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M'lore: Pacchanady Vandalism - PUCL's Fact-finding Team Blames Bajrangdal

  •   Sat, Aug 30 2008 10:00:27 AM

Daijiworld Media Network - Mangalore (SP)

Mangalore, Aug 29: People's Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) has said that the organization along with Karnataka Komu Sauharda Vedike and Indian Christian Service Association, had conducted an inspection of the disputed site at Pacchanady where a prayer centre functions and which had come under attack from Hindu outfits, on August 26. The team comprised of P B D'Sa, Suresh Bhat, Mohammed Kakkinje, Sirajuddin Ahmed, Vasudev Belle and Walter D'Souza.

During the course, the team met the neighbouring residents, parish priest of Bondel church and others belonging to different religions. The sacrilegious act was committed on the night of August 22, the day of Srikrishna Janmashthami, the team noted. The team found out that Christians from the neighbourhood have been assembling here and praying together once every month, for the last 60 years. The wooden and concrete Crosses numbering 15 which are located here were erected in the year 1970 and the same were repaired in 2007. A prayer hall that can accommodate about a hundred people was built here in 1970. Besides the second Sunday of every month, people regularly go to this chapel during the Lenten season (March/April), the period of penance and prayer.

The area around the place is dotted by Ashraya houses, which are occupied by dalits and weaker sections.

The committee says, that the Sangh Parivar outfits including Bajrangdal, seem to have been emboldened by the fact that the government sympathetic to them has risen to power in the state. It has dubbed the act of the miscreants as criminal trespass and criminal destruction of property. It also found that planting of Bajrangdal flags in the area amounts to attempt to provoke one class/group of people against another that attracts penal provisions under Indian Procedure Code. It has said that such incidents that are regularly happening in India since 1992 clearly indicate efforts being made by the Sangh Parivar to turn the country into a communal nation.

The committee says that unless the land is handed over back to the organization that has been in its possession since long, law and order problems might arise, for which the government and local administration will be solely responsible.

The fact finding committee has demanded for the initiation of criminal proceedings against the culprits including their arrest. The conspirators should also be booked. The land should be handed back to the church authorities immediately to enable them to conduct the annual prayer rituals, it demands.

The committee adds that the law and order situation in the state has deteriorated ever since the BJP has taken over reins of the state. It has asked the central government to dismiss the state government and invoke President's rule. The government lands in the possession of religious organizations used for bonafide religious and community welfare measures should be regularized, it has demanded.

PUCL Dakshina Kannada district P B D'Sa, on behalf of the committee, has also asked for banning of communal outfits like Bajrangdal for its acts of crimes, communal disturbances etc.
  

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  • vincy, shamboor/Bangkok

    Sat, Aug 30 2008

    The PUCL has done a great Job and has high lighted the reason and the target of the incident. The property was with Christians for more than 30 years now and Christians did not use it for any commercial purpose. It is the fundamental right of Christians to worship at a place where it is convenient and makes meaningful to have the way of cross on a hill top. It is explanatory to any viewer that this is Biblical to have 14 crosses right form the foot of the hill to the top of the hill and thus the Lent season before Easter makes more meaningful.

    The similar kind of worships are followed by other religions and so much government land is utilized without any permission and other communities never interested to know the title deed of these lands. These is not a single incident occurred where Christians create any trouble to Hindu Temples or places of worship. The Baja rang Dal is nothing but a social nuisance which provokes violence among minorities and thus they achieve their goals.

    The main intention is to create awareness among Hindu people that they should not forget to vote to BJP or its allies in the forthcoming lok sabha elections. But in the same time they forget that their Hindu brothers are more educated and wiser to choose the right party which can be either secular or independent. The adverse affect is that most educated Hindu people do not vote as they are fed up by these groups and by their activities and at the same time they cannot find a political party which is true Hindu.

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