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Ravi Chander report reveals torture and illegal detention by AP police
Submitted by admin on 9 April 2009 - 9:06am.
TwoCircles.net publishes the full report
By Kashif-ul-Huda, TwoCircles.net,
"Mecca Masjid case has turned cold," declared Indian Home Minister PC Chidambaram in March. Media promptly published the statement signaling a close to this investigation and time to move on to bigger and better news. Seems that Muslim leaders in Hyderabad also got the memo and they too moved on to the spectacle of Lok Sabha and Assembly elections.
For the victims of the blast and subsequent police firing, and those who were illegally detained or falsely charged for the bomb blasts and later acquitted their lives have been completely destroyed. None of the recent bombings have ever been solved and most of the suspects arrested were later released by the courts but with their lives in ruins.
Background
A number of Muslim youths were illegally detained by the AP State Police and tortured to make them confess to the bombings in Hyderabad in 2007. Later courts have released all youths for lack of evidence but the police officers who harassed and tortured these youth have not been punished.
AP State Minorities Commission appointed advocate L Ravi Chander to investigate the claims that Muslim youth were illegally detained and tortured by the police. The report found allegations to be true and documented enough evidence to implicate the police for its extra-judicial working. This is probably the first time that a report by a statutory body has documented the illegal working of the Indian police. The content of the report is damaging to the Andhra Pradesh government and therefore it pressured the AP State Minorities Commission not to act upon it and also not to get it released.
What the report says
All the youth arrested told the Commission of “arrest without warrant, arrest without informing kith & kin, being taken away to unknown places, torture, etc.” Physical evidence of torture was visible on their bodies.
Investigating Commission found that none of the youth illegally detained and tortured for alleged involvement with the blasts were ever mentioned in the FIR filed about the blasts.
Still many spent days and months before they could be released. With allegation of terrorism prominently reported by the media, their lives are in tatters with very bleak prospects for the future.
Full report of the investigation, after meeting 20 detainees, was submitted to the AP Minorities Commission by Advocate L Ravi Chander in October 2008. The report recommends that the Commission examine the records with the investigating agencies to find out how police failed to follow procedures when arresting and handling suspects. It also calls for “corrective action against erring police officers.”
Mr. Ravi Chander, who is a practicing advocate in the Andhra Pradesh High Court, also recommended that affected youths, all have been released since, and their families be rehabilitated and a committee be set up to supervise arrests.
The final report stands by its interim report, which put the state government in a very embarrassing position. The report charged the police with anti-Muslim bias. It found evidence of deliberate targeting, torture, and victimization of Muslim youth.
Action and inaction
The role of AP State Minorities Commission has been puzzling. Though it had ordered the investigation, it failed to officially submit the final report to the state government. When contacted by TwoCircles.net, Chairman of the Commission, Mr. Yusuf Quraishi refused to talk on this subject on the phone.
Though Hyderabad is seeing an interesting battle for the Lok Sabha seat with incumbent MP Asaduddin Owaisi and Siasat’s editor Zahid Ali Khan fighting it out, the police torture issue and Ravi Chander report is not the topic of the debate.
Some of the Muslim organizations seem to be so much out of the loop that they are not even aware of this damaging report out there. United Muslim Forum, comprising of several Muslim religious and social organization of Andhra Pradesh, made the demand from all the political parties that a judicial commission should be constituted to inquire the blasts and torture by the police, little realizing that this has already be done and government should be forced to act on the Ravi Chander report.
The news about the report did move the Hyderabadis living overseas and prompted Indian Muslim Council (IMC-USA) to organize a week-long signature campaign. Thousands of Indian Muslims from eight states of the United States signed petitions, called, faxed, and emailed various Indian leaders and officials demanding implementation of the recommendations of the Ravi Chander report.
TwoCircles.net is releasing the full report in the public interest so a debate can take place on it, victims rehabilitated, and guilty police officers investigated.
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Indian Muslims are second class citizens
India does NOT have enough even to feed Hindus. There are 55 OIC Islamic nations for Muslims but there is only one Hindustan for Hindus. Where else Hindus can go?. Is it NOT unfair of Muslims that despite having 55 OIC nations, they are NOT taking efforts to move out and leave the Hindu land for Hindus?. Can't Muslims understand that they are becoming a national burden and making each other's life miserable.
More than 80% of Indian Muslims are living in ghettos and slums. Majority Hindus think that they are an eye sore on their beautiful cities. They will NEVER get anything in India even after 100 years. By migrating to their own Islamic countries, they atleast have a better opportunity to rebuild a better life for themselves and also practice their faith peacefully.
All Muslims have their own country. Indian Muslims are the only one's living in other peoples land despite having 55 Islamic countries for themselves.
Indian Muslims must appeal to the 55 OIC nations that they should be declared as citizens of Dar al Islam and are welcome to come and live in any of the ummah nations.
For the past 60 years, several politicians including Varun Gandhi are repeatedly saying that Muslims are NOT required any more in India and there is no hope. Leave and let live. Sooner the better.
Fascist hindu policy
You have summed up the whole policy and thinking of the FASCIST BJP-RSS-Monkey army etc. that has yet to come to terms with the fact that India belongs as much to the Muslims born here as to the Hindus.
Besides, if by your logic, the Gulf countries, Malaysia, Iraq, etc. start paying in the same coin by sending back the Hindus (to accomodate the Muslims from India) then India will have more mouths to feed because, the fact is that even in Muslim countries, there are more Indian Hindus, earning bootlicking their Muslim bosses to earn more than they would in India.
Introduce MIRANDA LAW
It came already in the TCN. in November last year regarding the MIRANDA LAW but still I feel it to bring it to the notice of the Indian intellectuals to introduce the Miranda Law as they have in the Western Countries, to fight the atrocities committed by the Police on the innocent people irrespective of the religion, caste & creed to eliminate the atrocities by uniformed terrorists,
•There is a law in USA called MIRANDA RIGHTS. Under this LAW
(1) The accused has the right to call a lawyer when he is under the police custody. He can demand that he wants to speak to a lawyer,
(2) He can ask for a lawyer to be present during any questioning
(3) If the accused cannot afford a lawyer, one will be provided for him at government expense.
(4) Anything that the accused say in front of his lawyer can and may be used against him in a court of law, but in India, the police torture the accused and make him confess and sign statements which are produced to the judge as sworn statements.
Salamalaikum , This report
Salamalaikum ,
This report which reveals the true face of AP Govt. and the Police towards Muslims , will be only used for the Vote Banking by the Opposition Parties. Though this topic will last for not more than a month.
There were so many instances where muslims were totured or killed in fake encounters, arrested without any crime under terror brand. All these topics remain hot till some time and forgotten.
Even the elected honeble MP of hyderabad is just a political element which uses Muslim trust to Remain the seat to make history that they never lose the MP seat from hyderabad even if they nominate the donkey in name of MIM.
The people of hyderabad should be informed about the greedy politicians who play games with their lives.
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