முஸ்லீம்ஸ் ஏமாத்திடுவாங்க
வீட்டின் முன்புறமாக கற்கள் ஒட்ட வேண்டிய வேலை ஒன்றிருந்தது. சில வீடுகளின் முன்பாக கருங்கற்களை வரிசையாக ஒட்டியிருப்பதை கவனித்திருப்பீர்கள். அந்த வேலைதான். கற்களை வெட்டுவதிலிருந்து நேர்த்தியாக ஒட்டுவது வரைக்கும் முஸ்லீம்கள்தான் இந்த வேலையை கச்சிதமாகச் செய்வார்கள் என்று சொன்னார்கள்.
பெங்களூரில் ஷில்கரிபாளையா என்ற இடம் இருக்கிறது. அங்கு இந்த வேலை செய்யும் முஸ்லீம்கள் நிறைய இருப்பதாகச் சொல்லி நியாமத் என்பவரின் எண்ணைக் கொடுத்தார் ஆர்கிடெக்ட் ஒருவர். நெம்பர் தந்ததோடு நிறுத்தாமல் ஒரு எச்சரிக்கையையும் சேர்த்துக் கொடுத்தார். “பண விஷயத்தில் உஷாரா இருங்க சார். முஸ்லீம்ஸ் காசு வாங்கிட்டு காணாம போயிடுவாங்க”.
நியாமத் ஒரு ஞாயிற்றுக்கிழமை வீட்டுக்கு வந்திருந்தார். வயதானவர். ஜிப்பா, முஸ்லீம் குல்லா, இசுலாமியர்களின் ட்ரேட் மார்க் தாடி என்றிருந்தார். இந்தக் கற்களைப் பற்றி கொஞ்சம் விவரித்தார். சாதரஹள்ளி அல்லது சிரா என்ற வகைக் கற்களைத்தான் பெரும்பாலும் ஒட்டுவார்களாம். சிரா கொஞ்சம் ரேட் அதிகம். கல்லின் விலை மட்டும் சதுர அடிக்கு எழுபத்தைந்து ரூபாய். ஒட்டும் கூலி சதுர அடிக்கு நூற்றியிருப்பத்தைந்து ரூபாய் என்றார். நூறு ரூபாய் என்றால் ஒட்டுங்கள் இல்லையென்றால் வேறொருவருக்கு வேலையைக் கொடுத்துவிடுகிறேன் என்ற போது பரிதாபமாகப் பார்த்தார். ஆனால் வேலை செய்வதாக ஒத்துக் கொண்டார்.
“அட்வான்ஸ் வேண்டும்” என்றார்.
“எவ்வளவு தரணும்?”
“பத்தாயிரம் குடுங்கோ சார்” என்றவுடன் ஆர்கிடெக்ட்டுக்கு போன் செய்தேன். மறுபடியும் அதே டயலாக்கை இம்மிபிசகாமல் சொன்னார் “முஸ்லீம்ஸ் காசு வாங்கிட்டு காணாம போயிடுவாங்க”
“இப்போ காசு இல்லைங்க பாய். வேலையை ஆரம்பிங்க வாங்கிக்கலாம்” யோசித்தவர் அதற்கும் சரியென்று சொன்னார்.
“எப்போ வேலை ஆரம்பிப்பீங்க?”
“நாளைக்கே ஆரம்பிச்சுடுறோம். ஆனால் நாளைக்கு சாயந்திரம் காசு வேணும் சார்”
“என்னங்க காசு காசுங்குறீங்க. வேலையைச் செய்யுங்க. காசு வரும்”
எதுவும் பேசாமல் சென்றுவிட்டார். அடுத்த நாள் வேலையைத் தொடங்கினார். இரண்டு மூன்று ஜூனியர்களோடு வந்திருந்தார். எல்லோரும் குடும்ப உறுப்பினர்களாம். ஒருவருக்கொருவர் அதிகம் பேசிக் கொள்ளவில்லை. வேலை படு வேகமாக நடந்தது. அவர்கள் எத்தனை வேகமாக வேலையைச் செய்தாலும் ஒரு நாளைக்கு ஐந்தாயிரத்துக்கு மேல் கொடுத்துவிட வேண்டாம் என்று ஆர்கிடெக்ட் எச்சரித்தார்.
அன்று மாலை ஐந்தாயிரம் கொடுத்தேன். அப்பொழுதும் நியாமத் அதட்டாமல் கேட்டார்.
“ப்ளீஸ் சார், பத்தாயிரம் வேணும்”
“பணம் இல்லைங்க. நாளைக்கு வாங்கிக்கலாம்” என்றேன் .
அவருடன் வந்தவர் என்னிடம் கொஞ்சம் அதட்டலாக பேசினார். அப்பொழுது நியாமத் அவரை சமாதானப்படுத்திவிட்டு என்னிடம் “நாளைக்கு கொடுத்துடுங்க சார்” என்ற போது அவரின் கண்களில் கண்ணீர் கசிந்தது.
சங்கடமாகிவிட்டது. “ஏ.டி.எம் வர்றீங்களா? எடுத்து தந்துடுறேன்” என்றபோது தலையாட்டினார். இன்னொரு ஐந்தாயிரம் கொடுத்துவிட்டு ஆர்கிடெக்டிற்கு போன் செய்தேன்.
“ஏன் சார் பத்தாயிரம் கொடுத்தீங்க? நாளைக்கு வர மாட்டாங்க பாருங்க” என்றார். அதோடு நிறுத்தாமல் “எத்தனை கட்டடம் நாங்க கட்டறோம்? எங்களுக்கு தெரியாதா சார்?” என்றார்.
நியாமத் ஏமாற்றிவிடுவாரோ என்று பயந்து கொண்டே தூங்கினேன். ஆனால் அடுத்த நாள் காலை ஆறு மணிக்கு வேலையை ஆரம்பித்திருந்தார்கள். அன்றும் அவர்களுக்குள் அதிகம் பேசிக் கொள்ளவில்லை. அதே வேகம். மதிய உணவு கூட இல்லாமல் எதற்காக இத்தனை வேகமாகச் செய்கிறார்கள் என்று தெரியவில்லை. அடுத்த ஐந்து நாட்களுக்கும் தினமும் பத்தாயிரம் வாங்கிக் கொண்டார்கள். நான் ஆர்கிடெக்டிடம் பணம் சம்பந்தமாக ஆலோசனை கேட்பதைக் குறைத்திருந்தேன். பத்து நாட்களில் முடிப்பதாகச் சொன்ன வேலையை ஐந்து நாட்களில் முடித்துவிட்டார்கள்.
கடைசி தினத்தில் இன்னொரு பத்தாயிரம் கொடுத்த போது கணக்கு முடிந்திருந்தது. நியாமத் நன்றி சொன்னார். பிறகு முகம், கை கால்களைக் கழுவினார். அவருக்குப் பின்னால் ஒவ்வொருவராக கை கால் கழுவினார்கள். கிளம்புவதற்கு தயாரான போது கேட்காமல் இருக்க முடியவில்லை.
“ஏன் ஒருத்தருக்கொருத்தர் பேசிக் கொள்ளாமல் வேலை செய்யறீங்க?” என்றபோது அவரது ஜூனியர்கள் தங்களுக்குள் முகத்தை பார்த்துக் கொண்டார்கள்.
நியாமத்தான் சொன்னார். அவரது ஜூனியர்கள் ஒவ்வொருவரும் அவரது தம்பிகள். இந்தக் கல் ஒட்டுவதுதான் குடும்பத்திற்கான ஒரே வருமானம். தம்பிகள் யாருக்கும் திருமணம் ஆகவில்லை. நியாமத்துக்கு மட்டும் திருமணம் ஆகிவிட்டது. அவருக்கு மூன்று பெண் குழந்தைகள். கடைசியாக பிறந்த குழந்தைக்கு ஒன்றரை வயது. அவரது மனைவிக்கு கிட்னி ஃபெயிலியராம். ரொம்ப நாட்களாக டயாலிசிஸ் கிட்டத்தட்ட வாழ்வின் இறுதிகட்டத்திற்கு வந்துவிட்டாராம்.
“டயாலிசிஸ், ஆஸ்பத்திரி செலவுன்னு பணம் கரையுது சார். எப்படியும் போயிடுவான்னு தெரியுது. ஆனா விட மனசு வரலை. அவளோட நிலைமை, குழந்தைக, பணத்துக்கான தேவையெல்லாம் எங்களை பேச விடறதில்லே சார். அதான் உங்ககிட்ட கூட பணம் வேணும்ன்னு திரும்பத் திரும்ப கேட்டேன்” என்ற போது தனது ஜிப்பா நுனியால் கண்களை துடைத்துக் கொண்டார்.
“இதை முன்னாடியே சொல்லியிருக்கலாமே” என்றேன்.
“இல்ல சார். எங்களை யாரும் இங்கே நம்பறதில்ல. என்ன சொன்னாலும் பொய் சொல்லுறதாத்தான் சொல்லுவாங்க” என்றார். என்னிடம் ஒரு பத்தாயிரம் அதிகமாக இருந்தது. “முடிந்த போது கொடுங்க” என்று கொடுத்தேன். “ரொம்ப நன்றி சார். தேவைப்படும் போது வாங்கிக்கிறேன். இப்போ வேண்டாம்” என்று கிளம்பினார். அந்த நடையில் நேர்மையிருந்தது. அவர் நகர்ந்த பிறகு மனம் பாரமாகியிருந்தது. உடனடியாக வீட்டுக்குள் செல்லாமல் அந்த வீதியில் நடந்து கொண்டிருந்தேன்.
சிறிது நேரத்திற்குப் பிறகு ஆர்கிடெக்ட் போன் செய்தார். “வேலை முடிஞ்சுடுச்சு சார். மொத்தமா ஐம்பதாயிரம் கொடுத்துட்டேன்” என்றேன்.
“ஐயாயிரம் புடிச்சுட்டு கொடுத்திருக்கலாம்ல சார்” என்று துவங்கினார். கட் செய்துவிட்டு போனை சுவிட்ச் ஆஃப் செய்துவிட்டேன். கார்த்திகைக் குளிர் சில்லிடத் துவங்கியிருந்தது.
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Tuesday, November 27, 2012
Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim
RAHMATH ETHEEM KHANA AT A GLANCE
Respected Shahabudeen Shahul Hameed sahib,
Assalamu alaikum warahmatullahiwabarakath.Hope this would find you and your family in sound health with the mercy of Allah!
Motto: To please Allah SubhanoowaTaala through service to Mankind.
By the grace of Allah our Rahmath etheemkhana has been running for last 7 years. Here are 60+ orphans, mostly reverted from the close by areas, a mix of 90% girls and 10% boy students sheltered in Rahmath Etheemkhana.
They are studying from Ist STD to College education. Apart from secular education, Islamic teachings are taught very well by the eminent alims and alimaas. All Praise is due for Almighty Allah alone!
The accommodation for these children is in a very bad shape (with 4 rooms 100sqft + 150sqft area with 2 wash rooms) in the 4 rented buildings. May Allah have mercy on these children!
Each year, the number of etheem and poor reverted student increases, and our services are needed more and more. It is our mission to provide assistance to every etheem and poor reverted students in our community. In order to fulfill our mission, we need a own building with more space.
We have already bought 38 cents land in the name Rahmath Etheemkhana for constructing the etheemkhana building. We have initiated the construction in 1450 square feet in the first phase and constructed 25% of construction works in the first phase. We have attached latest photos about the construction works for your kind attention.
Construction - An Apeal:
Total Etheemkhana construction & project costs 65Lakhs.
An amount of Rs.1400/Sqft is calculated for this construction. The construction works in the first phase has been up to the basement.
We need the following materials very urgently for continuing the construction works up to roof concrete in the first phase (1450 sq.ft).
8 mm TMT rod - 200 kgs. = Rs. 10, 000 (Approx.)
25 mm ,, -900 kgs = Rs. 43,000
16 mm ,, - 360 Kgs = Rs. 17,000
1 ½” Blue metal - 2.5 unit = Rs. 05,000
¾” Blue metal - 5.0 unit = Rs. 16,000
Sand - 7.5 unit = Rs. 18, 000
Cement (Ultratech) -100 Bags = Rs. 35, 000
Gravel - 75 units = Rs. 55, 000
Total amounts required = Rs.1, 99,000 / for Up to Roof concrete.
Bricks - (already sponsored by a brother in Islam for the first Phase 1450 sq.ft)
Please think about how important the work of Rahmath Etheemkhana really is. All donations are needed and appreciated, regardless of size. We request your extended support and forward the mail to your known circles to help achieve this noble act.
The benevolent persons of the Millath, specially the people of AhleKhair and members of the Islamic movement are requested to realize the necessity and importance of the task and extend their helping hands whole heartedly. May Allah accept our deeds and save us from the punishment of Hell fire.
Inshaa Allah expecting your help as the materials or amount towards this noble cause (sadaqahjaariyah or ongoing charity).
Allah says in Quran:
“Who is he that will lend to Allah a goodly loan, then (Allah) will increase it manifold to his credit (in repaying), and he will have (besides) a good reward (i.e. Paradise)”.Al-Quran 57-11
The Messenger of Allaah (pbuh) said:
“When the son of Adam dies, all his good deeds come to an end, apart from three: sadaqahjaariyah (ongoing charity), beneficial knowledge, and a righteous son who will pray for him.” (Narrated by Muslim, 1631).
Project at a Glance:
- Construction of RahmathYatheemkhana
- Construction of Masjid
- Establishment of Islamic Center
- Establishment of Reference Library
- Establishment of Islamic Welfare Society
Account details:
RAHMATH ETHEEMKHANA, State bank of India, Thevaram branch.
A/C NO: 31585201803, (IFSC Code: SBIN0014441)
(OR)
RAHMATH ETHEEMKHANA,
Indian Bank, Thevaram Branch,
A/C NO: 951651916 (IFSC Code: IDIB000T016 )
Please visit our website: www.rahmathetheemkhana.org
For further information kindly reach out to the below contacts:
C.Abubakr Siddeeque D.T.Tech Dawa’thi
President, Rahmath Etheemkhana.
Thevaram, Theni-Dt.
Tamil nadu.
Cell: 9944377681,
Moulavi Hafiz A.K.Muneer Ahmed Imdhathi,
Nazir, Rahmath Etheemkhana.
Cell: 9788971210
S.Rejina Fathima Alimaa ,
Secretary, Cell: 9787522735.
RAHMATH ETHEEM KHANA AT A GLANCE
Respected Shahabudeen Shahul Hameed sahib,
Assalamu alaikum warahmatullahiwabarakath.Hope this would find you and your family in sound health with the mercy of Allah!
Motto: To please Allah SubhanoowaTaala through service to Mankind.
By the grace of Allah our Rahmath etheemkhana has been running for last 7 years. Here are 60+ orphans, mostly reverted from the close by areas, a mix of 90% girls and 10% boy students sheltered in Rahmath Etheemkhana.
They are studying from Ist STD to College education. Apart from secular education, Islamic teachings are taught very well by the eminent alims and alimaas. All Praise is due for Almighty Allah alone!
The accommodation for these children is in a very bad shape (with 4 rooms 100sqft + 150sqft area with 2 wash rooms) in the 4 rented buildings. May Allah have mercy on these children!
Each year, the number of etheem and poor reverted student increases, and our services are needed more and more. It is our mission to provide assistance to every etheem and poor reverted students in our community. In order to fulfill our mission, we need a own building with more space.
We have already bought 38 cents land in the name Rahmath Etheemkhana for constructing the etheemkhana building. We have initiated the construction in 1450 square feet in the first phase and constructed 25% of construction works in the first phase. We have attached latest photos about the construction works for your kind attention.
Construction - An Apeal:
Total Etheemkhana construction & project costs 65Lakhs.
An amount of Rs.1400/Sqft is calculated for this construction. The construction works in the first phase has been up to the basement.
We need the following materials very urgently for continuing the construction works up to roof concrete in the first phase (1450 sq.ft).
8 mm TMT rod - 200 kgs. = Rs. 10, 000 (Approx.)
25 mm ,, -900 kgs = Rs. 43,000
16 mm ,, - 360 Kgs = Rs. 17,000
1 ½” Blue metal - 2.5 unit = Rs. 05,000
¾” Blue metal - 5.0 unit = Rs. 16,000
Sand - 7.5 unit = Rs. 18, 000
Cement (Ultratech) -100 Bags = Rs. 35, 000
Gravel - 75 units = Rs. 55, 000
Total amounts required = Rs.1, 99,000 / for Up to Roof concrete.
Bricks - (already sponsored by a brother in Islam for the first Phase 1450 sq.ft)
Please think about how important the work of Rahmath Etheemkhana really is. All donations are needed and appreciated, regardless of size. We request your extended support and forward the mail to your known circles to help achieve this noble act.
The benevolent persons of the Millath, specially the people of AhleKhair and members of the Islamic movement are requested to realize the necessity and importance of the task and extend their helping hands whole heartedly. May Allah accept our deeds and save us from the punishment of Hell fire.
Inshaa Allah expecting your help as the materials or amount towards this noble cause (sadaqahjaariyah or ongoing charity).
Allah says in Quran:
“Who is he that will lend to Allah a goodly loan, then (Allah) will increase it manifold to his credit (in repaying), and he will have (besides) a good reward (i.e. Paradise)”.Al-Quran 57-11
The Messenger of Allaah (pbuh) said:
“When the son of Adam dies, all his good deeds come to an end, apart from three: sadaqahjaariyah (ongoing charity), beneficial knowledge, and a righteous son who will pray for him.” (Narrated by Muslim, 1631).
Project at a Glance:
- Construction of RahmathYatheemkhana
- Construction of Masjid
- Establishment of Islamic Center
- Establishment of Reference Library
- Establishment of Islamic Welfare Society
Account details:
RAHMATH ETHEEMKHANA, State bank of India, Thevaram branch.
A/C NO: 31585201803, (IFSC Code: SBIN0014441)
(OR)
RAHMATH ETHEEMKHANA,
Indian Bank, Thevaram Branch,
A/C NO: 951651916 (IFSC Code: IDIB000T016 )
Please visit our website: www.rahmathetheemkhana.org
For further information kindly reach out to the below contacts:
C.Abubakr Siddeeque D.T.Tech Dawa’thi
President, Rahmath Etheemkhana.
Thevaram, Theni-Dt.
Tamil nadu.
Cell: 9944377681,
Moulavi Hafiz A.K.Muneer Ahmed Imdhathi,
Nazir, Rahmath Etheemkhana.
Cell: 9788971210
S.Rejina Fathima Alimaa ,
Secretary, Cell: 9787522735.
Sunday, November 25, 2012
Kasab & RSS Terror: Who Killed Hemanth Karkare?
After read below article, then you will knew, who killed Hemath Karkare & Kasab is from where?
In the words of a zealot…
Swami Aseemanand’s chilling confession is the first legal evidence of RSS pracharaks’ involvement in the Samjhauta Express and 2006 Malegaon blasts. ASHISH KHETAN scoops the 42-page document that reveals a frightening story of hate and deliberate mayhem
ON 18 DECEMBER 2010, a team of CBI sleuths escorted an elderly Bengali man Naba Kumar Sarkar, 59 — popularly known as Swami Aseemanand — from Tihar jail to the Tis Hazari court in Delhi, where he was produced before metropolitan magistrate Deepak Dabas. Aseemanand is the key accused in the 2007 Mecca Masjid blast that killed nine people. This was his second court appearance in a span of little over 48 hours. On 16 December, Aseemanand had requested the magistrate to record his confession about his involvement in a string of terror attacks. He stated that he was making the confession without any fear, force, coercion or inducement.
In accordance with the law, the magistrate asked Aseemanand to reflect over his decision and sent him to judicial custody for two days — away from any police interference or influence.
On 18 December, Aseemanand returned, resolute. The magistrate asked everybody except his stenographer to leave his chamber. “I know I can be sentenced to the death penalty but I still want to make the confession,” Aseemanand said.
Over the next five hours, in an unprecedented move, Aseemanand laid bare an explosive story about the involvement of a few Hindutva leaders, including himself, in planning and executing a series of gruesome terror attacks. Over the past few years, several pieces of the Hindutva terror puzzle have slowly been falling into place — each piece corroborating and validating what has gone before. First, the arrest of Sadhvi Pragya Thakur, Dayanand Pandey, Lt Col Shrikant Purohit and others in 2008. The seizure of 37 audio tapes from Pandey’s laptop that featured all these people discussing their terror activities. And most recently, the Rajasthan ATS’ chargesheet on the 2007 Ajmer Sharif blast. Aseemanand’s confession, however, is likely to prove one of the most crucial pieces for investigative agencies.
Unlike police interrogation reports or confessions, under clause 164 of the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC), confessions before a magistrate are considered legally admissible evidence. Aseemanand’s statement, therefore, is extremely crucial and will have serious ramifications.
HINDUTVA’S DEADLY PLATOON
The men who allegedly vowed to match Islamist terror with Hindutva terror: bomb for bomb
INDRESH KUMAR, a member of the RSS Central Committee. Three accused, Swami Aseemanand, Lokesh Sharma and Shivam Dhakad, and one witness, Bharat Riteshwar, have stated before the CBI that Indresh had mentored and financed the RSS pracharaks behind Malegaon, Samjhauta Express, Ajmer and Mecca Masjid terror strikes.
SWAMI ASEEMANAND, the head of the RSS-affiliated Van Vasi Kalyan Ashram, Shabri Dham in Dangs, Gujarat. He has confessed to playing the role of an ideologue to the terrorists. Besides presiding over terror meetings held in Dangs and Valsad in Gujarat, he also selected Malgeaon, Ajmer Sharif and Hyderabad as terror targets.
SUNIL JOSHI, a former RSS pracharak of Mhow district. He was expelled from the RSS after being accused in the murder of two Congress activists in Madhya Pradesh in 2006. Along with a few RSS pracharaks and Hindu radicals from Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Jammu and Jharkhand, he formed an inter-state terror infrastructure.
SANDEEP DANGE, a senior RSS pracharak from Shajapur district near Indore. Along with Joshi and Ramchandra Kalsangra, he was a key figure in the longrunning conspiracy to bomb Muslim places of worship and Muslim neigbourhoods. He is currently absconding.
RAM CHANDRA KALSANGRA ALIAS RAMJI, an RSS pracharak from Madhya Pradesh. He carried out terror strikes in different places between December 2002 and 29 September 2008 (when bombs went off simultaneously in Malegaon and Modasa. He has been absconding since October 2008.
SHIVAM DHAKHAD, an RSS activist and associate of accused Joshi and Ramji Kalsangra. Along with other RSS pracharaks, he allegedly took training in bomb-making in 2005. He also did a reconnaissance of Aligarh Muslim University and residence of Justice UC Banerjee (chairman of the Godhra commission) for terror strikes.
LT COL SHRIKANT PUROHIT, a founding member of terror outfit Abhinav Bharat. He was posted with the military intelligence unit at Nashik. He allegedly tried to draft in other army officers in his terror outfit. He is accused of supplying RDX for the 2008 Malegaon blasts.
DEVENDRA GUPTA, the RSS vibhag pracharak of Muzaffarnagar, Bihar. He provided logistics to Joshi, Kalsangra and Dange for terror strikes. He also harboured Kalsangra and Dange in RSS offices while they were on the run.
LOKESH SHARMA, an RSS worker and close associate of Joshi, Dange and Kalsangra. He purchased the two Nokia handsets that were used to trigger the bombs at Mecca Masjid and Ajmer Sharif.
BHARAT RATESWAR ALIAS BHARATBHAI, the head of Sri Vivekananda Kendra Sansthan in Valsad district, Gujarat. As a close associate of Aseemanand, he participated in several terror meetings held at his residence and also at Shabri Dham ashram. He also travelled with Joshi to Jharkhand and Uttar Pradesh providing logistics for the blasts.
YOGI ADITYANATH, BJP MP from Gorakhpur. He was contacted by Aseemanand to provide funds for terrorist activities. Joshi held a hush-hush meeting with him at his Gorakhpur residence in 2006, at the time when the conspiracy to carry out multiple blasts was underway. According to Aseemanand, he didn’t give much support. But he continues to be under suspicion.
DR ASHOK VARSHNAY, RSS prant pracharak of Kanpur. He sheltered key terror accused and RSS pracharak Devendra Gupta at Vanvasi Kalyan Ashram and Vishwa Mangal Gau Gram Yatra in Sitapur, Uttar Pradesh, while Gupta was on the run. Varshnay has told investigators that he had shielded Gupta at the behest of Indresh Kumar.
RAJESH MISHRA, an RSS activist and owner of a foundry in Pithampura, near Mhow. He gave 15 cast iron shells in 2001 to Joshi, who used them during failed bomb blasts at Ijtema (a Muslim gathering) in Bhopal in 2002. He was also a co-accused along with Joshi in the murder of local Congress workers.
SUDHAKAR DHAR DWIVEDI ALIAS DAYANAND PANDEY, he ran an ashram named Shardapeeth in Jammu. He played the role of an ideologue to those involved in the 2008 Malegaon blasts. He was in the habit of recording the meetings he would have with Abhinav Bharat members on his laptop.
For years, since the first horrific blasts in Mumbai in 1992, there has been an automatic and damaging perception amongst most Indians that there is a Muslim hand behind every terror blast. To some degree, this bias was shared by the police and intelligence agencies. Every time there was a blast, under intense pressure from both media and government to show results, instead of going in for painstaking and meticulous investigations to catch the real culprits, the security agencies would routinely round up Muslim boys linked with radical organisations and declare them to be terror masterminds. A frenzied media would swallow the story whole. Though a dangerous cocktail of anger, despair and frustration grew within the Muslim community, few Indians — except members of civil society and media organisations like TEHELKA — dared to take stands and question the status quo. The arrest of Sadhvi Pragya and Lt Col Purohit dented this perception slightly, but they were mostly written off as a small and lunatic fringe. Now, Aseemanand’s confession tears much deeper through this prejudice.
‘I know I can be sentenced with the death penalty but I still want to make this confession,’ Swami Aseemanand told the magistrate
According to him, it was not Muslim boys but a team of RSS pracharaks who exploded bombs in Malegaon in 2006 and 2008, on the Samjhauta Express in 2007, in Ajmer Sharif in 2007 and Mecca Masjid in 2007. Apart from the tragic loss of innocent lives in these blasts, what makes this admission doubly disturbing is that, in keeping with their habitual practice, scores of Muslim boys were wrongly picked up by the Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra Police, in collusion with sections of the Intelligence Bureau, and tortured and jailed for these blasts — accentuating the shrill paranoia about a vast and homegrown Islamist terror network. Many of these boys were acquitted after years in jail; some are still languishing inside, their youth and future destroyed, their families reduced to penury.
In a curious twist, however, in one of those inexplicable human experiences that no one can account for, according to Aseemanand, it was an encounter with one of these jailed Muslim boys that triggered a momentous emotional transformation in him, forcing him to confront his conscience and make amends. This is what Aseemanand told the judge: “Sir, when I was lodged in Chanchalguda district jail in Hyderabad, one of my co-inmates was Kaleem. During my interaction with Kaleem I learnt that he was previously arrested in the Mecca Masjid bomb blast case and he had to spend about oneand- a-half years in prison. During my stay in jail, Kaleem helped me a lot and used to serve me by bringing water, food, etc for me. I was very moved by Kaleem’s good conduct and my conscience asked me to do prayschit (penance) by making a confessional statement so that real culprits can be punished and no innocent has to suffer.”
At this point, the magistrate asked his stenographer to leave so the confession could continue without restraint.
Tell-all evidence? A photocopy of Swami Aseemanand’s 42-page confession before the magistrate
In a signed statement written in Hindi that runs into 42 pages — and which is in TEHELKA’s possession — Aseemanand then proceeded to unravel the inner workings of the Hindutva terror network. According to him, it was not just a rump group like the ultra-right wing organisation Abhinav Bharat that engineered blasts but, shockingly, RSS national executive member Indresh Kumar who allegedly handpicked and financed some RSS pracharaks to carry out terror attacks.
“Indreshji met me at Shabri Dham (Aseemanand’s ashram in the Dangs district of Gujarat) sometime in 2005,” Aseemanand told the magistrate. “He was accompanied by many top RSS functionaries. He told me that exploding bombs was not my job and instead told me to focus on the tribal welfare work assigned to me by the RSS. He said he had deputed Sunil Joshi for this job (terror attacks) and he would extend Joshi whatever help was required.”
Aseemanand further narrated how Indresh financed Joshi for his terror activities and provided him men to plant bombs. Aseemanand also confessed to his own role in the terror plots and how he had motivated a bunch of RSS pracharaks and other Hindu radicals to carry out terror strikes at Malegaon, Hyderabad and Ajmer. (TEHELKA tried contacting Indresh several times for his side of the story. He said he would call back but didn’t.)
While evidence of the involvement of RSS pracharaks in the Mecca Masjid and Ajmer blasts has been growing with every new arrest, Aseemanand’s confession is the first direct evidence of the involvement of Hindutva extremists in the 2006 Malegaon blasts and the Samjhauta Express blast. The evidence — both, direct and indirect — pieced together by the CBI shows that the broad terror conspiracy to target Muslims and their places of religious worship was hatched around 2001.
Three RSS pracharaks from Madhya Pradesh — Sunil Joshi, Ramchandra Kalsangra and Sandeep Dange — were apparently at the core of this conspiracy. As the three became more audacious in their terror ambitions they started inducting like-minded Hindutva radicals from other states, mainly Maharashtra, Gujarat and Rajasthan. While the new entrants were mostly from the RSS, Bajrang Dal and Vishwa Hindu Parishad, some members of fringe saffron groups like Abhinav Bharat, Jai Vande Matram and Vanvasi Kalyan Ashram also joined the fray.
However, Joshi, Kalsangra and Dange took the precaution of not sharing too many details with members outside the core group. Joshi strictly followed the doctrine of division of work on a ‘need-tok-now’ basis, with each member knowing only his part of the job.
Aseemanand, who ran a Vanvasi Kalyan Ashram in Dang, first came in contact with Sunil Joshi in 2003 but it was only in March 2006 that he became actively involved in the terror plot.
It was the spirited investigation into the 2008 Malegaon blast by Maharashtra ATS chief Hemant Karkare that first blew the lid off this broad Hindutva terror conspiracy. Karkare arrested 11 Hindutva radicals, including Lt Col Purohit, who was attached with the military intelligence unit at Nashik; Dayanand Pandey, a self-styled religious guru who ran an ashram named Sharda Peeth in Jammu and Sadhvi Pragya, an ABVP leader turned into an ascetic, for their role in the 2008 Malegaon blast.
But Karkare’s sudden and ironic killing at the hands of Islamist jihadis in the Mumbai 26/11 attack derailed the saffron terror investigation. The Maharashtra ATS under its new chief KP Raghuvanshi failed to arrest Ramchandra Kalsangra and Sandeep Dange and instead passed them off as minor players in the chargesheet.
The investigation picked up pace again in May 2010 with the arrest of two RSS pracharaks — Devendra Gupta and Lokesh Sharma — by the Rajasthan ATS which was probing the Ajmer blast case. Gupta was the RSS Vibagh Pracharak of Muzaffarnagar, Bihar. He provided logistical support to Joshi, Kalsangra and Dange and harboured the latter two in RSS offices while they were on the run from agencies.
Lokesh Sharma was a RSS worker close to Joshi. He purchased the two Nokia phones that were used to trigger bombs at Mecca Masjid and Ajmer Sharif. It is Sharma’s interrogation that revealed for the first time that RSS national executive member Indresh Kumar was a key figure in the terror conspiracy. The joint investigation of the Rajasthan ATS and CBI, in fact, went on to reveal that, except Pragya Singh Thakur, all those who were arrested by the Maharashtra ATS in 2008 were actually fringe players while the core group comprising Indresh Kumar, Kalsangra and Dange allegedly held the key to the full terror plot.
In June 2010, the CBI examined a witness named Bharat Riteshwar, a resident of district Valsad in Gujarat and a close associate of Swami Aseemanand. Riteshwar told the CBI that Sunil Joshi was a protégé of Indresh and had his approval and logistical support for carrying out terror attacks.
On 19 November 2010 the CBI cracked down on a hideout in Haridwar and arrested Swami Aseemanand, who had been a fugitive for over two years since Sadhvi Pragya’s arrest in October 2008. His arrest unlocked many more pieces.
NABA KUMAR — alias Swami Aseemanand — was originally from Kamaarpukar village in Hooghly district in West Bengal — the birthplace of Ramakrishna Paramhansa. In 1971, after completing his BSc (honours) from Hooghly, Naba Kumar went to Bardman district to pursue a master’s degree in science. Though he was involved with RSS activities from school, it was during his post-graduation years that Naba Kumar became an active RSS member. In 1977, he started working full-time with the RSS-run Vanvasi Kalyan Ashram in Purulia and Bankura districts. In 1981, his guru Swami Parmanand rechristened him as Swami Aseemanand.
From 1988 to 1993, he served with the Vanvasi Kalyan Ashram at Andaman and Nicobar islands. Between 1993 and 1997, he toured across India to deliver sermons on Hindu religion among the tribals. In 1997, he settled down in the Dangs district in Gujarat and started a tribal welfare organisation called Shabri Dham. Aseemanand was known in the area for his rabid anti-minority speeches and his relentless campaign against Christian missionaries.
Aseemanand is seen as being close to the RSS leadership. In the past, leaders like Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan, former RSS chief KS Sudarshan and current chief Mohan Bhagwat have attended religious functions organised by him at Shabri Dham.
While Aseemanand was known for his vitriolic anti-minority positions, according to his confession, it was the heinous massacre of Hindu devotees at Akshardham temple by Islamist suicide bombers in 2002 that was the first real kindle for their retaliatory terror attacks.
“The Muslim terrorists started attacking Hindu temples in 2002,” Aseemanand said. “This caused great concern and anger in me. I used to share my concerns about the growing menace of Islamic terrorism with Bharat Riteshwar of Valsad.”
In 2003, Aseemanand came in contact with Sunil Joshi and Pragya Singh Thakur. He would often discuss Islamist terrorism with them as well. Finally, according to him, it was the terror attack on Sankatmochan temple in Varanasi in March 2006 which was the real flashpoint for them.
“In March 2006, Pragya Thakur, Sunil Joshi, Bharat Riteshwar and I decided to give a befitting reply to the Sankatmochan blasts,” Aseemanand told the magistrate.
Aseemanand gave Rs. 25,000 to Joshi to arrange the necessary logistics for the blasts. He also sent Joshi and Riteshwar to Gorakhpur to seek assistance from firebrand BJP MP Yogi Adityanath. In April 2006, Joshi apparently held a hush-hush meeting with the Adityanath, infamous for his rabid anti-Muslim speeches. But Aseemanand says, “Joshi came back and told me that Adityanath was not of much help.”
However, this did not deter Aseemanand. He went ahead with his plans.
In June 2006, Aseemanand, Riteshwar, Sadhvi Pragya and Joshi again met at Riteshwar’s house in Valsad. It proved to be a chilling one, with far-reaching consequences. Joshi, for the first time, brought four associates with him — Dange, Kalsangra, Lokesh Sharma and Ashok alias Amit.
“I told everybody that bomb ka jawab bomb se dena chahiye, (I told everyone we should answer bombs with bombs),” says Aseemanand. “At that meeting I realised Joshi and his group were already doing something on the subject,” he adds.
“After the combined meeting,” Aseemanand says, “Joshi, Pragya, Riteshwar and I huddled together for a separate meeting. I suggested that 80 percent of the people of Malegaon were Muslims and we should explode the first bomb in Malegaon itself. I also said that during the Partition, the Nizam of Hyderabad had wanted to go with Pakistan so Hyderabad was also a fair target. Then I said that since Hindus also throng the Ajmer Sharif Dargah in large numbers we should also explode a bomb in Ajmer which would deter the Hindus from going there. I also suggested the Aligarh Muslim University as a terror target.”
According to Aseemanand everybody agreed to target these places.
“In the meeting,” Aseemanand continues, “Joshi suggested that it was basically Pakistanis who travel on the Samjhauta Express train that runs between India and Pakistan and therefore we should attack the train as well. Joshi took the responsibility of targeting Samjhauta himself and said that the chemicals required for the blasts would be arranged by Dange.”
Aseemanand’s confession goes on in grave detail. “Joshi said three teams would be constituted to execute the blasts. One team would arrange finance and logistics. The second team would arrange for the explosives. And the third team would plant the bombs. He also said that the members of one team should not know members from the other two teams. So even if one gets arrested the others would remain safe,” Aseemanand told the magistrate.
Hate and anger had slipped off the edge into mayhem.
‘Since Hindus throng the Ajmer Sharif Dargah we thought a bomb blast in Ajmer would deter Hindus from going there,’ the Swami said
ON 8 SEPTEMBER 2006, at 1.30 pm, four bombs exploded in the communally tense town of Malegaon in Maharashtra. Besides being a Friday, the Muslim festival Shab-e-barat was being observed. Three bombs went off in the compound of the Hamidiya Masjid and Bada Kabrastan. A fourth bomb exploded at Mushawart Chowk.
Out of three bombs, one was placed at the entrance gate of Hamidiya Masjid and Bada Kabrastan, the second on a bicycle parked in the parking lot situated inside the compound and the third was hung on the wall of the power supply room situated in front of Vaju Khana, inside the compound. The fourth bomb went off in the crowded junction of Mushawart Chowk, which was placed on a bicycle, near an electric pole. The attack was meticulously planned; the bombs exploded in quick succession. Thirty one Muslims were killed; over 312 were injured.
In a suspiciously swift investigation, the Maharashtra ATS arraigned nine Malegaon Muslims within 90 days. Eight of these were members of the Student Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), the outlawed radical Muslim outfit. Another three Malegaon Muslims were shown absconding. Stringent provisions of the draconian Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) were invoked.
On 21 December 2006, the same day that the ATS filed the chargesheet against the nine Malegaon Muslims, the Maharashtra government asked the CBI to take over the probe. In effect, the CBI was presented with a fait accompli: the case had already been so-called solved and the accused had been chargesheeted.
A year ago, the CBI filed a supplementary chargesheet but failed to produce any material evidence. For over four years, these nine Malegaon Muslims have been languishing in prison. Aseemanand’s confession now seems proof that the boys were innocent and had been arrested merely to deflect criticism and create a false sense of security among Indian citizens that the blast cases were being “solved”. The real mastermind, according to Aseemanand, was Sunil Joshi. And it was Aseemanand himself who had persuaded Joshi to explode bombs in Malegaon.
This is what he told the magistrate. “Joshi came to see me at Shabri Dham on Diwali in 2006. The Malegaon blasts had already happened. Sunil told me the blasts were carried out by our men. I said the newspaper reports had mentioned that Muslims were behind the blasts and a few Muslims had also been arrested. Sunil assured me the blasts were carried out by him but he refused to reveal the identity of our men who had executed the blasts.”
ON 18 February 2007, on the eve of the then Pakistan foreign minister Khurshid Kasuri’s visit to India to carry forward the peace dialogue, two powerful bombs went off around midnight in two coaches of the cross-border Samjhauta Express, running between Delhi and Lahore. The train had reached Diwana near Panipat, 80 km north of Delhi. The coaches turned into an inferno. The third bomb placed in another coach failed to detonate. Sixty eight people were killed. Dozens were injured. The peace dialogue received a big setback.
Investigation revealed that three suitcases filled with detonators, timers, iron pipes containing explosives and bottles filled with petrol and kerosene had been smuggled into the three coaches.
The needle of suspicion veered immediately to Pakistani extremists. Depending upon which investigating agency you were speaking to, Pakistan-based terror outfits mainly Harkat-ul-Jihad Islami (HUJI) and Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT)were blamed for the blasts. Even the US State Department called the terror attack a joint operation of the LeT and HUJI. The Haryana Police tracked down some of the material used in the blasts as being procured from a market in Indore but the trail soon went cold.
In November 2008, the Maharashtra ATS told a court in Nashik that Lt Col Purohit had procured 60 kg of RDX from Jammu & Kashmir in 2006 and a part of it was suspected to have been used in the Samjhauta Express blasts. But the ATS subsequently failed to back its claims with any evidence and was forced to retract. The Haryana cops travelled to Mumbai and interrogated Purohit and other Malegaon accused but could not find any evidence that could link them to the Samjhauta blasts.
In July 2010, the Samjhauta blast probe was handed over to the National Investigating Agency (NIA). Though it still leaves some questions and loose ends, Aseemanand’s confession now joins many other dots in relation to the Samjhauta Express.
The massacre of Hindu devotees at the Akshardham temple by Islamist bombers in 2002 was the first real kindle for the retaliatory attacks
“In February 2007,” Aseemanand told the magistrate, “Riteshwar and Joshi came on a motorbike to a Lord Shiva temple in a place called Balpur. As we had fixed this place for our meeting, I was already there, waiting for the two. Joshi told me in the next two days there would be a piece of good news and I should keep a tab on the newspapers. After the meeting I came back to Shabri Dham and Joshi and Riteshwar went their way. After a couple of days I went to meet Riteshwar at his Valsad residence. Joshi and Pragya were already present there. The Samjhauta Express blasts had happened. I asked Joshi how he was present there while Samjhauta had already happened in Haryana. Joshi replied that the blasts were done by his men.”
“In the same meeting,” Aseemanand continues, “Joshi took Rs. 40,000 from me to carry out the blasts in Hyderabad. A few months later, Joshi telephoned me and told me to keep a tab on the newspapers as some good news was in the offing. In a few days the news of the Mecca Masjid blast appeared in the papers. After 7-8 days, Joshi came to Shabri Dham and brought a Telegu newspaper with him. It had a picture of the blast. I told Joshi that in the papers it had appeared that some Muslim boys had been rounded up for the blast. But Joshi replied it was done by our people.”
LIKE IN the case of the 2006 Malegaon blast, 17 May 2007 was a Friday. At 1.30 pm, as over 4,000 Muslims assembled to offer their Friday prayers at the iconic Mecca Masjid, situated near the Charminar in the old city of Hyderabad, a bomb went off near the Wazu Khana (fountain) meant for doing wazu (ablution before prayers) inside the mosque.
Another IED contained in a blue rexine bag was found hanging near the door-way at the northern end of the mosque. Miraculously, this bomb had not exploded. With no substantive clue emerging from the blast investigation, in a cynical move, the Hyderabad police launched a mop-up operation against local Muslim boys, who were associated with Ahle Hadess, the doggedly fundamentalist sect among Sunni Muslims. Friends and family members of some known local Muslim extremists like Shahid Bilal, who had fled to Pakistan, were also rounded up. In a span of two weeks, over three dozen boys from Malakpet and Saidabaad were picked up and tortured. However, when the police failed to link them to the Mecca Masjid case, they registered three separate bogus cases and implicated the detainees in these cases.
On 9 June 2007, the CBI took over the investigation into the Mecca Masjid case.
A few months later, on 11 October 2007, during the month of Ramzan, at 6.15 pm, as Muslim devotees had begun their iftaar at Ajmer Sharif dargah, a powerful bomb went off near a tree in the compound, killing three people and injuring over a dozen. Investigators found one more unexploded IED at the site.
Swami says, ‘Joshi told me to keep a tab on the papers as some good news was in the offing. Soon after, news of the Mecca Masjid blast appeared’
According to Aseemanand, this blast had been executed by Muslim boys provided by Indresh Kumar. “A couple of days after the Ajmer blast Joshi came to see me. He was accompanied by two men named Raj and Mehul who had also visited Shabri Dham on previous occasions. Joshi claimed his men had perpetrated the blast and he was also present at Ajmer Dargah at the time of the blast. He said that Indresh had provided him two Muslim boys to plant the bomb. I told Joshi that if the Muslim boys get caught, Indresh would get exposed. I also told Joshi that Indresh might get him killed and told him to stay at Shabri Dham. Joshi then told me that Raj and Mehul were wanted in the Baroda Best Bakery case (12 Muslims were killed by rioters in Best Bakery in Gujarat 2002). I told Joshi not to keep Raj and Mehul at the ashram as it would not be safe for them to stay in Gujarat. Joshi, along with the two men, left for Dewas the next day,” said Aseemanand.
Barely two months later, on 29 December 2007, in a sudden twist, Aseemanand’s fears came true. Sunil Joshi was mysteriously murdered outside his house in Dewas, Madhya Pradesh. His family claimed he had been murdered by his own organisation. After her arrest, Sadhvi Pragya Thakur also suggested this. But the Madhya Pradesh Police failed to solve the case and filed a closure report in the court.
At the end of December 2010 though, acting on fresh leads, the Madhya Pradesh police finally accepted that Joshi had been murdered by his own friends in the RSS. They charged Mayank, Harshad Solanki, Mehul and Mohan from Gujarat, Anand Raj Katare from Indore and Vasudev Parmar from Dewas with Joshi’s murder. While Mehul and Mohan are still on the run, Solanki was brought before the Dewas court where he confessed to the murder. However, even these arrests don’t join all the dots. The police claim internal rivalry as the motive for the murder. The CBI, though, believes the real motive behind Joshi’s murder was to silence him. Joshi knew too much about the terror conspiracy and his masters were perhaps wary that they might get exposed.
ABDUL KALEEM, 21
The Muslim boy who triggered an unlikely conversion in jail
Kaleem, a cell phone seller, was arrested and tortured in 2007 for a blast at Mecca Masjid in Hyderabad. He spent a year-and-half in jail before being acquitted. Soon after, he was back in jail on another charge, when he met Swami Aseemanand. The Swami was struck by the boy’s kindness. When he heard that Kaleem was blamed for a blast that he and his comrades had done, he was profoundly affected and decided to confess as an act of penance.
Sunil Joshi’s murder leaves many unanswered questions. If he was one of the key figures in the terror conspiracy, as many of those arrested testify that he was, why would his comrades want to bump him off? If he was a protégé of Indresh Kumar, acting on his orders and with his sanction, why would his mentor want him dead? What could have created a rift or fallout between all of them? The murder suggests a murky and inexplicable factionalism within the sinister grouping.
With Joshi dead and much of Aseemanand’s confession based on things Joshi had told him about the blasts, it might seem that Aseemanand’s confession runs thin in certain portions and is, therefore, of uneven consequence. But Joshi was not the only piece in the puzzle. Aseemanand’s confession is powerful because it implicates himself at every juncture and points to a network of Hindutva pracharaks, who not only participated in the terror plots but were moved around and sheltered by sections of the organisation while they were on the run. Investigators believe that the arrests of Kalsangra and Dange would provide the missing pieces of the puzzle.
Joshi’s death didn’t mean the end of the horrific blasts — at least from the ultra-Hindutva side. The terror infrastructure he had created along with a few other RSS men continued to function.
ASEEMANAND CONFESSED coming into contact with the shadowy saffron terror outfit Abhinav Bharat in January 2007. Col Purohit was one of the founder members of the outfit. Aseemanand has confessed to proposing more terror strikes in a meeting of Abhinav Bharat held at Bhopal in April 2008. Sadhvi Pragya, Bharat Riteshwar, Col Purohit and Dayanand Pandey were also present in the meeting. “I participated in many Abhinav Bharat meetings and proposed to carry out more terror strikes,” Aseemanand told the magistrate.
On 29 September 2008, horror struck again. During Islam’s holy month of Ramzan, an IED went off at Bhikku Chowk, a Muslim neighbourhood in Malegaon. The bomb was concealed in a motorcycle parked in front of a locked office of SIMI. Given the paranoia that had grown around Islamist terror, it had become an accepted maxim that members of SIMI were behind every blast. No proof was ever required. Placing a bomb in front of their office, therefore, was an act of deadly symbolism for the Hindutva outfits.
A similar bomb blast was triggered almost simultaneously hundreds of miles away in a small town called Modasa in Gujarat. Like in Malegaon, the blast took place in a Muslim colony named Sukka Bazaar, outside a mosque when special Ramzan prayers were being offered. Like in Malegaon, the bomb was again concealed in a motorcycle. The two blasts were separated by a gap of five minutes.
The Malgeaon blast killed seven Muslims, including a three-year-old boy. The Modasa blast resulted in the death of a 15-year-old boy. Several others were injured.
‘I told my comrades that since the Nizam had wanted to opt for Pakistan during Partition, Hyderabad was also a fair target for us,’ the Swami said
It is a measure of the deep-seated bias that had crept into the Indian justice system that even when deadly blasts went off in the midst of Muslim neighbourhoods and mosques, Muslim boys were still automatically blamed for them. It was beyond anyone’s imagination that Hindutva groups could be behind the inhuman acts.
But as Aseemanand says, “Sometime in October 2008, Dange phoned me and said he wanted to come to Shabri Dham and stay there for a few days. I told him that since I was setting out for Nadiad (Gujarat), it would not be a good idea for him to stay there in my absence. Then Dange requested me to pick him up from a place called Vyara and drop him to Baroda which was on the way to Nadiad. I picked up Dange from Vyara bus stop in my Santro car. He was accompanied by Ramji Kalsangra. Both were carrying two or three bags stuffed with some heavy objects. They told me they were coming from Maharashtra. I dropped them at Rajpipla junction at Baroda. I later realised that it was just a day after the Malegaon blast,” said Aseemanand, before concluding his statement. His confession further corroborates the evidence put together by Karkare.
After the Maharashtra ATS arrested Sadhvi Pragya in connection with the 2008 Malegaon blast, Aseemanand went absconding. He was finally arrested by the CBI from Haridwar on 19 November 2010.
THE EMERGENCE of Hindutva terror does not leach away the horror of Islamist terror attacks on places like the Akshardham temple, Sankatmochan mandir and German Bakery in Pune, amongst others. But Aseemanand’s confession will raise many uncomfortable questions for the RSS. It is no one’s case that the actions of a few tars an entire organisation. But there are urgent questions the RSS needs to confront within itself. And answer to the nation.
Given the growing evidence about the involvement of RSS pracharaks in a series of terror blasts, how will the RSS leadership respond?
Many of these terror blasts display a high degree of sophistication in the planning and devices used, with RDX and complex bomb designs being deployed in several of them. Given that most of the foot-soldiers accused for these blasts are of very humble backgrounds, is it possible that they could execute these blasts without support and sanction from the top?
Given the strictly hierarchical and disciplined nature of the organisation, is it possible that they were acting without the knowledge of their superiors?
Most crucially, given the gathering evidence about the involvement of several RSS pracharaks and other affiliates in this series of terror blasts, how will the RSS leadership respond?
If it is true that some members of their organisation have turned rogue, will they seek the most stringent punishment for them?
The Hindutva worldview may be politically opposed to minority rights, but will it go far enough to watch some of its members drag the country further down the suicidal course of competitive terrorism between Islamist and Hindutva extremists? Or will it opt for the saner option of a cleansing within
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In the words of a zealot…
Swami Aseemanand’s chilling confession is the first legal evidence of RSS pracharaks’ involvement in the Samjhauta Express and 2006 Malegaon blasts. ASHISH KHETAN scoops the 42-page document that reveals a frightening story of hate and deliberate mayhem
ON 18 DECEMBER 2010, a team of CBI sleuths escorted an elderly Bengali man Naba Kumar Sarkar, 59 — popularly known as Swami Aseemanand — from Tihar jail to the Tis Hazari court in Delhi, where he was produced before metropolitan magistrate Deepak Dabas. Aseemanand is the key accused in the 2007 Mecca Masjid blast that killed nine people. This was his second court appearance in a span of little over 48 hours. On 16 December, Aseemanand had requested the magistrate to record his confession about his involvement in a string of terror attacks. He stated that he was making the confession without any fear, force, coercion or inducement.
In accordance with the law, the magistrate asked Aseemanand to reflect over his decision and sent him to judicial custody for two days — away from any police interference or influence.
On 18 December, Aseemanand returned, resolute. The magistrate asked everybody except his stenographer to leave his chamber. “I know I can be sentenced to the death penalty but I still want to make the confession,” Aseemanand said.
Over the next five hours, in an unprecedented move, Aseemanand laid bare an explosive story about the involvement of a few Hindutva leaders, including himself, in planning and executing a series of gruesome terror attacks. Over the past few years, several pieces of the Hindutva terror puzzle have slowly been falling into place — each piece corroborating and validating what has gone before. First, the arrest of Sadhvi Pragya Thakur, Dayanand Pandey, Lt Col Shrikant Purohit and others in 2008. The seizure of 37 audio tapes from Pandey’s laptop that featured all these people discussing their terror activities. And most recently, the Rajasthan ATS’ chargesheet on the 2007 Ajmer Sharif blast. Aseemanand’s confession, however, is likely to prove one of the most crucial pieces for investigative agencies.
Unlike police interrogation reports or confessions, under clause 164 of the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC), confessions before a magistrate are considered legally admissible evidence. Aseemanand’s statement, therefore, is extremely crucial and will have serious ramifications.
HINDUTVA’S DEADLY PLATOON
The men who allegedly vowed to match Islamist terror with Hindutva terror: bomb for bomb
INDRESH KUMAR, a member of the RSS Central Committee. Three accused, Swami Aseemanand, Lokesh Sharma and Shivam Dhakad, and one witness, Bharat Riteshwar, have stated before the CBI that Indresh had mentored and financed the RSS pracharaks behind Malegaon, Samjhauta Express, Ajmer and Mecca Masjid terror strikes.
SWAMI ASEEMANAND, the head of the RSS-affiliated Van Vasi Kalyan Ashram, Shabri Dham in Dangs, Gujarat. He has confessed to playing the role of an ideologue to the terrorists. Besides presiding over terror meetings held in Dangs and Valsad in Gujarat, he also selected Malgeaon, Ajmer Sharif and Hyderabad as terror targets.
SUNIL JOSHI, a former RSS pracharak of Mhow district. He was expelled from the RSS after being accused in the murder of two Congress activists in Madhya Pradesh in 2006. Along with a few RSS pracharaks and Hindu radicals from Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Jammu and Jharkhand, he formed an inter-state terror infrastructure.
SANDEEP DANGE, a senior RSS pracharak from Shajapur district near Indore. Along with Joshi and Ramchandra Kalsangra, he was a key figure in the longrunning conspiracy to bomb Muslim places of worship and Muslim neigbourhoods. He is currently absconding.
RAM CHANDRA KALSANGRA ALIAS RAMJI, an RSS pracharak from Madhya Pradesh. He carried out terror strikes in different places between December 2002 and 29 September 2008 (when bombs went off simultaneously in Malegaon and Modasa. He has been absconding since October 2008.
SHIVAM DHAKHAD, an RSS activist and associate of accused Joshi and Ramji Kalsangra. Along with other RSS pracharaks, he allegedly took training in bomb-making in 2005. He also did a reconnaissance of Aligarh Muslim University and residence of Justice UC Banerjee (chairman of the Godhra commission) for terror strikes.
LT COL SHRIKANT PUROHIT, a founding member of terror outfit Abhinav Bharat. He was posted with the military intelligence unit at Nashik. He allegedly tried to draft in other army officers in his terror outfit. He is accused of supplying RDX for the 2008 Malegaon blasts.
DEVENDRA GUPTA, the RSS vibhag pracharak of Muzaffarnagar, Bihar. He provided logistics to Joshi, Kalsangra and Dange for terror strikes. He also harboured Kalsangra and Dange in RSS offices while they were on the run.
LOKESH SHARMA, an RSS worker and close associate of Joshi, Dange and Kalsangra. He purchased the two Nokia handsets that were used to trigger the bombs at Mecca Masjid and Ajmer Sharif.
BHARAT RATESWAR ALIAS BHARATBHAI, the head of Sri Vivekananda Kendra Sansthan in Valsad district, Gujarat. As a close associate of Aseemanand, he participated in several terror meetings held at his residence and also at Shabri Dham ashram. He also travelled with Joshi to Jharkhand and Uttar Pradesh providing logistics for the blasts.
YOGI ADITYANATH, BJP MP from Gorakhpur. He was contacted by Aseemanand to provide funds for terrorist activities. Joshi held a hush-hush meeting with him at his Gorakhpur residence in 2006, at the time when the conspiracy to carry out multiple blasts was underway. According to Aseemanand, he didn’t give much support. But he continues to be under suspicion.
DR ASHOK VARSHNAY, RSS prant pracharak of Kanpur. He sheltered key terror accused and RSS pracharak Devendra Gupta at Vanvasi Kalyan Ashram and Vishwa Mangal Gau Gram Yatra in Sitapur, Uttar Pradesh, while Gupta was on the run. Varshnay has told investigators that he had shielded Gupta at the behest of Indresh Kumar.
RAJESH MISHRA, an RSS activist and owner of a foundry in Pithampura, near Mhow. He gave 15 cast iron shells in 2001 to Joshi, who used them during failed bomb blasts at Ijtema (a Muslim gathering) in Bhopal in 2002. He was also a co-accused along with Joshi in the murder of local Congress workers.
SUDHAKAR DHAR DWIVEDI ALIAS DAYANAND PANDEY, he ran an ashram named Shardapeeth in Jammu. He played the role of an ideologue to those involved in the 2008 Malegaon blasts. He was in the habit of recording the meetings he would have with Abhinav Bharat members on his laptop.
For years, since the first horrific blasts in Mumbai in 1992, there has been an automatic and damaging perception amongst most Indians that there is a Muslim hand behind every terror blast. To some degree, this bias was shared by the police and intelligence agencies. Every time there was a blast, under intense pressure from both media and government to show results, instead of going in for painstaking and meticulous investigations to catch the real culprits, the security agencies would routinely round up Muslim boys linked with radical organisations and declare them to be terror masterminds. A frenzied media would swallow the story whole. Though a dangerous cocktail of anger, despair and frustration grew within the Muslim community, few Indians — except members of civil society and media organisations like TEHELKA — dared to take stands and question the status quo. The arrest of Sadhvi Pragya and Lt Col Purohit dented this perception slightly, but they were mostly written off as a small and lunatic fringe. Now, Aseemanand’s confession tears much deeper through this prejudice.
‘I know I can be sentenced with the death penalty but I still want to make this confession,’ Swami Aseemanand told the magistrate
According to him, it was not Muslim boys but a team of RSS pracharaks who exploded bombs in Malegaon in 2006 and 2008, on the Samjhauta Express in 2007, in Ajmer Sharif in 2007 and Mecca Masjid in 2007. Apart from the tragic loss of innocent lives in these blasts, what makes this admission doubly disturbing is that, in keeping with their habitual practice, scores of Muslim boys were wrongly picked up by the Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra Police, in collusion with sections of the Intelligence Bureau, and tortured and jailed for these blasts — accentuating the shrill paranoia about a vast and homegrown Islamist terror network. Many of these boys were acquitted after years in jail; some are still languishing inside, their youth and future destroyed, their families reduced to penury.
In a curious twist, however, in one of those inexplicable human experiences that no one can account for, according to Aseemanand, it was an encounter with one of these jailed Muslim boys that triggered a momentous emotional transformation in him, forcing him to confront his conscience and make amends. This is what Aseemanand told the judge: “Sir, when I was lodged in Chanchalguda district jail in Hyderabad, one of my co-inmates was Kaleem. During my interaction with Kaleem I learnt that he was previously arrested in the Mecca Masjid bomb blast case and he had to spend about oneand- a-half years in prison. During my stay in jail, Kaleem helped me a lot and used to serve me by bringing water, food, etc for me. I was very moved by Kaleem’s good conduct and my conscience asked me to do prayschit (penance) by making a confessional statement so that real culprits can be punished and no innocent has to suffer.”
At this point, the magistrate asked his stenographer to leave so the confession could continue without restraint.
Tell-all evidence? A photocopy of Swami Aseemanand’s 42-page confession before the magistrate
In a signed statement written in Hindi that runs into 42 pages — and which is in TEHELKA’s possession — Aseemanand then proceeded to unravel the inner workings of the Hindutva terror network. According to him, it was not just a rump group like the ultra-right wing organisation Abhinav Bharat that engineered blasts but, shockingly, RSS national executive member Indresh Kumar who allegedly handpicked and financed some RSS pracharaks to carry out terror attacks.
“Indreshji met me at Shabri Dham (Aseemanand’s ashram in the Dangs district of Gujarat) sometime in 2005,” Aseemanand told the magistrate. “He was accompanied by many top RSS functionaries. He told me that exploding bombs was not my job and instead told me to focus on the tribal welfare work assigned to me by the RSS. He said he had deputed Sunil Joshi for this job (terror attacks) and he would extend Joshi whatever help was required.”
Aseemanand further narrated how Indresh financed Joshi for his terror activities and provided him men to plant bombs. Aseemanand also confessed to his own role in the terror plots and how he had motivated a bunch of RSS pracharaks and other Hindu radicals to carry out terror strikes at Malegaon, Hyderabad and Ajmer. (TEHELKA tried contacting Indresh several times for his side of the story. He said he would call back but didn’t.)
While evidence of the involvement of RSS pracharaks in the Mecca Masjid and Ajmer blasts has been growing with every new arrest, Aseemanand’s confession is the first direct evidence of the involvement of Hindutva extremists in the 2006 Malegaon blasts and the Samjhauta Express blast. The evidence — both, direct and indirect — pieced together by the CBI shows that the broad terror conspiracy to target Muslims and their places of religious worship was hatched around 2001.
Three RSS pracharaks from Madhya Pradesh — Sunil Joshi, Ramchandra Kalsangra and Sandeep Dange — were apparently at the core of this conspiracy. As the three became more audacious in their terror ambitions they started inducting like-minded Hindutva radicals from other states, mainly Maharashtra, Gujarat and Rajasthan. While the new entrants were mostly from the RSS, Bajrang Dal and Vishwa Hindu Parishad, some members of fringe saffron groups like Abhinav Bharat, Jai Vande Matram and Vanvasi Kalyan Ashram also joined the fray.
However, Joshi, Kalsangra and Dange took the precaution of not sharing too many details with members outside the core group. Joshi strictly followed the doctrine of division of work on a ‘need-tok-now’ basis, with each member knowing only his part of the job.
Aseemanand, who ran a Vanvasi Kalyan Ashram in Dang, first came in contact with Sunil Joshi in 2003 but it was only in March 2006 that he became actively involved in the terror plot.
It was the spirited investigation into the 2008 Malegaon blast by Maharashtra ATS chief Hemant Karkare that first blew the lid off this broad Hindutva terror conspiracy. Karkare arrested 11 Hindutva radicals, including Lt Col Purohit, who was attached with the military intelligence unit at Nashik; Dayanand Pandey, a self-styled religious guru who ran an ashram named Sharda Peeth in Jammu and Sadhvi Pragya, an ABVP leader turned into an ascetic, for their role in the 2008 Malegaon blast.
But Karkare’s sudden and ironic killing at the hands of Islamist jihadis in the Mumbai 26/11 attack derailed the saffron terror investigation. The Maharashtra ATS under its new chief KP Raghuvanshi failed to arrest Ramchandra Kalsangra and Sandeep Dange and instead passed them off as minor players in the chargesheet.
The investigation picked up pace again in May 2010 with the arrest of two RSS pracharaks — Devendra Gupta and Lokesh Sharma — by the Rajasthan ATS which was probing the Ajmer blast case. Gupta was the RSS Vibagh Pracharak of Muzaffarnagar, Bihar. He provided logistical support to Joshi, Kalsangra and Dange and harboured the latter two in RSS offices while they were on the run from agencies.
Lokesh Sharma was a RSS worker close to Joshi. He purchased the two Nokia phones that were used to trigger bombs at Mecca Masjid and Ajmer Sharif. It is Sharma’s interrogation that revealed for the first time that RSS national executive member Indresh Kumar was a key figure in the terror conspiracy. The joint investigation of the Rajasthan ATS and CBI, in fact, went on to reveal that, except Pragya Singh Thakur, all those who were arrested by the Maharashtra ATS in 2008 were actually fringe players while the core group comprising Indresh Kumar, Kalsangra and Dange allegedly held the key to the full terror plot.
In June 2010, the CBI examined a witness named Bharat Riteshwar, a resident of district Valsad in Gujarat and a close associate of Swami Aseemanand. Riteshwar told the CBI that Sunil Joshi was a protégé of Indresh and had his approval and logistical support for carrying out terror attacks.
On 19 November 2010 the CBI cracked down on a hideout in Haridwar and arrested Swami Aseemanand, who had been a fugitive for over two years since Sadhvi Pragya’s arrest in October 2008. His arrest unlocked many more pieces.
NABA KUMAR — alias Swami Aseemanand — was originally from Kamaarpukar village in Hooghly district in West Bengal — the birthplace of Ramakrishna Paramhansa. In 1971, after completing his BSc (honours) from Hooghly, Naba Kumar went to Bardman district to pursue a master’s degree in science. Though he was involved with RSS activities from school, it was during his post-graduation years that Naba Kumar became an active RSS member. In 1977, he started working full-time with the RSS-run Vanvasi Kalyan Ashram in Purulia and Bankura districts. In 1981, his guru Swami Parmanand rechristened him as Swami Aseemanand.
From 1988 to 1993, he served with the Vanvasi Kalyan Ashram at Andaman and Nicobar islands. Between 1993 and 1997, he toured across India to deliver sermons on Hindu religion among the tribals. In 1997, he settled down in the Dangs district in Gujarat and started a tribal welfare organisation called Shabri Dham. Aseemanand was known in the area for his rabid anti-minority speeches and his relentless campaign against Christian missionaries.
Aseemanand is seen as being close to the RSS leadership. In the past, leaders like Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan, former RSS chief KS Sudarshan and current chief Mohan Bhagwat have attended religious functions organised by him at Shabri Dham.
While Aseemanand was known for his vitriolic anti-minority positions, according to his confession, it was the heinous massacre of Hindu devotees at Akshardham temple by Islamist suicide bombers in 2002 that was the first real kindle for their retaliatory terror attacks.
“The Muslim terrorists started attacking Hindu temples in 2002,” Aseemanand said. “This caused great concern and anger in me. I used to share my concerns about the growing menace of Islamic terrorism with Bharat Riteshwar of Valsad.”
In 2003, Aseemanand came in contact with Sunil Joshi and Pragya Singh Thakur. He would often discuss Islamist terrorism with them as well. Finally, according to him, it was the terror attack on Sankatmochan temple in Varanasi in March 2006 which was the real flashpoint for them.
“In March 2006, Pragya Thakur, Sunil Joshi, Bharat Riteshwar and I decided to give a befitting reply to the Sankatmochan blasts,” Aseemanand told the magistrate.
Aseemanand gave Rs. 25,000 to Joshi to arrange the necessary logistics for the blasts. He also sent Joshi and Riteshwar to Gorakhpur to seek assistance from firebrand BJP MP Yogi Adityanath. In April 2006, Joshi apparently held a hush-hush meeting with the Adityanath, infamous for his rabid anti-Muslim speeches. But Aseemanand says, “Joshi came back and told me that Adityanath was not of much help.”
However, this did not deter Aseemanand. He went ahead with his plans.
In June 2006, Aseemanand, Riteshwar, Sadhvi Pragya and Joshi again met at Riteshwar’s house in Valsad. It proved to be a chilling one, with far-reaching consequences. Joshi, for the first time, brought four associates with him — Dange, Kalsangra, Lokesh Sharma and Ashok alias Amit.
“I told everybody that bomb ka jawab bomb se dena chahiye, (I told everyone we should answer bombs with bombs),” says Aseemanand. “At that meeting I realised Joshi and his group were already doing something on the subject,” he adds.
“After the combined meeting,” Aseemanand says, “Joshi, Pragya, Riteshwar and I huddled together for a separate meeting. I suggested that 80 percent of the people of Malegaon were Muslims and we should explode the first bomb in Malegaon itself. I also said that during the Partition, the Nizam of Hyderabad had wanted to go with Pakistan so Hyderabad was also a fair target. Then I said that since Hindus also throng the Ajmer Sharif Dargah in large numbers we should also explode a bomb in Ajmer which would deter the Hindus from going there. I also suggested the Aligarh Muslim University as a terror target.”
According to Aseemanand everybody agreed to target these places.
“In the meeting,” Aseemanand continues, “Joshi suggested that it was basically Pakistanis who travel on the Samjhauta Express train that runs between India and Pakistan and therefore we should attack the train as well. Joshi took the responsibility of targeting Samjhauta himself and said that the chemicals required for the blasts would be arranged by Dange.”
Aseemanand’s confession goes on in grave detail. “Joshi said three teams would be constituted to execute the blasts. One team would arrange finance and logistics. The second team would arrange for the explosives. And the third team would plant the bombs. He also said that the members of one team should not know members from the other two teams. So even if one gets arrested the others would remain safe,” Aseemanand told the magistrate.
Hate and anger had slipped off the edge into mayhem.
‘Since Hindus throng the Ajmer Sharif Dargah we thought a bomb blast in Ajmer would deter Hindus from going there,’ the Swami said
ON 8 SEPTEMBER 2006, at 1.30 pm, four bombs exploded in the communally tense town of Malegaon in Maharashtra. Besides being a Friday, the Muslim festival Shab-e-barat was being observed. Three bombs went off in the compound of the Hamidiya Masjid and Bada Kabrastan. A fourth bomb exploded at Mushawart Chowk.
Out of three bombs, one was placed at the entrance gate of Hamidiya Masjid and Bada Kabrastan, the second on a bicycle parked in the parking lot situated inside the compound and the third was hung on the wall of the power supply room situated in front of Vaju Khana, inside the compound. The fourth bomb went off in the crowded junction of Mushawart Chowk, which was placed on a bicycle, near an electric pole. The attack was meticulously planned; the bombs exploded in quick succession. Thirty one Muslims were killed; over 312 were injured.
In a suspiciously swift investigation, the Maharashtra ATS arraigned nine Malegaon Muslims within 90 days. Eight of these were members of the Student Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), the outlawed radical Muslim outfit. Another three Malegaon Muslims were shown absconding. Stringent provisions of the draconian Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) were invoked.
On 21 December 2006, the same day that the ATS filed the chargesheet against the nine Malegaon Muslims, the Maharashtra government asked the CBI to take over the probe. In effect, the CBI was presented with a fait accompli: the case had already been so-called solved and the accused had been chargesheeted.
A year ago, the CBI filed a supplementary chargesheet but failed to produce any material evidence. For over four years, these nine Malegaon Muslims have been languishing in prison. Aseemanand’s confession now seems proof that the boys were innocent and had been arrested merely to deflect criticism and create a false sense of security among Indian citizens that the blast cases were being “solved”. The real mastermind, according to Aseemanand, was Sunil Joshi. And it was Aseemanand himself who had persuaded Joshi to explode bombs in Malegaon.
This is what he told the magistrate. “Joshi came to see me at Shabri Dham on Diwali in 2006. The Malegaon blasts had already happened. Sunil told me the blasts were carried out by our men. I said the newspaper reports had mentioned that Muslims were behind the blasts and a few Muslims had also been arrested. Sunil assured me the blasts were carried out by him but he refused to reveal the identity of our men who had executed the blasts.”
ON 18 February 2007, on the eve of the then Pakistan foreign minister Khurshid Kasuri’s visit to India to carry forward the peace dialogue, two powerful bombs went off around midnight in two coaches of the cross-border Samjhauta Express, running between Delhi and Lahore. The train had reached Diwana near Panipat, 80 km north of Delhi. The coaches turned into an inferno. The third bomb placed in another coach failed to detonate. Sixty eight people were killed. Dozens were injured. The peace dialogue received a big setback.
Investigation revealed that three suitcases filled with detonators, timers, iron pipes containing explosives and bottles filled with petrol and kerosene had been smuggled into the three coaches.
The needle of suspicion veered immediately to Pakistani extremists. Depending upon which investigating agency you were speaking to, Pakistan-based terror outfits mainly Harkat-ul-Jihad Islami (HUJI) and Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT)were blamed for the blasts. Even the US State Department called the terror attack a joint operation of the LeT and HUJI. The Haryana Police tracked down some of the material used in the blasts as being procured from a market in Indore but the trail soon went cold.
In November 2008, the Maharashtra ATS told a court in Nashik that Lt Col Purohit had procured 60 kg of RDX from Jammu & Kashmir in 2006 and a part of it was suspected to have been used in the Samjhauta Express blasts. But the ATS subsequently failed to back its claims with any evidence and was forced to retract. The Haryana cops travelled to Mumbai and interrogated Purohit and other Malegaon accused but could not find any evidence that could link them to the Samjhauta blasts.
In July 2010, the Samjhauta blast probe was handed over to the National Investigating Agency (NIA). Though it still leaves some questions and loose ends, Aseemanand’s confession now joins many other dots in relation to the Samjhauta Express.
The massacre of Hindu devotees at the Akshardham temple by Islamist bombers in 2002 was the first real kindle for the retaliatory attacks
“In February 2007,” Aseemanand told the magistrate, “Riteshwar and Joshi came on a motorbike to a Lord Shiva temple in a place called Balpur. As we had fixed this place for our meeting, I was already there, waiting for the two. Joshi told me in the next two days there would be a piece of good news and I should keep a tab on the newspapers. After the meeting I came back to Shabri Dham and Joshi and Riteshwar went their way. After a couple of days I went to meet Riteshwar at his Valsad residence. Joshi and Pragya were already present there. The Samjhauta Express blasts had happened. I asked Joshi how he was present there while Samjhauta had already happened in Haryana. Joshi replied that the blasts were done by his men.”
“In the same meeting,” Aseemanand continues, “Joshi took Rs. 40,000 from me to carry out the blasts in Hyderabad. A few months later, Joshi telephoned me and told me to keep a tab on the newspapers as some good news was in the offing. In a few days the news of the Mecca Masjid blast appeared in the papers. After 7-8 days, Joshi came to Shabri Dham and brought a Telegu newspaper with him. It had a picture of the blast. I told Joshi that in the papers it had appeared that some Muslim boys had been rounded up for the blast. But Joshi replied it was done by our people.”
LIKE IN the case of the 2006 Malegaon blast, 17 May 2007 was a Friday. At 1.30 pm, as over 4,000 Muslims assembled to offer their Friday prayers at the iconic Mecca Masjid, situated near the Charminar in the old city of Hyderabad, a bomb went off near the Wazu Khana (fountain) meant for doing wazu (ablution before prayers) inside the mosque.
Another IED contained in a blue rexine bag was found hanging near the door-way at the northern end of the mosque. Miraculously, this bomb had not exploded. With no substantive clue emerging from the blast investigation, in a cynical move, the Hyderabad police launched a mop-up operation against local Muslim boys, who were associated with Ahle Hadess, the doggedly fundamentalist sect among Sunni Muslims. Friends and family members of some known local Muslim extremists like Shahid Bilal, who had fled to Pakistan, were also rounded up. In a span of two weeks, over three dozen boys from Malakpet and Saidabaad were picked up and tortured. However, when the police failed to link them to the Mecca Masjid case, they registered three separate bogus cases and implicated the detainees in these cases.
On 9 June 2007, the CBI took over the investigation into the Mecca Masjid case.
A few months later, on 11 October 2007, during the month of Ramzan, at 6.15 pm, as Muslim devotees had begun their iftaar at Ajmer Sharif dargah, a powerful bomb went off near a tree in the compound, killing three people and injuring over a dozen. Investigators found one more unexploded IED at the site.
Swami says, ‘Joshi told me to keep a tab on the papers as some good news was in the offing. Soon after, news of the Mecca Masjid blast appeared’
According to Aseemanand, this blast had been executed by Muslim boys provided by Indresh Kumar. “A couple of days after the Ajmer blast Joshi came to see me. He was accompanied by two men named Raj and Mehul who had also visited Shabri Dham on previous occasions. Joshi claimed his men had perpetrated the blast and he was also present at Ajmer Dargah at the time of the blast. He said that Indresh had provided him two Muslim boys to plant the bomb. I told Joshi that if the Muslim boys get caught, Indresh would get exposed. I also told Joshi that Indresh might get him killed and told him to stay at Shabri Dham. Joshi then told me that Raj and Mehul were wanted in the Baroda Best Bakery case (12 Muslims were killed by rioters in Best Bakery in Gujarat 2002). I told Joshi not to keep Raj and Mehul at the ashram as it would not be safe for them to stay in Gujarat. Joshi, along with the two men, left for Dewas the next day,” said Aseemanand.
Barely two months later, on 29 December 2007, in a sudden twist, Aseemanand’s fears came true. Sunil Joshi was mysteriously murdered outside his house in Dewas, Madhya Pradesh. His family claimed he had been murdered by his own organisation. After her arrest, Sadhvi Pragya Thakur also suggested this. But the Madhya Pradesh Police failed to solve the case and filed a closure report in the court.
At the end of December 2010 though, acting on fresh leads, the Madhya Pradesh police finally accepted that Joshi had been murdered by his own friends in the RSS. They charged Mayank, Harshad Solanki, Mehul and Mohan from Gujarat, Anand Raj Katare from Indore and Vasudev Parmar from Dewas with Joshi’s murder. While Mehul and Mohan are still on the run, Solanki was brought before the Dewas court where he confessed to the murder. However, even these arrests don’t join all the dots. The police claim internal rivalry as the motive for the murder. The CBI, though, believes the real motive behind Joshi’s murder was to silence him. Joshi knew too much about the terror conspiracy and his masters were perhaps wary that they might get exposed.
ABDUL KALEEM, 21
The Muslim boy who triggered an unlikely conversion in jail
Kaleem, a cell phone seller, was arrested and tortured in 2007 for a blast at Mecca Masjid in Hyderabad. He spent a year-and-half in jail before being acquitted. Soon after, he was back in jail on another charge, when he met Swami Aseemanand. The Swami was struck by the boy’s kindness. When he heard that Kaleem was blamed for a blast that he and his comrades had done, he was profoundly affected and decided to confess as an act of penance.
Sunil Joshi’s murder leaves many unanswered questions. If he was one of the key figures in the terror conspiracy, as many of those arrested testify that he was, why would his comrades want to bump him off? If he was a protégé of Indresh Kumar, acting on his orders and with his sanction, why would his mentor want him dead? What could have created a rift or fallout between all of them? The murder suggests a murky and inexplicable factionalism within the sinister grouping.
With Joshi dead and much of Aseemanand’s confession based on things Joshi had told him about the blasts, it might seem that Aseemanand’s confession runs thin in certain portions and is, therefore, of uneven consequence. But Joshi was not the only piece in the puzzle. Aseemanand’s confession is powerful because it implicates himself at every juncture and points to a network of Hindutva pracharaks, who not only participated in the terror plots but were moved around and sheltered by sections of the organisation while they were on the run. Investigators believe that the arrests of Kalsangra and Dange would provide the missing pieces of the puzzle.
Joshi’s death didn’t mean the end of the horrific blasts — at least from the ultra-Hindutva side. The terror infrastructure he had created along with a few other RSS men continued to function.
ASEEMANAND CONFESSED coming into contact with the shadowy saffron terror outfit Abhinav Bharat in January 2007. Col Purohit was one of the founder members of the outfit. Aseemanand has confessed to proposing more terror strikes in a meeting of Abhinav Bharat held at Bhopal in April 2008. Sadhvi Pragya, Bharat Riteshwar, Col Purohit and Dayanand Pandey were also present in the meeting. “I participated in many Abhinav Bharat meetings and proposed to carry out more terror strikes,” Aseemanand told the magistrate.
On 29 September 2008, horror struck again. During Islam’s holy month of Ramzan, an IED went off at Bhikku Chowk, a Muslim neighbourhood in Malegaon. The bomb was concealed in a motorcycle parked in front of a locked office of SIMI. Given the paranoia that had grown around Islamist terror, it had become an accepted maxim that members of SIMI were behind every blast. No proof was ever required. Placing a bomb in front of their office, therefore, was an act of deadly symbolism for the Hindutva outfits.
A similar bomb blast was triggered almost simultaneously hundreds of miles away in a small town called Modasa in Gujarat. Like in Malegaon, the blast took place in a Muslim colony named Sukka Bazaar, outside a mosque when special Ramzan prayers were being offered. Like in Malegaon, the bomb was again concealed in a motorcycle. The two blasts were separated by a gap of five minutes.
The Malgeaon blast killed seven Muslims, including a three-year-old boy. The Modasa blast resulted in the death of a 15-year-old boy. Several others were injured.
‘I told my comrades that since the Nizam had wanted to opt for Pakistan during Partition, Hyderabad was also a fair target for us,’ the Swami said
It is a measure of the deep-seated bias that had crept into the Indian justice system that even when deadly blasts went off in the midst of Muslim neighbourhoods and mosques, Muslim boys were still automatically blamed for them. It was beyond anyone’s imagination that Hindutva groups could be behind the inhuman acts.
But as Aseemanand says, “Sometime in October 2008, Dange phoned me and said he wanted to come to Shabri Dham and stay there for a few days. I told him that since I was setting out for Nadiad (Gujarat), it would not be a good idea for him to stay there in my absence. Then Dange requested me to pick him up from a place called Vyara and drop him to Baroda which was on the way to Nadiad. I picked up Dange from Vyara bus stop in my Santro car. He was accompanied by Ramji Kalsangra. Both were carrying two or three bags stuffed with some heavy objects. They told me they were coming from Maharashtra. I dropped them at Rajpipla junction at Baroda. I later realised that it was just a day after the Malegaon blast,” said Aseemanand, before concluding his statement. His confession further corroborates the evidence put together by Karkare.
After the Maharashtra ATS arrested Sadhvi Pragya in connection with the 2008 Malegaon blast, Aseemanand went absconding. He was finally arrested by the CBI from Haridwar on 19 November 2010.
THE EMERGENCE of Hindutva terror does not leach away the horror of Islamist terror attacks on places like the Akshardham temple, Sankatmochan mandir and German Bakery in Pune, amongst others. But Aseemanand’s confession will raise many uncomfortable questions for the RSS. It is no one’s case that the actions of a few tars an entire organisation. But there are urgent questions the RSS needs to confront within itself. And answer to the nation.
Given the growing evidence about the involvement of RSS pracharaks in a series of terror blasts, how will the RSS leadership respond?
Many of these terror blasts display a high degree of sophistication in the planning and devices used, with RDX and complex bomb designs being deployed in several of them. Given that most of the foot-soldiers accused for these blasts are of very humble backgrounds, is it possible that they could execute these blasts without support and sanction from the top?
Given the strictly hierarchical and disciplined nature of the organisation, is it possible that they were acting without the knowledge of their superiors?
Most crucially, given the gathering evidence about the involvement of several RSS pracharaks and other affiliates in this series of terror blasts, how will the RSS leadership respond?
If it is true that some members of their organisation have turned rogue, will they seek the most stringent punishment for them?
The Hindutva worldview may be politically opposed to minority rights, but will it go far enough to watch some of its members drag the country further down the suicidal course of competitive terrorism between Islamist and Hindutva extremists? Or will it opt for the saner option of a cleansing within
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From Tehelka Magazine, Vol 5, Issue 48, Dated Dec 06, 2008
CURRENT AFFAIRS
interview
'There is enough evidence against Col Purohit; we will present it in court'
ATS chief Hemant Karkare told RANA AYYUB, shortly before his death in the Mumbai terror attacks, that more army officers will not be arrested
The 2008 Malegaon blasts investigations have, for the first time, linked the right wing organisations to terrorist acts in the country. ATS Joint commissioner Hemant Karkare was spearheading the investigation. In an interview with TEHELKA, he had clarified the ATS stand on the conflicting reports that have been trickling out regarding the investigations.
The investigator Hemant Karkare insisted that there is no political pressure on him or his team
Photo: DEEPAK SALVI
Reports suggest that VHP strongman Pravin Togadia funded Abhinav Bharat, the organisation which is allegedly involved in the Malegaon blasts? Has this been confirmed?
There was a reference to his name during the investigation, but that has nothing to do with the Malegaon blasts investigations of 2008. At this point of time, we are only looking into the 2008 blasts.
Will Pravin Togadia be questioned, since his name has also cropped up in the narco tests done on the accused in the Nanded blasts of 2006?
No, as of now there is no evidence against him. As I said earlier, we are looking at only the Malegaon blasts, so there is no question of interrogating Pravin Togadia.
Reports suggest the involvement of high-profile seers in the Malegaon blasts. Has the ATS got proof of this?
We are not looking at seers or saints in relation to the Malegaon blasts. We are not looking at people from a particular community when we question them. We are just detaining people on the basis of evidence. As for Dayanand Pandey, he has proclaimed himself to be a seer. There are a lot of people going around claiming to be saints.
Was Swami Aseemanand from Dangs involved in other blasts, including the one at Ajmer, as reports suggest?
A reference has been made to his name during the investigations, we cannot divulge much at this stage. These people might not have been seers. Aseemanand could also have taken the garb of a seer.
While presenting its case, the ATS said that there was a possibility of those arrested in the Malegaon blasts case also being involved in the blasts that took place in the Marathwada region in 2006. Is there evidence to prove this? Has the ATS been able to link those arrested to other blasts?
There are agencies that have been looking at the various links, namely the CBI, which has been looking at the Malegaon blasts of 2006. The link we found is that of Rakesh Dhawre. He is a Pune-based counterfeit arms dealer who was involved in the training that took place for the blasts of 2006. He is the common link between the 2006 blasts including the ones in Purna and Parbhani, and the 2008 Malegaon blasts. Investigating agencies are working on it.
There are reports that police officials from other states have been coming to interrogate those arrested by the ATS. Is that true?
Yes, police officials from other states have been coming but that's something which is protocol in such cases. They wanted to know of the modus operandi so that they could figure out if there are similarities to other blasts, in Andhra Pradesh and Chandigarh. What they found out is something only they will be able to tell you.
The ATS made a flip-flop on the links of those arrested with the Samjhauta blasts, which raised questions when it found no mention in the remand copy.
A lot has been made of the Samjhauta Express statement that was made by the public prosecutor in the case. There was a statement made by the witness that Purohit helped in the procurement of RDX. That was a part of the case diary. It cannot be taken as gospel truth. What was wrong was the mention of the same to the media, although we had said that there is no such evidence of the same.
The BJP has targeted the ATS for its investigations. Has there been any political pressure?
We are here to do our job as an investigating agency and bring out the truth. Having said that, it's baseless to say that we are working under political pressure. There is absolutely no pressure on me or my officials. We are doing our best to bring the truth out.
Abhinav Bharat has come out as having played a key role. Is the ATS planning to question Himani Savarkar, its founder member?
We look at individuals and not organisations when we carry out our investigations. We are not looking at Abhinav Bharat, we are looking at the individuals involved. We have not questioned Himani Savarkar so far, and as yet, there is no evidence against her.
There are reports that an ATS team has left for Delhi. Is it true?
No, it's absolutely untrue.
There were also reports that the army was not cooperating with the ATS with regards to information on Col Purohit and his leave records?
I would like to clear this. The army has given cooperation to the ATS right from day one on every aspect of the interrogation. There have been reports that the army has not been cooperating with the ATS and that's absolutely untrue. The army gave us his leave records and other documents, which we needed.
Is the ATS looking at arresting more army officials?
No, we are not looking at arresting or detaining any more army officials in the case.
Most of the accused have alleged that they have been subjected to physical and mental torture.
We are doing our duty as investigating agencies. Such allegations come during the course of investigations. But they are untrue. We cannot do anything about such allegations
Can Purohit and Dayanand Pandey be called the key conspirators in the Malegaon blasts? Is this evident from the narco tests of the accused?
We are yet to get the narco reports. There is evidence against Purohit, but we can't reveal anything at this stage
As the findings of narco tests are not admissible in court, does the ATS have substantial proof to nail the accused in the case?
The ATS has been carrying out investigations. We have enough evidence against the people we have arrested and we will present it in court.
There has been a report that Purohit and Dayanand Pandey had conspired to kill RSS veterans like Mohan Bhagwat and Indreesh. What do you have to say on this? Have those arrested confessed to the same? The name of Delhi-based doctor RP Singh too has cropped up during the course of investigations. Does the ATS have evidence suggesting his involvement?
The name of RP Singh came up during the investigation of Dayanand Pandey. I can't reveal much about it at this stage. As for the assassination of RSS leaders, some references had emerged but they can't be linked to any organisation.
Are more arrests likely to be made by the ATS in the Malegaon blasts? Do you also see the involvement of Hindu organisations like the Bajrang Dal, RSS, and Sanatan Sanstha in various terror acts in the country?
The ATS had filed a chargesheet against the Sanatan Sanstha in a different case, but there is no proof to link organisations as yet with the blasts. We are just looking at individuals.
Does the arrest of seers and armymen in terror acts suggest a trend?
Col Purohit was just an aberration. Just because one man has been arrested it does not mean that the entire army is tainted. Tomorrow, you cannot blame the entire police force just because one officer is arrested.
Have some other names cropped up during the investigations of the accused? Has the name of Nitin Joshi, one of the key members of the Abhinav Bharat, cropped up?
At the moment we are looking for Shyam Apte and Ramji, who have been named in the investigations. They played an important role and are absconding.
WRITER'S EMAIL:
rana@tehelka.com
From Tehelka Magazine, Vol 5, Issue 48, Dated Dec 06, 2008
CURRENT AFFAIRS
interview
'There is enough evidence against Col Purohit; we will present it in court'
ATS chief Hemant Karkare told RANA AYYUB, shortly before his death in the Mumbai terror attacks, that more army officers will not be arrested
The 2008 Malegaon blasts investigations have, for the first time, linked the right wing organisations to terrorist acts in the country. ATS Joint commissioner Hemant Karkare was spearheading the investigation. In an interview with TEHELKA, he had clarified the ATS stand on the conflicting reports that have been trickling out regarding the investigations.
The investigator Hemant Karkare insisted that there is no political pressure on him or his team
Photo: DEEPAK SALVI
Reports suggest that VHP strongman Pravin Togadia funded Abhinav Bharat, the organisation which is allegedly involved in the Malegaon blasts? Has this been confirmed?
There was a reference to his name during the investigation, but that has nothing to do with the Malegaon blasts investigations of 2008. At this point of time, we are only looking into the 2008 blasts.
Will Pravin Togadia be questioned, since his name has also cropped up in the narco tests done on the accused in the Nanded blasts of 2006?
No, as of now there is no evidence against him. As I said earlier, we are looking at only the Malegaon blasts, so there is no question of interrogating Pravin Togadia.
Reports suggest the involvement of high-profile seers in the Malegaon blasts. Has the ATS got proof of this?
We are not looking at seers or saints in relation to the Malegaon blasts. We are not looking at people from a particular community when we question them. We are just detaining people on the basis of evidence. As for Dayanand Pandey, he has proclaimed himself to be a seer. There are a lot of people going around claiming to be saints.
Was Swami Aseemanand from Dangs involved in other blasts, including the one at Ajmer, as reports suggest?
A reference has been made to his name during the investigations, we cannot divulge much at this stage. These people might not have been seers. Aseemanand could also have taken the garb of a seer.
While presenting its case, the ATS said that there was a possibility of those arrested in the Malegaon blasts case also being involved in the blasts that took place in the Marathwada region in 2006. Is there evidence to prove this? Has the ATS been able to link those arrested to other blasts?
There are agencies that have been looking at the various links, namely the CBI, which has been looking at the Malegaon blasts of 2006. The link we found is that of Rakesh Dhawre. He is a Pune-based counterfeit arms dealer who was involved in the training that took place for the blasts of 2006. He is the common link between the 2006 blasts including the ones in Purna and Parbhani, and the 2008 Malegaon blasts. Investigating agencies are working on it.
There are reports that police officials from other states have been coming to interrogate those arrested by the ATS. Is that true?
Yes, police officials from other states have been coming but that's something which is protocol in such cases. They wanted to know of the modus operandi so that they could figure out if there are similarities to other blasts, in Andhra Pradesh and Chandigarh. What they found out is something only they will be able to tell you.
The ATS made a flip-flop on the links of those arrested with the Samjhauta blasts, which raised questions when it found no mention in the remand copy.
A lot has been made of the Samjhauta Express statement that was made by the public prosecutor in the case. There was a statement made by the witness that Purohit helped in the procurement of RDX. That was a part of the case diary. It cannot be taken as gospel truth. What was wrong was the mention of the same to the media, although we had said that there is no such evidence of the same.
The BJP has targeted the ATS for its investigations. Has there been any political pressure?
We are here to do our job as an investigating agency and bring out the truth. Having said that, it's baseless to say that we are working under political pressure. There is absolutely no pressure on me or my officials. We are doing our best to bring the truth out.
Abhinav Bharat has come out as having played a key role. Is the ATS planning to question Himani Savarkar, its founder member?
We look at individuals and not organisations when we carry out our investigations. We are not looking at Abhinav Bharat, we are looking at the individuals involved. We have not questioned Himani Savarkar so far, and as yet, there is no evidence against her.
There are reports that an ATS team has left for Delhi. Is it true?
No, it's absolutely untrue.
There were also reports that the army was not cooperating with the ATS with regards to information on Col Purohit and his leave records?
I would like to clear this. The army has given cooperation to the ATS right from day one on every aspect of the interrogation. There have been reports that the army has not been cooperating with the ATS and that's absolutely untrue. The army gave us his leave records and other documents, which we needed.
Is the ATS looking at arresting more army officials?
No, we are not looking at arresting or detaining any more army officials in the case.
Most of the accused have alleged that they have been subjected to physical and mental torture.
We are doing our duty as investigating agencies. Such allegations come during the course of investigations. But they are untrue. We cannot do anything about such allegations
Can Purohit and Dayanand Pandey be called the key conspirators in the Malegaon blasts? Is this evident from the narco tests of the accused?
We are yet to get the narco reports. There is evidence against Purohit, but we can't reveal anything at this stage
As the findings of narco tests are not admissible in court, does the ATS have substantial proof to nail the accused in the case?
The ATS has been carrying out investigations. We have enough evidence against the people we have arrested and we will present it in court.
There has been a report that Purohit and Dayanand Pandey had conspired to kill RSS veterans like Mohan Bhagwat and Indreesh. What do you have to say on this? Have those arrested confessed to the same? The name of Delhi-based doctor RP Singh too has cropped up during the course of investigations. Does the ATS have evidence suggesting his involvement?
The name of RP Singh came up during the investigation of Dayanand Pandey. I can't reveal much about it at this stage. As for the assassination of RSS leaders, some references had emerged but they can't be linked to any organisation.
Are more arrests likely to be made by the ATS in the Malegaon blasts? Do you also see the involvement of Hindu organisations like the Bajrang Dal, RSS, and Sanatan Sanstha in various terror acts in the country?
The ATS had filed a chargesheet against the Sanatan Sanstha in a different case, but there is no proof to link organisations as yet with the blasts. We are just looking at individuals.
Does the arrest of seers and armymen in terror acts suggest a trend?
Col Purohit was just an aberration. Just because one man has been arrested it does not mean that the entire army is tainted. Tomorrow, you cannot blame the entire police force just because one officer is arrested.
Have some other names cropped up during the investigations of the accused? Has the name of Nitin Joshi, one of the key members of the Abhinav Bharat, cropped up?
At the moment we are looking for Shyam Apte and Ramji, who have been named in the investigations. They played an important role and are absconding.
WRITER'S EMAIL:
rana@tehelka.com
From Tehelka Magazine, Vol 5, Issue 48, Dated Dec 06, 2008
ஆஷூரா முஹர்ரம் மாத நோன்பு
India: நாளை சனிக்கிழமை 24 , 25 or 25, 26 முஹர்ரம் 9, 10 or 10, 11-இல் நோன்பு வைப்பது சுன்னத்தாகும்
முஹர்ரம் மாதம் அல்லாஹ்வின் மாதம் என எம்பெருமானார் (ஸல்) அவர்களால் புகழ்ந்துரைக் கப்பட்ட சிறப்புமிகு மாதம் ஆகும்.
“ரமலான் நோன்பிற்குப் பிறகு சிறந்த நோன்பு அல்லாஹ்வுடைய மாதமாகிய முஹர்ரத்தின் நோன்பாகும்” என்று நபி (ஸல்) அவர்கள் கூறினார்கள்.அறிவிப்பவர் : அபூ ஹூரைரா (ரலி) நூல்: முஸ்லிம்.
ஆஷூரா(-முஹர்ரம் மாதம் பிறை10)அன்று ஒரு நோன்பு நோற்றால் சென்ற ஒரு வருடத்தின் (சிறு)பாவங்கள் மன்னிக் படும்.
நூல்:முஸ்லிம். ஹதீஸ்1976*அறிவிப்பாளர்:அபுகதாதா(ரலி)அவர்கள்.
(இனி)வரும் வருஷம் நான் இருந்தால் பிறை ஒன்பதிலும் நோன்பு நோற்பேன்.என்று நபி(ஸல் )சொன்னார்கள்
(ஆனால் இருக்க வில்லை இறந்து விட்டார்கள்).
நூல்:முஸ்லிம். ஹதீஸ்1917.அறிவிப்பாளர்:இப்னு அப்பாஸ்(ரலி)அவர்கள்.
ஆஷூரா(முஹர்ரம்10)அன்று நோன்பு நோற்று கொள்ள்ளுங்கள். யஹூதிகளுக்கு மாற்றம் செய்யுங்கள். எனவே ஆஷூராவின் முன்போ/பின்போ ஒரு நாள் சேர்த்து நோன்பு நோற்று கொள்ள்ளுங்கள்.
நூல்:அஹ்மத். ஹதீஸ்2047. அறிவிப்பாளர்:இப்னு அப்பாஸ் (ரலி)அவர்கள்.
முஹர்ரம் மாதம் 9 (தாசுஆ) மற்றும் 10 (ஆஷுரா) ஆகிய இரு தினங்களில் நோற்கப்படும் நோன்புகள் ரமலான் மாத நோன்புகளுக்கு அடுத்தபடியான சிறந்த நோன்புகளாக நபி (ஸல்) அவர்களால் இங்கு அடையாளப் படுத்தப்படுகிறது.
ஆஷூரா நோன்பைப்பற்றி நபி (ஸல்) அவர்களிடம் கேட்கப்பட்டது. (அதற்கு), “சென்றவருடத்தின் பாவங்களுக்கு (அது)பரிகாரமாக அமையும்” என்று கூறினார்கள்.அறிவிப்பவர் : அபூகதாதா(ரலி),நூல்: முஸ்லிம்.
ஒரு வருட பாவங்களுக்குப் பரிகாரமாக விளங்கும் இந்த ஆஷூரா தினம் என்பது முஹர்ரம் மாதத்தின் 10ஆம் நாள் என்பது அனைவரும் அறிந்த விஷயமே
“மூஸா (அலை) அவர்களைப் பெருமைப்படுத்துவதற்கு யூதர்களைவிட நான் அதிகத் தகுதி வாய்ந்தவன்” எனக் கூறி அவ்வருடம் முஹர்ரம் 10 அன்று நோன்பு நோற்ற நபி(ஸல்) அவர்கள், “எதிர்வரும் வருடம் (உயிருடன்) இருந்தால் ஒன்பதாவது நாளும் நோன்பு நோற்பேன்” என்று கூறினார்கள்.அறிவிப்பவர் : இப்னு அப்பாஸ்(ரலி)நூல்: முஸ்லிம்
இதன் அடிப்படையில் முஹர்ரம் மாதத்தின் 9(எவ்ம தாசிஆ) மற்றும் 10(எவ்ம ஆஷுரா) ஆகிய இரு தினங்களில் நோன்பை முஸ்லிம் உலகம் நோற்று வருகின்றது.
இந்த நோன்பு வைப்பதில் மூன்று படித்தரம் உண்டு.
1ம் படித்தரம் மூன்று நாள் நோன்பு.பிறை 9,10,11 அல்லது
2ம் படித்தரம் இரண்டு நாள் நோன்பு பிறை 9 ,10 அல்லது 10,11.
3ம் படித்தரம் ஒரு நோன்பு பத்தாம் நாள் மட்டும்.
சவுதி அரேபியாவில் 23/11/2012 FRIDAY முஹர்ரம் 9 ஆகும்.
இந்தியாவில் 24/11/2012 SATURDAY முஹர்ரம் 9 ஆகும்.
ஹிஜ்ரி 1434, முஹர்ரம் 1-ம் தேதி (15.11.2012) வியாழக்கிழமை ஆகும்.
இன்ஷாஅல்லாஹ் வரும் 23, 24 வெள்ளி, சனிக்கிழமை முஹர்ரம் 9, 10 ஆகும். இந்த இரண்டு தினங்களில் நோன்பு வைப்பது சுன்னத்தாகும். நாம் அனைவரும் இந்த சுன்னத்தைக் கடைபிடித்து அல்லாஹ்வின் நல்லருள் பெறுவோமாக!
India: நாளை சனிக்கிழமை 24 , 25 or 25, 26 முஹர்ரம் 9, 10 or 10, 11-இல் நோன்பு வைப்பது சுன்னத்தாகும்
முஹர்ரம் மாதம் அல்லாஹ்வின் மாதம் என எம்பெருமானார் (ஸல்) அவர்களால் புகழ்ந்துரைக் கப்பட்ட சிறப்புமிகு மாதம் ஆகும்.
“ரமலான் நோன்பிற்குப் பிறகு சிறந்த நோன்பு அல்லாஹ்வுடைய மாதமாகிய முஹர்ரத்தின் நோன்பாகும்” என்று நபி (ஸல்) அவர்கள் கூறினார்கள்.அறிவிப்பவர் : அபூ ஹூரைரா (ரலி) நூல்: முஸ்லிம்.
ஆஷூரா(-முஹர்ரம் மாதம் பிறை10)அன்று ஒரு நோன்பு நோற்றால் சென்ற ஒரு வருடத்தின் (சிறு)பாவங்கள் மன்னிக் படும்.
நூல்:முஸ்லிம். ஹதீஸ்1976*அறிவிப்பாளர்:அபுகதாதா(ரலி)அவர்கள்.
(இனி)வரும் வருஷம் நான் இருந்தால் பிறை ஒன்பதிலும் நோன்பு நோற்பேன்.என்று நபி(ஸல் )சொன்னார்கள்
(ஆனால் இருக்க வில்லை இறந்து விட்டார்கள்).
நூல்:முஸ்லிம். ஹதீஸ்1917.அறிவிப்பாளர்:இப்னு அப்பாஸ்(ரலி)அவர்கள்.
ஆஷூரா(முஹர்ரம்10)அன்று நோன்பு நோற்று கொள்ள்ளுங்கள். யஹூதிகளுக்கு மாற்றம் செய்யுங்கள். எனவே ஆஷூராவின் முன்போ/பின்போ ஒரு நாள் சேர்த்து நோன்பு நோற்று கொள்ள்ளுங்கள்.
நூல்:அஹ்மத். ஹதீஸ்2047. அறிவிப்பாளர்:இப்னு அப்பாஸ் (ரலி)அவர்கள்.
முஹர்ரம் மாதம் 9 (தாசுஆ) மற்றும் 10 (ஆஷுரா) ஆகிய இரு தினங்களில் நோற்கப்படும் நோன்புகள் ரமலான் மாத நோன்புகளுக்கு அடுத்தபடியான சிறந்த நோன்புகளாக நபி (ஸல்) அவர்களால் இங்கு அடையாளப் படுத்தப்படுகிறது.
ஆஷூரா நோன்பைப்பற்றி நபி (ஸல்) அவர்களிடம் கேட்கப்பட்டது. (அதற்கு), “சென்றவருடத்தின் பாவங்களுக்கு (அது)பரிகாரமாக அமையும்” என்று கூறினார்கள்.அறிவிப்பவர் : அபூகதாதா(ரலி),நூல்: முஸ்லிம்.
ஒரு வருட பாவங்களுக்குப் பரிகாரமாக விளங்கும் இந்த ஆஷூரா தினம் என்பது முஹர்ரம் மாதத்தின் 10ஆம் நாள் என்பது அனைவரும் அறிந்த விஷயமே
“மூஸா (அலை) அவர்களைப் பெருமைப்படுத்துவதற்கு யூதர்களைவிட நான் அதிகத் தகுதி வாய்ந்தவன்” எனக் கூறி அவ்வருடம் முஹர்ரம் 10 அன்று நோன்பு நோற்ற நபி(ஸல்) அவர்கள், “எதிர்வரும் வருடம் (உயிருடன்) இருந்தால் ஒன்பதாவது நாளும் நோன்பு நோற்பேன்” என்று கூறினார்கள்.அறிவிப்பவர் : இப்னு அப்பாஸ்(ரலி)நூல்: முஸ்லிம்
இதன் அடிப்படையில் முஹர்ரம் மாதத்தின் 9(எவ்ம தாசிஆ) மற்றும் 10(எவ்ம ஆஷுரா) ஆகிய இரு தினங்களில் நோன்பை முஸ்லிம் உலகம் நோற்று வருகின்றது.
இந்த நோன்பு வைப்பதில் மூன்று படித்தரம் உண்டு.
1ம் படித்தரம் மூன்று நாள் நோன்பு.பிறை 9,10,11 அல்லது
2ம் படித்தரம் இரண்டு நாள் நோன்பு பிறை 9 ,10 அல்லது 10,11.
3ம் படித்தரம் ஒரு நோன்பு பத்தாம் நாள் மட்டும்.
சவுதி அரேபியாவில் 23/11/2012 FRIDAY முஹர்ரம் 9 ஆகும்.
இந்தியாவில் 24/11/2012 SATURDAY முஹர்ரம் 9 ஆகும்.
ஹிஜ்ரி 1434, முஹர்ரம் 1-ம் தேதி (15.11.2012) வியாழக்கிழமை ஆகும்.
இன்ஷாஅல்லாஹ் வரும் 23, 24 வெள்ளி, சனிக்கிழமை முஹர்ரம் 9, 10 ஆகும். இந்த இரண்டு தினங்களில் நோன்பு வைப்பது சுன்னத்தாகும். நாம் அனைவரும் இந்த சுன்னத்தைக் கடைபிடித்து அல்லாஹ்வின் நல்லருள் பெறுவோமாக!
இதுவல்ல நீதி!
By தினமணி
First Published : 22 November 2012 12:47 AM IST
"சட்டத்தின் முன்னால் அனைவரும் சமம்' என்று சொல்வதை விடப் போலித்தனமான ஒன்று இருக்க முடியாது. பணக்காரர்கள், அரசியல் தொடர்புடையவர்கள், அதிகார வர்க்கத்திற்கு நெருக்கமானவர்கள் ஆகியோருக்கெல்லாம் சட்டத்தின் அணுகுமுறையே வித்தியாசமானது. சராசரிக் குடிமகனிடம் தனது கடமையைச் செய்யும் சட்டம், அவர்களுக்குச் சில விதிவிலக்குகளை வழங்குவதை பல உதாரணங்கள் எடுத்துக்காட்டுகின்றன.
கடந்த இருபது நாள்களில் நடந்திருக்கும் இருவேறு நிகழ்வுகள், சட்டம் எப்படி அப்பாவிகளின் மீது மட்டுமே பாய்கிறது அல்லது ஏவி விடப்படுகிறது என்பதையும், அதே சட்டம் அரசியல்வாதிகளையும், உயர் பதவிகளில் இருப்பவர்களையும் நெருங்கவே பயப்படுகிறது என்பதையும் வெளிச்சம் போடுகிறது.
புதுவையில் சிறு தொழில் நடத்தும் ரவி என்பவர் "ஊழலுக்கு எதிரான இந்தியா' அமைப்பைச் சேர்ந்தவர். இவர் இணையதளத்திலுள்ள தனது "ட்விட்டர்' பக்கத்தில், காங்கிரஸ் கட்சியின் தலைவி சோனியா காந்தியின் மருமகன் ராபர்ட் வதேராவைவிடப் பல மடங்கு சொத்து சேர்த்து விட்டிருப்பவர் மத்திய நிதியமைச்சர் ப. சிதம்பரத்தின் மகன் கார்த்தி சிதம்பரம் என்று குறிப்பிட்டிருந்தார். இதுவொன்றும் புதிய குற்றச்சாட்டு அல்ல. கடந்த ஏப்ரல் மாதம் ஜனதாக் கட்சித் தலைவர் சுப்பிரமணியன் சுவாமி சில ஆவணங்களை இணைத்து கார்த்தி சிதம்பரத்திற்கு ஏர்செல் - மாக்சிஸ் முறைகேட்டில் தொடர்பு உண்டு என்பதுவரை குறிப்பிட்டுப் பிரதமருக்கு ஒரு கடிதமே எழுதியிருந்தார்.
சுப்பிரமணியன் சுவாமியின்மீது மானநஷ்ட வழக்குப் போடவோ, அவரைக் கைது செய்யச் சொல்லியோ கேட்க கார்த்தி சிதம்பரத்திற்குத் துணிவு இல்லை. ஆனால் பாவம், ரவி என்பவர் அவரும் நண்பர்களும் மட்டுமே பகிர்ந்துகொள்ளும் ட்விட்டரில் கருத்துத் தெரிவித்தவுடன் கொதித்தெழுந்து, புதுவைக் காவல்துறையிடம் புகார் கொடுக்க அவர்களும் நன்றி விசுவாசத்துடன் ரவியைக் கைது செய்திருக்கிறார்கள். தனி மனிதரைப் பற்றிய அவதூறைப் பரப்பிய குற்றத்துக்காகத் தகவல் தொழில்நுட்பச் சட்டப்பிரிவு "66 ஏ'யின் கீழ் ரவி கைது செய்யப்பட்டு, பிறகு பிணையில் விடுவிக்கப்பட்டிருக்கிறார்.
2008-இல் கொண்டுவரப்பட்ட இந்தச் சட்டப்பிரிவு செல்லுமா செல்லாதா என்பது ஒருபுறம் இருக்கட்டும். ஆனால், இதைத் தொடர அனுமதித்தால் இணையதளத்தில் எதுவுமே பதிவு செய்ய முடியாது, ஒருவருக்கொருவர் கருத்துப் பரிமாற்றம் செய்துகொள்ள முடியாது என்கிற நிலைமையல்லவா ஏற்பட்டுவிடும்? கார்த்தியின் பெற்றோர்கள் இருவரும் சட்டம் படித்தவர்களாக இருந்தும், குறைந்தபட்சம் சம்பந்தப்பட்டவருக்கு இது தொடர்பாக ஏன் வழக்குத் தொடரக்கூடாது என்று கேட்டுத் தாக்கீது அனுப்பப்பட்டிருக்க வேண்டாமா? ஆட்சியும் அதிகாரமும் கையிலிருக்கும் தைரியத்தில், காவல்துறையைத் தனது கைப்பாவையாக்கி ஓர் அப்பாவிக் குடிமகனைக் கைது செய்வது என்ன நியாயம்? சட்டம் அனைவருக்கும் சமமாகவா இருக்கிறது?
மும்பையில் சிவசேனைத் தலைவர் பால் தாக்கரே இறந்தது தொடர்பாக உச்ச நீதிமன்ற முன்னாள் நீதிபதியும், இந்தியப் பிரஸ் கௌன்சில் தலைவருமான மார்க்கண்டேய கட்ஜு தனது சமூக வலைதளத்தில் ஒரு கருத்தைப் பதிவு செய்திருக்கிறார். "நான் ஏன் தாக்கரேவுக்கு இரங்கல் தெரிவிக்கவில்லை?' என்கிற தலைப்பிலான அந்தக் கருத்துப் பதிவில், பால் தாக்கரே முன்வைத்த "மண்ணின் மைந்தர் கொள்கை' அரசியல் சட்டத்துக்கும், தேச ஒற்றுமைக்கும் எதிரானது என்கிறார் அவர்.
அதே பிரச்னையில் ஷஹீன்ததா என்கிற 21 வயதுப் பெண், "பால் தாக்கரேயின் மரணத்துக்காக மும்பை ஸ்தம்பித்ததன் காரணம் அச்சமே தவிர அவர்மீதான மரியாதை அல்ல. இந்த நிலை நம் மீதான திணிப்பு, நமது தேர்வு அல்ல என்பதை அவர்கள் அறிந்துகொள்ள வேண்டும்' என்று தனது முகநூலில் கருத்து வெளியிடுகிறார். தனக்கும் அந்தக் கருத்தில் உடன்பாடு உண்டு என்று ரேணு சீனிவாசன் என்கிற பெண் ஆமோதித்துப் பதிவு செய்கிறார்.
சட்டப்பிரிவு 505(2)ன் கீழ் இரு தரப்பினருக்கிடையே பகையையும் வெறுப்பையும் வளர்க்கும் விதத்தில் கருத்துத் தெரிவிக்கப்பட்டதாகக் கூறி மும்பை காவல்துறை ஷஹீன்ததாவையும், ரேணு சீனிவாசனையும் கைது செய்கிறது. இந்தக் கைது விவகாரம் விமர்சனத்துக்கு உள்ளானதால் அவர்கள் ரூ. 15,000 செலுத்திப் பிணையில் செல்ல அனுமதிக்கப்படுகிறார்கள்.
இவர்கள்மீது பாய்ந்த சட்டப் பிரிவு 505(2) ஏன் நீதிபதி மார்கண்டேய கட்ஜு மீது பாயவில்லை? இவர்கள் அப்பாவிகள் அதனால்தான் சட்டம் பாய்கிறது.
அன்றாடம் அரசியல் மேடைகளில் மிகவும் தரக்குறைவாகப் பேசும் அத்தனை பேச்சாளர்கள் மீதும் இந்தச் சட்டம் பாய வேண்டுமே, ஏன் இல்லை? தென்னிந்தியர்கள் மும்பையிலிருந்து வெளியேற வேண்டும் என்று பால் தாக்கரே பேசியபோதும், பிகாரிகளை வெளியேற்ற வேண்டும் என்று அவரது சகோதரர் மகன் ராஜ் தாக்கரே பேசியபோதும் பாயவில்லையே ஏன்? அப்பாவிகளாக இருந்தால் ஒன்றுமில்லாத விஷயத்தைக்கூடக் குற்றமாக்கி சட்டம் தனது கடமையைச் செய்யும், அப்படித்தானே?
தகவல் தொழில்நுட்பச் சட்டப்பிரிவு 66 ஏ ஆனாலும், சட்டப்பிரிவு 505(2) ஆனாலும், அவை அரசியல் சட்ட அடிப்படை உரிமையான 19(1)(எ)வுக்கு மேலானதாக இருக்க முடியாது. ஒரு தனிமனிதனின் பேச்சுரிமையையும், கருத்து உரிமையையும் கட்டுப்படுத்த எந்தச் சட்டத்தாலும் முடியாது என்பதால்தான் அதற்கு அடிப்படை உரிமை அந்தஸ்து வழங்கப்பட்டிருக்கிறது.
மனத்தில் பட்டதைத் துணிந்து சொல்லும் உரிமைக்குப் பெயர்தான் சுதந்திரம். அதைத்தான் ரவியும், ஷஹீன்ததாவும், ரேணு சீனிவாசனும் செய்தார்கள். சுப்பிரமணியன் சுவாமியும், நீதிபதி மார்கண்டேய கட்ஜு-வும் செய்தார்கள். அவர்கள் எல்லோருமே பாராட்டுக்குரியவர்கள்தான், அவரவர் பாதையில்! ஆனால், சட்டம் ஏன் சமமாக இல்லை என்பதுதான் வேதனையளிக்கிறது.
நீதியை நிலைநாட்டுவதற்காக வகுக்கப்பட்ட சட்டம் அநீதிக்குத் துணை போகிறதே, அதுவும் வேதனையளிக்கிறது!
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ALAVUDEEN
By தினமணி
First Published : 22 November 2012 12:47 AM IST
"சட்டத்தின் முன்னால் அனைவரும் சமம்' என்று சொல்வதை விடப் போலித்தனமான ஒன்று இருக்க முடியாது. பணக்காரர்கள், அரசியல் தொடர்புடையவர்கள், அதிகார வர்க்கத்திற்கு நெருக்கமானவர்கள் ஆகியோருக்கெல்லாம் சட்டத்தின் அணுகுமுறையே வித்தியாசமானது. சராசரிக் குடிமகனிடம் தனது கடமையைச் செய்யும் சட்டம், அவர்களுக்குச் சில விதிவிலக்குகளை வழங்குவதை பல உதாரணங்கள் எடுத்துக்காட்டுகின்றன.
கடந்த இருபது நாள்களில் நடந்திருக்கும் இருவேறு நிகழ்வுகள், சட்டம் எப்படி அப்பாவிகளின் மீது மட்டுமே பாய்கிறது அல்லது ஏவி விடப்படுகிறது என்பதையும், அதே சட்டம் அரசியல்வாதிகளையும், உயர் பதவிகளில் இருப்பவர்களையும் நெருங்கவே பயப்படுகிறது என்பதையும் வெளிச்சம் போடுகிறது.
புதுவையில் சிறு தொழில் நடத்தும் ரவி என்பவர் "ஊழலுக்கு எதிரான இந்தியா' அமைப்பைச் சேர்ந்தவர். இவர் இணையதளத்திலுள்ள தனது "ட்விட்டர்' பக்கத்தில், காங்கிரஸ் கட்சியின் தலைவி சோனியா காந்தியின் மருமகன் ராபர்ட் வதேராவைவிடப் பல மடங்கு சொத்து சேர்த்து விட்டிருப்பவர் மத்திய நிதியமைச்சர் ப. சிதம்பரத்தின் மகன் கார்த்தி சிதம்பரம் என்று குறிப்பிட்டிருந்தார். இதுவொன்றும் புதிய குற்றச்சாட்டு அல்ல. கடந்த ஏப்ரல் மாதம் ஜனதாக் கட்சித் தலைவர் சுப்பிரமணியன் சுவாமி சில ஆவணங்களை இணைத்து கார்த்தி சிதம்பரத்திற்கு ஏர்செல் - மாக்சிஸ் முறைகேட்டில் தொடர்பு உண்டு என்பதுவரை குறிப்பிட்டுப் பிரதமருக்கு ஒரு கடிதமே எழுதியிருந்தார்.
சுப்பிரமணியன் சுவாமியின்மீது மானநஷ்ட வழக்குப் போடவோ, அவரைக் கைது செய்யச் சொல்லியோ கேட்க கார்த்தி சிதம்பரத்திற்குத் துணிவு இல்லை. ஆனால் பாவம், ரவி என்பவர் அவரும் நண்பர்களும் மட்டுமே பகிர்ந்துகொள்ளும் ட்விட்டரில் கருத்துத் தெரிவித்தவுடன் கொதித்தெழுந்து, புதுவைக் காவல்துறையிடம் புகார் கொடுக்க அவர்களும் நன்றி விசுவாசத்துடன் ரவியைக் கைது செய்திருக்கிறார்கள். தனி மனிதரைப் பற்றிய அவதூறைப் பரப்பிய குற்றத்துக்காகத் தகவல் தொழில்நுட்பச் சட்டப்பிரிவு "66 ஏ'யின் கீழ் ரவி கைது செய்யப்பட்டு, பிறகு பிணையில் விடுவிக்கப்பட்டிருக்கிறார்.
2008-இல் கொண்டுவரப்பட்ட இந்தச் சட்டப்பிரிவு செல்லுமா செல்லாதா என்பது ஒருபுறம் இருக்கட்டும். ஆனால், இதைத் தொடர அனுமதித்தால் இணையதளத்தில் எதுவுமே பதிவு செய்ய முடியாது, ஒருவருக்கொருவர் கருத்துப் பரிமாற்றம் செய்துகொள்ள முடியாது என்கிற நிலைமையல்லவா ஏற்பட்டுவிடும்? கார்த்தியின் பெற்றோர்கள் இருவரும் சட்டம் படித்தவர்களாக இருந்தும், குறைந்தபட்சம் சம்பந்தப்பட்டவருக்கு இது தொடர்பாக ஏன் வழக்குத் தொடரக்கூடாது என்று கேட்டுத் தாக்கீது அனுப்பப்பட்டிருக்க வேண்டாமா? ஆட்சியும் அதிகாரமும் கையிலிருக்கும் தைரியத்தில், காவல்துறையைத் தனது கைப்பாவையாக்கி ஓர் அப்பாவிக் குடிமகனைக் கைது செய்வது என்ன நியாயம்? சட்டம் அனைவருக்கும் சமமாகவா இருக்கிறது?
மும்பையில் சிவசேனைத் தலைவர் பால் தாக்கரே இறந்தது தொடர்பாக உச்ச நீதிமன்ற முன்னாள் நீதிபதியும், இந்தியப் பிரஸ் கௌன்சில் தலைவருமான மார்க்கண்டேய கட்ஜு தனது சமூக வலைதளத்தில் ஒரு கருத்தைப் பதிவு செய்திருக்கிறார். "நான் ஏன் தாக்கரேவுக்கு இரங்கல் தெரிவிக்கவில்லை?' என்கிற தலைப்பிலான அந்தக் கருத்துப் பதிவில், பால் தாக்கரே முன்வைத்த "மண்ணின் மைந்தர் கொள்கை' அரசியல் சட்டத்துக்கும், தேச ஒற்றுமைக்கும் எதிரானது என்கிறார் அவர்.
அதே பிரச்னையில் ஷஹீன்ததா என்கிற 21 வயதுப் பெண், "பால் தாக்கரேயின் மரணத்துக்காக மும்பை ஸ்தம்பித்ததன் காரணம் அச்சமே தவிர அவர்மீதான மரியாதை அல்ல. இந்த நிலை நம் மீதான திணிப்பு, நமது தேர்வு அல்ல என்பதை அவர்கள் அறிந்துகொள்ள வேண்டும்' என்று தனது முகநூலில் கருத்து வெளியிடுகிறார். தனக்கும் அந்தக் கருத்தில் உடன்பாடு உண்டு என்று ரேணு சீனிவாசன் என்கிற பெண் ஆமோதித்துப் பதிவு செய்கிறார்.
சட்டப்பிரிவு 505(2)ன் கீழ் இரு தரப்பினருக்கிடையே பகையையும் வெறுப்பையும் வளர்க்கும் விதத்தில் கருத்துத் தெரிவிக்கப்பட்டதாகக் கூறி மும்பை காவல்துறை ஷஹீன்ததாவையும், ரேணு சீனிவாசனையும் கைது செய்கிறது. இந்தக் கைது விவகாரம் விமர்சனத்துக்கு உள்ளானதால் அவர்கள் ரூ. 15,000 செலுத்திப் பிணையில் செல்ல அனுமதிக்கப்படுகிறார்கள்.
இவர்கள்மீது பாய்ந்த சட்டப் பிரிவு 505(2) ஏன் நீதிபதி மார்கண்டேய கட்ஜு மீது பாயவில்லை? இவர்கள் அப்பாவிகள் அதனால்தான் சட்டம் பாய்கிறது.
அன்றாடம் அரசியல் மேடைகளில் மிகவும் தரக்குறைவாகப் பேசும் அத்தனை பேச்சாளர்கள் மீதும் இந்தச் சட்டம் பாய வேண்டுமே, ஏன் இல்லை? தென்னிந்தியர்கள் மும்பையிலிருந்து வெளியேற வேண்டும் என்று பால் தாக்கரே பேசியபோதும், பிகாரிகளை வெளியேற்ற வேண்டும் என்று அவரது சகோதரர் மகன் ராஜ் தாக்கரே பேசியபோதும் பாயவில்லையே ஏன்? அப்பாவிகளாக இருந்தால் ஒன்றுமில்லாத விஷயத்தைக்கூடக் குற்றமாக்கி சட்டம் தனது கடமையைச் செய்யும், அப்படித்தானே?
தகவல் தொழில்நுட்பச் சட்டப்பிரிவு 66 ஏ ஆனாலும், சட்டப்பிரிவு 505(2) ஆனாலும், அவை அரசியல் சட்ட அடிப்படை உரிமையான 19(1)(எ)வுக்கு மேலானதாக இருக்க முடியாது. ஒரு தனிமனிதனின் பேச்சுரிமையையும், கருத்து உரிமையையும் கட்டுப்படுத்த எந்தச் சட்டத்தாலும் முடியாது என்பதால்தான் அதற்கு அடிப்படை உரிமை அந்தஸ்து வழங்கப்பட்டிருக்கிறது.
மனத்தில் பட்டதைத் துணிந்து சொல்லும் உரிமைக்குப் பெயர்தான் சுதந்திரம். அதைத்தான் ரவியும், ஷஹீன்ததாவும், ரேணு சீனிவாசனும் செய்தார்கள். சுப்பிரமணியன் சுவாமியும், நீதிபதி மார்கண்டேய கட்ஜு-வும் செய்தார்கள். அவர்கள் எல்லோருமே பாராட்டுக்குரியவர்கள்தான், அவரவர் பாதையில்! ஆனால், சட்டம் ஏன் சமமாக இல்லை என்பதுதான் வேதனையளிக்கிறது.
நீதியை நிலைநாட்டுவதற்காக வகுக்கப்பட்ட சட்டம் அநீதிக்குத் துணை போகிறதே, அதுவும் வேதனையளிக்கிறது!
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ALAVUDEEN
Thursday, November 22, 2012
பெங்களூரில் or Anywhere
ஆட்டோவில் தனியாக செல்பவரா?
பெங்களூர்: ஆட்டோவில் தனியாக செல்பவர்கள் அதிலும் அதிகாலை, இரவு நேரங்களில் செல்பவர்கள் மிகவும் கவனமாக இருக்க வேண்டும். இல்லையென்றால் பணம், உடைமைகள் போன்றவற்றை இழக்க நேரலாம்.
ஆட்டோவில் தனியாக செல்பவர்களிடம் ஓட்டுநரே கொள்ளையடிக்கும் சம்பவங்கள் அதிகரித்து வருகின்றன. கடந்த சனிக்கிழமை அன்று தமிழகத்தில் இருந்து பெங்களூருக்கு அதிகாலை 4 மணிக்கு வந்த ஒருவர் தான் தங்கும் இடத்திற்கு ஒரு ஆட்டோவில் சென்றுள்ளார். அந்த நபர் ஆட்டோக்காரருக்கு கொடுக்க தனது பர்சில் இருந்து பணத்தை எடுத்துள்ளார். அவரது பர்சில் கத்தையாக நோட்டுகள் இருப்பதைக் கவனித்த ஆட்டோ ஓட்டுநர் உடனே தனது நண்பரை போன் செய்து வரவழைத்தார். இருவருமாகச் சேர்ந்த அந்த பயணியைத் தாக்கி அவரிடம் இருந்த பணத்தைப் பறித்துக் கொண்டு ஓடிவிட்டனர்.
அதனால் ஆட்டோவில் தனியாக செல்பவர்கள் தங்கள் பணம் மற்றும் உடைமைகளைக் காக்கச் செய்ய வேண்டியவை வருமாறு,
ஆட்டோவில் அமர்ந்துகொண்டு பர்ஸை வெளியே எடுத்து பணத்தை எண்ணக் கூடாது.
ஆட்டோவில் ஏறும் முன்பே கட்டணம் செலுத்த ஒரு குறிப்பிட்ட தொகையை எடுத்து தனியாக பாக்கெட்டில் வைத்துக் கொள்ளவும்.
அதிகாலை, நள்ளிரவு போன்ற நேரம் கெட்ட நேரங்களில் முடிந்தவரை ஆட்டோவில் தனியாக செல்ல வேண்டாம்.
ஆட்டோவில் இருந்து இறங்கும்போது உங்கள் பொருட்களை நியாபமாக எடுத்துக் கொண்டு செல்லவும்.
ஆட்டோ மீட்டரில் தவறு இருந்தால் அதை உடனே ஓட்டுநரிடம் கூறுங்கள். என் மீட்டர் நல்ல மீட்டர் தான் அது காட்டும் பணத்தை கொடுக்க வேண்டும் என்று அவர் தெரிவித்தால் உடனே ஆட்டோவை நிறுத்தி இறங்கிவிடவும்.
ஊருக்கு வெளியே மற்றும் ஆள்நடமாட்டம் குறைவான பகுதிகளுக்கு செல்ல வேண்டுமானால் முடிந்த வரை தனியாக ஆட்டோவில் செல்ல வேண்டாம். ஆள்நடமாட்டம் குறைவான இடத்தில் பயணிகளைத் தாக்கி ஆட்டோ ஓட்டுநர்கள் பணம், நகையைப் பறித்த சம்பவங்கள் ஏராளம்.
ஆட்டோவில் உட்கார்ந்து கொண்டு பண விஷயங்கள் பற்றி பேச வேண்டாம்.
அதே சமயம் விலை உயர்ந்த பொருட்களை மறந்து சென்றாலும் அதை உரிமையாளரிடம் ஒப்படைத்த ஆட்டோ ஓட்டுநர்களும் உள்ளனர் என்பது குறிப்பிடத்தக்கது.
--
with peace,
Shahjahan bin Mohamed Umer
md.shahjahan2001@gmail.com
+91 81972 81300
Banglore
"Help People"
இரு மனிதர்களுக்கிடையில் நியாயமாக நடந்து கொள்வது ஒரு தர்மமாகும்.
வாகனத்தின் மீது ஏறுகின்ற ஒருவரை அதன் மீது ஏற்றி விடுவது ஒரு தர்மமாகும்.
அதுபோலவே அதன் மீது அவருடைய சுமைகளை ஏற்றி விடுவதும் ஒரு தர்மமாகும்.
ஒரு நல்ல வார்த்தை பேசுவதும் ஒரு தர்மமாகும்.
தொழுகைக்காக நீங்கள் எடுத்து வைக்கும் ஒவ்வொரு அடியும் ஒரு தர்மமாகும்.
ஊறு விளைவிக்கக் கூடிய பொருளொன்றை நடைபாதையிலிருந்து அப்புறப்படுத்துவதும் ஒரு தர்மமாகும்.
- நபி (ஸல்) , நூற்கள்: புகாரி,
Don't forget to Do Exercise daily 30 min for healthy life
நல்ல தகவல்களை நாலு பேருடன் பகிருங்கள் நண்பர்களே...
தெரியாததை தெரிந்து கொள்வோம் தெரிந்ததை பகிர்ந்து கொள்வோம்
ஆட்டோவில் தனியாக செல்பவரா?
பெங்களூர்: ஆட்டோவில் தனியாக செல்பவர்கள் அதிலும் அதிகாலை, இரவு நேரங்களில் செல்பவர்கள் மிகவும் கவனமாக இருக்க வேண்டும். இல்லையென்றால் பணம், உடைமைகள் போன்றவற்றை இழக்க நேரலாம்.
ஆட்டோவில் தனியாக செல்பவர்களிடம் ஓட்டுநரே கொள்ளையடிக்கும் சம்பவங்கள் அதிகரித்து வருகின்றன. கடந்த சனிக்கிழமை அன்று தமிழகத்தில் இருந்து பெங்களூருக்கு அதிகாலை 4 மணிக்கு வந்த ஒருவர் தான் தங்கும் இடத்திற்கு ஒரு ஆட்டோவில் சென்றுள்ளார். அந்த நபர் ஆட்டோக்காரருக்கு கொடுக்க தனது பர்சில் இருந்து பணத்தை எடுத்துள்ளார். அவரது பர்சில் கத்தையாக நோட்டுகள் இருப்பதைக் கவனித்த ஆட்டோ ஓட்டுநர் உடனே தனது நண்பரை போன் செய்து வரவழைத்தார். இருவருமாகச் சேர்ந்த அந்த பயணியைத் தாக்கி அவரிடம் இருந்த பணத்தைப் பறித்துக் கொண்டு ஓடிவிட்டனர்.
அதனால் ஆட்டோவில் தனியாக செல்பவர்கள் தங்கள் பணம் மற்றும் உடைமைகளைக் காக்கச் செய்ய வேண்டியவை வருமாறு,
ஆட்டோவில் அமர்ந்துகொண்டு பர்ஸை வெளியே எடுத்து பணத்தை எண்ணக் கூடாது.
ஆட்டோவில் ஏறும் முன்பே கட்டணம் செலுத்த ஒரு குறிப்பிட்ட தொகையை எடுத்து தனியாக பாக்கெட்டில் வைத்துக் கொள்ளவும்.
அதிகாலை, நள்ளிரவு போன்ற நேரம் கெட்ட நேரங்களில் முடிந்தவரை ஆட்டோவில் தனியாக செல்ல வேண்டாம்.
ஆட்டோவில் இருந்து இறங்கும்போது உங்கள் பொருட்களை நியாபமாக எடுத்துக் கொண்டு செல்லவும்.
ஆட்டோ மீட்டரில் தவறு இருந்தால் அதை உடனே ஓட்டுநரிடம் கூறுங்கள். என் மீட்டர் நல்ல மீட்டர் தான் அது காட்டும் பணத்தை கொடுக்க வேண்டும் என்று அவர் தெரிவித்தால் உடனே ஆட்டோவை நிறுத்தி இறங்கிவிடவும்.
ஊருக்கு வெளியே மற்றும் ஆள்நடமாட்டம் குறைவான பகுதிகளுக்கு செல்ல வேண்டுமானால் முடிந்த வரை தனியாக ஆட்டோவில் செல்ல வேண்டாம். ஆள்நடமாட்டம் குறைவான இடத்தில் பயணிகளைத் தாக்கி ஆட்டோ ஓட்டுநர்கள் பணம், நகையைப் பறித்த சம்பவங்கள் ஏராளம்.
ஆட்டோவில் உட்கார்ந்து கொண்டு பண விஷயங்கள் பற்றி பேச வேண்டாம்.
அதே சமயம் விலை உயர்ந்த பொருட்களை மறந்து சென்றாலும் அதை உரிமையாளரிடம் ஒப்படைத்த ஆட்டோ ஓட்டுநர்களும் உள்ளனர் என்பது குறிப்பிடத்தக்கது.
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with peace,
Shahjahan bin Mohamed Umer
md.shahjahan2001@gmail.com
+91 81972 81300
Banglore
"Help People"
இரு மனிதர்களுக்கிடையில் நியாயமாக நடந்து கொள்வது ஒரு தர்மமாகும்.
வாகனத்தின் மீது ஏறுகின்ற ஒருவரை அதன் மீது ஏற்றி விடுவது ஒரு தர்மமாகும்.
அதுபோலவே அதன் மீது அவருடைய சுமைகளை ஏற்றி விடுவதும் ஒரு தர்மமாகும்.
ஒரு நல்ல வார்த்தை பேசுவதும் ஒரு தர்மமாகும்.
தொழுகைக்காக நீங்கள் எடுத்து வைக்கும் ஒவ்வொரு அடியும் ஒரு தர்மமாகும்.
ஊறு விளைவிக்கக் கூடிய பொருளொன்றை நடைபாதையிலிருந்து அப்புறப்படுத்துவதும் ஒரு தர்மமாகும்.
- நபி (ஸல்) , நூற்கள்: புகாரி,
Don't forget to Do Exercise daily 30 min for healthy life
நல்ல தகவல்களை நாலு பேருடன் பகிருங்கள் நண்பர்களே...
தெரியாததை தெரிந்து கொள்வோம் தெரிந்ததை பகிர்ந்து கொள்வோம்
Wednesday, November 21, 2012
DearStudents,
Ihope that you are in increasing state of Eemaan and goodhealth, inshaAllah
Nowyou can attend the LIVE! streaming of Dr. BilalPhilip’s lectures from Abu HurairaCenter(www.abuhuraira.org)
First every Friday is the live streaming ofthe class on the commentary (Tafseer) on “The Greatest Verse of theQur’aan—Aayatul Kursee 2:255) from 7:30-9PM (1930-2100 hrs) Toronto, Canada time.
Then on Sunday evenings is the live streamingof a DOUBLE CLASS on da’wah. It is a commentary onShaykh Al-Uthaymeen’s Da’wah classic: “The IslamicAwakening”. It is from 6-9 PM (1800-2100 hrs)Toronto, Canada time.
Finally, on Wednesday evenings is the livestreaming of a DOUBLE CLASS on the morals and manners forlearning knowledge in Islam—a commentary on ShaykhUthaymeen’s commentary on Shaykh Bakr Abu Zayd’sStudent Classic: “The Etiquette of SeekingKnowledge”. This is from 6-9 PM (1800-2100 hrs)Toronto, Canada time.
JoinDr. Bilal as he explains about these important topics andenhance your knowledge.
Kindly forward this email so more people canbenefit inshaAllah
Jazakumullah khair
Wassalam o aliakum
Ihope that you are in increasing state of Eemaan and goodhealth, inshaAllah
Nowyou can attend the LIVE! streaming of Dr. BilalPhilip’s lectures from Abu HurairaCenter(www.abuhuraira.org)
First every Friday is the live streaming ofthe class on the commentary (Tafseer) on “The Greatest Verse of theQur’aan—Aayatul Kursee 2:255) from 7:30-9PM (1930-2100 hrs) Toronto, Canada time.
Then on Sunday evenings is the live streamingof a DOUBLE CLASS on da’wah. It is a commentary onShaykh Al-Uthaymeen’s Da’wah classic: “The IslamicAwakening”. It is from 6-9 PM (1800-2100 hrs)Toronto, Canada time.
Finally, on Wednesday evenings is the livestreaming of a DOUBLE CLASS on the morals and manners forlearning knowledge in Islam—a commentary on ShaykhUthaymeen’s commentary on Shaykh Bakr Abu Zayd’sStudent Classic: “The Etiquette of SeekingKnowledge”. This is from 6-9 PM (1800-2100 hrs)Toronto, Canada time.
JoinDr. Bilal as he explains about these important topics andenhance your knowledge.
Kindly forward this email so more people canbenefit inshaAllah
Jazakumullah khair
Wassalam o aliakum
Tuesday, November 20, 2012
Press Statement
Joint statement of Indian Muslim organizations on Gaza
The Milli Gazette
New Delhi, 20 November 2012: With all the force at our command, we condemn the Israeli aggression against the people of Gaza Strip since 14 November and we laud and commend the brave resistance by the people of Gaza Strip and their defenders. We note that Israel is a habitual breaker of truce whenever it suits it. Even in the latest episode, the fighting started with the treacherous Israeli assassination of the Hamas leader Ahmad Jabri who at the time was actively working on a long-term truce with Israel and had just received a draft agreement of the same hours before he was brutally murdered by the Israeli aircraft alongwith his bodyguard.
We believe that Israel has not learned the lessons of its past crimes and has not learnt that the world around it his drastically changed during these past two years. It can no longer attack its hapless victims with impunity. Instead, it will now have to pay a price for every such aggression.
We appeal to the Arab and Muslim World to come forward to help the people of Gaza in all possible ways including help to resist the aggression. We also appeal to our own government here in India to come out of its cocoon and, being a moral leader of the Third World and Non-Aligned Movement, raise a strong voice against the Israeli aggression and bullying in the Middle East and urge it forcefully to give Palestinians their rights, withdraw from their occupied lands and arrive at a peace acceptable to its victims.
We take this opportunity to declare our full and unconditional support to our Palestinian brothers and sisters, and laud their brave resistance against the aggression of the Israeli oppressors.
Dr. Zafarul-Islam Khan, President, All India Muslim Majlis-e Mushawarat
Mujtaba Farooq, Convenor, Coordination Committee of Indian Muslims
Muhammad Ahmad, Political Secretary, Jamaat-e Islami Hind
Maulana Abdul Wahab Khilji, President, Islahi Movement of India
Dr Syed Qasim Rasool Ilyas, Member, Working Committee, Muslim Personal Law Board
Dr Taslim Rahmani, President, Muslim Political Council of India
Prof. M.H. Jawahirullah, MLA, Manithaneya Makkal Katchi
Lateef Mohd. Khan, Gen Secretary, Civil Liberties Monitoring Committee, Hyderabad
Released by:
ALL INDIA MUSLIM MAJLIS-E- MUSHAWARAT
[Umbrella body of Indian Muslim organisations]
D-250, Abul Fazal Enclave, Jamia Nagar, New Delhi-110025
Tel.: 011-26946780 Fax: 011-26947346 Email: mushawarat[@]mushawarat.com
[End]
Joint statement of Indian Muslim organizations on Gaza
The Milli Gazette
New Delhi, 20 November 2012: With all the force at our command, we condemn the Israeli aggression against the people of Gaza Strip since 14 November and we laud and commend the brave resistance by the people of Gaza Strip and their defenders. We note that Israel is a habitual breaker of truce whenever it suits it. Even in the latest episode, the fighting started with the treacherous Israeli assassination of the Hamas leader Ahmad Jabri who at the time was actively working on a long-term truce with Israel and had just received a draft agreement of the same hours before he was brutally murdered by the Israeli aircraft alongwith his bodyguard.
We believe that Israel has not learned the lessons of its past crimes and has not learnt that the world around it his drastically changed during these past two years. It can no longer attack its hapless victims with impunity. Instead, it will now have to pay a price for every such aggression.
We appeal to the Arab and Muslim World to come forward to help the people of Gaza in all possible ways including help to resist the aggression. We also appeal to our own government here in India to come out of its cocoon and, being a moral leader of the Third World and Non-Aligned Movement, raise a strong voice against the Israeli aggression and bullying in the Middle East and urge it forcefully to give Palestinians their rights, withdraw from their occupied lands and arrive at a peace acceptable to its victims.
We take this opportunity to declare our full and unconditional support to our Palestinian brothers and sisters, and laud their brave resistance against the aggression of the Israeli oppressors.
Dr. Zafarul-Islam Khan, President, All India Muslim Majlis-e Mushawarat
Mujtaba Farooq, Convenor, Coordination Committee of Indian Muslims
Muhammad Ahmad, Political Secretary, Jamaat-e Islami Hind
Maulana Abdul Wahab Khilji, President, Islahi Movement of India
Dr Syed Qasim Rasool Ilyas, Member, Working Committee, Muslim Personal Law Board
Dr Taslim Rahmani, President, Muslim Political Council of India
Prof. M.H. Jawahirullah, MLA, Manithaneya Makkal Katchi
Lateef Mohd. Khan, Gen Secretary, Civil Liberties Monitoring Committee, Hyderabad
Released by:
ALL INDIA MUSLIM MAJLIS-E- MUSHAWARAT
[Umbrella body of Indian Muslim organisations]
D-250, Abul Fazal Enclave, Jamia Nagar, New Delhi-110025
Tel.: 011-26946780 Fax: 011-26947346 Email: mushawarat[@]mushawarat.com
[End]
Samosa Seller!!!
Today in India it’s unbelievable .......the numbers are a little difficult
to swallow,... but interesting nevertheless.
It was my regular train journey home from work. I boarded the 18:50 pm
train at from Paranur. When the train was about to leave Guduvanchery,
a samosa vendor with an empty basket got on and took the seat next to me. As
the compartment was sparsely occupied and my destination was still far away,
I got into a conversation with him.
Me: "Seems like you've sold all your samosas today."
Vendor (smiling): "Yes. By God's grace, full sales today."
Me: "I really feel sorry for you people. Don't you get tired doing this
tiresome job the whole day?"
Vendor: "What to do, sir? Only by selling samosas like this every day do we
get a commission of .75 paise for each samosa that we sell."
Me: "Oh, is that so ? How many samosas do you sell on an average each day?"
Vendor: "On peak days, we sell 3,000 to 3,500 samosas per person. On dull
days, we can't even move 1,000 samosas a day. On an average, we sell about 2
000 samosas a day."
I was speechless.....for a few seconds. The guy says he sells 2,000 samosas
a day; at .75 paise each, he makes about 1,500 rupees daily, or 45,000
rupees a month. That's Rs. 45,000 a month. OMG. I intensified my questioning
and this time it was not for time pass.
Me: "Do you make the samosas yourself?"
Vendor: "No Sir. Our proprietor gets the samosas through a samosa
manufacturer and we just sell them. After selling we give him the money and
gives us 75 paise for each samosa that we sell."
I was unable to speak a single word more but the vendor continued...but one
thing...most of our earnings are spent on living expenses. Only with the
remaining money are we able to take care of other business.
Me: "Other business? What is that?"
Vendor: "It is a land business. In 2007 I bought 1.5 acres in Urupakkam
for 3 lakh rupees and I sold it a few months back for 15 lakhs. Now I have
bought land in Uthiramerur for 5 lakh rupees."
Me: "What did you do with the remaining amount?"
Vendor: "Of the remaining amount, I have set aside 6 lakhs for my
daughter's wedding. I have deposited the other 4 lakhs in the bank."
Me: "How much schooling have you had?"
Vendor: "I studied up to third standard; I stopped my studies when I was
in the 4th standard. But I know how to read and write. Sir, there are many
people like yourself, who dress well, wear a tie, wear shoes, speak
English fluently and work in air-conditioned rooms. But I don't think
you guys earn as much as we do wearing dirty clothes and selling samosas."
At this point, what could I reply. After all, I was talking to a
millionaire! The train chugged into Chromepet station and the samosa vendor
got up from his seat.
Vendor: "Sir, this is my station...have a good day."
Me: "Take care."
What more is there to say...!!!!
Today in India it’s unbelievable .......the numbers are a little difficult
to swallow,... but interesting nevertheless.
It was my regular train journey home from work. I boarded the 18:50 pm
train at from Paranur. When the train was about to leave Guduvanchery,
a samosa vendor with an empty basket got on and took the seat next to me. As
the compartment was sparsely occupied and my destination was still far away,
I got into a conversation with him.
Me: "Seems like you've sold all your samosas today."
Vendor (smiling): "Yes. By God's grace, full sales today."
Me: "I really feel sorry for you people. Don't you get tired doing this
tiresome job the whole day?"
Vendor: "What to do, sir? Only by selling samosas like this every day do we
get a commission of .75 paise for each samosa that we sell."
Me: "Oh, is that so ? How many samosas do you sell on an average each day?"
Vendor: "On peak days, we sell 3,000 to 3,500 samosas per person. On dull
days, we can't even move 1,000 samosas a day. On an average, we sell about 2
000 samosas a day."
I was speechless.....for a few seconds. The guy says he sells 2,000 samosas
a day; at .75 paise each, he makes about 1,500 rupees daily, or 45,000
rupees a month. That's Rs. 45,000 a month. OMG. I intensified my questioning
and this time it was not for time pass.
Me: "Do you make the samosas yourself?"
Vendor: "No Sir. Our proprietor gets the samosas through a samosa
manufacturer and we just sell them. After selling we give him the money and
gives us 75 paise for each samosa that we sell."
I was unable to speak a single word more but the vendor continued...but one
thing...most of our earnings are spent on living expenses. Only with the
remaining money are we able to take care of other business.
Me: "Other business? What is that?"
Vendor: "It is a land business. In 2007 I bought 1.5 acres in Urupakkam
for 3 lakh rupees and I sold it a few months back for 15 lakhs. Now I have
bought land in Uthiramerur for 5 lakh rupees."
Me: "What did you do with the remaining amount?"
Vendor: "Of the remaining amount, I have set aside 6 lakhs for my
daughter's wedding. I have deposited the other 4 lakhs in the bank."
Me: "How much schooling have you had?"
Vendor: "I studied up to third standard; I stopped my studies when I was
in the 4th standard. But I know how to read and write. Sir, there are many
people like yourself, who dress well, wear a tie, wear shoes, speak
English fluently and work in air-conditioned rooms. But I don't think
you guys earn as much as we do wearing dirty clothes and selling samosas."
At this point, what could I reply. After all, I was talking to a
millionaire! The train chugged into Chromepet station and the samosa vendor
got up from his seat.
Vendor: "Sir, this is my station...have a good day."
Me: "Take care."
What more is there to say...!!!!
Sister Yvonne Ridley (born 1959, Stanley, County Durham, England) is a British journalist, war correspondent[1] and Respect Party activist best known for her capture by the Taliban and subsequent conversion to Islam after release, her outspoken opposition to Zionism, and her criticism of Western media portrayals of the War on Terror. Ridley currently works for Press TV, the Iranian-based English language news channel.
Capture by the Taliban
Yvonne Ridley came to prominence on 28 September 2001, when she was captured by the Taliban in Afghanistan whilst working for the Sunday Express. Repeatedly refused an entrance visa, she decided to follow the example of BBC reporter John Simpson, who had crossed the border anonymously in a burqa.
Colleagues said Ridley responded to text messages from friends until 26 September 2001, after having told them she would attempt to cross the border from Pakistan into Afghanistan. It became clear that she had been discovered without passport or visa, and was held by the authorities after being arrested with her guides, the Afghan refugee Nagibullah Muhmand and Pakistani Jan Ali, in a village in the Dour Daba district near the eastern city of Jalalabad in Nangahar, close to the border with Pakistan. She was dressed like an Afghan, but it is believed she was caught after attempting to take photographs, an illegal activity under the Taliban. She was spotted two days later, on 28 September, after slipping across the border by local people who pointed her out to security forces, who took her to Jalalabad for further investigation on possible espionage charges, that carried the death penalty. Shortly before, the Taliban had asked all foreigners to leave the country and had said they would not issue visas to journalists. They threatened that anyone found using a satellite phone would be executed.
She would at least be prosecuted for entering the country illegally, reported the Afghan Islamic Press agency, quoting the Taliban's deputy foreign minister, Mullah Abdur Rahman Zahid.
Qudratullah Jamal, the Taliban's information minister, expressed the suspicion that Ridley was possibly a member of a military "special forces" unit like the British SAS. It was also suggested that she and other westerners could be kept by the Taliban as hostages.
The British high commissioner to Pakistan, Hilary Synnott, met the Taliban-ambassador in Islamabad, Mullah Abdul Salam Zaeef and opened negotiations intended at a quick release of Ridley. While the press in Britain speculated about the reason of her arrest and the seriousness of the suspicion, she was kept in solitary confinement for seven days and then moved to a prison in Kabul.[21] In the prison in Kabul she met the Christian missionary Heather Mercer, who was also kept by the Taliban and was unaware of the latest developments.
The same week British bombings on Afghan targets as part of the Operation Enduring Freedom began, while the whereabouts of Ridley were unknown to the British authorities and it was feared that these bombings would jeopardise her release. Then her release, ordered on 'humanitarian grounds' by Taliban-leader Mullah Mohamed Omar, was reported by Mullah Abdul Salam Zaeef. After her release on 9 October 2001, when her Taliban captors escorted her from the Kabul prison to a Pakistan border post at the foot of the Khyber Pass, near Peshawar, she revealed that she had kept a concealed diary inside a box for a toothpaste tube and in the inside of a soap wrapper, and had been on hunger strike throughout her captivity, but denied to have been physically hurt in any way.
After the release of Ridley, her guides Jan Ali and Nagibullah Muhmand, as well as Basmena, the five-year-old daughter of the latter, were kept by the Taliban in a prison in Kabul, according to Reporters sans Frontières.
Conversion to Islam
According her own account after her release, during her captivity she was asked by one of her captors to convert to Islam; she refused, but gave her word she would read the Qur'an after her release.
In freedom, she kept this promise, as she said partly to find out why the Taliban treated women as they do. She said it changed her life.
The Qur'an, she says describing the holy book of Islam, is a "magna carta for women".[40] She converted to Islam in the summer of 2003, stating that her new faith has helped put behind her broken marriages and a reputation as the "Patsy Stone of Fleet Street." When comparing her treatment to female prisoners' held in American custody, such as Aafia Siddiqui, she said that in Taliban's custody she was given her full privacy as a woman, and was handed the key to the door of her cell to lock from the inside. In 2004, she described her journey of faith for the BBC's religion site (see A Muslim in the Family), as well as in other publications and on other occasions in which she emerged as a "fierce critic of the West"
How I came to love the veil
Author by: Yvonne Ridley Posted date: 15th October 2010
Politicians and journalists just love to write about the oppression of women in Islam ... without even talking to the females beneath the veil.
They simply have no idea how Muslim women are protected and respected within the Islamic framework which was built more than 1400 years ago.
Yet, by writing about cultural issues like child brides, female circumcision, honor killings and forced marriages they wrongly believe they are coming from a point of knowledge.
And I am sick of Saudi Arabia being cited as an example of how women are subjigated in a country where they are banned from driving.
The issues above have simply nothing to do with Islam yet they still write and talk about them with an arrogant air of authority while wrongly blaming Islam. Please do not confuse cultural behavior with Islam.
I was asked to write about how Islam allows men to beat their wives. Sorry, not true. Yes, I'm sure critics of Islam will quote random Qur'anic verses or ahadith but all are usually taken out of context. If a man does raise a finger to his wife, he is not allowed to leave a mark on her body ... this is another way of the Qur'an saying; "Don't beat your wife, stupid".
Now let's take a glance at some really interesting statistics, hmm. I can almost hear the words pot, kettle, black. According to the National Domestic Violence Hotline, four million American women experience a serious assault by a partner during an average 12-month period.
On the average, more than three women are murdered by their husbands and boyfriends every day . . . that is nearly 5,500 women battered to death since 9/11.
Some might say that is a shocking indictment on such a civilized society, but before I sound too smug, I would say that violence against women is a global issue. Violent men do not come in any particular religious or cultural category. The reality is that one out of three women around the world has been beaten, coerced into sex or otherwise abused during her lifetime. Violence against women transcends religion, wealth, class, skin color and culture.
However, until Islam came on the scene women were treated as inferior beings. In fact we women still have a problem in the West where men think they are superior. This is reflected in our promotion and wages structure right across the spectrum from cleaners to career women who make it into the boardroom.
Western women are still treated as commodities, where sexual slavery is on the rise, disguised under marketing euphemisms, where womens’ bodies are traded throughout the advertising world. As mentioned before, this is a society where rape, sexual assault, and violence on women is commonplace, a society where the equality between men and women is an illusion, a society where a womens’ power or influence is usually only related to the size of her breasts.
I used to look at veiled women as quiet, oppressed creatures and now I look at them as multi-skilled, multi-talented, resilient women whose brand of sisterhood makes Western feminism pale into insignificance. My views changed after the truly terrifying experience of being arrested by the Taleban for sneaking into Afghanistan in September 2001 wearing the bhurka.
During my 10-day captivity I struck a deal that if they let me go I would read the Quran and study Islam. Against all the odds, it worked and I was released. In return I kept my word but as a journalist covering the Middle East I realized I needed to expand my knowledge of a religion which was clearly a way of life.
And no. I'm not a victim of Stockholm Syndrome. To be a victim you have to bond with your captors. During my imprisonment I spat, swore, cursed and abused my jailers as well as refusing their food and going on hunger strike. I don't know who was happier when I was released - them or me!
Reading the Quran was, I thought, going to be a very simple academic exercise. I was stunned to discover that ut clearly stated women are equal in spirituality, education and worth. A woman’s gift for child birth and child-rearing is very much recognised as a quality and attribute. Muslim women say with pride they are homemakers and housewives.
Furthermore The Prophet (pbuh) said that the most important person in the home was The Mother, The Mother, The Mother. In fact he also said that heaven lies at the feet of the mother. How many women make it into the top 100 power lists for simply being a "great mother"?
With Islam choosing to remain at home and raise children takes on a new dignity and respect in my eyes, similar to those sisters among us who choose to go out to work and have careers and professions.
I then began looking at inheritance, tax, property and divorce laws. This is where Hollywood divorce lawyers probably get their inspiration from. For instance the woman gets to keep what she earns and owns while the man has to stump up half his worth.
Isn’t it funny the way the tabloid media gets very excited over the prospect of some pop or film stars pre-nuptial wedding agreement? Muslim women have had wedding contracts from day one. They can choose if they want to work or not and anything they earn is theirs to spend while the husband has to pay for all the household bills and the upkeep of his family.
Just about everything that feminists strived for in the 70s was already available to Muslim women 1400 years ago.
As I said, Islam dignifies and brings respect to motherhood and being a wife. If you want to stay at home, stay at home. It is a great honor to be a home maker and the first educater of your children
But equally, the Quran states if you want to work, then work. Be a career woman, learn a profession become a politician. Be what you want to be and excel in what you do as a Muslim because everything you do is in praise of Allah (swt).
There is an excessive, almost irritating concentration or focus on the issue of Muslim womens’ dress particularly by men (both Muslim and non-Muslim).
Yes, it is an obligation for Muslim women to dress modestly but, in addition, there are many other important issues which concern Muslim women today.
And yet everyone obsesses over the hijab. Look, it is part of my business suit. This tells you I am a Muslim and therefore I expect to be treated with respect.
Can you imagine if someone told a Wall Street executive or Washington banker to put on a t-shirt and jeans? He would tell you his business suit defines him during work hours, marks him out to be treated seriously.
And yet in Britain we have had the former Foreign Secretary Jack Straw describing the nikab - the face veil revealing only the eyes - as an unwelcome barrier. When, oh when, will men learn to keep their mouths shut over a woman's wardrobe?
We also had Government Ministers Gordon Brown and John Reid express disparaging remarks about the nikab - both these men come from over the Scottish Borders where men wear skirts!!
Then we had a series of other parliamentarians enter the fray describing the nikab as a barrier for communication. What a load of nonsense. If this was the case can anyone explain to me why cell phones, landlines, emails, text messaging and fax machines are in daily use? Who listens to the radio? No one switches off the wireless because they can not see the face of the presenter.
The majority of sisters I know who choose to wear the nikab are actually white, Western reverts who no longer want the unwelcome attention of those few leering men who will try and confront females and launch into inappropriate behavior. Mind you, there are a couple of London sisters I know who say they wear the nikab at anti-war marches because they can't stand the smell of spliffs.
I am afraid Islamophobia has become the last refuge of the racist scoundrel. But the cowardly, chauvinistic attacks launched - largely by men - is unacceptable to Muslimahs as well as their secular, female sisters from the left.
I was a feminist for many years and now, as an Islamic feminist, I still promote womens' rights. The only difference is Muslim feminists are more radical than their secular counterparts. We all hate those ghastly beauty pageants, and tried to stop laughing when the emergence of Miss Afghanistan in bikini was hailed as a giant leap for women's liberation in Afghanistan.
I've been back to Afghanistan many times and I can tell you there are no career women emerging from the rubble in Kabul. My Afghan sisters say they wish the West would drop its obsession with the bhurka. "Don't try turning me into a career woman, get my husband a job first. Show me how I can send my children to school without fear of them being kidnapped. Give me security and bread on the table," one sister told me.
Young feminist Muslimahs see the hijab and the nikab as political symbols as well as a religious requirement. Some say it is their way of showing the world they reject the excesses of Western lifestyles such as binge drinking, casual sex, drug-taking etc.
Superiority in Islam is accomplished through piety, not beauty, wealth, power, position or sex.
Now you tell me what is more liberating. Being judged on the length of your skirt and the size of your cosmetically enhanced breasts, or being judged on your character, mind and intelligence?
Glossy magazines tell us as women that unless we are tall, slim and beautiful we will be unloved and unwanted. The pressure on teenage magazine readers to have a boyfriend is almost obscene.
Islam tells me that I have a right to an education and it is my duty to go out and seek knowledge whether I am single or married.
No where in the framework of Islam are we told as women that we must do washing, cleaning or cooking for men - but it is not just Muslim men who need to re-evaluate women in their home. Check out this 1992 exert from a Pat Robertson speech revealing his views on empowered women. And then you tell me who is civilized and who is not.
He said: "FEMINISM ENCOURAGES WOMEN TO LEAVE THEIR HUSBANDS, KILL THEIR CHILDREN, PRACTICE WITCHCRAFT, DESTROY CAPITALISM AND BECOME LESBIANS".
Here is an American man living in a pre-Islamic age who needs to modernize and civilize. People like him are wearing a veil and we need to tear that veil of bigotry away so people can see Islam for what it is.
You can read more of her Analyses and Opinions on various topics on her website http://ping.fm/QB8Jc
Regards,
A Shabbir Ahmed
Capture by the Taliban
Yvonne Ridley came to prominence on 28 September 2001, when she was captured by the Taliban in Afghanistan whilst working for the Sunday Express. Repeatedly refused an entrance visa, she decided to follow the example of BBC reporter John Simpson, who had crossed the border anonymously in a burqa.
Colleagues said Ridley responded to text messages from friends until 26 September 2001, after having told them she would attempt to cross the border from Pakistan into Afghanistan. It became clear that she had been discovered without passport or visa, and was held by the authorities after being arrested with her guides, the Afghan refugee Nagibullah Muhmand and Pakistani Jan Ali, in a village in the Dour Daba district near the eastern city of Jalalabad in Nangahar, close to the border with Pakistan. She was dressed like an Afghan, but it is believed she was caught after attempting to take photographs, an illegal activity under the Taliban. She was spotted two days later, on 28 September, after slipping across the border by local people who pointed her out to security forces, who took her to Jalalabad for further investigation on possible espionage charges, that carried the death penalty. Shortly before, the Taliban had asked all foreigners to leave the country and had said they would not issue visas to journalists. They threatened that anyone found using a satellite phone would be executed.
She would at least be prosecuted for entering the country illegally, reported the Afghan Islamic Press agency, quoting the Taliban's deputy foreign minister, Mullah Abdur Rahman Zahid.
Qudratullah Jamal, the Taliban's information minister, expressed the suspicion that Ridley was possibly a member of a military "special forces" unit like the British SAS. It was also suggested that she and other westerners could be kept by the Taliban as hostages.
The British high commissioner to Pakistan, Hilary Synnott, met the Taliban-ambassador in Islamabad, Mullah Abdul Salam Zaeef and opened negotiations intended at a quick release of Ridley. While the press in Britain speculated about the reason of her arrest and the seriousness of the suspicion, she was kept in solitary confinement for seven days and then moved to a prison in Kabul.[21] In the prison in Kabul she met the Christian missionary Heather Mercer, who was also kept by the Taliban and was unaware of the latest developments.
The same week British bombings on Afghan targets as part of the Operation Enduring Freedom began, while the whereabouts of Ridley were unknown to the British authorities and it was feared that these bombings would jeopardise her release. Then her release, ordered on 'humanitarian grounds' by Taliban-leader Mullah Mohamed Omar, was reported by Mullah Abdul Salam Zaeef. After her release on 9 October 2001, when her Taliban captors escorted her from the Kabul prison to a Pakistan border post at the foot of the Khyber Pass, near Peshawar, she revealed that she had kept a concealed diary inside a box for a toothpaste tube and in the inside of a soap wrapper, and had been on hunger strike throughout her captivity, but denied to have been physically hurt in any way.
After the release of Ridley, her guides Jan Ali and Nagibullah Muhmand, as well as Basmena, the five-year-old daughter of the latter, were kept by the Taliban in a prison in Kabul, according to Reporters sans Frontières.
Conversion to Islam
According her own account after her release, during her captivity she was asked by one of her captors to convert to Islam; she refused, but gave her word she would read the Qur'an after her release.
In freedom, she kept this promise, as she said partly to find out why the Taliban treated women as they do. She said it changed her life.
The Qur'an, she says describing the holy book of Islam, is a "magna carta for women".[40] She converted to Islam in the summer of 2003, stating that her new faith has helped put behind her broken marriages and a reputation as the "Patsy Stone of Fleet Street." When comparing her treatment to female prisoners' held in American custody, such as Aafia Siddiqui, she said that in Taliban's custody she was given her full privacy as a woman, and was handed the key to the door of her cell to lock from the inside. In 2004, she described her journey of faith for the BBC's religion site (see A Muslim in the Family), as well as in other publications and on other occasions in which she emerged as a "fierce critic of the West"
How I came to love the veil
Author by: Yvonne Ridley Posted date: 15th October 2010
Politicians and journalists just love to write about the oppression of women in Islam ... without even talking to the females beneath the veil.
They simply have no idea how Muslim women are protected and respected within the Islamic framework which was built more than 1400 years ago.
Yet, by writing about cultural issues like child brides, female circumcision, honor killings and forced marriages they wrongly believe they are coming from a point of knowledge.
And I am sick of Saudi Arabia being cited as an example of how women are subjigated in a country where they are banned from driving.
The issues above have simply nothing to do with Islam yet they still write and talk about them with an arrogant air of authority while wrongly blaming Islam. Please do not confuse cultural behavior with Islam.
I was asked to write about how Islam allows men to beat their wives. Sorry, not true. Yes, I'm sure critics of Islam will quote random Qur'anic verses or ahadith but all are usually taken out of context. If a man does raise a finger to his wife, he is not allowed to leave a mark on her body ... this is another way of the Qur'an saying; "Don't beat your wife, stupid".
Now let's take a glance at some really interesting statistics, hmm. I can almost hear the words pot, kettle, black. According to the National Domestic Violence Hotline, four million American women experience a serious assault by a partner during an average 12-month period.
On the average, more than three women are murdered by their husbands and boyfriends every day . . . that is nearly 5,500 women battered to death since 9/11.
Some might say that is a shocking indictment on such a civilized society, but before I sound too smug, I would say that violence against women is a global issue. Violent men do not come in any particular religious or cultural category. The reality is that one out of three women around the world has been beaten, coerced into sex or otherwise abused during her lifetime. Violence against women transcends religion, wealth, class, skin color and culture.
However, until Islam came on the scene women were treated as inferior beings. In fact we women still have a problem in the West where men think they are superior. This is reflected in our promotion and wages structure right across the spectrum from cleaners to career women who make it into the boardroom.
Western women are still treated as commodities, where sexual slavery is on the rise, disguised under marketing euphemisms, where womens’ bodies are traded throughout the advertising world. As mentioned before, this is a society where rape, sexual assault, and violence on women is commonplace, a society where the equality between men and women is an illusion, a society where a womens’ power or influence is usually only related to the size of her breasts.
I used to look at veiled women as quiet, oppressed creatures and now I look at them as multi-skilled, multi-talented, resilient women whose brand of sisterhood makes Western feminism pale into insignificance. My views changed after the truly terrifying experience of being arrested by the Taleban for sneaking into Afghanistan in September 2001 wearing the bhurka.
During my 10-day captivity I struck a deal that if they let me go I would read the Quran and study Islam. Against all the odds, it worked and I was released. In return I kept my word but as a journalist covering the Middle East I realized I needed to expand my knowledge of a religion which was clearly a way of life.
And no. I'm not a victim of Stockholm Syndrome. To be a victim you have to bond with your captors. During my imprisonment I spat, swore, cursed and abused my jailers as well as refusing their food and going on hunger strike. I don't know who was happier when I was released - them or me!
Reading the Quran was, I thought, going to be a very simple academic exercise. I was stunned to discover that ut clearly stated women are equal in spirituality, education and worth. A woman’s gift for child birth and child-rearing is very much recognised as a quality and attribute. Muslim women say with pride they are homemakers and housewives.
Furthermore The Prophet (pbuh) said that the most important person in the home was The Mother, The Mother, The Mother. In fact he also said that heaven lies at the feet of the mother. How many women make it into the top 100 power lists for simply being a "great mother"?
With Islam choosing to remain at home and raise children takes on a new dignity and respect in my eyes, similar to those sisters among us who choose to go out to work and have careers and professions.
I then began looking at inheritance, tax, property and divorce laws. This is where Hollywood divorce lawyers probably get their inspiration from. For instance the woman gets to keep what she earns and owns while the man has to stump up half his worth.
Isn’t it funny the way the tabloid media gets very excited over the prospect of some pop or film stars pre-nuptial wedding agreement? Muslim women have had wedding contracts from day one. They can choose if they want to work or not and anything they earn is theirs to spend while the husband has to pay for all the household bills and the upkeep of his family.
Just about everything that feminists strived for in the 70s was already available to Muslim women 1400 years ago.
As I said, Islam dignifies and brings respect to motherhood and being a wife. If you want to stay at home, stay at home. It is a great honor to be a home maker and the first educater of your children
But equally, the Quran states if you want to work, then work. Be a career woman, learn a profession become a politician. Be what you want to be and excel in what you do as a Muslim because everything you do is in praise of Allah (swt).
There is an excessive, almost irritating concentration or focus on the issue of Muslim womens’ dress particularly by men (both Muslim and non-Muslim).
Yes, it is an obligation for Muslim women to dress modestly but, in addition, there are many other important issues which concern Muslim women today.
And yet everyone obsesses over the hijab. Look, it is part of my business suit. This tells you I am a Muslim and therefore I expect to be treated with respect.
Can you imagine if someone told a Wall Street executive or Washington banker to put on a t-shirt and jeans? He would tell you his business suit defines him during work hours, marks him out to be treated seriously.
And yet in Britain we have had the former Foreign Secretary Jack Straw describing the nikab - the face veil revealing only the eyes - as an unwelcome barrier. When, oh when, will men learn to keep their mouths shut over a woman's wardrobe?
We also had Government Ministers Gordon Brown and John Reid express disparaging remarks about the nikab - both these men come from over the Scottish Borders where men wear skirts!!
Then we had a series of other parliamentarians enter the fray describing the nikab as a barrier for communication. What a load of nonsense. If this was the case can anyone explain to me why cell phones, landlines, emails, text messaging and fax machines are in daily use? Who listens to the radio? No one switches off the wireless because they can not see the face of the presenter.
The majority of sisters I know who choose to wear the nikab are actually white, Western reverts who no longer want the unwelcome attention of those few leering men who will try and confront females and launch into inappropriate behavior. Mind you, there are a couple of London sisters I know who say they wear the nikab at anti-war marches because they can't stand the smell of spliffs.
I am afraid Islamophobia has become the last refuge of the racist scoundrel. But the cowardly, chauvinistic attacks launched - largely by men - is unacceptable to Muslimahs as well as their secular, female sisters from the left.
I was a feminist for many years and now, as an Islamic feminist, I still promote womens' rights. The only difference is Muslim feminists are more radical than their secular counterparts. We all hate those ghastly beauty pageants, and tried to stop laughing when the emergence of Miss Afghanistan in bikini was hailed as a giant leap for women's liberation in Afghanistan.
I've been back to Afghanistan many times and I can tell you there are no career women emerging from the rubble in Kabul. My Afghan sisters say they wish the West would drop its obsession with the bhurka. "Don't try turning me into a career woman, get my husband a job first. Show me how I can send my children to school without fear of them being kidnapped. Give me security and bread on the table," one sister told me.
Young feminist Muslimahs see the hijab and the nikab as political symbols as well as a religious requirement. Some say it is their way of showing the world they reject the excesses of Western lifestyles such as binge drinking, casual sex, drug-taking etc.
Superiority in Islam is accomplished through piety, not beauty, wealth, power, position or sex.
Now you tell me what is more liberating. Being judged on the length of your skirt and the size of your cosmetically enhanced breasts, or being judged on your character, mind and intelligence?
Glossy magazines tell us as women that unless we are tall, slim and beautiful we will be unloved and unwanted. The pressure on teenage magazine readers to have a boyfriend is almost obscene.
Islam tells me that I have a right to an education and it is my duty to go out and seek knowledge whether I am single or married.
No where in the framework of Islam are we told as women that we must do washing, cleaning or cooking for men - but it is not just Muslim men who need to re-evaluate women in their home. Check out this 1992 exert from a Pat Robertson speech revealing his views on empowered women. And then you tell me who is civilized and who is not.
He said: "FEMINISM ENCOURAGES WOMEN TO LEAVE THEIR HUSBANDS, KILL THEIR CHILDREN, PRACTICE WITCHCRAFT, DESTROY CAPITALISM AND BECOME LESBIANS".
Here is an American man living in a pre-Islamic age who needs to modernize and civilize. People like him are wearing a veil and we need to tear that veil of bigotry away so people can see Islam for what it is.
You can read more of her Analyses and Opinions on various topics on her website http://ping.fm/QB8Jc
Regards,
A Shabbir Ahmed
அஸ்ஸலாமு அலைக்கும் வரஹ்மத்துல்லாஹி வபரக்காத்துஹு – Pl spread awareness
தற்சமயம் அதிக அளவில் முஸ்லிம் பெண்கள் முஸ்லிம் அல்லாத ஆடவருடன் ஓடிப்போவதும், மதம் மாறுவதும் நிகழ்ந்து வருகின்றது.இதற்கான முழுப்பொறுப்பையும் பெற்றோர் ஏற்க வேண்டி இருக்கிறது.இது போன்ற சம்பவங்கள் நிகழ்வதற்கானகாரணங்களையும், அதிலிருந்து நம் குடும்பத்தார்களை காப்பாற்றும் வழி வகைகளையும் பார்ப்போம்.
இது போன்ற சம்பவங்கள் நிகழ்வதற்கான காரணிகள்,
1. பெற்றோர்கள் தங்கள் பெண் குழந்தைகளை முறையாக கவணிக்க தவறுவது.
2. அளவிற்கு அதிகமாக பணம் கொடுப்பது. வசதி உள்ளது என்பதற்காக மொபைல் போன் போன்ற சாதனங்களை வாங்கி கொடுப்பது.
3. மொபைல் ஃபோனில் பெண் குழந்தைகள் யாருடன் பேசுகின்றார்கள், என்ன SMS வருகின்றது போன்றவற்றை கவணிக்காமல் இருப்பது.
4. பெண்கள் எங்கே செல்கின்றார்கள், எப்போது வருகின்றார்கள் என்பதை கவனிக்க அல்லது கண்டிக்க தவறுவது.
5. மார்க்கத்தை போதிக்காமல், காதல் படம், பாடல் போன்ற கேளிக்கைகளை சி.டி. வீடியோ என வீட்டிற்குள் அனுமதித்து வழிதவற வைப்பது.
6. பெண் குழந்தைகளை தனிமையில் வாழ அனுமதிப்பது. (உதாரனம். வீட்டில் தனி அறை, தனி படுக்கை என என்ன செய்தாலும் தெறியாதவாரு நாமே அவர்களுக்கு வசதி செய்து கொடுப்பது)
7. வெளிநாட்டில் வாழும் இளைஞர்கள் தங்கள் மனைவியரை தனிக்குடித்தனம் வைப்பது அல்லது அவர்கள் இஸ்ட்டப்படி உரிய கண்கானிப்பின்றி வாழ அனுமதிப்பது.
8. அந்நிய ஆடவருடன் பழகும் சூழ்நிலைகளை ஏற்ப்படுத்தி கொடுப்பது. பெண்களை தனியாக ஜவுளி கடை, நகைக்கடை என மார்க்கெட்டிற்கு அனுப்புவது அங்கு அந்நிய ஆண்கள் இவர்களை பொருட்களை இலவசமாக கொடுத்து தங்கள் வசப்படுத்த உதவுகின்றது.
நமது பெண் பிள்ளைகளை பாதுகாக்க சில வழிகள்,
திருக்குர்ஆனில் அல்லாஹ் கூறுகின்றான்:
''இன்னும் முஃமினான பெண்களுக்கு நீர் கூறுவீராக! தங்கள் பார்வைகளைத் தாழ்த்திக் கொள்ள வேண்டும். தங்கள் வெட்கத் தலங்களைப் பேணிக் காத்துக் கொள்ள வேண்டும்''. (அல்குர்ஆண்: 24:37)
''நீங்கள் இறையச்சத்தோடு இருக்க விருப்பினால் (அந்நியருடம் நடத்தும்) பேச்சில் நளினம் காட்டாதீர்கள். ஏனென்றால் எவன் உள்ளத்தில் நோய் (தவறான நோக்கம்) இருக்கின்றதோ அத்தகய)வன் ஆசை கொள்வான். இன்னும் நீங்கள் நல்லவற்றையே பேசுங்கள். (அல்குர்ஆண் 33:32)
1. அந்நிய ஆணுடன் பழகுவதும் ஹராம் (இறைவனால் தடுக்கப்பட்டுள்ளது) என்பதனை கண்டிப்புடன் கூறி அனுப்புங்கள். அந்நிய ஆண்களிடம் கண்டிப்புடன் இருக்கச் சொல்லுங்கள்.
2. ஆண்களும் பெண்களும் இணைந்து படிக்கும் பள்ளி, கல்லூரிகளில் தான் இந்த சதி வேலை அதிகமாக நடக்கிறது என்பதை கவனத்தில் கொள்ளவும்.
3. தனியாக செல்லும் மாணவிகளை கல்லூரிகளுக்கு முடிந்தவரை நாமே நமது சகோதரிகளை அழைத்துச் சென்று கல்லூரிகளில் விடுவது, திரும்ப அழைத்து வருவது மிகவும் நல்லது. பெற்றோர்கள் முக்கியமாக கல்லூரிகள், மற்றும் பள்ளிகளில் படிக்கும் தங்கள் பெண் குழந்தைகளின் வருகைப்பதிவு(அட்டன்டன்ஸ்) சரியாக உள்ளதா என வாரம் ஒருமுறை சரிபார்க்க வேண்டும்.
4. வெளிநாட்டிற்கு செல்லும் கணவன்மார்கள் பெரும்பாலும் தங்கள் இளம் மனைவியரை பெற்றோருடனோ அல்லது மனைவியின் பெற்றோருடனோ வாழ்வதற்கு விட்டுச் செல்வது நல்லது.
5.பெரும்பாலும் வீட்டில் உள்ள பெண்களுக்கு மொபைல் போன்களை வாங்கிக் கொடுக்க வேண்டாம். லேன்ட் லைன் டெலிபோன் மட்டும் இருந்தால் போதுமானது.
6. வீட்டில் தனியாக உள்ள பெண்கள் தங்கள் தொலைபேசி எண்களை ஆட்டோ டிரைவர், கடைகாரர் என யாருக்கும் கொடுக்க வேண்டாம். எந்தச் சூழ்நிலையிலும் யாருக்கும் உங்கள் போன் நம்பரை கொடுக்க வேண்டாம்.
7. தெறியாத எண்களிலிருந்து போன் வந்தாலோ அல்லது அந்நிய ஆடவர் யாராவது உங்களை ஈர்க்கும் வகையில், அல்லது உங்கள் உணர்வுகளை கிளர்ச்சி அடையச் செய்யும் வகையில் பேசினாலோ அல்லது மெஸேஜ் அனுப்பினாலோ உடனடியாக அந்த தொடர்பை துன்டியுங்கள். மீண்டும் பேசவோ அல்லது பதில் அளிக்கவோ முற்படாதீர்கள்.
ஏனென்றால் இதன் மூலமே அவர்கள் தங்கள் முதல் தொடர்பை ஆரம்பிக்கின்றார்கள். ஆகவே ஆரம்பத்திலேயே உங்கள் கணவர், தந்தை, அல்லது உறவினர்களன்றி யாரிடம் இருந்து அவசியமற்ற அழைப்புகளோ, மெஸேஜோ வந்தால் அவற்றிற்கு தயவு செய்து பதில் அளிக்காதீர்கள் அது எவ்வளவு கவர்ச்சியானதாக இருந்தாலும் சரியே.
8. கடைகளுக்கு செல்லும்போது உங்கள் கணவர்மர்களை பற்றியோ அல்லது குடும்படதினர் பற்றியோ கடையில் உள்ளவர்கள் கேட்கும் கேள்விகளுக்கு பதில் அளிக்காதீர்கள் மிகக் கண்டிப்புடன் இது உங்களுக்கு அவசியமற்றது என்று முகத்தில் அடித்தாற்போல் சொல்லுங்கள். உங்கள் கணவர்மார்கள் வெளிநாட்டிலோ அல்லது வெளியூரிலோ இருக்கும் விசயத்தை அவசியமின்றி அந்நியர்களுக்கு சொல்லாதீர்கள் அவர்கள் எவ்வளவு நல்லவர்களாக இருந்தாலும் சரியே.
9. கல்லூரி, பள்ளிகளில் படிக்கும் மாணவிகள் மிகவும் உஷாராக இருப்பது நல்லது ஏனென்றால் நீங்கள் தான் இவர்களின் முதல் குறி, பார்ப்பதற்கு அப்பாவியாகவும், பாவமான தோற்றத்துடனும் உங்கள் மனதில் இரக்கத்தை ஏற்ப்படுத்தும் வகையிலும்தான் இவர்களின் முதல் அறிமுகம் இருக்கும். மிகவும் நல்லவன், பாவமாக உள்ளது என்று நீங்கள் சற்று இழகினால் போதும் உங்கள் அழிவை நோக்கிய பயனத்தை நீங்கள் துவங்கி விட்டிர்கள் என்று அர்த்தம்.
10. பெரும்பாலும் எந்த சக மாணவனிடமும் உங்கள் தொலை பேசி என்களை கொடுக்கதீர்கள், அதுபோல் சக மாணவியரால் நல்லவன் என அறிமுகப்படுத்தப்படும் யாரையும் நீங்கள் ஆண் நண்பர்களாக ஆக்கி கொள்ளாதீர்கள். பெரும்பாலும் இவர்கள் தங்கள் வலையில் வீழ்ந்த மற்ற பெண்கள் மூலமாகவே அடுத்த பெண்ணிற்கு தூன்டிலை வீசுகின்றார்கள் என்பதை நீங்கள் கவணத்தில் கொள்ள வேண்டும்.
11. தோழிகள் துணைக்கு வந்தாலும் கூட உங்கள் தோழிகளின் ஆண் நண்பர்களுடன் நீங்கள் வெளியே செல்வதோ, உணவருந்த செல்வதோ அவர்களுடன் பேசுவதோ வேண்டாம். உங்கள் தோழிகளின் ஆண் நண்பர்களுக்கும் உங்கள் தொலைபேசி எண்களை கொடுக்க வேண்டாம். ஏனென்றால் இங்கிருந்துதான் தொடர்புகள் ஆரம்பமாகின்றன.
12. உங்கள் தோழியர் எவ்வளவு நெருக்கமாக இருந்தாலும் கூட அவர்களின் செல்போன் மூலம் உங்களை படம் எடுப்பதை அனுமதிக்க வேண்டாம்.முக்கியமாக நீங்கள் தனிமையில் இருக்கும் பொதும் ஆடைகள் கவனமின்றி இருக்கும் போதும். அப்படி படமெடுப்பது தெறிந்தால் உடனடியாக அதை வாங்கி அழித்த விடுங்கள். இது போன்ற நிகழ்வுகளை உடனே பெற்றோருக்கும் சகோதரர்களுக்கும் தெறியப்படுத்துங்கள்.
13. முதன்மையாக ஆண்,பெண் இருவருடைய உள்ளத்திலும், செயலிலும் - இறையச்சம், ஈமான் இருக்க வேண்டும்.
14. பர்தா முறையை கட்டாயம் உபயோகப்படுத்துதல். முறையான ஆபாசம் இல்லாத லூசான பர்தாக்களை அணியச் சொல்லுங்கள், பர்தா என்பது அழகை மறைப்பதற்கு டைட்டாகவும், செக்சியாகவும் அறைகுறை ஆடைகளை பர்தா என்ற பெயரில் அணிவது தங்கள் அழகை வியாபாரமாக்கவே செய்யும்.
15. வட்டிக்கு வாங்குவது. தவனை முறையில் வாங்குவது (பைனான்ஸ்) போன்வற்றை தவிருங்கள், இது போன்ற ஆண்களின் தொடர்பால் இலகுவாக பெண்கள் எப்படி பாலியல் பலாத்காரத்துக்கு உள்வாங்கப் பட்டு புளுபலிம் எடுக்கவும் பயன் படுத்தப்படுகின்றார்கள்.
அந்நியருடன் ஓடிப்போகும் அல்லது ஓடிப்போன பெண்களின் நிலை,
பள்ளி, கல்லூரிகளில் படிக்கின்ற பெண்கள் மார்க்க ஞானமில்லாததாலும், தங்கள் தோழிகள் என்று நம்பியவர்களின் சதி வலையினாலும் காமுகனின் வார்த்தை ஜாலத்தில் ஏமாந்து காமத்தை காதல் என்று நம்பி தனது படிப்பையும், பெற்றோரையும், சகோதரர்களையும், உறவுகளையும் தீராத்துயரில் மூழ்கடித்துவிட்டு பயிற்றுவிக்கப்பட்ட காவிக் காமுகனின் பின்னால் ஓடிப்போகின்றாள்.
ஓடிப்போகும்போது இவள் தனது பெற்றோரின் ஓட்டுமொத்த சேமிப்பையும் நகைகளையும் எடுத்து வருமாறு தூண்டப்படுகின்றாள். இவள் கொண்டு சென்ற செல்வமும் இவளின் இளமையும் தீரம் வரை இவளை அனுபவித்து விட்டு சக்கையாக இவள் தூக்கி வீசப்படுகின்றாள்.
இறுதியல் இளமையும், செல்வமும் அனுபவிக்கப்பட்டு தூக்கி வீசப்பட்ட இவள் வீட்டிற்கும் வர முடியாமல், எங்கும் செல்ல முடியாமல் இறுதியில் தனது வயிற்றுப் பிழைப்புக்காக விபச்சாரியாகிறாள் அல்லது தற்கொலை செய்து தனது உயிரை மாய்த்து கொள்கின்றாள். இவள் நம்பிச் சென்ற காமுகன் தனது அடுத்த பணியினை தொடாந்தவனாக அடுத்த இளம்பெண்னை மயக்கும் வேலையில் கவனமாகின்றான்.
ஆனால் இந்த அயோக்கியர்களை நம்பி உற்றார் உறவினர்களை துறந்து சென்ற பெண்னின் இறுதி நிலை உலகிலும் நரகம், மறுமையிலும் நரகம்.
பெற்றேர்களே, கணவன்மார்களே, நீங்களும் சற்று சிந்திப்பீர், வெள்ளம் கரைகடந்தபின் கதறாமல்,
இப்போதே அனைபோட திட்டமிடுவீர், உங்கள் பெண்பிள்ளைகளை கண்கானியுங்கள்
தற்சமயம் அதிக அளவில் முஸ்லிம் பெண்கள் முஸ்லிம் அல்லாத ஆடவருடன் ஓடிப்போவதும், மதம் மாறுவதும் நிகழ்ந்து வருகின்றது.இதற்கான முழுப்பொறுப்பையும் பெற்றோர் ஏற்க வேண்டி இருக்கிறது.இது போன்ற சம்பவங்கள் நிகழ்வதற்கானகாரணங்களையும், அதிலிருந்து நம் குடும்பத்தார்களை காப்பாற்றும் வழி வகைகளையும் பார்ப்போம்.
இது போன்ற சம்பவங்கள் நிகழ்வதற்கான காரணிகள்,
1. பெற்றோர்கள் தங்கள் பெண் குழந்தைகளை முறையாக கவணிக்க தவறுவது.
2. அளவிற்கு அதிகமாக பணம் கொடுப்பது. வசதி உள்ளது என்பதற்காக மொபைல் போன் போன்ற சாதனங்களை வாங்கி கொடுப்பது.
3. மொபைல் ஃபோனில் பெண் குழந்தைகள் யாருடன் பேசுகின்றார்கள், என்ன SMS வருகின்றது போன்றவற்றை கவணிக்காமல் இருப்பது.
4. பெண்கள் எங்கே செல்கின்றார்கள், எப்போது வருகின்றார்கள் என்பதை கவனிக்க அல்லது கண்டிக்க தவறுவது.
5. மார்க்கத்தை போதிக்காமல், காதல் படம், பாடல் போன்ற கேளிக்கைகளை சி.டி. வீடியோ என வீட்டிற்குள் அனுமதித்து வழிதவற வைப்பது.
6. பெண் குழந்தைகளை தனிமையில் வாழ அனுமதிப்பது. (உதாரனம். வீட்டில் தனி அறை, தனி படுக்கை என என்ன செய்தாலும் தெறியாதவாரு நாமே அவர்களுக்கு வசதி செய்து கொடுப்பது)
7. வெளிநாட்டில் வாழும் இளைஞர்கள் தங்கள் மனைவியரை தனிக்குடித்தனம் வைப்பது அல்லது அவர்கள் இஸ்ட்டப்படி உரிய கண்கானிப்பின்றி வாழ அனுமதிப்பது.
8. அந்நிய ஆடவருடன் பழகும் சூழ்நிலைகளை ஏற்ப்படுத்தி கொடுப்பது. பெண்களை தனியாக ஜவுளி கடை, நகைக்கடை என மார்க்கெட்டிற்கு அனுப்புவது அங்கு அந்நிய ஆண்கள் இவர்களை பொருட்களை இலவசமாக கொடுத்து தங்கள் வசப்படுத்த உதவுகின்றது.
நமது பெண் பிள்ளைகளை பாதுகாக்க சில வழிகள்,
திருக்குர்ஆனில் அல்லாஹ் கூறுகின்றான்:
''இன்னும் முஃமினான பெண்களுக்கு நீர் கூறுவீராக! தங்கள் பார்வைகளைத் தாழ்த்திக் கொள்ள வேண்டும். தங்கள் வெட்கத் தலங்களைப் பேணிக் காத்துக் கொள்ள வேண்டும்''. (அல்குர்ஆண்: 24:37)
''நீங்கள் இறையச்சத்தோடு இருக்க விருப்பினால் (அந்நியருடம் நடத்தும்) பேச்சில் நளினம் காட்டாதீர்கள். ஏனென்றால் எவன் உள்ளத்தில் நோய் (தவறான நோக்கம்) இருக்கின்றதோ அத்தகய)வன் ஆசை கொள்வான். இன்னும் நீங்கள் நல்லவற்றையே பேசுங்கள். (அல்குர்ஆண் 33:32)
1. அந்நிய ஆணுடன் பழகுவதும் ஹராம் (இறைவனால் தடுக்கப்பட்டுள்ளது) என்பதனை கண்டிப்புடன் கூறி அனுப்புங்கள். அந்நிய ஆண்களிடம் கண்டிப்புடன் இருக்கச் சொல்லுங்கள்.
2. ஆண்களும் பெண்களும் இணைந்து படிக்கும் பள்ளி, கல்லூரிகளில் தான் இந்த சதி வேலை அதிகமாக நடக்கிறது என்பதை கவனத்தில் கொள்ளவும்.
3. தனியாக செல்லும் மாணவிகளை கல்லூரிகளுக்கு முடிந்தவரை நாமே நமது சகோதரிகளை அழைத்துச் சென்று கல்லூரிகளில் விடுவது, திரும்ப அழைத்து வருவது மிகவும் நல்லது. பெற்றோர்கள் முக்கியமாக கல்லூரிகள், மற்றும் பள்ளிகளில் படிக்கும் தங்கள் பெண் குழந்தைகளின் வருகைப்பதிவு(அட்டன்டன்ஸ்) சரியாக உள்ளதா என வாரம் ஒருமுறை சரிபார்க்க வேண்டும்.
4. வெளிநாட்டிற்கு செல்லும் கணவன்மார்கள் பெரும்பாலும் தங்கள் இளம் மனைவியரை பெற்றோருடனோ அல்லது மனைவியின் பெற்றோருடனோ வாழ்வதற்கு விட்டுச் செல்வது நல்லது.
5.பெரும்பாலும் வீட்டில் உள்ள பெண்களுக்கு மொபைல் போன்களை வாங்கிக் கொடுக்க வேண்டாம். லேன்ட் லைன் டெலிபோன் மட்டும் இருந்தால் போதுமானது.
6. வீட்டில் தனியாக உள்ள பெண்கள் தங்கள் தொலைபேசி எண்களை ஆட்டோ டிரைவர், கடைகாரர் என யாருக்கும் கொடுக்க வேண்டாம். எந்தச் சூழ்நிலையிலும் யாருக்கும் உங்கள் போன் நம்பரை கொடுக்க வேண்டாம்.
7. தெறியாத எண்களிலிருந்து போன் வந்தாலோ அல்லது அந்நிய ஆடவர் யாராவது உங்களை ஈர்க்கும் வகையில், அல்லது உங்கள் உணர்வுகளை கிளர்ச்சி அடையச் செய்யும் வகையில் பேசினாலோ அல்லது மெஸேஜ் அனுப்பினாலோ உடனடியாக அந்த தொடர்பை துன்டியுங்கள். மீண்டும் பேசவோ அல்லது பதில் அளிக்கவோ முற்படாதீர்கள்.
ஏனென்றால் இதன் மூலமே அவர்கள் தங்கள் முதல் தொடர்பை ஆரம்பிக்கின்றார்கள். ஆகவே ஆரம்பத்திலேயே உங்கள் கணவர், தந்தை, அல்லது உறவினர்களன்றி யாரிடம் இருந்து அவசியமற்ற அழைப்புகளோ, மெஸேஜோ வந்தால் அவற்றிற்கு தயவு செய்து பதில் அளிக்காதீர்கள் அது எவ்வளவு கவர்ச்சியானதாக இருந்தாலும் சரியே.
8. கடைகளுக்கு செல்லும்போது உங்கள் கணவர்மர்களை பற்றியோ அல்லது குடும்படதினர் பற்றியோ கடையில் உள்ளவர்கள் கேட்கும் கேள்விகளுக்கு பதில் அளிக்காதீர்கள் மிகக் கண்டிப்புடன் இது உங்களுக்கு அவசியமற்றது என்று முகத்தில் அடித்தாற்போல் சொல்லுங்கள். உங்கள் கணவர்மார்கள் வெளிநாட்டிலோ அல்லது வெளியூரிலோ இருக்கும் விசயத்தை அவசியமின்றி அந்நியர்களுக்கு சொல்லாதீர்கள் அவர்கள் எவ்வளவு நல்லவர்களாக இருந்தாலும் சரியே.
9. கல்லூரி, பள்ளிகளில் படிக்கும் மாணவிகள் மிகவும் உஷாராக இருப்பது நல்லது ஏனென்றால் நீங்கள் தான் இவர்களின் முதல் குறி, பார்ப்பதற்கு அப்பாவியாகவும், பாவமான தோற்றத்துடனும் உங்கள் மனதில் இரக்கத்தை ஏற்ப்படுத்தும் வகையிலும்தான் இவர்களின் முதல் அறிமுகம் இருக்கும். மிகவும் நல்லவன், பாவமாக உள்ளது என்று நீங்கள் சற்று இழகினால் போதும் உங்கள் அழிவை நோக்கிய பயனத்தை நீங்கள் துவங்கி விட்டிர்கள் என்று அர்த்தம்.
10. பெரும்பாலும் எந்த சக மாணவனிடமும் உங்கள் தொலை பேசி என்களை கொடுக்கதீர்கள், அதுபோல் சக மாணவியரால் நல்லவன் என அறிமுகப்படுத்தப்படும் யாரையும் நீங்கள் ஆண் நண்பர்களாக ஆக்கி கொள்ளாதீர்கள். பெரும்பாலும் இவர்கள் தங்கள் வலையில் வீழ்ந்த மற்ற பெண்கள் மூலமாகவே அடுத்த பெண்ணிற்கு தூன்டிலை வீசுகின்றார்கள் என்பதை நீங்கள் கவணத்தில் கொள்ள வேண்டும்.
11. தோழிகள் துணைக்கு வந்தாலும் கூட உங்கள் தோழிகளின் ஆண் நண்பர்களுடன் நீங்கள் வெளியே செல்வதோ, உணவருந்த செல்வதோ அவர்களுடன் பேசுவதோ வேண்டாம். உங்கள் தோழிகளின் ஆண் நண்பர்களுக்கும் உங்கள் தொலைபேசி எண்களை கொடுக்க வேண்டாம். ஏனென்றால் இங்கிருந்துதான் தொடர்புகள் ஆரம்பமாகின்றன.
12. உங்கள் தோழியர் எவ்வளவு நெருக்கமாக இருந்தாலும் கூட அவர்களின் செல்போன் மூலம் உங்களை படம் எடுப்பதை அனுமதிக்க வேண்டாம்.முக்கியமாக நீங்கள் தனிமையில் இருக்கும் பொதும் ஆடைகள் கவனமின்றி இருக்கும் போதும். அப்படி படமெடுப்பது தெறிந்தால் உடனடியாக அதை வாங்கி அழித்த விடுங்கள். இது போன்ற நிகழ்வுகளை உடனே பெற்றோருக்கும் சகோதரர்களுக்கும் தெறியப்படுத்துங்கள்.
13. முதன்மையாக ஆண்,பெண் இருவருடைய உள்ளத்திலும், செயலிலும் - இறையச்சம், ஈமான் இருக்க வேண்டும்.
14. பர்தா முறையை கட்டாயம் உபயோகப்படுத்துதல். முறையான ஆபாசம் இல்லாத லூசான பர்தாக்களை அணியச் சொல்லுங்கள், பர்தா என்பது அழகை மறைப்பதற்கு டைட்டாகவும், செக்சியாகவும் அறைகுறை ஆடைகளை பர்தா என்ற பெயரில் அணிவது தங்கள் அழகை வியாபாரமாக்கவே செய்யும்.
15. வட்டிக்கு வாங்குவது. தவனை முறையில் வாங்குவது (பைனான்ஸ்) போன்வற்றை தவிருங்கள், இது போன்ற ஆண்களின் தொடர்பால் இலகுவாக பெண்கள் எப்படி பாலியல் பலாத்காரத்துக்கு உள்வாங்கப் பட்டு புளுபலிம் எடுக்கவும் பயன் படுத்தப்படுகின்றார்கள்.
அந்நியருடன் ஓடிப்போகும் அல்லது ஓடிப்போன பெண்களின் நிலை,
பள்ளி, கல்லூரிகளில் படிக்கின்ற பெண்கள் மார்க்க ஞானமில்லாததாலும், தங்கள் தோழிகள் என்று நம்பியவர்களின் சதி வலையினாலும் காமுகனின் வார்த்தை ஜாலத்தில் ஏமாந்து காமத்தை காதல் என்று நம்பி தனது படிப்பையும், பெற்றோரையும், சகோதரர்களையும், உறவுகளையும் தீராத்துயரில் மூழ்கடித்துவிட்டு பயிற்றுவிக்கப்பட்ட காவிக் காமுகனின் பின்னால் ஓடிப்போகின்றாள்.
ஓடிப்போகும்போது இவள் தனது பெற்றோரின் ஓட்டுமொத்த சேமிப்பையும் நகைகளையும் எடுத்து வருமாறு தூண்டப்படுகின்றாள். இவள் கொண்டு சென்ற செல்வமும் இவளின் இளமையும் தீரம் வரை இவளை அனுபவித்து விட்டு சக்கையாக இவள் தூக்கி வீசப்படுகின்றாள்.
இறுதியல் இளமையும், செல்வமும் அனுபவிக்கப்பட்டு தூக்கி வீசப்பட்ட இவள் வீட்டிற்கும் வர முடியாமல், எங்கும் செல்ல முடியாமல் இறுதியில் தனது வயிற்றுப் பிழைப்புக்காக விபச்சாரியாகிறாள் அல்லது தற்கொலை செய்து தனது உயிரை மாய்த்து கொள்கின்றாள். இவள் நம்பிச் சென்ற காமுகன் தனது அடுத்த பணியினை தொடாந்தவனாக அடுத்த இளம்பெண்னை மயக்கும் வேலையில் கவனமாகின்றான்.
ஆனால் இந்த அயோக்கியர்களை நம்பி உற்றார் உறவினர்களை துறந்து சென்ற பெண்னின் இறுதி நிலை உலகிலும் நரகம், மறுமையிலும் நரகம்.
பெற்றேர்களே, கணவன்மார்களே, நீங்களும் சற்று சிந்திப்பீர், வெள்ளம் கரைகடந்தபின் கதறாமல்,
இப்போதே அனைபோட திட்டமிடுவீர், உங்கள் பெண்பிள்ளைகளை கண்கானியுங்கள்
From: Mohammed Raoofullah
Subject: Ex-Tihar jail inmate claims IB traps Muslim youth into terrorism
Irshad Ali wrote to the prime minister when he was lodged in Tihar Jail, how the IB traps Muslim youth by planting jehadi maulvis among them. Ali, who according to his letter, had worked as an informer for special cell of Delhi police, claimed that his arrest was because he refused to carry on working for the IB. He was arrested in 2006, charged under the Explosive Substance Act and Arms Act, and remained in jail till 2011 when a court found him innocent and he was released.
This letter is part of the report, titled “Framed, Damned, Acquitted – Dossiers of a ‘Very’ Special Cell”, brought out by the Jamia Teachers’ Solidarity Association (JTSA) which details 16 such cases where people, deemed innocent by the court, were arrested by the Delhi police’s elite special cell on flimsy evidence. A review of court rulings found that these cases were eventually thrown out by judges, who accused the unit of framing suspects using tampered evidence and false confessions.
Below is the letter taken from page 181 of the report. The complete report can be referred at http://ping.fm/aSKYM
“Dear PM, the Special Cell is a group of licensed marauders”:
Irshad Ali’s letter from Tihar Jail
The Prime Minister of India
South Block
Dear Sir,
I am writing this letter from the confinement of Tihar Jail with the aim to save innocent youth from getting trapped into the netwoven
by unscrupulous men in the security agencies to earn rewards and
promotions in the name of fighting terrorism. I hope it will help people and your readers and enable them to largely save themselves. Let me introduce myself. My name is Irshad Ali, S/o Mohamamd Yunus incarcerated in Ward No. 5 (High Risk Ward) Cell No. 13 in Jail No. 8 of Delhi's Tihar Jail.
Many of you may have recently read my story in The Times of India dated September 13, 2007 citing a CBI report confirming that IB and Special Cell of Delhi Police had framed us. But, I suspect if the CBI report goes further and nails the actual culprits.
I was working as an Informer for the Special Cell of Delhi Police, which works closely with the IB to nab terrorists. Having worked closely with them, I feel duty bound to appraise the nation of the working of these agencies and how they manufacture terrorists.
They have made the war on terrorism a total farce. Have you ever noticed how quick our agencies are in nabbing the culprits even before they strike? But, how interesting it is that still they have not yet been able to lay their hands on any terrorist involved in Mumbaiand Delhi blasts? Why? I have answers.
In order to keep their ranks and earn rewards, Special Cell creates terrorists. I will tell you how these agencies work. They have employed a number of youth, on a very paltry remuneration. They are not regular employees, but just vagabonds, who are given mobile phones and protection. They are asked to fan out and hire accommodation somewhere in the city. They mingle with unemployed youth and befriend people around. After identifying vulnerable targets, they form a group, arrange weapons and incite these youth to go for a robbery. Special Cell secretively also provides them a stolen vehicle, which is procured from known car thieves.
These youth who vest all their trust in the Special Cell agent finally one day decide to go for an operation. Upon reaching the target, they are trapped in the net, like a fish. At the targeted place, Police is already there to receive them and they are all nabbed without resistance. Interestingly, the agent, who is also a mastermind never, gets in police trap and he successfully vanishes. Medals and bravery awards follow.
An interesting aspect of this whole episode remains that these youth never realize the truth behind their arrest. They curse their luck and resign to their fate spending years in imprisonment.
Now, let me shed some light on the working of the Intelligence Bureau (IB). This is the most useless agency which does nothing, but to feed the government and media with concocted stories. That earns them crores of rupees from the government besides special powers. And they are least accountable because everything is done in a secretive manner. You may have heard often stories like; a dozen terrorists have landed in Delhi; half-a-dozen terrorists are roaming in Mumbai; ISI is taking roots in UP etc.
Now to back their claims, a Molvi type agent sporting a long beard and well versed with Islamic tenants is launched in some Muslim locality. Most often, the Molvi either takes a rented accommodation near a mosque or in some cases makes mosque itself an abode. The pious nature of Molvi, his praying five times a day and some heart rending story easily earns him sympathy and attention. He starts befriending particularly educated Muslim youth. Slowly he identifies targets, harangues them with anti-India and anti-government lectures, laments over condition of Muslims and emphasizes the need for waging Jihad.
One day, he confides the group, that he was actually a Commander of Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) or some other organization. These youth, who are already brainwashed and enticed, now in a fit of emotions believe in the agent. Small weapons are distributed amongst them with a partial training of their working. Meanwhile, ammunition and vehicles and other things arrive. The agent is in touch with the sleuths in the IB and reports them with minute to minute happenings.
Finally, when the stage is set, the Commander calls for an operation. Even a recce is also done. Meanwhile, the IB informs the Special Cell, who puts a trap at the targeted place. These youth fall in their lap like ripe fruits without any resistance, along with arms and ammunition. They never know how they got into the police net. When police raids to nab their Commander, he is already back with the IB to explore newer pastures. He is never found. A terse news follows that so many terrorist were arrested and one managed to give police a slip.
These trapped youth curse themselves and feel guilty for rest of their life. Special Cell officers tell them that their crimes demand that they be killed in fake encounter, but having mercy on them, "we will send you to jail, where you will get out within six, seven years." These people also remain indebted to police, without knowing the background.
There are also cases where police plants incriminatory things like explosives, drugs on the detenues. The question remains, where they get such things. It is quite easy. For example, someone is caught with a fake currency to the tune of Rs. 50 lakh. Since the punishment for Rs. 50 lakh or five lakh is same, it does not matter for the Police whether to charge the accused for a lower or a higher sum. They will charge the accused for just Rs. 5 lakh, who for lack of knowledge of law also remains indebted to them. Rest of Rs. 45 lakh fake currency is deposited in the safe confines and later planted on victims. Same is the case with smack, heroin, explosives and everything.
Both the Special Cell and the IB have procured huge farm houses in the vicinity of Delhi to undertake unlawful activities. Those destined to be killed in fake encounters are not kept in police stations or at known facilities, they are lodged in these farm houses.
They are detained for months and years there before they are killed at some "appropriate time".
These encounters usually take place in the evening or dead of night. A stolen vehicle and a gun is recovered. Those victims who are killed in such encounters are kidnapped in such a way that nobody knows their whereabouts. The sleuths also take care that no case is lodged against this kidnapping. If there is hue and cry, they will wait for things to cool down. The police of states also exchanges victims with each other. In every state, you have now special branches or cells or squads who directly take orders from the IB.
For example, Special Cell of Delhi Police will take two Kashmiris from the Special Operations Group (SoG) of Jammu and Kashmir Police and in exchange gives them two persons from this side, who are killed in Kashmir branding them Pakistanis. Since they never get recognized and local people also show indifference, police stories look credible.
Since this game is played at a very high level, local police is a mute spectator. Most of the time they don't even know what is happening. Most of the time local police also treats it as a usual kidnapping case,when the families lodge complaint.
With all authority, I want to inform you that encounter orders come from higher authorities in the Home Ministry and all security agencies know an encounter is being managed at a particular day.
A team which is designed to inspect the scene of encounter and report whether it was fake or not, prepares its report in advance, making this exercise also farce.
Have you ever noticed, that those killed in encounters carry all their details, their name, rank in the organization, etc, in their pockets when they face encounter? Further, they die even without firing a bullet and even if they fire, it never hits the target. Our police needs to be appreciated that during past few years in almost 100 encounters, not a single personnel was ever injured. Compare it with the army's encounters with real terrorists in Kashmir. In almost every battle, one or two personnel get bullet wounds.
It speaks, either our army is not as trained as the Special Cell of Delhi Police, or the encounter is fake. If the Police insists on genuineness of these encounters, then I suggest, they be posted in Kashmir to replace army. People of this nation will also realize their bravery.
I will tell you how brave our Special Unit is. If they ever come to know that a miscreant is armed with a knife, they will never dare to go close to him. They will only nab him, when they are confident that the miscreant is unarmed. I have worked as their informer.
They would make sure from us that the culprit is totally unarmed When they go to apprehend him.
Dear Sir, the Special Cell is a group of licensed marauders. They have been highly communalized. They are venomous against Muslims. They hardly bother that somebody's family gets ruined, they are only concerned with their own rewards. Let me say, these Special Cell personnel are just human bodies with an animal soul.
And to speak of their torture techniques, it is beyond your imagination. Even more brutal than that you see infilms.
My only fault is that I refused to go along with them too long. They know, in the name of Islamic terrorism, you can book anyone, plant explosive, give name of some organization and make some hue and cry in the media. Rest with great distress, I am pained to say, our courts too fall in line. I was in their confinement for over two months. When my father lodged a complaint in local police station and the family of my co-accused Nawab S/o Qamar gave a look out notice on TV. Then they produced us claiming we nabbed them with explosives when we were returning after two month training.
We challenged it in the High Court. The High Court later directed the CBI to enquire, which has submitted its preliminary report. I don't think they will go too far to book their cousins in the IB and Special Cell. For the past one-and-half year, we have been identifying the place, where we were kept for two months. But, they are deliberately ignoring to put it on record.
I appeal to the Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh to step in and put a stop on such activities. These agencies are not securing the country, but making it extremely insecure. Those youth, who could contribute in nation building, are consigned to jails or encounters.
If we book a young man with dreams to do something for a nation, in a fake case and make him a terrorist, it is foolish to believe that he would remain loyal to you.
People who are jailed in such fake cases do think that if they ought to be punished heavily, then it was better for them to get arrested after really doing something. This is a dangerous trend. A rebellious thinking takes over. Even if they are released, no one is ready to own them.
Dear Prime Minister, it is high time to give a message to your security agencies. Fire can never douse fire. It needs water. Your security agencies are dousing fire with petrol.
I wish you to read the CBI report which has been submitted in the High Court, which clearly mentions names of the IB officers for Whom I was working as an informer. And who also kidnapped me.
Here are names and number of officials for whom I was working
IB officer Khalid alias Majid: 9810702004
IB officer Aftab: 9810702004
ACP SanjeevYadav: 9810058002
Inspector Lalit Mohan, Hriday Bhushan: 9811980604, 8711980601
They had give me also a mobile phone with SIM 9873303646
My mobile for talking to IB officers: 9873131845
It is not difficult for any agency or the media to get details of calls from these numbers to dig out truth.
Yours only
Irshad Ali S/o Mohamamd Yunus,
Ward No 5 (High Risk) Cell No. 13, Jail No. 8, Tihar, Delhi- 1100 64.
Subject: Ex-Tihar jail inmate claims IB traps Muslim youth into terrorism
Irshad Ali wrote to the prime minister when he was lodged in Tihar Jail, how the IB traps Muslim youth by planting jehadi maulvis among them. Ali, who according to his letter, had worked as an informer for special cell of Delhi police, claimed that his arrest was because he refused to carry on working for the IB. He was arrested in 2006, charged under the Explosive Substance Act and Arms Act, and remained in jail till 2011 when a court found him innocent and he was released.
This letter is part of the report, titled “Framed, Damned, Acquitted – Dossiers of a ‘Very’ Special Cell”, brought out by the Jamia Teachers’ Solidarity Association (JTSA) which details 16 such cases where people, deemed innocent by the court, were arrested by the Delhi police’s elite special cell on flimsy evidence. A review of court rulings found that these cases were eventually thrown out by judges, who accused the unit of framing suspects using tampered evidence and false confessions.
Below is the letter taken from page 181 of the report. The complete report can be referred at http://ping.fm/aSKYM
“Dear PM, the Special Cell is a group of licensed marauders”:
Irshad Ali’s letter from Tihar Jail
The Prime Minister of India
South Block
Dear Sir,
I am writing this letter from the confinement of Tihar Jail with the aim to save innocent youth from getting trapped into the netwoven
by unscrupulous men in the security agencies to earn rewards and
promotions in the name of fighting terrorism. I hope it will help people and your readers and enable them to largely save themselves. Let me introduce myself. My name is Irshad Ali, S/o Mohamamd Yunus incarcerated in Ward No. 5 (High Risk Ward) Cell No. 13 in Jail No. 8 of Delhi's Tihar Jail.
Many of you may have recently read my story in The Times of India dated September 13, 2007 citing a CBI report confirming that IB and Special Cell of Delhi Police had framed us. But, I suspect if the CBI report goes further and nails the actual culprits.
I was working as an Informer for the Special Cell of Delhi Police, which works closely with the IB to nab terrorists. Having worked closely with them, I feel duty bound to appraise the nation of the working of these agencies and how they manufacture terrorists.
They have made the war on terrorism a total farce. Have you ever noticed how quick our agencies are in nabbing the culprits even before they strike? But, how interesting it is that still they have not yet been able to lay their hands on any terrorist involved in Mumbaiand Delhi blasts? Why? I have answers.
In order to keep their ranks and earn rewards, Special Cell creates terrorists. I will tell you how these agencies work. They have employed a number of youth, on a very paltry remuneration. They are not regular employees, but just vagabonds, who are given mobile phones and protection. They are asked to fan out and hire accommodation somewhere in the city. They mingle with unemployed youth and befriend people around. After identifying vulnerable targets, they form a group, arrange weapons and incite these youth to go for a robbery. Special Cell secretively also provides them a stolen vehicle, which is procured from known car thieves.
These youth who vest all their trust in the Special Cell agent finally one day decide to go for an operation. Upon reaching the target, they are trapped in the net, like a fish. At the targeted place, Police is already there to receive them and they are all nabbed without resistance. Interestingly, the agent, who is also a mastermind never, gets in police trap and he successfully vanishes. Medals and bravery awards follow.
An interesting aspect of this whole episode remains that these youth never realize the truth behind their arrest. They curse their luck and resign to their fate spending years in imprisonment.
Now, let me shed some light on the working of the Intelligence Bureau (IB). This is the most useless agency which does nothing, but to feed the government and media with concocted stories. That earns them crores of rupees from the government besides special powers. And they are least accountable because everything is done in a secretive manner. You may have heard often stories like; a dozen terrorists have landed in Delhi; half-a-dozen terrorists are roaming in Mumbai; ISI is taking roots in UP etc.
Now to back their claims, a Molvi type agent sporting a long beard and well versed with Islamic tenants is launched in some Muslim locality. Most often, the Molvi either takes a rented accommodation near a mosque or in some cases makes mosque itself an abode. The pious nature of Molvi, his praying five times a day and some heart rending story easily earns him sympathy and attention. He starts befriending particularly educated Muslim youth. Slowly he identifies targets, harangues them with anti-India and anti-government lectures, laments over condition of Muslims and emphasizes the need for waging Jihad.
One day, he confides the group, that he was actually a Commander of Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) or some other organization. These youth, who are already brainwashed and enticed, now in a fit of emotions believe in the agent. Small weapons are distributed amongst them with a partial training of their working. Meanwhile, ammunition and vehicles and other things arrive. The agent is in touch with the sleuths in the IB and reports them with minute to minute happenings.
Finally, when the stage is set, the Commander calls for an operation. Even a recce is also done. Meanwhile, the IB informs the Special Cell, who puts a trap at the targeted place. These youth fall in their lap like ripe fruits without any resistance, along with arms and ammunition. They never know how they got into the police net. When police raids to nab their Commander, he is already back with the IB to explore newer pastures. He is never found. A terse news follows that so many terrorist were arrested and one managed to give police a slip.
These trapped youth curse themselves and feel guilty for rest of their life. Special Cell officers tell them that their crimes demand that they be killed in fake encounter, but having mercy on them, "we will send you to jail, where you will get out within six, seven years." These people also remain indebted to police, without knowing the background.
There are also cases where police plants incriminatory things like explosives, drugs on the detenues. The question remains, where they get such things. It is quite easy. For example, someone is caught with a fake currency to the tune of Rs. 50 lakh. Since the punishment for Rs. 50 lakh or five lakh is same, it does not matter for the Police whether to charge the accused for a lower or a higher sum. They will charge the accused for just Rs. 5 lakh, who for lack of knowledge of law also remains indebted to them. Rest of Rs. 45 lakh fake currency is deposited in the safe confines and later planted on victims. Same is the case with smack, heroin, explosives and everything.
Both the Special Cell and the IB have procured huge farm houses in the vicinity of Delhi to undertake unlawful activities. Those destined to be killed in fake encounters are not kept in police stations or at known facilities, they are lodged in these farm houses.
They are detained for months and years there before they are killed at some "appropriate time".
These encounters usually take place in the evening or dead of night. A stolen vehicle and a gun is recovered. Those victims who are killed in such encounters are kidnapped in such a way that nobody knows their whereabouts. The sleuths also take care that no case is lodged against this kidnapping. If there is hue and cry, they will wait for things to cool down. The police of states also exchanges victims with each other. In every state, you have now special branches or cells or squads who directly take orders from the IB.
For example, Special Cell of Delhi Police will take two Kashmiris from the Special Operations Group (SoG) of Jammu and Kashmir Police and in exchange gives them two persons from this side, who are killed in Kashmir branding them Pakistanis. Since they never get recognized and local people also show indifference, police stories look credible.
Since this game is played at a very high level, local police is a mute spectator. Most of the time they don't even know what is happening. Most of the time local police also treats it as a usual kidnapping case,when the families lodge complaint.
With all authority, I want to inform you that encounter orders come from higher authorities in the Home Ministry and all security agencies know an encounter is being managed at a particular day.
A team which is designed to inspect the scene of encounter and report whether it was fake or not, prepares its report in advance, making this exercise also farce.
Have you ever noticed, that those killed in encounters carry all their details, their name, rank in the organization, etc, in their pockets when they face encounter? Further, they die even without firing a bullet and even if they fire, it never hits the target. Our police needs to be appreciated that during past few years in almost 100 encounters, not a single personnel was ever injured. Compare it with the army's encounters with real terrorists in Kashmir. In almost every battle, one or two personnel get bullet wounds.
It speaks, either our army is not as trained as the Special Cell of Delhi Police, or the encounter is fake. If the Police insists on genuineness of these encounters, then I suggest, they be posted in Kashmir to replace army. People of this nation will also realize their bravery.
I will tell you how brave our Special Unit is. If they ever come to know that a miscreant is armed with a knife, they will never dare to go close to him. They will only nab him, when they are confident that the miscreant is unarmed. I have worked as their informer.
They would make sure from us that the culprit is totally unarmed When they go to apprehend him.
Dear Sir, the Special Cell is a group of licensed marauders. They have been highly communalized. They are venomous against Muslims. They hardly bother that somebody's family gets ruined, they are only concerned with their own rewards. Let me say, these Special Cell personnel are just human bodies with an animal soul.
And to speak of their torture techniques, it is beyond your imagination. Even more brutal than that you see infilms.
My only fault is that I refused to go along with them too long. They know, in the name of Islamic terrorism, you can book anyone, plant explosive, give name of some organization and make some hue and cry in the media. Rest with great distress, I am pained to say, our courts too fall in line. I was in their confinement for over two months. When my father lodged a complaint in local police station and the family of my co-accused Nawab S/o Qamar gave a look out notice on TV. Then they produced us claiming we nabbed them with explosives when we were returning after two month training.
We challenged it in the High Court. The High Court later directed the CBI to enquire, which has submitted its preliminary report. I don't think they will go too far to book their cousins in the IB and Special Cell. For the past one-and-half year, we have been identifying the place, where we were kept for two months. But, they are deliberately ignoring to put it on record.
I appeal to the Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh to step in and put a stop on such activities. These agencies are not securing the country, but making it extremely insecure. Those youth, who could contribute in nation building, are consigned to jails or encounters.
If we book a young man with dreams to do something for a nation, in a fake case and make him a terrorist, it is foolish to believe that he would remain loyal to you.
People who are jailed in such fake cases do think that if they ought to be punished heavily, then it was better for them to get arrested after really doing something. This is a dangerous trend. A rebellious thinking takes over. Even if they are released, no one is ready to own them.
Dear Prime Minister, it is high time to give a message to your security agencies. Fire can never douse fire. It needs water. Your security agencies are dousing fire with petrol.
I wish you to read the CBI report which has been submitted in the High Court, which clearly mentions names of the IB officers for Whom I was working as an informer. And who also kidnapped me.
Here are names and number of officials for whom I was working
IB officer Khalid alias Majid: 9810702004
IB officer Aftab: 9810702004
ACP SanjeevYadav: 9810058002
Inspector Lalit Mohan, Hriday Bhushan: 9811980604, 8711980601
They had give me also a mobile phone with SIM 9873303646
My mobile for talking to IB officers: 9873131845
It is not difficult for any agency or the media to get details of calls from these numbers to dig out truth.
Yours only
Irshad Ali S/o Mohamamd Yunus,
Ward No 5 (High Risk) Cell No. 13, Jail No. 8, Tihar, Delhi- 1100 64.
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