Mosque

: Reiterating its previous order, the Delhi High Court on Friday tossed out a plea by a
charitable society seeking permission for more than 10 people to pray on Fridays at the
site of an illegal mosque razed under HC orders.

"The land does not belong to you. I have ordered status quo for a period of two months to
facilitate the resolution of the issue. The prayer seeking waiver on the number of
'namazees' cannot be allowed at this stage," Justice G S Sistani said.

The Noor Charitable Society, which has staked a claim to the mosque that was
demolished by DDA, had moved an application seeking court's intervention in waiving
the condition that only 10 devotees can offer 'namaz' five times a day at the site.

The mosque in Jangpura, illegally built on DDA land, was demolished by the agency on
January 12, leading to violence in the area. However, prayers were held at the site later
after government stepped in to defuse the tension.

"The committee is facing the problem that in the Friday prayers there will be more
number of 'namazees' from the neighbouring area due to which it is appealing that at least
the condition on limiting the number to 10 persons may kindly be waived for Friday
prayers," the application, filed by advocate Mohd Sajid, argued, pressing for relaxation
on the number of namazees.

While denying any relief, the HC also rejected the plea that an 'Imam' and two devotees
be allowed to remain present overnight at the site to guard the "religious and other
materials of the mosque".

"Police is already there to protect them. This cannot be allowed," the court said.

Earlier, the court had asked the DDA to construct a boundary wall to repossess the plot
and allowed 10 members of the community to offer prayers for two months. It had said
the prayers were permitted to facilitate a solution to the issue.

"DDA will complete the construction of the boundary wall (at the site where the illegal
mosque was demolished) and leave a gate of 2.5 feet to allow 10 persons of the
community, whose names would be furnished to the DDA and police, to offer 'namaz' for
a period of two months...," Justice Sistani had said.

Earlier, the DDA, which has been facing contempt proceedings for not reclaiming its land
despite the court's direction, had sought the dropping of the proceedings, saying it had
already demolished the mosque and repossessed its land.

However, later the locals started offering prayers after erecting a 'shamiana' at the site.
Refusing to soften its stand, the Delhi High Court on Friday dismissed a plea on
allowing more than 10 people to offer namaz at the site of the demolished mosque
that encroached on a piece of land belonging to the Delhi Development Authority
(DDA) in Jangpura.
Justice G S Sistani dismissed the application by Noor Charitable Society, which had
been managing the mosque. “The land does not belong to you. I have ordered a
status quo for a period of two months to facilitate the resolution of the issue. The
prayer seeking a waiver on the number of ‘namazis’ cannot be allowed at this stage.”
After the Delhi Waqf Board and the society had said they were contemplating a legal
recourse to reclaim the land, the court had on January 17, as an interim measure,
allowed 10 people to offer prayers on the disputed site for the next two months.
The court had, however, clearly said the land did not belong to the Waqf Board or the
society, and that they should follow a legal recourse instead of being witness to a
“breach of law”. The court had also ordered the DDA to reclaim the land and
construct a boundary wall around it under police protection.
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A disabled Dalit girl and her father were killed and six others injured by the JAT (Hindu
Upper caset groups) on Wednesday, after which the victims’ relatives had refused to
cremate the bodies protesting against police and government inaction. Which resulted
into further torching of Dalit houses by Jats. The bodies of deceased were finally
cremated on Friday only after the cases were registered against local police officers.

In the whole incidence, Eighteen-year-old Suman, who suffered from polio, was trapped
in her burning house and charred to death while her father Tara Chand (70) who suffered
90 per cent burns, died later when over a dozen houses belonging to the Dalits were set
ablaze allegedly by Jats of the same village.
Relatives of the family alleged that the incident was pre-planned and the local police,
present during the incident, did not protect the Dalits 80% Dalits of Mirchpur village now
living homeless on the ground of Mini secretariat (Hisar) because they all feeling fear and
don’t want to go back in village they are demanding for another place to live because
they all feeling insecure.

Parliamentary panel visits Haryana’s

Mirchpur village
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Hisar, July 2 (IANS) A 13-member group of the parliamentary committee on the

welfare of scheduled castes and scheduled tribes Friday visited Mirchpur village in this
Haryana district, where two Dalits were killed in an arson attack by upper caste villagers
April 21.
“The study group was sent to have first hand information about the facts and reasons that
led to this incident, the current situation prevailing in the village and to look into the
remedial measures that were taken by the state government,” an official spokesman said.

“The members have particularly visited the houses that were affected by the incident and
they interacted with the victims,” he added.

According to official sources, many of the victimised families expressed apprehensions

about their safety in the village and demanded proper rehabilitation, somewhere outside
the village, be arranged for them.

The Dalits of Mirchpur were targeted by the dominant Jat members after a small dispute.
A 70-year-old man and his 18-year-old physically challenged daughter were killed and at
least 18 houses were damaged in the attack.

As many as 150 Dalit families were driven out of their homes in the village, about 300
km from Chandigarh.

“The study group has also discussed various issues with the state administration. The
parliamentary committee, taking into account the facts on ground in the village as well as
the response given by the administration, would table its report in parliament during the
monsoon session,” the spokesman said.

The Haryana government last month appointed Iqbal Singh, a retired judge of Punjab and
Haryana High Court, as an one man commission to probe the incident.
SHO of Narnaund and Naib Tehsildar held

Victims fully compensated, says official

CHANDIGARH: The Station House Officer of Narnaund Police Station

Vinod Kajal and Naib Tehsildar Jage Ram were arrested on Sunday for
their “role'' in the Mirchpur caste carnage in which an 18-year-old
polio-stricken girl Suman and her 70-year-old father Tara Chand were
killed on April 21 when houses belonging to Dalits were set afire.

According to official sources here, the two officials, who were facing
allegations of “inaction'' while being present on the spot, were
produced before a Court and remanded to 14-day judicial custody.

Meanwhile, Hisar Deputy Commissioner O.P. Sheoran on Sunday

claimed that the victims of the Mirchpur incident were being fully
compensated for the loss to their houses and domestic goods.

In an official statement, the Deputy Commissioner further claimed that

Amar, the son of deceased Tara Chand, had already been given the
appointment letter of a government job and a compensation of Rs.five
lakh.

It may be recalled that Tara Chand and Suman were killed after some
miscreants, said to belong to Jat community, set afire houses
belonging to the Dalits.

Interestingly, Mr.Sheoran said that the late Tara Chand had two wives
and Kamla, the second wife, would be given an assistance of Rs.15
lakh and a job would be provided to her son.

Financial aid

Financial assistance of Rs.10 lakh as “compensation for the deceased

Suman'' would also be provided to her mother Kamla, he added.

He further said that the announcement made by Chief Minister

Bhupinder Singh Hooda regarding provision of relief was being
“implemented in toto and the accused involved in this incident would
be punished.'' He appealed to the people of Mirchpur to maintain
peace and brotherhood.

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On dated 21 January 2011: Northern Railway faced another day of indefinite sit-ins on
its tracks. A farmers' protest near Allahabad led to disruption on the Mughalsarai-Delhi
route, one of the India’s busiest. This, even as residents of Mirchpur village in Haryana,
seeking a fresh probe into the killing of two Dalits in April last year, disrupted traffic on
the Jind-Jakhal section of the Delhi-Ferozepur route for the seventh day running.

Three policemen were injured as the farmers' protest turned violent in Kachri village in
Karchara tehsil, 40km from Allahabad. Although protesters claimed that a farmer was
killed in police firing and lathicharge, the administration denied it, claiming only three
farmers were injured in the clashes.

police tried to forcibly take away three farmers on a hunger strike. The Karchara DSP
was manhandled and the police resorted to a lathicharge. UP farmers are being paid Rs 3
lakh per bigha for the 1700 acres of land for the power project by the Jaypee Group.

Members of the Jat community, including women, sat on the tracks at Julani village near
Jind station. Police personnel have been deployed to maintain peace in view of the
dharna. The protesters are demanding the immediate transfer of the accused from Tihar
jail to Hissar. Railway traffic on the Delhi-Ferozepur section has been disrupted due to
the dharna, the call for which was issued by a Jat Mahapanchayat demanding a fresh
probe into the Mirchpur incident.
The stalemate continued in Jind for the eighth day on Saturday as Jat organisations decided to
continue with the agitation seeking an inquiry by a Special Investigation Team (SIT) into the
Mirchpur incident.

Even though a section of representatives of Khap Panchayats which held talks with the State
Government on Friday decided to call off the blockade of the railway tracks near Jind, other groups
were adamant till the SIT was constituted to probe afresh the Mirchpur incident of last year in which
a 70-year-old man and his 18-year-old physically handicapped daughter were burnt to death after
dwellings of Balmikis were set on fire by people belonging to the Jat community.

Haryana Public Health Minister Randeep Singh Surjewala and former Union Minister Jai Parkash had
conducted the “negotiations'' with the Jat leaders who had been demanding investigation by the CBI
which had been reportedly “conceded'' by the State Government.

Shift of trial sought

The agitationists are also demanding that the trial of the case be shifted from Delhi to Hisar and the
98 Jats who were arrested in connection with caste violence be released. The trial was shifted to
New Delhi last month on the directions of the Supreme Court.

Meanwhile, in a statement, Haryana CPI (M) State Secretary Inderjit Singh said that the Bhupinder
Singh Hooda regime was “primarily responsible for the recent developments'' which indicated
“totally inept handling by the powers that be”.

He added that there should be “some impartial inquiry within the legal framework to provide relief
to the innocent persons but the guilty should be punished''.

In another development, former Minister and senior Congress leader Sampat Singh appealed to the
representatives of all Khaps in Haryana to withdraw the ongoing agitation in the larger interest of
society and the nation.

He further said that some anti-social elements and those having vested interest in politics had
joined this otherwise peaceful agitation which had lost its basic objective. He cautioned that in case
the agitation turns violent because of these elements, “ill-effects would be beyond imagination''.

The indefinite sit-in on railway tracks by residents of Haryana's Mirchpur village seeking a fresh
probe into the killing of two Dalits in April last year entered the third day on Monday and disrupted
rail traffic on the Jind-Jakhal section of the Delhi-Ferozepur route.
Members of the pre-dominant Jat community, including women, were sitting on the tracks at
Julani village near Jind railway station. The protesters belong to Mirchpur and adjoining villages.
Police personnel have been deployed to maintain peace in view of the dharna.
Railway traffic on the Delhi-Ferozepur section has been disrupted due to the dharna, the call for
which was issued by a Jat Mahapanchayat of 42 khaps in Jind recently demanding a fresh probe
into the Mirchpur incident, including the decision to book members of their community. Railway
sources said that trains have been been diverted via other routes, including Jakhal.

Though Mirchpur village falls in Hisar district, the protesters are squatting on rail tracks in Jind, as
their village is only 15 km away. The protesters will also stage a protest in Bhiwani on Tuesday.

A Delhi [ Images ] court had on January 9 directed the Haryana government to move all the 98
accused from Hisar jail to a prison in the national capital following the transfer of their trial in the
case relating to the attack on Dalits allegedly by members of the upper caste Jat community.

The case relating to the killing of 70-year-old Dalit Tara Chand and his 17-year-old polio-stricken
daughter Suman, was transferred to a special court in Delhi by an order of the Supreme Court on
December 9 last year.

The protesters have opposed the shifting of the trial of the case to a court at Rohini in New Delhi
and lodging of the accused in a prison in the national capital and demanded that the probe be
held either at Rohtak or Hisar and the accused be lodged in either of the two jails. The trial was
shifted to a Rohini court after the aggrieved party had approached the Supreme Court claiming
that a fair trial was not possible within the state.

Tara Chand and his daughter were killed when their house was set afire on April 21 last year in
Mirchpur district after which 98 members of the Jat community were booked in connection with
the case.
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16 jan 2011
Tension prevailed in Jind district Sunday as hundreds of Jat community members
continued to block the railway tracks near here for the second day, disrupting trains over
their demand for a fresh CBI probe into last year’s Mirchpur caste violence in which two
Dalits were killed.

Members of the Jat Mahapanchayat, including many women, have been sitting on the
railway track in Julani village near the Jind railway station since Saturday, refusing to
budge until their demands, including a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe, are
met.

The Jat Mahapanchayat – a mega conclave of community leaders – had issued an

ultimatum to the Haryana government to accept their demands before Jan 15.

Trains running on the New Delhi-Ferozepur line have been diverted from Narwana to
Kurukshetra.

“We have diverted the trains to alternate routes. Due to this blockade, most of the long
distance trains are running late. Some of the passenger trains were cancelled and rail
traffic was diverted via Panipat, Kurukshetra and Hisar towns,” a railway official said
here.

Chief of NGO Youth Liberation Front Sandeep Singh sat on an indefinite fast here to
support the protestors, who raised slogans against the state government.

Leaders from the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Indian National Lok Dal visited the spot
to express their solidarity with the agitators.

Protesters were being served food and tea by the residents of neighbouring villages.

Tension prevailed in the entire Jind district as protesters have threatened to intensify their
campaign.

The district administration moved in 45 companies of the reserve police to maintain law
and order. Police force has also been deployed in Mirchpur village.

“So far, their protest is peaceful. We are keeping a watch on them. Police have made
elaborate arrangements to tackle any kind of emergency situation,” Ram Singh Bishnoi,
Jind’s police superintendent, told.
Apart from a CBI probe, the protesters are also demanding that the trial in the case be
shifted from New Delhi to Hisar and the arrested Jat youths be released.

The trial was shifted to Delhi last month on the directions of the Supreme Court. A total
of 98 Jat youths were arrested in the case and they are currently lodged in a jail in Delhi.

Rajbir Dhanda, a khap leader here, said: “We will continue our protest in a peaceful
manner. We would not move from here till our demands are met. So far no government
official has contacted us.”

Jat Mahapanchayat leaders have called a meeting Monday to decide the future course of
action.

Mirchpur village in Hisar district hit the headlines last year when it was rocked by an
arson attack by the dominant upper caste Jat members on a row of houses of the Dalit
(Balmiki) families.

As many as 150 lower caste Dalit families were driven out of the village, about 300 km
from Chandigarh, and their homes were torched April 21 last year. A 70-year-old man
and his 18-year-old physically challenged daughter were killed in the fire in their home
and at least 18 houses were destroyed in the attack.
 Hindus’ ashes brought to India from Pakistan
On dated 21 January 2011, a fifreen member delegation, led by Ramnath
Mishra, the mahant of Panch Mukhi Hanuman Mandir (the only such temple in
the world) in Karachi, arrived India on Samjhauta Express. The ashes of Hindu ,
were brought to the capital to be later taken to Hardwar. The urns have been
placed at Nigambodh ghat, while the delegation has been put up at Kalkaji
temple. Three of the urns were taken straight to Hardwar by the family members
of the individuals who had passed away after making the wish. Among the other,
the oldest urn had been kept in Karachi for the last 35 years, while the latest
dated back to 2002.
. . The individuals whose ashes were brought here included those who wished to
have their mortal remains imme-rsed in Ganga. while a few of them were
unclaimed., the mortal remains of at least 135 people, which had been lying at a
cremation ground for up to 35 years. A Delhi-based NGO named Sri Devouthan
Seva Samiti is organising the trip for the 15-member Karachi delegation. The
Samiti deals with the immersion of unclaimed ashes from various crematoriums
in the Capital in the Ganga at Hardwar. A spokesperson for the Samiti said the
delay was caused because the relatives, who wanted to make the trip across the
border, were denied visas. Later, the Indian High Commission got involved. “The
15 individuals from Karachi have been given a 30-day visa. The delegation
comprises members of the Hanuman Mandir. The relatives of some people
whose ashes have been brought are already in Hardwar for the immersion
ceremony Four years ago, we came to know that the ashes of 128 individuals
were being kept at a library near the Hindu cremation ground in KarachiMr Vijay
Sharma, the general secretary of Devouthan Sewa Samiti, the NGO that initiated
the process nearly four-years-ago, said that a meeting would be held with Mr
Mishra and an auspicious day would be fixed for the immersion. The news
papers highlighted that this is a true example of people-to-people contact
between Pakistan and India.
It took almost 40 years for some, but 128 Hindus from Pakistan will, at long last, find
their final resting place in a river that they always held sacred. Ramnath Mishra,
mahant of Karachi’s Panchmukhi Hanuman Mandir, reached the Old Delhi railway
station in the early hours of Friday with the ashes of persons who wanted to have
their remains immersed in the Ganga.
“. The Samiti president, Anil Narendra, wrote to the mahant, who is also the chief
administrator of the cremation ground,” said Vijay Sharma, General Secretary.
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These 128 individuals had mentioned in their will that their ashes should be
immersed in the Ganga.
The mahant has also brought along the ashes of seven unknown individuals. The
ashes had been preserved by Murad Baksh, caretaker of the cremation ground, who
happens to be a Muslim.
,” said Sharma.

Get Pak to stop export of terror, Gadkari tells China

On dated 21 Janyary 2011 during a five-day visit to China, BJP chief Nitin
Gadkari on a first-ever visit by a BJP chief to China in what is seen by many in
the party as a personal initiative to boost his profile, held discussions with Ai
Ping, the Chinese Vice-Minister in the International department of the Communist
Party of China (CPC) and met senior Communist party leader Li Changchun. He
identified certain issues which are creating hurdles in improving ties between the
BJP and the CPC. He asked Beijing to put pressure on Pakistan. On which it has
a great influence to stop exporting the terror machine to India. During his talks
with Chinese leaders, he also broached the matter of issuance of stapled visa by
China to people of Jammu and Kashmir and Arunachal Pradesh and construction
of dams on the Brahmaputra.

According to the BJP, he conveyed the party’s serious concern over Pakistan
sponsored cross-border terrorism and pointed out that there was a strong public
opinion in India against Beijing’s development projects in the Pakistan-occupied
Kashmir. China’s continued military assistance and the supply of nuclear reactors to
Pakistan and Chinese incursions into the Indian territory are other areas of concern.

On the issue stapled visa, he asked the Chinese leaders to resolve the matter at
the earliest and spoke about the apprehensions in India about China constructing
dams on the Brahmaputra. According to the BJP, the Chinese leaders shared
Gadkari’s concern over terrorism and said Beijing understands the importance of
all the issues raised by him.

SK LAMBHA STATEMENT

On 21 January 2011 Prime Minister’s Special Envoy on Afghanistan and

Pakistan SK Lambah during delivering the R N Kao memorial lecture at RAW
headquarters in Delhi said that disengagement with Islamabad was not a wise
choice. While acknowledging that the sense of cynicism in India over Pakistan
dragging its feet on punishing perpetrators of Mumbai attacks was
understandable, Pakistan’s polity is fragile and its interest in peace at this stage
is uncertain. But not engaging a neighbour with 180 million people, strong
antagonism towards India, growing nuclear weapons arsenal, and worsening
instability is not a wise choice.
Lambah further said, stressing the need for confidence building measures to
ensure stability in the relationship with Islamabad. We can defend against
hostility, but instability in the neighbourhood can have unpredictable
consequences.

The envoy said India was doing much in this direction. Prime Minister Manmohan
Singh has taken measures to improve relationship with Pakistan and a lot of
progress is made. Now the ball is in Pakistan’s court. We will be willing to pick up
the leads.

Lambah also stressed the need to better engage other neighbours. He said that
we need to continue to engage all stakeholders to build a stable and peaceful
Afghanistan. Sri Lanka also requires our continued political and economic
support to achieve a durable and inclusive political settlement. The process of
economic integration of our neighbourhood needs to be enlarged and intensified.