By Muslim Mirror News,
New Delhi, 5 April, 2014: The All India Muslim Majlise Mushawarat, the apex body of India Muslim organisations, issued a legal notice yesterday to the BJP head Mr VK Malhotra who had recently defamed the Batla House and Jamia Nagar localities of South Delhi by claiming that they are “dens of terrorists”.
The Mushawarat told Mr Malhotra in its legal notice, sent through Adv. Durga Manyu Gupta, that “you have made these statements with criminal intent to promote enmity between different groups on ground of religion, community, place of birth, residence, etc., and to incite acts prejudicial to maintenance of harmony, and you have intentionally insulted, and thereby given provocation to common people, intending and knowing it to be likely that such provocation will cause such persons to break the public peace, or to commit other offences. As such, your acts of making and publicising the aforesaid defamatory, malicious and provocative statements are offences under law”.
The legal notice further told the BJP leader that “your aforesaid statements have caused immense and irreparable damage to the reputation of an entire locality, its residents, its co-religionists as well as such other localities and their residents throughout the country. The damage caused is beyond calculation in term of money.”
Mushawarat has asked Malhotra to tender an unconditional public apology, particularly to the residents of Jamia Nagar and publicise the same on an equal scale. Mushawarat further said in its notice that failure to comply with the aforesaid demand, will force it to initiate appropriate legal action.
Click here for the text of the legal notice:
Joint Statement of Muslim Leaders against arresting of Muslim youths, scholars in false cases
‘Govt is either acting on some imperialist or Zionist policy or is working under the influence of anti-Muslim mindset’
New Delhi, 04 April 2014: We the undersigned strongly condemn the arrest of educated innocent Muslim youths and Ulema (scholars) in false cases in different states of the country and demand the government to end its indifferent attitude towards the country’s largest minority and violation of human rights by the state machinery and to immediately release all the arrested people who are victims of the police.
We feel that our government is either acting on some imperialist or Zionist policy or is working under the influence of anti-Muslim mindset of fascist and communal officers of the administration. If it is not, then how it is possible that the democratic values of the country and justice are being bludgeoned to death and the government perhaps as strategy is a mute spectator. This attitude of the government is very disturbing and concerning not only for Muslims but also the justice-loving people of the country.
It is surprising and beyond our comprehension, that leaders of various religious and social organizations and politicians have been meeting leaders of the state and central governments and demanding an end to atrocities and injustice with Muslims, and government representatives have also assuring to take action, but neither has the series of arrests ended, nor the cases against innocents withdrawn and the victims released from jails. Rather, the terrible series has continued unabated. The arrest of around 20 youths from Rajasthan and Delhi and a cleric from Delhi airport in last one week is its clear example.
Issued by: Dr. Zafarul Islam Khan, President All India Majlis-e Mushawarat Mr. Nusrat Ali, Secretary General, Jamaat Islami Hind Dr. Manzoor Alam, Chairman of IOS Maulana Jalal Hydar, Shia leader Maulana Asghar Ali Imam Mahdi Salfi, Head of Jamiat-e-Ahle Hadees Maulana Mufti Ataur Rahman Qasmi, All India Majlis-e Mushawarat Mr. Abdul Waheed Khan