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Mullah never speaks for the oppressed in the community by the community
Related to country: India

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This is a dangerous situation here. Every word of these self-style guardians of Muslims say is lapped up as divine revelation - as a gospel of truth. They may be learned in religious knowledge or worldly knowledge but their heats and mind are ruined by vanity, greed, blind and uncontrollable jealousy, deceit.

Today they are holding a demonstration at Batla House Chowk at Jamianagar New Delhi the largest single 100% Muslim settlement of 10 lakhs in the heart of City. The demonstration is being held by a score of Muslim and Islamic organizations. There are religious cum spiritual figures political figures- all of whom are based in this area being touted among the Muslims of India as heart and soul of 15 core Indian Muslims.

They are organizing this protest meeting against the Govt. ban on illegal constructions and encroachments being carried out in Yamuna basin.
The builder mafias have been filling up Yamuna River with rubbles and sand brought in tractors, trucks trailers, carts and tempos and has been selling off the land. Vast tracts of lands have been sold off on which thousands of houses and buildings cheek a jowl, have been constructed on every centimeter of it causing irreparable damage to the ecology and national heritage.. Recently the Delhi High Court has banned further construction and encroachments.

Few months back additional Station House Officer and other police officials of New Friends Colony Police Station was pulled out from the police post and beaten up with iron rods in cold blood which resulted in multiple injuries and fractures of skulls and back bones of the police officials. As a prelude a rumor was spread that some constables have desecrated Holy Quran at Zakir Nagar market. Trained goons did the job in cold blood the reason being that the Additional SHO would not allow banned construction under strict High Court Orders.
All the conspirators have gone Scott free.

August 31, 2008 | 7:32 AM Comments  1 comments



Tenants are for loot and scoot in muslim localities in Delhi
Related to country: India

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A racket between the landlord and the property dealer is increasingly becoming a trend in Okhla area whereby the land lord has infinite supply of tenants in row. The land lord after next month or more asks the tenant to vacate the room, the property dealer supplies a tenant from whom he charges an amount equal to one month's rent. The land lord keeps ejecting tenants and property dealers who more often than not happen to be relatives of land lords keep earning commission- a percentage of which is given to the landlord. The property dealer tries to extract exorbitant rent from the tenants badly in need of shelter! From day one the land lord usually would keep troubling the tenant under one pretext or the other. it is sometimes missing of something and some times false allegation of misdemeanour or doubtful behaviour. Fahims land lord only yesterday alleged that he saw him naked outside the room . This list is long.
The landlords to say could be the owner of 5floor building or hurried cobbled up unplastered brick houses, with small hovels for rooms. build on 50 sq ft of encroached land. The land lords would count how many times you had been to urinals and toilets.they and their family members would pass adverse remarks if they happen to see you near the house during the day. A tenant is expected not to return before 9 in the nightnoot cook anything in the house.The rooms usually have breaches on the walls, doors, or windows so that they could see inside anytime.


August 24, 2008 | 5:38 AM Comments  0 comments



The Gestapo of Delhi's urban poor rickshawpullers
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Being a rickshaw puller is not every man's cup of tea. More than endurance and stamina you need a super human grit and a thick skin to put up with the daily dozes of revolting muscles and bones, thrashings, abuses and sometimes wounds that take long to heal. at the hands of beings whom the father of our nation once called bullies.

The round the corner tea shack is the only shop that opens at 6A.M. - a rickshaw pullers only haunt. People here wake up an hour and half later than the rest of Delhi. The missing of morning newspaper, ever since I shifted here 4 months back is more than offsetted by the conversations, gossips - that to me is a thresh hold to a new world - that takes place among the rickshawpullers, laborers and in this small hut and which has graced me with moral duty to highlight there plight and take up their cause under the aegis of our newly formed Organisation: " movement for Economic Democracy". I share with you excerpts of their conversation adverbtim.

I was in the hut, 5 minutes walk away from my one room tenement at Okhla- predominantly Muslim locality close to now dried up and wasted river Yamuna.
" Brought medicines yesterday. Heaviness in the head and nausea go away"
said Rafi the rickshaw puller, emaciated , in his 20's who has taken to the job 6 month back.
"Nothing left in Delhi - prices are soaring - better labour in fields of others in the village"
Said Bholoo a middle aged one.
"But he has 3 sisters to marry " said the tea vendor pointing towards Rafi " I asked him, six days ago to go to medical( All India Institute of Medical Sciences) W hat does this quack know what has gone inside. They do free x-ray over there ."
"Why didn't you whirl your cycle chain at them - I would have done it if I had been in your place" said another in sandow and a piece of cloth wound around his lower torso.
" Easier said than done" said the tea vendor "Who cares about us - not even the police - we are always wrong always a suspect (of delinquency) - on street, in markert, in mosques, in shrines- one day they checked the bag of loharoo while he was coming out of mosque to ensure that he was not carrying away the sandals of the faithfuls".

Hakim tried to say full throated to come over his gruffly voice "let them ban rickshaw in Zakirnagar the buttock of residents would go burst" Zakir Chacha has started selling off his rickshaws lest he'd have to sell them off by weight. The owner might also ask him to vacate the (vacant) plot any moment - election is drawing near - building activities have started here and there - the police was saying that MLA sahib has instructed the Sahab (Station House Officer of Police Station) to go soft on illegal constructions and encroachments- there is no spare rickshaw available on rent in Zakirnagar - The poor fellows are without work for a week. Elsewhere they won’t rent rickshaw to a stranger. They ask for reference. Who would this alien city (most of the rickshaw pullers hails from the remote villages and districts in Bihar West Bengal etc. They would rent rickshaw only f half a dozen of rickshaw pullers pullers already there testify that the incumbent is already known to him.

After a week I chanced upon Rafi in the same hut and enquired about his health and what had happened that day that led to his illness.
" There is no more nausea but the heaviness in head wont go away. There is a sort of tiredness in the eyes all the time - piercing pain quite now and then is agonizing the chest - all the time I feel afraid while on street with my rickshaw."
"What had happened “I enquired.”?

"I was waiting for the lady near lane No5- she had gone inside to fetch fare of Rs. 5/- she was short of change- A shopkeeper on the other side of the road started abusing me and ordered me to move - upon my saying that I am waiting for the fare, Hell broke loose-- He pounced upon me - rained kicks and blows all over me and then held my neck in his powerful grip 0 I began to suffocate- my position was like the hen in the grip of round the corner butcher - I was passing out - lay on the road - then somebody threw a bucket of water on me. I regained control of my body and mind. Somebody asked me to do BELDARI (laboring in construction of houses and buildings in the area. There are absolutely no safe guards. You'd find workers working in hair raising precarious conditions... Fatal accidents are common. These workers are not entitled to get compensation under any law. Those who survive have no option but to beg I'd come to this segment later.

“Only 15 days back a 3000 liter water tank fell on kafeel- they were five of them- they were raising the tank to the fifth floor. The two below managed to escape unhurt. He was recovering well with steel rods inserted in his back, hands and legs. Doctors had declared him out of danger. His family was told in the morning when they went to the hospital to bring him home that he was dead.
After two days they received his postmortem body. He was only 18. He lived next to Al-taqwa mosque at jogabai extension - supported his father to manage 6 dependent heads".contd….