Rajkot: Two villages in Kutch, one ruled through Muslims and different with majority Hindu population, have pulled up sleeves towards a right-wing outfit for trying to stall their plan of establishing a refugee colony for just about 40 families who've migrated from Pakistan.
These 40 families have roots in Mokhana village, 2km from Kaniyabe, where locals are investment the colony to lend a hand the refugees resettle. At provide, these families are living in Navi Marad village with regards to Morbi, on a long-term visa and feature implemented for Indian citizenship. Kaniyabe, around 35km from Bhuj, has a population of around three,500 of which 2,500 are Muslims. Mokhana is a Hindu-dominated village with three,500 Hindus and a population of four,000. Most of them belong to Ahir group.
However, citizens of each villages have been incensed when many of them received letters from a Rajkot-based Hindutva outfit named Jan Jagran Manch, which adversarial the refugee colony alleging that the 40 families have been Pakistan spies and a risk to nationwide safety.
On Wednesday evening, Kaniyabe sarpanch Ishbasha Shaikh, deputy sarpanch Mamadsha Shaikh and Mokhana village chief Trikam Varchand approached Paddhar police station and lodged an FIR towards the outfit alleging that it is attempting to create communal disharmony between Hindus and Muslims.
Ishbasha told TOI, “Such propaganda via letters would possibly create communal stress between Hindus and Muslims who've been living with peace and unity for decades now. The letter is signed through one Anil Patel, but when we inquired in regards to the organization, nobody was found at the address. We received’t allow anybody to vitiate peace of 2 villages.” Ishbasha said although the colony isn't being constructed on their land, the village has prolonged its enhance to the initiative of the Mokhana citizens.
The 40 families are ancestors of those that migrated from Mokhana to Pakistan all through Partition. But they returned around five years in the past and are expecting Indian citizenship.
S J Rana, police inspector of Paddhar police station said, “We have registered the complaint after preliminary investigation confirmed that any person had written these letters with malafide purpose. The villagers say it is an try to create communal stress between them.”
The FIR has been lodged under Section 153A of the IPC touching on selling enmity between other teams on grounds of religion, race, native land, place of abode, language, and many others, and doing acts prejudicial to repairs of unity.
The letter alleges that the 40-odd families are Muslims, but living on bogus Hindu identification playing cards which have been procured with the help of Pakistan government with an purpose to secret agent on India. It further mentioned that citizens of Kaniyabe are supporting this refugee colony with an purpose to extend Muslim population.
Meanwhile, the development of the colony has been placed on cling after some native organizations filed a complaint with the mamlatdar place of job alleging that it was being finished illegally on government land. Mokhana villagers have additionally agreed to restart the work after the migrants received permission from the Union house ministry to shift to their native village.
These 40 families have roots in Mokhana village, 2km from Kaniyabe, where locals are investment the colony to lend a hand the refugees resettle. At provide, these families are living in Navi Marad village with regards to Morbi, on a long-term visa and feature implemented for Indian citizenship. Kaniyabe, around 35km from Bhuj, has a population of around three,500 of which 2,500 are Muslims. Mokhana is a Hindu-dominated village with three,500 Hindus and a population of four,000. Most of them belong to Ahir group.
However, citizens of each villages have been incensed when many of them received letters from a Rajkot-based Hindutva outfit named Jan Jagran Manch, which adversarial the refugee colony alleging that the 40 families have been Pakistan spies and a risk to nationwide safety.
On Wednesday evening, Kaniyabe sarpanch Ishbasha Shaikh, deputy sarpanch Mamadsha Shaikh and Mokhana village chief Trikam Varchand approached Paddhar police station and lodged an FIR towards the outfit alleging that it is attempting to create communal disharmony between Hindus and Muslims.
Ishbasha told TOI, “Such propaganda via letters would possibly create communal stress between Hindus and Muslims who've been living with peace and unity for decades now. The letter is signed through one Anil Patel, but when we inquired in regards to the organization, nobody was found at the address. We received’t allow anybody to vitiate peace of 2 villages.” Ishbasha said although the colony isn't being constructed on their land, the village has prolonged its enhance to the initiative of the Mokhana citizens.
The 40 families are ancestors of those that migrated from Mokhana to Pakistan all through Partition. But they returned around five years in the past and are expecting Indian citizenship.
S J Rana, police inspector of Paddhar police station said, “We have registered the complaint after preliminary investigation confirmed that any person had written these letters with malafide purpose. The villagers say it is an try to create communal stress between them.”
The FIR has been lodged under Section 153A of the IPC touching on selling enmity between other teams on grounds of religion, race, native land, place of abode, language, and many others, and doing acts prejudicial to repairs of unity.
The letter alleges that the 40-odd families are Muslims, but living on bogus Hindu identification playing cards which have been procured with the help of Pakistan government with an purpose to secret agent on India. It further mentioned that citizens of Kaniyabe are supporting this refugee colony with an purpose to extend Muslim population.
Meanwhile, the development of the colony has been placed on cling after some native organizations filed a complaint with the mamlatdar place of job alleging that it was being finished illegally on government land. Mokhana villagers have additionally agreed to restart the work after the migrants received permission from the Union house ministry to shift to their native village.
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