MINORITIES - 2002 - Indian Social Institute

incident. "Mr Advani simply kept repeating that the situation is under control and that the Army would be
kept as a stand-by. Now that Army has been moved in, it is wrongly deployed," he said. (IE 4.3.02)
4 th March
One killed in Aligarh, curfew is imposed (7)
Aligarh, March 3: One person was stabbed to death in Aligarh on Sunday where curfew was clamped on
parts of the Old City after the police fired in the air to disperse an unruly mob protesting the alleged killing
of a vendor belonging -to a minority community. Deepak Raizada, a special. police officer, was going to
Kotwali police station to attend a meeting of the peace committee when he was stabbed, the police said.
The police also said that curfew was imposed on three areas of the Old City — Delhi Gate, Sasni Gate
and Kotwali — following an eruption of violence over reports that a vendor who went missing from a
cinema on Saturday evening had been killed. When the vendor's parents and relatives failed to trace him,
protesters pelted the police with stones demanding that the vendor's body be handed over to them. (PTI)
(Asian Age 4.3.02)
4 th March
Are VHP, BJP workers the culprits? (7)
AHMEDABAD: Workers of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad and the BJP have been booked for murder in FIRs
filed in the Naroda-Patia carnage of Friday which claimed nearly 65 lives.
Interestingly, the FIRs filed at the Meghaninagar police station names shopkeepers of the area as being
the culprits responsible for the burning alive of at least 38 persons. But the accused's political leanings
have not been elaborated. The five 'active' BJP and VHP workers named in the Naroda-Patia incident are
Kishan Korani, P.J. Rajput, Harish Rohera, Babu Bajrangi and Raju Chaubal apart from 10-15,000 people,
in the complaint filed by sub-inspector A.K.Solanki. At Chamanpura, the persons have been vaguely
identified in the FIR as small-time traders in the area mostly operating around a temple in this area, that
has always been in a state of communal frenzy. (TOI 4.3.02)
4th March
Children spared, only to watch parents burn (7)
Mehsana, March 3 (Reuters): The only thing five-year-old Karisma Rahman remembers of the mob that
burned her parents 'alive is their shouts of "leave the children alone!"."I don't know what happened," she
says, staring vacantly as she sits in a relative's home at Vijayapur.
The mob left Karisma and her brother, Mohsin, 12, in their tenement of remote Ladoo village yesterday,
but dragged their parents out and forced them to lie on the ground. Mohsin watched them pour kerosene
on his mother and set her on fire. When he rushed out, he was beaten with a stick and pushed back into
the house. "I recognise who did it," he says, reeling off names. (Telegraph 4.3.02)
5 th March
March
Modi puts state money where biased mouth is (7)
GANDHINAGAR. MARCH 4 :THAT the government of Chief Minister Narendra Modi sees the Godhra
carnage through different lenses than the revenge attacks which have left over 500 dead across the state
was reinforced by another decision today: compensation for the victims.
The government has decided that families of those killed in the Godhra attack on the Sabarmati Express
will be paid Rs 2 lakh while relatives of those killed in the violence following Godhra will get Rs 1 lakh per
victim. When asked about the discrepancy, Additional Chief Secretary (Revenue) C K Koshi told The
Indian Express: "We are only following a precedent. Since 1992, the government has been paying Rs 2
lakh to any victim linked to the Ayodhya movement. Those on board the Sabarmati Express qualify under
this precedent and, therefore, the amount." (IE 5.3.02)
5 th March
MP police claim VHP’s hand in explosion at AIR (7)
BHOPAL, MARCH 4: THE Madhya Pradesh police claim to have unearthed a VHP plot to set the AIR
premises in Indore afire and put the blame on SIMI. "We have evidence suggesting that the men who
hurled two petrol bombs on February 28 were VHP activists," said IGP (Indore) VM. Kanwar. Since the