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Kerala Muslim Organisations Launch Forum To Get 2008 Bengaluru Blasts Accused Mahdani Released
Swarajya Staff
Jul 20, 2018, 08:49 AM | Updated 08:49 AM IST
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Efforts have been launched in Kerala to get People Democratic Party leader Abdul Nasir Mahdani, currently an under-trial in the 2008 Bengaluru serial blasts re.leased from jail. He was arrested in August 2010 and has since been in Parappana Agrahara prison in Bengaluru. He is also a suspect in blasts in Surat, Mumbai and Delhi.
A forum of Muslim organisations, Kerala Muslim Samyuktavedi, has been formed to put pressure on the state Government to get Mahdani released.
Malayalam daily Madhyamam reported that the forum members staged a dharna outside the Kerala secretariat in Thiruvananthapuram on Wednesday (18 July) demanding the intervention of the Communist Party of India (Marxist)-led government to get Mahdani released.
K Muraleedharan, son of former Kerala Chief Minister K Karunakaran and member of the state legislative assembly, speaking at the dharna said the United Democratic Front stand was clear on Mahdani and sought justice for him.
Mahdani was also a suspect in the 1998 Coimbatore but he was acquitted in 2007.
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