“Yes, the legal procedure demands registration of the offence. Charge sheets have to be filed. Investigations have to be made. Then the trials take place. All these procedures were cut short in the name of Srikrishna Commission.”
The common leitmotif that marks the most of 1992-93 narratives is of the denial of justice. Several people we spoke to shared with us their frustrating experiences of having little or no recourse to justice during and after the violence. Thousands of people who suffered at the hands of unruly mobs have yet not either seen their tormentors being convicted in the court of law or received any compensation for the loss of lives, property or trauma they suffered, in spite of the recommendations of the official commission of inquiry
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This film deals with the controversial case of Farooq Mhapkar, one of the key persons who was wrongly accused in the Hari Masjid case, one of the most serious episodes of the Mumbai riots of 1992-...