04-13-2006, 06:54 AM
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 Aligarh Pioneer News Service
THEY CLAIMED that the victim was a Muslim labourer who had been killed by Hindu rioters in Aligarh. However, only a day later, the victim turned out to be the son of a Hindu MLA and the rioters Muslim.
Triloki alias Vicky, the 25year-old son of Devki Nanda Kori, the BJP MLA from Sasni in Aligarh, had disappeared from his home in Sasni Gate area on Saturday morning. Later that day, Aligarh broke into communal tension over the shooting of a youth in the Delhi Gate area in the hands of "Hindu" rioters. The youth later succumbed to his injuries in the Malkhan Singh Hospital.
Arriving on the scene, the local administrative officials, including the District Magistrate Bhuvnesh Kumar were quick to declare that the deceased youth was Arif, a Muslim labourer, and he had died as a result of some personal enmity with his assailants.
Surprisingly, the doctors too appeared to have placed a black hood on their heads while conducting the postmortem and confirmed in their report that the deceased was a Muslim and the body bore all the "telltale" signs distinguishing a Hindu from Muslim.
When nobody came forth to claim the body on Sunday, it was interred in a grave according to Muslim rites by an Aligarh NGO, Manav Sansthan, and this gross negligence on multiple levels would have been covered up with Vicky reported as "missing", had the local television channels not broadcast the images of the people who had died in the riots during the past five days.
<b>The broadcast came as a shock to the family of Devki Nandan, the BJP MLA from Sasni, Hathras who realised that his son, who they thought was missing, had in fact been killed in the riots and cremated as a Muslim</b>. In deep agony over the plight of his beloved son the MLA immediately contacted the Aligarh District Magistrate who arranged for the body of the so called Arif to be exhumed in the presence of the family of the MLA who immediately recognised the body as that of Vicky.
Talking to this newspaper,<b> Mr. Devki Nandan claimed that his son had been identified as Arif by Rizwan Ahmed, the Inspector-general of Police, Kanpur Zone</b>. He said that his son had run out of his house in Sasni gate area in the morning to save a girl from being dragged away by rioters during curfew and had disappeared immediately after that only to come back in the form of a deadbody.
<b>He said that being a Hindu, his son had never been circumcised as claimed by the administration and he even had an "Om" tattooed on his right shoulder, so there was no question of his being identified as a Muslim, instead, it appeared to be a deliberate attempt to make all the riot-victims to appear Muslims to hide the true nature of the riots.</b>
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 Aligarh Pioneer News Service
THEY CLAIMED that the victim was a Muslim labourer who had been killed by Hindu rioters in Aligarh. However, only a day later, the victim turned out to be the son of a Hindu MLA and the rioters Muslim.
Triloki alias Vicky, the 25year-old son of Devki Nanda Kori, the BJP MLA from Sasni in Aligarh, had disappeared from his home in Sasni Gate area on Saturday morning. Later that day, Aligarh broke into communal tension over the shooting of a youth in the Delhi Gate area in the hands of "Hindu" rioters. The youth later succumbed to his injuries in the Malkhan Singh Hospital.
Arriving on the scene, the local administrative officials, including the District Magistrate Bhuvnesh Kumar were quick to declare that the deceased youth was Arif, a Muslim labourer, and he had died as a result of some personal enmity with his assailants.
Surprisingly, the doctors too appeared to have placed a black hood on their heads while conducting the postmortem and confirmed in their report that the deceased was a Muslim and the body bore all the "telltale" signs distinguishing a Hindu from Muslim.
When nobody came forth to claim the body on Sunday, it was interred in a grave according to Muslim rites by an Aligarh NGO, Manav Sansthan, and this gross negligence on multiple levels would have been covered up with Vicky reported as "missing", had the local television channels not broadcast the images of the people who had died in the riots during the past five days.
<b>The broadcast came as a shock to the family of Devki Nandan, the BJP MLA from Sasni, Hathras who realised that his son, who they thought was missing, had in fact been killed in the riots and cremated as a Muslim</b>. In deep agony over the plight of his beloved son the MLA immediately contacted the Aligarh District Magistrate who arranged for the body of the so called Arif to be exhumed in the presence of the family of the MLA who immediately recognised the body as that of Vicky.
Talking to this newspaper,<b> Mr. Devki Nandan claimed that his son had been identified as Arif by Rizwan Ahmed, the Inspector-general of Police, Kanpur Zone</b>. He said that his son had run out of his house in Sasni gate area in the morning to save a girl from being dragged away by rioters during curfew and had disappeared immediately after that only to come back in the form of a deadbody.
<b>He said that being a Hindu, his son had never been circumcised as claimed by the administration and he even had an "Om" tattooed on his right shoulder, so there was no question of his being identified as a Muslim, instead, it appeared to be a deliberate attempt to make all the riot-victims to appear Muslims to hide the true nature of the riots.</b>
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