The Madhya Pradesh police on Tuesday released a Delhi-based journalist after detaining him for 42 hours. Nadeem Ahmad of the Milli Gazette was in the state to report on the recent arrests of activists of the banned Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), acording to a report in the Central Chronicle.
The Chronicle reported:
Nadeem Ahmad said that on April 6, he went to Aroda village under Balwada Police Station area in Khargone district, from where the state police had seized a haul of arms recently, for reporting. When he reached the village, the villager, suspecting him as SIMI activist, surrounded him and then informed the Balwada police, he added.
On getting the information, the police station incharge Sunil Visthre along with the police force reached the village and took him into custody on April 6 at 9.00 pm and after sustained interrogation the police detained him, Nadeem said.
He said that inspector Sunil Visthre then took him to his Indore-based house and then again took him back to Balwada police station and finally on Wednesday at 12.30 noon released him from Balwada police station and sent him to Indore along with a constable on his motorcycle. The police constable sent Nadeem on a Bhopal bus at Indore.
Nadeem said that neither any case was registered nor any charge was made against him. On being asked as why he was detained by the police, Nadeem was unable to give a satisfactory reply. He said that the police of the state behaved with him very decently.
However, why the state police detained Nadeem Ahmad for such a long time is still shrouded in mystery and raises many an eyebrow about it's role.
According to the Milli Gazette, Ahmad was not allowed to visit the area again at the time of his release. Instead he was escorted to Indore city by a plainclothes police officer who put him on a Bhopal-bound bus. Ahmad’s request to be allowed to take a train to Delhi was also declined by the police.
