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After 20 years, Indian court acquits 122 Muslims

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Most of them are graduates, post graduates, doctors and engineers.

This was the first massive arrest of SIMI cadres after the organization was banned on September 27, 2020, taking advantage of the international atmosphere against 'terrorism' after the attacks on World Trade Centre and Pentagon in the US, according to Muslim Mirror.

The former Indian Home Minister LK Advani, a known hardliner, and many ultra-nationalist leaders had been demanding the organization's ban for quite some time, the Muslim Mirror said, adding:

"Major Muslim organizations in the country decried the ban in categorical term and called the central government's move politically motivated since there is no hard proof of the organization's involvement in terrorist activities. Only its slogans and rhetoric have been found objectionable while outfits belonging to the ultra rightist stream now ruling India, like Bajrang Dal, are prima facie guilty of violence against Muslims and Christians."

PS: The ruling by CJM Dave assumes significance in light of scores of Muslim activists once again being forced to languish behind bars under the same draconian UAPA charges with Narendra Modi once again being at the helm of affairs as the country's prime minister.

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