Council of Indian Muslims (UK)

New Delhi, Nov 18 (IANS) In what could cast doubts over the functioning of Delhi Polices' elite anti-terrorism wing - Special Cell, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has demanded action against its celebrated officer Ravinder Tyagi for framing two police informers on terror charges.

The probe agency has made the demand in its report filed in a sessions court.

Tyagi incidentally was also part of the operation in the Jamia Nagar shootout in September in which two alleged terrorists and Inspector Mohan Chand Sharma were killed.

By Mohammed Siddique, TwoCircles.net

Hyderabad: At first glance one can think of him as a college student, or a smart marketing executive or perhaps a call center worker. But Imran Khan today is none of them. His calm demeanor and occasional smiles are just a façade behind which he tries to hide his internal turmoil and agony caused by the events of last 16 months.

Council of Indian Muslims—UK (CIM) has welcomed the news of the arrest of three Hindu terrorists involved in two bomb blasts in Malegaon in the south western Indian state of Maharashtra last September in which five persons were killed.

Council of Indian Muslims—UK (CIM) has congratulated Indian scientists for their first and successful moon mission launched yesterday. “We are proud of our scientists and pray that we continue to hear such positive news from all walks of life from India more often. In the present depressing political environment this news has provided every Indian and every person of Indian origin in the world an opportunity to raise his head with pride.” CIM’s chairman Mohammad Munaf Zeena said in a statement issued today.

By Smita Nair

Mumbai, October 22 : The Maharashtra police are said to have cracked the September 29 bomb blasts in Malegaon and Modasa town in neighbouring Gujarat saying these were allegedly carried out by the Hindu Jagran Manch, an Indore-based Hindu extremist group known to have links to the BJP’s student wing, Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP). The key suspects are being questioned, top Maharashtra Police sources have told The Indian Express.

By Mumtaz Alam Falahi, TwoCircles.net,

New Delhi: The residents of Jamia Nagar today foiled a kidnapping/encounter attempt by some policemen in plainclothes in Shaheen Bagh area under the Jamia Nagar Police Station in Delhi.

By Iqbal A Ansari

The political class in India and the governments have been treating terrorism as the major threat to the nation, whereas 'communal riots' are events causing some disturbance, which can be taken in national strides, especially as its victims are mostly minorities, i.e. "the other". Classifying and labeling of incidents of mass violence into ‘communal’ and 'terrorist' and unlawful use of force by the state being treated as mere 'excesses' has caused serious distortion in the attitudes of the public, and the policy-makers in India, which unless corrected, will continue to impair the capability of the state and society to effectively deal with all varieties of violence whose victims are innocents. It is well that the Administrative Reforms Commission's fifth report on Public Order as well as the Apex Court's observations twice in the course of hearing of cases of Gujarat carnage 2002 has characterized communal violence as a greater threat to the state and society than terrorism. Even more important is the linkage between them as definitively established by Justice Srikrishna Commission for the Mumbai serial blasts of March 1993 and by Justice Gokula Krishna for the Coimbatore blasts of 1998.The learned trial judge of Coimbatore blasts took cognizance of the targeted killings of Muslims by the police during the 'riots' in 1997, which made sections of angry, frustrated Muslim youth feel desperate, who having lost hope in the system, took recourse to terrorism.

Allahabad, Sept 29 (ANI): Police seized 14 sacks of ammonium nitrate, a chemical used in the recent spate of bomb blasts in the country, along with 1200 feet of fuse wire after a raid at a store in Allahabad on Sunday.

The chemical was used in the recent serial blasts in New Delhi that killed 23 people almost a fortnight ago and Mehrauli blast that killed three and injured 22.

By Razi Raziuddin

Scrutinizing and analyzing all the stories of the recent past regarding the bomb blasts and the police actions, an "image of perception" seems to be in the making in the psyche of ordinary and common Indians, that out there in the vastness of our Indian landscape (few or many) Muslims have embraced terrorism disturbing and destroying the peace and progress of India. From what we have witnessed it can be justifiably argued that the custodians of law and security agencies, under the rule of secular NDA government have been in the forefront in "implanting" this perception into the minds of Indian citizenry. The majority of mainstream and vernacular Indian media also appears to be hand in glove in radiating this perception.

Demanding an inquiry in the ongoing bomb blasts in Delhi and encounters with alleged terrorists, the Chairman of Council of Indian Muslims—UK (CIM), Mohammad Munaf Zeena has asked “With all the ‘masterminds’ in the custody of Indian police and two others killed in police encounter, who has now carried out yesterday’s blasts in Delhi?”

“The over ambitious security forces and BJP jingoists should not be unaware of the dangerous game they are playing by maligning the Muslims and taking advantage of the situation.” Zeena said.