PFI condemns compensation from Mecca Masjid fund

Hyderabad - 15 Dec 2011: Andhra Pradesh State Executive Council of Popular Front of India (PFI) has condemned the state government order for compensation amount from administration funds of Mecca Masjid and Public Garden Shahi Masjid. PFI has demanded implementation of the recommendations of National Commission for Minorities (NCM) for the innocent Hyderabad youths falsely implicated in the Mecca Masjid blast case of 2007.

Andhra Pradesh government on 6th December issued an order for Rs 70 lakh in compensation to the roughly 70 Muslim youths who were arrested, tortured and falsely implicated in the terror case. The government ordered the amount to be taken from the administrative funds of the two mosques.

"The G.O released on 6th Dec'2011 to grant compensation to the innocents and stated it as the 'confidence building measure', but it is proved that it's a silly joke with the Muslim community. The council resolves that the state government must withdraw this G.O and take decision to implement all the recommendations suggested by the National Commission for Minorities," said D.S Habibullah, General Secretary, PFI Andhra Pradesh.

NCM, in its report after enquiring into the cases of false implications for Mecca Masjid blast, had made five recommendations to the state government:
?To punish the guilty police officials responsible for unlawful detention of the innocents.
?To provide government jobs to the victims suitable to their qualifications.
?To compensate the victims with the amount deducted from the salaries of the guilty police officials.
?To issue good character certificates to the victims.
?To revive AP state Minorities Commission to make it more active and to deter the cases of harassment of Muslim youths by the police.

The state government last week ordered for compensation, that too not according to the NCM recommendation. No other recommendation has so far been touched by the state government even four years after the blast that took the life of nine people in the mosque and seven others on the road in the police firing.

PFI has urged the Muslim community religious and political leaders, intellectuals and activists of Hyderabad city "to come forward to protest against the anti-Muslim policies and activities in the city and in the entire state, so that confidence be rebuilt in the upset Muslim community and atrocities against Mslims be checked in future."

PFI's State Executive Council meeting was held in Kurnool to review the Publicity campaign of the Social Justice Conference in the state and to assess the success of Delhi Conference held on 26 & 27th Nov 2011 in Ramlila Maidan.

The meeting was presided by Mohammed Arif Ahmed and attended by the State functionaries Abdul Waris, D.S.Habibullah, Syed Nazeer Shaheen, Mohammed Abdullah Khan and the other S.E.C members S.Mansoor Basha, M.Abdul Rashedd Rashadi, Shaik Abdus Subhan Qasmi, Mohammed Irfan etc.

source:; TwoCircles.net