New Delhi:
30 Nov. 2008
A public meeting of citizens of Delhi was organised today in the evening in front of the historical Jama Masjid of Delhi; to mark the completion of the fortnight long "Caravan for peace and justice", launched by Jamaat-e-Islami Hind.
Jamaat's president Maulana Syed Jalaluddin Umari presided over the programme while its General Secretary Nusrat Ali, Maulana Zishan Hidayati, Maulana Abdul Wahab Khilji, Dr Suresh Khairnar addressed the progamme.
The meeting called for comprehensive measures to ensure justice and peace in the country and unanimously adopted the following demands:
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All riots and disruptive acts of the last decade should be probed into by an independent high powered commission; to identify the actual culprits and the report of this enquiry should be made public.
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Reforms should be initiated in the police and law enforcement machinery and the recommendations of National Police Commission should be immediately implemented. Police personnel at all levels should adequately represent all communities residing in that state.
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Effective legal mechanism should be evolved to check and curb police atrocities, illegal detentions, fake encounters, tortures, custodial deaths and fabricated accusations.
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Harassment of relatives and well wishers of the detainees should be stopped and a whole locality should not be targeted or victimised.
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Confidential reports and confessions extrated under duress must not be leaked to the media. Effective regulations and leagal mechanism should be enacted to ensure fair and unbiased reporting in media.
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All initiatives for undemocratic and unjust legislation should be stopped and all those legislations enacted by various states should be withdrawn wherein confessions in police custody are made admissible in courts or which allow police to keep persons arrested without filing charge sheets against them or which violate human rights in any way.
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Measures should be adopted to promote human values, respect for human life, tolerance and cooperation so that we can build a conflict free and peaceful India.
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Justice should not be delayed. Comprehensive reforms in the judicial system should be initiated to ensure speedy delivery of justice. All those residing in jails for more than five years, pending a judgement in their cases; should be immediately released. All those who are eligible for bail, but lack financial resource, should be granted bail and released from custody.
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The horribele conditions in jails should be changed and made humane through comprehensive measures of jail reform.
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As part of its anit-Muslim stance, the erstwhile NDA regime had imposed an injust ban on SIMI. The present central government should honour the Justice Gita Mittal tribunal's judegement in this regard and immediately lift the ban on students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI).
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