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Leg-chopping: Cops suspect Islamic court role
The Kerala Police have got indications that Islamic courts could be existing in Kerala which, according to security experts who participated in a recent NIA conference, has emerged as the fountainhead of Islamist terror in the country.
In the remand report submitted in the First Class Judicial Magistrate court in Paravur near Kochi after the arrest of the first accused in the case pertaining to a leg-chopping incident on August 7, the police said the perpetrators, belonging to Islamist Popular Front of India (PFI), were people who wanted the reign of Islamic laws above the Indian Constitution.
The report was submitted in the court in connection with the remand of Shihab, PFIs Paravur area secretary, who was first accused in the case relating to the heinous attack on hotelier Nasser Vaniyakkad on the morning of August 7. In a Taliban-model attack, the assailants hacked Nasser in the leg several times when he was returning home after performing Namaz at a mosque.
According to the police, the PFI activists involved in the attack on Nasser are people who would do anything for establishing supremacy of Islamic law. The accused believe in physically eliminating anybody opposed to their Islamist programmes. Shihab, who along with his brother Ayub had blocked Nasser to attack him, was arrested from Thrissur on August 11.
The first hints of the possible existence of Taliban-model Islamic courts had come out after the heinous attack on TJ Joseph, a college professor whose right hand was chopped off allegedly by PFI activists at Muvattupuzha as an act of revenge for preparing a test paper for students in which a question blasphemed Prophet Muhammad.
Reports then had said that the Islamic courts in different locations in Kerala used to settle property and family disputes. However, then Home minister Kodiyeri Balakrishnan had on July 27, 2010 said that religious heads used to involve in dispute-settling but there was no information on the existence of Taliban-model courts in the State.
The Islamists attempted to murder Nasser, a member of the local mosque committee, for campaigning against the organization and its methods leading to its loss of dominance in the mosque panel eight months ago. According to Nasser, he was attacked by a gang of seven masked men who had come on motorbikes.
The police have found that the PFI operatives had hatched a conspiracy to murder Nasser. Five persons have already been arrested in the case in which there are a total of 19 accused. According to the police, all those arrested so far are people with active in the Popular Front.
Islamist terror back in focus in Kerala
Terror activities in Kerala by outfits like the Popular Front of India (PFI), which have not been receiving much attention of the investigating agencies for the past several months, are back in focus after an incident of leg-chopping near Kochi, the arrest of an operative at Perumbavoor and the handing over of the probe into the email-snooping information leakage to the NIA.
The intensity of investigations against terror groups in the State had allegedly decelerated after the slowdown in the procedures in the July 4, 2010 incident of hand-chopping of a college professor by PFI operatives and a Kochi court’s verdict in August, 2011 in the Kozhikode twin blasts case, both of which were being probed by the NIA.
Extremism came back into the focus of the investigating agencies after an observation aired at the South India regional conference of the NIA on August 10 that Kerala was the fountainhead of Islamic terror in India. The Taliban-model attack on a mosque committee member and the arrest of Muhammad Halim, an accused in several terror-related cases, coincided with this.
The Kerala Home Department has issued an order entrusting the NIA with the charge of investigating the leakage from the Hi-Tech Inquiry Wing at the Police Headquarters of classified information on an Intelligence programme to monitor the email accounts of several individuals and institutions to a magazine run by an Islamist group.
The Home Secretary has written to the Centre requesting takeover of the case by the NIA as per the opinion of the State DGP that there had been a huge conspiracy behind the leakage of the information regarding the email-snooping programme. The Intelligence wing of the police had earlier recommended the step as the case had all the characteristics that called for NIA role.
The controversy pertained to the leakage of the contents of a letter from a Superintendent of Police at the Hi-Tech Inquiries Wing regarding the email-snooping programme to a magazine run by the Jama’at-e-Islami. The article in the magazine had distorted the details in such a way that the programme was seen as intended to victimize Muslims.
Suspicions were aired at that time itself that certain high-ranking police officials could have been involved in the leakage as there were clear indications of efforts to save some individuals. Biju Salim, a Sub-Inspector at the Police Headquarters, was arrested in connection with the leakage of information.
Smashing the complacence of the Kerala Police with regard to terror elements’ activities in the State, PFI activists on August 7 carried out a Taliban-model attack on Nasser Vaniyakkad (42), a mosque committee member at Paravur near Kochi. Five Popular Front workers have been arrested so far in connection with the incident and one of them is an area secretary of the outfit.
It is now clear that Nasser was ruthlessly hacked in the leg several times in an attack that was reminiscent of the chopping of the hand of Professor TJ Joseph in July, 2010 at Muvattupuzha by PFI men. Nasser was attacked for campaigning against the outfit which led to the loss of its supremacy in the mosque committee some eight months ago.
Another eye-opener for the police was the arrest on August 7 of Halim, who was acquitted last year by the NIA court in Kochi in the Kozhikode twin blasts case, with two accomplices from Perumbavoor near Kochi when they had reached there to commit a murder on contract probably for mobilizing money for terror activities.
The Kannur Police have started questioning Halim in custody over the charge that he and his aides had carried out robberies to mobilize money to influence the witnesses in the case related to the recruitment of young Keralites to LeT for training and operation in Kashmir. The Kannur Police had taken custody of Halim from the Crime Branch on Saturday.
Kerala: Islamic court ordered chopping of professor's hand
It was a Taliban-model court Darul Khada (God's abode or God's court) which ordered the chopping off the palm of Professor T D Joseph, the Malayalam professor of Newman's College, Thodupuzha, recently.
The shocking revelation had come during the interrogation of Popular Front activist Ashraf, who is the first accused in the case. Joseph was accused of preparing an internal question paper for second year B Com students of the college, which outraged the Muslim community, who found it defamatory to Prophet Mohammed.
A group of eight persons, allegedly members of the Popular Front of India [ Images ], had waylaid Joseph and chopped off his right palm, while he was returning from his Sunday mass at the local Nirmala church in Muvattupuzha, along with his mother and sister.
Sources in the state police told rediff.com that Ashraf had spilled the beans that the Islamic court, which was functioning in Kerala [ Images ] under the auspicious of the Popular Front, had given the sentence to chop off the right hand of Prof Joseph, for 'blasphemy to Prophet Mohammed.'
Police sources also informed that Eaasa Moulavi was the Kerala coordinator of the Darul Khada, and this particular case was decided by its branch in Eearattupettah, in Kottayam district, which is very near to Muvattupuzha, the site of the incident.
Those arrested have also confirmed to the police that the Popular Front is interfering in several family disputes involving Muslim families in the state, and trying to persuade them to come to Darul Khuda, and not to other courts, to settle their disputes.
The state police have appraised the central intelligence agencies about these developments.
The Kerala Police have got indications that Islamic courts could be existing in Kerala which, according to security experts who participated in a recent NIA conference, has emerged as the fountainhead of Islamist terror in the country.
In the remand report submitted in the First Class Judicial Magistrate court in Paravur near Kochi after the arrest of the first accused in the case pertaining to a leg-chopping incident on August 7, the police said the perpetrators, belonging to Islamist Popular Front of India (PFI), were people who wanted the reign of Islamic laws above the Indian Constitution.
The report was submitted in the court in connection with the remand of Shihab, PFIs Paravur area secretary, who was first accused in the case relating to the heinous attack on hotelier Nasser Vaniyakkad on the morning of August 7. In a Taliban-model attack, the assailants hacked Nasser in the leg several times when he was returning home after performing Namaz at a mosque.
According to the police, the PFI activists involved in the attack on Nasser are people who would do anything for establishing supremacy of Islamic law. The accused believe in physically eliminating anybody opposed to their Islamist programmes. Shihab, who along with his brother Ayub had blocked Nasser to attack him, was arrested from Thrissur on August 11.
The first hints of the possible existence of Taliban-model Islamic courts had come out after the heinous attack on TJ Joseph, a college professor whose right hand was chopped off allegedly by PFI activists at Muvattupuzha as an act of revenge for preparing a test paper for students in which a question blasphemed Prophet Muhammad.
Reports then had said that the Islamic courts in different locations in Kerala used to settle property and family disputes. However, then Home minister Kodiyeri Balakrishnan had on July 27, 2010 said that religious heads used to involve in dispute-settling but there was no information on the existence of Taliban-model courts in the State.
The Islamists attempted to murder Nasser, a member of the local mosque committee, for campaigning against the organization and its methods leading to its loss of dominance in the mosque panel eight months ago. According to Nasser, he was attacked by a gang of seven masked men who had come on motorbikes.
The police have found that the PFI operatives had hatched a conspiracy to murder Nasser. Five persons have already been arrested in the case in which there are a total of 19 accused. According to the police, all those arrested so far are people with active in the Popular Front.
Islamist terror back in focus in Kerala
Terror activities in Kerala by outfits like the Popular Front of India (PFI), which have not been receiving much attention of the investigating agencies for the past several months, are back in focus after an incident of leg-chopping near Kochi, the arrest of an operative at Perumbavoor and the handing over of the probe into the email-snooping information leakage to the NIA.
The intensity of investigations against terror groups in the State had allegedly decelerated after the slowdown in the procedures in the July 4, 2010 incident of hand-chopping of a college professor by PFI operatives and a Kochi court’s verdict in August, 2011 in the Kozhikode twin blasts case, both of which were being probed by the NIA.
Extremism came back into the focus of the investigating agencies after an observation aired at the South India regional conference of the NIA on August 10 that Kerala was the fountainhead of Islamic terror in India. The Taliban-model attack on a mosque committee member and the arrest of Muhammad Halim, an accused in several terror-related cases, coincided with this.
The Kerala Home Department has issued an order entrusting the NIA with the charge of investigating the leakage from the Hi-Tech Inquiry Wing at the Police Headquarters of classified information on an Intelligence programme to monitor the email accounts of several individuals and institutions to a magazine run by an Islamist group.
The Home Secretary has written to the Centre requesting takeover of the case by the NIA as per the opinion of the State DGP that there had been a huge conspiracy behind the leakage of the information regarding the email-snooping programme. The Intelligence wing of the police had earlier recommended the step as the case had all the characteristics that called for NIA role.
The controversy pertained to the leakage of the contents of a letter from a Superintendent of Police at the Hi-Tech Inquiries Wing regarding the email-snooping programme to a magazine run by the Jama’at-e-Islami. The article in the magazine had distorted the details in such a way that the programme was seen as intended to victimize Muslims.
Suspicions were aired at that time itself that certain high-ranking police officials could have been involved in the leakage as there were clear indications of efforts to save some individuals. Biju Salim, a Sub-Inspector at the Police Headquarters, was arrested in connection with the leakage of information.
Smashing the complacence of the Kerala Police with regard to terror elements’ activities in the State, PFI activists on August 7 carried out a Taliban-model attack on Nasser Vaniyakkad (42), a mosque committee member at Paravur near Kochi. Five Popular Front workers have been arrested so far in connection with the incident and one of them is an area secretary of the outfit.
It is now clear that Nasser was ruthlessly hacked in the leg several times in an attack that was reminiscent of the chopping of the hand of Professor TJ Joseph in July, 2010 at Muvattupuzha by PFI men. Nasser was attacked for campaigning against the outfit which led to the loss of its supremacy in the mosque committee some eight months ago.
Another eye-opener for the police was the arrest on August 7 of Halim, who was acquitted last year by the NIA court in Kochi in the Kozhikode twin blasts case, with two accomplices from Perumbavoor near Kochi when they had reached there to commit a murder on contract probably for mobilizing money for terror activities.
The Kannur Police have started questioning Halim in custody over the charge that he and his aides had carried out robberies to mobilize money to influence the witnesses in the case related to the recruitment of young Keralites to LeT for training and operation in Kashmir. The Kannur Police had taken custody of Halim from the Crime Branch on Saturday.
Kerala: Islamic court ordered chopping of professor's hand
It was a Taliban-model court Darul Khada (God's abode or God's court) which ordered the chopping off the palm of Professor T D Joseph, the Malayalam professor of Newman's College, Thodupuzha, recently.
The shocking revelation had come during the interrogation of Popular Front activist Ashraf, who is the first accused in the case. Joseph was accused of preparing an internal question paper for second year B Com students of the college, which outraged the Muslim community, who found it defamatory to Prophet Mohammed.
A group of eight persons, allegedly members of the Popular Front of India [ Images ], had waylaid Joseph and chopped off his right palm, while he was returning from his Sunday mass at the local Nirmala church in Muvattupuzha, along with his mother and sister.
Sources in the state police told rediff.com that Ashraf had spilled the beans that the Islamic court, which was functioning in Kerala [ Images ] under the auspicious of the Popular Front, had given the sentence to chop off the right hand of Prof Joseph, for 'blasphemy to Prophet Mohammed.'
Police sources also informed that Eaasa Moulavi was the Kerala coordinator of the Darul Khada, and this particular case was decided by its branch in Eearattupettah, in Kottayam district, which is very near to Muvattupuzha, the site of the incident.
Those arrested have also confirmed to the police that the Popular Front is interfering in several family disputes involving Muslim families in the state, and trying to persuade them to come to Darul Khuda, and not to other courts, to settle their disputes.
The state police have appraised the central intelligence agencies about these developments.
