BENGALURU: Ismail Musab Abdul Rawoof (34) from Bhatkal, who was detained on April 5 at the Pune international airport for alleged links with Daesh – the banned global terror organisation, has been let off by the Central agencies after intense questioning for two days at an undisclosed place.
His father Abdul Rawoof told Deccan Chronicle that Ismail had called him at 10.10 pm on Wednesday to inform him that the ‘police’ had released him and he would return to Bhatkal soon. “He was sounding very relieved.
He told me that he would come to Bhatkal before proceeding to Dubai. I was so emotional that I forgot to ask him his date of arrival here. I knew that Ismail is innocent and the police may have caught him because of mistaken identity. We are very happy and waiting to see him,” said Rawoof.
Ismail was detained when he was about to board an (IX) Air India flight (211) to Dubai. Meanwhile, sources in the National Investigation Agency, which had detained and questioned Ismail along with the Intelligence Bureau (IB), said that they may call Ismail for another round of questioning.
Ismail had spoken to his father on April 5 and told him that he was detained at the Pune airport around 11 am after the immigration officials found meat in his baggage and they suspected that it could be beef, which is banned in Maharashtra.
Was Ismail’s detention a case of mistaken identity or was it a strategic move by the Central Intelligence and enforcement agencies to send a message across to the minority community besides instilling confidence in them that they will not incarcerate an innocent person in a fabricated case?
