Mangaluru, Apr 22: Zameer Ahmed Khan, a former minister and rebel leader of Janata Dal (Secular), on Saturday visited the family members of Ahmed Qureshi, who was allegedly tortured by police in Mangaluru.
Interestingly, a few leaders of Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI) also accompanied Zameer, who handed over a Rs 1 lakh cash to a physically challenged woman in Qureshi’s family at their house in Katipalla, here.
Speaking on the occasion, Zameer, who is also an MLA from Chamrajpet constituency, said that he is ready to extend all the support to the ongoing ‘justice for Qureshi’ campaign.
Haneef Khan Kodaje, DK district president of SDPI, Shakeel Nawaz, JD(S) minority wing leader, Arif Pasha, former BBMP corporator, were present among others.
The case
Ahmed Qureshi (25) was produced before the magistrate on March 27 by the police, who claimed that he was arrested on March 26 in connection with an attempt to murder case. Qureshi had stated that the injury marks on his body were the result of a road accident.
However, later Qureshi revealed that he was actually picked by the police on March 21 and that he was brutally tortured in the illegal confinement. He also claimed that the police had forced him to give false statement about his injuries by threatening to implicate him in unsolved Karthik Raj murder case.
According to police, Qureshi is an accused in two attempt-to-murder cases — attack on Sudarshan in Surathkal (2014) and attack on Prakash Poojary in Jokatte (2016) — apart from other cases.
The issue of alleged atrocity on Qureshi snowballed into a major controversy after the police canned the activists of PFI when they staged a protest in front of the office of police commissioner in Mangaluru on April 4. Apart from demanding action against those who tortured Qureshi, the protesters had also warned the police against arresting Khader Kulai, a local leader of PFI, who is also an accused in an attempt to murder case.
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