The recent report by the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) that the number of Muslims incarcerated in jails is nearly three times to their population, and that over a quarter of them are not having lawyers to represent them is shocking. Ironically, in a great democracy like India, Muslims are caught in the vicious circle of being used as vote bank by one mainstream political party while getting blamed as being appeased by the other. The community however has great expectations from the highest judiciary. One hopes, the apex court will take cognizance of the TISS report and appoints fast track courts to dispose of the multitude cases. The police officials who are found with slapping false cases with communal bias should be punished for this iniquity to be curtailed.
Syed Sultan Mohiddin
Kadapa, A.P.