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Cops rewarded | A planned, perfected pogrom
Published on Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 21:55, Updated on Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 22:15 in India section
Tags: Mumbai Riots, Mumbai Police , Mumbai
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Mumbai: Thirty-one Mumbai Police officials were indicted for grave offences during the 1992-1993 riots in the city but the punishment they got was a rap on the knuckles.
CNN-IBN used the Right to Information Act to get documents on the Mumbai Police’s probe against these 31 officials and the papers clearly prove that successive state governments never intended to punish them.
Antop Hill: ASI Arvind Mahadeo and his four colleagues allowed a family of thee to be burnt alive in their car on January 14, 1993. His punishment: Mahadeo was asked to retire eight years later though he and his men faced five-seven years in prison.
Mahim: Constable Sanjay Gawde connived with Shiv Sena corporator Milind Vaidya and was seen brandishing a sword. Gawde was dismissed 10 years later though under he could have got up to three years in jail.
MRA Marg: Constable Vidhyar Shelar handed over a rioter called Baboo Shaikh on January 8, 1993 to a mob to be killed. Shelar’s was that put under the minimum pay scale for one year though he could have got up to seven years in jail.
Suleiman Bakery: API Ajit Deshmukh led a team of Crime Branch men who fired at workers inside the bakery and killed nine people. Deshmukh was exonerated in 2001 though he could have served life in prison if he had been found guilty.
Suleiman Bakery: Joint Commissioner of Police R D Tyagi ordered the firing on bakery workers and though he was indicted by the Justice B N Srikrishna commission he became the Police Commissioner two years later. He joined the Shiv Sena after retirement and a court absolved him in 2003. Tyagi could have faced up to seven years in jail if he had been found guilty.
Colaba police station: Police official Shivaji Govind Kashid and two subordinates let a mob kill a man called Abdul Razak near a temple in Colaba. All three were acquitted.
Constable S S Parthade allegedly collaborated with Shiv Sainiks in looting and rioting in Taradeo but a departmental probe acquitted him.
Senior Police Inspector U V Patankar allegedly shielded Shiv Sainiks in Byculla and his conduct during riots was communal. He retired without any punishment.
Getting away with murder
Sub Inspector Nikhil Kapse participated in one of the worst crimes by policemen during the riots. He and his team fired on a congregation at the Hari Masjid in Central Mumbai on January 10, 1993.
Farooq Mapkar was at the mosqe that day. “Inspector Nikhil Kamse fired at us through the window. Six people died—I had a bullet injury. A boy, Shamsuddin, was injured by a bullet and couldn't walk. Inspector Kamse shot him in the chest” says Mapkar.
Kapse did not depose before the Srikrishna Commission and he was not punished. Instead he was promoted as Inspector and exonerated of all charges. Mapkar, his victim, was booked for murder and rioting and for the last 14 years he has been battling in courts against an Arms Act case.
“The government has been fooling us in the name of justice. It has been 14 years since I started doing the court’s rounds. My life has been ruined,” says Mapkar.
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