By Md. Ali, TwoCircles.net,
New Delhi: Danish Reyaz, a resident of Jharkhand, who was arrested by Gujarat police on terror charges, has no past criminal record. According to the Jharkhand police, the alleged SIMI activist has never been found in any criminal activity whatsoever.
Jharkhand police spokesperson S N Pradhan told media that, “According to information received so far, Riyaz, a native of Jharkhand, who was working in Hyderabad, was never found to be involved in any kind of anti-national activities in the state.”
Pradhan also made it clear that the state police is in touch with the Ahmedabad police and if required a team of the state police will visit Gujarat to share information regarding the case.
Danish Reyaz, a software professional working in Hyderabad, was reportedly arrested from Vadodara railway station on Tuesday while he was alighting from Secunderabad Express. Gujarat police has allegedly charged him with sheltering accused of Ahmedabad blasts.
Although last year several media reports in Jharkhand suggested that Reyaz’s name figured in the Intelligence Bureau’s list of wanted persons, but when “TwoCircles.net, had approached the police officials of the state”, both the top state level and local SHO of Bariatu, all of them denied having any information where any Ranchi youth has been found on the Intelligence Bureau list of wanted persons.
“I don’t have any such information of Ranchi’s youth with terror link,” Neyaz Ahmad, the contemporary Director General of Police (DGP) of the state told media people.
“There are no such reports received by us, either from state or central intelligence agencies”, said K D Singh, SHO of Bariatu Police Station while talking about Reyaz, a resident of Bariatu.
Importantly Reyaz’s family is quite worried because they have no idea about his whereabouts. In fact they were not informed about the arrest. They came to know about it through media reports, “Nobody has informed us about his arrest. We come to know the news through newspaper and some TV channels,” said family members.