الهند: شكوى من قلة تعيين ضباط الشرطة المسلمين في حيدر آباد

- خبر من مصادر إنجليزية.

بالرغم من أن المسلمين يشكلون نسبة 41% من سكان مدينة "حيدر آباد"، إلا أن 40% من أقسام الشرطة لم تحظ بتعيين ضابط شرطة مسلم، بالرغم من شهود تلك المناطق العديد من المصادمات والتوترات بين المسلمين وغيرهم.

وعلى ضوء هذا وجّه وزير الداخلية استفسارًا لمحافظي الولايات عن سبب التقصير في تطبيق توصيات "لجنة ساشر" بتعيين الضباط المسلمين بمناطق الكثافة الإسلامية، مُطالِبًا المحافظين باتخاذ الإجراءات اللازمة وموافاته بالنتائج بحلول نهاية يونيو الجاري، خاصةً في ظل تشكيل المسلمين 90% من مناطق خدمة 33 قسمًا شرطيًا بالمنطقة، يفتقد 13 قسمًا منها لتعيين أي ضباط من المسلمين. المصدر: شبكة الألوكة.

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Few Muslim police officers in Old City

Forty per cent police stations in the Old City where population of Muslims is high do not have a single field level officer from the same community and this list includes the Madannapet and Saidabad police stations where communal clashes occurred recently.

Recently, Union home secretary R K Singh wrote to chief secretaries of all states, asking them why a recommendation of the Sachar Committee to appoint at least one Muslim officer in a police station with areas having a high concentration of Muslim population has not been implemented. The chief secretaries were also asked to take appropriate action and communicate the same to the home ministry by the end of June.

Hyderabad is one of the largest Muslim-populated cities in the country where 41 per cent of the total population is from the community. Their population overshoots the average and reaches up to 90 per cent in 33 police station areas of Hyderabad, known as the Old City.

Keeping in view the Union government's directive to the states, TOI conducted a survey on the presence of Muslim officers in the police stations of the Old City and it turned up that their presence is scant with respect to the community's population.

Among the 33 police stations where Muslim population is very high, 17 are in the South Zone, nine police stations are in West Zone, three police stations in Central Zone and four in the East Zone.

Among these, 13 police stations do not have a single Muslim officer of the rank of SI or inspector working there. The police stations without a Muslim officer are: Asif Nagar, Afzalgunj, Chandrayangutta, Dabeerpura, Falaknuma, Humayun Nagar, Madannapet, Malakpet, Mangalhat, Nampally, Saidabad, Santosh Nagar and Shahinayatgunj.

Even in the remaining 20 police stations where Muslim officers are working, only five of them are posted as Station House Officers (SHOs). These include Bhavani Nagar, Chaderghat, Golconda, Kalapathar and Moghulpura.

The only women police station in the Old City also does not have a Muslim officer. When asked about their non-presence despite the Sachar panel recommendation, senior city police officials tried to play down the issue by saying that many of the assistant SIs and constables posted in Old City are from the Muslim community.

Sachar committee had described the suggestion to post Muslim officers in police stations 'not as a matter to eliminate discrimination but as an initiative to build confidence in the community'. Maybe the state government should also think in the same way and do the needful at least in the state capital where miscreants are always looking for an opportunity to create rift between communities.