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     Dada Junior Artist Username: Dada Post Number: 764 Registered: 12-2006 Posted From: 125.16.128.122 Rating: N/A |
Not one accused sent for scientific examination: Since not a single statement of any of the accused was recorded under Section 164 of the Criminal Procedure Code, it would indicate that the police failed to elicit any information by conventional interrogation methods. The next step would have been to subject the accused to scientific examinations like a polygraph test or narcoanalysis or brain mapping. The police, however, initiated no efforts in this direction. No mention made of rapes: Three chargesheets apiece were filed in the Naroda Gaon and Naroda Patiya massacres. However, despite the testimonies of dozens of survivors who had reported that women were raped, not a single instance of rape was recorded. At least one post-mortem indicated a possible case of sexual assault, yet no investigations in this direction were carried out. (It should be noted that since autopsies on 41 bodies were not carried out, there is no ascertaining how many of them were womenâs and whether they bore marks of sexual assault.) Mobile phone recovered from the spot not examined: On the day of the massacre, a survivor named Mirja Hussain Biwi Moherble recovered a mobile phone near her residence in Naroda Patiya. It had been inadvertently dropped by one of the accused, and was handed over to the police. On enquiry, Additional Commissioner of Police, Crime Branch, AK Surolia found that it belonged to one Ashok Sindhi, an accused in the massacre. Surolia launched a massive investigation and started collecting the call records of Babu Bajrangi and other accused, including Sindhi (Letters from Surolia addressed to telecom companies asking for phone records are with TEHELKA. We also have handwritten notes by him in which he observed that he believed Bajrangi âto be behind all thisâ.) But before the investigation could go any further, Surolia was transferred. Once he was gone, the police stopped looking into Sindhiâs phone records. In the three chargesheets filed in the Naroda Patiya massacre, no mention has been made of any cellphone belonging to an accused being recovered from the scene of the crime. Mobile phone records of the accused not made part of the chargesheet: After the case was transferred to the Crime Branch of the Ahmedabad Police, the then DCP Rahul Sharma proceeded to collect the mobile phone call records of all the accused. But, a few weeks into the probe, he was unceremoniously taken off it and the case was handed over to Deputy Commissioner of Police DG Vanzara. Sharma, however, managed to make a copy of all the call records and produced it before the Nanavati-Shah Commission. These call records are a piece of strong corroborative evidence establishing not only how all the accused were making frantic calls to each other while the Naroda massacre was in progress, but also that they were present at the spot. Call records have not been included as evidence in the chargesheets. | ||
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Kauser Bano, was nine months pregnant that day. Her belly was torn open and her foetus wrenched out, held aloft on the tip of a sword, then dashed to the ground and flung into a fire. | ||
| Dada Junior Artist Username: Dada Post Number: 762 Registered: 12-2006 Posted From: 125.16.128.122 Rating: N/A |
Midevial time invaders like Mohd. Ghazni followers laaga unnaru vellu....vellaki..vallaki emi differenc ledhu..... In a most systematic manner, the BJP, the VHP and the Bajrang Dal formed an execution squad that carried out a pogrom from 10 in the morning of February 28 till after well past dark. Apart from firearms, tridents and swords, everything that could conceivably be turned into a weapon at short notice â from bricks to gas cylinders to diesel tankers â was unleashed on an entire neighbourhood of Muslims. Most victims were burnt alive. Before being set on fire, many were stabbed, raped and hacked apart. Right through the massacre, the cellphones of the rioters were ringing constantly, with death scores being shared at regular intervals. By sundown, Naroda Patiya and Naroda Gaon, the Muslim neighbourhoods in the area, had been reduced to a vast wasteland of death. Sliced up like vegetables, burnt like charcoal and, bearing the testimony of slaughter at its crudest, corpses lay scattered across what had been a lively human settlement barely a few hours before. | ||
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http://www.tehelka.com/story_main35.asp?filename=Ne031107Nar odaPatyaMassacre.asp | ||
| Dada Junior Artist Username: Dada Post Number: 760 Registered: 12-2006 Posted From: 125.16.128.122 Rating: N/A |
TEHELKA: Muslims were hacked to pieces⦠Bajrangi: Hacked, burnt, set on fire, many things were done⦠many⦠We believe in setting them on fire because these bastards say they donât want to be cremated, theyâre afraid of it, they say this and that will happen to them⦠I have just one wish⦠one last wishâ¦. Let me be sentenced to death⦠I donât want to be incarcerated⦠I donât care if Iâm hanged⦠Give me two days before my hanging and I will go and have a field day in Juhapura [a Muslim dominated are], where seven or eight lakh of these people stay⦠I will finish them off ⦠Let a few more of them die⦠At least 25-50,000 should die⦠TEHELKA: How many witnesses have testified against you? Bajrangi: Fourteen Muslims and 16 policemen⦠Out of the 14 Muslims, some have moved to Juhapura⦠Theyâve left Patiya, they donât have the guts to stay there, defying us⦠The rest have gone to Karnataka⦠They got money after all, Rs 7 lakh each⦠Narendrabhai never said how much they would be given⦠He announced [the compensation package] then gave out cheques of Rs 20,000 each and thatâs where things got stuck⦠Afterwards, he gave nothing to anyone⦠But then the Central government supported them⦠⢠⢠⢠TEHELKA: In other words, the way [you] have killed will go down in history. Bajrangi: Arrey hamari FIR me likha gaya hai⦠ek woh pregnant thi, usko to humne chir diya thha b*******d sala⦠Unko dikhaya ki kya hota hai⦠ki hum log ko tumne maara to hum tumko kya pratikaar de sakte hain⦠hum khichdi kadhi wale nahin hai [It has been written in my FIR⦠there was this pregnant woman, I slit her open, sisterf****r⦠Showed them whatâs what⦠what kind of revenge we can take if our people are killed⦠I am no feeble rice-eater]⦠didnât spare anyone⦠they shouldnât even be allowed to breed⦠I say that even today⦠Whoever they are, women, children, whoever⦠Nothing to be done with them but cut them down. Thrash them, slash them, burn the bastards⦠Hindus can be bad⦠Hindus can be bad, and Iâm saying that because, as I see it, Hindus are as wicked as those people are⦠Many of them wasted time looting⦠Arrey, [the idea is] donât keep them alive at all, after that everything is ours⦠TEHELKA: And some people also raped⦠Bajrangi: No, there were no rapes⦠TEHELKA: One or two Chharas may have⦠Bajrangi: If some Chharas took some women, thatâs a different matter⦠We were marching in groups⦠There was no place to rape anyone there⦠Everyone was on a killing spree⦠we were killing, hacking⦠There were lanes where we had to face Muslims⦠there would be a confrontation, theyâd fight back with all their strengthâ¦The moment weâd killed a few, weâd move on⦠In this melée, if some girl was trying to run away and if a Chhara caught her, then thatâs another matter⦠That day, it was like what happened between Pakistan and India⦠There were bodies everywhere⦠it was a sight to be seen, but it wasnât something to be filmed, in case it got into someoneâs hands⦠There was a video-wala there, some mediawala, we set him on fire too⦠Lots of those miyas [Muslims] deceived us⦠Theyâd chant Jai Mata Di and get away... that happened too⦠theyâd put tilaks on their foreheads and shout Jai Shri Ram, Jai Mata Diâ¦. TEHELKA: Tell me how that SRPF [State Reserve Police Force] man saved people? Bajrangi: There was just one Muslim⦠some big SRP man⦠Sayeed⦠TEHELKA: He was an officer... Bajrangi: Yes, he was⦠All this cutting and killing happened behind the SRP camp⦠The ones who werenât in the pit, they ran and got into the SRP compound⦠The SRP jawans there were driving them away⦠when the officer came in his vehicle and said take everyone inside⦠He was in command⦠an officer⦠So, lots of people were saved this way⦠at least 500 were rescued⦠Otherwise would they have all gone too⦠The officer was also fired at⦠He is also a witness against me⦠TEHELKA: But then Narendrabhai promoted him and⦠Bajrangi: Silenced him⦠So, there was good work done in Patiya. Today too I am fighting against Muslims and will continue to do so⦠I have nothing to do with politics⦠What I say is this: the VHP is an organisation⦠a Hindu organisation⦠Our politics should be limited to killing Muslims, beating them up⦠TEHELKA: How do you feel after you have killed Muslims⦠Bajrangi: Maza aata hai na, saheb [I enjoy it]⦠I came back after I killed them them, called up the home minister and went to sleep⦠I felt like Rana Pratap, that I had done something like Maharana Pratap⦠Iâd heard stories about him, but that day I did what he did myself. Nov 3, 2007 | ||
| Dada Junior Artist Username: Dada Post Number: 759 Registered: 12-2006 Posted From: 125.16.128.122 Rating: |
Hope justice shows it's face to the 1984 riots victims as well | ||
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Not only did Bajrangi recount hacking and setting on fire hundreds of Muslims but also said he enjoyed it and felt like Maharana Pratap after killing them. âI donât care if Iâm hanged⦠Give me two days before my hanging and I will go and have a field day in Juhapura [a Muslim dominated area], where seven or eight lakh of these people stay⦠I will finish them off ⦠Let a few more of them die⦠At least 25-50,000 should dieâ¦â he said. The number of Muslims killed that day or the âscoreâ as Bajrangi estimated the Muslim killings were well over 200. This figure, however, was not acknowledged by the state government whose official records maintain that 105 people were killed in Naroda Patiya and Naroda Gaon that day. This verdict comes almost three years after the trial in this case began in 2009 after Supreme Court-appointed SIT carried out further investigations into the case. During this time, the court examined almost 327 witnesses, victims, police personnel, government officials and journalists including Khetan who carried out a TV sting operation on the accused in 2007. | ||
| Dada Junior Artist Username: Dada Post Number: 757 Registered: 12-2006 Posted From: 125.16.128.122 Rating: N/A |
http://www.tehelka.com/story_main53.asp?filename=Ws290712TEH ELKA_IMPACT.asp In a clear vindication of Tehelka's 2007 investigation, a special trial court in Ahmedabad on 29 August convicted former Gujarat minister Maya Kodnani and Bajrang Dal leader Babu Bajrangi along with 30 others in the Naroda Patiya massacre case. The court acquitted 29 accused in the same case. The sting operation conducted by Tehelka's Investigation Editor Ashish Khetan exposed Bajrangi and Kodnani as the main conspirators in the case.(Ahmedabad: Carnage Capital ) Khetan's spy camera captured Bajrangi confessing that he saw the Godhra train burning, returned to Naroda, mobilised a team of 29-30 people on the night of 27 February itself and took revenge. (âAfter Killing Them, I Felt Like Maharana Pratapâ ) Two members of the select team formed by Bajrangi, Suresh Richard and Prakash Rathod were recorded on Tehelkaâs spycam saying that Kodnani drove around Naroda all day, urging the mob to hunt Muslims down and kill them. |
