BEWARE!!!!!!!!

Some draconian aftereffects of the communal violence bill:

• The government is pre-assuming that the communal violence is always done by the majority community only (i.e. Hindus).
• If a person belonging to a minority group is your tenant you cannot ask him to leave your place without his concern.

You will be jailed if you do so or if you even think of doing it.

• Generally, in a riot, both the groups (majority or minority) could be victims or culprits. Then why only the majority community would be charged without inquiring who started it.
• If you are responsible for affecting the business of any minority or make it difficult for him/her in earning livelihood willingly or unwillingly you will be charged under this law and jailed. This law violates our liberty.

Suppose you used to buy non-veg products from a shop owned or run by a minority and now you adopted vegetarianism, you will be prosecuted saying that you did so to destroy his/her business due to communal hatred.

• You can’t express your views regarding a minority community either by publishing, communicating or by signs or by visible representation.

For example, if there is a criminal belonging to a minority and if you condemn his acts or deeds, you would be tagged as communal and thrown behind bars. So, now ,the helpless Indian public could not even express their hatred (which is the only thing they can do) for the terrorists who brutally slaughter their countrymen. It violates our fundamental right called “right to freedom of  expression”.

• If any communal violence occurred in an area, the concerned state govt. will be disabled and the president’s rule will be implemented in that state. It can be used as a tool for disabling a democratically elected state government, the vested interested group who want to remove state govt..

This will give central govt. a tool to threat govt. of state which is being ruled by any other party than in the ruling central govt..

• What all offences will not be considered as a legal offence:
1. Rape or sexual abuse with a girl of majority community by a minority
2. If a majority community tenant is thrown out by a minority community land owner
3. Communal hatred against the majority community
4. If a person belonging to a majority community is murdered by a minority
• For communal harmony a committee is there called as NACH (National Authority for Communal Harmony). The rights given to NACH will lead to interference of the centre in to the state matters thus violating the federal structure of our constitution.
• NACH promotes people to give false evidences.

If a person gives false evidence and statement before the NACH and if it is found to be false, then there would be no action taken against that person.

• Under this act, the arrested person can’t be granted bail. i.e. it is pre-assumed that the accused is guilty until proved innocent.
• The property of the accused would be attached i.e. will be seized. It shows the govt. wants to punish the innocent family members of the accused by doing so.
• The victim would be provided with all the legal aid i.e. lawyers, legal expenses during the trial etc. whereas the accused would not be given such privileges.

The rights of victims and accused should be same, as till proven guilty, everyone is equal in the eyes of law.

• It is interesting to see that relief, reparation and restitution and compensation will be given to all whether or not they belong to the minority community.

But just think, when the Congress govt. already considers the majority community as the culprit, then the question of victims of majority community being given compensation is of no use.