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Dharna staged against `police harassment'

Special Correspondent

`Hyderabad police hand in glove with their Gujarat counterparts'

HYDERABAD: Relatives of a Muslim youth who were taken away from here by the Gujarat police for alleged involvement in various crimes committed in that State staged a dharna near Indira Park on Monday.

`Hand in glove'

The demonstrators alleged that the Hyderabad police were hand in glove with their counterparts in Gujarat.

The dharna was organised by the Civil Liberties Monitoring Committee (CLMC) and Tehreek Tahaffuz Shaer-e-Islam (TTSI).

Among the participants were Abdul Aleem Islahi and Uvaida, parents of Mujahed Saleem, who was killed in firing by a team of the Gujarat police in front of the Office of Director General of Police here in October 2004.

Ghulam Mustafa and Fateemunnisa Begum, parents of Ghulam Yazdani who was killed in an encounter in Delhi in March last year, were also present.

To appeal

Lateef Mohammed Khan, general secretary of Civil Liberties Monitoring Committee, said they would appeal to the Supreme Court to order the Gujarat Government to review the cases of 20 youth of the city who are lodged in Sabarmati jail in Ahmedabad for the last five years.

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