Bengaluru cops accused of inaction on hate post against fruit sellers
Bengaluru police are yet to register an FIR on a complaint against a social media post by a rightwing outfit targeting fruit sellers, an activist group has alleged.
Amid a series of hate campaigns against Muslim businesses in Karnataka, Bengaluru police are yet to register an FIR on a complaint against a social media post by a rightwing outfit targeting fruit sellers, an activist group has alleged.
Zia Nomani, Karnataka President of the Bandhua Mukti Morcha which takes up labour issues, on Friday said that the police have not yet filed an FIR saying they were seeking legal opinion on his complaint.
Zomani had approached the police on Wednesday with a complaint against a post by a leader of the Hindu Janagruti Samiti about Muslim vendors carrying out a ‘spitting jihad’ by spitting on fruits and bakery items and also appealing to Hindus to end the Muslim monopoly in the fruit trade.
From the past 48 hours, 4 social activists (one Lawyer, two Paralegals, one Engineer) have been struggling to file FIR against the person who called to boycott Muslim fruit vendors accusing them of 'Spitting Jihad'.
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— Sheikh Zia Nomani (@ZiaNomaniblr) April 7, 2022
Later, he approached the Bangalore city police commissioner saying ‘delay and inaction will further embolden such fringe elements to spread hate affecting the peace and harmony of the society.’
Nomani, who is also a Bangalore spokesman for the political party All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen, says this issue was taken up by the apolitical NGO Bandhua Mukti Morcha because it involved fruit sellers who were mostly street hawkers. “These are people who earn somewhere around Rs 10,000-15,000 a month and they don’t have any avenues to go and fight this,” Nomani told The Federal.
“We will wait till tomorrow because they had asked time for 2-3 days. Otherwise we will go to the High Court on Monday,” Nomani said.