Reprising the Manual of Military Law provisions on Martial Law
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In a passage in his book, Sarkari Mussalman, General Zameeruddin Shah, recalls wracking his memory to recall a few pages of the military’s Manual of Indian Military Law. He had been charged by the Army Chief to take his division to stop the outbreak of violence in Gujarat. The internal security situation had taken a turn for the worse in wake of the Godhra tragedy in which over 50 people perished in a train bogey that had (accidentally (in the view of the railway inquiry that was set up later)) caught fire. The Army had been called-in in ‘aid to civil authority’ after the bodies of the victims were wantonly taken in a politically-charged procession to Ahmedabad with the authority of the then chief minister there, Narendra Modi.
Reprising the Manual of Military Law provisions on Martial Law
Reprising the Manual of Military Law…
Reprising the Manual of Military Law provisions on Martial Law
In a passage in his book, Sarkari Mussalman, General Zameeruddin Shah, recalls wracking his memory to recall a few pages of the military’s Manual of Indian Military Law. He had been charged by the Army Chief to take his division to stop the outbreak of violence in Gujarat. The internal security situation had taken a turn for the worse in wake of the Godhra tragedy in which over 50 people perished in a train bogey that had (accidentally (in the view of the railway inquiry that was set up later)) caught fire. The Army had been called-in in ‘aid to civil authority’ after the bodies of the victims were wantonly taken in a politically-charged procession to Ahmedabad with the authority of the then chief minister there, Narendra Modi.