Tag: Lynching-Case

Uproar in Jharkhand House as MLA drags RSS into lynching case.

Source – outlookindia.com

Ranchi: The Jharkhand Assembly on Wednesday witnessed uproarious scenes when a Congress legislator Irfan Ansari dragged the RSS into the lynching of Tabrez Ansari last year.

Irfan Ansari, speaking on the motion of thanks to the Governor”s address, said “BJP and RSS are responsible for the killing of Tabrez Ansari”. The Congress legislator”s remark invited a sharp reaction from the BJP MLAs.

Tabrez Ansari was thrashed by a mob in the Seraikela-Kharsawa district of Jharkhand on June 17, 2019 resulting in his death a few days later.

The BJP legislators started demanding that the ”unsavoury” remark made about the BJP and the RSS should be expunged and said that the Congress legislator should express regrets about making such a comment. The legislators came to the well of the House demanding an apology and expunging of the remark.

“What is the proof of the Irfan Ansari allegation,” said BJP legislator C.P. Singh.

Assembly speaker Rabindranath Mahto pacified the BJP legislators and asked them to return to their seats. The Speaker later expunged the Congress legislator”s remark.

The BJP legislators however stuck to the demand for an apology by Irfan Ansari and again came to the well of the House. ”Dismiss Irfan Ansari from House” and ”Irfan Ansari must tender apology” were some of the slogans raised by the BJP legislators.

The Assembly Speaker”s move to pacify the BJP legislators however failed. He left the apology issue to the conscience of the Congress legislator, who categorically said that he would not apologise.

The BJP legislators then raised more slogans forcing the Speaker to adjourn the House.

When the House reassembled, the BJP legislators again demanded an apology from the Congress and came to the well of the House. The issue got further aggravated when CP Singh said, “What if I say Irfan Ansari was a terrorist who attacked Mumbai, he was a sleeper cell of the ISI and agent of Pakistan, then what”?

Singh”s remark triggered heated exchanges between the treasury and opposition benches as MLAs stood on their seats and yelled at each other.

The Speaker tried to pacify those BJP legislators who were in the well of the House.

Amid the BJP legislators” protest in the well, the Speaker allowed Chief Minister Hemant Soren to speak on the motion of thanks.

AJSU president Sudesh Mahto objected to this and said his party should be allowed to speak on the motion of thanks. The Speaker ignored his plea.

The Chief Minister gave his speech and the motion of thanks was passed by a voice vote amid protests by the BJP legislators in the well.

Jharkhand HC Grants Bail to Six People Arrested in Tabrez Ansari Lynching Case.

Source – thewire.in

Ranchi: The Jharkhand high court on Tuesday granted bail to six people arrested in connection with the lynching of Tabrez Ansari in June.

Justice R. Mukhopadhyay granted bail to the six after their advocate A.K. Sahani informed the court that their names were not mentioned in the FIR registered in connection with Ansari’s death. Main accused Papu Mandal had also not implicated them during his interrogation by the police.

The advocate told the court that the six – Bhimsen Mandal, Chamu Nayak, Mahesh Mahali, Satyanarayan Nayak, Madan Nayak, and Vikram Mandal – had been in jail since June 25.

Ansari was thrashed by a mob on June 17 at Dhatkidih village in Seraikela-Kharsawan district when he and two of his associates allegedly tried to enter a house with an intention to commit theft, a senior police officer had said then.

The police reached the spot the next morning and took Ansari to jail on the basis of a complaint lodged by the villagers, the police officer said.

When Ansari’s condition deteriorated in jail, he was taken to the Sadar hospital in Seraikela-Kharsawan where he was diagnosed with multiple injuries, he said.

Later, he was referred to the Tata Main Hospital in Jamshedpur where he died on June 22, the police officer said.

As The Wire has reported before, the police’s role in the case has come under question from the very beginning. When Ansari was taken into custody, the police did not file a case against the people who had attacked him. That case was filed only after his death, based on a complaint from his wife. A fact-finding team from the Jharkhand Janadhikar Mahasabha had also found that the police had denied Ansari proper medical treatment and also threatened his family.

Ansari’s death became a matter of concern for the police only after a video of the mob attacking him went viral on social media. A probe panel appointed by the district administration also found lapses on the police’s part, and said that doctors at the first hospital Ansari was taken to were also responsible as they cleared him for custody despite severe head injuries.

The police had also removed the murder charge against 11 accused in the case. The charge was brought back after widespread condemnation.