Incident had taken place during protest against Bhopal encounter
Mohd. Shueb, Shakeel Qureshi and Anil
Yadav, leader Rihai Manch, had lodged their statements on notice issued over
the matter of lathicharge by UP Pollice when they were protesting against
Bhopal’s fake encounter last year.
Mr. Shahnawaj Alam, in a press release,
claimed that, as Rihai Manch activists reached to stage a Dharna at Gandhi
Pratima situated at GPO in protest against Bhopal’s fake encounter, the police
attacked the crowd and injured the leaders — namely, Rajeev Yadav and Shakeel
Quereshi; and used force to beat them.
An FIR against police had been registered
at Hazratganj Police Station, but no action has been taken against the police
so far.
He alleged that the police, by registering
FIR against 400 unidentified and 7 by names and manifesting it a criminal
activity in lieu of criminal protest demonstration, showed that police intended
it to make this protest campaign into an offence.
Police have said in its FIR that the
demonstrators began to abuse to, and manhandling among, the police; while the
viral video has cleared the aftermath situation that the police force, by
rounded up the leaders of Rihai Manch, started lathicharge.
Manch spokesperson said: what had
registered in the police FIR has revealed in it, “The crowd was using lewd
comments against a specific community; while 7 of the accused are 3 Muslims and
4 Hindus communities?”
The question is raised here in this
condition that, when the people of two communities were together, they were
speaking lewd comments over which community?
This Dharna was for the innocents killed in
Bhopal whom police have claimed to be killed in a fake encounter.
In such conditions police
statements that the crowd was engaged to comments over specific community
clarify it that police have a self concept to dedicate a specific community.
If the police assume itself against 'of
rising voice against the communalism', it clears that they felt themselves a
part of these communal forces.
Rihai Manch spokesperson said that Chairman
Mohd Shueb, Shakil Quereshi and Anil Yadav filed their statements appearing at Hajarat Ganj Police Station.
They also filed even
this in their statements that the police had lifted their sound system which
they had lodged in FIR earlier; but the police had not disclosed in its FIR.
