By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter,
New Delhi: All India Muslim Majlis-e Mushawarat, the umbrella body of Indian Muslim organisations and eminent personalities, today held a press conference at its office in the capital ‘producing video’ footages, that according to them “nail’s Delhi Police claims of arresting him.”
The video clip was of some BSF official speaking to media, after detaining Liaqat Ali Shah at the Nepal border in Gorakhpur on “suspicion”.
President of the AIMMM, Dr Zafarul-Islam Khan said that the Special Cell claims about the former Kashmiri militant Liaqat Ali Shah who, it claimed, was arrested from a bus stand in Gorakhpur while a clip in our possession proves that he was stopped and interrogated by the border security force, Seema Surakcha Bal, at the India-Nepal border and later handed over to security agencies from Delhi.
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Dr TA Rehmani,Dr Zafarul Islam Khan and Dr SQR Ilyas during the press conference.
“This demolishes the Special Cell claim. Another clear discrepancy is that the Special Cell claimed that it had received a “tip off”. This too is an obvious lie as Liaqat ali Shah was handed over to the security agencies after he was stopped due to suspicion and not because of any tip off,” he added.
Dr Khan referred to the umpteen cases of entrapment, framing, fake encounters and extortion committed by members of the Special Cell and demanded the abolition of this force. Since now there is a full-fledged national agency to probe terror matter, viz., National Investigation Agency, there is no need for such local forces which are misusing their powers.
He also demanded the repeal of UAPA which is being grossly misused like its predecessors TADA and POTA. He reminded that UPA was voted to power on a promise to repeal POTA but it soon brought UAPA through the backdoor. Dr Khan also demanded the setting up of a screening committee to review terror cases, setting up of fast track courts to try terror accused, compensation to the acquitted in terror cases and punishment of police and intelligence officers found guilty of framing youths in terror cases.
Dr Taslim Ahmad Rahmani, President of Muslim Political Council of India, spoke in detail about the Liaqat Ali Shah case and explained the gaping holes in the Special Cell story. He said the Special Cell’s whole story is suspect and since his arrest itself and Special Cell’s claim about “tip off” is false, everything else falls flat. He demanded a quick winding up of this force which stands discredited now to say the least.
Dr Rahmani compared the case with the arrest of several other Muslim youths and questioned the veracity of the investigating agencies. He demanded a fair probe in all such cases and also demanded actions against Hindutva terror groups.
“It is our contention that the Special Cell, as usual, has faked a story to earn false laurels, medals, monetary rewards and out-of-turn promotions as has been the case in umpteen cases where this force has been found faking terror cases and implicating innocents, killing people in fake encounters, torturing to obtain fake confessions, as well as running extortion rackets,” a press statement added. They also referred to a report brought out by the Jamia Teachers Solidarity Association that exposed 16 such cases faked by the Special Cell.
Dr SQR Ilyas, General Secretary of the Welfare party of India, spoke about the whole terror policy of the government which entraps Muslim youth in order to keep the community in a state of flux and divert its attention from real issues of progress. He brought the instance of Girls Islamic Organization (GIO), which is being “monitored” by the Maharashtra intelligence agency, as they teach Quran and impart Islamic knowledge.