Nalbari has 1000+ peopleOn the attack and the subsequent police encounter and killing of the accused youths involved, I published a brief comment on ‘Comments by the Editor-in-Chief of North East Now’ yesterday. I have described the incident in my comments as barbaric, atrocious and have no words to condemn or condemn. I was also against encounter killing. Millions of people have heard or seen my speeches so far. More than a thousand people have shared the video. Thousands of people—over 3,000 people—commented on what I said. Now the doctor says that the dead youth was shot in the chest and lower abdomen.
Now come to the comments. This comment is the majorityAbout 80 percent of the time I have been cursed and abused without being bitten by a dog. Well when you comment on something in public, it’s only natural that some in the audience will react; Rather, he is desirable and welcome. But the language of comments should be polite. For politeness of language does not weaken reason, but strengthens it. Use of foul language weakens the argument. Some say that only those with weak logic use rude language and abuse. However, if you do not have the patience and ability to tolerate abuse, it is better not to come to the media, especially in the current situation. However, one of its comments touched me deeply. He said, “This old man is always against the flow. What would have happened if this man’s son had been killed (meaning if someone had killed my son)?” Maybe someone in my family was killed like this, what would I do? But that doesn’t happen in my family. About 60 years ago, my uncle’s younger brother Dandi Malik and his son Kirtan Malik, my grandfather, were killed for no reason while they were looking for cows. The deceased has been identified as 20-year-old Arun Kumar, a resident of Mukalmua in Assam’s Namani district. Our little grandmother lost her husband and children and went crazy. When he told us this story four decades later, he wept. We were also bursting with anger. But still, we in no way blame the entire community for this. And how is it—in my case I believe in the encounter and in someone else’s case the legal process? I am not that kind of person.
The second thing is yesl—which goes against the current. Do I accept what thousands of people say that I don’t think is right? Today I oppose the corruption and irregularities of the BJP government; Tomorrow I will oppose and criticize the irregularities of Congress or whichever party is in government. It is easy to sink with the current, but difficult to rise against the current. Not everyone has that courage.
Now come to another topic. In some Muslim countries, fundamentalist Islamic Sharia law imposes hudud punishment (Hudud Punishment) is customary. There are methods of punishing the accused for illicit sex, theft or other such crimes by stoning, flogging, amputation of hands, etc. However, it should be noted: the conditions of proof and witness requirements for the application of hudud punishment in Shariah law are very strict. For example, the crime of adultery requires four credible witnesses. Hudud punishment is not applied if there is even the slightest doubt or lack of evidence. The same is true of Khap Panchayats in Haryana and other parts of North India; There are also matters of process and evidence. But the whole modern world did not condemn these actions? Don’t we all condemn these things? So how do we support the illegal practice of police encounters and punishments at the scene in the dead of night, no matter how serious the crime? We have a multi-tiered legal system across the country from lower courts, sessions courts, high courts to the Supreme Court; How many millions of judges, millions of lawyers across the country! What is the point of accepting that the police give instant ‘justice’ like this? So let’s remove them and hand over all power to the police! Today in the 21st century, would you accept that?