Who is Billu Pradhan? Billu Pradhan is a man nowhere to be found and his home was used to brutally rape and kill the hapless women, men and children of Shamli and Muzaffarnagar!!!! All these ill-fated people thought of Billu as their savior and flocked to his house for shelter. Billu betrayed them and he is conveniently missing since none of the people brutalized are of any importance and best of all excuses, they are in the minority, 1,200 to be exact.
Reading and watching all about camps in Shamli and Muzaffarnagar makes me recoil with shame and fear. How can a human being be subjected to all this misery in a developing nation? The despair seems to be endless and to crown it all, we have all our leaders harping about communalism and terrorism. This is the crucial link between how the seeds of terrorism are sown after riots. Please, do not take this as an excuse but this is where everything starts.
The bone chilling account of how were men and women were heartlessly killed, raped and left to die in the sugarcane fields in the magazine Outlook is just too gruesome. The article has a graphic account of what happened and main culprit, Billu Pradhan is still at large!! I have not heard his name on any of the news channels. I guess investigative reporting is dead or maybe it is selective.
And after the bomb blasts in Hyderabad, thousands of young men from the minority section were taken without any proof, tortured and jailed for no fault of theirs. Their lives are in a mess and no one cares as they are just a minority. Police acts with a lot of zest and grit, the moment minority is blamed without any proof and immediate action is taken.
The Outlook magazine writes in depth about the unforgivable deeds of Billu Pradhan and cohorts. Not one person has been arrested. But, talk to the people living in camps, and they will tell you how many of their family members are in jail for nothing. I guess this the price the minority has to pay