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No Justice in Gujarat
February 20, 2004 | Comments Off on No Justice in Gujarat
In his powerful editorial in the Hindustan Times, Flash in the pan?, Praful Bidwai describes the diminishing possibilities for justice for the victims of the Gujarat massacre of Muslims in 2002. Discussing the CBI’s exhumation of bodies in the Bilkis Bano case, Bidwai writes:
It now turns out the police buried the bodies and poured salt over them so they would decompose quickly. The evidence the CBI has gathered clearly points to attempts to cover one monstrous act by committing yet another. The police in Narendra Milosevic Modi’s Gujarat aided and abetted, and further compounded serious crimes, including murders…
When crimes are not recorded, when ministers direct rioting mobs, when state agencies suppress evidence, when the police participate in arson and rape, when witnesses are terrorised, and when the courts hand out obnoxious verdicts, the subversion of justice becomes complete.
Bidwai criticizes the High Court’s decision in the Best Bakery case, and the BJP’s attempts to erase the violence of Gujarat from people’s memories in their campaign for elections. Read the Gujarat section for more news on these two cases.
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