A Karkardooma Court has discharged cases against eleven Muslim men due to a “lack of evidence” who were named in an FIR related to the 2020 Delhi pogrom, where they were accused of killing another Muslim man and instigating violence in Northeast Delhi’s Khajuri Khas.
The court of Additional District Judge (ADJ)-1 Vimlesh Kumar Sahay in Jamshedpur on Friday acquitted three Muslim men who had been arrested in a 2016 case linked to ‘al-Qaida in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS),’ as the prosecution failed to provide any evidence of their involvement.
The Delhi High Court on Tuesday granted bail to three Muslim men accused in the AQIS Jharkhand training module case after the Delhi Police failed to find evidence against them.
“We must understand that the political system often frames individuals, and their families suffer for no fault of their own,” reflected Razik Raheem, a Muslim activist in Kerala who spent years in jail under the draconian UAPA before being acquitted.
In addition to the criminal complaint, the court ordered the Superintendent of Police in Panchmahals, Godhra, to launch departmental proceedings against the officers involved.
“I couldn’t see my mother one last time before her death because I was denied parole. This is a denial of basic Human Rights. My mother passed away when I was in Prison. Being a disabled child since birth, my mother brought me up with utmost care. She used to take me to school in her arms so that I could get an education”, these were the words of former Delhi University Professor and human rights defender GN Saibaba, in a press conference on Friday, 9, March.