By TCN News,
Kozhikode: Minority Rights Watch conducted a human rights seminar at Kozhicode Town hall on June 4 on acquittal in Hubli case.
Kammukutty and 16 others, all members of the banned Students’ Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), who were allegedly involved in terror activities across the state, were acquitted by a Hubli court on April 30, 2015 after the prosecution failed to prove charges.
“/>The conference was inaugurated by A. Vasu, president of SDTU-the trade union of SDPI. He said that all those intelligent youth are exposing the anti-people, pro-corporate submissiveness of the ruling elite under the threat of terror charges, adding that UAPA laws are often used as an intimidation against pro-people intellectual activism.
P.K. Abdul Rahman of the Minority Rights Watch was on the chair. He said that there is a terror politics especially acting against global Muslims. He pointed out that Hindutva forces were behind the Samjhauta Express, Mecca Masjid and Malegaon blasts. He also detailed about other blasts in which alleged Hindutva activists were involved.
Advocate KP Muhammede Sherif alleged that role of the Indian security agencies in fabricating cases of terrorism to implicate tens of thousands of innocent Muslim citizens across India have been thoroughly exposed over the last several years as the judiciary has thrown out hundreds of false cases against innocent Muslim youth, and castigated the police for framing innocent people.
It has been recognized beyond doubt that the Indian investigative agencies have for years run a systematic campaign to incriminate Muslim citizens by way of punishing them for defending their homeland, farms and communities, or for simply belonging to a community that is labeled as a whole as being involved in terrorism, he said.
Advocate S Shanavas, chairman of Minority Rights Watch, reminded that while acquitting Muslim youths, the courts have often found not only absence of evidence but have charged the investigators of fabricating the evidence.
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