Naushad Kasimji case: SHRC directs State Govt to reply for CBI probe

Tuesday, June 23, 2009 11:00:04 PM, S. O. News Service

Bangalore: The State Human Rights Commission has directed the state government to reply within three weeks regarding a plea to handover the murder case probe of advocate Naushad Khasimji, to CBI. Naushad was murdered on April 9, 2009. He was representing many cases including the encounters of Sudhir, Mulky Rafique along with the case of Padmapriya, the wife of BJP MLA Raghupati Bhat in which one Atul Rao was accused for her death.

He had recently taken up the case of Rashid Malbari. The court had accepted his plea to send Rashid Malbari from Police custody to Judicial custody and the same day evening he was killed by unidentified assailants near his apartment on Attavar, Mangalore.

Following this, there was a demand for a CBI probe alleging that it was a police encounter as the lawyer was active in filing public interest litigations against the police.

Many organisations including Popular Front of India and the Majlis-e-Islah-o-Tanzeem, an NGO, which represents majority of the Muslims in Bhatkal, held a rally and submitted a memorandum to State Human Rights commission demanding a CBI probe.

Pervez Khasimji, brother of Naushad, and the President of Bhatkal TMC told reporters that the Human Rights Commission had given notice to the state government a fortnight back. He said that he has full proof that Mangalore police was involved in the murder of his brother Naushad Kashimji and he will hand over the proof only to CBI. He does not trust either the state police or the BJP government who did not even condemn the murder. He said that if the state Govt does not handover the case to CBI then he will file case in the Supreme Court of India and ask for the justice.

Meanwhile, the suo moto PIL demanding a probe into the death will come up for hearing in the state high court next week.

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