New Delhi: The National Commission for Minorities on Thursday slammed the CBI for putting "innocents in jail over serious crimes as terror acts". NCM chief Wajahat Habibullah called it dangerous and said that the police and investigating agencies should take utmost care while dealing with such cases.
Habibullah's remarks came in response to a question about National Investigation Agency (NIA) filing a charge sheet in Mumbai on Wednesday against four people suspected to be members of right-wing groups and not proceeding agsinst nine Muslim youths arrested by the Mumbai police and CBI.
Mumbai Police's elite ATS and CBI earlier had filed a charge sheet against nine Muslim youths and charged them with triggering explosive devices on September 8, 2006 at Malegaon, a communally sensitive area 290 km from Mumbai. The youths, who were behind bars for five years, were released after NIA did not oppose their bail pleas.
"This should not have happened as this can be dangerous. Also that this is an indicator that actual terrorists are still out," Habibullah told PTI. He said youths being falsely implicated in such terror cases left a deep scar on their lives. "I mean people desist in giving them jobs or marrying their sisters, daughters...How fair is this?" he said....
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