State minister Harsh Sanghavi has questioned if humanity exists just for stone-pelters and whether people struck by stones have no rights after a controversy over an event in which some police officers openly beat a few Muslim males suspected of stone-pelting in Gujarat.
After they reportedly threw stones at Garba dancers in the Kheda area earlier this week, the police beat the members of the minority group.
A review was launched into the event after videos of some police officers beating them with a baton appeared on social media.
Five additional people were detained by the police on Friday for their suspected involvement in the stone-pelting incident, bringing the total number of people being held in this matter up to 18.
According to a police officer, the matter is currently also being looked into from the perspective of criminal conspiracy.
Does humanity exist for the stone throwers?
Mr. Sanghavi said at a gathering held here on Friday: “But I don’t know if humanity is only about individuals flinging stones.
When their heads are struck with stones, children and women have no human rights. They need to have access to human rights, right?” The Minister of State for Home questioned the group if people should avoid practicing Garba in public areas.
Do they throw rocks in a religious manner?
“Are they throwing stones religious? Shouldn’t persons who are struck by stones be entitled to human rights? So why is it that individuals who throw rocks are always supported whenever the subject of human rights is brought up? This is a point to think about, “added he.
In the meantime, the police are looking into the matter from the perspective of a criminal conspiracy on the side of the minority community, according to Dhruv rajChudasama, inspector of Special Operations Group (SOG) looking into the issue.
He said that the police had added the Indian Penal Code (IPC) section 120 (B), which deals with criminal conspiracy, to the first information report (FIR) filed in this case, which includes the names of 43 people. A municipal court on Saturday ordered the five suspects detained on Friday to remain in jail.
According to Mr. Chudasama, out of the 43 suspects who were named in the FIR, 18 have been taken into custody thus far after we detained five more.
“In the FIR, we put IPC clause 120(B). Together, the accused people planned to prevent the Garba celebration from taking place in the designated village location. The accused planned this ahead of time and made the necessary arrangements, “he stated.
Meanwhile, a team of attorneys representing the minority community sent a letter to the Kheda district superintendent on Friday asking for a fair inquiry into the entire affair.
They said there was a plot on the part of the sarpanch of Undhela village to incite Muslims by holding a Garba celebration close to a mosque.
According to the memorandum, “innocent” individuals have been charged in the FIR against community members who practice Islam.
Officials from the local criminal section flogged the man under the influence of the sarpanch and local political figures.
The attorneys, operating under the guise of the “All India Lawyers Council,” said in their brief that videos of the incident were posted on social media as part of the plot.
A crowd purportedly made up of Muslim community members threw stones at the Garba dance event held as part of the Navratri celebrations in Undhela on Monday night, injuring seven people including a police officer. The event’s proximity to a mosque was a point of contention for the assailants.
The next day, footage allegedly showed police officers publicly beating three of the 13 suspects detained in the stone-pelting case with a baton while holding them against an electric pole at a village junction.
Ashish Bhatia, the Director General of Police (DGP) for Gujarat, has mandated an investigation into the incidence of flogging.
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