Three killed in fresh violence in India's Muzaffarnagar

[Hafizzz]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-24753494

Three people have been killed in fresh violence in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, which was hit by religious riots last month.

While some reports described the violence as a religious clash, police told the BBC that it was sparked off by a dispute between two families.

More than 60 people died in the Hindu-Muslim clashes which erupted on 7 September in the town of Muzaffarnagar.

The riots were described as the worst in India in a decade.

Thousands of people fled their homes in the violence which was sparked by the killing of three men who had objected to the harassment of a young woman.

In the latest incident on Wednesday evening, three Muslim men were beaten to death while another was injured in clashes between local Muslim and Hindu communities at Muhammadpurraisingh village, senior local official Kaushal Raj told Press Trust of India news agency.

Muzzafarnagar police superintendent Hari Narayan Singh told BBC Hindi that the violence was triggered by a "family dispute".

Uttar Pradesh, India's most populous state, saw serious Hindu-Muslim riots in 1992 after the demolition of the Babri mosque in Ayodhya by hardline Hindus.

Correspondents say some political parties have accused each other of trying to polarise the communities along religious lines ahead of next year's general elections.

 

[Hafizzz]

Muzaffarnagar killings: 7 arrested, DGP admits to security lapses
http://www.hindustantimes.com/india...mits-to-security-lapses/article1-1145651.aspx

4 killed in fresh firing incidents in Muzaffarnagar


The police on Thursday arrested seven persons and registered cases against 15 others for trying to trigger a fresh flare-up in communally fragile Muzaffarnagar villages where four persons were murdered on Wednesday.

The Uttar Pradesh government has moved additional forces into the communally sensitive locations in Muzaffarnagar to avert any August-like situation which had left 63 dead and 50,000 homeless. The situation is tense but under control, officials said.

Uttar Pradesh director general of police Deo Raj Singh Nagar, who is camping at the spot since Wednesday, admitted to security lapses in Muzaffarnagar.

“There were lapses on part of officials of my force,” Nagar told a news channel, while emphasising that the police officers needed to act without political influence.

The trouble had started on Wednesday after armed villagers lynched three persons in a sugarcane field in Mohammadpur Raisingh village, leading to communal tension in the area. The three were targeted for allegedly being part of a group of 10-12 men who had beaten up a farmer from that village earlier in the day.

However, the husband of the pradhan of neighbouring Hussainpur Kalan village, Shahnawaz, claimed that the three dead were his relatives and had gone to the field to collect fodder when residents of Muhammadpur Raisingh kidnapped and killed them.

In a second incident, unidentified assailants attacked a couple in Phugana area. The woman died on the spot while her husband managed to escape.

Confirming the four deaths, DIG (Saharanpur range) Ashok Mutha Jain said “officers are at the spot investigating the incidents”. However, he refused to comment on whether there was a communal angle to the killings.

Meanwhile, bodies of three lynched persons of village Hussainpur Kalan have been handed over to their families after postmortem. They have been identified as Afroz, 20, Meherban, 21, and Ajmal, 22, district magistrate Kaushal Raj said.

On Wednesday night, hundreds of angry villagers of Hussainpur Kalan and adjoining villages demonstrated outside the Budhana Kotwali and pressed for immediate arrest of the killers.

Communal clashes first erupted in Muzaffarnagar on August 27 after the killing of three youths in Kaval village. It flared up more seriously on September 7 after a clash between communities at a mahapanchayat saw the violence spread to other districts.

According to state government data, 63 people were killed in the riots and 50,000 had to seek shelter in relief camps. Subsequently, FIRs were registered against legislators and leaders from parties like the BJP, BSP, Congress, RLD and SP, allegedly for inciting communal violence.

 

[Chronos]

The Uttar Pradesh that area has a very similar culture to Paistan. In fact, I believe Mohajirs come from that place too.

No wonder that place is crime ridden.

 

[Hafizzz]

Calm down, I was just pulling Haaafizzz's legs, we know his monkeying around ways.

Uttar Pradesh produced Urdu, which is thenational language in pakistan.

so...

stop trying to do damage control.....it is TOO LATE.

 

[Aamna14]

Why is Pakistan brought up in every issue? Maybe its a self righteous obsession
On topic, A sad incident. My sympathies are with the victims and their families.

 

[Chronos]

stop trying to do damage control.....it is TOO LATE.

Well, first of all, you have high poverty levels, illiteracy levels, high amount of religiosity and labyrinthine religious, caste and cla affiliations in that place.

I am surprised things didn't get worse.

You know the indian saffron brigade here and the their Islamic counter parts.

 

[Chronos]

Why is Pakistan brought up in every issue? Maybe its a self righteous obsession
On topic, A sad incident. My sympathies are with the victims and their families.

Makes a convenient scapegoat. I think you have seen the Indian fundoos here. not surprising is it?

 

[kaykay]

well expect such things until elections are over.

 

[Hafizzz]

Why is Pakistan brought up in every issue? Maybe its a self righteous obsession
On topic, A sad incident. My sympathies are with the victims and their families.

Indian Trolls always drag Pakistan into a thread just for Indian News to divert people attention away from the main topic.

 

[Aamna14]

Makes a convenient scapegoat. I think you have seen the Indian fundoos here. not surprising is it?

I have seen a lot of Indian members making Pakistan a convenient scapegoat here for no reason though obviously not all.

 

[DESERT FIGHTER]

So much for love between indias hindus and muslims.. lmao.

 

[Dillinger]

The general election will bring more violence along with itself. The communities residing in the area have repeatedly been shown that any action by any member of a community will lead to a collective punishment, which is contrary to everything that the law states (although most of our denizens opine that the laws should be scrapped and some form of ad-hoc mass driven system put in place, or that the law should be selectively invoked) but is regarded by some as a befitting reply. What this will lead to in political terms is anyone's guess.

 

[Chronos]

The general election will bring more violence along with itself. The communities residing in the area have repeatedly been shown that any action by any member of a community will lead to a collective punishment, which is contrary to everything that the law states (although most of our denizens opine that the laws should be scrapped and some form of ad-hoc mass driven system put in place, or that the law should be selectively invoked) but is regarded by some as a befitting reply. What this will lead to in political terms is anyone's guess.

The first outbreak of violence was started with a scuffle 'allegedly' over a girl and supposed sexual harrassment. But the events have been twisted to an extent that it is hard to discern what happened really.

In a society that is highly religious, even a scuffle between two opposite religious members, will be interpreted as an affront to the honor.

There was an article in The Hindu, which had one of these Saffron brigade goons positing the theory of 'love jihad', a theory that was debunked by a Kerala High Court Judge.

 

[Chronos]

So much for love between indias hindus and muslims.. lmao.

That's bit of an overstatment I think.

Muzzaffarnagar is already segregated along religious lines. You also have caste tensions in the state as well.

In cities and states where Muslims do mingle with Hindus a lot, tensions tend to be lower.

 

[DESERT FIGHTER]

That's bit of an overstatment I think.

Muzzaffarnagar is already segregated along religious lines. You also have caste tensions in the state as well.

In cities and states where Muslims do mingle with Hindus a lot, tensions tend to be lower.

Honestly.. i dnt care..