CAA: Were Muslims intentionally targeted in UP?

A joint fact-finding committee of students of several reputed universities and educational institutions in the country have accused the Uttar Pradesh police of deliberately killing poor Muslims.

Following the protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act, this committee comprising students from about 30 educational institutions including Jawaharlal Nehru University, Jamia Millia Islamia, University of Delhi, Aligarh Muslim University, IIT Indore, Indian Institute of Mass Communication, 15 places in Uttar Pradesh last week This report is presented by visiting. READ MORE

Out of all the protests that have taken place across India against the Citizenship Amendment Act, Uttar Pradesh has claimed the maximum number of 23 lives.

While releasing this report, in the fact-finding Committee report of the students, it was claimed that Uttar Pradesh deliberately targeted poor Muslims and many of those who died were minors. According to the report, mass arrests are going on in the state and people are scared.

Reacting to the violence during the demonstrations against the Citizenship Amendment Act, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath had said on 19 December 2019 that revenge would be taken from the miscreants. READ MORE

The students associated with the fact-finding Committee claim that from the next day onwards the Uttar Pradesh Police had started to selectively target Muslim protesters.

When the fact-finding Committee made several attempts to get feedback from top officials of Uttar Pradesh Police on this report, but these officials refused to say anything on it.

Delhi University student Thritu Das was also included in the team of students who went to Meerut, Muzaffarnagar and Aligarh. Thirtu told the media, “Four teams of the Fact-Finding Committee went to 15 places in Uttar Pradesh. The results that all the teams reached saw a similar pattern in these attacks. Almost all the attacks took place on December 20. It was a day. Just a day before this, the Chief Minister had warned the protesters. These attacks took place between three to four o’clock in the evening. People were walking out of the mosque after reading the Namaz at that time. Area. Rally at some point or was preparing to peaceful protest. “

“The police stopped them at that time and asked them to sit down. Only after that, the lathi charge was started without any provocation. The police claim that they did not do any firing but in the video we have, they shot clearly We are seen driving. We can say with confidence that the police targeted the Muslims and shot them. Those killed and injured were residents of poor Muslim neighbourhoods and these are every day They were wage labourers. “

In Rampur, UP, Islam’s wife Zulekha says that her husband was innocent.

A team member Akash was also a student of Indian Institute of Mass Communication. Akash told the media, “Wherever the police fired, bullets were not fired below the waste anywhere. People’s stomach, head and chest were targeted. Local BJP leaders were everywhere with the police. “The way the police intimidated people that the injured people were afraid to go to the government hospital for treatment. They were afraid that the attachment notice would come.”

Police has not yet provided postmortem report to the families of those killed in many places. It has also happened in many places that the police gave instructions to the people to bury the dead body of the family. They were told the place and for this only one hour was given.

This action is still going on from the police and at night the police are raiding the Muslim neighbourhood.

Ananya, another member of the Fact-Finding Committee, said, “When we knocked on the homes of the people, they were afraid to open the door. The police still come to the houses of the Muslims by coming from the roof at midnight or knocking the door loudly She is pushing me. She is not giving even sleep peacefully.

Photograph taken from a video of Meerut Police firing on the bridge of Bhumia of Meerut

In this violence, only five people from Meerut died due to direct shooting.

Even after 18 days of the death of the anti-citizenship law in Meerut, neither these families have received postmortem report nor any FIR was registered. When investigated, Meerut’s Additional Director General of Police Prashant Kumar said, “There is a process of taking a postmortem report. By filling a simple fee people can get a postmortem report. There is no stopping. If the FIR is the matter then no FIR If it is lodged, then the FIR will definitely be lodged. “

he ADG of Meerut said that the police did not fire in this violence. All the deaths occurred due to the bullets of the protesters. He said, “Wherever there have been deaths, the police have not used the gun. There is no such video of the police yet, in which she is seen firing a gun. Police charged tear gas, rubber bullets and sticks, but did not fire. The police can use force if needed, so if we do something like this, we will accept it but it was not done by the police. “

He says, “Whenever there is any tension in western UP, it goes on for months and the communal violence does not take long. The police took control of the whole matter in three hours.”

At the same time, SP City of Meerut Akhilesh Narayan Singh said on camera that in the violence on December 20, the police opened fire but only aerial firing was done.

Famous journalist and social activist Pamela Philippos was present when the Fact-Finding Team was releasing this report. He said, “The mainstream media is completely silent on this issue, these students associated with fact-finding Committee has worked in the interest of the country.”

“They showed how Uttar Pradesh is being made a slaughterhouse. The Muslim population is on target and protests are being crushed.”

Originally published at https://www.mubahisa.in.