SC declines to hear victim’s plea on Atali communal clash

Friday, June 05, 2015, New Delhi: The Supreme Court today refused to hear a plea seeking an  impartial CBI or SIT probe into the recent alleged attacks on members of a  minority community at a village in Faridabad.

A vacation bench, comprising Justices Prafulla C Pant and Amitava Roy  asked Shakir Ali, one of the victims of the violence, to approach the Punjab and  Haryana High Court with his grievances.

“Have you approached the High  Court? Who prevented you from going there? First go to the High Court,” the  bench observed when Mushtaq Ahmed, Ali’s lawyer mentioned the matter in the  court seeking urgent hearing.

Mr Ali, in his plea, has sought compensation  from the authorities for those who suffered injuries in the incident and whose  houses were also attacked.

Apart from seeking permission to construct a  mosque, Ali has also sought security for members of the minority  community.

It was alleged that some members of the majority community had  attacked about 20 houses belonging to the members of the minority community on  May 25. The communal clash had begun when some members of the  minority community started construction of a mosque allegedly on a disputed  piece of land at Atali village in Faridabad district. – UNI