Rioting went on all night on October 24. In early hours of the morning, a three-storey garment showroom A-Z Garments owned by a Muslim entrepreneur was burned down in Block 27. The next morning, angry mobs broke the locks of Babu Khans scrap shop in Block 28 before ransacking and setting fire to a meat shop nearby. “Men carrying stones and swords surrounded our house chanting Har Har Mahadev. They climbed on terraces nearby and hurled stones. Wearing only helmets and vests, they took off their pants to threaten us with rape,” recounts Tarana Khan, an M.A. Economics student at Delhi University. Muslim women and girls who returned to Sanjay Camp after staying away at relatives homes for a week alleged policemen shouted abuses at them while forcing them to open their houses, arresting any Muslim youth they could find. “They broke the lock and the door, and hit me with a rifle,” said Sultana Bibi (in her 50s), who makes paper envelopes for a living, revealing a large black and blue bruise on her left knee. Her neighbour Mehrunissa, who has since sent her daughter away to Ghaziabad pointed to fresh cracks in her houses door and the curtain torn into half.
Posted on: Sat, 08 Nov 2014 11:25:56 +0000
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