By Mumtaz Alam Falahi, TwoCircles.net,
New Delhi: Talha Amir, son of renowned Azamgarh personality Maulana Amir Rashadi, has been released by the Nagpur police after a Nagpur court accepted his bail application on January 3. The Maharashtra ATS had told the court they were not seeking his further police remand.
After interrogating him for 13 days the Mumbai Crime Branch, which is looking into the 26/11 Mumbai attack, did not find him involved in the terror act. Soon after he was taken on police remand by the Maharashtra ATS on December 21 the Nagpur police took him to Mumbai where he was interrogated by the Maharashtra ATS and police teams from Gujarat, Rajasthan, Delhi, Andhra Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh as part of their investigation into terror attacks in those states. But none of them found him involved in any terror act.
“On January 3 the Maharashtra ATS told the Nagpur court they found no evidence of Talha’s involvement in any terror case and they did not want to keep him on further police remand. The court heard our bail petition and ordered his release,” Dr Tasleem Rahmani, president of Muslim Political Council of India, and a close friend of Maulana Amir Rashadi, told TwoCircles.net on phone from Azamgarh. Delhi-based Muslim leader Dr Rahmani, who was looking the case closely, returned Azamgarh last night with Talha Amir and his father from Nagpur.
Talha Amir, a Wipro employee, was picked up at Nagpur station on December 20 when he and his friend alighted Patna-Secunderabad Express to fetch water. His friend was pushed down by some unknown persons who immediately took Amir away. Maulana Rashadi, director of madrasa Jamiatur Rashad, told TCN that he was picked by Maharashtra ATS. Talha was going to Hyderabad to join office after celebrating Eid-ul-Azha at his hometown Azamgarh. Talha has been with Wipro for last three years.
While GRP (railway police) Nagpur showed him in the local court in possession of a pistol and some live cartridges and filed a case against him under Arms Act he was taken away by Maharashtra ATS to Mumbai to interrogate him for his alleged involvement in Mumbai attack and other terror acts.
Dr Tasleem Rahmani said Talha has been falsely implicated in the case. The allegation of him possessing arms is false. “In fact the arms were planted on him and we will prove the allegation wrong,” he said.
Earlier Talha’s father Maulana Amir Rashadi had told TCN that his son was picked up just to silence him as he was protesting against the highhandedness of security and intelligence agencies against the Azamgarh Muslim youths. Maulana Rashadi, convenor of Uttar Pradesh Ulema Council, had organized a massive Muslim gathering in October last year in wake of the Batla House encounter (where two suspected youths from Azamgarh were killed) and indiscriminate picking of Azamgarh youths from here and there.