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Those Blasted Theories

By Sagarika Ghose

Wednesday, October 01, 2008 at 00 : 40

No one doubts the courage of the men in khaki, but is it time to ask if the police are catching the wrong men? In the Delhi Diwali blast case of 2005, one of the Delhi Police’s main accused is Mohammad Rafiq Shah, a Kashmiri student. He continues to be an accused even though there exists an official letter from the Srinagar University’s Vice-Chancellor and sworn affidavits from his teachers that Rafiq was attending class when the blast took place on October 29. The Delhi Police said that Atif masterminded the Jaipur, Ahmedabad, Delhi and Varanasi blasts. Yet on the same day, the Uttar Pradesh police produced another ‘mastermind’ of the Varanasi blasts, a different man who they said is a member of HuJI.

Then, two days later, the Mumbai Police, not to be outdone, produced not one but five ‘masterminds’ who they said were responsible for “all major blasts since 2005”. Every state police now claims to have the right culprits. With all ‘masterminds’ either dead or in custody, what happens? More blasts in Delhi, Gujarat and Maharashtra. Whoever is planting the bombs certainly has no fear that the police will ever catch them.

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A heart-rending tale of torture and death in detention of an innocent man who believed in the American Dream, Current affairs, NewAgeIslam.com

Current affairs

A heart-rending tale of torture and death in detention of an innocent man who believed in the American Dream

Ill and in Pain, Detainee Dies in U.S. Hands

By NINA BERNSTEIN, New York Times

Published: August 12, 2008

On Tuesday, with an autopsy by the Rhode Island medical examiner under way, his lawyers demanded a criminal investigation in a letter to federal and state prosecutors in Rhode Island, Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont, and the Department of Homeland Security, which runs the detention system.

Mr. Ng’s death follows a succession of cases that have drawn Congressional scrutiny to complaints of inadequate medical care, human rights violations and a lack of oversight in immigration detention, a rapidly growing network of publicly and privately run jails where the government held more than 300,000 people in the last year while deciding whether to deport them.

In federal court affidavits, Mr. Ng’s lawyers contend that when he complained of severe pain that did not respond to analgesics, and grew too weak to walk or even stand to call his family from a detention pay phone, officials accused him of faking his condition. They denied him a wheelchair and refused pleas for an independent medical evaluation.

Instead, the affidavits say, guards at the Donald W. Wyatt Detention Facility in Central Falls, R.I., dragged him from his bed on July 30, carried him in shackles to a car, bruising his arms and legs, and drove him two hours to a federal lockup in Hartford, where an immigration officer pressured him to withdraw all pending appeals of his case and accept deportation.

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