[Marxistindia] CPI(M) Condemns Communal Attack

[news from the cpi(m)]

June 23, 2017


Press Statement

The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued the
following statement:

CPI(M) Condemns Communal Attack

The CPI(M) strongly condemns the communal attack on a Muslim family in a
local train on the outskirts of Delhi leading to the death of Junaid, a 15
year old student and serious stab injuries to his brother 22 year old
Shakir. The third brother Hashim was also injured. The men who led the
slogan shouting mob attacked them with large knives.

These young men boarded a local train at Delhi around 5 pm for
Ballabhgarh, Haryana. Junaid and his younger brother are students in a
Madrassa in Surat and were home on their annual visit during Eid. Some men
who got on at Tughlaqabad started abusing them using filthy communal
language. When they protested they were brutally attacked amidst shouting
of communal slogans.  Junaid was beaten to death in the train. The mob
tried to pull out Shaikr’s beard. He was stabbed in three places The badly
injured victims were not allowed to get off at Ballabhgarh. They were
thrown off the train. Some people later found them and took them to the
hospital.

This communally motivated crime shows that the BJP-RSS rule is leading to
communal mob actions. There have been earlier incidents of violence
against Muslims on trains but Government has not acted to uphold the law
of the land, thus directly encouraging the growth of such communal hate
crimes.

CPI(M) Polit Bureau members Brinda Karat and M.P. Md. Salim and Delhi
Secretariat member Asha Sharma met the family in hospital in Delhi this
morning. It is shameful and condemnable that the Government and
specifically the Prime Minister and the Home Minister have maintained a
deafening silence and not a single officer has been deputed to even visit
the family.

CPI(M) demands action against the guilty. It demands adequate compensation
for the family. It calls for strong protest actions against such
communally motivated crimes, especially in public spaces.



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