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| Muzaffarnagar riots: arrest warrant |
| Muzaffarnagar riots: arrest warrants against politicians accused of inciting violence
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| INDIA
, 18-September-2013
2:59:19 AM |
| A court in Uttar Pradesh has issued arrest warrants for politicians who allegedly provoked the communal riots that killed 50 people and created 40,000 refugees in Muzaffarnagar.
Those who face arrest include: Qadir Rana, Jameel Ahmed and Noor Salim Rana of the BSP, the party headed by Mayawati; Saedduzzaman of the Congress; and Sangeet Som of the BJP.
Sangeet Som, who faces a non-bailable warrant for posting a fake video online that instigated tension, surfaced at the UP assembly today in Lucknow.
The police - which have so far offered no cogent explanation for why these politicians have not been arrested despite being named in FIRs - said the leaders will be arrested within 48 hours. Praveen Kumar, a senior police officer in Muzaffarnagar told NDTV, "We have all the evidence, no one will be spared."
The torrent of Hindu-Muslim violence that would plunder this western part of UP began on August 27 with the deaths of three young men in the village of Kawal- first, two Hindu Jat boys murdered a Muslim who they accused of stalking their sister; an hour later, the brothers were lynched by a mob of Muslims.
The police and local administration officials called a ban on public meetings. But politicians from across parties delivered calls-to-action, some addressing Hindu crowds, others focusing on Muslims. (Narendra Modi-aide Amit Shah scripts big BJP plan for Uttar Pradesh)
One incendiary meeting was addressed by leaders of the Congress and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) on August 30 after Friday prayers.
A week later, on September 7, politicians from the BJP took centrestage at an enormous meeting of thousands of Jat farmers, seeking justice for the Hindu boys who had been lynched in Kawal. The swords and guns being brandished in the audience didn't deter Hukum Singh, BJP leader, from propounding that atrocities against Hindus in the areas were being ignored. (Politicians addressed crowd armed with swords, guns)
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