By TCN News,
New Delhi: Khudai Khidmatgar and All India Students Association (AISA) have separately condemned the minority witch-hunt in the name of terror probes – whose latest victim, they said, is Zubair Khan, a youth who was picked on 17th July from Shaheen Bagh area of Jamia Nagar in New Delhi.
“Khudai Khidmatgar condemns the sudden arrest of the youth named as Zubair Khan from Shahin Bagh, this is the other incident that seems to be threatening Muslim community as a whole,” said the group of social activists in a statement on Sunday.
“This is a well-planned incident. It seems to be part of series of illegal and baseless arrests of Muslim youths done by police. As per our information the local police was not informed before making the arrest, which openly results the violation of law. This shows that the law enforcement authorities have turned into violator of law. These types of action are widely happening throughout the country on Muslim youths,” it said.
“We are continuously working on the issue of Illegal Arrest of Muslim youths by the name of terrorism throughout the Nation, we further appeal this issue with National Human Rights Commission and we do maximum effort for getting justice on this issue because we have strong belief in Justice system Of our country,” it said.
Khudai Khidmatgar has also decided to meet Zubair Khan as well as his family members to know the real situation at the time and after his arrest with the delegation of well-known Social Activists Sandeep Pandey, Faisal Khan, Suresh Sarvodayi.
AISA holds public meeting on Muslim witch-hunt in Bihar
As Darbhanga emerges to be the new target of minority witch hunt in India, following a series of arrests of innocent Muslim youth, AISA organized a Public meeting on the issue, tabling a report of a fact –finding team that visited Darbhanga, Bihar, after Qateel Siddiqui, an accused in 13/7 Mumbai blasts, murdered in a Pune Jail last month.
Arrested in November 2011 on charges of involvement in several blasts, Siddiqui languished in jail for seven months, even as the Maharashtra ATS failed to file a charge-sheet against him in the stipulated time, he was strangulated to death for being “anti-national” by two other prisoners lodged in the same jail.
“After targeting Azamgarh, Batla House and Malegaon in the past, several Muslim youths from Darbhanga face the same fate,” said AISA in a statement on Sunday.
Speaking at the public meeting on the need to expose the nexus of terror and politics, Abhishek Yadav, JNUSU vice-president said “the real perpetrators behind these terrorist activities should be brought to book”, indicting RSS-BJP for their involvement in Malegaon and several other cases, and also stressed on the need to ensure justice for the innocent Muslim youth, targeted by the ATS in a state run in coalition by Congress, thus exposing its double standards.
Recently, another Muslim youth, Zubair Khan, from Delhi’s Shaheen Bagh was picked up by the RK Puram crime branch for allegedly sharing information with Pakistan embassy.
Other speakers at the meeting included Akbar Chaudhary, JNU AISA President, Akhlaq Ahmad from APCR and Sajjad Alam, a Jamia student.