By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter,
Chennai: Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI) staged country wide protest demonstration on the issue of the custodial killing of Khalid Mujahid on Tuesday. In Chennai, SDPI had assembled in front of the District Collector Office in Chennai, Tamil Nadu Addressing the gathering of more than 300 activists and demonstrators, SDPI‘s Tamil Nadu state president K.K.S.M. Dhehlan Baqavi, condemned the manner in which Khalid Mujahid was beaten and murdered and the gross human rights violation carried by the police.
Providing background to the demonstrators and others who were unaware of the case, Mr. Baqavi said that Khalid Mujahid was falsely accused and arrested in December 2007 in relation to serial blasts in Varanasi, Lucknow and Faizabad. He said that though the UP government had appointed Nimesh Commission to come up with a report on the case, however, even before the findings could be staged in assembly, he was murdered in cold blood.
When the police brought him to the hospital, he was already confirmed dead by the doctors. The wounds on his body prove that he was murdered, he asserted.
Mr. Baqavi also spoke about scores of Muslim youths arrested and lodged in prisons across the country in false cases. He demanded the dismissal of the 42 police officers accused in the extra-judicial killing of Khalid Mujahid and urged UP government to provide government jobs to his family and relief compensation.
SDPI has demanded that a judicial commission must be appointed to make enquiry regarding the serious allegations made by former Inspector General of Police of UP, S.R. Darapuri making statement that the police illegally keep several Muslim youth into its custody and plant them as terrorists in encounters as well as in arrests made on the basis of mere suspicion as per convenience.
It has also demanded that the compensation in equal quantum as granted to the family members of Nannhe Yadav in case of recent Kunda incident (Raja Bhayya case), of Rs. 30 lakhs with government job to one family member, must also be granted by the Government of UP to the family of late Khalid Mujahid.
Similar protest was also organized in Bengaluru and memorandum, addressed to the President, was submitted to the Governor.