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Teachers join hands for civil rights

NEW DELHI: The Jamia Teachers’ Solidarity Association adopted several resolutions at an all-India convention on “State, Democracy and ‘Terrorism’: One Year after Batla House ‘Encounter” on the campus here earlier this week.

“The house has resolved to strengthen the movement for the demand for an independent and fair probe into the Batla House ‘encounter’. It demands Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to immediately institute a judicial enquiry into the ‘encounter’,” said Manisha Sethi on behalf of the solidarity association in a statement.

At the convention, a demand was raised to ensure speedy justice for the accused and the arrested youth in the case. “This house notes with great alarm the communally biased torture and mistreatment of accused in the terror-related cases in the various jails across the country..…This house also demands immediate punishment for the police personnel responsible for the extra-judicial killing of Chungkham Shanjit and Rabina Devi in July 2009,” read the statement.

The participants also pressed for repeal of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) from Manipur and Kashmir, which has “bred an atmosphere of impunity”.

They demanded that the National Human Rights Commission guidelines pertaining to encounter killings be scrupulously adhered to and “all those police and security personnel who indulge in extra judicial killings be booked under culpable homicide”.

“This house resolves to build a wide political movement for the defence of human rights and for the revamping of the State and national human rights commissions,” said the statement endorsed by Mukul Sinha of Jan Sangharsh Morcha, Dinesh Varshney of the Communist Party of India, and M. K. Muneer of the Indian Union of Muslim League.

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