocutors to negotiate with Shaheen, Bagh protestors to persuade them to move to any other site. This interference of the Supreme Court did not cover it with any glory. The protest at Shaheen Bagh has been not been misconceived but highly mischievous, organised by the local AAP MLA and funded by the radicalised Jihadi group of Peoples’ Front of India.
It must be noted that during the visits of the US Presidents to India, the ISI of Pakistan has been creating some unsavoury and tragic tamashas to sully the image of the country. It happened during the visits of Bill Clinton, Obama, and now it was planned to coincide with the visit of Donald Trump. The only difference between now and then is that during the visits of Bill Clinton and Barak Obama, it used to be enacted in Kashmir but this time it was not possible to do so in Kashmir because of the alertness of our security forces, so they made it in Delhi, where the Muslims have been used to queer the pitch of the growing influence of India in the world.
What is most perplexing, however, was the attitude and action of the higher judiciary. Why did the High Court entertain the petition at midnight by those people, who were also known for stoking the fire? If at all, the High Court thought it fit to hear the case at midnight, it should have directed the Delhi Police to pull all socks to control the conflagration that was raging the North-East Delhi but it simply ordered to lodge the FIR against three leaders namely; Kapil Mishra, Anurag Thakur and Pravesh Singh Verma of the BJP. So much so, in its misplaced zeal, the High Court got the speeches of all three leaders screened in the courtroom, delivered during the Delhi assembly elections. In fact, these three leaders never made any inflammatory or incendiary speech during or before the city was engulfed in communal riots. The Election Commission had already punished and prevented them from electioneering for 48 hours to 72 hours. In those days the Police were under the control of the Election Commission. So, the observations of the High Court for the registration of the FIR now is totally erroneous, unjustified and uncalled for.
Mr Kapil Mishra is blamed to have incited the people of the Hindu community on 23rd February, which he had made in the presence of the Deputy Commissioner of Police but that was no speech at all. It was merely a request to the police to clear the unruly crowd from the main road of the Jafrabad. These protesters were sitting at some other place for the last many days but on the eve of the visit of the American President, they were instigated by the AAP MLA and the Councillor of the area to move on the main road so as to cause inconvenience to millions of people. The court should have, in all fairness, ordered the arrest of those people who provoked the protestors to obstruct the traffic with the intent to malign the image of the country.
More than 40 persons have lost their lives and properties of crores of rupees have been destroyed and reduced to ashes in the pogrom. Its genesis needs to be thoroughly investigated and guilty persons must be meted out exemplary punishment.
Even before the Delhi High Court had taken this cognisance of this communal riots, the Supreme Court of India behaved in the funniest manner by appointing interlocutors to negotiate with Shaheen, Bagh protestors to persuade them to move to any other site. This interference of the Supreme Court did not cover it with any glory. The protest at Shaheen Bagh has been not been misconceived but highly mischievous, organised by the local AAP MLA and funded by the radicalised Jihadi group of Peoples’ Front of India.
It must be noted that during the visits of the US Presidents to India, the ISI of Pakistan has been creating some unsavoury and tragic tamashas to sully the image of the country. It happened during the visits of Bill Clinton, Obama, and now it was planned to coincide with the visit of Donald Trump. The only difference between now and then is that during the visits of Bill Clinton and Barak Obama, it used to be enacted in Kashmir but this time it was not possible to do so in Kashmir because of the alertness of our security forces, so they made it in Delhi, where the Muslims have been used to queer the pitch of the growing influence of India in the world.
