By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter,
As the R.D. Nimesh Commission report asserts that Khalid Mujahid was ‘illegally’ arrested from Madiyahu, Jaunpur (U.P.) on December 16, 2007 and wrongly charged by the STF for carrying out serial blasts in the various courts of Uttar Pradesh on December 22, 2007, which showed his arrest from Barabanki. But even after that Samajwadi Party led state government tried to protect the culprits who wrongly charged him in the name of terror by suppressing the issue for quite a long time which encouraged the police department and IB so much that they killed Khalid in the end.
Later, when the case was registered against the police and IB officials responsible for his death no legal action was taken. Hence, Rihai Manch has declared the day of Khalid arrest i.e. December 16 as ‘Anti-Illegal Arrest Day’ as the official occasion to demand the releae of innocent youths arrested in the name of terror everywhere.
“Just like the case of Khalid, the other arrested youth in the same case Tariq Qasmi had filed an RTI on July 12 which confirms that Khalid Mujahid, who was killed on April 19, 2013 was not suffering from ill health and not the way the government has been saying,” said Muhammad Shoaib, President Rihai Manch.
“Not only this, the report of RTI also confirms that Khalid had no such illness which demanded him to go through Electro Cardio Graph (ECG) and Ultra-Sonography (USG). Likewise, Khalid time of leaving the jail for the court was registered in the G.B. was 9:35 am while the jail archives tell us that 9:35 am was the time Dr. Pradeep Bijlani entered the High Security Barrack. How can it be possible that the time of Khalid’s exit from the jail for the court and that of Dr. Bijlani’s entry into the jail was the same,” he asked.
On the occasion of ‘Anti-illegal Arrest Day’, Sandeep Pandey, national vice-president of Socialist Party said that the occasion is also to remember the pressure we put on the government. The 121 day strike by Rihai Manch forced the UP government to constitute Nimesh Commission whose reports publically accepted the truth of illegal arrest of Khalid Mujahid.
“We have to fight for the justice of all Khalid Mujhahids who are languishing in various jails of the country in the name of terror,” said the Magsasay Award winner.
“Now when the Nimesh Commission report has already raised serious questions on the Azamgarh youth Tariq Qasmi’s fake arrest, the killers of Khalid and those who sent Tariq behind jail should not be allowed to move freely in a democracy,” said Tariq’s uncle Faiyyaz Azmi.
Zayed Ahmad Farooqui of Muslim Majlis and Saeed Moid Ahmad said that the recent ruling of Lucknow bench of Allahabad high court in which the court said that the innocent youths cannot be released without the consent of central government is a violation of Section 321 of the constitution which gives the state government the right to intervene in the matters of law and order.
Also present on this occasion were Inayatullah Khan, Qamar Seetapuri, Zubair Jaunpuri, Abdul haleem Siddiqui, Shan e Ilahi, Gufran Siddiqui, Irfan Sheikh, Wasif Sheikh, Mohammad Wasi, Rizawan Siddiqui, Ashraf Khan, Raju Sonkar, Rajeev Yadav and Shahnawaz Alam.