CAUGHT ON PHONE: 'Uncle' stopped PAC from reaching riot-struck villages in time during Muzaffarnagar violence? | Daily Bhaskar

Daily Bhaskar, Nov 5, 2013

Records of purported cell phone conversations "reveal" that the Uttar Pradesh Provincial Armed Constabulary (PAC) was "asked" to go slow during the September 7 and 8 communal violence in and around the western UP district. Rihai Manch, a UP-based civil society group, has unearthed the mobile conversations recordings apparently of a Jat boy with several other persons who is found extolling about murder of members of the minority community, burning their houses, looting their properties and even claiming that the PAC was "directed" to halt a little and delay reaching the spot during the Muzaffarnagar riots.

According to Rihai Manch spokesperson Rajeev Yadav, they have got hold of mobile phone recordings in memory chip of conversations of someone from twin villages of Kutba-Kutbi, purportedly made on September 8, 2013. The cell phone was allegedly in possession of a close relative of former Maharashtra ATS chief KP Raghuvanshi, who belongs to Kutba village of Muzaffarnagar district. Below is the transcripts of seven conversations which allegedly took place during the riots. The conversations are in local dialect of Hindi.

First conversation (file name +91991773****_2013-09-08_10.38.112021392617) Caller (woman): Hello. Respondent (man): Hello. Caller: Tu mujhe ek cheez bata (Tell me one thing). Respondent: Haan bata (Yes, ask). Caller (woman): Gaon men un logon ke mare ya nahin (If they, purportedly Muslims, were killed or not)? Respondent: Maar liye (They have been killed). Caller: Pakki khabar hai bilkul (Is the news confirmed)? Respondent: Bilkul pakki hai, Aag de rakhi hai ghar men (Fully confirmed. (We) have put house on fire). Caller: Pakka (sure)? Respondent: PAC aa li hai, PAC lag rahi hai (The PAC has reached).

Caller: Pata hai thori late kyun aayi (Do you know why the PAC arrived late)? Respondent: Haan (Yes). Caller: Rukwayi thi kahkar ki uncle thori der rukwa do. Mere kahte hi rok di. Yun kah rahe the ki baat aisi hai ki puri team ko pata chal gaya hai ki wahan par danga ho gaya. Sirf mushkil se mushkil 10 minute roko. Phir 10 minute bolkar 10 minute hi roka (I told uncle to halt it for some time. As I asked, it was stopped. He was saying that the news of riots and arson had spread. I urged uncle to delay for at least 10 minutes). Respondent: Haan ho liye. 5-6 to mar liye (Yes, It was done. Five to six persons have been killed). Caller: Haan to chokkha aur Kutba (Good job and what about Kutba)? Respondent: Kutbe men hi 5-6 mare. Aur bhag liye sab (At least, 5-6 persons were killed in Kutba village and the rest fled to other places). Caller: Haan achcha, kutbe men mare hain sab (Okay, all of them were killed in Kutba). Respondent: Bhag gaye sab (Rest of them fled). Caller: Thik hai, thik (Okay).

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