PLATFORM FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE
Maharashtra
Col. Purohit granted bail and will be reinstated in the Army!
Condemn the double standards practiced by the Indian State!!
Short History:
Abhinav
Bharat is a Hindu right-wing terrorist organization based on the same
lines as Abhinav Bharat Society of Vinayak Damodar Savarkar. The present
Abhinav Bharat was formed in 2006 by Retd. Major Ramesh Upadhyay.
Sadhvi Pragya Thakur, Swami Aseemanand, and some members of the RSS and
Vishwa Hindu Parishad formed the core of this organization. This
organization is accused of carrying out bomb blasts in Malegaon, Ajmer,
Hyderabad and on the Samjhauta Express between 2006-08. Around 100
people have been killed and hundreds of others injured in these bomb
blasts. The organization is said to have a large base in Madhya Pradesh
and has recruited many youth from that state. Col. Shrikant Prasad
Purohit claims to have ‘infiltrated’ this organization as part of the
Intelligence personnel of the Indian Army. All the 3 main accused
(Aseemanand, Thakur and Purohit) are now out on bail!
What was Col. Purohit’s role in Abhinav Bharat?
Abhinav Bharat swears to eliminate all those who oppose their ideology of a Hindu Rashtra.
According
to the ATS chargesheet, Col. Purohit had suggested a new (bhagwa) flag
for the Hindu Rashtra, a new Constitution and the formation of a
‘government in exile’ in either Israel or Thailand. Purohit is accused
of providing RDX from the military supplies. His wife had claimed that
he has immense hatred for Muslims.
Purohit
claims he had infiltrated Abhinav Bharat as a Military Intelligence (MI)
person and had given all possible information to his seniors. But many
of his seniors claim that they had no idea and he had never briefed
them. A question that comes up here is, if he was working on behalf of
the MI, why did he and/or the Army not stop Abhinav Bharat from carrying
out the bomb blasts? Was his job to play an active/passive role in all
the activities of Abhinav Bharat? It is claimed that when the
Maharashtra ATS started pointing fingers at Abhinav Bharat as a
terrorist organisation, it was Purohit who asked all the members to
change their cell phone numbers. Was this not done to shield the
perpetrators of crime and hinder ATS investigations? And yet, the
Supreme Court has granted him bail on the grounds that he would not have
informed the Army bosses if he had not been “planted” by them.
It
has now become common practice to honour military, paramilitary and
police personnel clearly known to brazenly violate human rights. Major
Leetul Gogoi, who had tied a Kashmiri civilian to a jeep as a human
shield on election day in Kashmir, has been honoured with the Chief of
Army Staff’s Commendation card. IGP S. R. P. Kalluri of Chhattisgarh,
known for violating every human right including getting tribal women
prisoners raped, has been felicitated with the prestigious Gallantry
Award. And now, Col. Shrikant Prasad Purohit, whose role in the
promotion of a terrorist Hindutva organization is so clear, has been
granted bail and will be reinstated in the Indian Army, as he was never
suspended because the Army was “confident” of his being innocent.
Thousands
of innocent Muslim youth have been languishing in various jails for
years on the mere suspicion of being associated with some bomb blast.
Many have been acquitted for lack of any evidence, yet this has happened
after many, many years for wrongful incarceration. The best years of
lives of these innocent youth have been lost in imprisonment. And yet,
even in the bomb blasts carried out by Abhinav Bharat, the initial
suspects were Muslim youth. It took the Indian State a long while to
accept that terrorism could “also” be the handiwork of Hindutva outfits,
when it is a well-known fact that it was the Sangh Parivar that had
brazenly mobilized Hindu youth for the razing of the Babri Masjid.
We,
the Platform for Social Justice, condemn these double standards
practiced by the Indian State in wrongfully indicting thousands of
Muslim youth on mere suspicion of having links with any terrorist
activity, while letting the Hindutva terrorists go scotfree!
August 25, 2017.
Jalindar Adsule Girija Gupte Iqbal Sheikh Virochan Raote
Shobha Karande Shewta Tambe
