The Bhatkal-based Majlis-Islah-O-Tanzeem, which had given bandh call in Bhatkal on Monday, has put off the agitation following the intervention by the Deputy Commissioner and the Superintendent of Police of Uttara Kannada district.
President of the association Mohammed Muzammeel Kazia conveyed this to presspersons after Deputy Commissioner Ujwal Kumar Ghosh and Superintendent of Police R. Dileep held a meeting with him.
The officials reportedly informed him about how their agitation would affect the law and order and peace in the district.
Mr. Kazia said that as the matter had been brought to the notice of the Chief Minister and the Home Minister and they had assured of impartial investigation into the issue, they had decided to put off the agitation. However, he clarified that in case injustice was meted out to them, an agitation would be inevitable.
The association’s basic objection was to the version of the City Crime Branch police of Bengaluru who have arrested suspected terrorists in Bengaluru and Bhatkal, that explosives were recovered from a locked house near Abubkar Mosque at Tengingundi Road in Bhatkal. The association had termed the police raid as suspicious and an attempt to defame Bhatkal terming it as ‘terrorists’ hideout’.
It gave a bandh call and wanted to take out a protest in the evening.
Meanwhile, Quaza Sayidi, father of Riyaz Ahmed Sayidi who was arrested at Mangaluru airport, said on Sunday that his son had not committed any wrong and they were not aware of on what charges their son had been arrested by the police.
Mr. Sayidi told presspersons at his residence in Bhatkal that they came to know about the arrest only after the CCB police came to their house on Sunday. He said that Riyaz worked in Dubai and had come to Bhatkal on vacation on December 8 and his return was delayed due to the high flight tickets. He clarified that there was no question of his son indulging in any illegal activity.
Nafeeza and Nafia, sisters of Riyaz said that their brother was a person of good conduct and may be the police might have arrested him based on wrong information.
