Four people were killed and over a dozen injured in police firing on a group of protesters in Bihar's Araria district on 3rd June evening. The police opened fire at a group of protesters in Farbisganj, about 350 km from Patna. The angry people were protesting against the blocking of a street due to the construction of the boundary walls of a glucose and starch factory of Roorkee based Auro Sundaram International Pvt. Ltd.
It has com eto light that the land for the maize processing unit for production of maize starch and liquid glucose and a 3-MW captive power plant at the Forbesganj Industrial Area was allotted to the company last year by the Bihar Industrial Area Development Authority (BIADA).
A woman and a child were among the four killed in the police firing. Hundreds of villagers were protesting in the matter of a dispute over land acquisition. It has been reported that Garima Mallik, SP, Araria and the local SDM faced resistance while attempting to pacify the protesters. M. Sarvanan, District Magistrate, Araria appears tight lipped about the issue.
Md. Afzal, a Hyderabad based academician present in Araria, submitted a petition to the National Commission For Minorities seeking its intervention in the Forbesganj firing case.
A PTI releases dated June 7 reports, the state government has set up a judicial commission to be headed by either a sitting or a retired judge of the Patna High Court to probe police firing at Forbesganj town in Bihar's Araria district in which four persons were killed and several others injured.
"The decision to constitute a judicial commission to probe Forbesganj police firing was taken at the cabinet meeting presided over by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar," Principal Secretary (Cabinet Coordination and Secretariat) Ravikant told reporters in Patna.
"The commission will be headed by either a sitting or a retired Patna High Court judge, as the Chief Justice decides," he said.The commission will probe circumstances leading to the police firing on Friday and fixing responsibility on the cops involved in the incident, Ravikant said.
The decision was taken on the recommendation of Home Secretary Amir Subhani and Additional Director General of Police (ADG), Headquarters, Rajyavardhan Sharma, who visited Forbesganj for preliminary inquiry, Principal Secretary (Cabinet Coordination and Secretariat) said.
It is being sai that the interference of some local anti-social elements led to violence by the police.
The Communist Party of India(Marxist-Leninist) Liberation [CPI(ML)]'s Fact Finding team took stock of the in Farbisganj Police Firing. The CPI(ML) fact finding team comprising of Central Committee member and Bihar State Committee Member, Comrades K D Yadav and Rajaram Singh (the two are also national vice president and general secretary respectively of All India Kisan Mahasabha), alongwith Araria District Party incharge, Naval Kishore and block secretary of Forbesganj, Genalal Mahato visited Bhajanpur village in Forbesganj and met with the villagers and family members of the deceased Mustafa Ansari, Mukhtar Ansari, Sajmin Khatoon and 8-month old child Naushad.
The team learned from the villagers that the road from Bhajanpur to Raniganj is 60 years old and at various points in time the zilla parishad, gram panchayat, mukhiya and others have conducted the repairing work. Keeping the path till here in mind NH 57 has constructed a subway also. But in course of BIADA acquiring land and construction of private factory by BJP legislative councillor, Ashok Aggarwal, on 28 acres of land, a conspiracy was hatched by them to block and close this road. This road connecting Bhajanpur to Raniganj, connects Bhajanpur village mainly inhabited by minority community (1000 families), to Karbala, Idgah, hospital and local bazaar. So the demand of the villagers to maintain this road is fully justified.
On 2nd June a wall was constructed on one end of the road, on the directions of BJP MLC Ashok Agarwal and on other end a deep digging was done for laying foundation. On 3rd June the villagers held a strong protest against this and demolished the boundary wall.
The police from 6 stations was already present there and perpetrated most heinous firing, firing hundreds of rounds of bullets and even after Mustafa and Sajmeen were shot above their waist the police flung on to them and trampled their felled but still alive bodies with their boots.
Pregnant Sajmeen Khatoon was returning after feeding her husband Farooq Ansari who is a construction worker at this factory. Mustafa was returning from his shop with 8000 rupees and mobile and he was still alive after being shot but police trampled his chest and bled him to death. The 8 month old Naushad was killed on the NH in police firing and his mother is injured and admitted at PMCH. 18 year old Mukhtar used to labour outside and was returning to the village.
Within 6 months this is the second incident of barbarism against minorities in Nitish Govt. On 22 Dec 2010 when the villagers of Bamraha under Kursakanta were protesting against an incident of rape, the jawans of BSF murdered four people of minority community. These incidents expose the truth about good-governance in Nitish government.
The CPI(ML) has demanded immediate arrests of the police officers led by the SP who conducted the firing, BJP Councillor Ashok Aggarwal and his goons, charging them under IPC 302, cancelling the lease of the 28 acres land, maintain the said road as it was, compensation of rupees 10 lakhs to the family of the deceased, 3 lakhs rupees as compensation to those injured and judicial inquiry of the whole incident. All those injured in firing have been shot above their waist, more than 100 families of the 1000 are BPL families.
This incident exposes the true face of anti-rural, anti-minority character and barbaric face of Nitish Kumar led government, the CPI(ML)'s fact finding team observed.
Wasi Ahmed Shamshi, Convenor, All India Milli Council, Bihar said, "this government is of industrialists and billionaires, the government supports them."
Husn Ahmed Quadri, General Secretary, Jamiat Ulama-I-Hind, Bihar and Jharkhand said, "Bihar police has always been communal. That’s why we demand proportionate representation of Muslims in police forces. A similar case has happened during the regime of Lalu Yadav when police gheraoed a village of Muslims in the same Araria district, misbehaved with women and took away 54 people and brutally tortured them. Then there was a secular government. The fact is police is communal. So any government that wants progress with peace, they should ensure proper representation of Muslims in police forces."
Maintaining that the Bihar Deputy Chief Minister's role be also probed, the RJD on 7th June demanded an inquiry by a sitting judge of the Patna High Court into the Forbesganj police firing in which four people died. "The judicial probe should also inquire into the role of Deputy Chief Minister S K Modi, BJP MLC Ashok Agarwal and Forbesganj SDO Giriwar Dayal Singh," said Leader of the Opposition in the state Assembly Abdul Bari Siddiqui.
He said, "The confrontation between the villagers and the police took place because of Modi's direction to the local administration that the land for construction of the starch and glucose factory and the approach road within the premises of the proposed unit must be acquired." Modi gave the directive during his meeting with local administration on May 29. Siddiqui alleged that Agarwal, an industrialist, had ruled out giving any land for construction of the road. He also demanded cases to be registered against the accused officials.
A joint delegation of RJD and LJP met governor Devanand Konwar here on 8th June and informed him about the police atrocity resulting in firing at Forbesganj in Araria district. They complained about deputy chief minister Sushil Kumar Modi's alleged role in the incident.
The delegation comprised leader of opposition in Bihar legislative assembly Abdul Bari Siddiqui, RJD MP Ram Kripal Yadav, former RJD MP Alok Kumar Mehta, former LJP MP Ramchandra Paswan, general secretaries of LJP Raghvendra Singh Kushwaha, Mehtab Alam and Lallan Prasad Singh. They urged the governor to get the matter inquired by a sitting high court judge within a set time frame and bring deputy CM Sushil Kumar Modi, BJP MLA Ashok Agrawal and Forbesganj SDO Girwar Dayal Singh within the ambit of the probe.
They also demanded that an ex gratia payment of Rs 10 lakh each be made to the kin of deceased persons at the earliest; those found prima facie guilty in the killing be booked under Section 302 or 304 of the IPC; and security be provided to villagers who are living under constant threat from the ant-social elements.
Source: Agencies and websites
It has com eto light that the land for the maize processing unit for production of maize starch and liquid glucose and a 3-MW captive power plant at the Forbesganj Industrial Area was allotted to the company last year by the Bihar Industrial Area Development Authority (BIADA).
A woman and a child were among the four killed in the police firing. Hundreds of villagers were protesting in the matter of a dispute over land acquisition. It has been reported that Garima Mallik, SP, Araria and the local SDM faced resistance while attempting to pacify the protesters. M. Sarvanan, District Magistrate, Araria appears tight lipped about the issue.
Md. Afzal, a Hyderabad based academician present in Araria, submitted a petition to the National Commission For Minorities seeking its intervention in the Forbesganj firing case.
A PTI releases dated June 7 reports, the state government has set up a judicial commission to be headed by either a sitting or a retired judge of the Patna High Court to probe police firing at Forbesganj town in Bihar's Araria district in which four persons were killed and several others injured.
"The decision to constitute a judicial commission to probe Forbesganj police firing was taken at the cabinet meeting presided over by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar," Principal Secretary (Cabinet Coordination and Secretariat) Ravikant told reporters in Patna.
"The commission will be headed by either a sitting or a retired Patna High Court judge, as the Chief Justice decides," he said.The commission will probe circumstances leading to the police firing on Friday and fixing responsibility on the cops involved in the incident, Ravikant said.
The decision was taken on the recommendation of Home Secretary Amir Subhani and Additional Director General of Police (ADG), Headquarters, Rajyavardhan Sharma, who visited Forbesganj for preliminary inquiry, Principal Secretary (Cabinet Coordination and Secretariat) said.
It is being sai that the interference of some local anti-social elements led to violence by the police.
The Communist Party of India(Marxist-Leninist) Liberation [CPI(ML)]'s Fact Finding team took stock of the in Farbisganj Police Firing. The CPI(ML) fact finding team comprising of Central Committee member and Bihar State Committee Member, Comrades K D Yadav and Rajaram Singh (the two are also national vice president and general secretary respectively of All India Kisan Mahasabha), alongwith Araria District Party incharge, Naval Kishore and block secretary of Forbesganj, Genalal Mahato visited Bhajanpur village in Forbesganj and met with the villagers and family members of the deceased Mustafa Ansari, Mukhtar Ansari, Sajmin Khatoon and 8-month old child Naushad.
The team learned from the villagers that the road from Bhajanpur to Raniganj is 60 years old and at various points in time the zilla parishad, gram panchayat, mukhiya and others have conducted the repairing work. Keeping the path till here in mind NH 57 has constructed a subway also. But in course of BIADA acquiring land and construction of private factory by BJP legislative councillor, Ashok Aggarwal, on 28 acres of land, a conspiracy was hatched by them to block and close this road. This road connecting Bhajanpur to Raniganj, connects Bhajanpur village mainly inhabited by minority community (1000 families), to Karbala, Idgah, hospital and local bazaar. So the demand of the villagers to maintain this road is fully justified.
On 2nd June a wall was constructed on one end of the road, on the directions of BJP MLC Ashok Agarwal and on other end a deep digging was done for laying foundation. On 3rd June the villagers held a strong protest against this and demolished the boundary wall.
The police from 6 stations was already present there and perpetrated most heinous firing, firing hundreds of rounds of bullets and even after Mustafa and Sajmeen were shot above their waist the police flung on to them and trampled their felled but still alive bodies with their boots.
Pregnant Sajmeen Khatoon was returning after feeding her husband Farooq Ansari who is a construction worker at this factory. Mustafa was returning from his shop with 8000 rupees and mobile and he was still alive after being shot but police trampled his chest and bled him to death. The 8 month old Naushad was killed on the NH in police firing and his mother is injured and admitted at PMCH. 18 year old Mukhtar used to labour outside and was returning to the village.
Within 6 months this is the second incident of barbarism against minorities in Nitish Govt. On 22 Dec 2010 when the villagers of Bamraha under Kursakanta were protesting against an incident of rape, the jawans of BSF murdered four people of minority community. These incidents expose the truth about good-governance in Nitish government.
The CPI(ML) has demanded immediate arrests of the police officers led by the SP who conducted the firing, BJP Councillor Ashok Aggarwal and his goons, charging them under IPC 302, cancelling the lease of the 28 acres land, maintain the said road as it was, compensation of rupees 10 lakhs to the family of the deceased, 3 lakhs rupees as compensation to those injured and judicial inquiry of the whole incident. All those injured in firing have been shot above their waist, more than 100 families of the 1000 are BPL families.
This incident exposes the true face of anti-rural, anti-minority character and barbaric face of Nitish Kumar led government, the CPI(ML)'s fact finding team observed.
Wasi Ahmed Shamshi, Convenor, All India Milli Council, Bihar said, "this government is of industrialists and billionaires, the government supports them."
Husn Ahmed Quadri, General Secretary, Jamiat Ulama-I-Hind, Bihar and Jharkhand said, "Bihar police has always been communal. That’s why we demand proportionate representation of Muslims in police forces. A similar case has happened during the regime of Lalu Yadav when police gheraoed a village of Muslims in the same Araria district, misbehaved with women and took away 54 people and brutally tortured them. Then there was a secular government. The fact is police is communal. So any government that wants progress with peace, they should ensure proper representation of Muslims in police forces."
He said, "The confrontation between the villagers and the police took place because of Modi's direction to the local administration that the land for construction of the starch and glucose factory and the approach road within the premises of the proposed unit must be acquired." Modi gave the directive during his meeting with local administration on May 29. Siddiqui alleged that Agarwal, an industrialist, had ruled out giving any land for construction of the road. He also demanded cases to be registered against the accused officials.
A joint delegation of RJD and LJP met governor Devanand Konwar here on 8th June and informed him about the police atrocity resulting in firing at Forbesganj in Araria district. They complained about deputy chief minister Sushil Kumar Modi's alleged role in the incident.
The delegation comprised leader of opposition in Bihar legislative assembly Abdul Bari Siddiqui, RJD MP Ram Kripal Yadav, former RJD MP Alok Kumar Mehta, former LJP MP Ramchandra Paswan, general secretaries of LJP Raghvendra Singh Kushwaha, Mehtab Alam and Lallan Prasad Singh. They urged the governor to get the matter inquired by a sitting high court judge within a set time frame and bring deputy CM Sushil Kumar Modi, BJP MLA Ashok Agrawal and Forbesganj SDO Girwar Dayal Singh within the ambit of the probe.
They also demanded that an ex gratia payment of Rs 10 lakh each be made to the kin of deceased persons at the earliest; those found prima facie guilty in the killing be booked under Section 302 or 304 of the IPC; and security be provided to villagers who are living under constant threat from the ant-social elements.
Source: Agencies and websites
2 comments:
Bhajanpura killings /new dimensions:-
Do you people know the facts .It was a fight for no cause.It was a dastardly act first by the people who were part and parcel of the mob that gathered around the upcoming starch factory ,who burnt all the costly structures/machinery that was laid for the factory to come in to production in time.There was no any notified road for which the fight ensued. It was a per-meditated plan of the persons who conspired to make such a big mountain of such a small mole-hill. It was a fight between two big houses ,one that has its operations facility already in Forbesganj and the other who was spreading his arms to Forbesganj but was giving a gold-mine to the entire farming population of our area in the shape of a starch factory that was being established by him as this starch factory would have required 8000 quintals of Maize daily and would have proved to be an open invitation to the farmers to grow maize as much as they could and fetch highest prices ever . It would have been a boon to the whole of the agriculturist community. It would have proved to be a gate way to many allied small industries as also would have opened flood-gate of opportunities in shape of employment to small time traders and villagers as well.
But it was not to be . As the selfish interest of a big house in Forbesganj collided with the well-being of the masses .Had this industry come in time this man at Forbesganj would have become unable to exploit the masses who are farmers who are forced to sell their commodity at throw away prices to this big house who is not only a regular purchaser of all the agriculture commodities but has rampantly sucked the blood out of the poor population who are forced to hand over their farm produce at what ever price the big house players want them to take and that also as if a dole is being lent out to the masses by this big house. This industry would have proved fatal to this evil design of this big house .
Hence the innocent villagers were first motivated to carry out this exercise which took a draconian turn and which ended up in killings in Police firing.
Police resorted to firing not for the sake of killing but after a prolonged exhaustive exercise of persuasion/ dissuasion to prevent arson and loot by the villagers failed, it became incumbent for the police to do so.The mob was being handled by remote telephone connections by a group of followers of this Forbesganj based Business tycoon and the end result is there for all f us to see .
This group is comprised of those people among whom one was successful is catching a 8 second clip of a constable shown stamping by boots, a half-dead person .This clip has been sold at a fabulous price of couple of lacs of rupees to the members of the opposition by a member of this group.
The government is at a back-foot because of all this drama but all those clips it seems have been hidden which show the brutality of the mob in beating the Police constables by iron-rods, taking out the then S.P. from the vehicle forcibly and trying to drag her to the spot of fire to burn her alive .
This is how some member of the media behave and be benefited by such conspiracies but to the detriment to the welfare of the farmers.
Bhajanpura killings /new dimensions:-
Do you people know the facts .It was a fight for no cause.It was a dastardly act first by the people who were part and parcel of the mob that gathered around the upcoming starch factory ,who burnt all the costly structures/machinery that was laid for the factory to come in to production in time.There was no any notified road for which the fight ensued. It was a per-meditated plan of the persons who conspired to make such a big mountain of such a small mole-hill. It was a fight between two big houses ,one that has its operations facility already in Forbesganj and the other who was spreading his arms to Forbesganj but was giving a gold-mine to the entire farming population of our area in the shape of a starch factory that was being established by him as this starch factory would have required 8000 quintals of Maize daily and would have proved to be an open invitation to the farmers to grow maize as much as they could and fetch highest prices ever . It would have been a boon to the whole of the agriculturist community. It would have proved to be a gate way to many allied small industries as also would have opened flood-gate of opportunities in shape of employment to small time traders and villagers as well.
But it was not to be . As the selfish interest of a big house in Forbesganj collided with the well-being of the masses .Had this industry come in time this man at Forbesganj would have become unable to exploit the masses who are farmers who are forced to sell their commodity at throw away prices to this big house who is not only a regular purchaser of all the agriculture commodities but has rampantly sucked the blood out of the poor population who are forced to hand over their farm produce at what ever price the big house players want them to take and that also as if a dole is being lent out to the masses by this big house. This industry would have proved fatal to this evil design of this big house .
Hence the innocent villagers were first motivated to carry out this exercise which took a draconian turn and which ended up in killings in Police firing.
Police resorted to firing not for the sake of killing but after a prolonged exhaustive exercise of persuasion/ dissuasion to prevent arson and loot by the villagers failed, it became incumbent for the police to do so.The mob was being handled by remote telephone connections by a group of followers of this Forbesganj based Business tycoon and the end result is there for all f us to see .
This group is comprised of those people among whom one was successful is catching a 8 second clip of a constable shown stamping by boots, a half-dead person .This clip has been sold at a fabulous price of couple of lacs of rupees to the members of the opposition by a member of this group.
The government is at a back-foot because of all this drama but all those clips it seems have been hidden which show the brutality of the mob in beating the Police constables by iron-rods, taking out the then S.P. from the vehicle forcibly and trying to drag her to the spot of fire to burn her alive .
This is how some member of the media behave and be benefited by such conspiracies but to the detriment to the welfare of the farmers.
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