Muslim clerics, intellectuals and organizations have expressed concern over the jailbreak and murder of jail warden and encounter of SIMI activists and demanded probe of the whole episode by sitting Supreme Court judge.
The joint statement has been issued by Bhopal Shahar Qazi Syed Mushtaq Ali Nadvi, renowned Islamic scholar Peer Saeed Miyan, Mufti e Azam of Madhya Pradesh Mufti Abdul Razzaq Khan, Deputy Shahar Qazi Syed Babar Hasan Nadvi, Mufti Bhopal Mohammed Abdul Kalam Qasmi, Additional Mufti Bhopal Raees Ahmed Khan, Deputy Mufti Qari Jaseem Dad Khan, Jamiat Ulema Madhya Pradesh president Haji Haroon, SDPI state president Sajid Siddiqui Advocate, All India Muslim Personal law Board members Maulana Masih Alam and Arif Masood, Jamat e Islami e Hind’s Syed Javed Akhtar, Muslim Majlis Mashavarat’s Professor Mateen Ahmad Siddiqui, Muslim Vikas Parishad – MP president Mohamed Mahir, Shahadat Haq Trust’s Syed Zafar Hasan, Tameer e Millat’s Atiq ur Rehman and others.
The Muslim body’s in joint statement said that the jailbreak, murder of constable Ramashankar Yadav and killing of all eight accused at the place of nabbing them alive creates doubt over whole episode, hence we demand that enquiry of whole episode should be ordered by sitting Supreme Court judge. Besides, the media and the government agencies should immediately stop calling and writing the under-trials as terrorists as it is illegal too.