Madhya Pradesh govt will get HC discover on communal clashes throughout fundraising for Ram temple

The Indore bench of the Madhya Pradesh High Court has issued a discover to the state authorities in search of its response in six weeks on the alleged negligence in curbing communal clashes in Ujjain, Indore and Mandsaur through the donation drive of funds for the development of Ram temple in Ayodhya.
The bench of Chief Justice Mohammad Rafiq and Justice Sujoy Paul was listening to a petition filed by Rajya Sabha MP and former chief minister Digvijaya Singh by which he had moved courtroom to problem instructions to the state to implement a Supreme Court ruling in instances of mob violence, communal violence and mob lynching.
Additional advocate normal for state Pushyamitra Bhargav was given six weeks to reply to file a counter to the petition after he said that it was on the day of the listening to that he had acquired a complicated copy of the writ petition.

In his petition filed on behalf of Digvijaya Singh, advocate Ravindra Singh Chhabra said, “The Petitioner supports the pious work of construction of Shri Ram Mandir at Ayodhya, however the collection of funds/ donations must be voluntary and the members of minority community should not be coerced or threatened to pay donation for this pious purpose.”

It went on to elaborate that from December 2020, some organisations launched a fundraising marketing campaign throughout Madhya Pradesh for the development of the Ram Mandir in Ayodhya. These organisations within the guise of fund assortment left behind a “trail of communal violence” and disturbed the communal concord within the state, the petition said.
The petition highlighted that incidents in Indore, Ujjain and Mandsaur display that an try to unfold communal violence had been made in a “premeditated manner by the organisers of these fund collection rallies” whereas the officers accountable to make sure ‘law and order’ had acted in a “negligent manner”. It additional added that officers in sure instances “witnessed the entire incident without taking any action against the wrongdoers”.
The chief secretary, the principal secretary (dwelling), the DGP, the SPs of Ujjain, Indore and Mansaur, the Ujjain inspector normal, and the collectors of Ujjain and Mansdaur have been made respondents to the petition.
The petition additionally requested the courtroom to problem instructions for applicable measures to be taken in instances of spiritual rallies to guard disturbance of public peace and breach of communal concord.
The petition was filed after two representations to the respondents in January and February didn’t yield any passable response.
“The respondents seem to be acting negligently and in recent times omission on their part to take proactive measures had resulted in the incidents of communal violence in Indore, Mandsaur and Ujjian,” it famous.
The petition identified that the primary incident was reported in Ujjain on December 25 when round 10 rallies, by which Bharatiya Janata Party Yuwa Morcha (BJYM) and different organisations took half, have been held for gathering funds for the Ram Mandir.

The petition said that the violence started after the rallies ended at Bharat Mata Mandir in Ujjain round 5-5.45 pm. “…some 50-60 motorcycles carrying 3 persons each with sticks, rods, sword, spear and flags started making rounds on the road adjacent to Begham Bagh area (minority dominated area). The persons on motorcycles in order to instigate the minority community started shouting slogans against the minority community. The whole exercise was to show dominance over the minority community. This led stone pelting and ensuing clashes in the area with the support of Police Officials in which many members of minority community were injured,” it stated.
Similar incidents have been reported from Indore, Dhar and Mandsaur. In Mandsaur’s Dorana village, the members of the minority neighborhood in anticipation of violence had apprised the Mandsaur superintendent of police on December 28. “The minority population had to vacate the locality and run for their life as the locality was swarmed by a large gathering shouting communal slogans against the minority community, brandishing weapons, raiding a Masjid and vandalising a Minaret the next day on December 29, 2020.  The police and administration personnel were hardly 50-60 in number despite knowing the strength of the number of unruly communal mobs targeting minority communities,” the petition famous.

In Indore, a rally organised at Chandankhede village on December 29 led to related incidents of violence. The petition said, “Most of the members were carrying swords, sticks, firearms and other weapons underthe leadership of Ex-MLA Manoj Choudhary. This was happening in presence of police and administrative personnel. A demolition was made by the miscreants from the rally, damage was done to residential houses belonging to minority community, accompanied with incidents of dacoity and robbery. A large number of vehicles were burned. Unfortunately, the Government and police officials made the residents of minority locality leave the area but did little to stop the unruly rally. Members of minority community were attacked with the intention to lynch.”
According to the petition, a delegation of aggrieved individuals from Indore, Ujjain and Mandsaur belonging to minority neighborhood had approached Digivijay Singh in Bhopal within the first week of January 2021. Singh subsequently submitted a illustration to principal secretary (dwelling) demanding an inquiry and had additionally written to the DGP of MP however no motion was taken. After this one other illustration was made in February 2021 to Chief Secretary Iqbal Singh Bains, reiterating the instructions of the Supreme Court into the incidents of communal violence at Ujjain, Mandsaur and Indore.

However, it was on March 1 that Singh lastly acquired a reply from the principal secretary (dwelling). Digvijaya in his petition to the excessive courtroom said, “The communication instead of answering the queries of the Petitioner herein regarding the compliance of the directions of Hon’ble Supreme Court in the incidents of communal violence at Ujjain, Mandsaur and Indore, in a cryptic manner enumerated number of criminal cases lodged and stage of the investigations.”
The petition approached the excessive courtroom to make sure that the state complied with instructions handed by the Supreme Court within the Tehseen Poonawala vs Union of India case (2018) and the Commissioner of Police and different vs Acharya Jagdishwarananada (2004) together with the Arumugam Servai vs state of Tamil Nadu case (2011).