New Delhi/Guwahati, Sept. 2 -- Muslim organisation Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind has accused the Assam government of disproportionately targeting Muslim families in its eviction drives and urged Chief Justice of India B. R. Gavai to take suo motu cognisance of what it described as an "unlawful and communal campaign."Jamiat president Maulana Arshad Madani claimed that bulldozers were being deployed selectively against Muslim settlements, alleging that "more than 50,000 Muslim families" faced eviction.
"It is not just Muslim homes being demolished, it is the Constitution and the rule of law that are being crushed in Assam," Madani told members of the organisation's working committee in Delhi.
His comments came days after the state government launched...