Petition against Communal Violence in Tripura NAGRIK ADHIKAR MANCH and ALL INDIA LAWYERS UNION On THE ACTION OF TRIPURA GOVERNMENT Demand to--- Stop Communal Violence Stop persecution of Lawyers and Citizens against Communalism Online protest Petition against invoking sections 153A/153B/469/ 471/503/504/120B and Section 13 of ULAP Act, 1967 (UAPA Act, 1967) by the State of Tripura against four advocates of Delhi who visited areas effected in communal violence for finding facts. Dear Fellow Citizens, Nagrik Adhikar Manch and All India Lawyers Union intend to bring to your notice the condemnable action of the State of Tripura aimed at silencing the citizens and advocates from even investigating facts regarding communal violence perpetrated by the VHP and Hindu Jagran Manch and Bajrang Dal on the people of minority Muslim community. It is learnt that a team of 4 lawyers from Supreme Court comprising of Adv. Ehtesham Hashmi (leader), Adv. Amit Srivastava, Adv. Ansar Indori and Adv. Mukesh visited the violence effected areas of Rawa Bazar, Panisagar (North Tripura), Kelashar, Dharamnagar and had on the spot enquiry to find out the true facts regarding communal violence, damage caused to the houses and business premises and the places of worship of the minority community. The fact-finding report of the team is already in public domain. The report contains information in respect of damage to the property of the victims, callousness of the Police of the effected areas and the administration of the Government of Tripura. The report notes eloquently that communal harmony of the state was never so fragile in the past as it is under present political dispensation of the state. Violence against political opponents particularly CPI (M) is the new political phenomenon after victory of BJP in last Assembly elections. This October VHP, Hindu Jagran Manch and Bajrang dal on the pretext of communal violence in Bangladesh targeted poor Muslims’ homes, shops belonging to the people of minority community and their religious places. The report submitted by this fact-finding committee record the version of the victims. Instead of recording FIR against the culprits of violence and assuaging the feeling of the victims of this communal frenzy the Government of Tripura has slapped the criminal charges including section 13 of UAPA on the members of the fact - finding team and dozens of those who shared the briefing of the report on social media. The political leaders who enter the portals of power after swearing in the name of Constitution undertake to wreck it from within by sabotaging the Constitution. A day before the notice, the lawyers had held a press conference at Press Club of India, which was streamed through Facebook live and other News Channels and released the Fact-Finding report titled as “Humanity Under Attack in Tripura” # Muslim Lives Matter.” The report records that such incidents could have been prevented had the police and administration handled the situation strictly. The report further records that the Muslim organization Jammat-E-Ulema (Hind) had met the Chief Minister of the State four days ahead of incidents and informed him of possibility of danger to the communal peace and that the administration did not take any action to prevent the such incidents. The fact-finding team placed 8 demands before the administration which include constituting an enquiry committee headed by a High Court Judge; FIR on the complaints of the victims; adequate compensation to the people who suffered their business due to such incidents; rebuild the damaged religious places; removal of police officials who were derelict in their
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Petition against Communal Violence in Tripura
NAGRIK ADHIKAR MANCH
and
ALL INDIA LAWYERS UNION
On
THE ACTION OF TRIPURA GOVERNMENT
Demand to---
Stop Communal Violence
Stop persecution of Lawyers and
Citizens against Communalism
Online protest Petition against invoking sections 153A/153B/469/ 471/503/504/120B and Section 13 of ULAP Act, 1967
(UAPA Act, 1967) by the State of Tripura against four advocates of Delhi who visited areas effected in communal violence
for finding facts.
Dear Fellow Citizens,
Nagrik Adhikar Manch and All India Lawyers Union intend to bring to your notice the condemnable action of the State of
Tripura aimed at silencing the citizens and advocates from even investigating facts regarding communal violence
perpetrated by the VHP and Hindu Jagran Manch and Bajrang Dal on the people of minority Muslim community. It is learnt
that a team of 4 lawyers from Supreme Court comprising of Adv. Ehtesham Hashmi (leader), Adv. Amit Srivastava, Adv.
Ansar Indori and Adv. Mukesh visited the violence effected areas of Rawa Bazar, Panisagar (North Tripura), Kelashar,
Dharamnagar and had on the spot enquiry to find out the true facts regarding communal violence, damage caused to the
houses and business premises and the places of worship of the minority community. The fact-finding report of the team is
already in public domain. The report contains information in respect of damage to the property of the victims, callousness
of the Police of the effected areas and the administration of the Government of Tripura.
The report notes eloquently that communal harmony of the state was never so fragile in the past as it is under present
political dispensation of the state. Violence against political opponents particularly CPI (M) is the new political
phenomenon after victory of BJP in last Assembly elections. This October VHP, Hindu Jagran Manch and Bajrang dal on
the pretext of communal violence in Bangladesh targeted poor Muslims’ homes, shops belonging to the people of minority
community and their religious places. The report submitted by this fact-finding committee record the version of the victims.
Instead of recording FIR against the culprits of violence and assuaging the feeling of the victims of this communal frenzy
the Government of Tripura has slapped the criminal charges including section 13 of UAPA on the members of the fact -
finding team and dozens of those who shared the briefing of the report on social media.
The political leaders who enter the portals of power after swearing in the name of Constitution undertake to wreck it from
within by sabotaging the Constitution.
A day before the notice, the lawyers had held a press conference at Press Club of India, which was streamed through
Facebook live and other News Channels and released the Fact-Finding report titled as “Humanity Under Attack in Tripura”
# Muslim Lives Matter.”
The report records that such incidents could have been prevented had the police and administration handled the situation
strictly. The report further records that the Muslim organization Jammat-E-Ulema (Hind) had met the Chief Minister of the
State four days ahead of incidents and informed him of possibility of danger to the communal peace and that the
administration did not take any action to prevent the such incidents.
The fact-finding team placed 8 demands before the administration which include constituting an enquiry committee headed
by a High Court Judge; FIR on the complaints of the victims; adequate compensation to the people who suffered their
business due to such incidents; rebuild the damaged religious places; removal of police officials who were derelict in their
duty and failed to prevent the incidents of violence; Strict action against persons and organizations responsible for incitin g
people through false propaganda on social media; strict action against those found guilty of perpetrating this communal
violence.
Statement in protest against failure of the police and civil authorities in curbing violence is part of the democratic proces s.
Visiting affected areas and the victims is part of this socially committed democratic activity, to bring normalcy by
highlighting the woes of the victims.
Reporting and protesting against communal violence and insisting for Rule of Law cannot by any stretch of im agination
attract UAPA, sedition or any other criminal Charge/ offences slapped on the members of the fact -finding team.
We find that a pattern has been devised by the Government headed by BJP at the center and in the states to use stringent
legal provisions like UAPA and Sedition against dissenters and social activists to suppress their democratic freedom of
speaking against injustice, misrule and failure of the political leadership to deliver.
It is appropriate to call upon the west Agartala police to withdraw the charges of under section 13 of (punishment for
unlawful activities) of the UAPA and other offences reportedly slapped against Delhi -based members of the fact-finding
team.
We further call upon to immediately recall the notice sent under section 41 of the code of criminal procedure mentioned
these IPC offences as well-Sections 153A/153B (Promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion, race,
place of birth, residence, language, etc.), 469 (forgery for purpose of harming information), 503 (Criminal Intimidation),
504 (Intentional insult with intent to provoke the breach of peace) and 120B (Punishment for criminal conspiracy) against
the lawyers.
Signed by:
1 Subhashini Ali 2 Syeda Hameed
3 Somdutt Sharma AILU
4 A . Murugan All india Insurance employees union
5 A C Michael United Christian Forum
6 A E MUTHU KUMAR LIC
7 A Govindarajan LIC
8 A Raj vinoth
9 A.Chellameena AIIEA
10 A.FERNANDES Yes9
11 A.fernandes Yes
12 A.kaliyperumal Aiiea
13 A.MADHESWARAN Employee
14 A.Mani Insurance
15 A.Murugan All India Insurance Employees association
16 A.N. SANTHARAM Public Sector
17 A.Narayanan AIIEA
18 A.R.Kalyanasondaram
19 A.R.Nagarajan Life Insurance Corporation of India
20 A.RAJAN AIIEA
21 AAFREEN KHAN
22 Aas mohammad
23 Abdul Azeez PP SFI
24 Abdul jabbar
25 ABDUL KADAR JEELANI Lic
26 Abdul Rahman Anveshan
27 Abdulla Anam
28 Abdullah Khan
29 Abha Dev Habib
30 Abraham NZIEA JALANDHAR
31 Abrar Bar council of Delhi
32 Abrar Ahmed
33 Abrar ulhaq
34 ABUL KALAM AZAD
Stop Communal Violence in Tripura. Stop persecution of Lawyers and Citizens against Communalism.
35 Aditi Gautam DYFI
36 Adv khaja naseeruddin Advocate
37 ADV MUBARAK MALIK AILC
38 Advocate Shabbie Nasir individual
39 Advocate Wasim Khan
40 Afreen Sheikh Advocate
41 Aftab Alam Hindustaniyat
42 Aga Nasir Ali CAPF
43 Ahtesham khan Public
44 Ajay Kumar DKF
45 Ajay Kumar Chauhan Individual
46 akram
47 Akshay S. Poddar Dillifilmclub
48 Alex Dsouza Savidhan Jagar Samithee Goregaon
49 Ali Mohammad Tantray
50 Ali Zaidi Advocate, Supreme court of india
51 ALOKPARNA DASGUPTA
52 Altamash Media
53 Aman Saini Dyfi
54 AMANULLA KHAN All India Insurance Employees Association
55 Amit Khan DIEA
56 Amit Srivastav, Advocate Lawyers for Democracy
57 Ammu Abraham Forum Against Oppression of women
58 Amzad Hossen Self
59 Anand
60 Anand Archak Insurance Employees Union Dharwad
61 Ananthavalli Housewife
62 Aneek Roy Samadder Students Federation Of India
63 Angannavenkatesh. B Balajiram Personal
64 Anil K Chauhan All india lawyers Union
65 Anil kumad Motilal Nehru College DU
66 anil kumar bhatnagar All India insurance employees'association
67 Anirban Roy All Bengal Primary Teavhers' Association
68 Aniyan PV CITU
69 Anjana JMS Delhi
70 Anu Arora NA
71 Anusha Democratic Youth Federation of India Delhi State Committee
72 Archana Prasad Jawaharlal Nehru University
73 Arief Architect
74 Arivukkadal A All India Insurance Employees' Association
75 AROKIARAJ N LIC Of India
76 ARUMUGAM V LIC OF INDIA
77 Arun Kumar Sinha United democratic teachers front,Bihar
78 Aruna Sinha nfuw
79 Asha sharma AIDWA
80 Ashim Kumar Nandy LIC OF INDIA
81 Ashwini Jadhav
82 Asim Bhattacharjee Retired
83 Asim Mohammad
84 Asim siddiqui
85 Asok Sharma CPI(M)
86 Asraful mandal IIPS,Mumbai
87 ATIN DEB CHOUDHURY Sdiea
88 Atiya Gopinath Student
89 Avijit Kumar Dam Life Insurance Corporation Of India
90 Avinash Kumar Independent
91 Azhar Kareem advocate AILC
92 Azmat Rasool Khan Self
93 Badal Saroj
94 B A Premkumar Aiiea
95 B Devi Yasodha LIC OF INDIA
96 B MAHALINGAM
97 B. Akbar Ali Retd. Insurance official
98 B.Syed Ibrahim
99 BAL Raj Bhaluni CPIM
100 balaa aiiea
101 BALAKA CHATTERJEE Life insurance Corporation of india