It was the second last day of our travels through Karnataka—having wound our way through Bangalore, Hubli, Bhatkal and now Udupi. We were sitting inside the office of an activist friend at Raj Tower near the local bus stand in Udupi town, discussing the arrests of Muslim youth in the area, allegedly involved in acts of terror or conspiracy cases. Seated before us was Fakeer Ahmad, a resident of Uchila village of Udupi sub-division. In his late thirties or at the most, early forties, Ahmad had lived in the Gulf since 1994, but had moved to Indonesia to work for the Dubai-based NGO, Kinder Hut International. He worked at the NGO for three years when in October 2008, he was arrested, charged with being a member of a supposed terror outfit Indian Mujaheedin (IM), for sheltering its members and helping them to manufacture bombs.
Posted on: Mon, 21 Oct 2013 15:34:12 +0000
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