Mumbai: A delegation
of Muslims from Dhule met senior home department officials at
Mantralaya on Tuesday to complain about the partisan role of the police
in the communal riots which claimed 10 lives last month.
The meeting was held at the office of senior Congress leader and dairy
development minister Anees Ahmed. Additional chief secretary (home)
Chitkala Zutshi and principal secretary (home) A V Parasnis were also
present at the meeting.
In the meanwhile, Anjali Iyer, a lawyer representing Sabhir Sheikh, one
of the accused picked up by the police in connection with the riots,
has filed an application under Right To Information (RTI) Act, seeking
information about the number of cases filed by the police against her
client. “I have to file the RTI as police is not ready to reveal the
number of cases registered against my client,’’ Iyer said.
The state government has ordered a probe by a high-level committee into
the riots. The state deputy chief minister R R Patil said, “If needed,
a judicial probe would also be conducted.’’ From police action, it was
evident that people from both communities had been arrested, he added.
Patil refuted the allegations of the police being biased.
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