“My brothers were businessmen. They would collect papermache products from craftsmen in Kashmir and sell them to Delhi shopkeepers. But now they have lost all that business. Now my brothers are themselves working as craftsmen. Poverty becomes evident once one visits my home. Every one around has grown rich but my family has lost every thing due to this unfortunate occurrence,” says Maqbool.
“We closed down our business in Delhi as the police had seized all our business documents and bill books. We had some savings at that time but we lost it too, fighting for justice in courts,” adds Maqbool’s brother Syed Hassan Shah.
“They have ruined us by imprisoning my innocent son for 14 years. How could they think that a child was involved in such a big crime? I have lost my husband and daughter due to this,” 75-year-old Zoona Begum, Maqbool's mother, tells TSI.
The Communist Party of India (Marxist) or CPI(M) has urged the government to compensate Maqbool for gross violation of human rights.
CPI(M) leader Brinda Karat recently demanded in the Rajya Sabha that Maqbool should be “adequately compensated" for the injustice he has faced.
“The Centre should intervene and give him a job to ensure a secure life. He has been a victim of a totally flawed investigation and we cannot shrug it off as collateral damage. We should rehabilitate him in order to send the right message to the people of Jammu and Kashmir,” Brinda said in Parliament.
“The society and the country owed compensation to Sayeed Maqbool Shah for gross violation of human rights,” she added. The demand by a Rajya Sabha member has raised Maqbool's hopes.
He says, “I hope they (Central Government) will pay attention to this demand. It is the moral responsibility of the government to provide me with all the facilities that I need to lead a respectable life. And, it is the very least I am asking for. I am not asking for justice because I know they can not deliver. the same.”
“They detained me illegally, charged me with serious crimes and imprisoned me for 14 long years. Now they themselves accept that I was not guilty and they have released me. But I want to ask them that who will give me my 14 years back? Can they return me my youth? Can they bring back my educational career? Most of all can they bring my father and sister back,” asks a visibly annoyed Maqbool.
“We closed down our business in Delhi as the police had seized all our business documents and bill books. We had some savings at that time but we lost it too, fighting for justice in courts,” adds Maqbool’s brother Syed Hassan Shah.
“They have ruined us by imprisoning my innocent son for 14 years. How could they think that a child was involved in such a big crime? I have lost my husband and daughter due to this,” 75-year-old Zoona Begum, Maqbool's mother, tells TSI.
The Communist Party of India (Marxist) or CPI(M) has urged the government to compensate Maqbool for gross violation of human rights.
CPI(M) leader Brinda Karat recently demanded in the Rajya Sabha that Maqbool should be “adequately compensated" for the injustice he has faced.
“The Centre should intervene and give him a job to ensure a secure life. He has been a victim of a totally flawed investigation and we cannot shrug it off as collateral damage. We should rehabilitate him in order to send the right message to the people of Jammu and Kashmir,” Brinda said in Parliament.
“The society and the country owed compensation to Sayeed Maqbool Shah for gross violation of human rights,” she added. The demand by a Rajya Sabha member has raised Maqbool's hopes.
He says, “I hope they (Central Government) will pay attention to this demand. It is the moral responsibility of the government to provide me with all the facilities that I need to lead a respectable life. And, it is the very least I am asking for. I am not asking for justice because I know they can not deliver. the same.”
“They detained me illegally, charged me with serious crimes and imprisoned me for 14 long years. Now they themselves accept that I was not guilty and they have released me. But I want to ask them that who will give me my 14 years back? Can they return me my youth? Can they bring back my educational career? Most of all can they bring my father and sister back,” asks a visibly annoyed Maqbool.
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