By TwoCIrcles.net Staff Reporter,
Hyderabad: National Commission for Women (NCW) has written to the Director General of Police of Andhra Pradesh to take action against Golconda Inspector Syed Nayeemuddin Jawed for his Muslim Moral Policing.
Mr. Jawed created a controversy when in a self-promotional video he was caught chasing down ‘Muslim couples’ and punishing them at Seven Tombs Park.
Golconda station head Inspector claimed that those youngsters were indulging in indecent acts at Public Park. In the video which has got widely circulated over social media Inspector Jawed and plainclothes police men with Lathis in hand were seen manhandling adult males and forcing girls clad in Burqas to do sit ups on running camera and on even occasions allowed other passers-by to film in their mobile phones.
Mr. Jawed in barely 30 min self-promotion video programmed by a newly launched local YouTube channel was also heard making remarks against Muslim girls using mobile phones and wearing jeans inside their burqas. According to his assessment in the video, generally those kinds of girls are ‘prostitutes’ using burqas to hide their identity.
According to Police Inspector Jawed young couples bunking colleges roaming around the parks should be punished as it has giving rise to runaway marriages, some cases which he personally monitored and seem parents were left broken.
He justified his action in the video stating, “This is India not London, Paris where you can do immoral acts. It is a religious country; there are religious laws here which don’t allow this kind of obscenity.”
After the incident was reported widely in local and national press many rights and women organizations condemned punishing of girls in public view and recording it in camera, they termed Inspector Jawed’s action as improper style of police functioning.
National Commission for Women member Shamina Shafiq,, acting on the complaint of Civil Liberties Monitoring Committee, wrote a letter to DGP stating that Commission has taken a serious view of the incident and condemns the act of moral policing.
Commission ordered DGP B. Prasad Rao to “look into the matter personally and take appropriate strict action in this matter.”
Although an internal departmental inquiry is still going on by local ACP, NCM asked DGP to submit action taken report within 72 hours of from the date of receipt of letter.
Meanwhile many Islamists organizations are coming forward in support of Inspector Nayeemuddin Jawed whom they believe has saved the sanctity of Muslim youngsters by punishing them for their unislamic deeds.
Tehreek-e-Tahufuz-e-Shaire Islam led by radical cleric Maulana Naseeruddin took out large processions in Golconda police limits to collect support for Nayeemuddin Jawed among its Muslim residents.
Mulana claimed that if any action is taken against Inspector Nayeemuddin it will be seen as encouraging immorality in the society. TTSI has extended its “whole hearted support” to Inspector Nayeemuddin for his ‘counselling’ method to youngsters.
Movement for Peace and Justice, a ‘human rights’ front of Jamat-e-Islami Hind in Andhra Pradesh has also praised Inspector Jawed’s action and condemned women and rights organizations whom they claimed are supporting immoral deeds in society by targeting Golconda Inspector.
MPJ president Hamed Mohammed Khan, in its press statement, said that moral policing action should be acceptable to all. Through his action of punishing girls in public view, recording it in camera and publishing it online, MPJ said Inspector has played a role of “kind father, a conscious brother and a responsible citizen,” and any praise will not be enough to applaud his actions.
Many Islamists organizations have threatened mass protests in Golconda area if any action is going to be taken against Inspector Jawed by Police department.
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