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| Some Muzaffarnagar riot victims depose: Lashkar men, including arrested imams, came to recruit us |
| 2014-01-07 |
[India Express] Two Haryana imams incarcerated... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... last month for their suspected links to Lashkar-e-Taiba ...the Army of the Pure,an Ahl-e-Hadith terror organization founded by Hafiz Saeed. LeT masquerades behind the Jamaat-ud-Dawa facade within Pakistain and periodically blows things up and kills people in India. Despite the fact that it is banned, always an interesting concept in Pakistain, the organization remains an blatant tool and perhaps an arm of the ISI... , and another LeT operative, had allegedly visited relief camps of victims of the Muzaffarnagar communal riots and sought to recruit men to their module. Some of the men who were allegedly approached refused to join hands with the Pakistain-based terror group and instead informed the Special Cell of the Delhi Police. On Monday, they recorded their detailed statements under section 164 CrPC in the chamber of a city magistrate at the Patiala House court. The sealed statements are now admissible as evidence in court. Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi had at a rally in Indore in October claimed that vested interests were behind the Muzaffarnagar riots and that an intelligence officer had told him that Pakistain's ISI was trying to recruit disgruntled youths. The statement had sparked a furore with the BJP, Moslem groups and even some victims living in the relief camps strongly criticising Rahul for his claim. Sources said the men who recorded their statements in court and have turned witnesses against the imams were living on the fringes of relief camps in Muzaffarnagar and Shamli. They are believed to have told Sherlocks that the two imams from Mewat - Hafeez Rashidi and Shahid - allegedly made numerous visits along with a senior LeT operative, currently on the run. They allegedly tried to radicalise the victims by encouraging them to be loyal to their religion and join hands with the Lashkar operatives for a good cause. They were apparently promised a good lifestyle and money for their families, but the victims refused and chose to approach the police, sources said. Sources said the victims had claimed that the operatives had also approached other displaced people living near the camps but those people refused to come forward and give a statement in court. |
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