OFFICIAL HARASSMENT

Gujarat has its own ways of harassing people officially! Ehsan Jafri was killed in the post-Godhra riots that brought Narendra Modi back to the seat of Chief Minister. Tanvir Jafri, son of late Ehsan Jafri and Jakia Nasim alias Jakia Jafri wife of late Ehsan Jafri are the lone wagers of battle for justice in the court of law.
A Special Investigating Team (SIT) has been set up under the orders of the Supreme Court. After receiving complaints from Tanvir Jafri and Jakia Jafri, SIT recently summoned Pravin Togadia, Secretary of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad for enquiry.
How easy it is to flirt with law in Gujarat can be seen by what happened next? In no other place in India, you can file a police complaint because the other person has gone and filed a complaint against you in the court of law. But it is very much possible in Gujarat where the police are mere tools in the hands of politicians. You will be astonished to know that Pravin Togadia has filed a police complaint against the aforementioned mother-son duo for filing a complaint against him in front of Special Investigating Team. What’s worse is that the police went to record the complaint as well. Even worse, Togadia and his followers had the audacity to issue a press release on his doings, making it abundantly clear to imagination that the duo will now have to bear harassment from the local police for filing a complaint against Pravin Togadia. Message is clear, even if your immediate relative has been killed, you shall not go to the court of law to seek justice.
The press release issued by the VHP says: “I, Dr. Pravin Togadia…am doctor by profession and International Secretary-General, Vishwa Hindu Parishad, the worldwide Hindu Organization. That I have been summoned by SIT, Gandhinagar ‘on 10th May, 2010 in connection with some orders passed by Hon’ble Supreme Court and after my statement was recorded, I was put certain questions by electronic media and press over there and in response thereto, I made it clear that I shall take appropriate democratic actions against Teesta Setalvad and Mrs. Zakiya Jafri.” Isn’t it clear that the complaint is being filed because the duo has exercised its right to go to the court of law? And the police complaint is being filed in retaliation in the name of democracy. This is democracy!
The complaint filed against Pravin Togadia is that he had threatened the two. And in response, see what Mr. Togadia has to say: “
The above-said Mr. Tanvir Jafri & Mrs Jakia Nasim alias Jakia Jafri have made fraudulent, false & criminally defamatory complaint against me & that this poses direct & indirect threat to my life & the lives of the people working in the organization / s that I am associated with & to my old mother & my brothers & their family members.
The above-said fraudulent complaint also poses threat to the Hindus at large & in Gujarat because the above said complaint has been made directly to the Director General of Police of Gujarat therefore it misdirects the government machinery at the highest level against me, my family, the organizations that I am associated with & the businesses my family members are associated with.
This act of fraudulent complaint also tantamount to inciting the public in general based on religion against me, Hindus at large & in Gujarat, people in the organizations that I am associated with & my family members including my old mother.
The above said complaint by the above said Mr. Tanvir Jafri & Mrs Jakia Nasim alias Mrs Jakia Jafri is based on false media reports seem to have been planted or misconstrued to suit the malicious intentions of the above-said complainants.
I completely deny any contents of the said compliant as being spread in the section of media.
I demand that the above said duo must be immediately arrested for threat to my life through inciting complaints & making them public & thereby misleading the government machinery against me & inciting public at large based on religion against me, people working in the organizations that I am associated with & my old mother & my brothers & their family members.
That the said intentionally misleading complaint as being put on media has not yet been denied by the above-said duo & thereby it proves unconditionally that their intention is to malign my image in the society, defame me criminally & incite people at large against me and also with malafide intention to pressurize Hindu Community at large.
Filing of the above-said complaint against me directly with the Director General of the Police, Gujarat state, it also proves that the above-said duo are the habitual in filing fraudulent, misleading & inciting complaints against me, the people in the organizations that I am associated with & the Hindus at large in Gujarat. This has been amply proven in the fraudulent complaint made by one of the above two & over-riding all the legal process I have not been given the copy of the said complaint. And now today i.e. on May 15, 2010 & yesterday i.e. May 14, 2010 there have the news of the second such fraudulent & inciting complaint against me with not an iota of truth in it.
I also demand that the copy of the above said complaint by the above-said duo to be given to me immediately as this is my fundamental right.
I also demand the written reasons that as to why over-riding all the legal processes the Director General of Gujarat Police accepted the above-said complaint & before even verifying with me why the false & criminally defamatory & death-threatening contents of the said complaints were leaked to the media.
This is to put on record that this entire process has violated my fundamental right to protect myself legally against any false complaints whatsoever. The same has happened in case of the SIT enquiry on May 10, 2010 based on another fraudulent complaint against me which got a section of media giving false lines against me that ‘Dr Togadia is one among 64 being investigated for killing Cong’s Ehsan Jafri’. Even before any investigation is complete there seems to a serious conspiracy against me, the organization I am associated with & Hindus at large & in Gujarat because this is yet another violation of basic legal process & it has posed direct threats to my life.
Therefore I demand that the above-said Tanvir Jafri & Mrs Jakia Nasim alias Mrs Jakia Jafri be immediately arrested for the investigation to prove where I met them or called them that they file a complaint of threat to life & mental harassment against me directly with the Director General of Police of Gujarat & without even verifying with me the said Director General of Police even accepted the said complaint.
I am sure that I have stated in exercise of my fundamental rights enshrined by Constitution of India.
Mr. Togadia will have to tell how a complaint against him becomes a complaint against the Gujarat state in general and the Hindus in large.