Srinagar
A team of three lawyers from Bengaluru, India, who had gone to Dharwad in north Karnataka to represent three Kashmiri students charged with sedition were heckled, shouted at and threatened by Hindu extremists.
Talib Majeed, Basit Asif Sofi and Amir Mohiuddin Wani, studying at a private college in Hubballi district of Karnataka were arrested last week for allegedly raising pro-Pakistan slogans and posting a video on social media.
The Indian police arrested them on demand of Hindu extremist organisations.
The Bengaluru-based lawyers who were taken amid heavy security to the Dharwad court, came under attack and damaged their car by Hindu RSS-BJP and VHP terror members. Hindu communal Lawyers’ groups held a demonstration against them near the court, while local right-wing activists shouted ‘Go Back’ and ‘Bharat Mata ki Jai.’slogans.
The report also adds that the vehicles of the lawyers were also damaged when they reached the court. The lawyers had to return to Bengaluru as they were not able to file the bail applications on behalf of their clients after disruptions inside and outside the court, an Indian media news network said.
A lawyer, who was part of the team, told media that they went to Hubbali to collect the FIR and other documents, but were forced to return empty-handed.
In occupied Kashmir, the Jammu and Kashmir People’s Movement (JKPM) has urged the minorities to unite against the fascist regime in India, which is hellbent upon making them a second class citizen.
APHC leader and JKPM Chairman Mir Shahid Saleem speaking at a meeting in Jammu said that the communal regime in India was enforcing Hindutva agenda on the minorities thereby not only depriving them of their religious and cultural identity by also to dis-empower them politically. The meeting was attended by several Sikh and Dalit leaders and activists.
The meeting agreed, in principal, to launch a united fight against the forces of communalism who are destroying and distorting the narrative of resistance in Jammu and Kashmir.
The meeting observed that abrogation of special status to Jammu and Kashmir cannot change the disputed status of territory and there will be no permanent peace in the region until the Kashmir dispute is resolved as per the wishes and aspirations of the people.
Prominent among those who spoke on the occasion included ID Khajuria, Kulbhushan Singh, Narender Singh Khalsa, Sukhdev Singh Gurdev Singh and Narender Khajuria.—KMS
