“The families of ten innocent Muslims who lost their lives and over 30 people who were injured in the Gopalgarh firing  last year still await justice,” said Jamaat-e-Islami Hind state Chief, Engineer Khurshid Hussain adressing the state office in a meeting of Jamaat officials. The meeting reviewed the situation in the state.

Hussain said that the guilty officers who were suspended have been freed and are on duty now due to absence of a charge sheet and even after a year the CBI has failed to produce one.

The government transferred 17 of the police personnel and it’s only willing to give a mild punishment. One of the Congress leaders in the region pressurized the Police to cancel the transfer orders. Mr. Hussain condoned the fact that the state government gave in to the pressure tactics.

He appealed to the administration and the CBI for a speedy unbiased investigation of the case, independent of political pressures and awarding severe punishment to all the officers involved and to release the arrested innocent persons seeking withdrawal of the charges against them.