By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter,
Bhopal: In a terrifying incidence, Bhopal police was deployed in large number outside Jamia Islamia Arbia Masjid Tarjuma wali during Friday prayer and denied Muslims from holding a planned protest meeting to discuss Bhopal encounter killing.
In order to stop Jamiat Ulema-e-Madhya Pradesh from going ahead with the protest meeting, police took away all the loud speakers from the mosque the previous night.
A huge crowd today attended the mosque to attend Friday prayer and to take part in the convention that was earlier planned to begin at 2.00 pm. However, as loud speakers were taken away by police and due to intimidation from police deployed outside the mosque, Jamiat called off the convention but announced of holding a state-level convention at a larger forum to protest encounter killing.
Maulana Mufti Abdur Razzak Khan, vice president of Jamiat Ulema-e-Madhya Pradesh condemned force used by police to cancel the protest meet and called it murder of democracy.
He condemned the encounter killing of eight Muslim youths along with one prison guard who was allegedly killed by these fleeing eight men.
“The Government is misusing police machinery to suppress voices of Muslims. It is crossing all the limits to terrorise Muslims and is openly oppressing them,” he said.
He also said that government’s attempt to silence them will increase their resolve and announced, “We will soon organise state level protest to highlight police’s aggression towards Muslims. We also request Muslims to help them in organising peaceful protest in large number.”
Advocate Shaheed Nadeem and Advocate Parvez Alam, who were present inside the mosque for the convention told TwoCircles.net, “The Police turned it into a hostile environment. People were very curious and wanted to discuss on the hot topic of encounter killing. There was nothing wrong in that but police denied mosque authority from holding such convention”.
“We have decided to file a petition before Jabalpur High Court to demand a fair judicial probe in the extra judicial killing of eight youth,” Advocate Nadeem informed TwoCircles.net.