By TwoCircles.net News Desk,
New Delhi: The Indian Muslim Council-USA has expressed its concern over the way the Andhra Pradesh police handed over Shaukatullah Ghori soon after he arrived at the Rajiv Gandhi International airport in Hyderabad to the Gujarat police on suspicions of his involvement in Akshardham temple attack.
The advocacy group dedicated towards safeguarding India’s pluralist and tolerant ethos is concerned that the Andhra Pradesh overlooked the due process in transferring custody of the suspect and did not obtain a transient warrant from an appropriate court.
“IMC-USA fears that Andhra Pradesh police may have repeated the same mistakes of the previous arrests and handing over the custody of alleged accused to police of other states without the oversight of the courts,” IMC-USA president Rasheed Ahmed said.
“The behavior of the Andhra Pradesh police as documented in the Andhra Pradesh State Minorities Commission report compiled by an Independent Commissioner Advocate Ravi Chander following the illegal arrests and torture of 23 suspects accused in the Hyderabad bomb blasts in 2007 leaves little confidence in the A.P. Police’s professionalism,” he said. “I might add that almost all of these so called terrorists were later found innocent and acquitted by the criminal courts,” he further said.
Shaukatullah Ghori was arrested on July 19 as he arrived at the Rajiv Gandhi International airport in Hyderabad from the Gulf on suspicions of his involvement in Akshardham temple attack.
Indian Muslim Council-USA is the largest advocacy organization of Indian Muslims in the United States with 10 chapters across the nation.