Plaints galore against police atrocities at minorities’ meet

By CT reporter
MANGALORE : "The Ullal police barged into our house by breaking open the back doors. They caned me and my children inside the house and outside. When children asked why they were hitting, they told them to sned their mother and they will reply . Is this proper sir ? Is it that we were subject to all this atrocity merely because we are Muslims ?," when a person from Ullal, a victim of the recent violence questioned so with tearful eyes, the whole meeting was stunned.
It was the meeting convened by the State Minorities Commission Chairman KSM Masood at the DC office meeting hall recently.
Most of the complaints were against police atrocities.
The person who raised the above questuon even said the nearly 10 to 15 police men who had come to his house had covered their faces to hide their identity.
Muslim Central Committee members Ibrahim Kodijal, Hameed Kandak, C Ahmed Jamal, Muzaffar Ahmed and others demanded a probe into the police atrocities in Ullal.
Hameed Kandak questioned why only the faults of the Muslims were highlighted. He said the Muslims do not want protection or compensation but justice. He was also all praise for the Westren Range IGP Satyanarayana Rao saying had it not for Rao, Muslims would have suffered much more during the violence.
Members of the Muslim community from Ullal, Bajal, Padil, Mallur Badrianagar and other areas aired their woes before the Commission chairman on the occasion.