New DGP of Gujarat from Dawoodi Bohra Community

[khidmatguzar]

Ahmedabad: The Narendra Modi government appointed a new Director General of Police (DGP), Shabbir Hussain Shekhadam Khandwawala on Saturday. This after DGP PC Pandey was removed from his post.


It's not the first time that the Gujarat government has removed DGP Pandey from his post. Just before the 2007 Assembly Elections, on the directives of the Election Commission Pandey had been transferred.


He had also been accused of being a mute spectator during the post Godhra riots in the city. The special investigation team appointed by the Supreme Court is now investigating his role in the 2002 riots.


"There are very serious allegations against Pandey regarding the riots and the SIT is investigating that role. Whatever be the reason -- elections or the pending investigation -- I think he ought not to have been in that sensitive post," said Chairman Jansangharsh Manch, Mukul Sinha.


The new Gujarat DGP Khandwawala appointed by the Modi government doesn't come with a clean image. In a 15-year-old case, Khandwawala was convicted by a sessions court when he was SP, Junagadh.


This, after an accused was brutally beaten up in his custody. He has since challenged the order in the High Court, but his case is still pending.


However, the state Congress says that the government had no choices but to appoint Khandwawala as he is the most senior officer after Pandey.


"According to EC directives, Pandey had to be removed and according to a Bombay High Court, order, S S Khandwawala had to be appointed. So for the government, there was no other alternative," explained leader, Congress party, Arjun Modhvadia.


Whatever be the reason for P C Pandey's removal, Khandwawala's appointment as DGP is symbolic. It's significant for Narendra Modi as he looks for a greater acceptance, not just in the state, but also at the national level.

Source:
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/khandwawala- ... 999-3.html

[Gulf]

He has done lot of khidmat of daawat, indirectly but significantly
He was blessed so he deserved

where are those progressives.. were saying no bohra has served the country by introduce such category officers

God Bless Him

[Al Zulfiqar]

The new Gujarat DGP Khandwawala appointed by the Modi government doesn't come with a clean image. In a 15-year-old case, Khandwawala was convicted by a sessions court when he was SP, Junagadh.

This, after an accused was brutally beaten up in his custody. He has since challenged the order in the High Court, but his case is still pending.

However, the state Congress says that the government had no choices but to appoint Khandwawala as he is the most senior officer after Pandey.

Gulf, it is typical of a morally corrupt person like you to turn a blind eye against the past record of this bohra DGP. and of course, if such a corrupt person decides to get in league with the villainous kothar, then god forbid. no wonder i see the glee on yr face. chor na bhai ghanti chor....

[Hussain_KSA]

Any proof that he is dawoodi bohra? Some body told me he is memon. You will find number of sunni muslims in Gujrat who has surname like "wala" with their name. Don't get much excited. He is clean shaved (all with high position or with money weight are exempted from this rule).

[ghulam muhammed]

He has done lot of khidmat of daawat, indirectly but significantly
He was blessed so he deserved

Probably he was instrumental in arranging the SIGNIFICANT meeting between Burhanudin saab and Modi as he being an I.P.S. holds a high post in the government and hence he was blessed by the shafiq bawa.

[ghulam muhammed]

Any proof that he is dawoodi bohra? Some body told me he is memon

It was mentioned yesterday in 'The Times of India' that he is a bohra/shia muslim.

[Gulf]

Any proof that he is dawoodi bohra? Some body told me he is memon. You will find number of sunni muslims in Gujrat who has surname like "wala" with their name. Don't get much excited. He is clean shaved (all with high position or with money weight are exempted from this rule).

Here is the link hussainbhai,
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/New ... 168107.cms

and here is it's content for your easy reference.

AHMEDABAD: Sabir Khandwawala on Saturday became the first Muslim DGP of Gujarat, since the state was formed almost 50 years back, as the Narendra
Modi government replaced P C Pande, the cop who courted controversy in the 2002 riots.

The move is being seen as an attempt by Modi, who holds the home portfolio, to project a secular image ahead of the Lok Sabha elections and shed the dark shadow of the 2002 Gujarat riots, which left the state police tainted with an anti-minority bias.

Khandwawala is a Dawoodi Bohra, a Shia Muslim community which Modi has actively wooed over the years.

The 1973-batch IPS officer is at present a member of the Supreme Court-appointed cell to review cases related to the 2002 Gujarat riots. The cell submits quarterly report on the riot cases to the apex court.

He is also president of the Gujarat IPS Officers' Association and, after his promotion to DGP rank last week, was heading the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB). He had applied for voluntary retirement in 2007 and was to take up a job in a public sector unit, but the state government turned down his application.

Just last week Khandwawala was promoted to the rank of DGP and made head of the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB).

Reacting to the announcement, Jesuit-activist Fr Cedric Prakash said, “We have great hopes that Khandwawala will be objective while performing his duties. But this should not be seen as a change of heart of the Modi government. At best, it is a strategic move to wear a secular mask.''

Mufti Shabbir Ahmed Siddiqui, the Imam of Ahmedabad's Jama Masjid, said: “Bohras and other Shia communities have supported Modi in the past elections. People will see the new DGP as a Muslim and that will help the government's image. It is like appointing Muslims as Presidents of India in the past to keep the community happy.''

[GreatBarrier]

Gulf and others

Why do you and other minorities in India always conclude thata Mulsim or other is made a leader to please the minorities..why do you not believe that it could be on his merit ?

Similary you will state Obama was made a president by whites so that Blacks would be please and ignore that he won by outsmarting his opponent ! If the West has decided to move into a free and democratic era where color, religion or any orientation is not a main factor...why is it that we who have for centuries claimed victims of some form of discrimination hang on to those thinking !

Similarly in the West minorities when they do not success feel at times it is because we are discrminated.

I would rather read we celebrate DGP was selected because he was competent and capable and his religios leaning was not a factor...he could have been a Jew or Budhist if need be.

[SBM]

"Similarly in the West minorities when they do not success feel at times it is because we are discrminated."
Because it is true. I live in the West and very much involved with Civil Right issues of Muslim after 9/11. Minorities are being discriminated that is why they have NAACP or CAIR which works hard to make sure that discrimination can be minimized
All you have to do is look how airline pilots refuse to fly because they have some one with Muslim name and beard on their face.
Donot forget that American media made the big deal of Barak Obama's middle name "Husain" even though he is practicing
Christian and he almost lost the election due to that.
As far as India is concerned go and ask low caste Hindus in villages about their prosperity under Brahim and upper caste Hindus

[GreatBarrier]

Ombharti...yes but the media tactics failed and people overlooked the superficial characteristics ! I have a problem with our attitude where we start from the negative side !

[Hussain_KSA]

Brother Gulf and Ghulam Mohammed Bhai,

Thanks for your input.

[ghulam muhammed]

It is too early for muslims to rejoice over the appointment of Mr.Khandwawala as DGP because the media and muslims, especially from gujarat are skeptical about the whole issue which is evident from their statements. The Times of India edition dtd 22.2.09 mentions "Khandwawala is a dawoodi bohra, a shia muslim community Modi has wooed over the years", Shabbir Ahmed Siddiqui, the imam of Jama Masjid said: "Bohras and other shia communities have supported Modi in the past. People will see the new DGP as a Muslim and that will help the government's image". These statements are not just something out of the blue but are based on the past conduct of the bohra community which justifies their overall resentment.

It is no secret that the head of the dawoodi bohra community has not taken any concrete actions for the atrocities commited by the modi govt on the ummah but on the contrary he has invited Modi (architect of mass genocide) to the Masjid and given him a cheque of more then Rs.1 crore. The bohras of Chennai have also felicitated modi on his birthday duting his visit to chennai. Even during the 2002 mass genocide, bohras have preferred to distance themselves from the mainstream muslims by making statements like "Spare us, we are bohras we are not muslims". This is due to the anti muslim bias prevelant in the bohras which is the result of the unending abuses of the muslim khalifas by Burhanudin saab which acts as a fuel to the fire. Bohras have always percieved themselves as the only true followers of Islam and treated the mainstream muslims as second class citizens by calling them "aa to musalman chhe, aa to miyabhai chhe". This is due to the constant brain hammering of the bohras by their leaders who are power hungry and whose religion is not Islam but only money and whose agenda is to divide the ummah and break Islam. Hence the cautious approach of the muslims is totally justified.

I sincerely wish and pray to Allah swt that Mr.Khandwawala proves me and his critics wrong by reopening all the 2002 genocide cases and takes strict and sincere steps to book the culprits and render justice. He needs to first cleanse his own house by arresting officers from his own department who were the co-conspirators in the 2002 massacre and without whom the 2002 situation would not have taken such an ugly turn. I hope that better sense prevails in Mr.Khandwawala and that he does take all the neccessary actions to book the culprits which will give some relief to the 2002 victims and which will help in diluting the anti-musllim tag of the bohras which is the line which many bohras do not tow but are forced to because of the bias attitude of their leaders.

[East Africawalla]

We should be proud as Dawoodi Bohras that one of our own has been appointed to such a post and leave it at that instead of trying to find faults and thanks for putting Syednas photo in the front

[mutmaeen]

mr ghulam mohammed

lets not lose sight of history.till the british took control of india dawoodi bohras were prosecuted and harssed the most by the sunni muslim rulers.a dai and lots of valiyullahs lost their lives and many a mumineen in kapadvanj sidhpur and ahmedabad too were martyred.if the sunnis could ride roughshod on us its asking too much to be identified with them.as for the khalifas u refer-we believe in just one khalifa who is the amirul mumineen-moulana ali ibne abi talib /s.a' the predecessors of him were just ussurpers

[GreatBarrier]

Similary many will be proud that, Khans are leading names in Bollywood, Slumdog won the osacrs, Piyush Bobby Jindal Grovenor of Luisiana is a contender for the white house. Ahmed Fahour is the CEO for Australias Government Crisis Investment Fund, Muhammed Ali, Kenya had a bohra MP elected for Lamu in the 1990s and was also an assistant minister.........

The value these achivements bring along as indirect benfits is it helps reduce the sterotypes, de-sensitizes discmination, gives hope and ambition and poeople ignore names or relious backgrounds and focus more on their charetcter and content.

It is completely a diffrent matter whether they use ther new positions to help Muslims, Indians or Bohras...this can be a wrond strategy because this will be seen as conflict of interest and could ruin their career and cause create barriers for future achivements by others.

If they fail on indvidual basis ofcourse it is not that Islam or Indians have failed. We should not try to use these high achivers as our trojan horses because it is not that Piyush wnats USA to be a Indian colony or Ahmed Fahour wantys to introduce sharia laws in Australian Banking!