By TCN News,
Lucknow: Indefinite dharna for arrest of Khalid Mujahid's killers, release of Nimesh Commission report and release of innocents in the name terrorism completed its eleventh day on Saturday with Khalid's uncle Zaheer Alam Falahi and Tariq's relatives accusing Abu Asim Azmi and ‘paid’ ulema of trying to protect the Khalid's killers.
Tariq Qasmi's uncle Hafiz Fayyaz said that he'd refused to accompany Abu Asim Azmi to meet Tariq in jail, when he contacted Tariq's father in law, who also refused. Azmi's men forcefully took away Hafiz Fayyaz's brother, Mumtaz at 1.30 in the night, he alleged. He said that leaders like Abu Asim Azmi were misleading the Muslim masses and that if the government really wants to make amends, they should refrain from using leaders like Azmi as pawns and starts a CBI enquiry into Khalid's murder and release the Nimesh report. Tariq's father in law and Khalid's cousin also attended the dharna.
Addressing the dharna, President of All India Muslim Majlis e Mushawarat and editor of The Milli Gazette, Dr. Zafar-ul-Islam Khan, said that the questions being raised about terrorism all over the country has left the central and the state governments speechless and brings shame to the world's largest democracy. He said that if the SP government really intended to release innocents imprisoned in the name of terrorism, why it had not acted on the 11 demands even after 11 days of the indefinite dharna. He added that the commission was a public inquiry, paid for by the public, hence entitling the masses to see its findings which not only protects the guilty police officers but infringes on the public's democratic rights.
Tasleem Rahmani, Welfare party's national vice-president said IB's national anti-Muslim agenda in a democracy and shielding the same IB officers was reflected in the government's treatment of Khalid's murder. He said it could be understood from the government's propping of paid ulema and leaders like Abu Asim to claim that Khalid's death was due to disease.
Talking about the CRPF camp attack that occured 5 years ago, where CRPF men drank and shot at each other and three men were falsely implicated in the attack, namely, Jangbahadur's son, Sher Khan, from Moradabad, Sharif's brother Shahin, from Rampur, Kunda, Pratapgarh's Kausar Faruqi's brother said that government's spokesman Rajendra Chaudhary said in November that the case against Rampur would be taken back, but nothing has been done uptil now. They said they'd been demanding a CBI enquiry into the case but the government isn't ready to take up the matter.
Abu Amir, brother of Mohammad Habib from Azamgarh, who is imprisoned in Samabarti Jail in Ahmadabad, said that the government had been indecisive in its statements and dozens of Muslims, including 7 from Azamgarh had been accused of trying to make a tunnel from the jail using pens, plates and spoons. The length has been varying from 20 to 220 meters in various official statements but the state government which had promised every possible assistance to the falsely implicated youth has been mum on this serious incident of custodial death.
The dharna attended by several other leaders and activists from the state and across country.