Maut ka Saudagar And His World!
By Mustafa Khan
06 August, 2010
Countercurrents.org
Satan and his rebellion against the almighty gave birth to sin and death. Sin was born to him and he also cohabited with it and brought death in the world. When he wanted to leave hell to go to heaven Satan saw sin and death with dogs begotten by unnatural coupling of sin and death guarding the gate of hell. If there is any image that can capture the horrors of Gujarat since 2002 it is this that comes to the mind.
The arrest trail of the holygrail that is Swami Asimanand in the Dangs and the rigmarole over the bail of Babu Bajrangi, and Abhay Chaudasma’s claim that he had saved Sohrabuddin from getting mired into Haren Pandya murder show new evidence that the parent body of the sangh family RSS has birthed so many.
RSS does not hold even the Hindu women anywhere equal to men. Kauserbi like many other of her coreligionists was a victim of a much wider campaign. RSS and VHP had distributed a pamphlet in the Bajrang Dal training camps for three months leading to the Godhra accident and the pogrom subsequent to it. They had exhorted Hindus not to hesitate raping and killing Muslim women following how VD Savarkar had chided Hindu kings for not raping Muslim women when they conquered their enemy.
Irrespective of the ‘cultural nationalism’ espoused by RSS, Kauser was a truly Indian woman. She stiffly resisted the police when they were arresting her husband Sohrabuddin. She told them “main apne shauhar bina nahin gina chaheti” (I do not want to live without my husband.) They contacted Amit Shah Gujarat Minister of State for Home under the Home Minister Narendra Modi who ordered them to arrest her as well. Her husband was killed on November 26, 2005. Why did the police take two more days to finish her? They had raped her in the meantime. During this they also took her to Rajasthan police to take charge of her. When the Rajasthan cops refused Vanzara contacted Shah who told them to kill her as well. Vanzara made such an elaborate arrangement to have her cremated in his palace like farm house in Ilol and then disposed off the ashes. There are two versions. According to the first her ashes were thrown into the well of the farm house and a slab of concrete built over it. The other is that the ashes were taken to Narmada River and thrown into it. Abhay Chaudasma found all this very bizarre. This falls in line with what had transpired at the time of the pogroms of which the fake encounters are an adjunct: “women seared, fetuses displayed, children watching rapes, the killing of raped women and then the burning of the dead bodies so that evidence was destroyed.” The method in this madness was the systematic training that was on in the state.
Much afterward Amit Shah casually remarked in the presence of top police officers of Gujaat that Kauser must have run away with someone to Pakistan. This was an innuendo showing the scant regard for women the same training has inculcated in the cadres. So it is not the chicks but the broiler the investigators should go after and ultimately the original broiler.
That leads to the murder of Haren Pandya and his father Vithalbhai’s screaming claim that it was a political murder. RSS is believed to have killed Sunil Joshi in order to destroy trail of conspiracy and terror hatched by its top pracharaks. It is now well known that Haren Pandya had revealed to the Citizens for Justice and Peace what had transpired in the meeting at the house of Chief Minister Narendra Modi in the night of February 27, 2002. His day light murder shortly after this on March 26 2002 needs to be examined in the light of this “politics of terror” Modi was playing. Like Ishrat Jehan murder there was no blood or bullet mark on the seat of his car. This is what his widow has said. The poor woman’s disbelief at the way things happen and investigations carried on is shared by Kavita Karkarer and Vinita Kamte. But what status has the women howsoever wives of the killed in the society created by the right wing Hindutva?
Like John Milton’s description of hell above crime begets crime and when everyone concerned is a product no one is above or beyond the murky hell. Deputy Commissioner of Police Chaudasma a creator/creature of this hell like his ultimate boss Modi put it this way to Azam Khan witness no 4 of CBI: “main Sohrabuddin ka bahut achha dost tha aur maine hi usko Haren Pandya murder case mein ulajhne se bachaya tha”. (I was a good friend of Sohrabuddin and had saved him from getting stuck in the Haren Pandya murder case).
What are the antecedents of the gory tale of Kauser and Pandya? Going by what has been revealed it is quite clear that the police like their counterparts in the rest of the country are long entrenched in corruption. Hafta or installments paid regularly is preferable. They find out the source like extortion money collected from marble and textile traders. They employ people like Sohrabuddin and Tulsiram Prajapati. But they also have spring fall of supari or contract to kill and double cross their agents. So it could be that some very powerful person gave supari to Sohrabuddin to kill Pandya. Who that person could be is as mysterious as who is the one who got Sunil Joshi killed.
Mustafa Khan
http://commonalty.blogspot.com/
