Anticipating possible delay in implementing the "dictate of Union home minister Sushilkumar Shinde" given on "Monday evening" to all states and Union territories to "ensure that no innocent "Muslim youth" is wrongfully detained in the name of terror", and feeling the essence (hidden message) of the above order, six under trial activists of the banned Students Islamic Movement of India and another under trial escaped from Khandwa jail in Madhya Pradesh, after stabbing two prison security guards in the wee hours of Tuesday.
All those seven prisoners reached the jail bathroom between 2 am and 3 am in the night, stabbed the two security guards on duty, snatched the guards' rifles and broke the bathroom wall and escaped.
Khandwa superintendent of police Manoj Sharma reported later on, that SIMI activists are still at large, but the other under trial called Abid Mirza,who was accused of planting a bomb at a nursing home and in a ransom case of 2010, was caught by police in nearby Sarvodaya Colony. (Why Shinde have not ordered to stop the rearrest of Muslim Abid Mirza, who was accused of planting a bomb, but the charge is not proved ?)
Union home minister Sushilkumar Shinde, in his letter to chief secretaries of all states and UTs sent on Monday, wrote that "the Central government has received several representations alleging harassment of innocent Muslim youth by law enforcement agencies. Some of the minority youths have started feeling that they are deliberately targeted and deprived of their rights".
Incidentally, this is not the first time the MHA has selectively highlighted the "harassment" of Muslims, a big question mark was raised on the role of German Bakery blasts convict Himayat Baig in the 2010 attack, after the recently arrested Indian Mujahideen mastermind Yasin Bhatkal denied Baig's link to the attack.(How you fix that your own investigating agencies were wrong, on the version of a matermind terrorist ? Have you solved the case and caught the culprits ? If not why you are demolarising the working of the large investigating agencies in whole of India ? Do Shinde hope that selective rebutal will help resolution of so many terror case pending before the same investigating wings ?
Why this should not be treated as assisting the anti national activities, by restricting the working of investigating agencies ? What should have been a general precautionary advisory to the investigating authorities to be watchfull, has instead been announced prominantly through media to apease a section of society for dirty vote bank policy.
This suits to Dig sir as an individual spokesperson of Congress as seen in Batala House case; but this is not valid for a constitutional post holder as Union home minister. Why this restriction on the "proper working of investigating agencies", by issuing a biased stricture, should not be treated as anti national activity in the court of law ? People will ask you and Congress very soon.
The minister Shinde seemed to be more worried about and afraid of annoying their Muslim votes bank, than finding flaw in capabilities of, and failure in the working of the investigating agencies , as he chose to illustrate selectively 1 to 5 % cases of wrong confinement of some Muslims for interrogation. Though equal number of youths from all other communities are arrested and jailed during investigation in various cases.
Many of the so called secular parties indulge in this styled selective minority appeasement policy during election time, but it never helps the minorities, as the moderate and nationalistic Muslims are huge in the society,and only a very minute fraction of the disgruntled group of terrorists from the minority community finds the solace in such undesired minority appeasement.
It hurts the moral of honest and moderate majority part of the Muslims , rather this divides and seperates them from main stream of society and nation, making them raise a serious question: if indulging in anti national activities only will give them their natural rights as a citizen ? Is that the Congress and other so called secular parties wanted for them ?