By TwoCircles.net staff reporter,
New Delhi: To show solidarity with Abdul Rasheed Agwan and Adnan Fahad, the two arrested from Jamia Nagar area by ATS on Sunday and released around midnight the same day, Jamaat-e-Islami Hind (JIH) led a mass visit to their houses today.
Around 100 people and prominent residents of Okhla gathered at JIH Headquarters this morning and marched towards these innocent persons’ residences to solace them and show solidarity with them. The march was under the leadership of Delhi state JIH President Dr. Md. Rafat and JIH Vice President Prof. K. Siddique Hassan.
“A good number of residents and prominent persons of Okhla gathered at the JIH Headquarters on Sunday night also for marching towards the Jamia Nagar police station to protest the detention of two innocent persons, Abdul Rasheed Agwan, 54, a known social activist, and Adnan Fahad, a young man hailing from Jamia Nagar, by ATS Mumbai and special cell of Delhi Police in connection with Delhi blasts,” reads a statement from JIH.
“Agwan runs an NGO for the empowerment of the Muslim community and Adnan Fahad is a son of famous Islamic author and fomer IAS officer Dr Israr Alam,” adds the statement.
Addressing the gathering, Dr. Rafat solaced both persons, expressed solidarity with them and their families, and appealed to people to be cooperative and sociable with their neighbours and fellow residents in their difficult times.
Condemning their detention, Prof. K. Siddique Hassan said that the people have to show unity against violation of human rights and any oppression done with anyone.
Convenor of Jamia Nagar Coordination Committee Mr. Irfan and Councilor Abul Fazl Enclave Shoeb Danish also addressed the gathering and criticized police’s way of detention of innocent people.
In the afternoon, Syed Ahmad Bukhari, Shahi Imam of Jama Masjid also visited Abdul Rasheed Agwan and Adnan Danish. He consoled them and expressed his sympathy with them. He listened to them who retold what happened to them in the police station and what was asked to them.