Innocents continue to be falsely charged in terrorism!

The Muslim minority across the country was hopeful of the 2014 election brining prospects of their innocent youths breathing fresh air outside the dungeons after years and even decades of wrongful imprisonment. The election heat and fury has dashed their hopes because not a single party including Congress seems to care a tuppence for the fate of the innocents languishing in prisons. There was not even a ripple on the surface let alone an insight into the plight of the imprisoned. The so called Anti Terrorism Squads of Maharashtra and Gujarat among others and Special Cells of police especially of Delhi have continued to behave feloniously all through the election canvassing and casting of ballots with a trace of injustice meted to Muslims and willful determination to continue framing the innocents all the same with impunity. Mirza Himayat Baig (sentenced to death in Pune German Bakery case of February 13, 2010) had written to additional session court judge NP Dhote on September 17, 2013 in Pune. The judge received it on October 19. Copies of the same letter Baig sent to the chief justice of Supreme Court as well as the Bombay High Court judge and even the NIA. Baig requested that Yasin Bhatkal should not be given to the custody of ATS of Maharashtra. They would make Batkal implicate Baig in the German Bakery attack. Bhatkal had remarked at the time of his arrest on August 28, 2013 that it was not Baig who was with him in the rickshaw but Qateel Siddiquy. Siddiquy was killed in the Yerwada jail by two extremist Hindus. Baig’s fear has come true in the case of Bhatkal. As is their wont and true to their inveterate practice of framing innocent Muslims in bogus terror charges, the ATS got custody of Bhatkal and has tortured him and got confession under third degree torture. Baig had said that ATS had shown “false recovery” of RDX from his possession and the ATS had also given “false evidence” and had “misled” the court which sentenced him to death. He even claimed that ATS had failed to arrest the real culprits in the German Bakery case and had falsely implicated him instead. Baig went on to say that Qateel Siddiquy was thoroughly interrogated in 2011 by various agencies in the Yerwada jail which showed that Baig was not connected with the German Bakery blasts. Siddiquy’s evidence could have also proved him [Baig] to be innocent but he was killed in the jail. Even more, Baig had requested the High Court even before he wrote to the additional session court in Pune to let NIA investigate the case and had also requested the HC to restrain ATS from taking custody of Bhatkal. Baig also revealed that the ATS had implicated “innocent” people in the 7/11 Mumbai train blasts and the Malegaon blasts of 2006. [1] Yasin Bhatkal and his co accused Assdullah Akhtar alias Haddi wrote to Delhi court on April 16, 2014 that Maharashtra police has tortured them and extracted bogus confession. Their counsel advocate MS Khan has moved an application in the court over the issue. The judge has fixed April 29 to hear the application. The judge heard the duo in-chamber as there was production warrant against them. The ATS had threatened them that they too would be circumstanced in a case of committing suicide in custody as it was the case in Shakeel Ahmad, or the case of Qateel Siddiquy. If proof is needed it is this to show that the Muslims youths are subjected to excruciating and fatal third degree torture even after fear of the same inhuman treatment is voiced openly by no other than the prisoners and yet the polity and the public remain passive spectator to the inhuman treatment meted to them during incarceration. This is as if there is no pity left in the country. Even the opposition parties have become deaf and blind. They should have been the conscience keepers of the country. The duo has appealed for a “retraction of their statements recorded during the custody of Maharashtra police.” The judge has taken this on record. Both of them were forced to sign even blank papers.[2] The judge also ordered two others Obaidul Rehmanand Abu Faisal to be produced before him. Obaid is in Bangalore jail and Faisal in Bhopal jail accused in other cases. In the meantime the National Investigation Agency wants some of them in their search for 10 Indian Mujahideen. The ATS committed a very serious crime when they made Mohammad Farooq Irfan (40) commit perjury. They made him tell lies that Sayad Zabiuddin Ansari had addressed a gathering of Muslims in the Homa Function Hall in Beed on December 17, 2012 to unite and fight against the anti Islam forces. [3] Zabiuddin was a police informer from Beed and was instrumental in getting the huge arms seizure in May 2006, notoriously known as Aurangabad arms haul which also included a part of it seized from Malegaon and another portion from a dry well near Ankai (Manmad) on May 9th 2006. Zabiuddin was made famous by the nom de plume given by the police, Abu Jindal. In his letter of October 2013 Baig used the words which even Bhatkal and Haddi repeat five months later: if the ATS gets Bhatkal’s custody, it will subject him to “third degree” treatment and “force” him to retract his [Bhatkal’s] statement given to NIA that Baig was not with Bhatkal in the rickshaw. Given so much of circumstantial and even real evidence what chance is now for Baig under death penalty and Bhatkal and Haddi under direct death threat by no other than ATS? -------- [1] Times of India October 24, 2013. [2] “Bhatkal: Maha cops used force” Asian Age, April 16, 2014 [3]Roznama Rashtriya Sahara March 29, 201