A joint forum of NGOs today termed the Delhi and Rajasthan ATS' operation, arresting five young boys as suspected terrorists of Indian Mujhaideen, as an action in "haste, deliberate, and political".
Addressing a joint press conference here, the leaders of NGOs, including People Union of Civil Liberties president Prem Prakash Sharma and state president of Jamat-e-Islamic Hind Engineer Mohd Saleem, alleged that the youths were arrested without ensuring any legal procedure and methodology by ATS' agencies.
"Innocent students were arrested without ensuring any legal procedure and methodology by ATS agencies from Delhi and Rajasthan in the wee hours of Sunday in Jaipur and Jodhpur," Engineer Saleem told reporters.
The NGO leaders demanded that these "innocent students arrested with malafide intentions and conspiracy should be released without any condition."
A delegation of these NGOs also met the Rajasthan DGP Omendra Bhardwaj and appealed to ensure fair and unbiased probe against the said boys.
Later, Saleem Engineer told reporters that he would lead a delegation of NGOs to Delhi to meet Union Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde and also apprise Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje on this account and demand safety of these boys.
NGO leaders also criticised role of electronic media for exaggerating the facts without any evidence provided by ATS.
Top Indian Mujahideen terrorist Zia Ur Rehman alias Waqas, a Pakistani national wanted in connection with several bombings, and three associates have been arrested from Rajasthan by Delhi Police recently which claimed to have averted a "spectacular terror attack" during elections.
Other two youths were picked up from Jamia Nagar in New Delhi on the suspicion that they had links with IM operatives arrested from Rajasthan.
