A ‘padayatra’ in Gujarat on Monday was halted after the Panchmahal district police detained him after the discharge of 11 convicts accused of raping and killing 14 of his members of the family. Seven activists as “a preventive action”.
The 180-km padyatra from Randhikpur in Dahod to Ahmedabad was organized by social activists led by Magsaysay Award winner Sandeep Pandey and was to be organized below the banner of Hindu Muslim Ekta Samiti. Pandey, who was among the many prisoners, has began a quick in opposition to the police motion at Kakanpur police station, the place the employees have now been shifted. Two girls activists who have been launched have been additionally opposing this transfer of the police.
Seven activists, together with two girls, have been detained from the home of native municipal councilor Hanif Haji Qalandar in Godhra on Sunday night time and delivered to the town’s B-division police station. After activists posted stay movies on social media from the police station, locals gathered on the police station in help, following which the police needed to shift the activists to a different location.
“An enormous crowd had gathered on the B-division police station, and to take care of regulation and order, the activists have been taken to Kakanpur, whereas the ladies have been allowed to depart. We haven’t arrested them. This is a preventive motion because the ‘padayatra’ can create regulation and order downside,” said a senior officer of Panchmahal district police. “Police have been deployed from Godhra to Randhikpur and likewise on the primary freeway as we expect crowd. It is a regulation and order subject and the police acted solely as per the provisions of regulation,” the official mentioned. ,
On Sunday night time, activists sporting placards with ‘Sorry Bilkis’ round their necks, streamed stay video the place they have been seen arguing with police. “You can see, we have decided to do this ‘padyatra’ to apologize to Bilkis Bano. We are not doing it even against the government. We are apologizing to him just because he was gang-raped She was killed, her children and family were killed, and yet, the convicts were released. She is living in fear and we want to apologize. So is this a protest against the government?”
“Are we guilty that around 200 police personnel were sent to my house to take us into custody? What about the people who gang-raped Bilkis, murdered her 3-year-old girl and the other 14 members? If they (convicts) are innocent and preachers of peace, are we criminals,” Counselor Qalandar requested.
In the 2002 Godhra riots within the state, Bilkis Bano was gang-raped and several other of his kinfolk have been killed.
The Gujarat authorities launched 11 convicts within the case as a part of its remission and untimely launch coverage when one of many convicts, Radheshyam Shah, moved the Supreme Court. In 2008, Shah, who was sentenced to life imprisonment by a CBI court docket in Mumbai, accomplished his sentence of 15 years and 4 months in jail.
With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
