[Reader-list] Statement of Support to Jamia Milia Islamia University Teacher’s Solidarity Group

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On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 1:07 PM, Saheli Women <saheliwomen at gmail.com> wrote:

> *Statement of Support to Jamia Milia Islamia University Teacher's
> Solidarity
> Group -
> Condemning Communal Discrimination and Illegal Detention*
>
> The developments since the bomb blasts in Delhi on September 2008 are a
> grim
> challenge to the social fabric and democratic practices of the country.
> While we all feel concerned about increasing terrorist attacks and deaths
> of
> innocents and strongly condemn them, we also feel that terror cannot be
> fought with mass hysteria and high pitched politics. The actions of the
> police, various sections of media and Hindu right wing forces have resulted
> in branding a particular community as anti-national, have given legitimacy
> to indiscriminate and illegal detention of members of that community, and
> led to deep communal divide. The alleged encounter at Batla House on
> September 19, 2008, following bomb blasts in Delhi, where two alleged
> terrorists were killed, two escaped, two captured and a police inspector
> died of injuries inflicted during encounter is full of many loop holes. The
> majority of the alleged terrorists were students in Jamia Milia Islamia.
> Since then a large number of students and inhabitants of Jamia Nagar have
> been picked up by police. National Human Rights Commission has issued
> notice
> to Delhi Police to give a report of the Batla House encounter at Jamia
> Nagar
> in view of the discrepancies in police versions and loop holes. **
>
> The unanimous decision of the Academic and Executive Council of Jamia Milia
> Islamia University to request the government to initiate a separate
> judicial
> enquiry into Batla House encounter on September 19, 2008 is well with in
> the
> democratic practice of due process of law. Further the legal support being
> extended to arrested students of the University is also well with in the
> purview of the right to defend oneself. Any attempts to stop this need to
> be
> strongly condemned. In a democracy with different faiths, languages and
> culture the need is for reason and rational approach and dialogue. We
> support the efforts of the Vice Chancellor, teaching faculties and students
> of the Jamia University for extending legal and other support to those who
> will be unable to defend their rights otherwise.
>
> *Neelima Aryan and Kalpana Mehta, Saheli Women's Resource Centre, Delhi*
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