By Mohammed Siddique, TwoCircles.net,
Hyderabad : A mother whose son has gone missing since Hyderabad police raided her residence on Wednesday has approached the Andhra Pradesh High Court seeking its intervention. Tasleem Fatima, wife of a controversial religious leader Moulana Naseeruddin, today sent a telegram to the Chief Justice of High Court pleading that her son be produced before the court. She alleged that her son Baleeghuddin Jabir was taken away by the police three days ago but was not declaring him as arrested.
“He had gone to evening prayers when police raided our home to look for him. I told the police that he was in local mosque and I am sure police took him away from there”, she said.
The telelgram said that since that day Jabir had not contacted the family members and his mobile phone was also switched off. “If he had fled to avoid the arrest, then he would have definitely contacted us”, Tasleem Fatima said. The same telegram was also sent to the National Human Rights Commission.
The Hyderabad police commissioner B Prasad Rao denied that Jabir was in police custody.
Jabir’s family is in deep shock as he was the third son and fourth male member of the family to be targeted by the police. Moulana Naseeruddin is in Ahmedabad jail since 2004, his youngest son Nasir is in Belgaum jail, and his eldest son Muqeemuddin Yasser was in Hyderabad jail for last several months.
The family also organized a special prayers “Qunoot-e-Nazila” on Friday evening at its home in which a large number of Burqa clad women participated and sought divine intervention to protect the family from police repression.
“The police had told us long ago that they will take revenge from my sons when they grow up”, Tasleem Fatima told a Fact Finding Team of several civil rights and human rights organizations which visited her residence. “All the bread earner of my family have been thrown behind the bars by fabricating cases against them and now I am worried about my missing son”, she said.
Narrating the details of the police raid on Wednesday Tasleem Fatima said that she and her daughter who were alone at home at the time were repeatedly abused by the police. “They told my daughter Tujhe to hum Utha lejayenge”, she said.
“When my daughter protested against the police men barging in and ransacking the house throwing household goods on the floor, the policemen told her Apne Aap ko kya samjhti hai, Kya hum tujhe Tilak lagane aye hain”, she said.
The fact finding team included Lateef Mohammed Khan of AP Civil Liberties Monitoring Committee, Anuradha and Ambika of Aman Vedika and other activists of different organizations.
Meanwhile the police said that it had seized the hard disk of a computer and 40 CDs from Jabir’s residence during their raid. Some of the CDs had speeches of SIMI leader Safdar Nagori and another had shots of the funeral of Mujahid Saleem who was shot dead by Gujrat police in Hyderabad in October 2004.