By TCN Staff Reporter,
New Delhi: Civil Liberties Monitoring Committee, a Hyderabad based rights group, has written to the Chief Justice of India (CJI), requesting the Apex Court’s intervention in arbitrarily targeting Muslim youths, in the name of terror.
The letter is in connection to a recent incidence in Hyderabad, where a Muslim research scholar from Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Sharib Ali harassed by police after an advocate, whom he had gone interviewing suspected him of being terrorist because of his Muslim name.
Sharib Ali
The whole incident was witnessed by TCN Hyderabad Reporter, Mohd. Ismail Khan, who is a law student at the Osmania University and was acting as local guide to Ali.
The rights group, in its letter to the CJI, writes: “This committee requests you to ensure that no innocent has the feeling of sufferance only because ‘my name is Khan, but I am not a terrorist’.”
It also highlighted the recent Supreme Court observation, where the court cautioned the police in restraining from giving terror tags to innocent Muslims, without proper investigations. The Apex Court had observed: “…ensure that no innocent person has the feeling of sufferance only because ‘My name is Khan, but I am not a terrorist’.”
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