Framed, Damned, Acquitted: 24 cases show how Special Cell of Delhi Police manufactures terrorists

This revised edition analyses 24 cases to show how the Special Cell of Delhi Police manufactures terror threats and terrorists.A report on “investigations” carried out by the Special Cell of Delhi Police.What judgment after judgment comments on is the manner in which the so-called evidence provided by the police and the prosecution was tampered with and fabricated, how story after story as presented by the prosecution was unreliable, incredulous, and appeared as concocted.Framed, Damed, Acquitted documents 16 cases in which those accused of being operatives of various terrorist organizations (Al Badr, HUJI, Lashkar), arrested in main by the Special Cell of Delhi Police, were acquitted by the courts, not simply for want of evidence, but because the evidence was tampered with, and the police story was found to be unreliable and incredulous. The report relies entirely on court judgements.JTSA hopes that this document will provoke a debate about the utility of these elite forces, which in the name of fighting terrorism, have been granted blanket impunity.This is a comprehensive 200-page report on cases in which people, all Muslims, were arrested, by the Delhi Police’s Special Cell. The report exposes the cell which has framed people in fabricated cases with the help of concocted evidence which would later fall apart in the courts. Because, the report says, “they are backed not be evidence but by the belief that the court will be seduced by the hysteria of national security.”“We document here 16 cases in which those accused of being operatives of various terrorist organizations (Al Badr, HUJI, Lashkar-e-Toiba) arrested in main by the Special Cell of Delhi Police, were acquitted by the courts, not simply for want of evidence, but because the evidence was tampered with, and the police story was found to be unreliable and incredulous,” says the JTSA, which has earlier released two reports, ‘Encounter’ at Batla House: Unanswered Questions (2009) and The Case that Never Was: The ‘SIMI ‘ Trial of Jaipur (2012).This report is a revelation for how the “special cells” work and frame people in fake cases. There are 16 cases widely documented in the report but this is only a tip of a mountain. More such cases, without any doubt, might be lying in several other investigating agencies of India. The report has also focused on media trails in these cases- that how media reported such arrests. Presenting a person as guilty of something even before it could be proved in the court has been common in media, and often the stories published would be based on official inputs. The report exposes it all by quoting some of the media reports too.The cases documented in the JTSA report:Case 1State versusTanveerAhmad, ShakilAhmad, IshtiaqAkhtar Dar, Md.Akhtar Dar, Md. Yusuf Lone,Abdul Rauf and GhulamMdCase 2State versus FarooqAhmed Khan, etc.Case 3State versus Md.Amir KhanCase 4State versus Khongbantbum Brojen Singh&AnrCase 5State versus Hamid Hussain, Md. Shariq,Md. IftekharAhsan Malik, Maulana Dilawar Khan,MasoodAhmed, Haroon RashidCase 6State versus IrshadAhmed MalikCase 7State versusAyazAhmed ShahCase 8State versus Saqib Rehman, BashirAhmed Shah,NazirAhmed Sofi, Hazi Gulam Moinuddin Dar,Abdul Majid Bhat,Abdul Qayoom Khan andBirender Kumar SinghCase 9State versus KhurshidAhmad Bha!Case 10State versus Salman Khurshid Kori, and OthersCase 11State versus Maurif Qamar and Md. Irshad AliCase 12StateVersus GulzarAhmed Ganai and Md.Amin HajamCase 13State versusTariq DarCase 14State versus ImranAhmed&Anr.Case 15State versus Md. MukhtarAhmad KhanCase 16State versus Md. Iqbal@Abdur Rehman,Nazarul Islam&JalaluddinCase 17State versus Md. Naushad and OthersCase 18State versus Md. Hussain@Julfikar Ali@Abdul@RahulCase 19State versus Sajjad Hussain SheikhCase 20State versus ParvezAhmad RadooCase 21State versus Md. Iqbal and Mushtaq Ahmad KalloCase 22State versus Md.AmeenWani alias Khalid andLuthfur Rahman alias HaroonCase 23State versus Md. Hassan, Shafaqat Iqbal andShabbir AhmedCase 24State versus Javed Ahmad Tantrey@Sikandar and AshiqAli Bu!DemandsAppendix 1Irshad’s Letter toPMAppendix 2ParvezAhmed Radoo’s Letter from Tihar JailAppendix 3Anoverview of the casesAppendix 4 299Glossary of Criminal Offences:[Year of Arrest]1992 Tanveer Ahmed, Shakil Ahmed, Ishtiaq Akhtar Dar, Mohd Akhtar Dar andothers. Years in jail 10.1996 Farooq Ahmed Khan, others. Years in jail 4.1997 Mohd Amir Khan. Years in jail 14.2002 Khongbantbum Brojen Singh. Years in jail 7.2004 Mohd Iftekar Ahsan Malik, Maulana Dilawar Khan and others. Years in jail 6.2004 Irshad Ahmed Malik. Years in jail 6.2004 Ayaz Ahmed Shah. Years in jail 5.2005 Saqib Rehman, Bashir Ahmed Shah, Nazir Ahmed Sofi and others. Years in jail 6.2005 Khurshid Ahmad Bhatt. Years in jail 6.2006 Salman Khurshid Kori. Years in jail 5.2006 Maurif Qamar and Mohd Irshad Ali. Years in jail 5.2006 Gulzar Ganai, Mohd Amin Hajam. Years in jail 3.2006 Tariq Dar. 3 months in jail.2006 Imran Ahmed. Years in jail 5.2007 Mohd Mukhtar Ahmed Khan. Years in jail 5.2008 Mohd Iqbal alias Abdur Rehman. Years in jail 3.