A dangerous prejudicehad slipped into the Indian criminal justice system: if there was a blast, a Muslim was behind it. For this, these 32 Muslims had to pay for blasts done by Hindutva extremists. Ashish Khetan reports IN Atwist of fate worthy of the literary greats, a chance encounter a month ago between a Muslimboy and a hardline Hindu triggered a change of heart that seems to have unravelled a massive terror conspiracy. In 2007, Abdul Kaleem, 18, was picked up from his house by the HyderabadPolice in connection with a bomb blast in Mecca Masjid in which nine people had died. Kaleem pleaded his innocence but no one would listen. It was crime enough that Kaleem was a Muslimand the younger brother of Abdul Khaja, who had gone over to Pakistan years earlier and intelligence agencies had inputs that Khaja was working for the ISI. Kaleem’s second brother Abdul Khaddar was at the time employed in the Middle East and Khaja was listed as absconding. tehelka/an-angry-hall-of-fall-guys-and-unfair-arrests/
Posted on: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 19:55:34 +0000
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