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Malegaon:
Swiftly taking actions on the letters
written by the wives and relatives of the 2006 Malegaon blast
accused, Home Minister P Chidambaram called them for a meeting in
his North Block Office in New Delhi. Led by their legal advisor
advocate Momin Mujeeb and Third Front leader Mufti Mohd Ismail, they
met the Home Minister for more than an hour yesterday in the
afternoon and replied to his queries in details.
"On behalf of the relatives of the
blast accused who are lingering in the jail since 2006, we had sent
letters requesting P Chidambaram after he took over as the Home
Minister to look into the matter and bring justice to the innocent
youths in jail", said Momin Mujib while speaking to ummid.com.
"Taking note of the details and documents we had attached with our
requests, Chidambaram called us for a meeting on Monday June 8,
2009", he added.
Elaborating further details of the
meeting, Advocate Mujib said that the Home Minister individually
listened to each and every detail of the 2006 Malegaon blast that
led to the arrests of the nine Muslim youths, the alleged torture on
them by the police and jail authorities, the affidavit filed by
Abrar Ahmad, the approver in the case who later turned hostile and
the lackluster attitudes of ATS and CBI officials who are probing
the case.
Malegaon, the predominantly Muslim
textile town in North Maharashtra went through two terrorist
attacks, one in
2006 and
the other in
2008.
Both the incidents, that preceded the Muslim festivals resulted in
casualties of the local Muslims. While the investigating agencies
put the blame of the 2006 blast on the Muslim youths belonging to
SIMI and arrested nine Muslim youths, the ATS arrested
Sadhavi Pragya Singh Thkaur, Col. Prohit and other Hindu
Terrorists belonging to right wing Hindu extremist groups for
masterminding the 2008 blast. Ironically one of the nine accused was
already under police custody and
Zahid
Ansari, the accused whom ATS has termed as one of the planter in
its chargesheet, was in Phoolsawangi - a town 600 Kmrs from Malegaon
when the blast took place on September 8, 2006.
"After apprising him of all the
details, in a separate request comprising of 91 pages, we requested
the Home Minister to transfer Raman Tayagi, the In Charge Officer of
CBI and the speedy completion of the investigations", Advocate Mujib
informed from Delhi.
The Home Minister, Advocate Mujib
said, has promised them to call a meeting of the CBI Officials
specially in a couple of days to look into the 2006 Malegaon blast
case and the situation arising after the affidavit filed by Abrar
Ahmad who while detracting from his earlier statements had leveled
serious charges against few Police, ATS and CBI officers.
Earlier in the morning, the delegation
called on National Minority Commission Chairman Shafi Quraishi and
urged him once again to intervene specially due to the changing
situation after the lone approver in the case retracted from his
statements.
This was the third time Advocate Mujib
met the Minority Commission Chairman in a span of two years. While
the earlier meeting were proved fruitless, as it seems, this time
NMC Chairman ordered his staff to write a letter to Prime Minister
and Home Minister in front of them.
He also promised them to send a
two-member Minority Commission team to Malegaon in a couple of
weeks. "The Two-Member Minority Commission team would visit Malegaon
and later would meet the Centre as well as State Government officers
with their reports", Advocate Mujib informed.
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