Union Minister Sanjeev Balyan visits Muzaffarnagar prison, meets 2013 riot accused

By Dilip -
NB: The minister is himself an under-trial who has been pulled up by a local court for failing to appear before it in connection with the 2013 riots case. He also faces charges for violating prohibitory orders, deterring public servants from discharging their duties and wrongful restraint. Given the manufactured communal polarisation in UP just prior to the national elections, his value to the ruling party is fairly clear. His concern for riot accused persons should come as no surprise. But we may be sure that he took an oath to adhere to the Indian Constitution when he joined the Union Government. DS

UNION Minister Sanjeev Balyan visited Muzaffarnagar district jail Sunday and met four inmates, who are accused in the riots that broken out in western UP in 2013, officials said on Monday. During his half-an-hour stay in the jail, Balyan reportedly discussed the problems faced by the accused who belong to Fugana area of Muzaffarnagar and face charges of murder and rape during the riots that saw more than 60 people dead and over 40,000 displaced.

Balyan, the Union Minister of State for Agriculture, also reportedly assured all help to the accused against whom the police have already filed chargesheets. “The minister met riot accused Indrapal, Kapil, Pushpendra and Gaurav,” said A N Tripathi, jailor, Muzaffarnagar district jail.

As per the records, Indrapal has been lodged in the jail since August 22, 2014, and Pushpendra since November 1, 2014. Kapil and Gaurav have been lodged there since October 18 and December 15, 2014, respectively. According to police records, Indrapal is an accused in the murder case of Azamuddin and his wife Haleeman. The couple were allegedly attacked and killed after violence erupted at Lisad village on September 8, 2013. An FIR regarding the murders was lodged at Fugana police station against seven persons, including Indrapal, on September 24, 2013.

Gaurav, Pushpendra and Kapil were held accused for gangrape of a Muslim woman at her house in Fugana police station area after the riots broke out on September 8, 2013. The victim had got a case registered against seven persons, including Gaurav, Pushpendra and Kapil. Special Investigation Cell, which is probing the riot cases, has filed chargesheets in both the cases. Balyan was not available for his comments on the visit.


A local court, on November 24, had issued fresh bailable warrants against Balyan, BJP MP Bhartendra Singh, party MLA Suresh Rana and VHP leader Sadhvi Prachi for failing to appear before it in connection with the 2013 riots case. They are facing charges for violating prohibitory orders, deterring public servants from discharging their duties and also that of wrongful restraint.

see also

Public Appeal by concerned citizens - Resist degradation ofIndian criminal justice system - Retired Judge Jyotsana Yagnik threatened
The Aseemanand tapes - Caravan ...
The BJP and Justice, Chapter 2: Ishrat Encounter Cop Reinstated // Muzzafarnagar Riot accused becomes Union minister
Jyoti Punwani - Let us not give our Islamic neighbour a run for its money
"Remember Gandhi. Remember what we did to him
"Leftists never condemn Islamist terror"
Gujarat govt gets HC nod to launch probe against former DGP Sreekumar
After Professor Kalburgi Murder, Exhibit A is Police Inertia
RSS Declared Unlawful: Text of GOI communique February 4, 1948
Smruti Koppikar - Maharashtra CM has no will to pursue my father’s murder
Petition in Supreme Court Accuses NIA of Soft-Pedaling Hindutva Terror Cases
After Malegaon, Ajmer Blast Case Faces Allegations of Sabotage // Witnesses turn hostile in Samjhauta case
The law of killing: a brief history of Indian fascism
The Broken Middle - my essay on the 30th anniversary of 1984
The Assassination of Mahatma Gandhi: Inquiry Commission Report (1969)
The Abolition of truth
RSS tradition of manufacturing facts to suit their ideology
Siddharth Varadarajan: Yakub Memon, Maya Kodnani and the ‘Chain of Action and Reaction’
The importance of Professor Kalburgi
Mukul Kesavan: Intimations of evil - The Vyapam deaths
Public Appeal - Resist degradation of Indian criminal justice system
At Risk of Death, Will Expose Chief Minister Chouhan:Vyapam Whistle-Blower

Retired Gujarat DIG Vanzara Demands Promotions for Encounter-Accused Cops (and threatens 'unknown consequences' in case his demands are refused).
Prajapati encounter case: Gujarat Police inspector Ashish Pandya reinstated in service
Gujarat reinstates another suspended cop after securing bail in Prajapati encounter case
DG Vanzara's letter - Times of India (2013)
Sumana Ramanan - clips of controversial Modi speeches made just after Gujarat riots (2014)

Days after being shot at, Pansare dies in Mumbai where he was flown for treatment 
KUMAR KETKAR - Narendra Dabholkar: The Relentless Rationalist; 
"Remember Gandhi. Remember what we did to him"
Anti-superstition activist Narendra Dabholkar shot dead
Justice in modern India: bail for convicted Salman Khan, no bail for the accused teacher in a wheelchair, GN Saibaba
Usha Ramanathan  - Modi Government shamelessly flouting three SC Orders on Aadhaar
Bombay High court refuses bail to artists of Kabir Kala Manch in jail for two years without trial
Jyoti Punwani - The many wrong messages that hanging Yakub Memon would send
Shafeeq R. Mahajir - AAJ PACHCHEES (Twenty-five today)
Vivekananda Nemana - In a Tamil Nadu village, a Malayali tribe mourns those who went to work in Andhra and came back dead
Killing red sander 'smugglers' was summary execution // Telangana cops in a soup after Viqaruddin, four others die in 'encounter' // Two encounters and a democracy


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