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| Can Govt book those who issued statements, Fatwas against rock band girls? | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Feb 6: Except for some 'twitter service' by the State Chief Minister and a little 'lip service' by other mainstream political leaders the blatant violation of the fundamental right of expression of three minor girls who formed the Valley's only girls' rock band has met no concrete opposition.
Both the State Government and the civil society have played it 'safe' while reacting to the 'Fatwa' issued by Valley's Grand Mufti against the three girls. Tormented and intimidated, the girls have quit and like so many other good things of the past, Valley's only all girls' rock band has also become history now.
It is really strange that while the State Police has lodged an FIR against those who issued threats to the rock band on social media and is busy cracking the cyber crime but there is no seriousness in booking those who have openly and publicly issued threats to these girls.
While the police continues to look for the persons behind posting threats on the social media why does not the ambit of booking those who threatened the girls include persons like the Grand Mufti? If nobody is above the law then how can the State Government sit tight and silent and not invoke the required provisions of law against someone whose 'Fatwa' or decree or statement has forced the girls to give up their pursuit besides one of them leaving the State under complete mental agony?
Why cannot those separatist groups and their leaders be booked under the same provisions which the State Police is now invoking against those who posted threats against the girls on the social media? What is becoming clear from the manner the State Government is treating the entire issue is that there are two sets of laws. One set of laws is applicable to ordinary citizens and the other to those who publicly proclaim to work for secession of the State from the rest of the country and have also recently issued provocative statements against Kashmir rock band girls.
For more than 23 years now the separatist leaders have held the society to ransom. Women have been the worst sufferers of the 'Farmans' and 'diktats' of the separatists and the so-called religious leaders during this period.
Either we should accept that there are no laws which can be effectively used against the separatists for issuing provocative statements or we should get up and act against them. It is three minor girls today and tomorrow it could be anybody else. How can a society be safe and prospering if our women continue to be suppressed and demoralized for something as harmless as playing a guitar or a drum? |
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