الهند: 7 ملايين روبية تعويض لمسلمين ثبتت براءتهم من تُهم كاذبة

- خبر من مصادر إنجليزية.

للمرة الأولى في تاريخ حكومات الهند وعلاقتها بالأقلية المسلمة - أمرت حكومة ولاية "أندرا براديش" بصرف 7 ملايين روبية تعويضًا للشبان المسلمين الذين تم اعتقالهم عن طريق الخطأ على خلفية تفجيرات "مسجد مكة" عام 2007، ثم ثبتت براءتهم.

وجاءت تلك الخطوة بعد أن أصدرت الحكومة أمرًا مباشرًا لوزارة شؤون الأقليات بصرف التعويضات، وكخطوة أولى في سبيل استرضاء الشباب الذين تَعَرَّضوا للاعتقال والتعذيب من قبل الأمن - طبقًا لتقرير لجنة تقصي الحقائق حول الوقائع - وعلى إثر إثبات القضاء براءة الشبان المسلمين. المصدر: شبكة الألوكة.

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Blast case: Compensation for 70 acquitted Muslims

In what is being 
described as an unprecedented 
and the first such case in India, 
the Andhra Pradesh government has released compensation totalling Rs7 million for innocent Muslim youths who were falsely implicated in the 2007 Makkah Masjid blast case.

A Government Order (GO) issued by the Minorities Welfare Department sanctioning the release of the amount to be distributed among 70 Muslim youths who have been acquitted of all the charges, said: “The money will be paid as a confidence-building measure and compensation.”

This is perhaps the first instance of victims of “police torture” in a terror case being paid compensation, which is being viewed as acknowledgement of the wrong done to the innocent youths.

Out of the 70 youngsters who were wrongly implicated in the case, 20 would be paid Rs300,000 each while others would get Rs20,000 each.

The order came after Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy announced in the State Assembly that compensation would be paid to the innocent youth.

Significantly, the National Minorities Commission (NMC) had recommended that the money be raised by deducting from the salaries of policemen who made the arrests and tortured the victims.

Nine people were killed in the blast that ripped through the historic Makkah Masjid in the heart of the city during Juma prayers on May 18, 2007. Five more people were killed in the subsequent police firing on protesters outside the mosque. Soon after the blast, police arrested several Muslims youths from the old city and filed cases against them.

A fact-finding committee of the State Minorities Commission had, in its report, concluded that the police tortured the youths.