Nuh violence to Nasir-Junaid homicide case: Is Monu Manesar being made a scapegoat earlier than Rajasthan elections?

Rajasthan Assembly elections are across the nook. And with that, developments within the Nasir-Junaid homicide case have picked tempo. Clouds of doubt are looming over the Rajasthan police ever because the arrest of Gau Rakshak Monu Manesar who’s an accused within the homicide case.

The Gehlot authorities’s personal MLAs like Safia Zuber have been questioning their authorities, asking why members of the family of Nasir and Junaid by no means bought compensation just like the household of Kanhaiya Lal. Residents of the Ghatmika village in Rajasthan the place Nasir and Junaid lived, have accused the Congress authorities of pressurizing them to ‘remain silent’ and never taking motion in opposition to Monu Manesar.

This reveals how Congress’ vote financial institution is sad with the celebration with simply months to go for the state polls. The Congress now finds itself in a satan and the deep sea scenario. In view of this, the arrest of Monu Manesar in Haryana after which his transit remand comes as a aid for the Rajasthan authorities.

However, the form of information being reported by the media quoting ‘sources’ about Monu Manesar’s alleged involvement within the homicide of the duo has raised extra suspicion. There is a chance that, as a way to appease the vote financial institution for electoral positive factors, such information is being ‘planted’ within the media which the Rajasthan police can hardly show in court docket.

On 14 August, the Rajasthan DGP Umesh Mishra categorically acknowledged that there was no direct involvement of Gaurakshak Mohit Yadav, often known as Monu Manesar, within the alleged double homicide case. It was a big assertion by the highest cop, given at a time when a sure part of media and political leaders had been making an attempt in charge Monu Manesar for the Nuh violence.

Media claims Monu Manesar ‘confessed’ to planning the homicide of Nasir and Junaid

Reports declare that through the interrogation by the Rajasthan Police, Monu Manesar confessed that the plan to homicide Nasir-Junaid was hatched eight days earlier than their abduction. Notably, the case of Nasir and Junaid’s kidnapping was registered on 15 February 2023. The subsequent day, their our bodies and a burnt automobile had been present in Bhiwani, Haryana.

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According to reviews, Monu Manesar has ‘confessed’ that when Nasir-Junaid had been picked up, they didn’t have a cow with them. Reportedly, the abductors referred to as Monu Manesar. After this, the duo was overwhelmed and brought to Firozpur Jhirka police station in an injured situation.

When the police reportedly refused to take each of them, the abductors took them to the forest and burnt them together with the automobile. Monu Manesar has reportedly been described because the ‘conspirator’ on this homicide.

It has been claimed that an individual concerned within the homicide had given Manesar the small print of Nasir and Junaid. After this, Monu Manesar together with the opposite accused conspired to kidnap each of them.

Manesar being made a scapegoat to appease the vote financial institution?

Interestingly, all these claims are being made within the media quoting police sources. On 14 August, the Rajasthan DGP additionally stated that the police are looking for out whether or not Manesar performed a task behind the scenes or not.

Sources have instructed OpIndia that the Rajasthan Police is below stress to disclose the involvement of Monu Manesar on this incident. This raises the query of whether or not stress is being constructed retaining in thoughts the upcoming meeting elections.

The Vishwa Hindu Parishad, too, has raised suspicion on the timing of the arrest. VHP working President Alok Kumar had stated, “Innocent cow devotee Monu Manesar has been arrested by the Rajasthan Police, whereas some time ago the Rajasthan Police had considered him innocent. Monu, a cow devotee, has been arrested for the Muslim vote bank in the elections, which will cost him dearly.”

Islamic fundamentalists contemplate Monu Manesar an enemy owing to his work to stop cattle smuggling within the space. It is notable right here that the Mewat area is the hotbed of cattle smuggling. Hindu farmers, who contemplate the cow sacred and even rely upon it for his or her livelihoods, undergo dearly from the rampant cattle smuggling that takes place within the area. Even after the assault by fundamentalist Muslims on the peaceable spiritual Jalabhishek Yatra of Hindus in Nuh, a marketing campaign was run to place the blame on Monu Manesar.

The BJP has additionally recommended that Manesar may very well be used for appeasement politics by the Gehlot authorities. Rajasthan BJP spokesperson Laxmikant Bhardwaj, whereas speaking to OpIndia, stated, “The DGP has already said that Monu Manesar is not directly involved in this case. Despite this, the emergence of such claims shows that this is definitely a political matter. But the police should investigate this matter impartially. Anyway, there is going to be a change of power in Rajasthan after one and a half months. It is useless to expect justice for anyone from this government. If the BJP government comes, it will do justice.”

Will the claims about Manesar’s confession stand in court docket?

Supreme Court lawyer Satya Ranjan Swain instructed OpIndia that confessional statements below police custody usually are not thought-about proof in court docket. He stated, “The statement given by the accused in police remand or before the investigating officer is not valid in court. The statement can be used for investigation under Section 161 of CrPC 1973.”

It is noteworthy that below Section 161, the police examine and study all of the witnesses and proof within the case. During the investigation, the police additionally take statements of witnesses. However, the assertion given to the police below Section 161 will not be thought-about binding.

Advocate Swain stated that the confessional assertion given in entrance of the police officer can’t be used in opposition to the accused. Even if the police get the confession videographed, it is not going to be thought-about as proof.

In such a scenario, it seems that the claims made within the media don’t have any authorized justification and don’t maintain water.

Notably, Monu Manesar was arrested by Haryana Police on 12 September 2023 for posting inflammatory posts on Facebook. He was offered within the court docket. The court docket had given directions to ship him to jail for 14 days judicial custody. Later he was handed over to Rajasthan Police on transit remand.

Whatever the Haryana police has performed, it has performed as per due authorized course of. And but, a bit of the general public is sad with the Haryana Police this motion, which is pure in view of the pattern to hinder businesses from doing their obligation within the non-BJP dominated states.

But this doesn’t imply that the BJP-ruled states, which consider in following the rule of regulation, needs to be judged on the premise of the perspective of the opposition-ruled states.

That Monu Manesar, within the Nasir-Junaid homicide case, has escaped the regulation until now displays the failure of the Rajasthan Police. The onus of answerability to expenses of working below political stress falls on the Rajasthan police on this case.

The Rajasthan Police should additionally know that Monu Manesar can’t be confirmed responsible in court docket on the premise of a confessional assertion. And the police haven’t but discovered direct proof to carry him responsible, as acknowledged by the DGP just lately.

For now, the case appears to be much less of an effort to resolve the alleged homicide of Nasir-Junaid and extra like an try to gas the appeasement politics of the Ashok Gehlot-led Congress authorities within the state.