Myth 4: The Gujarat police turned a blind eye to the rioting
Posted on May 22, 2008 - Filed Under 12-Concocted Lies and Myths by the media |
Fact: Even though the situation was terrible, the police performed its work extremely efficiently. The police force was woefully insufficient. Uday Mahurkar reports for India Today (18 March 2002):
“Ahmedabad has a police force of 6,000, including 1,500 armed personnel. In addition, the entire state has just four companies (530 jawans) of the Rapid Action Force (RAF) of which only one company could be spared for Ahmedabad. Considering that the mobs that simultaneously surfaced at nearly half a dozen places numbered from 2,000 to 10,000, the forces proved woefully inadequate. At one point on February 28 there were at least 25,000 people targeting the Muslim localities in Ahmedabad alone.”
See link: http://www.indiatoday.com/itoday/20020318/cover.shtml
Despite this, the police fired more than 4,000 rounds in the first three days alone. As many as 98 people were shot dead by the police, majority of whom are Hindus. For the complete period of rioting, despite the presence of the Army, the police fired as many 15,000 tear gas shells, and a total of 10,500 rounds. Out of the total people killed in the riots, about 20 % have been shot dead by the police.
Infact- the encyclopaedia wikipedia reports-based on sound sources-that as many as 200 policemen laid their lives trying to quell the violence during the riots.
Out of the 25,486 accused, the Gujarat police arrested as many as 25,204 people. This clearly shows the efficiency of the Gujarat police. On March 1st and 2nd and afterwards, Muslims too rioted and they too were killed in police firing.
The Gujarat police saved as many as 2,500 Muslims in Sanjeli, a town in North Gujarat, 5,000 Muslims in Bodeli, in Vadodara and about 10,000 Muslims in Viramgam. A total of about 24,000 Muslims were saved in the first three days alone. Police officials themselves suffered injuries in trying to save the Muslims, as reported by the weekly India Today.
See link: http://www.india-today.com/itoday/20020422/states.shtml
The steps taken to control the violence were-
1-The Indian Express dated 28th February 2002 reported that the State Government had deployed the Rapid Action Force in Ahmedabad and other sensitive areas and the Centre sent in CRPF personnel-on February 27 itself even before a single riot had taken place. This was also reported by Mid Day dated 28 February- and also The Times of India.
See link: http://www.mid-day.com/news/2002/feb/21232.htm
This is mentioned in 3rd catagory- 7th paragraph
2- The Hindu reported in its issue dated 28th February 2002 that “Shoot-at-sight” orders had been given in Godhra on February 27 itself. And so did ALL the English dailies that day. Also read the sentence-” the state government has appealed to the people to maintain peace.”
Link: http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/2002/02/28/stories/2002022803070100.htm
3-The Hindustan Times reported in its issue dated 28 February 2002 that the entire police force of 70,000 was deployed in Gujarat on 27 February itself-after the shocking massacre in Godhra-in view of apprehensions that riots might break out. This was also reported by British daily The Telegraph the same day.
Link: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/india/1386341/Hindus-massacred-on-blazing-train.html
See second last paragraph of this report.
4-827 preventive arrests were made on the evening of February 27 itself-on Chief Minister Narendra Modi’s orders-on his return to Ahmedabad from Godhra. This was reported by weekly India Today dated 18 March 2002.
5-On February 28 -despite the deployment of the entire police force, the CRPF personnel and the Rapid Action Force-the situation slipped out of control-according to The Hindu dated 1st March 2002.
See link: http://www.hinduonnet.com/2002/03/01/stories/2002030103030100.htm
6-Despite the fact that the situation slipped out of control-the mob sizes were unpreceedented-and the police were overwhelmingly outnumbered-the police did its best. The police fired more than 1,000 rounds on the first day of the riots-i.e. February 28.
Link: Same as Number 5’s link- but this doesnt mention 1000 rounds- which were fired that day- including 600 in Ahmedabad
7-The Hindu reported in its issue dated 1st March 2002-that atleast 10 persons were believed to have been killed in police firing in Ahmedabad alone by evening of February 28. ( Same link as number 5, pragraphs 2 and 9 from the top).
5 Hindus were shot dead outside Ehsan Jafri’s house on Feb 28-according to India Today weekly-dated 18 March 2002.
8-Curfew was clapmed in Godhra on 27 February itself-as reported by The Hindu dated 28 February 2002. Also reported by all English dailies- such as Times of India- dated 28 Feb.
Link: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/msid-2256789,prtpage-1.cms or
http://www.tribuneindia.com/2002/20020228/main1.htm
9-An indefinite curfew was clamped in 26 cities and towns in the State, including parts of Ahmedabad, Surat, Baroda, Rajkot, Nadiad, Anand and Kaira on February 28 in addition to the indefinite curfew in force in Godhra since February 27-according to The Hindu dated 1st March 2002- and every English daily the next day and also weeklies- like India Today- which covered events till Feb 28 in its issue dated 11 March 2002.
Link: http://www.hinduonnet.com/2002/03/01/stories/2002030103030100.htm
10- The Chief Minister, Narendra Modi, frantically called the Army units to Ahmedabad on February 28-as reported by the The Hindu dated 1st March 2002.
See link: http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/2002/03/01/stories/2002030103030100.htm
See 8th paragraph from the top.
11-The Indian Express and The Hindu both reported that Army units started arriving in Ahmedabad on the night of February 28-in their issues the next day-i.e. 1st March 2002. This shows that the Army units reached Ahmedabad so quickly-that the newspapers had the time to report their arrival on February 28 itself itself and publish it on 1st March!
(Same link as number 5- 8th paragraph from the top)
12-The Army staged a flag march in Ahmedabad on 1st March 2002 at 11:30 AM-as reported by weekly India Today in its issue dated 18th March 2002. The Hindu and The Indian Express and all major dailies also reported that the Army staged flag marches in Ahmedabad-and also Vadodara on 1st March 2002.
13-The Army began flag marches in the worst-affected areas of Ahmedabad, Baroda, Rajkot and Godhra cities and the `shoot at sight’ order was extended to all 34 curfew-bound cities and towns in Gujarat on 1st March 2002-as per The Hindu dated 2nd March 2002.
See link: http://www.hinduonnet.com/2002/03/02/stories/2002030203050100.htm
14-The Gujarat police fired a total of 4,000 rounds in the first three days alone. This-despite the presence of the Army.
15-The Gujarat police shot dead 98 people in the first three days-majority of whom are Hindus.
16-The Hindu reported in its issue dated 4th March 2002-that only 2 deaths were reported on 3rd March in the entire state-and the violence has ended on 3rd March 2002. Thus-the Gujarat government managed to control the situation in 3 days-even after the shocking massacre in Godhra-while it took previous Congress governemnts 6 months to stop the riots in 1969 and 1985-even without any cause as Godhra.
Ramji Killed those who cam to fight him, and even then he gave them chance to surrender. You guys killed innocent young babies and women also
Bhishm killed Dusshasan, not his entire family. You guys killed people who had nothing to do with Godhra.
You will do arrange marriage because love is not made for you, u cannot love anything but LOVE TO HATE.
To,Deepakji,
Thanks for giving suggestion to me about sex.But for me sex,girlfriend,is not so important. No and never.Even i don’t like the concept of girlfriend.Arrange marriage is best way of getting married.I am supporting Hinduism,is it mean that i am TAPPORI type of fellow?Jo chije muzko achchi nahi lagati uss things se main hamesha dur rahata hun! When i was in college life,i broke up many friend because they were liked to tourchered girls psychologicaly.you are under wrong impression about me thats why i am explaining all this things!
Badala lena hi human honi ki nishani hain,Deepakji! Jo badla nahi leta wo insan nahi hota!
Tell me one thing.In Ramayana,main criminal was Ravana.But Prabhu ShreeRam destroyed all his army,Ravana,his son Indrajeet,Kumbhkaran but except Bhibishan.Ok? why? Shree Ramji ko yeh malum tha ke aj in sabko mara to hi iss Aryavart ka kuch accha ho sakata hain! Kya ye RAMJI ka revenge nahi tha?
Let me give you another example of Mahabharata.The famous war of Mahabharata was fully based on REVENGE.The way BHIMSEN Killed Dussashana was horrible! Ye Badla nahi tha ?
Think on it properly.Gujarat me start muslim logon ne ki,end
Bajarang Dal ne kiya!Agar BJD ye nahi karti to un logon ki himmat future me bad jati!
our prayer says to our motherland that
TWADI YAY KARYA BADDHAKATIYAMSHUBHAM ASHISHAM DEHI TAT SFURTAYET!
And our aim is
VIJAYETRI CHANAHAT SANHATA KARYA SHAKTI | VIDHAYASYA DHARMASYA SAURAKSHANAM!
Get it?
Jai Shree Ram! Jai shreeKRISHNA!
Vandey Mataram!
What is Unbelievable shocking is, even though the site stil lat one pooint feels that what happend post godhra was indeed bad, this animal Vivek not once said that even though fault of muslims at Godhra, what happened in after that was also bad.
He does not feel that all those innocents who died, suffered at all! To him, they deserved it!! Why?? how did they deserve to die??
Not once, I saw in his comments accepting that post godhra was indeed unfortunate, he is so proud of people dying, even if muslims at gopdhra did a terrible crime, the aftermath was also as terrible as the Godhra itself, but NOT TO HIM!! NOT TO HIM!!
Can a soul be this depraved of love and affection?? VIVEK BHAI, IM DONE TALKING WITH YOU FOR A WHILE, MAY BE AFTER A WHILE I WILL ARGUE WITH YOU AGAIN!
But please, go to aa strip club, or something and have some good sex, you need it, you really do!! Not everyone is after us bhai, we still have a lot to live for, least to kill for!!
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Jo KHUN KA BADLA KHUN se lene ki baat karte hain, wo hindu to dur ki baat, insaan bhi nahi hain.
Sara din RAM RAM ka naam lene walon, pahle RAM ki teachings ko samjho, maryada purshottam RAM ji taught ahinsa, shama aur tyaag.
RSS is totally oppsite of shama, ahinsa aur tyaag. You guys even give alcholhol to rioters so they kill more ruthlessly, and yes RSS doe stalk about killing minortities ruthlessly in shakhas. What a shame.
I don;t know how long I can continue on thi site. But just by readingall the frutruation and hatred from your mouth, it makes me wonder what is future for you guys…
Go feed a hungry muslim or christian child and see how much good you will feel then always keep thinking of wiping them from india.
Shame! utter shame.
To,Deepakji(future winner of nobel,social worker,Guru of Karmayog etc),
For me,Psuedo secularist like you is true enemies of Hinduism and also Hindustan not Sangh Parivar.We will chopped the hands if someone dare to raised it against any Hindus.KHUN KA BADLA KHUN SE.ham aj tak ye nahi karte the issi liye ye Muslim aur christian log Hinduon ke sir par chadkar baithe hue hain.!Mr.HJSP,teach secularism to Muslim people not to us.
KARMA KARO!Ha Ha Ha! microwave! hu hu hu! Time pass comment! Keep it up.
Are ha! JACK KO AUR KUCH NA PAKANA WOH PAGAL HO JAYEGA! Ok?
Jai shree RAM !LONG LIVE HINDUISM!
Well said Jack, isn’t it just amazing how everything that happened in GUJARAT according to these slaves is fault of muslims, and these RSS, VHP AND Bajrangis are innocent milk drinking kids?? They were just defending, not to consider VHP gives them weapons and gives them fire arm training, and RSS preaches hatred in shakhas??
Everything, accoriding to them has an justification, they give number slike police save 5000 here, 2000 there, so total 7000 and everyone should feel good now…WHAT ABOUT THE INNOCENTS WHO STILL DIED IN ROGANIZED KILLING…
WHAT WERE BJP WORKERS DOING ON 28TH FEB IN STREETS MAKING SURE ALL SHOPS ARE CLOSED??
WHY WASN’T THERE A CURFEW IN AHMADABAD ON BEXT MORNING ONLY? THIS SITE ITSELF CLAIMS THE SENSITIVITY OF RIOTS IN GUJARAT, A WISE CM WOULD NOT LET ANY ONE IN STREETS!!
WHY WAS VHP BANDH ALLOWED? WHO ARE THEY TO CALL OF THE BUSINESS??
WHY WERE DEAD BODIES BROUGHT TO AHMADABAD FROM GODHRA? TO DO A TAMASHA AND CAUSE FUMES IN PEOPLE?
According to this site, BJP is the best ever thing that happened for India, yet people don’t want them to lead the nation?? Is that so?? is that what happens to good people?? HAHA
REALITY SPEAKS FOR ITSELF.. ALL NATIONAL COMMISSIONS, NEWS STINGS, REPORTS AND ALL SOCIAL WORKERS ARE ANTI-HINDU?? ANYTHING THAT SPEAKS AGAINST RSS, VHP IS ANTI-HINDU? SAYS WHO?? VHP AND RSS ARE BIGGEST ENEMIES OF HINDUISM!!
Truth : 2,000 Muslims were killed in the Gujarat riots
Truth : Muslims were ‘butchered’ in Gujarat
Truth : Whole of Gujarat was burning
Truth : The Gujarat police turned a blind eye to the rioting
Truth : Gujarat police was anti-Muslim
Truth : Gujarat riots were the ‘worst ever massacre’ in India
Truth : Only Muslims were rendered homeless and suffered economically
Truth : The Gujarat government was involved in the riots
Truth : Gujarat riots were like the 1984 anti-Sikh riots
Truth : Gujarat became a dangerous place to live in, in 2002
Truth : In Ehsan Jafri case, women were raped
Truth : The photo of Qutubuddin Ansari is genuine
Truth : Narendra Modi said:”Every action has equal and opposite reaction”
Truth : Sangh Parivar organizations like VHP organized the riots
Truth : Narendra Modi gave free hand to rioters for 3 day
This website is only showing one side of the coin. Saving the image of VHP, RSS, BJP and Sick old Sangh Leaders
Myth 1: 2,000 Muslims were killed in the Gujarat riots
Myth 2: Muslims were ‘butchered’ in Gujarat
Myth 3: Whole of Gujarat was burning
Myth 4: The Gujarat police turned a blind eye to the rioting
Myth 5: Gujarat police was anti-Muslim
Myth 6: Gujarat riots were the ‘worst ever massacre’ in India
Myth 7: Only Muslims were rendered homeless and suffered economically
Myth 8: The Gujarat government was involved in the riots
Myth 9: Gujarat riots were like the 1984 anti-Sikh riots
Myth 10: Gujarat became a dangerous place to live in, in 2002
Myth 11: In Ehsan Jafri case, women were raped
Myth 12: The photo of Qutubuddin Ansari is genuine
Myth 13: Narendra Modi said:”Every action has equal and opposite reaction”
Myth 14: Sangh Parivar organizations like VHP organized the riots
Myth 15: Narendra Modi gave free hand to rioters for 3 days
Publications, media and all the sources they have their own ways to picture the scene. What makes you to comment on riots by producing such facts here ? You think u ppl talk sense when u say its hindus or muslims who were responsible ? DO YOU ACTUALLY UNDERSTAND POLITICS ? someone is refering a link to prove police was ryt n sm1 is refuting by giving another fact.
Ha ! wise ppl of my nation. I ask you all wise men, have you lost ur dearest one just for the name of so called religion or God ? It makes u hate any God or religion when u lost sm1 close. F*** religion who hates humanity, who rape, kill and destroy in the name of God. I am not concluding anything here. Just give a thought.
Agar Gujrat Police ne Hindu logon ki side li to kya hua?Har bar Hindu hi mar jaye kya?partition ke time 3 lakhs hindu mare gaye the uska kya?kayi lakhon Kashmiri Hindu Pandit kashmir se bahar nikale gaye uska kya?the word ’secularism’ is not made only for Hindus.Other religion’s people should also learnt from it.