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Muslim community leaders condemn Journalist Kazmi’s arrest

Coordination Committee for Indian Muslims / The Milli Gazette
Published Online: Mar 07, 2012

New Delhi, 7 March 2012: Coordination Committee for Indian Muslims
(CCIM), after an emergency meeting here at the Jamaat-e Islami Hind
headquarters this evening, forcefully condemned the arrest of
Journalist Muhammad Ahmad Kazmi by Delhi Special Police.

CCIM chairman Mujtaba Farooq, All India Muslim Majlis-e Mushawarat
President Dr Zafarul-Islam Khan, Welfare Party of India General
Secretary Dr SQR Ilyas, All India Shia Ulama Council leader Maulana
Jalal Haidar Naqvi, Muslim Political Council of India President Dr
Tasleem Rahmani, Political Secretary Jamaat-e Islami Hind Muhammad
Ahmad, Shia Point President Zaheer Zaidi, Senior Urdu journalist Syed
Mansoor Agha, National Council of Shia Ulama President Maulana Muhsin
Taqwi,  Shia community leader Zafar Abbas, Students Organisation of
India Secretary Shuaib Shaikh, Association for Protection of Civil
Rights Secretary AK Kidwai, Maulana Ataur Rahman Qasmi, head of the
Shah Waliullah Institute, Urdu Journalist Muhammad Ahmad Khan and
others said after the meeting that the continuing at random arrests of
Muslim youth are not only a matter of grave concern for the community,
they are also injurious to the democratic setup of the country. It is
a matter of alarm that now a senior member of the Urdu journalist
community has been arrested without any apparent evidence or proof.
Muhammad Ahmad Kazmi is a senior Urdu journalist of long standing who
works and writes in the higher interests of the country.

The meeting decided to write to the Union Home Minister, Delhi Police
Commissioner, Lt Governor of Delhi and Delhi Chief Minister seeking
their immediate intervention and to stop the serial arrests and
torture of Muslim youth. The Muslim leaders will also meet these and
other government officials and will approach Justice Markanday Katju,
Chairman of the Press Council of India as well as the national and
state minorities commissions.

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