By TwoCircles.net news desk,
New Delhi: The All India Muslim Majlis-e-Mushawarat (AIMMM) President Dr Zafarul-Islam Khan said today that the Muslim community is not impressed at all by the dramatic announcements of the Gujarat police about the culprits of the recent Ahmedabad bombings.
The Muslim community, he said here in a statement released on August 19, has lost faith in the security agencies, especially the Gujarat police, probing terrorist attacks. These “lazy, inept and communal forces” go for ready-made results while probing such crucial matters.
The head of AIMMM, the umbrella body of Indian Muslim organisations, observed that the powers that be are using Gujarat police to kidnap Muslim youths from other states and bring them to Gujarat where tried and tested torture techniques are employed in order to make any detainee “confess” and sign on the dotted line.
Dr Khan demanded a CBI enquiry into both the Ahmedabad serial blasts and Surat bomb planting. He also demanded that senior Muslim community leaders and human rights activists should be allowed to meet and speak to the accused.
Dr Khan reiterated AIMMM’s demand that the central government should form a high powered neutral panel of retired judges, human rights activists, top lawyers and journalists to oversee the investigations into all terrorist acts. Such a neutral panel is needed to restore the Muslim community’s faith in the investigations by security and intelligence agencies which, due to their consistently one-sided probes after each such criminal act, have totally forfeited the confidence of the Muslim community.
Dr Khan also reiterated AIMMM’s demand that offices of foreign intelligence agencies like Mossad and FBI should be closed down forthwith as their continued presence on Indian soil is not in the interests of the peace and security of the country.
The flight of the former American soldier Kenneth Haywood, from whose computer and flat in Navi Mumbai the so-called “Indian Mujahideen” email was sent, shows not only the role of foreign agencies in what is happening in India but also that elements in our own security agencies are hand-in-glove with foreign agencies, says the statement.