Black day observed against the obnoxious 1994 Muzaffarnagar rapes and killings at Jantar Mantar. Punishment demanded for culprits

The various socio political organisations, particularly those belonging to Uttarakhand active in Delhi and were involved in the fight for Uttarakhand as a separate state, journalists, intellectuals and grass root workers today staged a one day protest demonstration n Dharna at Jantar Mantar, New Delhi commemorating the 28th martyrdom anniversary by declaring it as a Black Day and demanding strictest of the punishment to the erring policemen and officers of the then ruling Mulayam Singh Yadav government in Uttar Pradesh for allegedly raping, sexually assaulting and killings several innocent women movement activists, youth and students coming in buses in large number to participate in the massive Ram Lila Ground rally in New Delhi on 2nd October, 1994 in Muzaffernagar, UP.

It was indeed a black night that day about 28 years ago, when hundreds of policemen under the instructions from Lucknow created a TAANDAV of terror and women asssault in the agricultural fields in Muzaffarnagar killing several of them who had no option but get assauted and killed.

It was the most obnoxious inhuman act against the peaceful andolankari women, youths and sr citizens in the history of the country at the behest of the then Mulayam Singh government in 1994. Since then 34 years have passed and the successive governments have taken no initiative to punish the single officer, the then DIG or the political masters for these shameful rapes n killings, instead they all got promotions and functioned as the advisors to the state chief ministers of the governments in power.

Not only this but the Congress and the BJP governments of Uttarakhand had during the last 19 years of their rule have not taken the pain to institute any inquiry commission or recommend the matter for an impartial CBI inquiry against 1994 Muzaffernagar genocide.

In may be recalled that it was primarily this most sensitive, shameful and obnoxious misadventure of the UP police at the behest of the then chief minister Mulayam Singh Yadav that sparked the separate Uttarakhand movement gained momentum further leading to unprovoked deaths/ martydom of about 46 movement activists Kahima, Mussourie and in various parts of Uttarakhand.

The organisers of the Black day at Jantar Mantar today also organised a Hawan to give solace to the pious souls of the martyrs of Uttarakhand movement and presented a memorandum to the union government for institution of an impartial inquiry commission in the entire episode and punish the guilty officers most stringently.

Uttarakhand Journalists Forum conveys its richest tributes to all the martyrs of Uttarakhand movement and urges upon the prime minister Narendra Modi and Home minister Rajnath Singh to institute a powerful equiry commission in this episode under the chairmanship of the retired Supreme Court Judge and punish the guilty of the Muzaffarnagar rapes and subsequent killings at the earliest.

These protest demonstrations are being organised in the pan India level in the areas dominated by Uttarakhandies.