GOVT. FLAYED FOR WHIMSICAL DETENTIONS

All-India Milli Council general secretary M. Manzoor Alam wrote to Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram protesting against harassment and religious profiling of Muslim youth. Mr. Alam drew his attention to the recent news reports of detention and acquittal of Muslim youth, and said that while these cases of harassment had come to light, there were many that had gone unreported. He demanded that a transparent procedure be adopted to explain such cases, and where no explanation was forthcoming, the victims be given due compensation for the loss of money, time and honour. “It is time that such random, whimsical detentions and denial of free movement are stopped,” he said.