By TCN News
Hyderabad: Civil liberties Monitoring Committee(CLMC), a Hyderabad based organization has expressed concern at the arrest of Muslim youth as soon as Special Investigation Team (SIT) was formed by the local police after the Hyderabad blasts on Thursday.
CLMC in a statement said that pressure from media is making police target Muslim youth. CLMC has started received information that Muslim youths are being picked up from different parts of the city.
“Those youth whose lives were destroyed on the name of Makkah Masjid bomb blast investigation are again being made scapegoats and targeted in which Arshad, Raheem, Kareem, Rayees, Azmath and so many others are detained on the name of investigation.”
CLMC also objected to the manner in which police is investigation the case. “The guidelines of the Supreme Court for the Investigation are being completely violated by the police. For example, yesterday many youth were picked up by the police and detained illegally and today morning the team of task force reached the house of Rayees at Hashimabad and picked him and forced him to sit in private Innova car, then reached the Chandrayangutta bridge and made calls to Junaid to come there saying that they have to speak to him. And then they asked Rayees to call Junaid to come near the bridge. Junaid refusedto go there and said that whatever they have to ask should be done in legal manner. If they want to speak something they can come to his home but Task Force resorted to threats and cut the phone. After this Junaid is living in fear,” said Lateef Mohammad Khan, General Secretary of CLMC.
Civil Liberties Monitoring Committee demands the Andhra Pradesh government to dissolve the Special Investigation Team and the case should be handed over and investigated only by the National Investigation Agency (NIA). If NIA do not have any man-power then the state government should provide a team of honest police officers, then only the real culprits can be arrested. Civil Liberties also demand the state government to instruct the Director General of Police to stop targeting of Muslim youths and investigation of bomb blast should be in fair manner.