'We can't imagine conspiring against our country'

Baleeghuddin Jaber and Muqeemuddin Yasser, sons of a religious scholar Moulana Mohamed Naseeruddin, have denied the claims of the Hyderabad police that they were involved in hatching a conspiracy to wage war against the country.

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The two boys, who are in Charlapally jail of Hyderabad, told their mother Tasneem Fatima that the police claim in this regard as false and baseless.

Tasleem Fatima met her two sons in jail after reports in the local media said that Jaber had confessed his involvement in a conspiracy against the State.

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"Both Jaber and Yasser told me that there is no question of making any such confession because we can not even imagine conspiring against our country," she said.

Both sons told their mother that the police also did not ask them any question about any criminal conspiracy during the interrogation.

She quoted Jaber as saying that he was tortured by the police to force him to accept the responsibility for last year's bomb blasts in Hyderabad, but he steadfastly refused to accept the responsibility as he had nothing to do with them.

"I met my sons as I was worried about the media reports and the latest move of the police to register a fresh case of conspiracy involving my sons," she said.

She also denied the police claim that Jaber had links with SIMI.

"This is also baseless claim. My son was only 15 years old when SIMI was banned seven years. He never had any association with SIMI and had no criminal case registered against him in the past," she said.

While Moulana Naseeruddin is in Sabarmati jail in Ahmedabad since October 2004 facing charges in the Ahmedabad criminal conspiracy case and Haren Pandya murder case, his three sons have been arrested by the police in Karnataka and Hyderabad during last few months.

Youngest son Raziuddin Nasir is in Belgaum jail on terror related charges, while Yasser and Jaber were arrested by the Hyderabad city police.

Apart from the earlier conspiracy case registered last year, the Hyderabad city police has booked another conspiracy case against both Yasser and Jaber, alleging that they had links with suspected militant Mufti Abu Bashar and SIMI leader Safdar Nagori.

"This is a conspiracy by the police to trap my son by making him an accused number 1 in a big case and linking him to SIMI. They could not find any thing objectionable during the search of my home. Hence now they are levelling baseless allegations against them," said Tasneem Fatima.

"After hearing the version of my sons I reached the conclusion that the police is trying to somehow scare and harass us. As my husband Moulana Naseeruddin is in Gujrat jail, police is taking advantage of it and trying to prove that my sons were criminals. My husband and my sons are all innocent," she said.