Kairana Exodus: BJP team submits report to Governor, seeks CBI probe

The report further states that businessmen in Kairana were scared to even send their children — especially girls — to schools and to hold religious programmes like “keertan”.

The fact-finding team has stated that they spoke to relatives of three businessmen who were killed in August 2014 for not paying extortion money. These victims have been identified as Vinod Singhal and his cousins Shiv Kumar and Rajendra. According to the report, the trio’s relatives have alleged that they were killed by jailed gangster Muqueem Kala and Furqan after they did not pay extortion money.

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“Then Uttar Pradesh minister Chitranjan Swaroop had met the families of the deceased and assured them of compensation of Rs 5 lakh and also a government job to two persons from each family. But, these promises are yet to be fulfilled,” stated the report.

The report alleged that Muqueem Kala and Furqan were running an extortion racket from jail and added that they enjoyed political protection. “The government discriminates on the basis of religious faith,” BJP report alleged.

The fact-finding team has further said that during their visit to the Darwarkhurd locality, one Sompal told them that he had already paid extortion money of Rs 10 lakh and Rs 5 lakh more has been demanded from him.

“Sompal’s three cousins — Rampal, Subhash and Ram Kumar — had been implicated in false cases and finally they had no option but to migrate. Kairana’s richest family of Anuj Mittal has migrated leaving properties abandoned in the town. Businessman Moola Pansari migrated in 2015 while five beegha land of Tarachand was illegally grabbed by Liyaqat. Three brothers of Rajkumar — a tailor — have migrated to Uttarakhand,” alleged the report.

BJP leader Suresh Khanna said that instead of restoring a fearless atmosphere, the state government was trying to trash the report of migration.

Later, state BJP president Keshav Prasad Maurya told mediapersons that the party demands that migrated families are rehabilitated, paid compensation and provided a safe atmosphere.

BJP MP Hukum Singh, who was in Lucknow Friday, said that he never called Kairana a “communal issue” and added that people could decide by checking names of the victims and the accused.

“This is not a matter of Hindus and Muslims. Criminals have created this situation in Kairana. There is a rise in crimes in Kairana after this government came to power. I had met the chief minister on the issue, but he did not take action,” Singh said, adding that he stands by his list of families that migrated, but the state government was trying to prove the list false.