By Mohammed Siddique, TwoCircles.net,
Hyderabad : The family of a youth, who was picked up by the special investigations team of Hyderabad police on the suspicion of terror links has alleged that he was subjected to third degree torture by the police.
“After plain clothed policemen took me in to custody on Tuesday, whole night I was subjected to physical torture. They beat me up with out asking a single question”, Muqeemuddin Yasser, an MBA graduate told his mother Tasneem Fatima, when she met him in Charlapally jail.
26 year old Yasser, who runs his mechanical workshop in the city, is the eldest son of Moulana Naseeruddin, an accused in Haren Pandya murder case and is in Sabarmati jail for the last four years. Yasser’s younger brother Raziuddin Nasir is in Belgam jail for the last six months after he was arrested by Karnataka police on the suspicion of links with terrorist elements.
“Yasser is in a very bad condition and unable to walk”, said Tasneem Fatima after meeting Yasser. “His legs were pulled apart and his hands were tied on the backside during the torture at an unknown place”, she said.
A local court has remanded Yasser to judicial custody and referred him for medical examination after he showed the magistrate injuries on his legs, hands and other parts of the body.
Yasser told his family members that 8 policemen were involved in beating him up. “they kept on beating me without asking a single question. As if they just wanted to kill me”, Yasser’s wife Ayesha quoted him saying.
Officially the police said Yasser was an accused in three cases including the criminal conspiracy case of last year booked after the serial blasts in the city. But Lateef Mohammed Khan, general secretary of Civil Liberties Monitoring Committee said that this was a bundle of lie. “Yasser’s name never figured in any criminal case so far. Every body is surprised by the way the police has targeted him”, he said.
The APCLMC and other Muslim organizations were now planning to organize protests against the way Yasser was picked up by the police in the dead of the night outside his workshop with out informing his family and subjected to torture. “Despite protests and numerous representations to the government, the arrest and victimization of innocent youth is continuing unabated”, Khan said.
20 other youth who were arrested by the police in connection with the same conspiracy case were released on bail. Interestingly two other cases in which Yasser was implicated date back to 2004. Khan expressed surprise that the police did not name him or arrest him for the last four years. He was not shown even as an absconder, he said.