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The Uttar Pradesh police’s Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) precocious made inquiries with the medication successful Prayagraj for accusation connected madrassas. They person been asked to supply details connected students, clerics engaged arsenic teachers, absorption and different staff.
A missive from the Prayagraj tract portion dated November 15 has surfaced, and it is assumed akin letters whitethorn person been sent to different districts arsenic well. In the letter, written to the District Minority Welfare Officer of aggregate districts successful the Prayagraj region, the ATS said according to directions from the ATS headquarters, accusation connected these institutions is being sought. The missive was written to number payment officers successful Prayagraj, Pratapgarh, Kaushambi, Fatehpur, Banda, Hamirpur, Chitrakoot and Mahoba, asking for implicit lists of students and clerics associated with madrassas successful their areas.
Politicise security
The determination follows the weaponry onslaught successful Delhi, with agencies expanding the scope of information checks. The enquiry has been criticised by absorption parties who allege attempts are being made to politicise information and represent each Muslim arsenic a suspect. They asked the agencies to debar becoming a instrumentality for fearfulness mongering.
“An effort is being made to politicise the information apparatus, and spot each Muslim done the prism of suspicion. Various inquires connected madrassas successful U.P. person been conducted and each the indispensable records are with the authorities and agencies. From clip to clip the madrassa strategy is enactment nether a lens, but ATS seeking implicit details is simply a spot alarming arsenic it is simply a dedicated bureau for antagonistic terrorism. Whatever the agency’s suspicion, the hard information is that ATS has failed to convict the accused successful astir cases related to coercion successful Indian courts. We judge nationalist information is paramount, but the authorities should contented a achromatic insubstantial connected what logical decision cases taken up by the ATS reached. We consciousness fearfulness mongering successful the guise of information checks is avoidable,” said Shahnawaz Alam, National Secretary, Congress.
“The full state is agreed against terrorism. But this unnecessary determination to deploy the astir elite force, the ATS, to analyse madrassas, their students and teaching unit volition make chaos; nary bureau should go a governmental tool,” said Ameeque Jamei, spokesperson for the SP.
