7th Rangers: Forced conversion to Islam of two BJP workers as ‘punishment’ by TMC, police apathy and more: What Kolkata HC order says, ordering CBI/NIA probe
Fighting Seventh
The Fighting Rangers On War, Politics and Burning Issues
Rudyard Kipling"
“When you're left wounded on Afganistan's plains and
the women come out to cut up what remains, Just roll to your rifle
and blow out your brains,
And go to your God like a soldier”
General Douglas MacArthur"
“We are not retreating. We are advancing in another direction.”
“It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.” “Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
“The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and be the deepest wounds and scars of war.”
“May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't .” “The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
“Nobody ever defended, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.
“It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
The Soldier stood and faced God
Which must always come to pass
He hoped his shoes were shining
Just as bright as his brass
"Step forward you Soldier,
How shall I deal with you?
Have you always turned the other cheek?
To My Church have you been true?"
"No, Lord, I guess I ain't
Because those of us who carry guns
Can't always be a saint."
I've had to work on Sundays
And at times my talk was tough,
And sometimes I've been violent,
Because the world is awfully rough.
But, I never took a penny
That wasn't mine to keep.
Though I worked a lot of overtime
When the bills got just too steep,
The Soldier squared his shoulders and said
And I never passed a cry for help
Though at times I shook with fear,
And sometimes, God forgive me,
I've wept unmanly tears.
I know I don't deserve a place
Among the people here.
They never wanted me around
Except to calm their fears.
If you've a place for me here,
Lord, It needn't be so grand,
I never expected or had too much,
But if you don't, I'll understand."
There was silence all around the throne
Where the saints had often trod
As the Soldier waited quietly,
For the judgment of his God.
"Step forward now, you Soldier,
You've borne your burden well.
Walk peacefully on Heaven's streets,
You've done your time in Hell."
Forced conversion to Islam of two BJP workers as ‘punishment’ by TMC, police apathy and more: What Kolkata HC order says, ordering CBI/NIA probe
Saturday, May 21, 2022
Forced conversion to Islam of two BJP workers as 'punishment' by TMC,
police apathy and more: What Kolkata HC order says, ordering CBI/NIA
probe
After their complaint was torn up and the "civic volunteer", the order
says, "A complaint has thereafter been addressed to the Superintendent
of Police, Malda, on December 8, 2021. The S.P., Malda also did not take
any steps. The petitioners, thereafter, complained with the Chairman,
National Human Rights Commission and the other respondents herein".
West Bengal was thrown into post-poll violence
by TMC goons after BJP lost the Assembly Elections in 2021. Several
hundred and thousands of BJP workers were murdered, raped, and driven
out of their homes. Rampant arson and violence against political
opponents became the order of the day by TMC goons. Amidst the chaos, a
shocking case emerged where two BJP workers went missing. They were
allegedly forcefully converted to Islam for supporting BJP in the state.
The Calcutta High Court transferred the case to CBI and NIA after
serious lapses in the investigation were detected in a case where the
two BJP leaders were supposedly given a “punishment” for supporting BJP,
by forcefully converting them to Islam.
The order makes several scathing observations and details the police
apathy that the wives of the two leaders had to face when they tried to
file a complaint in the case after their husbands went missing.
The petitioners in the case were two sisters, whose husbands, both
brothers, were BJP leaders. Their husbands went missing on the 24th of
November 2021. After that, the sisters filed two complaints, first at
the Mothabari Police Station and subsequently to the Kaliachak Police
Station. It has been submitted in court that one complaint that was
filed was received by the police station, however, was torn up by a
“civic volunteer”. The order says, “The said civic volunteer also
informed the petitioners that their husbands have converted to Islam”.
