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‘All citizens who believe in secularism should support your
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Gurudas Kamat On the question of special
legislation to the victims of communal riots, I am fully in favour of
payment of immediate compensation to every victim of communal and caste
caste conflict. Equally well, I fully support strict action against any
police official, whatever his rank, who has been indicted by the findings of
an official judicial commission. Government should not hesitate or ignore to
take prompt, punitive measures to correct serious lapses by the
administration and the dereliction of duty by men in uniform. Hearings before the Gundewar
Commission, appointed to investigate the police firing against Dalits (when
11 persons were killed due to police firing) at Ramabai Nagar in Ghatkopar
(north-east), Mumbai, is in progress.The report is expected to be submitted
in a couple of months. I have already publicly stated that I will go on a
hunger strike if the report is not released to the public and corrective
action recommended taken immediately. It is clear from the posturing of
the SS-BJP government that they are adopting dilatory tactics, taking cover
of the six months’ period granted to any government to formulate the Action
Taken Report (ATR). They are trying to say that for these six months that
they need to for action on the recommendations of the Judge, the report will
not be released. There is nothing in law to substantiate this position, this
amounts to nothing but a suppression of the report. The Srikrishna report
must be released now even if action on recommendations made is taken later.
The very fact that they are not releasing the report is evidence that SS
bigwigs are seriously implicated. |