Welcoming union Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde’s missive to state chief ministers urging them to ensure that no Muslim youth is wrongfully harassed in terror cases, the CPI-M Wednesday said it forced Shinde to take that stand.<\/p>\n
“We raised the issue several times. We raised it at the Sep 23 National Integration Council meeting also. We forced the home minister to write such a letter,” Communist Party of India-Marxist central committee member Mohammed Salim said here.<\/p>\n
He said empirical data from the past 10 to 12 years suggest that young Muslim men were wrongly implicated in terror cases.<\/p>\n
A number of courts have also made similar observations, said the CPI-M leader, who opposed Bharatiya Janata party chief Rajnath Singh’s comments that the letter went against the spirit of the constitution.<\/p>\n
He said Rajnath Singh should have instead culled more information about the context in which the letter was written.<\/p>\n
“The letter is very much within the framework of the constitution, as the judiciary has, on a number of occasions, made similar observations,” he said.<\/p>\n
Salim said that while his party was for strong action against those involved in terrorism cases, it could not remain oblivious to the communal profiling and attitude of a section of the police and security forces. Innocent Muslims youths have suffered harassment and imprisonment, he said.<\/p>\n
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