By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter,
New Delhi: Several Muslim originations and rights bodies have condemned the ‘custodial murder’ of Khalid Mujhaid and demanded fair CBI probe.
All India Muslim Majlis-e Mushawarat (AIMMM), the umbrella body of Indian Muslim organizations and eminent personalities, in a press statement condemned the “custodial murder of the terror-accused Khalid Mujahid who had been exonerated by the Nimesh Commission but Uttar Pradesh government was playing politics about the release of the falsely accused in the case of the U.P. courts blasts.”
President of the AIMMM and editor of The Milli Gazette, Dr Zafarul-Islam Khan said that the police story about Khalid Mujahid’s death is doubtful as it is not plausible that a young and healthy person would die of heart attack. He demanded the immediate suspension of all officers and policemen involved in this custodial murder, adequate compensation to the family of the murdered detainee and the immediate release of the Nimesh Commission report with an action taken report.
Jamaat e Islami Hind too condemned the attack, calling it “murder in judicial custody” that has been conducted in a “planned way” to save certain police personnel, who falsely implicated innocent Muslim youths in terror case.
Meanwhile, a joint statement signed by several eminent personalities and civil rights activists, including Teesta Setalavad (activist, Mumbai); Shabnam Hashmi (ANHAD), Kavita Srivastava (PUCL); Ahmed Sohaib (JTSA); Mansi Sharma (activist, Delhi); Mahtab Alam (activist, Delhi); Manisha Sethi (JTSA), Mukul Kesavan (Historian), and Swami Agnivesh among others too have condemned the custodial killing, pointing to the ‘foul play’ and demanded time bound CBI enquiry and arrest the guilty Police officers without delay.
Faisal Khan of Khudai Khidmatgar said, "We strongly condemn the custodial murder of Khalid Mujahid and demand justice."
In a press statement, Jamiat Ulama-i- Hind (JUeH) general secretary Maulana Mahmood Madani, while expressing shock, warned the centre and state governments that such nefarious conspiracies against innocent Muslims will not be tolerated at all. “Taking a lesson from this horrified incident the government should release the Nimesh Commission Report in which the duo has been exonerated,” asserted JUH general secretary.
Maulana Madani said that the death of Khalid under such circumstances raises serious questions on existing police system and loophole in investigative agencies. Terming the state government’s move to book 42 persons including a retired top UP police officer and a senior serving cop for alleged conspiracy in 2007 in connection with the death of serial blasts accused Khalid Mujahid under sections 120 B and 302 of the IPC, a right step but insufficient.
