Friday, November 17, 2006

Majority plaints to Agarwal against SP, police dept




By CT reporter
MANGALORE : Several of the complaints which the additional chief secretary of the state government AK Agarwal, probing into the Mangalore riots, received were against the district superintendent of police B Dayanand and the police department.
Several victims of the Mangalore violence have complained to the chief secretary that the police inaction itself was responsible for the escalation of violence and that the police had not made any attempt to supress the Hindu organisations which tried to take law unto their hands.
Some Muslim organisations in thier complaint even alleged that the police, during the riots acted as agents of Hindu organisations and that the SP had not made any concerted effort to curtail the violence. He remained silent just to appease the distict minister and later on woke up from his slumber, the complainants said.
K Yadav Shetty , General Secretary of the Raitha Sangha, in his complaint forwarded to Agarwal said the SP when complained against the Bhajrangdal style of functioning hnd told them to understand the changed political scenario. He even complained that the SP did not pay heed to the complaint against the Bhajrangdal workers who spoilt the wall writing of DYFI.
Bondala Jagannath Shetty, Youth Congress President, in his complaint said the police department had failed to tackle sensitive cases. While Bhajrangdal workers were booked under Section 107, innocents were booked under Section 436. His another complaint was that the police had failed to take any action even when they found the accused in the rioting case, moving royally after the violence subsided.
Over 300 complaints were filed in two days and most of the complaints made a pointer towards the police atrocities during the riots.Now, it is left to be seen if the SP would be shunted taking serious note of all the complaints against the police department.

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