A traffic constable, Shri Selvaraj was killed by three Muslim young men. The killing was condemned by Muslim leaders. The constable had become an innocent victim of religious fanaticism that is being whipped up by the Sangh Parivar and the frenzied reaction by a few Muslim organisations. Palpable anti-Muslim mindset of a section of the police force is quite evident. To claim that the events that followed were solely due to the death of the constable is false. Factors such as presence of several communalised police officers, insensitive exploitation by Hindu fundamentalist forces, trade rivalries, funding by some North Indian businessmen contributed to cold- blooded and inhuman massacres of innocent Muslims and pre-meditated destruction of the economic self-reliance and enterprises of the Muslims. The events expose the nexus between some of the local police and the Hindu fundamentalist force. That the Sangh Parivar cadres/ sympathisers are fast becoming lumpenised and barbaric is clearly evident from the ghastly events that took place in the hospital grounds and premises. Two Durgahs which are visited more by Hindus than Muslims were mindlessly attached by lumpenised Hindu fundamentalist forces. The torching to death of innocent Muslims who brought critically injured Muslims to the hospital, ways adopted to identify and then stab/batter/torch them to death, chanting 'Jai Kali' and 'Om Kali' shows the savagery, to say the least. The manner in which the police indulged in senseless killings would shame even hardened criminals. They reached the peak of arbitrarily shooting down people for the only reason that they belonged to a particular community. A new method of using the Dalits as perpetrators of loot, carnage and attack on the Muslims has been adopted by the police and the Sangh Parivar. This is an insidious attempt not only to use Dalits as a shield or as soldiers in their "holy war and purge" against Muslims but also to dub the Dalits as criminals when the need arises. If left unchecked, this can lead to the brutalisation of the psyche of the Dalits and criminalisation of one section of the society.                                                                             (Source: PUCL Bulletin, April, 1998)