Mangalore: Public Rally Demands CBI Inquiry Into Church Attacks
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Daijiworld Media Network – Mangalore (SP)
Mangalore, Feb 12: Under the auspices of Mangalore Central Committee ® and a number of other organizations, a public rally culminating in a protest meeting, was organized in the city on Friday February 11. The protestors demanded for the release of innocent victims, who they claimed, have been jailed in connection with various cases hoisted against them, and also to entrust inquiry into the 2008 church attack cases in the state, to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
The rally was taken out from near Kudroli Jodu Masidi, and the protest meeting was organized in front of the office of Dakshina Kannada district deputy commissioner.
District president of Komu Sauharda Vedike, Suresh Bhat Bakrabail, inaugurated the rally. Mangalore Central Committee president, M Abdul Aziz Kudroli, presided over the protest meeting. Convener of the committee, Ali Hassan, delivered introductory address. State general secretary of the Vedike, K L Ashok, delivered the main address.
Udupi NCHRO president, Fr William Martis, State Women’s Commission former chairperson, Philomena Peris, Fr Alwyn Colaco of Karnataka Mission Network, Mohammed Kunhi of the youth wing, Karnataka State Sunni Students Federation treasurer, N Shaffi Saadi, and others addressed the protestors.
People’s Union for Civil Liberties state president, P B D’Sa, Asif Khader of Royal Friends Circle, president of Residential Association in the city, Haji Mohammed, and others were at the dais. The speakers condemned the transfer of Puttur assistant superintendent of police, Amit Singh, and demanded for his reinstatement. The organizations have planned for a protest demonstration in front of the office of the state director general of police in Bangalore on February 15, demanding for the cancellation of Singh’s transfer order.
Sabina, daughter of Mohammed Ali from Ullal Mukkacheri, claimed that her father, who was arrested by projecting him as a suspected terrorist, is innocent.
B Vishnumurty of Bandaru Shramikara Sangha welcomed. General secretary of Mangalore Central Committee, Ashraf Kinara, presented the programme.