India has gone by default in the
hands of notorious criminals who came to power with their own criminal writ,
and both remained openly involved in their criminal activities including mass
killings and murdering selected opponents through police encounters and
highly-trained RSS agents. India has been invaded by RSS, headed by PM Modi and
his old partner in crime; now the Home Minister and the architect of
controversial laws against Indian Muslims and oppressed Kashmiri Muslims under
curfew. It is only PM Modi who could have given such a highly sensitive
portfolio of the Ministry of Home Affairs to a criminal.
Several journalists with a
conscience were courageous enough to speak out against the gross violations by
the Indian government, patronised by RSS during the engineered massacre of
Muslims in Gujrat, following the Godhra train incident in 2002. I am quoting
here the revelations made by well-known Indian investigative journalist Rana
Ayyub, in her book “Gujarat Files: Anatomy of a Cover Up”. The crux of her
investigation, pertaining to Amit Shah, now Union Home Minister of India, is as
follows;
“…the then Gujarat home minister, Amit Shah
was involved in the killing of the three Muslims who were falsely accused of
terrorism by accusing them of being members of ‘Lashkar-e-Taiba’. Three weeks
later, Amit Shah was arrested on charges of orchestrating the killings. He was
put into jail after a trial in 2014 for ordering the fake encounters of
‘Sohrabuddin Sheikh’, his wife ‘Kauserbi’ and murder of witness ‘Tulsiram
Prajapati’. These three innocent Muslims were all killed in 2005 and 2006.”
Azam Khan, a contract killer, was
given the contract to kill former Gujarat home minister Haren Pandya by police
officer D G Vanzara in 2003. The murder of the former home minister still
remains a mystery, as neither police nor CBI got themselves involved in this while
his family kept calling it a political murder. In 2010, the sole testament and
consistent witness of the case, Azam Khan, was also eliminated through
assassination.
According to the investigations,
when Shaikh and his wife Kauserbi were travelling from Hyderabad to Sangli in a
bus in November, 2005, the Gujarat and Rajasthan police stopped them and shot
them dead near Gandhinagar. The wife Kausarbi, was also allegedly raped by a
sub-inspector before being murdered. The Gujarat police falsely claimed that
Sheikh had links with Pakistani terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba, and that he had a
plan to kill the chief minister of the time, Narendra Modi. However, a Special
Investigation Team constituted by the Supreme Court later found that they had
been killed in a fake encounter. On the other hand, Prajapati, being the sole
witness of the murders, was also shot dead in police custody in December 2006.
During investigation, the police claimed that he was trying to escape.
The first arrests made were of
deputy inspector general D G Vanzara and Rajasthan police officer Dinesh MN.
The Crime Investigation Department gathered phone calls records that revealed
frequent phone calls of Amit Shah with D G Vanzara, Dinesh, superintendents of
police Rajkumar Pandian and Vipul Kumar. The call records from September 2006
to January 2007 revealed that Amit Shah consistently remained in touch with D G
Vanzara and Pandian during that short period of time around all three killings.
The number of calls increased every time there were developments in the case.
The Gujarat CID report pointed out that the frequency of these calls was
unnatural and uncommon in nature as they were against the minister’s official
protocol. The police officials involved in the encounter remained in jail since
2007 and were granted bail in 2014. After they were arrested, the investigating
officer was transferred and the case was handed over to Inspector General Geeta
Johri, who was later criticised by the Supreme Court for not conducting a fair
investigation.
It is evident that all the
witnesses were systematically eliminated through assassinations, and in each
case, the police’s complicity was beyond doubt.
Essentially, Amit Shah used the
police to kill Mr and Mrs Sheikh, and the eye witness. It was extremely
unfortunate that a sub-inspector, holding a position of trust, raped Mrs.
Shiekh before murdering her. Unfortunately, he had full backing of Narendra Modi,
who was then Chief Minister. Ironically, Narendra Modi upon being sworn in as
PM of India, rewarded Amit Shah by securing him a berth in his cabinet, as
Union Home Minister, a position, where he has a free hand to commit murders and
assassinations in the name of Hindutva. The Narendra Modi and Amit Shah duo has
earned the notorious title of ‘ranga billa’, implying that whosoever crosses
their path, meets the fate of the witnesses and Judge Loya of the Gujrat
massacre case.
Such was the terror of
extra-judicial murders by the ‘Chankya of modern times’, Amit Shah, and the
‘Butcher of Gujrat’, Narendra Modi, that none dared to step up and give
evidence against either.
Under the duress of then CM
Gujrat, Narendra Modi, Rana Ayyub was prevented to publish her findings in the
then famous exposé magazine Tehlka that demonstrated Narendra Modi’s central
dominating role in the massacre.
A sole witness of Narendra Modi’s
involvement in the massacre was Sanjiv Bhatt, a former Indian Police Service
officer from Gujarat. He is known for his role in filing an affidavit on April
11, 2011 in the Supreme Court of India against the then Chief Minister of the
Government of Gujarat, Narendra Modi, concerning Modi’s alleged role in the
2002 Gujarat riots.
He claimed to have attended a
meeting at Modi’s residence, during which Modi allegedly asked top police
officials to let Hindus vent their anger against the Muslims.
After the 2002 riots, a group of social
activists had formed the Concerned Citizens Tribunal to analyse the riots.
Gujarat’s home minister Haren Pandya (who was mysteriously killed later) had
allegedly told this tribunal that Modi had organised a meeting of several
police officers on 27 February 2002 after the Godhra train burning, in which
over 63 Hindu pilgrims had died. Pandya claimed that, in this meeting, Modi had
asked the police officials not to come in the way of “the Hindu backlash
against Muslims”. Pandya had named several police officials who attended this
meeting and he was later assassinated by unidentified men.
Bhatt in his affidavit, had
mentioned six witnesses, who could testify his presence in the alleged meeting
held at Modi’s residence but later-on, KD Panth, the prime witness was turned
hostile to help Modi escape any negative outcome. Bhatt was suspended on August
8, 2011 by the Gujarat government, accusing him of unauthorised absence from
duty. He was contacted many times by Amit Shah and Modi’s agents to destroy all
the evidence against them. Eventually, he was dismissed from police service on
the basis of the same grounds of “unauthorized absence” in August 2015.
Apparently, the witness is still alive, and may be willing to provide evidence
if protection is assured to him.
The above pattern of violations
by RSS, BJP, Indian Government of Modi clearly suggests beyond any doubt that
the present Indian state under Prime Minister Modi are bent upon increasing
religious violations against Muslims, forcing them to either convert or get
ready to be killed. To meet the ends of justice, it is important that,
investigative journalist, Ms Rana Ayyub, along with other living witnesses must
be invited by some international forum to offer their evidence and reveal the
facts that led to the carnage at Gujrat, now remembered as the Muslim Massacre.
It will be in the interest of justice if the head of the Aam Aadmi Party Mr
Arvind Kejriwal is also called as a witness along with other victims, who
suffered at the hands of RSS, to record the statements before the same forum. The
downgrading of India to “Countries of Particular Concern (CPC)” through the
2020 USCIRF report, is insufficient to convince India to cease the atrocities
unleashed through RSS and Hindutva, against Muslims and Minorities in India.
Besides the above brutalities and
criminal activities, both are continuing to carry out religious violations
against oppressed Kashmiris unhindered, as Kashmiri Muslims are now subject to
torture by Indian troops under curfew since the last seven months.
Their only fault is that they are
Muslims and are voicing for their right of self determination. Will anybody from
the world answer their calls?
I intend to write to the relevant
forums, including the US Commission on International Religious Freedom to
examine the criminal role of these old partners involved in crimes against
humanity in the light of new evidence.
I urge the international community
to form a high-powered commission in the interest of humanity, and religious
freedom, maybe proposed by the UN, to investigate these violations, and to
place India under international sanctions until the right of life of Muslims
and other minorities is ensured. PM Modi has ordered violations at the LoC to
divert the international attention from IOK and his political blunders, leading
to massive unrest in India. Both partners in crime are upset with new evidence
as it may lead to their trials as war criminals in the International Criminal
Court.
The Article was published in The Nation on May 20, 2020, link to original article: https://nation.com.pk/20-May-2020/crime-partners-modi-and-amit
