Abusaleh Shariff explodes the myth of Muslims doing better under Modi ruleMedia celebrates arrest of ‘terrorists’, but ignores their acquittals
Submitted by admin4 on 2 February 2012 - 4:01pm
This is third and final part of the three part series on the case of Md. Amir Khan who has been acquitted after spending 14 years in jail in 20 fabricated cases of bomb blasts.
By TCN Staff Correspondent,
New Delhi: In a development evidently reinforcing its prejudiced and biased attitude towards wrongly picked Muslim youths in terror cases, the mainstream national press chose to ignore the news of acquittal of a youth who spent 14 years in jail in more than 21 fabricated blast cases, but ultimately the court freed him as the prosecution could not substantiate its charges.
Md. Amir Khan
Md. Amir Khan was arrested in 1998 by Delhi police on the charges of masterminding at least 21 blast cases in and around Delhi and NCR. But it took 14 years for the judiciary to find that 18 cases against him were completely without evidence.
When Amir, then just 18, was arrested, different sections of the media called him the “mastermind" of 20 blasts in and around Delhi and NCR. The media trial went to the extent that a Hindi daily (Ghaziabad edition) on December 11, 2007, had declared him a Pakistani national.
But no media considered it even worth reporting, when as many as 18 of those 21 cases turned out to be fabricated, prosecution’s case collapsed and the same “mastermind” was acquitted of all charges in 18 cases. However, the trial court convicted him in three cases against which he moved the High Court, and the High Court has quashed one conviction and hearing the left two cases.
It was only a week after TCN reported Amir's release that a section of Urdu and Hindi media took notice and started covering it.
In fact, it’s very interesting to point out that a very premier news agency of the country, PTI, has reported inaccurately about Amir and didn’t report that out of the three cases in which he was convicted, one has been quashed by the Delhi HC and in two appeal is pending before the HC.
Importantly this wasn't the only and the last case where media behaved blatantly prejudiced and biased manner. Just recall the arrests in Mecca Masjid blast, Malegaon blast, Jaipur serial blasts. The entire media had front-paged the arrest of Muslim youths in all these cases, but one after another all the accused have been acquitted in these three cases.
The problem is that media projects mere arrest or even detention of terror suspects by police as conviction of real culprits by court, and perhaps that’s why when these suspects get acquitted by court after years of legal battle, the media has no answer, and they think it better to ignore the acquittals.
Part One
http://twocircles.net/2012jan26/war_terror_if_you_can%E2%80%99t_find_ter...
Part Two
http://twocircles.net/2012jan29/amir_khan_14_years_jail_acquitted_still_...
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Where is the justice??
The story of Aamir questions on the Indian Police that why they are targeting the innocent people when they are not able to find the real culprit? Who will return the 14 years of his life which are ruined by the hands of special cell and police officers only due to mere suspections? Aamir's co acused Shakeel hanged himself due to the extreme torture in the court but Aamie did'nt loose hope and waited for justice.
why the Gaziabad Session court didn't follow the orders of Allahabad High Court and took 4 long years to solve the case, where is the justice and Human Rights? where is Article 21? does the poor minorities have any place in the constition?
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