Here is my attempt to bring out some truth from Trilokpuri ! Read my report for the The Citizen Its eight in the evening, curfew has finally been imposed by a reluctant administration in the disturbed areas of Trilokpuri that erupted after two days of heightened tensions that was ignored by the authorities until people from different communities clashed, arson and violence took over, and at least 15 persons if not more were injured. Inside the police station at Kalyan Puri, there is a chaos, everyone is unsettled. The senior IPS officers stationed here screams indiscriminately at his juniors, while reporters wait on the benches out in the corridor for a quote from him about the situation on the ground. Amidst all this, Shamala, 19, runs through the corridors of the police station, crying inconsolably, in search of her two brothers, Mumtaaz and Sarfaraz, both residents of block number fifteen, who were picked up during the day by the police. Instead of being listened to she is dragged out by a constable, on the instruction of his seniors. It was clear that the police was in no mood to help the traumatised and terrified residents on this issue. Ankit, a 14 year old came up to look at our cameras and then said, “I want to tell you something.’’ And perhaps his account was the most correct and honest, “people who we did not know, and recognise were in our locality in the morning! They shouted slogans, Har Har Mahadev and started hurling stones.” But then came the set response, “ I have decided not to be friends with Muslims in school any more , they fight with us , they are bad people and it’s better to stay away from them .”
Posted on: Sun, 26 Oct 2014 13:17:18 +0000
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