Sensitising police forces about the ‘Indianness’ of Muslims in the country, besides insulating law enforcement agencies from political interference, would help reduce communal tensions and promote.
A new report has found that the violence was "systemic", including the “nature of instigation”, “tactics of mobilising the majority” and “the administrative response as collective punishment".
The Union home ministry claimed that such independent reports gave an offence a "political or communal flavour" and discredited statutory investigations.