04-10-2006, 09:27 PM
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SirâThe recent communal violence in Aligarh highlighted the failure of the State Government to provide security to the common people. All the six casualties reported so far are of innocent, <b>unarmed Muslim youth due to unprovoked police firing.</b> The guilty must be punished and an impartial inquiry into the incident must be constituted. The law-and-order machinery seems to have collapsed in Uttar Pradesh, which can be understood from the response of Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav who initially regarded it as âjust a minor incidentâ. Aligarh is a sensitive town and once the indefinite curfew is lifted, things may again go out of hand. Suspension of some officers and transfer of a few others is not the solution. A vigilant administration is the need of the hour.
Suhail Sabir
Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Sure, rioters were unarmed innocent, all shot by police firing. Ofcourse looting, throwing acid on police and buring shops are not a provocation.
SirâThe recent communal violence in Aligarh highlighted the failure of the State Government to provide security to the common people. All the six casualties reported so far are of innocent, <b>unarmed Muslim youth due to unprovoked police firing.</b> The guilty must be punished and an impartial inquiry into the incident must be constituted. The law-and-order machinery seems to have collapsed in Uttar Pradesh, which can be understood from the response of Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav who initially regarded it as âjust a minor incidentâ. Aligarh is a sensitive town and once the indefinite curfew is lifted, things may again go out of hand. Suspension of some officers and transfer of a few others is not the solution. A vigilant administration is the need of the hour.
Suhail Sabir
Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Sure, rioters were unarmed innocent, all shot by police firing. Ofcourse looting, throwing acid on police and buring shops are not a provocation.