Bangalore, Apr 27: A week after three men were arrested for their alleged involvement in the Malleswaram bomb blast case, their family members have sought a thorough investigation, claiming the accused have been framed by the police.
Peer Moideen, Basheer and Buhari are currently in police custody. Moideen and Basheer are brothers-in-law. Their relatives Rasool Moideen and Salim were also taken into custody on April 20 and released three days later.
Recalling that day's incident in Chennai where they were all picked up by the police, Rasool, at a press conference here, said he along with Salim, Peer and Basheer had gone out to shop for his daughter's wedding.
The four of them were on the way to the groom's house to finalise a date for Rasool's daughter's wedding. Ahead of their visit, they went to buy clothes for the groom, he said. “We had gone inside Pothy's in T Nagar and were walking out when suddenly 10 policemen surrounded us and whisked us away.”
The police allegedly did not elaborate why they were being arrested or give them time to intimate their family members. “They kept asking us whether we had delivered a parcel to someone,” he said. The policemen even tried to coax them into accepting the allegations, he added.
Rasool said Salim and he were released on April 23 at 1 am. Salim works as an AC technician at Pothy's market. “My employer at the shop came to know about my arrest only after watching the CCTV recordings at Pothy's. They did not even give time to inform our families about the incident. Our requests went in vain. The family members of the other two came to know about their arrest only after we were released.”
“Our 10-month-old baby has been suffering from fever as she has not seen her father for 10 days,” said Basheer's wife Shamshr-Unnisa requesting police permission to meet her husband.
“Basheer has never left Tirunelveli. He has never visited Bangalore. On April 17, the day the blast took place, he was at home. At that time, Peer called him to check what time he was boarding the train to Chennai (to shop for Rasool's daughter's wedding) so that he could pick him up from the station. He left for Chennai on April 18. We even have the train ticket with us.” Basheer did not have any cases against him, and Peer, who earned his living by selling tea on his two-wheeler in Bangalore, also left on the same day to reach Chennai the next day, she said.
Buhari's mother Daulat was in a state of shock. Her son, who was accused in the Coimbatore blast case, was in jail for 14 years only to be acquitted for lack of evidence. Once out of jail, Buhari dedicated his time to work to free others like him arrested on frivolous grounds, Daulat said.
She said Buhari was in Delhi to attend a hearing of Sheik Sintha Madhar, an accused Buhari was assisting in the Supreme Court. The day the incident occurred, he was on Duronto Express on his way back to Chennai. He reached his destination at 8.30 pm that day, Daulat added.
On April 22, Buhari, along with two others, was arrested. The family members requested the police to allow them to visit their family and sought a detailed inquiry into the incident.
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