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Are Saffron groups bringing mob rule to India's last peaceful states?

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Post by Guest Sun Sep 24, 2017 1:13 am

On the night of September 8, police in Dehradun, Uttarakhand, picked up two boys and two girls from a central part in the city a little after midnight. The boys were Muslims, the girls Hindus. All four were from Kirtinagar, a town in the Tehri Garhwal district. At the station, the police were informed by the Kirtinagar police that the girls had been reported missing. The girls were returned to Kirtinagar and the boys arrested, though it isn’t clear what they were charged with.


According to a report in Amar Ujala, the next day, unnamed “Hindu organisations” attacked and broke the shops owned by the boys’ families in Kirtinagar. The report quotes local traders saying they had no involvement in the attack on the shops, and that those who did so were brought in “from outside.” The police are now deployed in the town and the circle officer has announced that he will be remaining there for the “near future”.


Since the BJP came to power in Uttarakhand in March, incidents like this are being reported continuously from across the state. In July, in Satpuli, the Bajrang Dal attacked a shop owned by the family of a Muslim boy whom they accused of posting a photo that made “objectionable” references to the Kedarnath temple. In Mussoorie, Kashmiri traders have twice been threatened with eviction – once after supposed “pro-Pakistan slogans” were shouted, an incident that even the police say had nothing to do with the Kashmiris, and then again when a Kashmiri trader allegedly posted a video praising the Pakistani army (after which the Hindu Jagran Manch forcibly closed his shop). Then in August, in Satpuli again, a shop was vandalised and the bazaar shut down in a protest bandh by saffron groups after a Muslim man was accused of having sex with a cow. In Dehradun, on August 21, the Bajrang Dal attacked and beat up a Muslim man, accusing him of “harassing” a Hindu woman. As it turned out, the two had reportedly gotten married some months earlier and were living together. After a street clash between supporters of the man and the Bajrang Dal was halted by the police, “elders” from both communities reached an “agreement” that consisted of forcing the couple apart and back to their respective parents’ homes.


https://thewire.in/180389/uttarakhand-bjp-saffron-groups/

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Post by garam_kuta Sun Sep 24, 2017 1:14 pm

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