The government of Gujarat confessed before the Supreme Court that Sohrabuddin Sheikh was killed in a fake police encounter and his wife Kauser Bi was also killed by the police. Three senior IPS officers who were behind the cold blooded murders of innocent civilians, are now behind the bars.
On June 15, 2004 the same Gujarat police had killed three Muslim youth and a Muslim college girl, calling them terrorists. Union Railway Minister Lalu Prasad and Gujarat Congress leader Amar Singh Chaudhary had called it a fake encounter. Human Rights Commission was of the same view. As many as 13 fake encounters were staged in Gujarat just to protect Modi’s chair. Modi and company are experts in the art of state managed fake encounters. A 13-member fact finding committee headed by Justice Kolse Patil had probed the terrorist attack on RSS headquarters in Nagpur in June 2006. Its authentic report also termed the encounter as fake and fabricated. The role of Maharashtra government and a section of media was deplorable in this regard.
Supreme Court had ordered the transfer and retrial of the Best Bakery case to Maharashtra. The Court had remarked that those who indulge in violence in the name of religion are more dangerous than the terrorists. Justice demands that the criminals be tried and severely punished.
G. Hasnain Kaif
Bhandara, Maharashtra