Police “combing operation” in Mumbra shocks residents On March 13, between 1.30-2.00 a.m., about a dozen police vehicles, of which 7-8 were big vans, quietly reached Rasheed Compound when the electricity, of the streets, were cut off. Rasheed Compound is a group of seven predominantly Muslim residential buildings. They detained over 80 Muslim men- working professionals, old people, some asas old as 75 years, workers, students going to high schools to graduate students and took them all to the Mumbra Police Station to verify. The combing operation was conducted under ACP Amit Kale of Thane district. About 200 odd policemen, and two ladies constables joined the operation in which the police broke many doors to search the house and take the male folks into detention. Residents of Rashid Compound and surrounding area are shocked by this act of the police and they are distressed and unhappy with this. Most of the prominent citizens including public representatives of the city consider this act of the police as irresponsible. In this operation young Urdu poet Obaid Azam Azmi was also taken to the police station. He is not only a good poet of Urdu language, who has shared dais with many ministers, senior police officials, including Khalid Qaisar, TK Chaudhary and many, (the central government recognizes his brilliance), but he is also a son of an ex-Maharashtra Legislative Assembly Member (MLA) Shaikh Shameem Ahmad, elected from Byculla in 1980. Detained people were released following intervention of Mumbra MLA Jitendra Awhad of NCP. Local Muslim organizations have protested police highhandedness. source : twocircles.net/2014mar14/police_%E2%80%9Ccombing_operation%E2%80%9D_mumbra_shocks_residents.html watch this video : youtube/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=7kM6tyxSme8 02
Posted on: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 05:18:39 +0000
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