الهند: إطلاق سراح 6 مسلمين بعد اعتقالهم ظلما 11 عاما

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أمرت المحكمة العليا بإطلاق سراح 6 من المسلمين من بينهم المفتي الشيخ "عبدالقيوم" والشيخ "عبدالمعين قدري"، ممن تعرضوا للاعتقال ظلمًا على خلفية أحداث "جوجارت" عام 2002؛ حيث قبض عليهم الأمن وأجبرهم على الاعتراف بالضلوع في الأحداث، ومارس عليهم أبشع أنواع الاعتداء والقهر.

وجاء قرار المحكمة العليا الأخير ليلقي الضوء على تأخُّر العدالة تجاه المسلمين واعتقالهم تعسفًا، إضافة إلى تدمير مستقبلهم وأوضاعهم الاجتماعية، وتشويه سمعتهم، وهو ما دفع الأبرياء الستة للمطالبة بالتعويض ومعاقبة المسؤولين عن اعتقالهم وتعذيبهم ظلمًا، وذلك في ضوء الدعم الذي تقدمه جماعة العلماء والقانونيون التابعون لها؛ المصدر: شبكة الألوكة.

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Late Justice for India Innocent Muslims

Mufti Abdul Qayyum was sentenced to death in Akshardham temple attack case.

He spent 11 years in prison before being acquitted on May 16 by the Supreme Court along with other accused.

Maulana Abdul Miyan Qadri, the imam of a local mosque in Dariapur locality, is another victim of the shoddy investigation of Ahmedabad police’s crime branch and a proof that evidences are concocted by the prosecution.

“On August 17, 2003, I was summoned by the police. I was made to sit in a room and shortly afterwards a senior police officer asked me some general questions,” Maulana Abdul Qadri told OnIslam.net.

“I was stunned when he asked me what I knew about the Akshardham temple attack.”

“The officer told me many fabricated stories and police gave me third degree torture to extract confession,” Abdul Miyan said.

“They used to thrash me brutally throughout the day and handcuff me in the night. I didn’t endure so much pain in the 40 years of my life as I did in few days in the custody of Ahemdabad police.”

The harsh sentences were given by the special court set up to try the case under POTA to other four Muslims namely, Shan Miya alias Chand Khan, a mechanic from northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh's Bareilly district, Adam Ajmeri, Mohammed Altaf and Salim Shaikh from Ahmadabad.

POTA or the Prevention of Terrorism Act is an anti-terrorism legislation enacted by the Parliament of India in 2002. The act grants special powers to the investigating authorities described under the act.

The scholar, who was 41 when arrested, served seven years in jail to be released on bail by the Supreme Court in 2010 to be later acquitted on May 16.

Compensation

After years in prison and damaged reputation the six acquitted persons want compensation from the Gujarat government for keeping them in jail for no reason and punishment to officials who falsely implicated them in the case.

“We now want the Gujarat government to pay them the compensation for all the torture and harassment they were subjected during these years. They were kept in jail without any reason,” said Gulzar Azmi, secretary of the Legal Cell of a Muslim outfit Jamiat Ulama, who fought the cases of these people.