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Plea to ensure police act fairly |
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Thursday, 31 August 2006 |
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 Union Minister for Minority affairs AR Antulay has been urged to direct the police authorities in the country to ensure that the spirit and letter of its secular laws are observed at all levels.
In a letter addressed to the Union Minister on 31 August 2006, Dr John Dayal, Secretary General, All India Christian Council and member of the National Integration Council, demanded that the Christians recently arrested in Madhya Pradesh and Jammu & Kashmir be released forthwith. He was referring to the brutal attack on the Pastors and their church at Sheopur in Madhya Pradesh and the arrest of the Pastors and Bible school students in Jammu and Kashmir. He also sought action against those spreading hate and calumny. Dr John Dayal said, “I had panic phone calls in the last two days from Katua in Jammu and Kashmir, and from Sheopur in Madhya Pradesh. The common point of the two incidents was not just the police taking action against Christians, but that the police were taking action at the behest of local Hindutva thugs.” Deeply pained by the developments, Dr John Dayal said, “No citizen can object to the police doing their duty in an objective manner, but the police are also obliged to ensure they are not an instrument in the hands of certain elements inimical to Christians in this country in concert with their philosophy of sectarian nationalism.”
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