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Date: 26 Aug 2008 21:15
Subject: PRESS RELEASE - · PUCL condemns the way Mr . Yusuf Sheikh, a human
rights and social activist of Vadodara, member of PUCL was summoned and
interrogated by the Vadodara Police in a non-transparent manner. While PUCL
understands the need for summoning and questioning people, it strongly
feels their human rights should be respected.
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*PRESS RELEASE
*
DATE: 25-8-2008
*· * PUCL condemns the way Mr. Yusuf Sheikh, a human rights and
social activist of Vadodara, member of PUCL was summoned and interrogated by
the Vadodara Police in a non-transparent manner.
· The PUCL reiterated the need for an in depth and impartial enquiry
into the tragic bomb blast cases that occurred in Ahmedabad last month.
· While PUCL understands the need for summoning and questioning
people, it strongly feels their human rights should be respected.
· PUCL demands that the Police pursue the investigations
constitutionally, professionally and stop terrorizing the Muslim community
in the act of hunting down terrorists.
An emergency meeting of the PUCL - Gujarat was convened at Vadodara to take
stock of the situation arising out of the indiscriminate arrests and illegal
detention of Muslim youth in the Ahmedabad-Surat blast investigation cases.
The PUCL reiterated the need for an in depth and impartial enquiry into the
tragic bomb blast cases that occurred in Ahmedabad last month. However the
PUCL team expressed concern that in the name of investigation, several
persons from the Muslim community are harassed and their constitutional and
fundamental rights violated. Many Muslim youth have been summoned for
investigation, detained on vague and arbitrary charges and their families
not even informed about their whereabouts thereafter. *It is shocking that
people are summoned verbally and not in writing, which is contrary to recent
order of the Bombay High Court.
*The PUCL condemns this unconstitutional manner of investigation which is
bound to deviate the investigation from fair and impartial lines thereby
preventing the police from arriving at the truth and arresting the real
perpetrators of the bomb blasts.
The PUCL also condemns the harassment of human rights activists and vocal
leaders of the Muslim community - this reminds of the way the Gujarat Police
operated in 2002.
PUCL condemns the way Mr. Yusuf Sheikh, a human rights and social activist
of Vadodara, member of PUCL was summoned and interrogated by the Vadodara
Police in a non-transparent manner for 3 days on 29th, 30th and 31St July
2008 and on August 23rd - 24th in an old decrepit building (old police
station in Karelibaug, Vadodara), till 2 a.m. in the morning.
While PUCL understands the need for summoning and questioning people, it
strongly feels their human rights should be respected. PUCL demands that the
Police pursue the investigations constitutionally, professionally and stop
terrorizing the Muslim community in the act of hunting down terrorists.
We would like to put on record that the Supreme Court in its recent interim
order dated 22nd September 2006 in Writ Petition (Civil) No. 310 of 1996
clearly observed "…The petition refers to a research paper 'Political and
Administrative Manipulation of the Police' published in 1979 by Bureau of
Police Research and Development, warning that excessive control of the
political executive and its principal advisers over the police has the
inherent danger of making the police a tool for subverting the process of
law, promoting the growth of authoritarianism, and shaking the very
foundations of democracy.
The commitment, devotion, and accountability of the police have to be only
to the Rule of Law. The supervision and control has to be such that it
ensures that the police serve the people without any regard, whatsoever, to
the status and position of any person while investigating a crime or taking
preventive measures.
... Similarly, we can only express our hope that all State Governments would
rise to the occasion and enact a new Police Act wholly insulating the police
from any pressure whatsoever thereby placing in position an important
measure for securing the rights of the citizens under the Constitution for
the Rule of Law, treating everyone equal and being partisan to none, which
will also help in securing an efficient and better criminal justice delivery
system."
For *People's Union for Civil Liberties, Gujarat
R*ohit *P*rajapati, Vadodara
Dr. *J*. *S*. *B*andukwala, Vadodara
*C*hinu *S*rinivasan, Vadodara
*G*irish *P*atel, Ahmedabad
*H*iren *G*andhi, Ahmedabad
*S*ophia *K*han, Ahmedabad
*T*rupti *S*hah, Vadodara
*P*rasad *C*hacko, Ahmedabad
*S*wati *D*esai, Dediapada
*S*habnam *H*ashmi, Anhad
*J*ohanna *L*okhande, Vadodara
*S*hobha *S*hah, Vadodara
*A*shok *G*upta, Vadodara
*R*eshma *V*ohra, Vadodara
*Y*usuf *S*heikh, Vadodara
*A*mrishbhai *B*rahmbhatt, Vadodara
*H*amidaben *C*handul, Vadodara
*K*antibhai *M*istry, Vadodara
*H*ozefa, Ahmedabad
*D*ipti *B*hatt, Vadodara
*M*eera *R*ati, Ahmedabad
*D*eepak *S*olanki, Ahmedabad
*A*mbrish *M*ehta, Vadodara
*T*rupti *P*arekh, Vadodara
*A*nand *M*azgaonkar, Rajpipala
Fr. *X*avier *M*anjooran, Rajpipala Social Service Society, Rajpipala
*R*ajni *D*ave, Ahmedabad
*J*yotibhai *D*esai, Vedchhi
*T*eesta *S*etalvad, Communalism Combat & Citizens for Justice and Peace.
*C*edric *P*rakash, PRASHANT-A Centre for Human Rights, Justice and Peace,
Ahmedabad
*K*rishnakant, Vadodara
Fr. *F*rancis *G*. *P*armar
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Post-Akota, Vadodara - 390 020
GUJARAT, INDIA
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