Release
Muslim youths held for Malegaon blast, say scholars
Monday January 10, 2011 04:23:29 PM,
IANS
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Mumbai:
Muslim intellectuals Monday asked the Maharashtra government to
free young Muslim men held in connection with the 2006 Malegaon
bomb blast, following the recent statements of arrested Rashtriya
Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) leader Swami Aseemanand.
Aseemanand, who was arrested last year, in a confessional
statement before a magistrate said that he along with other Hindu
activists was involved in the bombings in Malegaon, Ajmer,
Hyderabad's Mecca Masjid, and the Samjhauta Express train.
A delegation of Muslim scholars met Home Minister R.R. Patil and
said that the confessional statement of Aseemanand had exposed his
role in the Sep 8, 2006, Malegaon blast.
The scholars said that innocent Muslim youths nabbed in the case
should be released forthwith and the incident should be
re-investigated.
The delegation was led by Mumbai Nationalist Congress Party (NCP)
chief Narendra Verma, former legislator Sohail Lokhandwala, Raza
Academy secretary general Mohammed Saeed Noorie and Sunni Jamiatul
Ulema secretary general Maulana Mansoor Ali Khan.
In a memorandum submitted to Patil, the delegation said it was now
time for the government to undo the excesses committed against the
Muslim community in the state and the community members should be
compensated for the mental agony and physical torture they had
been subjected to.
Making a similar demand, former labour minister and NCP leader
Nawab Malik has written to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Chief
Minister Prithviraj Chavan and union Home Minister P. Chidambaram.
In the letter, Malik said that "whatever mistakes have been done"
must be rectified now.
State Samajwadi Party president and legislator Abu Asim Azmi also
called on Chavan last week to demand the release of the Muslim
accused and arrested in the Malegaon case.
The Muslim leaders told Patil that the innocent Muslim youths who
were arrested for the Mecca Masjid blast at Hyderabad were also
released later and paid a compensation by the Andhra Pradesh
government.
"We demand that a similar compensation is made by the Maharashtra
government," Lokhandwala said.
He quoted Patil as saying that since the case was handed over to
the Central Bureau of Investigation, he would take up the matter
with the investigating agency.
The Muslim leaders also called for action against the RSS and its
frontal organisations.
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