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Telangana Muslim groups threaten protests over killings
Hyderabad, April 15
Majlis-e-Ittehadul
Muslimeen (MIM) and other Muslim groups in Telangana threatened to
launch a state-wide protests against the state government, if it failed
to order independent inquiry into killing of five undertrial prisoners
by the police.
United Muslim Forum, an umbrella grouping of
Muslim organisations, rejected the probe by Special Investigation Team
(SIT) ordered by the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) government.
The
public meeting organised by the forum in the old city of Hyderabad on
Tuesday night rejected the probe by SIT into April 7 incident.
A
resolution passed unanimously at the meet reiterated the demand for a
probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) or by a sitting judge
of the high court.
MIM president Asaduddin Owaisi said five
undertrials were murdered in cold blood by the police while bringing
them to Hyderabad from Warangal Central Jail.
He said the
undertrials were handcuffed and chained and hence the police claim was
baseless that they tried to snatch weapons and escape. Owaisi demanded
immediate suspension of 17 policemen who were escorting the undertrials.