{"id":110202,"date":"2018-01-23T23:05:35","date_gmt":"2018-01-23T17:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globalpress.hinduismnow.org\/?p=110202"},"modified":"2018-01-23T23:05:35","modified_gmt":"2018-01-23T17:35:35","slug":"reports-kairana-witnessed-mass-hindu-exodus-now-brought-order-yogi-government-opindia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/?p=110202","title":{"rendered":"REPORTS &#8211; Kairana which witnessed a mass Hindu exodus, now being brought to order by the Yogi Government | OPIndia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Kairana region in Uttar Pradesh became infamous in 2016 after a National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) probe acknowledged that the region was witnessing a mass exodus of Hindu families.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swarajyamag.com\/politics\/multiple-arrests-and-encounters-later-kairana-is-moving-towards-normalcy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Currently<\/a>\u00a0the Kairana town is pegged to have about 85% Muslims, and the rest being mostly Hindus. In 2001 the figure was 52% Hindus and the rest were Muslims.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.opindia.com\/2016\/09\/what-happens-in-kairana-stays-in-kairana-how-truth-became-a-lie\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">As per reports<\/a>, about 250 Hindu families from Kairana had left their homes in fear of the region\u2019s criminals. The law and order seemed so non-existent in the region that the police had failed to take action against the offenders, after a woman\u00a0belonging to Kashyap caste was abducted, gang raped and killed.<\/p>\n<p>Turns out that the matter was reported to the\u00a0police of PS Kairana on 5th April 2016 by the victim\u2019s husband but the police neither registered an FIR, nor did it carry out any searches. It was also noted that Muslim boys were known to pass lewd comments against the Hindu girls, forcing them to stay indoors.<\/p>\n<p>The region was also infested with gangsters and businessmen were routinely required to make extortion payments to\u00a0the notorious gangster Mukeem Kala. His gang was recorded to have committed\u00a0at least 47 cases of Robbery\/Murder\/ Dacoity\/Extortion\/Violation of Arms Act within a span of just five years.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the witnesses examined by the NHRC report claimed that the law and order situation had further deteriorated from 2013 when\u00a0about\u00a025\/30 thousand members of Muslims Community in Kairana Town.<\/p>\n<p>The prevailing sentiment was that the gangsters were largely Muslims and the victims largely Hindus. As per the traders who largely belonged to the Agarwal community, the gangsters allegedly picked on them while sparing Muslims, with the knowledge that the ruling dispensation won\u2019t bring them any harm.<\/p>\n<p>Things were so bad that three businessmen were killed within a fortnight in 2014 after they refused to pay Rs 15 lakh to the\u00a0Mukim Kala gang.<\/p>\n<p>This increase in crime and deteriorating law and order situation meant that many families migrated from the region, creating an exodus like situation which was seen in case of the Kashmiri Pandits in the 90\u2019s.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_91529\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.opindia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/house.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-91529 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.opindia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/house.jpg?resize=640%2C364\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"364\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">A snippet of what that exodus looked like<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h4>NOW ENTER THE YOGI ADITYANATH LED UTTAR PRADESH GOVERNMENT.<\/h4>\n<p>As per an exclusive\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/swarajyamag.com\/politics\/multiple-arrests-and-encounters-later-kairana-is-moving-towards-normalcy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ground report<\/a>\u00a0by\u00a0<em>Swaraya,\u00a0<\/em>the region is slowly returning to normalcy thanks to a visible effort by the Yogi government to improve the law and order situation in the region.<\/p>\n<p>Since the past few months, the Shamli police has launched a crackdown on the extortion gangs inhabiting the region, with their chief target (no points for guessing) being the\u00a0Mukim Kala gang. As per Shamli\u2019s SP, the police have arrested about 70 criminals and eliminated five in encounters.<\/p>\n<p>The police notched its biggest victory at the start of this year when it killed sharp shooter\u00a0Shabir Ahmed. Ahmed carried a bounty of\u00a0Rs 50,000 and was wanted in more than\u00a020 cases of loot and murder.<\/p>\n<p>Mukim Kala who was arrested in 2015, now sees most of his associates either dead or behind bars. Ahmed was his final major associate after his brother who too was killed in an encounter three months ago.<\/p>\n<p>The report claims that the atmosphere has improved to such an extent that the phrase, \u201cSarkar badalne ke baad mahaul badla hai\u201d (The atmosphere has changed after the government has changed), is regularly heard in Kairana.<\/p>\n<p>It is even claimed that talk\u2019s in the air about traders returning back to Kairana and reopening their shops. As per\u00a0Manish Kansal a businessman, now nobody turns up at shops to demand extortion money. He had earlier fled to Panipat after feeling threatened by such demands. He was convinced by neighbours to return back six months back.<\/p>\n<p>Only time will tell what the future holds for Kairana and its Hindu families, and whether the police manage to ensure a crime free region, where people finally feel safe enough to do a \u201cGharwapsi\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><em>You can read the full Swarajya ground report\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/swarajyamag.com\/politics\/multiple-arrests-and-encounters-later-kairana-is-moving-towards-normalcy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled newsharecounts-done\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kairana region in Uttar Pradesh became infamous in 2016 after a National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) probe acknowledged that the region was witnessing a mass exodus of Hindu families. Currently\u00a0the Kairana town is pegged to have about 85% Muslims, and the rest being mostly Hindus. In 2001 the figure was 52% Hindus and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[2094,2095,1583,1584],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110202"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=110202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=110202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=110202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=110202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}