By IndiaTomorrow.net,
New Delhi, 06 Oct 2018: Prominent Muslim body Jamaat-e-Islami Hind (JIH) on Saturday expressed its concern over the issue of extrajudicial killings in the name of encounter in Uttar Pradesh and demanded to the government to uphold the rule of law in the state.
Addressing a Press Conference in New Delhi, Muhammad Salim Engineer, Secretary General of JIH, talked about various police encounter in UP including the one in Aligarh and Lucknow and said that government should ensure the rule of the law in the state.
“Tthe UP police had invited the media to witness an encounter in Aligarh in which two youth belonging to the minority community were gunned down. If the police knew that an encounter was going to take place and therefore invited the media to witness it then it is nothing but extra-judicial killing which goes against all norms of justice and fundamental human rights,” Salim explained.
“Another professional was shot in Lucknow by UP police at point blank range merely for not stopping his car when ordered by a police patrol,” he added.
“These incidents portray the police in very adverse light. Jamaat-e-Islami Hind hopes the government of India takes notice of this rise in police atrocities and restores the confidence of people in the police by implementing policies that guarantee the rule of constitutional law and puts an end to the extra-judicial and extra constitutional ‘police-raj’,” Salim pointed out.
While refereeing some recent judgments of the Supreme Court on adultery and homosexuality, he also expressed his concern at the way in which the country is hurtling towards moral anarchy and the destruction of universal human values.
“India is steadily falling into the dark precipice of moral decadence in the name of individual liberty, fundamental rights and the separation of moral and constitutional law,” he noted.
“Securing the permission for abortion, surrogacy, live-in relationship and achieving the decriminalization of homosexuality and adultery has shown how a small but powerful minority can hold the entire nation to ransom and impose its immoral agenda on the vast majority who still imbibe traditional moral and religious values that promote the sanctity of life and marriage and who do not want the destruction of the family system as has occurred in the West due to the prevalence and encouragement of this morally detestable social behaviour,” a press statement from JIH reads.
“There are some forces that want to destroy these values and exploit our country economically causing great damage to the social and moral fabric of our society. We appeal to the people of India to wake up, understand their nefarious design and confront their diabolical agenda before it is too late,” it further reads.
Maulana Syed Jalaluddin Umari, president of JIH, also addressed the press conference and expressed his concern over reports that organisations like Vishwa Hindu Parishad are trying to pressurise the government to build Ram temple in Ayodhya by 2019.
JIH also raised the human rights violation in Palestine and Xinjiang of China.
