Jamaat-e-Islami Hind has strongly condemned and expressed sorrow over the brutal killing of five Muslim prisoners by the police on the way from Warangal jail to Hyderabad court. Nusrat Ali, Secretary General of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind, has demanded immediate arrest of the guilty policemen, registration of cases to punish them and immediate compensation of Rs one crore each to families of the deceased.
The Jamaat leader said that highly educated Muslim youths have been arrested in the name of terrorism for the last two decades and killed in fake encounters, and conspiracy is being hatched to make the Muslim community second class citizens of the country by harassing and terrorising them. When after long years in jails for no sins of theirs the allegations are not proved in courts and these youths are subsequently acquitted exposing the conspiracies and crimes of intelligence agencies and police, such under-trial youths are being killed by police to hide its anti-Constitution terrorism and brutal acts.
Nusrat Ali said that according to media reports and photos of the encounter, the five Muslim youths killed by the police near Warangal-Nalgonda border were handcuffed or chained with seats in the police van, which itself clearly exposes the lie of the police that Mohammad Vaqaruddin, Mohammad Hanif, Amjad Ali, Reyaz Khan and Izhar Khan were snatching weapons from the police.
The Jamaat Secretary General strongly demanded the government not to make any delay in arresting the guilty policemen, registering murder cases against them, and giving a compensation of Rs one crore each to families of the deceased so that the requirements of justice could be fulfilled and families of the deceased could be consoled. He also expressed sympathy with every victim family.