Hyderabad-based cleric Maulana Mohammed Abdul Qavi, who was recently released on bail in a terror-related conspiracy case, said here on Sunday that he felt insulted by the rough manner in which the Gujarat police arrested him.
The religious scholar and founder of a religious seminary Idare Ashraf-ul-Uloom was arrested by the Ahmedabad Crime Branch on March 23, 2014, from the Delhi airport, for his alleged role in a conspiracy by Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence. He was accused of sending Muslim youths for training by Pakistan-based terror organisations with ISI links.
A Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA) court had rejected his bail plea. However, on Thursday, the Gujarat High Court granted him conditional bail.
“For the past 11 years, I have been travelling all over India. I even visited Gujarat last year, but I was not arrested then. I thought, since my life is an open book, I was not that important for the agencies. However, the manner in which they picked me up at the airport like a common criminal or thief was insulting. They arrested me without any basis,” Mr. Qavi said.
