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Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind takes ‘dangerous bulldozer politics’ to court

New Delhi: Urging Supreme Court’s intervention as properties of mainly Muslims, accused of violence are bulldozed by the authorities in states governed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind, a prominent Muslim organisation has filed a plea in India’s top court.

Group’s president, Arshad Madani, tweeted on Monday, “Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind has filed a petition in the Supreme Court against the dangerous politics of bulldozers that have been started to destroy minorities especially Muslims under the guise of crime prevention in BJP ruled states.”

Urging the top court to issue directions to the federal and state governments that “no lasting precipitative action be taken against any accused in any criminal proceedings” the petition also requested the Court to direct the states that residential buildings are not demolished as a punitive measure.

Dozens of homes and shops, almost all of them belonging to Muslims accused of stone pelting during a Hindu festival were razed by the authorities in Madhya Pradesh.

Violence broke out during the Ram Navmi festival earlier this month in the central state of Madhya Pradesh.

Contrary to the accusation against Muslims, saffron-clad Hindu men were seen carrying swords, sticks and pistols as they marched through mainly Muslim neighbourhoods, raising slogans threatening genocide of the community, playing loud music outside mosques, and attacking homes and shops belonging to Muslims.

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