By TCN News,
Palakkad: 21 members of the Tabligh Jamat were taken into custody on terror suspicion and later released for want of evidence in Palakkad in Kerala. The men were reportedly taken by the police from the Badriyya Juma Masjid at Muthalamada in Palakkad, near to Tamil Nadu, on Sunday afternoon and released on Monday.
The police released unconditionally all the men, which included students, as they could not find anything suspicious even after questioning for nearly 24 hours, according to reports. The men were taken into custody reportedly as the Kerala police got information from the Tamil Nadu police that some persons with terror links had reached Muthalamada. Higher officials from the Kerala and Tamil Nadu Intelligence Departments and officers from the Kerala Special Branch questioned them. Having found nothing objectionable, the men were sent back to Tamil Nadu via Meenakshipuram check-post on Monday afternoon.
The men are Syed Abdurahman Umari (32) who is a scholar at the Coimbatore Centre for Islamic Studies, Muhammed Buhara (46) of Ramanathapuram in Chennai, Abdurahman (20) who is final year graduate student at a college in Coimbatore, Muhammed Masood (28), Muhammed Kafeel (22), Riyasudheen (25), Muhammed Shabeer (23), Muhammed Haneefa (26), Sakeer Husain (26), Muhammed Naseer (30), Nisamudheen (23), Muhammed Yasin (19), Sisarudheen (21), Abbas (24), Sikander Basha (24), Abdul Rasheed (23), Muhammed Safarulla (32), Sirajudheen (23 ), Muhammed Hammil (23), Nasrudheen (24) and Muhammed Musthafa (28). Muhammed Buhara had earlier worked with the SIMI from 1987 to 1990 and is presently leader of an organisation called ‘Wahdat e Islami’ in Tamil Nadu. Syed Abdurahman Umari also is a member of the organisation. Of the 21 taken into custody, 19 travel all over the country as active members of the Tabligh Jamat, and Muhammed Yasin and Abdurahman are students, according to reports.