“Dad never had communal sentiments,” said Shariq, son of former Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) councillor Tahir Hussain, who is in jail under Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) for allegedly masterminding the Delhi Riots of February 2020, Mid-Day reported.
The Delhi High Court on Friday, 23 September, issued a notice on a petition for quashing criminal proceedings against Hussain, granting the counsel for the respondents time to file their reply, and directed the listing of the matter along with three other similar petitions on 25 January 2023, reported The Indian Express.
There are a dozen cases filed against Hussain, including one by the Enforcement Directorate (ED), while many international and national rights groups continue to demand his release.
‘My Daughter Wakes Up at Odd Hours of Night, Asking for Her Father’
“My second son, in Standard XII, no longer orders food from outside; my daughter, in Standard VIII, wakes up at odd hours of night, asking for her father. He has lost so much weight in tension,” Hussain’s wife Sama told Mid-Day, while pointing to her elder son Shariq.
The police action and media trials have also been detrimental to Hussain’s business.
“Dad never had communal sentiments,” Hussain’s son Shariq said.
He further asked that if his father were communal-minded, would he have resided on the Hindu side of the road that separates it from Muslim quarters at Khajuri Khas, whether 60 percent of his employees would be Hindus or if he would have hosted over 1,000 guests every Holi and Diwali.
The Case
A Delhi court had previously in May, ordered framing of charges of rioting and criminal conspiracy against Hussain and five others accused in the 2020 northeast Delhi riots case.
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