By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter,
Muzaffarnagar: Civil rights activist Shehzad Poonawala has alleged that the local intelligence office is intimating him and is now fearful that he may be killed for taking up the causes of the riot victims.
On Sunday Poonawala sat on ‘indefinite fast’ at the Malakpur camp, where over two hundred families face eviction threat from the state.
26 year old Poonawalla, a resident of Delhi, has been involved with relief work in the relief camps housing the riot victims in Muzaffarnagar and Shamli. On Saturday he submitted a petition to the District Magistrates of Shamli and Muzaffarnagar and the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh and Prime Minister of India to halt the forcible eviction of relief camps without written assurance that those evicted shall be given safer accommodation to live in.
Poonawala alleged, “I have been informed by extremely credible sources that there is a plan to attack me in Uttar Pradesh while I am in one of these camps. Allegedly, a contract killer Sonu Dilli has been hired for this job.”
He says that ever since he filed petition he has been getting calls from unknown numbers, which seem to be from local unit of intelligence department.
He alleges that earlier also his truck carrying relief material was “illegally halted” by the Inspector of Fugana.
There is a protest by riot victims outside the office of the District Magistrate of Muzaffarnagar on Monday around 1.00 pm to demand permission to live in camps till government arranges for alternate housing.