New Delhi, Sep 10 2012: Jamaat-e-Islami Hind, Delhi & Haryana, organised a JANSUNWAI programme here today at Gandhi Peace Foundation, where the victims of illegal and unconstitutional arrests unveiled their harrowing tales of atrocities and brutal torture they met at the hands of police. The problem of illegal arrests is not just about some particular states, but in fact it is a national phenomenon, engulfing the whole of India.

Almost all the victims echoed relatively similar thoughts. Being the victim of injustice and oppression, not by individuals, but by the state and central agencies backed by the government, they all have lost all the hopes of getting justice.

Father of SaqibNisar, who got arrested in Batla House encounter case, said they cut off all the hopes from any individual as almost all of them have their vested interests in it. It is now that Jamaat-e-Islami came and offered some help. “Only Allah can do justice to me,” he added.

Mohammad Aamir, who spent 14 long years behind the bars without any proof of involvement in any case against him, narrated his painful story. “I was walking down the road and was dragged into a jeep and my hands and eyes were tied. Initially I thought I have been kidnapped, however it was only later that I got to know that they are not kidnappers, but police…I was kept for 8 days in illegal confinement where I was tortured brutally…They made me sign 100s of papers, my nails were ripped off from my body and I was given electric shocks…Number of cases against me were much more than my age…,” said Aamir.

He further lamented the fact that a section of media feels patriotic in defaming and aggrandising Muslim suspects, which must be stopped. He remembered how newspapers went on to such an extent that one day they wrote that I am a Pakistan. “When SadhviPragya and Lt Purohit enter the court they are showered with flowers but when my mother used to come to pass her hand over my head she was thrown by the authorities saying go and take the permission first. What kind of justice is this?” he asked.

Mr. Abdur Rehman, father of Zia-ur-Rehman said his age was 22 and the number of cases slapped against him were 40 and that too without any proof. This is nothing but a clear strategy to prolong the trial, he added. SaifullahJamali brother of GhayyorJamali, who was picked up from his home,on charges of terrorism, said his brother never went to Delhi but there have been charges against him in Delhi state.

Mr. Shakeel, brother of QadeelSiddiqui, narrated how Qateel was picked up by Delhi police kept and was tortured for 6 months only to be handed over to Pune to be killed. He further narrated the harassment by IB who time and again come at his house and question about the friends of Qateel. “They never bothered to ask about our well-being,” he cried.

QasimRasoolIlyas, General Secretary, Welfare Party of India, said, “Muslims are becoming victim of State Terrorism.” He said the issue of terrorism got a new reprise after 9/11 and it was a time when NDA government was in power. He raised some very interesting point and said SIMI was banned immediately after the Parliament attack just as a war was immediately waged against Al-Qaeda after 9/11. He said one of the ministers at centre under the UPA government clearly said that the  attack on “Parliament was fake” and no Pakistani died in the firing, instead they were some Kashmiri youth.

Maulana Syed Jalaluddin Umari, in his presidential speech lamented how media jumps to conclusion without checking the veracity of any news. “Can anyone think that Muslims can go on killing other Muslims? Immediately after the attacks of Ajmer, Malegaon, etc., media, in its knee-jerk reaction, pointed the fingers at Muslims,” he added. Taking a dig at the recent exodus of the North-easterners, he questioned how come it became possible that trains were arranged for all of them in such an emergency situation (Indicating that the whole episode of exodus was planned). “Why no newspaper or TV channel showed that news where Muslim groups were cajoling and persuading north-easterners to stay back in Bangalore and assuring them security?” he asked. “It is now high-time for right-minded people to come forward and brainstorm the ways to tackle with the utter preposterous inhumanities that are taking place,” he appealed. Mentioning about the conversation of Abu Lulu Feroz and Umar, he highlighted how Umar refused to take any action against Feroz as there was no proof against him, though he threatened to kill him.

Mohammad Ahmed, Secretary JIH, talked about the dehumaisation of individuals and narrated some heart-rending tales of barbaric and inhumane treatment during police remand. He also expressed concern about the fear psychosis that is gripping the lawyer of the country who refuse to take up the cases of Muslims, fearing the fate of ShahidAzmi.

SR Darapuri, former IG Police, UP, said all this is a handiwork of combination of Police and IB.“Atrocities in the name of terrorism are carried out under a planned policy of the government which it follows relentlessly, he added.

AjitSahi, Senior Journalist, expressed a little satisfaction over the fact that in the span of 4 years we have been able to muster courage and have come up to that level where we are openly declaring police biasness and brutalities, which was not possible a few years back. He however stressed on materialising the way forward to deal with this menace as judiciary alone could not do solve this issue. “If one Aamir will be released, 10 other Aamirs will be arrested,” he added.

ND Pancholi, Senior advocate and human rights activist,said the need of the hour is mass movements and agitation and emphasised the power of the people. He also questioned the way government is dealing with terrorism and accused it of dealing superficially rather than not digging at the core of the issue.

Engineer Mohammad Saleem, Secretary JIH, compered the programmeand announced that a JANSUNWAI programmewas organised in Rajashtanand Uttar Pradesh and soon there will be programmes in Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, and other states as well to make people aware of such grave injustices the very citizens of our country have gone through and are going through.