Uttarakhand High Court takes suo moto cognizance of 1994 shooting in Mujaffarnagar. Dhirendra Pratap welcomes the move

The majority of the socio political organisations of Uttarakhand have welcomed the recent decision of the Uttarakhand High Court, Nainital for taking the suo motto cognizance of the alleged unprovoked firing on the innocent movement activists of Uttarakhand and subsequent rape of women activists coming to Delhi in buses to participate in the historical Ramleela ground rally to demand separate Uttarakhand state on 2nd October 1994.

About 15 Uttarakhand activists had died in the night of 2nd October in Muzaffarnagar when the desperate UP police personels under the arbitrary directives from Lucknow, fired unprovokingly on innocent men, women n youths in the fields of sugarcane where these highly terrorised activists took refuge to safeguard themselves.

It was really a black night when the UP police personels not only killed 15 people but also brutally raped women taking full advantage of the night and secluded place called Rampur Tiraha. This barbaric and brutal killings and gangrape of women at Rampur Tiraha, Mujaffarnagar was termed as the dark chapter of the Uttarakhand movement that changed the entire course of the Andolan and surcharged the people to the full, finally compelling the Uttar Pradesh and the Central government to acede to the separate state demand which the people got on 9th November 2000.

Since then several petitions were filed in the Supreme Court and Allahabad High Court holding the senior officials and the then chief minister UP Mulayam Singh Yadav responsiblefor the massacre and rape of 1994 that took place at Rampur Tiraha, Mujaffarnagar but unfortunately even after the lapse of twenty four protracted years no action has been taken against the then DIG n DM Bua Singh and Anant Kumar Singh who even got number of promotions later on and must have supperanuated by now.

This is a concrete instance of immense injustice in a democracy when erring senior officials are not penalised despite women losing their dignity and several people killed for no fault of theirs.
Meanwhile the chief media coordinator of Uttarakhand Congress Committee Dhirendra Pratap has welcomed the decision of Nainital High Court for taking suo Moto cognizance of Muzaffarnagar shooting incident held on 2nd October 1994 at Rampur Tiraha Muzaffarnagar UP.

In a statement Dhirendra Pratap sad ” this is slap on the face of the political parties which had failed to deliver justice to the families of those people who were brutally killed and many womens were manhandled during this shocking incident”. The successive governments had failed to provide justice to the family of deceased people and now when the High Court had taken ” a great decision ” it has given a great sigh of relief to the Uttarakhand statehood movement activists . He expressed hope that the process of hearing this case would be streamlined now and in a span of one year the culprits would be brought into the books, he added.

Similarly the Uttarakhand Journalists Forum which was also one of the petitioners in the Supreme Court India demanding strictest action against the guilty officials during the rule of Mulayam Singh Yadav in 1994 against the Rampur Tiraha killings n rapes have thanked the hon’ble High Court of Uttarakhand for taking the suo moto cognizance of the shameful Muzaffarnagar shooting incidents after 24 years n urged the honourable judges to bring the culprits to justice at the earliest to soothe the hearts n feelings of millions of hurt Uttarakhandies globally.