Mohd Aamir Gets 5 Lakh From Apcr

Association for Protection of Civil Rights (APCR) organised an Honour Ceremony for Mohammad Aamir, an innocent who was implicated in terror cases and got released only after spending 14 long years behind the bars, at headquarters of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind on September 20. At the Honour Ceremony, Aamir was handed over a cheque worth Rs. 5 lakh as a help so that he could start his life afresh.
Presiding over the programme, Maulana Syed Jalaluddin Umari, Ameer JIH, who handed over the cheque to Aamir, said there are many good, justice-loving persons like Adv. ND Pancholi in the country who should be identified and brought together in the national campaign against witch-hunting of Muslim youth in the country.
“It is for the first time in the span of 14 years that I am feeling nursed for the wounds that were inflicted upon me. I am feeling a sense of relief for the first time,” said Aamir while receiving the cheque.
Remembering his years in jail, Aamir lamented as to how his father was ostracised from the society just because he was booked under the charges of terrorism. His father died while he was in jail and his mother, who was weak and old, ran pillar to post in order to pursue his case and finally got paralysed. “Before I was caught we had everything, property, money, job, healthy parents, but now when I have returned after 14 years all is lost, even my father,” said Aamir in a heavy voice.
Aamir also said it was the responsibility of the State to rehabilitate him but he has received no word from any Government official in this regard during the last more than eight months since his release in January 2012.
Adv. ND Pancholi, a renowned civil rights activist and lawyer, said the need of the hour is to fight for justice in the country. “Only then we can save ourselves as well as the nation,” he added.
Advocate Feroz Khan Ghazi, Aamir’s lawyer for cases at Delhi, said the Special Cell’s aim is not to solve cases but to look out for the scapegoats on which they could shift all the blames and close the case.
APCR, established by Jamaat-e-Islami Hind in 2006, is a civil rights’ group comprised of advocates, social activists and grassroots para-legal social workers dedicated to using the legal system to protect civil and human rights in India.
Akhlaque Ahmad, national coordinator APCR, said his organisation has helped about 250 innocent victims released in different parts of the country.