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Noida police were callous: Brinda Karat

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NEW DELHI: Rajya Sabha member Brinda Karat has urged Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil to convene a meeting of Home Ministers of States in the National Capital Region to discuss measures to identify and monitor areas where poor migrants live to ensure that their complaints to the police are addressed.

Writing to Mr. Patil in the wake of the Nithari killings, the Communist Party of India (Marxist) Polit Bureau member said police stations in such areas should have a mechanism to monitor all cases of missing children and adolescents for periodic assessment of the status of the cases.

Now that a Central Bureau of Investigation enquiry has been ordered into the Nithari killings — "though belatedly" — Ms. Karat said the country expected a time-bound probe which would bring out the truth behind the killings, including an investigation into the suspected links with a gang involved in organ trade.

Commenting on the manner in which the local police handled the Nithari cases, the Rajya Sabha member noted: "Their [migrants] extreme economic vulnerability and social and cultural isolation was brutally reflected in the utterly callous if not criminal indifference of the administration to their complaints. Unfortunately, the administrative attention usually given to these social sections enhances the stereotype of the migrant as the `criminal.' The social realities of their existence, which are quite the opposite of their portrayal as the aggressive criminal, are ignored."

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