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B.Ed. centre teacher alleges harassment by police

MALAPPURAM: A man belonging to Palluruthi, Kochi, who had been questioned in connection with the recent bomb blasts in Bangalore, has alleged that the police have been harassing him by trying to link him and his family with the Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI). Hashim A.H., 32, visited newspersons at Manjeri on Tuesday morning soon after he got a call from a police intelligence team led by Deputy Superintendent of Police, Internal Security, Kochi, Krishna Kumar. The police officer reportedly asked Mr. Hashim to meet him at the guest house. Mr. Hashim refused to go to the police officer saying that if at all he be questioned or arrested it should be done in front of the media.

Mr. Hashim said the police were continually harassing him and his family. According to him, the police were trying to frame him by raking up his past connections with the Jama’at-e-Islami.

Mr. Hashim, who currently works as an Urdu teacher at the Calicut University College of Teacher Education at Chengara, near Areekode, on contract, said that he severed all links with the Jamaat-e-Islami seven years ago.

Mr. Hashim, a postgraduate in Urdu and Islamic History, had joined the college last year after doing his M.Ed degree from Annamalai University. He averred before the media that he had no links with SIMI.

Some of his colleagues at Calicut University College of Teacher Education said that Mr. Hashim was a pious man who had not been found involved in any subversive or extremist activities. They said he was a sober and upright person. However, they said they knew little about his past.

Police sources said Mr. Hashim was asked to come to the guest house as part of gathering some details about him as per the direction of the Central intelligence wing.

Mr. Krishna Kumar denied having harassed him. The police team waited for Mr. Hashim several hours and returned to Kochi after he failed to turn up.

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