Author: Ajith Gopal
Publication: Haindava Keralam
Date: September 18, 2006
URL: http://www.haindavakeralam.org/PageModule.aspx?PageID=1865&SKIN=K
Answering the volley of questions from media
in broken words, the 70 plus Anandavally sat beside her paralyzed son in a
Shiv Sena ambulance, still baffled at the sudden media attention. As she spoke,
tears ran down her face in waves, choking her sobs and cries of a soul in
torment.
It was Sept 12, 2006, Thiruvananthapuram.
Anandavalli had brought her son Madhusoodan to the Vanchiyoor Chief Judicial
Magistrate Court in the city. Madhu had to depose before the Court as a prime
witness in a 14 year old case. Madhu who is today totally paralyzed and helpless
was once the sole breadwinner of a poor family. A taxi driver that he was,
a trip to Tamil Nadu on that fateful day -October 28, 1992- changed his life
forever. A four-member gang that hired his taxi assaulted him once they reached
Kovilpetti and took away the car. Madhu was left to die on the highway. He
lost his car and his future that night.
Sept 12, 2006, Chennai: The Madras High Court
once again rejected PDP chairman Abdul Nasser MaAdni's bail plea. The Court
could not find justification in the argument that MaAdni's treatment could
be fruitfully done in Kerala alone and observed that it was just an excuse
to get bail for the accused.
So what is the common element that links MaAdni
and Anandavalli? The answer is very simple, but yet complicated. The link
is nothing else but the Islamic terror network that is spreading its tentacles
all over South India for the last three decades.
The only difference - Madhu is a victim and MaAdni is its patron.
The gang that hired Madhu's car in October
1992 comprised of Imam Ali, Hyder Ali, Abdul Latif, Zakir Hussein and Abdul
Kadir. The same Imam Ali, once Tamil Nadu's most wanted militant, who was
gunned down along with his four accomplices in their hideout in Bangalore
in 2002. Imam Ali, police record say, was a member of the Jihad Committee,
a militant organization founded by the late Palani Baba, and was a prime accused
in the bomb blast at the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) Hqrs in Chennai
in August 1993 in which 11 persons were killed. He was allegedly trained by
Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and later by the Hizbul Mujahideen.
Imam Ali was also a close associate of S A
Basha, leader of Al Umma, the terrorist group responsible for the 1992 Coimbatore
serial blasts of which the prime target was none other than then Home Minister
L K Advani. Basha is in Coimbatore central prison today, along with Abdul
Nasser MaAdni. Tamil Nadu police strongly believe that MaAdni was one of the
Kerala patrons of Al Umma and its moles.
Not without reason. A Special Investigation
Team (SIT) of the Tamil Nadu police was after Imam Ali since his escape from
police custody on March 7, 2002. Police sources said Ali was sighted in July
2002 first at Vallakadavu and Beemapalli in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. By
the time the SIT personnel went there, he had vanished. According to police,
Ali's escape from Thiruvananthapuram to Bangalore was facilitated by his sponsors
in Kerala. However police trail continued and in a swift operation at a Bangalore
hideout, the gang's mad run came to an end, courtesy police bullets.
Strange are the ways of destiny. As the Thiruvananthapuram
CJM Court heard the account of a helpless victim of a terrorist gang, the
Chennai High Court once again rejected the bail plea of a prime associate
of that gang. (Sept 12th's tryst with Indian terrorism did not end there.
The TADA court in Mumbai started unveiling the verdict of 1993-bomb blast
case, the same day!)
This time MaAdni's release on bail was a foregone
conclusion for many. After all there was tremendous amount of pressure all
around to secure MaAdni's release. At least two Chief Ministers and the Congress
bigwigs in New Delhi were involved in the high voltage drama that took place
in the corridors of power in Chennai, Thiruvananthapuram and New Delhi.
As it became clear that MaAdni is not going
to breath free air for some more time to come, in Thiruvananthapuram, PDP
working chairman Poonthura Siraaj convened a hurried press conference. Siraaj
slammed the Court verdict and blamed it on practically everyone- from the
"fascist-Zionist" forces to the "anti-poor, anti-minority mindset"
of some bureaucrats in Kerala and Tamil Nadu. Those who were spared were Siraaj's
new masters in Kerala- the Left Democratic Front for whom Siraaj & Co
slogged it out in the last general elections in the state. Siraaj conveniently
forgot that the same masters had ditched them once again.
Siraaj's verbal diarrhea, painting MaAdni
as an apostle of peace and secularism continued for some time. But there was
one question that Siraaj could not answer that day. On previous occasions,
when efforts to bail out MaAdni failed, it was primarily blamed on three quarters-
the BJP led NDA government at the Center, the Tamil Nadu government led by
'anti-Muslim' J Jayalalitha and of course on the 'anti -minority' attitude
of Kerala Chief Minister AK Antony. It was their concerted effort, coupled
with the attitude of bureaucrats that kept an innocent, crippled and helpless
person like MaAdni inside the prison, they had declared.
But see who is in power today. Sonia Gandhi
led UPA is in charge of the Nation, (Manmohan Singh not forgotten!) "Secular"
Karunanidhi has replaced Jayalalitha and in Kerala it is "our own"
LDF. But MaAdni continues to be in jail. Why?
Obviously MaAdni has to explain a lot. From
his ISS days, MaAdni's speeches, action and movements matched more of a terrorist
gang chief rather than a political leader. From platforms across the state,
sitting pretty among a posse of armed bodyguards, MaAdni spat venom against
Hindus and our Nationhood. Our cultural heritage, Hindu practices and customs-
practically everything that was non-Islamic was touched upon and mocked at.
Just to take one example, one of MaAdni's
favorite subjects was the relation between Sita Devi and Laxman of legend
Ramayana! His supporters roared with laughter and more sensible listened with
gasped breath as MaAdni continued his rhetoric from stage to stage. It was
not without reason that Kerala police registered 32 cases against him before
Tamil Nadu police nabbed him.
Those who now champion the case of MaAdni,
including Justice Krishna Iyer, should first have a look into the FIR and
charge-sheets filed in these cases so that they get to know their friend much
better!
More serious are the charges that MaAdni while
trying to be the champion of the masses as ISS and later PDP leader, was in
fact playing another vital role-as the facilitator of terrorist gangs from
Tamil Nadu, providing them safe hideouts and operational facilities in Kerala.
His leaning towards violence was evident in his speeches and action. But the
first real evidence of his influence was surfaced in the Muslim stronghold
Malppuram after the 1992 Ayodhya incident. The anti-Hindu violent activities
in Malappuram and Kozhikkode districts in 1992 had distinct MaAdni stamp on
it.
The special team that investigated the Coimbatore
serial blast case may have much more to say on MaAdni. But those so-called
cultural-political leaders who play to the gallery and organize fund collection
to protest marches, as part of "Save MaAdni Campaign" would be doing
a great service to the society comprising of laymen like us, by answering
these few questions.
o MaAdni is accused not in just another criminal
case among the lakhs filed in the country everyday. He is accused in a rare
case of mass murder. Those 70 people killed in the Coimbatore blast that day
were innocent victims trying to earn daily bread for their families. Have
any of these cultural czars ever bothered to look what happened to those orphaned
families or for that matter those seriously injured in the blasts?
o If it is the concern for a fellow Malayalee,
that prompts everyone to jump into the save MaAdni wagon, why they are not
speaking about other Malayalees like "Pattalam" Raju and Ashraff
also accused in the same case?
o The Coimbatore serial blast case is not
the only case where judicial exercise takes more time than expected. In such
a case with so many witnesses and accused, the process is bound to get delayed.
Hasn't MaAdni and his advocates contributed to the delay of judicial process
by raising various objections and complications at different stages of the
court proceedings?
o Can MaAdni's advocates say that any of the
facilities given to an under trail under these circumstances were denied to
MaAdni?
o An under trial is an under trial and not
a convict till the Court proclaims so. Then why this hue and cry that MaAdni
is innocent and justice is being denied to him? Is isn't like accusing the
judiciary itself?
o And one last question to the leaders of
UDF/ LDF and PDP. When they fully knew that only the Court and Court alone
can decide on MaAdni's fate at this moment, whom they were trying to fool
by promising his release?
Evidently no one is going to answer these
questions. And the drama would continue. Pseudo secularists and purported
champions of minorities need an icon to carry out misinformation campaign
aimed at fulfilling their partisan goals. At the moment there is no one better
than 'a Jailed' MaAdni' to don that mantle.
Tailpiece: It was predictable. Madhusoodan's
sad plight and Anandavally's appeal for help did not make into the headlines
next day. Obviously it did not suit suite the secular agenda of our media.
And Anandavally, on the brink of bankruptcy, is getting ready to take her
son to Kovilpetti to appear in a local court there. At least the delay in
this case- also related to a 1992 incident -seems to bother no one.
