Click to play videoNew Delhi/ Hyderabad: The Hyderabad police have ruffled feathers by visiting madrassas while investigating the August 25 twin bomb blasts in the city.
Sources tell CNN-IBN the police are searching for a man called named Mujibur Rahman but authorities refused to comment if he is a suspect in their investigation.
The police have asked madrassas to supply information on their students and teachers and their source of funding. Police teams, since August 25, have visited at least 10 madrassas including the Jamia Islamia Darul Uloom in Shivrampalli and Jami Anwar Ul Huda in Kishanbagh.
The police investigation has upset the Deeni Madrasa Board, the top organ of all madrassas in Andhra Pradesh. The board has objected to the police visits, and is meeting Chief Minister Y S Rajashekhar Reddy in the evening to register its protest.
“Madrassas is an educational institution; it is open to all. Raiding a madrassas in the dead of night will send wrong signals and create communal frenzy,” Moulana Khalid Saifullah Rahmani, general secretary of the Deeni Madarsa Board, told the Deccan Chronicle newspaper.
A report in Deccan Chronicle said the police visited the Darul Uloom madrassas on Wednesday night and Thursday morning and questioned students and teachers.
The police on Thursday visited Darul Uloom Anwarul Huda at Kishanbagh and Jamia Ayesha Siddiqa Lil Banat, a women’s religious school in Misriganj.
“Madrassas create responsible and god-fearing citizens. No terrorist has ever been rounded up from a madrassas in India,” said Moulana Hameeduddin Aquil, who manages the Darul Uloom Hyderabad, at a meeting of madrassas on Thursday.
‘ISI agent’ arrested
In a related development, the Special Investigation Team (SIT) has arrested a suspected ISI agent from his house in Malakpet on Thursday night.
Shadab allegedly knows Shahed alias Bilal, the Harkat ul Jihadi Islami terrorist who is a top suspect in the August 25 blasts and the Mecca Masjid blasts on May 18.
(For updates you can share with your friends, follow IBNLive on Facebook, Twitter and Google+)
displayed with permission. Use of the CNN name and/or logo on or as part of CNN-IBN does not derogate from the intellectual property rights of Cable News Network in respect of them.