The National Investigation Agency, probing into the alleged conspiracy by an ISIS linked module to carry terrorist attacks in Hyderabad, is facing fresh allegations of harassing two youth to turn witness.
Two former ISI sympathisers, who were caught in 2014, counseled and released by the Hyderabad city police have alleged that the National Investigation Agency was threatening and pressurising them to become witness against the five member module arrested last week.
Adnan Ahmad (25) from Hyderabad and 23-year-old Nouman Jameel told the media in Hyderabad that though they had made it clear to the NIA that they did not know any of the 11 people detained by the agency on March 29, the agency was pressurising them to come to Delhi and give evidence against them.
The two youth appeared before the media along with their families and two human rights activists Abdul Jabbar Siddiqui and lateef Mohammed Khan of Civil liberties Monitoring Committee.
Naming the two officials as Subhash and Ajit, Adnan said, “they told me that I will have to come with them to Delhi on July 8 failing which I will be implicated in terror cases and there will be serious consequences”. The two officials also handed him an air ticket to Delhi.
Significantly Adnan said that a month ago the NIA had contacted him asking him to give evidence against four people details of which will be given to him later. Four-five days ago two NIA officers came to him and forced him to sign on some papers which he was not allowed to go through.
A terrified Adnan, a software engineer based in Karimnagar said that he was leading a normal life but now this pressure from NIA was threatening his future.
The other youth Nouman also complained of the same treatments and threats. Denying any wrong doing the two youth said that they were counseled by the police after they had browsed certain sites on internet. “But that was two years ago and I don’t remember any thing about it”, Nouman said pleading that he should be left alone as he has no case against him.
Adnan said that he had booked a visit visa ticket to Turkey in 2014. “But after police counseled me I cancelled the ticket. Since then I have been cooperating with the police”, he said.
“This shows how our agencies work”, said lateef Mohammed Khan. “This proves our allegation that the NIA was trying to frame innocent youth in false cases”.
Abdul Jabbar Siddiqui appealed to the other human rights and civil rights organisations to help the two youth and save their future from turning bleak.