They vociferously demanded CBI probe into the incident and quick action against the guilty officials.
Four innocent villagers including a pregnant woman and 6 months child were brutally killed and several injured in police firing on June 3 in Forbesganj of Araria district of Bihar.
Syed Akhlak Ahmad, convener of the People’s protest, representing Association for Protection of Civil Rights (APCR) said, “all the culprit police officials including S.P. Garima Malik, S.D.O. and S.H.O are roaming free and still on duty”. He said that no action has been taken against them by Nitish Kumar’s Government till now.
On the contrary three FIRs have been registered against 3000 villagers by the Forbesganj police under sections of 302, 307, 348, 27 of Arms Act etc.
“No FIR against the culprit police officials has been registered yet. Family connection of Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi with the culprit factory owner is influencing the case and one of the reasons the State’s inaction,”Ahmad said.
Warning the Nitish Government not to make Bihar a second ‘Gujarat’ he said “instead of spending a large amount of public exchequer on media for promoting and publicizing his party and government, spend it for public welfare and on civic amenities. “ The tax payer money should be used for promoting justice and uplifting life style of the public and not for propagating saffron agenda”, he said.
Mr. Md. Azharuddin, President, Students Islamic Organisation of India (SIO), while condemning Nithish government’s said, “displacing labourers and poor villagers in the name of development is not in the favour of Indian democracy.”
Mr. Intizar Naeem, of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind (JIH) said, “this anti-Minority violence is not new for Bihar, earlier state has witnessed the Bhagalpur riots and now Nithish government seems to be once again creating the communal atmosphere in the state.”
Mr. Naved Hamid, General Secretary of All India Muslim Majlis-e-Mashawarat (AIMMM) while condemning the incident, supported the demand of CBI inquiry into the incident.
They also submitted the memorandum to the Chief Minister of Bihar through resident’s commissioner of Bihar Bhawan.