ISLAMABAD
\nThe Indian judiciary, with its anti-Muslims verdicts, has become an instrument in the hands of the Narendra Modi government that continues to oppress minorities and deny them justice.
\nThe time-to-time verdicts of Indian courts on religious matters have proved that the institution is openly siding with Hindutva and has failed the Muslim community.
\nThis June, the Indian Supreme Court appeared as the \u201cbiggest tormentor of the minorities\u201d after it refused to stop the government from razing houses of Muslims.
\nThe top court said, \u201cWe cannot stop demolitions,\u201d in response to a petition by a Muslim group in Uttar Pradesh who said that state government had been punishing members of India\u2019s 200-million-strong Islamic minority for participating in protests.
\nMuslims in India are not facing such a situation for the first time as the history is replete with such incidents of state-sponsored persecution of Muslims particularly in the states of Madhya Pradesh, Assam, Delhi and Gujarat.
\nIn another recent judgment to appease Hindutva, the Supreme Court of India held that \u201ca mosque was not essential to Muslim mode of worship\u201d.
\nAccording to experts, the Indian courts are now \u201cjust another extension of Hindutva\u201d and the ruling on mosques gives credence to demolishing all mosques and mausoleums, particularly about 5,000 mosques built by the Muslim conquerors.
\nIn a case of barring the Muslim girl students to wear hijab, the high court in India\u2019s Karnataka in March stated that the head scarf was \u201cnot essential\u201d to Islam.
\nIn its oppressive decision, the three-judge bench held that allowing Muslim women to wear the hijab in classrooms would hinder their emancipation and go against the constitutional spirit of \u201cpositive secularism\u201d.
\nIn 2018, an Indian court overturned the conviction of senior Bharatia Janta Party (BJP) member Maya Kodnani who was sentenced to 28 years in jail for her part in the murder of 97 people in 2002 in the state of Gujarat. Her co-accused Bau Bajrangi also got relief in his sentence.
\nIn Hyderabad\u2019s Mecca Masjid Blast case, a special court in 2018 acquitted all accused Including Swami Aseemanand In Hyderabad\u2019s Mecca Masjid Blast case of 2007, that had resulted in killing of nine people and left 58 injured. All the accused belonged to organisations practising Hindutva ideology.
\nIn Samjhauta Express case, a special court in 2019 acquitted all four men involved in bombing the train linking India and Pakistan. At least 64 people onboard Samjhauta Express were killed after a Hindu right-wing organisation had carried out an improvised explosive device (IED) blast in 2007.
\nFor the notorious Hashimpura massacre of 42 Muslims by the Uttar Pradesh police itself, it took over 31 years for the guilty policemen to be convicted by the Delhi high court in 2018.
\nThe culprits of the massacre of 72 Muslims in Maliyana are yet to be punished 34 years later also \u2014 the case has been adjourned 900 times.
\nIn almost every communal riot of this country, whether it was Delhi (1984) or Delhi (2020), police have been found to let the minorities \u2018suffer\u2019 at the hands of the majority, or \u2018punish\u2019 them by implicating them in false cases.
\nMuslims in India still feel the pain of illegal demolition of Babari Masjid in 1992, where the Indian Supreme Court after 28 years of the incident in 2019, held that the site belonged to the birthplace of Lord Ram and awarded the land to a trust for construction of a temple in his name.
\nThe \u2018Justice Rajinder Sachar Committee Report, 2005\u2019 also reveals the face of India \u201cso-called secularism\u201d saying that Muslims are seen as \u201canti-nationals\u201d and every bearded man is seen as an ISI agent.
\nAlso, it said that fake encounter killings take place and minorities particularly Muslims are subjected to ghettoisation and collectively alienated. Wherein India continues with its policy of persecution through its State institutions, Pakistan on the other hand, is taking steps for the emancipation of religious minorities.
\nIn an incident where a mob in Pakistan\u2019s Karak town destroyed a Hindu temple, the Supreme Court in 2021 in a landmark decision ordered rebuilding of the religious site. The top court ordered that Shri Paramhans Ji Maharaj Samadhi temple be rebuilt by the government and that expenses be charged to a local Muslim leader who was allegedly responsible for the mob violence that led to the damage.
\nIn another act of vandalizing of a Hindu temple in Rahim Yar Khan this year, an anti-terrorism court in South Punjab sentenced 22 people to five years in jail. Even at the head of State level, President Dr. Arif Alvi last year had taken serious notice of the harassment of a Hindu boy in Tharparkar, Sindh.
\nOn the president\u2019s direction, the Sindh police had arrested Abdul Salam Abu Daud, a Muslim, who had forced the boy to chant \u2018the slogans of Allah-o-Akbar\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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