Hyderabad: Muslim bodies demand Macca retrial

Hyderabad: At a public meeting held in Yakutpura, eminent Muslim leaders demanded that the state government stress for a retrial in the Macca Masjid bomb blast case and the Vatoli verdict pronounced by the Adilabad court. They also demanded the government make public the report of Aler encounter where five under- trails were killed. Mushtaq Malik, president of Tahreeq Muslim Shabban, who addressed the meeting, said that the state government has powers to conduct fresh investigation into the blast case. Nine innocent persons were killed and 58 injured in the blast, yet after 11 years there is no clarity as of who had carried out the blast. The prosecution only proved in the court about a blast in the mosque while it failed to prove charges against the persons who were allegedly behind the blast resulting in their acquittal. 

Maulana Syed Tariq Quadri, advocate general secretary of Sufi Academy, said that seven members of a family were burned down by some elements in Vatoli and those caught by the crime investigation department were acquitted by the court. Both the judgements were pronounced on the same date and the people are losing faith in the government, he said.