By Mohammed Siddique, TwoCircles.net,
Hyderabad : How the police uses baseless charges and fictious cases to frame and harass Muslims has once again been established with a local court in Hyderabad acquitting five youth in a terror related cases and ordering their release.
The youth who are now out of prison were arrested in September last year after the serial blasts rocked the city killing forty people and their alleged roles in the terrorist activities has become the hot topic of speculative reporting in the local media.
But the 7th additional sessions judge of Nampally court dismissed the case number 75/07 charging the five youth with helping the terrorists and providing them with the SIM cards obtained in others’ name.
The judge said that the special investigations team of the police had not provided any evidence or proof to establish the charges against these people. While four youth were already released on bail, one Mohammed Abdul Kaleem was released from Charlpally jail after the court order. “You can go home”, the judge told the accused causing a huge embarrassment to the police which had unleashed a propaganda war against these youth from the old city.
Those acquitting include Mohammed Abdul Kaleem (MBA), Mohammed Abdul Raoof alias Imran, Shujauddin, Mohammed Faseehuddin (BBA), and Mohammed Sohail. The police had alleged that these youth were involved in supplying SIM cards, shifting RDX and conspiring to wage a war against the state.
At least two of the youth Abdul Kaleem and Abdul Raoof alias Imran were subjected to narco analysis tests in Bangalore which was followed by spate of reports in the local media that they had confessed their “involvement” in terrorist activities.
The reports quoting the “police sources” had said that Kaleem had accepted he provided SIM cards and Imran had admitted moving the RDX from one place to another.
But the judge said no evidence was brought before it. The families of both the youth had strongly denied the police allegations and insisted that their wards were innocent and had nothing to do with any terrorist activity.
The police had booked three similar case of conspiracy in which 79 people were made accused. In the latest such case booked in Gopalpuram police station of Secunderabad in September last year after the blasts in Hyderabad, 64 people have been accused. 30 of them have been arrested so far and many of them released on bail.
Lateef Mohammed Khan, general secretary of AP Civil Liberties Monitoring Committee, who had organized a campaign against the police atrocities and indiscriminate arrests said even his name has now been included in the list of 64 accuses in the conspiracy case. “The police is trying to crush the voice of protest by imposing such cases on us”, he said. Other named in the case including Moulana Abdul Aleem Islahi, whose son Mujahid Saleem was killed by Gujrat police in Hyderabad in October 2004.
Welcoming the court order acquitting five persons he said, “This is one more evidence that Hyderabad police was targeting and harassing innocent people and destroying their lives with out an iota of evidence against them. We have been saying this from the beginning that none of the youth picked up by the police were involved in any criminal or anti national activity”.
“Adding the new names in the list is a conspiracy by the police to vitiate the atmosphere in Hyderabad before the Ganesh festival. They also want to tarnish our image because we have filed a case in the court against the police demanding a compensation of Rs 20 lakh each to the 20 youth who were arrested by the police after last year’s blasts”, Lateef Khan said.
The case of the blast in Mecca Masjid in May last year and twin blasts in Lumbini Park and Gokul Chat is still unresolved. While moe than 50 people were killed in these blast, nobody has been arrested and charged directly in these cases.