By TwoCircles.net Special Correspondent,
Jaunpur/Lucknow: Postmortem report of Khalid Mujhaid, which took place in Barabanki between 6:30 am to 8:30 AM, remained inconclusive.
Khalid Mujahid who was arrested on charges of serial blasts in 2007 died yesterday while he was returning from Faizabad to Lucknow jail on Saturday. Khalid fainted on way at Barabanki, according to police and was taken to District Hospital, Barabanki where he was declared brought dead by the doctors. Khalid was under police custody when he died.
Khalid Mujahid
Doctors have preserved heart and lungs for a finding out a possible case of cardiac arrest, while his relatives took the body to Jaunpur for burial.
Ulema Council leader Amir Rashadi was present in Barabanki and accompanied them to Jaunpur. He claimed that clothes of Khalid were changed after death showing that there was a conspiracy to murder him.
Roman Magasaysay award winner, Sandeep Pandey too reacted blaming the state government and demanding tabling Nimesh Commission report. Workers of Peace Party too reached Barabanki
mortuary and raised slogans against state government.
Imam Bukhari too arrived in Lucknow and met Mulayam Singh Yadav and CM Akhilesh Yadav. He also demanded Nimesh Commission report to be made public and also compensation and jobs to Khalid’s family.
According to reports, around 10000 people had gathered at for funeral.
FIR against 42 cops:
Zahid’s uncle, Zaheer Alam Falahi, filed an FIR against 42 erring police officials, including former DGP Vikram Singh, IPS Manoj Kumar, Chiranjeev Lal Sinha, S. Anand as well as against the unknown Intelligence Bureau personnel, in the wee hours of the morning for conspiracy and murder.
TwoCircles.net was the first to break the story of the death of Khalid Mujahid, raising doubts of extra-judicial murder.
Khalid along with Tariq Qasmi was arrested by Special Task Force (STF) on 20 December 2007 from Barabanki. Huge explosives were also shown as recovered from his possession. STF claimed that he was involved in the serial blasts which occurred in Gorakhpur, Faizabad and Lucknow. Later, Nimesh Commission was constituted headed by Justice R D Nimesh who in its report raised fingers over STF’s claim about the place of arrest.
Later, Samajwadi Party government headed by CM Akhilesh Yadav as per their poll promise had moved a plea to revoke the terror charges but they were turned down by local court in Barabanki. Process was however going on for withdrawing his case from other districts.
Meanwhile, on Sunday under pressure from all quarters, UP government has sought a CBI enquiry into the death of Khalid Mujahid.
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