Assault over Jai Mata ki chant: NCM seeks report from Delhi Police

Taking a serious view of the alleged assault on three madrasa students here for not chanting ‘Bharat Mata ki jai’, National Commission for Minorities (NCM) on Thursday asked the Delhi Police Commissioner to “immediately” submit a report on the incident. After a CPI(M) delegation called on him seeking his intervention in the case, NCM chairperson Naseem Ahmad sought a report from Delhi police chief Alok Kumar Verma on the case which the Left party termed “a hate crime motivated by hostility towards minorities”. “A petition has been received today and we have called for an immediate report from Delhi Police Commissioner pertaining to the allegations,” said Ahmad. Police is expected to submit the report within a week, he said. Saying the three students were “coerced to shout slogans like Mata ki Jai/Bharat Mata ki Jai”, CPI(M) alleged that such incidents were occurring due to the “atmosphere created by the leaders of the ruling party at the Centre at different levels”. “However, the FIR copy given to the victim does not include any clause connected with communal violence. An effort is being made to whitewash this and reduce the crime to a personal dispute,” CPI(M) claims in the memorandum. The delegation, led by CPI(M) politburo member Brinda Karat, accused Delhi government and the Centre of not taking note of this “serious” incident.