Monday, October 27, 2014

RTI activist dares to take on, bell Ahmed Hasan Imran

What was unimaginable till a few days back is a reality now – a writ petition against complicity of Mr. Ahmed Hasan Imran, ex-SIMI president and also Trinamool Congress MP (Rajyasabha), to the infamous Naliakhali episode has been filed to the Hon’ble Calcutta High Court. Well, there have been several developments (meanwhile) leading to this situation and hence (at this time when Bengal seems to be on the brink of witnessing a novel, violent episode), it’s the time to recall those swiftly but steadily. 


There has been a surge in anti-Hindu riots amidst Bengal of late; the anti-Hindu pogrom (not a riot in any way) on February 19, 2013 in the villages of Naliakhali, along with Herobhanga, Gopalpur and Goladogra under jurisdiction of Canning Police Station in the district of South 24 Paraganas happens to be the worst up till now. While on one hand it revealed how unchecked Jihadis with complicity of local administration can wreak havoc and go on burning down, desecrating and destructing Hindu properties worth millions of rupees (no less than 200 Hindu houses were destroyed) with the sole intention to instill a terror among Hindus and also to change the demographic situation of the area, on the other hand, how truckloads of people were sent from areas of Park Circus, Gardenreach, Metiaburuz in Kolkata with precision to abet the onslaught got bare as well. 


To make an official confirmation of the mayhem (striking abovementioned villages at wee hours) and crippled administration against Jihadis, an eminent RTI activist filed an application under 6 (1) of RTI Act, 2005 on March 22, 2013 to the office of District Magistrate of South 24 Paraganas district. However, the concerned authority was found to be deliberately reluctant to confirm the said mayhem. Following six months of industrious correspondence (at a stretch) and only after the intervention of West Bengal State Information Commission, the state administration confirmed the mayhem. On September 13, 2014, “Ananda Baazar Patrika”, highly renowned Bengali daily, published an intelligence report prepared by DIB, South 24 Paraganas, of the very incident at Naliakhali exposing the role of Mr.  Ahmed Hasan Imran, Trinamool Congress MP (Rajyasabha) and ex-SIMI president and also known for hobnobbing with dreaded Jamaat front in Bangladesh. According to the published report, the entire event had been orchestrated by the same Mr. Imran, intending to change demography in Naliakhali and its neighboring villages. 

The aforementioned RTI activist filed an official complaint against Mr. Ahmed Hasan Imran to the concerned Canning Police Station on September 18, 2014, to the concerned Deputy Superintendent of Police on September 24, 2014 and again to Superintendent of Police on October 20, 2014 but to no avail. The concerned administration, if truth be told, shied from registering an official FIR and also initiating a painstaking investigation against Mr. Imran. 

Finding no other option, the RTI activist named Mr. Tara Shankar Ghosh, was compelled to file a writ petition – No. WT28910 (W) of 2004 to the Hon’ble Calcutta High Court on October 27, 2014. As none has come forth yet to accept the mantle of responsibility to wage a legal battle against Mr. Imran and his precarious role against Hindus in Naliakhali and its three neighboring villages (all witnessing a Hindu majority till date), the patriotic duty is being performed by Mr. Ghosh.


And the Struggle goes on…………..it will not end whatever may be threats or life-threatening attacks.