NRC defective, doomsday if India becomes Islamic: Meghalaya HC

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He said Pakistan declared itself an Islamic country and India should have also been declared a Hindu country but “it remained as a secular country”.

Calling the process of updating the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam “defective as many foreigners become Indians and original Indians are left out which is very sad”, Justice Sudip Ranjan Sen of Meghalaya High Court has said “nobody should try to make India… another Islamic country, otherwise it will be a doomsday for India and the world”.

He said he is “confident that only this Government under Shri Narendra Modiji will understand the gravity, and will do the needful” and “Chief Minister Mamataji will support the national interest in all respect”. Justice Sen asked Assistant Solicitor General A Paul to “take the copy of the judgment” and hand it over to “the Hon’ble Prime Minister, Hon’ble Home Minister and Hon’ble Law Minister for their perusal and necessary steps to bring a law to safeguard the interest of the Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, Buddhists, Christians, Parsis, Khasis, Jaintias and Garos who have already come to India and who are yet to come from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan as well as persons of Indian origin who are residing abroad”.

Disposing a petition Monday — it was filed by one Amon Rana regarding grant of a domicile certificate — Justice Sen dwelt on the topic of citizenship, observing that he will “fail” in his duty if he does not “project the original India and its partition” while hearing a domicile certificate matter. The 61-year-old, born and raised in Shillong, became a permanent judge of the Meghalaya High Court in January 2014.

In his judgment, he said: “I appeal to all the Hindu people of both the Barak Valley as well as the Assam Valley to come together to find an amicable solution because our culture, traditions and religions are same. We should not hate each other just on the basis of language. Furthermore, I also mention that the present NRC process in my view is defective as many foreigners become Indians and original Indians are left out which is very sad.”

In another part of the judgment — he dedicates a large part of it in describing the supposed identity issues faced by Bengalis in Assam and also the history of Bengali settlement in the area — Justice Sen said NRC is a “fool-proof state machinery” for accentuating “division and divide and it would be inhumanity, bestiality and injustice of the worst kind if ever the NRC non-qualifiers… are sent to the detention camps, made to languish and perish”.

He noted that the region was once “commanded by Hindu Kingdom but thereafter the Mughal came to India and captured different parts of India and started ruling the country, and at that point of time many conversion took place by force”.

He said Pakistan declared itself an Islamic country and India should have also been declared a Hindu country but “it remained as a secular country”. He quoted a book, My People Uprooted: The Exodus of Hindus from East Pakistan and Bangladesh, authored by Meghalaya Governor Tathagata Roy.

“I am not against my Muslim brothers and sisters who are residing in India for generations… they should also be allowed to live peacefully,” he said.

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[boomboomcheema]

Makes sense. India should have been a Hindu country.

 

[Cpt. Rishwat]

To understand the fears of Hindus, one has to bear in mind that it is a country surrounded by Islamic nations in all directions. Bangladesh to one side, Pakistan/Afghanistan to the other, then of course the Arab countries from whence the invasion came. One can only imagine the horrors Indian Muslims must be inflicting on the majority for them to voice their fears so openly.

 

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SHILLONG: After sparking a major row with his "Hindu country" remark in a judgement, Meghalaya High Court Judge Sudip Ranjan Sen has clarified that his order wasn't influenced by any political ideology.

Justice Sen had on Wednesday said that "India should have become a Hindu country after Partition". He was hearing a petition by an Army recruit who was refused a domicile certificate by the Meghalaya government.

"I make it clear that nobody should try to make India as another Islamic country, otherwise it will be a doomsday for India and the world," the judge had said in his order.

Several top lawyers, retired judges and political parties had condemned his comment and even sought his impeachment.

The Communist Party of India-Marxist said that "Justice Sen reflects his political faith akin to RSS ideology of Hindu Rashtra". The RSS or Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh is the ideological mentor of the ruling BJP at the centre.

"India is a secular and plural country and it will never become Islamic state," Hyderabad lawmaker Asaduddin Owaisi said.

In his clarification posted on the official website of the Meghalaya High Court, Justice Sen wrote, "I do not belong to any political party nor have I got any dream to get any political berth after my retirement and neither is my judgment politically motivated or influenced by any party."

"Secularism is one of the basic structures of our Indian Constitution. It should not further be divided on the basis of religion, caste, creed, community or language... I would also like to clarify here that in my judgment nowhere I have said anything against secularism and my judgment makes references to the history and one cannot change the history," he wrote.

The CPI(M) also alleged that his views will increase discord in the region and that Justice Sen has "lost his moral right to continue in the office as a judge in a High Court".

"Whatever is the truth, history and real ground reality, on that basis I have written my judgement to save the citizens of India irrespective of caste, creed, religion or language and people should understand the history of India and live in peace and harmony," Justice Sen said in his defence and stressed his judgement was not outside the ambit of the constitution.

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